Enter the Machine

A portrait studio for digital entities

proposal.html

Tim Berners-Lee’s Information Management: A Proposal, published in March, 1989, laid the theoretical foundations for the modern internet.

The Subject of this Portrait

At the time this portrait was created, the subject was available online at w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html 

Screenshot of a webpage that leads with the text ‘An Information Proposal, Tim Berners-Lee, CERN, March 1989, May 1990’ followed by a back and white node-based diagram followed by text; all against a pale yellow background
Excerpt from Tim Berner’s Lee Information Management: A Proposal
Screenshot of a webpage, which is a continuation of the previous screenshot, depicting two black and white computer/client/database diagrams sandwiched around text adorning the headline ‘Accessing Existing Data’
Excerpt from Tim Berner’s Lee Information Management: A Proposal

Attributes

Subject Name
proposal.html
Subject Creation Date
03/1989
Subject Weight
17,407 bytes (29 KB)
Subject Location
w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html
Entities in Portrait
1 directory, 5 files
Entity Types in Portrait
HTML, GIF
Portrait Type
Group

Portrait Details

Two organically pixelated, red amoeba-esque forms against a pale yellow background
Portrait detail
Zoomed in image of a cluster of dark green pixels with empty pockets/negative space where the pale yellow background shines through
Portrait detail
Detail image of a red, pixelated amoeba-esque form centered on a pale yellow background
Portrait detail

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Permalink
arweave.net/L01dI9v37eAm-S9Z8BarbCrkL_x6OnAN8XGZ_smKAjs
Format
image/png
Resolution
2880 x 5120
Transaction
viewblock.io/arweave/tx/L01dI9v37eAm-S9Z8BarbCrkL_x6OnAN8XGZ_smKAjs

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