I feel that just like it’s easier to see changes in people we don’t see very often – rather than in people we hang out with all the time – stateful machines or software used infrequently can involuntarily portion our lives into arbitrary chapters.https://twitter.com/halkyardo/status/996131392655413249 …
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@jkottke and@nickheer on their respective wonderful blogs, with even more examples within: 1. https://kottke.org/18/05/old-memories-accidentally-trapped-in-amber-by-our-digital-devices … 2. https://pxlnv.com/linklog/uis-that-amass-memories/ …Show this thread -
This, this, this, yes: https://twitter.com/atarrant/status/996423832910020608?s=21 …
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(This, for example, is me standing in front of a construction site in Tokyo in February – doubly beautiful since my mom tells me I used to be obsessed with construction sites when I was very little in Poland, something I personally have no recollection of.)pic.twitter.com/41TukMKOPK
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A few people mentioned Bluetooth speaker or peripherals pairings: https://twitter.com/regolithlibby/status/996444260453961728 …
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Great example of an unexpected interaction of two different components. “The photos are forgotten are until you accidentally use spotlight to load Photo Booth instead of iPhoto!”https://twitter.com/keithahern/status/996457932475846656 …
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I wonder whether there has ever been a piece of software that understood that it’s been offline for multiple years (e.g. its programmers thought about this situation).https://twitter.com/kimaboe/status/996732810584043520 …
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Oh, that’s a good one. You can’t even shred those any more! —.— https://twitter.com/serifluous/status/996795585016381440?s=21 …
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Which reminds me! Bruce Tognazzini highlighted long time ago how the design of a trash icon on Mac and Windows has a fatal flaw: it looks worse if filled, prompting people to empty it, thus actually reducing the usefulness of the only thing it was meant to do!
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Contrary to real-life trash, onscreen trash can gets more and more useful the longer it stays *not* emptied. The design of the delete function – even details like this – can heavily influence how long the data sticks around. For (in this case) better or (in other cases) worse.
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I’m so happy people are still sending nominations for this thread.https://twitter.com/perambulance/status/996936429266599936 …
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Always so much joy and pride when something you make gets onto MetaFilter. …and many wonderful examples inside. “I occasionally get a spam from a dead account formerly owned by someone who broke my heart to pieces. It tiny-kills me all over again.”https://www.metafilter.com/174152/UIs-that-accidentally-preserve-memories …
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Two more highlights: “Oh, one of the biggies for me is Google Hangouts, still cheerfully reminding me that long lost friends are offline.” “My Netflix viewing history is interesting to look through. I can tell when I was sick and/or depressed.”
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Memories in the digital world come with a heftier price.https://twitter.com/bdowney/status/996982825848004608?s=21 …
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Ah, this is a really good one. The text message notifications from rarely used services.https://twitter.com/tonychurnside/status/997017488729788417 …
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Uh. That last bit feels pretty awful.https://twitter.com/Foone/status/996972573089873921 …
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There might not ever be a better tweet to end this thread with. Thank you, everyone! https://twitter.com/itsthomson/status/997183477123506176 …
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(I’m going to add a few more examples that I got recently.) Here’s a funny one:https://twitter.com/Abbie2020/status/997495529855692800 …
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This one is heart-breaking:https://twitter.com/kevintwohy/status/997967860713639936 …
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An example of a UI that understands what passage of time means to people:https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/997964436999720961 …
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Nick Heer just wrote of another example, Keychain Access on his Mac: https://pxlnv.com/linklog/amassed-memories-keychain/ …
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I just learned of this touching story during a talk at Config Europe. “i stopped right in front of the finish line, just to ensure i wouldnt delete it.”https://www.news.com.au/technology/home-entertainment/gaming/xbox/teenager-finds-his-dead-dads-ghost-car-in-xbox-rally-game/news-story/efa72f58c02fa57f9de15fd1c9675e6f …
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