Prelude: Hello? Is Anybody There? (1min Read)

Tracing the Echoes of a Digital Ghost

Sometime in 2001, Icarus started his first blog. Was it on Blogspot? Blogger? Maybe WordPress. No one really remembers. It was a long time ago. Over the years, there were many blogs, across all three places, each one a place to pour out thoughts, questions, and fragments of himself.

Now, almost twenty-five years later, after a ten-year silence, he was starting again. This time, not a blog so much as a memoir.

The world had changed over the past quarter century. So had he. He was now a middle-aged father, living half a world away from where that first blog was written. Blogs were no longer read. Long posts were no longer fashionable.

Why come back?

It felt like the opening line of a book he’d read in grade eight… or maybe seven: “Hallo? Er det noen her?” (Hello? Is anybody there?) A novel by one of his favorite authors, Jostein Gaarder.

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First chapter (2min Read):

Chapter 1: The Wax and the Wire (2min Read)