My Boyfriend Came Back From the War is a browser-based internet artwork created in 1996 by Russian artist Olia Lialina.
The work consists of nested frames with black and white web pages and (sometimes animated) grainy GIF images.
The lovers find it difficult to reconnect; the woman confesses hate that she has had an affair with a neighbour while the returned soldier proposes marriage.
[2] Of its filmic qualities, curator Michael Connor wrote of the work, "the work adapts cinematic montage to the web ... separate frames are joined together by HTML code and the browser itself and experienced in both space and in time, employing what Lev Manovich has characterized as spatial and temporal montage.
[9] A fully illustrated monograph edited by Sabine Himmelsbach, curator of HeK Basel, accompanied the exhibition.