{"id":18979,"date":"2017-04-06T19:21:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T00:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=18979"},"modified":"2017-04-06T19:21:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T00:21:34","slug":"the-museum-of-me-is-sad-lonely-and-forgotten-heres-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/the-museum-of-me-is-sad-lonely-and-forgotten-heres-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Museum of Me’ is sad, lonely, and forgotten. … Here’s mine!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I totally forgot about this until I didn’t.<\/p>\n

That almost doesn’t not make sense, but it does. Because it’s the kind of social copy you might find on the Facebook page for ‘The Museum of Me<\/a>,’ a 2011 project by Intel that was an early foray into visualizing your online social self, creating a ‘virtual exhibit’ complete with panning environments and word-cloud walls and photo exhibits. It was actually kind of cool – especially for its time. But after that initial splash, the app went offline<\/a> (when did webpages become apps?) and the Facebook page hasn’t been updated since 2013. < sarc >I can’t imagine why the Facebook posts, which received at best 3 or 4 comments each, didn’t get more traction. I mean they are absolute gems<\/em>:< \/sarc ><\/p>\n

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but also, sadly, sad, like this one:<\/p>\n

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sad. Sad. … SAD!<\/p>\n

During the digital-equivalent of sorting through an old shoe-box of photos, I stumbled upon some screenshots I took of my ‘Museum of Me’ – Intel unfortunately weren’t up to the task in 2011 of publishing the virtualized videos for download, and each time you wanted to view the ‘museum’ you had to re-initiate the app, and it took a while, so I feel fortunate enough to have had the wit to take these screenshots for posterity:<\/p>\n

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