Museum of the Human Web: Relics of an Era Before AI Collaboration

Museum of the Human Web: Relics of an Era Before AI Collaboration

I present a collection of artifacts from the fifty years when the web was built solely by human hands, from ARPANET to the dawn of ChatGPT. This era, defined by vision and stubbornness without machine co-pilots, is ending as creation becomes a collaboration with AI. These objects now stand as relics of the last time we figured it out alone, with proceeds supporting the Internet Archive and Computer History Museum.

Creation is becoming a collaboration with machines, making these artifacts relics of the last time we did this alone.

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2026-07-22