去年我为我不认识的人哭了很多。大卫·鲍伊、凯莉·费舍尔和乔治·迈克尔都去世了，他们是我童年的重要组成部分。我从小就喜欢星球大战，听各种各样的音乐，所以在2016年所有名人的死亡中，这些对我个人来说是最具毁灭性的。他们也奇怪地启发。

这些损失让我想起了我是如何长大的，以及我生活中的许多奇怪的事情，这些事情把我带到了我现在的位置。想一想，如果你愿意的话。当我33岁的时候，我意识到我的大部分时间都在网上度过了。对我（快）15岁的女儿来说，这是很自然的事，当我看到她每分钟发送数百条即时聊天时，我每天使用Twitter就显得很平静。在互联网上成长是现在青少年的常态，但当我还是青少年的时候，我没有意识到我在帮助塑造互联网现在的样子。我也没有意识到我留下了一条数字线索。

我回过头来寻找我网络生活的早期例子，发现了一个真正可怕的发现。我16岁时建立了一个小博客，当时它被称为“咆哮页面”。下面是一个关于页面的例子，请阅读并为我哭泣：

Hello there and thanks very much for visiting my site. This is the section where you can find out about me and this whole site.

Lots of people have asked me why I don't have an about me page .. well it was simply because I forgot and couldn't be bothered to put one in.

So here goes... enjoy!

My name is Tom Warren and I live in a **all town in London. I like to hang out with my mates, have a laugh, get slaughtered (by drink!) and generally fool around. I live with my Mum and Dad and also my sister at home. I am only 16 years old, I say this because many of you think I am older and don't realise! You may notice (if you read the updates) that I still go to school also. This is a real bore for me and I can't take it any more so at the end of this year (after my GCSE's) I hope to not go back and start up my own business. Since I started making web sites I have had the dream of making them professionally and getting made thousands or milli*** for making sites for top companies. I would love this because this is one of my few talents that I possess. The basic reasoning for starting up this site was because of my friend Billy. He said "make a rants page" and I did. Before it I had a shitty one which you can view in the archives of this site. Since then I haven't looked back and this page has grown from 5 or so people viewing it to over 200 in a day viewing it. I have had people from over 40 countries visiting my site.

From this web site malarkey I have made a name for my self "cooltom123". I have every possible email address that I can with it. I am now also an Editor for some top search engines like Alta Vista, Hot Bot and Lycos. I hope my popularity on the internet grows in size so that more and more people know me and can get in touch with me.

Recently I have started a page named south London sounds. This can be found at South London Sounds. Its a brand new site focusing mainly on garage music in the London area. I like garage music as well as trance, techno, a little Indy and some rock. The best thing about the Internet in my eyes is the fact that I can download loads of music. Mp3 is the present and will be the future of music.

This page:

The design of this page took hours of hard work like getting the graphics in the perfect place and making sure it is user friendly by getting a few kids I know to test it out. I hope you like the main page because as I say it did take long! If you would like to know about how to get good looking pages etc or even if you just wanna know how to do something in HTML then feel free to email me at anytime. If I get a lot of resp***e I may make a new page entitled "toms top tips"! Who knows!

If you are making a new page then good luck. If you are feeling bored and tired cause you can't get something write don't give up cause you can do it and after a while it will become natural to write any HTML you need.

I can't view your page that well!

Ok this page was designed to be friendly with Internet Explorer. I use things called scripts which don't always load as well in Netscape but bear with me cause you can still view my page ok with out Internet Explorer. Also my page may look "bulky", this is because of screen resolution. You are currently running a screen resolution of 1500 x 1000 1152 x 864 and the recommended screen resolution is 1024 x 768. Please change it to the recommended screen resolution or above. To also view my page you need 16bit or higher colours which is standard in most computers so not to worry there. Well thats all the technical jargon done with now get stuck into my page properly and I'll see ya around!

More of me I hear you cry! Email me if ya wanna talk to me more cause my hands are hurting now.

See ya folks!

让我们把这个畏缩的宝藏分解成一些关于我16岁的自己的要点：

• 我的昵称是酷酷123
• 我过去喜欢被人（酒后）宰杀
• 我认为互联网最好的东西是免费的MP3，而不是色情
• 我曾是一些名为altavista和Lycos的“顶级搜索引擎”的编辑
• 我打了糟糕的英语后手很痛
• 我想在网上受欢迎

如果你想雇用我，并且发现了这些信息，你可能会在扔掉我的申请表之前翻白眼。我显然需要一个16岁的编辑，因为我对英语的惊人运用。但我还没决定我的漫谈是尴尬、讨人喜欢，还是两者兼而有之。更让我感兴趣的是，在Myspace、AOL WebBlogs、Gawker和WordPress出现之前，我就开始写博客了。我从来没有想过上大学学习新闻或媒体，但我非常高兴每天都能发布关于我的学校生活和我许多很酷的电子邮件地址的最新消息。

除了好玩，更重要的是我的日记还在网上。这两次让我在很小的时候就陷入了麻烦：一个上学的孩子想把我打到2020年，因为他不喜欢我的一句“咆哮”，还有一个大公司强迫我卖掉我的域名，因为我用了一个受保护的流行字体名。撇开律师不谈，如果你的聊天记录或照片的数据库泄露了，这与现在可能发生的情况相比，是相对较小的风险。

现在分享一张照片或一个你可能会后悔的想法太容易了。我不后悔我年轻时犯的很多错误，但我仍然不想让人们知道我最近醒来时床上放着烤羊肉串，或者在我15岁的时候痴迷地收集豆豆宝宝，现在还在我家里。这些都是朋友和家人可以嘲笑的私人时刻，而不是全世界可以评判和嘲笑的时刻。

我分享的也许比我这个年龄的平均水平还要多，在互联网逐渐影响世界的过程中，我公开地生活在互联网上。我看到了Facebook和iPhone的崛起，MySpace和BlackBerry的消亡。在所有这些巨大的变化中，互联网一直是不变的。一直在那里，一直在倾听。现在没有什么能扼杀互联网，它和管道和电力一样对我们的日常生活至关重要。

当我16岁的时候，想到你把你的假日照片放在网上的任何地方，我都觉得很恐怖。一想到那个神秘人在当地一家照片处理公司冲洗我的胶卷，我就心惊胆战，更不用说网上一群随机的人盯着我那松松垮垮的**了。感觉像我这个年纪的人现在都在Facebook、Twitter和Instagram上分享一切。青少年对他们的分享习惯更是过分，没有迹象表明这会改变或减缓。作为人类，我们是多管闲事、善于交际的人，他们想知道世界各地的邻居在干什么。

什么时候分享太多了？我想在我有生之年，你可以去酒吧，给陌生人拍照，了解他们的名字、兴趣和收入潜力，我们都会接受这种便利，因为我们忙碌的生活继续被联系和更新的需求所消耗。Facebook已经拥有强大的面部识别能力，不管你喜欢与否，你的脸可能是数据库的一部分。

我不想在16年的时间里回顾我写过或分享过的东西，再次畏缩，但我知道这是不可避免的。如果说今年我有一件事要做的话，那就是体谅我在网上分享的东西，并把我对自己有多酷的想法牢牢地记在脑子里。