Internet ghost stories

[dream]

I like to imagine some Internet users are logging onto the net from a different timeline! I call them Internet ghosts

Imagine getting a forum message or e-mail from someone living in the 1990s or 2100. Or perhaps they’re from the 1400s and are accessing the net from their nightly dream or an astray letter addressed to -1 Infinite Lane.

What would you ask them? What would you tell them?

Anyone have any Internet ghost stories?

[Melooon]

Sometimes I like to think about how internet wires go to everywhere on earth, and how you can hold onto an Ethernet cable and know that that wire, whether by electricity or light is directly linking you to millions of rooms, like a doorway that you're just a little to big to get through, but if you hold the wire and wish hard enough maybe you can find the people you want to be near. However in truth it goes both ways; on the other end of that wire are dark places too.

I think one of the spooky things Iv experienced was logging into my account on my dads computer that I had not used for about 4 years; and seeing it auto load up with chats and pages and programs that I had been using 4 years prior, with messages in the middle of conversations with an ex, and projects I had been super into at the time; that was like an e-ghost of the past coming back to haunt me; and even though it was just a few years it felt like Id stepped into a portal of my past life 

This got deeper than I expected :P

So I think if there are ghosts on the internet they are future ghosts; living users that terrorize archives by deleting them and changing their meaning and observing them.

Or maybe its just that we know we will become those archives sooner or later; our loved ones will turn into emails and facebook posts; and for just a moment, I can see that future, and know that in all of this, perhaps Iv missed my own humanity as Iv slowly turned into a trail of webpages and forum posts; and I think of those emails from loved ones Iv taken for granted, and they are like future ghosts that have arrived before their time 

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[PurpleHello98]

I mean, even just looking at someone's Web site that they haven't updated in a long time is kind of like meeting a ghost, the longer ago the ghostier.Ghosts are always pictured to be just as they were when they died, right? Well, a person's Web site is a reflection of them at the time that they made it. If their personal site hasn't been updated in a decade or two, they could be an entirely different person now... or they might have passed on since they made it. It's an odd, almost sobering thought, to be sure.

[candycanearter07]

And, you never know WHEN they stopped posting. Spooky..