Screen capture of www.eastmanhouse.org, 04.01.2009

Those jokers at the George Eastman House get my gold star for photo-related April Foolery with their purported “totally” 90′s website, but the real hilarity was the wall text label accompanying the page:

Unidentified Webmaster
(American, active June 4, 1995–Sept. 6, 1995)
[GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE WEBPAGE]. ca. 1995
HTML 2.00
George Eastman House Website Collection.
Museum Purchase.

… and the supposed exhibits one could visit back then:

Small Brown Photographs
Ansel Adams, Ahoy!
NEW RARE Talbot Talbotypes!
Why look at furniture?
Old Topographics

I actually recall the “Why look at furniture?” show. Curators nearly came to blows over the inclusion of Edward Weston’s “Excusado”. Is it merely a toilet? Or – as others insisted – “the most important seat in the house”. (Rimshot!)