5 Years of Hear Ye!
Today is Hear Ye’s 5th anniversary! Woohoo!
I went to a 50th birthday party a few weeks ago, the mother of a best friend. It was a huge occasion – she had invited friends who flew in from England and Southeast Asia for it. There were a barrage of speeches, which had revealed the antics of her in her teens, of her and her husband in their 20s, and so on. It was strange when I had the opportunity to listen to Mrs C’s best friend from university gossipping to us about Mrs C’s relationship issues of 30 years ago. It’s always strange to imagine how your parents might have been when they were young. Friends have often wondered why parents berate them for wearing certain clothing when aging photos show parents in attire equally as revealing (it was the era of miniskirts). We all latch onto anyone who has goss about our parents’ pasts.
All this vintage gossip normally exists as the unmentioned details in all our parents’ dark and mysterious pasts. Perhaps written in some lost teenage diary kept by mum, but more often than not secreted away in their minds, only to be freed by a kid’s incessant nagging. “Dad, how did you and mum really meet up?”
The world has since changed. Records of memories can now exist in an intangible form, yet be outside of our minds. Online diaries, weblogs and journals in the digital age roam the Internet freely, archiving thoughts, opinions and life events of those who keep them. Perpetual records of our life, infinitely duplicable, accessible globally, existing for as long as we wish to preserve them. I never had this perspective of my site when I started it, but now that I have surprised myself and managed to keep it going for so long, the record-keeping aspect of an online journal is but another reason why I keep one.
I wonder how the future generations will view the words that we type today, back when we were young.
“Dad, how can you tell me to not binge drink when you were pissed off your nut for three consecutive weeks in 2003?”
6:07pm (GMT +11.00) tomorrow 
happy 5th birthday hearye!
*throws confetti*
i think it’s nice to have something to look back on and see how much you’ve changed and grown as a person
Congrats buddy. You’ve got me thinking about how long my crap site has been kicking around. I’ve got a zip of one of my old sites which is dated March 97. God damn….
While, let’s see…going back to the start of Hear Ye!, you were a senior in high school…P1-166MXs were cool (drats! I wish we’d had those. Heck, until three years ago, my junior high had P1-133s!)…are you sure it’s Deschute and not Deschutes? The Deschutes River….(Intel names it’s products after oregon and washington things…IE: Tualatin, Wilammette, etc.)
And SHEESH! You Aussies have had INFLATION since then. $1.50AU to $1US then, $2AU to $1US now. wow.
not inflation. just a crap exchange rate. Our dollar buys so much less…..
heh .. the good old days of e/n back in year 11. Gee its changed quite a lot since then. Missing the old bunch, even if they continually paid me out in irc chat.
When we were still on dial up on good old zip and your site was still at zip… oh wait, you’re still on dial up :) woops … not funny *grins*
Does not feel like 5 yrs has passed.
But the low dollar has been a big reason why our economy has been kicking arse and Aussie’s have been prosperous. !taht gniyas 4 em rosnec t’nac U
Wo gaosu nimen. HY de laoban shi yi ge hen da de ingshiung! Qishi, ta yor peng you xiang wor!
AHHH! It’s a language I don’t know. Good shot, Denise ^^ I couldn’t live with dial up now that I’ve switched to cable.
And how DO you survive, uploading 350Kb images with dialup? aww, I’m just too impatient now that i have cable.
Oh, I heard a funny thing on the radio (this particular station does things like this often). a parody of G Dubya Bush:
“I declare this saturday sanctity of human life sanctity day. We’re going to bomb the [cough] out of Iraq, those [cough] deserve it.”
coughs = expletives.
5 years? I feel wasted.