Enter the Machine

A portrait studio for digital entities

IE 6.0 Full

No other browser in internet history attained more market share than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6, despite being noncompliant with web standards and prone to security flaws

The Subject of this Portrait

At the time this portrait was created, the subject was available online at archive.org/details/internet-explorer-6.0-full 

Screenshot of the Internet Explorer browser circa 19XX. The text on the page begins, ‘Get more from the Web with Internet Explorer 6* Technology Overview* Download Now* Order the CD (U.S. and Canada Only)* Worldwide Downloads’
Screenshot of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6

Attributes

Subject Name
IE 6.0 Full
Subject Creation Date
08/21/2001
Subject Weight
81,258,962 bytes (81.4 MB)
Subject Location
archive.org/details/internet-explorer-6.0-full
Entities in Portrait
85 Files
Entity Types in Portrait
CAB, DAT, EXE, INI, ZIP
Portrait Type
Group

Portrait Details

Screenshot of algorithmically generated, organically shaped, contiguous masses of highly saturated blue, magenta, cyan, and white clumps of pixels, roughly in the shape of an animal head with jaws open, against a sharply fluorescent green background
Portrait detail
Screenshot of a zoomed in contiguous mass of highly saturated blue, magenta, cyan, and white clumps of pixels, roughly in the shape of Australia against a sharply fluorescent green background
Portrait detail
Highly zoomed in conglomeration of highly saturated blue, magenta, cyan, and white clumps of pixels. A fluorescent green background barely shines though cracks between the pixels
Portrait detail

Enter The Machine portraits are interactive in different ways. Below are the supported interactions for this specific portrait.

ActionDesktopTouch Devices
Zoomscroll wheelpinch and zoom
Panclick and draghold and drag
Rotateshift + alt/option and dragpinch and rotate
Fullscreenf–

Documentation of this internet-native artwork is stored permanently on blockchain should future changes in web-based technologies affect how it displays.

Permalink
arweave.net/uQuX95n9u-AYwqnCTzdZd0xvEa23u_dLoE2hozbctsc
Format
image/png
Resolution
2880 x 5120
Transaction
viewblock.io/arweave/tx/uQuX95n9u-AYwqnCTzdZd0xvEa23u_dLoE2hozbctsc

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