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Tonight I was scrolling through several old emails I wrote and had saved in my 'Sent' folder from about 5 or 6 years ago. I was still in early high school and had just started using the internet. It was such a novelty back then. I came across emails which horrified me. I used thousands of abrevations and substituted numbers for syllables. I talked like a three year old and used 'LOL' about every two or three sentences. Some of the emails made me cringe. I rediscovered email exchanges with old friends from Mario Bros. messageboards which have since been shut down. I exhumed names of other kids who I'd chatted with once or twice online but whos names I had forgotten completely. It's amazing the plethora of perfect strangers I'd met and the shallow yet magical conversations I'd have back when the Internet was a sparkly new novelty. It makes me wonder not only how many other parts of my life I have forgotten, and how many other parts of those past 5 short years have slipped my mind, but how much I will forget in the entire decades still to come. |
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I daren't look at my old e-mails. |
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all my old emails got lost after the big hdd crash a few years ago. my memory isn't working either, but i don't know what caused that.. |
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truly wonderful I also have some old emails saved at my yahoo account, the most memorable ones I think, and everytime I read them I find them more horrible than ever, but I guess thats ok, since I try to to more dynamic my writing, I wish I still had some communication with some people of my early days using the net sadly I lost a big amount of emails when animenation.com closed the free email accounts (i was using the tendodojo.com service then) hahaha, oh back then... we are OLD need some sleep now |
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i don't have any old emails. about 10 years ago now, when I first started emailing .... it was the greatest thing in the world. i got like 2 emails a week, and emailing someone in australia back then was like an actual pen pal thru snail mail. it was really a treat to get an email from somebody...now, it's impossible to get that same feeling. i hate being connected :( |
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it makes you wonder how much real life you could have lived with real people instead of the months and years devoted to imaginary strangers on the internet. |
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All true.. occasionally I still get excited about e-mails, but that is only because I since became all-too-fluent in the art of IM. It's such a tyranny, I'm still trying to break it. The comments about deleted emails are especially painful. This happened to me as well.. the only ones I was actually able to read from that era were ones in my sent folder, due to an inbox deletion a year or two ago. This is another dubious aspect of internet communications; the temporality of it all. If you rediscover a link from more than say, a year ago, you might as well not even bother. Servers are constantly updating themselves, companies are merging with others, entire webspace providers get shut down with zero notice. Anyone remember Xoom.com, for example? Or freedrive which has since been changed to Xdrive? I had stuff on both of those that is now ancient history. It's a very different world, and I will be interested in the development of kids, like my little brother for example, who had virtually no 'life before the internet'. |
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