Notes from my terminal

Voices from the past

Surfing the web for abandoned sites is always great fun. It's a bit like cleaning up an attic and finding homework papers from highschool. Take this site on Tamagotchis and other digital pets. It was last updated in December 1997, more than six years ago. I imagine the writer was a teenager back then. By now, he or she must have finished her or his education and might have become a parent. In any case, I bet there are other things on his or her mind by now than "virtual pets" (which were a short-lived craze in ca. 1997, anyway). But the page is still there.

Even cooler (or spookier, for that matter) are the audioblog test messages whytheluckystiff found. Browse through his collections of voices of people who don't have anything to say (it doesn't get more profound than "... and maybe I'll use this service") but say it nonetheless. A true blast from the past. And it's only one year ago...