One Ringy-Dingy: Calling the Internet Phone Book...
Kristoffer Tjalve and Elliot Cost were drinking coffee outside a bookstore in Athens and finishing up another project (diagram.website) when the idea came to them of making a physical object to highlight the slightly odd, eccentric corner of the current internet that most fascinates them — in Tjalve's words, to “seek alternatives to nostalgia for a lost web.”
Book Links
- Internet Phone Book (2025)
- "Dial a Site"
- Phone Book pre-print site
- Review at 'It's Nice That' — "Internet Phone Book is a directory for a more inspiring web-surfing experience"
- Interview at 'Are.na' — "Paging the Poetic Web"
- Interview on 'The Orthogonal Bet Podcast' — "Kristoffer Tjalve on The Internet Phone Book"
Links to the Essays
- INTERFACECRITIQUE 2021 BOOK SERIES VOL. I TURING COMPLETE USER: RESISTING ALIENATION IN HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION — by Olia Lialina
- For a full download of the Interfacecritique Issue — see chapter 5: "From My to Me"
- The New Turing Test — by Elan Ullendorff
- 127+ Possibilities... Things You Can Do With Your Personal Site — by Zachary Kai
- Domain Naming — by Chia Amisola
- a view source web — by Garry Ing
- My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? — by Laurel Schwulst
- Space Crone: the website as imagination — by Meghna Rao.
- A History of My Websites — by Eileen Ahn
- Coding in Situ — by Benjamin Earl
- Exploring the vastness of a website — by Elliott Cost
Call Someone's Site!
- Atmosphere (1-64): 📞 57 'Spencer Chang' PST 8.9 MB
- Ecology (65-78): 📞 72 'Kevin Chen' EST 454.0 kB
- Play (79-165): 📞 110 'Div' CST 87.1 kB
- HTML (166-300): 📞 275 'Shaheer Tarar' UTC 9.7 MB
- Idiosyncratic (301-435): 📞 411 'Russ Sharek' EST 24.4 kB
- Independence (436-561): 📞 542 'Shakeil Greeley' EST 5.6 MB
- Multiplayer (562-572): 📞 563 'Daniel Murray' UTC 2.2 MB
- Myth (573-591): 📞 575 'C.S. Mills' EST 526.2 kB
- Publish (592-662): 📞 631 'Meg Miller' EST 3.3 MB
- Small (663-719): 📞 677 'Elle' PST 436.6 kB
- Text (720-737): 📞 732 'Morgan Mansour' CET 195.7 kB
Sundry Links
- Diagram Website
- Cloudlord.management — Kristoffer Tjalve
- elliott.computer — Elliott Cost
- "Taking the Internet for a Walk" — on 'Syllabus'
- Tiny Awards
- Yellow Pages for the Past Web — Richard Lewei Huang
- Poetic Web — Chia Amisola
- Eileen Ahn
- Snow White — Anna Wolfe-Pauly and Monica Kogler
Toronto Metropolitan University's Centre for Digital Humanities
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