Month: February 2013

Remember the Wayback Machine? It’s a fun service that allows you to check out old websites as they looked back in the day. I loved that service. Bringing up old memories is so powerful. 

Here’s Tumblr’s home page from May 2007. And here’s Flickr in 2004. 

One of my favorite mobile apps is Timehop. It connects to many popular services (twitter, facebook, instagram, flickr, foursquare) and each day it surfaces what you shared exactly 1 year ago that day. I open the app every single morning and just smile (or cry) 

Twitter recently released an update to their search and now old tweets show up in the results. This morning I started playing with it and found some fun stuff. I thought I’d share a few.

My first tweet. April 7, 2007.

I ended up supporting Obama then (and now) and happy about that. Hopefully we will also see Hilary Clinton run. She would get my vote. 

That day when @fredwilson invented #coverfriday on Tumblr

Life before the iPhone. 

That day when location + mobile + photos hit me right between the eyes. 

It’s my birthday today.

I feel young and old at the same time. My mind & heart feels young but my knees after a run reminds me that I’m not a kid anymore. 

We had some friends over last night that I’ve known for 25 years. Lauren made a delicious dinner and we just laughed and laughed — at some new and plenty of old stories.  

The sun is out and my plan for today: go for a run, play in the snow with the kids, take some photographs and eat a slice of cake I’ve spotted in the fridge. A simple day and one that I’m looking forward to.

I’m also trying to raise money for Charity Water for my birthday. My goal is to raise $440. All proceed go directly to providing water to those that need it. I’ve kicked things off with the first donation. I hope you can join me and even give $5. That would be awesome.