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Institution-verified Root artifact

GeoCities — HeartlandPlains cache recovery

Recovered from the Internet Archive's GeoCities preservation project · 1996–2009

An index page recovered from the HeartlandPlains GeoCities neighborhood, preserved alongside its HTTP headers, embedded MIDI track, and guestbook transcript.

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Annotations from the network

Footnote-style observations from other contributors, folded into the layer's margins. Visible, but quiet.

  1. 01

    Note how the Prussian blue sits in the wave's trough versus its crest — later Hokusai impressions stabilize this gradient, but early pulls like this one still feel like the pigment is being tested against the page.

  2. 02

    The cover of Debussy's 1905 Durand edition of La Mer reproduces this print at the composer's request. A cross-medium lineage worth branching into its own layer.

  3. 03

    Cross-impression XRF of this series (see descendant analysis) supports distinct pulls over the run — not a single uniform batch, but a recarved block drifting as it wore.