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: September 2, 2026

  • RANDOM DATE ARCHAEOLOGY #10: December’s Tragic Drive

    The random-date archive wheel dropped me on Sunday, December 17, 2000, which at first looked like a blank day because I didn’t actually publish anything that Sunday. Then I looked one day forward and found twenty-year-old me still talking about the night before, and suddenly the date opened up. The post begins with a line…

  • Random Date Archaeology #9: Cool People Talking About Fun Shit

    The Wheel o’ Time landed on September 16, 2011, and for once it dropped me on a day I recognized immediately, or at least I recognized the name attached to it: HIVE11, the first AIGA Seattle HIVE conference, held out at Microsoft in Redmond. I remembered that it was fun. I remembered that Zug and…