The Internet Phonebook (2025) revives the spirit of early internet directories in physical form. Instead of algorithms and feeds, it offers a printed “phonebook” of the contemporary web, curating hundreds of handpicked links to projects, communities, and experiments scattered across the digital landscape, in categories like Publishing, Ecology, and Atmosphere.
At first glance, the book looks retro, with thick pages of plain URLs, reminiscent of a bygone era of dial-up connections and search engines still in their infancy. Yet its intent is pointedly contemporary: to resist the enclosures of platform monopolies and rediscover the internet as a commons of self-published voices, small experiments, and unexpected connections.
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