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.

Tag: 10 year old post

  • Dear Lu

    Another story from the past; he watched as the cloud lifted from her mouth. it was strange seeing her smoke. she’d been thought of as a good girl, and this turned his view of her into puddles of melted snow. “when had she started?” purity shaken off with each flick. “it’s time to let go.…

  • Another One from 2001

    I had high hopes for myself. I don’t mind being compared to John Cusak monday i took razor in hand and manipulated the look of my hair. it went from a few inches to a few millimeters (for you non-metric users, that’s really small). each day since i use my shower shaver and keep it…

  • It’s Like a Time Machine

    Sometime around 10 years ago I started using Blogger. At the time there wasn’t much to be said for blogs. There were a few here and there, but nothing to blog home about. I don’t even think I had heard of Google at that time. But I had an audience of 2 or 3. And…

  • Boys 1 through 7

    10 years ago I was playing with the concept of writing Pop Stories. Stories that take you just a minute or so to read. Kind of like pop songs. All sugary and sweet, yet sometimes heartbreaking and… ok, I just couldn’t think of longer stories than this; boys 1 through 7 the pavement was cold…

  • Hell Comes By Day, Too

    This happened to me 10 years ago. hell comes by day, too in the latter part of sleep you hear things that happen in the real world. like phone rings. but the fail to register. this morning, as i lay in bed still asleep, the phone rang. my dad answered it and seconds later was…

  • Maid Marion Was a Fox

    This post brought to you by my past self. I wrote this sometime around my 20th birthday. i’m an illiterate computer geek… but i am okay with a camera in my hand… but if i knew how to use both together i would make a project… the thought of the web has hit me in…