MEMORANDUM
From: Center for Net Art Preservation, Antwerp
To: “Nasty Nets”
Re: First Post

You have written us regarding some archival issues pertaining to your “first post” from August 2006, by your member “jmb.”
The title of the post consists of the English word “stretch” with many extra letters so that it appears elongated. Accompanying it was a jpeg image that moved from side to side using the “marquee” html tag. Several members of your group recall that it was a photo of a stretch limo.
Unfortunately the image has been removed from the site where jmb “hotlinked” it so it no longer appears in the post.
Moreover, current browsers such as Firefox 3 do not read the marquee tag.
The post could be restored if jmb kept a back-up copy of the image. We could recreate the marquee on an older browser and screen capture it to make a Quicktime movie.
Unfortunately it would then no longer be part of your blog environment and would load much more slowly.
In any case, we regret to inform you that we cannot assist you with these services.
On examining the peer reviewed discussions on noted ListServs we find considerable dissent over whether blogs are art or just “meta.”
Some of your own members have published scholarship and criticism attempting to explain the site in terms of “found objects” or “found film” but these arguments are not the consensus view.
We are very sorry.