Ever since I first got involved in building community and social networks on the web back in 1995 I've been hatching a plan.
Could I use the web to write my life story and link it to similar stories from people I have known through my life.
A hyperlink extravaganza. A hive mind. A nonsense idea. Pure self-indulgence. All rolled into one.
Since that first idea over two decades ago I've never had the time, resource, skill, technology or opportunity to pursue this dream.
Now time is moving on, technology is advancing, and I've just recently unearthed two large boxes of photographs that I thought were lost.
The boxes contain well over two thousand photographs and slides. Each one a moment of my life, captured but fading fast.
Like so many well intentioned folk I did not annotate more than a handful of those photos. Some, perhaps many, I already cannot remember the who, what and where.
There are places I went, people I knew, events I witnessed.
Hopefully I am not going to die just yet. But by the simple laws of biology and mathematics it is clear I have passed the point of 'Peak Me'.
With a good five decades behind me I know my life is only going to get scarcer now.
I want to record all these memories somewhere permanent. The blockchain seems like the perfect place.
It is just for me. And for my family. And for anyone who might know me.
Perhaps someone will recognise themselves in a photo and make a connection. That will make my day if one little link is made.
But it is difficult to do this here on steemit. To peel back the layers and expose oneself. Am I me or am someone else?
I will be posting the photos in no particular order. As I find them and as I remember them.
A little photo and a little story. Each a little memory cemented in my crypt on steemit.
When all the bricks are firmly in place my story will be complete.
[All graphics and images by Pennsif]
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