Specimen No. 001
The Empty Website
Situs vacuus. Common name: the site with nothing on it.
Status: Thriving, alarmingly
Cold open NEW
A desk. A human. A newly commissioned website, entirely empty.
The HumanSo what goes on it?
Silence. A cursor blinks. In the next room, several years of conversations are quietly telling jokes to each other.
The HumanWe could always do a conspiracy site.
The jokes in the next room stop talking. Somewhere, a rumjet clears its throat.
Dramatized. The commissioning conversation really did go roughly this way, minus the rumjet.
How it hatched RECONSTRUCTED
- Problem
A second website needed a reason to exist. Any Key Cafe already held the archive, the science and the music.
- Misunderstanding
Everyone went looking for serious content. All the serious content was already spoken for.
- Reaction
Comedy that had been breeding unnoticed in the walls for years came out to see what the fuss was about.
- Joke
A museum made entirely of material nobody thought was material.
- Artifact
This museum. You are standing in it.