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I was researching old Usenet groups and found a mock manifesto by James “Kibo” Parry about HappyWeb ’99: The New Future of the Net which proposed a replacement for Usenet on April Fools Day. Kibo seems to be one of the classic sassy users of the early web. His photos summed this up for me. A portion of his website is devoted to the futility of orange warning cones.
Kibo complains:
These “safety” cones are designed to be highly visible, but because of their ubiquity and meaninglessness, we’ve been ignoring them. And while we’ve been ignoring them they’ve been taking over the world.
Kibo’s obsession with documenting cones in their native environment culminated in a 1999 “contest” seeking photos of ineffective cones. Out of his large documentation of cones including “typical deployment,” and “strange positions” I have selected these five cones and arranged them in an effective composition.
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