DCist: Best Way to Waste Time Today

Disco Stu

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:27:51 -0500

previously, ungooglble. sigh...

IMGoph

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:31:24 -0500

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!)

monkeyrotica

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:56:14 -0500

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.

Fluxgirl

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:15:13 -0500

Lots of imposters on there.

CistayD

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:33:11 -0500

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.

rdo

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:53:13 -0500

Multiple pages. I am the man.

AMDCer

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:44:34 -0500

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!

ShawnDC

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:10:58 -0500

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.

eleaman

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:09:38 -0500

ahh! i found an obituary. what does that mean?!

lilybelle

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:46:05 -0500

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.

tomaloisi

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:33:55 -0500

Sad that my hits back then were a lot more substantive than they have been since 2001!

wonderwazz

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:33:32 -0500

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...

connie dobbs

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:27:38 -0500

Woo, I had five hits! Mostly for being a designer/contributor on various documents. I didn't start blogging until 2002.

HCE

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:24:34 -0500

Yeah, wow. Me too.

Philipshade

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:23:46 -0500

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

erincarly

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:17:41 -0500

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.

downtown rez

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:57:30 -0500

A question in a technical forum posted in 1995

OldPosterKnownAsCranky

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:51:16 -0500

I'm there. Good thing it's before the prison sentence and that unfortunate incident in Canada that we needn't get into.

fredo

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:50:12 -0500

Wow... my old (now defunct) website.

no_pants_mcgee

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:48:55 -0500

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.

Moose

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:48:26 -0500

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.

sticks

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:46:59 -0500

all i found was a dead link to race results from the now-defunct uptown races...

Guy LaDouche

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:46:13 -0500

these comments make me feel old. you were 15 in 2001?

hmarshall

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:45:41 -0500

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.

wonderwazz

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:33:50 -0500

woohoo!! 5k race results from when I was 15 years old. 28 minutes, not too shabby

Sommer Mathis

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:29:51 -0500

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.

Mediocre Fred

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:28:33 -0500

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.

fedward

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:27:01 -0500

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.

Stan Buzzman

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:24:20 -0500

The 3rd one that comes up for me is from the Daily Wildcat too! BEAR DOWN!

ahaak

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:22:48 -0500

I had a page. Of course, all I had done in 2001 was graduate high school and attend college for 3 years.

jaime

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:21:24 -0500

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.

Mojotron

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:18:42 -0500

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".

blittle

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:15:32 -0500

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!

ahark1pd

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:12:25 -0500

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!

blittle

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:06:50 -0500

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.

cminus

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:06:31 -0500

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.)

Jaynuze

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:05:49 -0500

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.