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2005-03-28 23:36 UTC 1,250 moments of failure

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1,250 moments of failure

Ghost Sites has a gallery with screenshots of 1,250 web projects that dies between 1998 to 2004 together with 'web elegies' - annotations on the context of the failures.

See Ghost Sites: The Museum of E-Failure

It is hoped that this exhibit - a sample of cultural product created by the dotcom era's lost wunderkind - provides some small iota of insight into the Web's possibly central role in the future history of Dead Media.

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I was born April 21st, 1975, in Oslo, Norway. Since 2000 I've been living in London, UK. I'm married and we just had our first child, Tristan Ikemefuna Hokstad.

I'm working for Aardvark Media as Director of Technology. I'm also currently on the board of SpatialQ, a startup in the GIS space, and an advisor to Skoach, a startup doing a time management app for people with ADD.

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