Kære Computer,

I want add a guestbook on my website!

Like a lot of millennials, I am deeply nostalgic about the internet of yesteryear and love aesthetics that reminds me of discovering the web. I want to tap into the same curiosity and excitement I had about technology, when I was using the enormous Windows 10 machine in the living room to dial up the internet or play Kings Quest VII for hours on end.

And so I think my otherwise beautiful website needs a guestbook, in order to feel like one of the websites I created as a bored tween. I love the one computational designer and textile artist Vera van de Seyp has created as a beautiful letter type machine. I started an are.na guestbook mood board to try and research both the aesthetics and functionality I'm going for.

Did you roam free on the aol internet of guest books and visitor-counters? Can you remember if there were any you actually used, or think of contemporary examples of guest books you've seen in the wild that you liked? Please let me know!

Thanks for reading.

♡ Nynne