I’ve had my personal Yahoo email account for so long it was in “classic” mode, which by the looks of things they’re trying to phase out. I base this expert opinion on the fact that every time I’ve clicked on my inbox in the past month I get the spinning wheel of death, and I have to resort to some fancy mouse moves to avoid crashing my browser. So I did it. I’m now in the new, Outlook-esque setup. Like anyone testing their new surroundings, I opened an old email.
It went down like a glass of fine wine. One led to another to another to another. And before I knew it I was drunk on nostalgia. Photos from a party in 2005 from a friend I rarely see anymore. Long-ago advice from my Mom that rings true right here, right now. Jokes from college.
I can’t help but think that there must be a better way to keep these emails than in an Internet archive that could easily vanish. After all, I still have a box of written correspondence from the good ol’ snail mail days. But what can I do with all these short electronic snippets, friends? Print them out and keep them in a folder? Paste them into a scrapbook? Use them as fodder for my future autobiography? Simply make a backup disc?
