An archive spanning 20 years of Prince’s official websites launched today, paying tribute to the icon’s broad and pioneering digital presence, as Billboard points out. The Prince Online Museum comprises 12 of the nearly 20 websites Prince maintained over the years, alongside “a dozen different social media presences,” according to site director Sam Jennings, who previously helmed Prince’s Webby Award-winning NPG Music Club site. A timeline on the site tells the story of Prince’s evolving web presence, from the embryonic “Prince Interactive” CD-Rom experience (1994) to the secretive 3rdEyeGirl website he established in 2013. Jennings told Billboard, “This Museum is an archive of that work and a reminder of everything he accomplished as an independent artist with the support of his vibrant and dedicated online community.” Check it out here.
“The Museum was built by the people who worked directly with Prince on these projects,” Jennings added to Billboard. “We are the originators, we are the experts. It is a labor of love, no money has been exchanged. There will be no downloads sold and no membership fees required. But we do have working versions of almost all of Prince’s official websites.”
Read our feature “How Prince’s Androgynous Genius Changed the Way We Think About Music and Gender.” Read more on Prince’s legacy here.
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