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The site is no longer operable, yet as can be seen from the archived version it was a rather<br />

humorous attempt to paying tribute to the deceased country. It was not so much a commemorative<br />

attempt as it was an attempt to create an online social space for post-Yugoslavs.<br />

When it was founded, CY had no territory. There were 152 founding citizens. When<br />

the number of citizens reaches five million, CY will request membership of the<br />

United Nations, and soon after CY will request a territory of 20 square meters,<br />

anywhere on the Globe, where it will place its server. This will be the official<br />

territory of CY, where its DNS entry will be located: http://www.juga.com. 246<br />

What makes this site a digital memorial can be traced in the fact that the website and the initiative<br />

tried to revive Yugoslavia in several aspects (tolerance, intellectual freedom), which in a way<br />

presupposes taking an active part in translating a part of history into the present (which essentially<br />

is the role of a memorial). Moreover, today the site can be seen as a memorial in that it has ceased<br />

to exist and has become the stuff of memory of the early Yugonostalgia, only available in the<br />

Internet Archive. 247<br />

246 See ―Constitution of CY (English),‖<br />

http://web.archive.org/web/20000229172317/http://www.juga.com/Constitution/const_eng.htm, accessed 2 September<br />

2011.<br />

247 Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org/, accessed 21 September 2011.<br />

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