Pleasure and Pain

Measuring the impact of new technology on human experience

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

From the Archive: Changing Majors

October 5th, 2008 · Comments

The Google 2001 search engine inspired me to use the Internet Archive to find my old Carnegie Mellon student website. The furthest instance back had links to my Fall 2001 class schedule (first semester sophomore year), my “résumé in its entirety” and a real gem — a manifesto I wrote on why I had decided [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:··

From the Archive: Interview with The Baltimore Sun

October 5th, 2008 · Comments

In honor of their 10th birthday, Google has brought back their oldest available index, from 2001. I decided to search for myself to see what I was up to back then.
I found a few things that I’ll post here on the blog. Below is a hilarious article that I had completely forgotten about. The summer [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:··