Civitacampomarano is a small town in the Italian province of Campobasso with only 400 inhabitants, mostly elderly. In this village, rich in tradition, the Internet is still quite unknown. You can't surf the web here, so you can go to a bar that is the physical incarnation of Google. Here you are not watching YouTube on the screen. Here, YouTube is just a chair in front of the TV and the WhatsApp app is just a phone booth. What the hell are you thinking? It is an artistic intervention Web 0.0 by the Milanese artist Biancoshock, with which he wanted to show that people can go about quite normally even without the Internet, without which many people today can no longer imagine life.
Civitacampomarano is a small Italian place where they Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, eBay, Avast!, Wikipedia, Twitter, Gmail, WeTransfer and Tinder real services/items/facilities. Civitacampomarano is a "victim" of artistic intervention Biancoshock, who wanted to with the project Web 0.0 show what it looks like the internet in real life. If you don't know something today, just google it and Google has the answer in the palm of your hand.
Here, in Civitacampomaran, things are a little different. It's here Google Local and Googling chatting with people over coffee at a table with a tablecloth bearing the Google logo. All other listed online services are also theirs here low-tech versions. YouTube is just chairs Twitter just sucks, WhatsApp just a phone booth, Facebook just a message board …
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With the intervention, Biancoshock shows that all these online instruments existed in different forms before and just like their digital versions allowed people to exchange experiences, knowledge, meet, comment, watch videos...
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