About Me

Hi, I’m Adam.

I’m a photographer, storyteller, recovering internet person, and increasingly enthusiastic digital archaeologist.

I’ve been putting pieces of myself online for more than 25 years: blogs, photos, videos, tweets, websites, creative projects, emails, forum posts, and probably a few things I haven’t rediscovered yet. Like most people who came of age alongside the web, I never thought much about what all of that material might add up to—or how much of it would eventually disappear.

Now I’m finding out.

Wygle Wide Web is my attempt to reconstruct, understand, and preserve the story of my life using the enormous digital trail I left behind. I dig through old hard drives, dead websites, social-media archives, forgotten accounts, the Wayback Machine, photographs, videos, and whatever other evidence turns up. I use ChatGPT as a research partner to help organize the mess, make connections across decades, test my memories against the record, and occasionally figure out how to retrieve something the internet insists no longer exists.

This blog is the field journal for that work.

It’s where I’ll document what I’m searching for, what I find, the ridiculous technical rabbit holes involved in finding it, and the memories and stories that come back with it. Sometimes that means recovering an old video. Sometimes it means finding something I wrote twenty years ago and meeting an earlier version of myself. Sometimes it means discovering that the story I’ve been telling from memory isn’t quite the story the evidence tells.

There will also be photography, creative work, music, old internet weirdness, and whatever else turns up in the excavation.

I’m less interested in producing a definitive autobiography than I am in documenting the process of figuring one out.

The archive is the evidence.

This is where I tell you what happened when I started digging.

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