the internet of 2006 was a fragile space. much less was created online and a big part of it has not survived until today. with my willingness to let it decompose, the original kraciuk.net fell victim to those circumstances. music files lost with termination of myspace; digital photographs stuck on a broken hard drive; ideas lost with usb sticks; websites deleted from neglected hosting servers. subconsciously i wanted to make this digital creation ephemeral and thus more human. forgetting is real and makes any experience unique in the truest sense. back in 2006 being online was a journey rather than a destination. scrolling was yet to become a thing - people were still surfing the web. clickbait had only just emerged, with the quarry yet to be defined. comments were the social currency and content was posted by very few, as it required particular technical skills. digital photography was making it first steps into mobile phones which still had plastic keyboards and small screens. music was widely available in a downloadable mp3 file format, making it easy to both obtain and remix. torrents provided the full spectrum of cultural consumption, including movies which were not available for streaming yet. newspapers and magazines were mainly published on paper and their digital versions were used as easy to browse archives. facebook was still only available to university students and had about 9 million users mid-year. the internet of 2006 was slow, random and resembled a digitalized library, if anything. at that time kraciuk.net was built as a multiverse of mini-experiences where a click lead to another click. a year later the main website became part of the 2007 web biennale. there were numerous subdomains, each dedicated to a particular project. here are some examples to give you a general idea: paris.kraciuk.net was a fabricated travel journal made with borrowed photographs that I manually corrupted. boniecki.kraciuk.net posted text-only interviews conducted with other artists. music.kraciuk.net redirected to a sound hosting site where my singalong mp3s were uploaded for listening (using myspace.com as a hosting server). grupaosiem.pl (group eight), my personal favorite, consisted solely of a blue screen, with the color calibrated to resemble a hue in between the light of a crt monitor, indigo and yves klein blue. it was a seducing warm glow, created to be looked at. none of this exists now.