Here's how you found out about The Fifth Element: you found out about it from a friend in halls, who had heard of this crazy new movie that was being made, an original sci-fi with a vast budget and, it was assumed, truly cosmic preoccupations. But then The Fifth Element came along and the internet finally had a proper purpose. For a while, I think I probably tracked down old Elastica B-sides or half-heartedly looked up something or other for a course. You'd sit staring at Altavista in the open access center of the campus library, not entirely sure what you should type in. Back then, we were all very excited by the internet, but I remember a certain anxiety set in whenever one of us actually got in front of it. I first used the internet in 1996, I think, during my first year of university. I don't think an artwork has ever revealed itself to me in such a satisfying manner. It also means it's been twenty years since I first learnt about a piece of art - about anything, really - using the internet. That means it's been twenty years since those gentle brass aliens first wobbled into our lives, twenty years since we first saw that scrupulously compact apartment, that cityscape of bobbing yellow taxicabs, that glorious visual joke about the future of cigarettes. Somehow, twenty years have passed since the release of The Fifth Element.
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