Social Media Historian Prints

2072: Sally scrolls through her grandma's tagged Facebook photos from high school and realizes she and the subdued drunk woman in the corner are more alike than she ever wanted to believe.

Early social media platforms were used much the same as they are today.

Moses on the web

"But how do I accomplish that in 140 characters or less?"

'It finally took me thirty years, but I finally have one of every 3-D comic book ever made'

Fenton G. Gonklemeyer, Computer Scientist - Booted Up 1928 and Crashed 2009.

My parents ate New York and all I got was this stupid t-shirt

"David live a rich, full life, despite what his Wikipedia page says."

"I like it but does it get only the one channel?"

"I'll never forget you."

'Your tweets have quite a following.'

'for more obit info, go to...'

A man looking at a piece of art through a phone camera

"Remember when, on the Internet, nobody knew who you were?"

'Well, kids -- I guess it all started to fall apart when they canceled 'Seinfeld'....'

"Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help the Google?"

"He just sits there, trying to think of the tweet to end all tweets."

'To tweet or not to tweet...'

Man 'Gogols' the Overcoat.

"Just one last crossing to make..."

"Archaeologists discovered several enormous ancient cities buried under the jungles of Cambodia." "That means the Khmer civilization was the largest empire on earth from the 9th to the 12th centuries." "That changes everything about our conception of the Middle Ages." "What was your conception of the Middle Ages?" "Well... It was... Well, knights, maidens, dragons... Mostly dragons. And elves."

Philosophie.fr Bulletin Board - 1936

Man at computer sees 'Y2K' comet coming towards him

If a tree falls in the forest but there's no hashtag for it ...

If a tweet is sent out and no one signs up to read it, does it exist? Happens millions of times a day.

Prince in the Afterlife

The early version of accidentally hitting 'reply all.'

Lincoln's Gettysburg URL Address

"What profit a cat to gain a million hits on YouTube, but lose his soul?"

'I don't have my homework because my dial-up modem couldn't connect with my on-line homework helper.'

Fascinating - each stem cell is dividing into one real cell and one cell it wants the world to see on social media.

"It says here that, since there generations who never saw them, BBC and ITV are re-showing every programme since 1970."

"I save all my old computers, monitors and devices. I have a hard time letting go."

'If you're going to surveil people, you can't expect to have a lot of facebook friends.'

Robert Crumb