Vernacular Web 2

Interesting essay by Olia Lialina in which she collects, classifies and describes the most important elements of the early Web – visual as well as acoustic – and the habits of first Web users, their ideas of harmony and order.

I'm talking about everything that became a subject of mockery by the end of the last century when professional designers arrived, everything that fell out of use and turns up every now and again as the elements of 'retro' look in site design or in the works of artists exploring the theme of 'digital folklore': the 'Under Construction' signs, outer space backgrounds, MIDI-files, collections of animated web graphics and so on.