Finding and downloading multiple photographs across the web isn't exactly complicated, but there are people out there who have turned downloading photos into a hobby, and one of them is Doug Battenhausen, who maintains a simple blog called Internet History, which works as a archive of abandoned images.
Imagine all those blogs that ended up abandoned by their owners. Small personal portals full of old photographs, captured with things like disposable cameras or point-and-shoot cameras, only to get lost on the web and gather digital dust in a corner. An era that predates the iPhone and high-definition lenses on smartphones, with spontaneous shots of questionable quality.
A Decade of Accidental Art
For 10 years, Doug Battenhausen's Internet History blog has been preserving these sparks of improvisation and photographic amateurism. Drunk people, kitchen accidents, and unidentifiable hotel rooms are some of the scenes that appear there. The database extends over nearly 1,600 pages, with purely accidental artistic value. What began as a way to combat boredom turned into a unique archive of abandoned images that you can't miss.
