Dear reader,
The Internet Phone Book is back in stock worldwide. Weβve spent the past four months reprinting the book and setting up global distribution. Last time it sold out in 21 hours, so donβt wait to order (or do if you prefer social media).
Purchase
Back in stock worldwide through our friends at Metalabel.
*Selling with Metalabel allows us to split the earnings with the contributors. We are also putting 10% aside to the Living Web Institute treasury. In other words, buying a book = supporting projects keeping the web alive.
"I just read the foreword, and I resonate with each word. It made me realize how social media isn't THE internet." - Anastasia Pappa, Desired Landscapes
"The Internet Phone Book is the book I've been loving and enjoying the most these days, both reading and playing with it." - Halim Lee
"Yet another great project from two of my favorite internet weirdos." - Andy Baio, Waxy.org
"The Internet Phone Book is the tip of the iceberg of a lively community (700 people are in the book) that has generated many interesting ideas." - Silvio Lorusso
"Fuck Google. I'm going analog with The Internet Phonebook." - Dobbs
"Internet Phone Book is The Whole Internet for our times." - Olia Lialina
Our first issue features a directory of more than 700 websites, submitted in categories such as Publishing, Ecology, and Atmosphere. Each website includes a personal message and a dial-a-site code for easy browsing. The book also features essays by leading web artists, researchers, and designers.
You can look up if your submission is included here.
π Limited Edition of 1000
π 22.7x18 cm in paperback
π 176 pages
π Samua 100gsm (inside); Limone, 290gsm (outside)
π Typefaces: Times New Roman, Courier
π Made with HTML Energy and Paged.js
π Designed by Elliott Cost
π Printed in Athens, Greece at Pletsas
Contributors include Ana Ε antl, Benjamin Earl, Chia Amisola, Eileen Ahn, Elan Ullendorff, Elliott Cost, Garry Ing, Kristoffer Tjalve, Laurel Schwulst, Meg Miller, Meghna Rao, Olia Lialina, and Zachary Kai.
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The Internet Phone Book is a step back to the 90s, before the invention of search engines and social media feeds. Back then, people discovered the potential of the Internet through curated lists and indexes, often printed and placed next to library computers⦠but it is also a step into the future by birthing a new infrastructure for building relations and publishing online outside social media. It is a reminder that the Internet is ultimately something we make and that we could as easily make it differently.
We are excited to be continuing this work for years to come.
With care,
Kristoffer Tjalve & Elliott Cost
internetphonebook.net
"The Internet Phone Book is the only phone book I've felt compelled
to read cover to cover, engaged and delighted the entire way through.
Those less inclined to read it linearly will find many other ways in:
jumping between the thoughtful categories; following charming
illustrations and strings metadata; or reading through a selection of
essays that give context to this extensive crowdsourced directory of
personal and poetic websites.
All to say, there's a wonderful sense of hypertextuality in the Internet
Phone Book, accentuated by perhaps my favorite feature: the 'dial-a-
site' system, which cleverly tethers the printed book back to the
network it documents. But Kristoffer and Elliott are less interested in
linking the online and offline worlds, between which they see little
distinction, as they are in surfacing connections between people β
those who admire and participate in a more intimate, experimental,
and expressive web. We could ask for no better guides to, and
stewards of, this corner of the internet."
β Meg Miller, Are.na Editorial
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