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Dialing Up the Internet Phonebook

You might’ve heard of the Internet Phone Book, a collection of poetic, interesting, personal websites, and essays about websites, collected by Kristopher and Elliott. We chatted about how the phonebook was made, and about why they’re optimistic about the web that’s made by real people and artists.

I’ve read a little bit about that from Craig Mod writing about his own membership books that he prints, and yeah, it’s pretty intense. I remember Olia Lialina, who also has an essay in the book, posted that the phonebook is kind of like the Whole Earth catalog of our time, which I think is a very sweet reference. You have Bird Call in Seoul, and of course, these are bigger cities, but it would be nice to integrate everyone with a sort of ‘place directory’ in the phone book as well.

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