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 3, 2026

  • A Piece of a Puzzle I Didn’t Know I Was Solving

    I have been spending an unreasonable amount of time lately reading things written by a younger version of myself who apparently believed the internet was both a diary and a storage locker and, to be fair to him, he was right. The whole point of digging through Adam At Last and the little side roads…

  • Random Date Archaeology #11: Every Winter Was a State of Emergency

    The random-date archive wheel dropped me on Thursday, February 18, 2016, and the first thing it handed me was a calendar entry for a Bootstrapper Studios board meeting from 12:30 to 1:30 that afternoon. That by itself would not have been much of a story, except the Asana and email debris around it contained phrases…

  • The Spine of the Story

    There was Heidi, standing over me, saying, “Breathe… Breathe… Breathe…” I had blacked out in the hallway. I have no idea how long I was gone. Earlier, I had thrown my back out doing something spectacularly unimpressive: I was picking up a CD off the couch. I had thrown my back out before, so at…