These past few days I missed a lot of ideas, I wish I could have explained them and expanded them in a blog, but sometimes it is not possible to do so, and what will even happen to them as time moves forward?
I had a crazy last week, I barely had time to do my homework and I didn’t even
have WiFi for a couple days, I also lacked time to sit down in my computer and
work on my blog.
During those days, while working and thinking, a lot of ideas crossed my mind,
and I am a little sad, because I already forgot most of them, some of which
could have been nice blogs, but I was unable to write them down, at least on
paper or a quick note.
Yesterday, and today, I spent some of my free time to do some cleanup of my
Hotmail account’s Inbox. There were hundreds, if not thousands of emails coming
from old accounts, old forums, Facebook notifications, YouTube uploads,
Blogger newsletters, email chains and spam, and a lot of other trash that was
there stored in some random Microsoft server. And among those emails, there were
a few conversations I had back in the day, some old friends threads of chatting
and sharing stuff we missed out on, it brought some nostalgia for older times.
Also, reading some article or post shared on Mastodon, I ended up reading a PDF,
dating from the 1800’s (or maybe it was a website?) and I realized how important
and amazing writing stuff down is. Somebody somewhere, took the time to record
these thoughts, store them and share them to the world.
I have no idea of what will happen to those old conversations I had on email in
2013, what about the chats and threads I have in Forums, Matrix servers or
Fosstodon? Don’t even get me started on MSN Messenger and the stuff I used back
then, before advocating for FOSS.
I recently started to use PGP encryption for my emails, and to think that I am
probably the only person who has the key to read the contents of them, is
amusing.
I write these posts in plain markdown text, which is then converted to HTML
thanks to Jekyll, but, how will it be in the future? Yeah, plain text files
might still be readable in 50 years, but, just like that PDF file, or those old
books, will someone be reprinting these words in new formats? new languages?
will somebody even read this a week from now?
I have some tracking enabled on this site, using GoatCounter, but I only visit
it like once a month, and I don’t really get more than 20 or so visits. I don’t
really mind, in the end, I am writing it for me.
I doubt that a way to recover those lost thoughts will ever exist,
all I can do is write what I currently think, and maybe hope for a trigger word to
bring back those memories, preferably in front of a keyboard.
