Wygle Wide Web

A quiet field journal of digital archaeology. Reconstructing a life from 25+ years of digital traces, with occasional help from ChatGPT when things get weird or surprising.

Day: August 26, 2026

  • Random Date Archaeology #2: Welcome to the Online Blogopolis

    There is apparently a correct way to blog. I know this because Gabe and Max taught me. According to their extremely comprehensive internet training program, blogs allow you to share your thoughts with up to ten people through something called the online blogopolis, where you can talk about the most important issues of the day…

  • Random Date Archaeology #1: Friday the 13th Ate My Transmission

    I have accumulated an unreasonable amount of evidence of my own existence. Blog posts, LiveJournal entries, tweets, Instagram posts, Threads, photographs, emails, messages, concert records, things I wrote and forgot I wrote, things other people wrote to me that I forgot they wrote, and apparently enough miscellaneous digital sediment that ChatGPT and I can now…