October 2, 2008
Best Way to Waste Time Today
Here at DCist, we pride ourselves on providing D.C. area residents with one of the best ways to slack off while at work -- reading and commenting on our web site! But today's best procrastination method has to be this Google Search 2001 tool that Google released as part of its ongoing 10th birthday celebration. The search page lets you easily find out whether you are you cool/lame enough to be found on the Internet in 2001. When searching my name in 2001, the first page returns a listing for my having been attending Vancouver Film School (true!) and a non-working link to a play review I wrote for the University of Arizona's Daily Wildcat in 1998. Not exactly a big web presence, but a presence nonetheless. How do you rate?
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According to Google I played a male nurse on an episode of Guiding Light. I'm not sure if I should be flattered or offended. I always though of myself as more of a Stefano ... oh well.
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Eight of the first 10 matches. 15 of the first 20. 27 of the first 40, including pages in Polish and Czech, neither of which I speak.
(I have an uncommon name, and was quite the nerd about Usenet back in the day.)
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I didn't rate too well. Just two papers and a mention of me being the president of the Philosophy Club at my college.
crap. I just dated myself.
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wow, unconcerned about privacy, i apparently just listed my email address on whatever site asked for it. so there are 2 different emails addresses in guestbooks and 1 broken link to an article about a play i did in college. i really want to read that article now!
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Oh yeah, for you little twerps out there now, look at what that philosophy major did for me.
that's right, eight hours a day, five days a week filled with writing poorly constructed and grammatically riddled pooh and sexual innuendo comments on dcist.
penis!
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all I can finds is a bunch of links about a MIDI bagpipe player with the same name which can't be right, I was a big player in the dotcom scene with my own geocities page and everything!
and Sommer, I didn't know you wrote for the Daily Wildcat, I'm wondering if you ever covered me, there was a little column in the Wildcat that followed my escapades called "Police Beat".
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oh lord. a short paper written in imitation of foucault's "las meninas." my favorite professor started using it for her english 102 kids after i graduated...but was her point to scare them away from the major?
aaaand, i just dated myself, too.
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I had a page. Of course, all I had done in 2001 was graduate high school and attend college for 3 years.
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The 3rd one that comes up for me is from the Daily Wildcat too!
BEAR DOWN!
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Awesome. All my old diaryland stuff is actually archived on my own web server now, but the redirect at diaryland itself is long gone. Here's a fun rant which was linked on this other now-defunct diaryland diary.
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Yup - something from college having to do with me being an RA.
I also apparently liked "Bass Goddess Greta" and posted about it on her website.
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Mojotron, I only wrote for the Wildcat during the second half of my senior year of high school, when I interned there. The rest of my collegiate journalism endeavors can be found online by searching through the UCLA Daily Bruin archives, and to a lesser extent, the Arizona State University State Press, where I contributed for just one semester.
I am, however, an unabashed UofA basketball fan. Bear Down, indeed.
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woohoo!! 5k race results from when I was 15 years old. 28 minutes, not too shabby
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Unfortunately, I share my name with a certain oil magnate that married Anna Nicole Smith. In fact, it's identical except that his first initial, J., is my middle initial. There is, of course, a great comfort in knowing that I might always have a little shield of web anonymity. But it's disappointing to not be able to Google yourself.
The not-very-wealthy Howard J. Marshall.
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these comments make me feel old.
you were 15 in 2001?
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all i found was a dead link to race results from the now-defunct uptown races...
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Under my full name, something in french having to do with the game "Diablo II" (yes I played it, but, French?). Unfortunately even the archived site doesn't come up so I can't puzzle out why I was mentioned. Thankfully the short version of my first name (what most people call me) plus my last name makes for 2 words which are far too common in English to make them effectively searchable.
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Googling my first name and last name brings up nothing correct until the second page, when the results of an orienteering meet I did in high school with the rest of my Girl Scout troop. Googling a nickname I went by for a lot of middle school and high school brings up some really bad fan fiction I wrote in high school. Thank goodness that website is no longer.
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Wow... my old (now defunct) website.
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I'm there. Good thing it's before the prison sentence and that unfortunate incident in Canada that we needn't get into.
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A question in a technical forum posted in 1995
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under my 'first last' names, it took me four pages to find an old address listing with my Sorority. under my current username, 'first middle' names, there's nothing. why? i hadn't gotten my website up and running yet.
i'm surprised i'm not in more places. i've been blogging since before 'blogging' was a word.
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these comments make me feel old.
No doubt LaDouche
But, 2001, what a bunch of noobs. (Just kidding) I mean, by then I'd already blown all my ill gotten dot.com money.
Get a lot of hits for my Web site and the inevitable net.goth stuff. Fun fun fun
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Yeah, wow. Me too.
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Woo, I had five hits! Mostly for being a designer/contributor on various documents. I didn't start blogging until 2002.
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LaDouche , I was 18 if that makes you feel a little better. I guess the race results were already 3 years old at the time...
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Sad that my hits back then were a lot more substantive than they have been since 2001!
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Apparently I won a "promising young writer" award in the 9th grade! I forgot all about that!
Four years later I went to college and figured out that I actually despise writing and prefer to communicate in mathematical symbols.
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ahh! i found an obituary. what does that mean?!
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My name is very common so I get a link to some sort of memorial golf tournament and a link to gay pornographic movies by someone who shares my name.
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All I get under my first and last name is a mention in an online high school alumni directory, and it was for a school in Japan that I only went to for one year. Those Japanese are always ahead of us with technology...
Anything with just my last name comes up with hits for my brother. He's always been more newsworthy than me, damn him!
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Multiple pages. I am the man.
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Oh, Wow. 1st and 2nd link if I use my middle initial is my ancient defunct website hosted on a ancient defunct exes domain (last updated 10 sept 1998!) and my resume.
The resume is archived - I don't know if I should laugh or cry. Completely schlocky "Objective", Page Title "The GREAT ME", Skills: DOS, WIN 3.1, BASIC, Pascal, FTP??, and every job that has now fallen of my current resume as being completely irrelevant.
Seriously, I really wouldn't want an employer seeing this thing.
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Lots of imposters on there.
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Lessee: government editorial assistant work, U Street Neighborhood Association blurb, Ode to a Greasy Spoon, Spumco fan page, and a letter to the editors at suck.com. Man, I miss those guys. At least Polly Esther is still blogging.
Nice to know the original monkeyrotica.com is archived away somewhere.
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pretty impressive, all.
all i have is a link to a defunct page from a cart. class in college and something from a website for owners of the car i had/have (dodge avenger FTW!)
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previously, ungooglble. sigh...