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Twelve small things about your own childhood, each about a minute, and most of them end with something you can download and send to the people you grew up with. All of it is free, none of it needs an account, and nothing you make leaves your device.
Hear it— The songs that were on every memory card
- The songs everyone had on their memory cardEvery phone in school had the same forty songs on it, passed around over Bluetooth until nobody remembered whose they were.One earphone each
- Sing along to the songs you grew up onThe song plays and your microphone records at the same time, so what you end up with is your voice over the real track — badly, on purpose, the way it was in the back of a bus.Your voice over the song · about 1 min
Make it— Your photos, printed like it is 2004
- Turn your photo into a 2004 camera roll printPick a photo from your phone and put it through the camera that would have taken it: a 2004 digital compact, a disposable with a harsh flash, a studio print, a passport strip.Download the print · about 30 sec
- Make your old school ID cardThe card that lived in your shirt pocket, or on a lanyard, or lost somewhere in your bag by October.Name, class, house, photo · about 40 sec
- Make a memory collage from your own photosThree to six of your own photographs, pinned to a board with tape and captioned in handwriting, the way a scrapbook page or an Orkut album looked.One wall of your photos · about 1 min
- Put your whole childhood on one memory cardOne card with everything on it: up to four songs you actually had, a photograph, twenty seconds in your own voice, the thing you never want to forget, and a line to whoever finds it.Your songs, photo, voice, words · about 2 min
Record it— Your voice, kept properly
Play it— Snake, Minesweeper, and a friend
- Play Snake, Minesweeper, Solitaire and Paint onlineFive of them, one tap each, no downloads and nothing to sign into.Beat your high score · about 2 min
- Find out how much childhood you share with a friendTen questions about the things everybody had an opinion on — the snack you spent your money on, the show you would not miss, your first phone, what ₹10 was for.See how much you match · about 1 min
Remember it— Your childhood, written down
- Write a letter to your younger selfPick the age — seven, ten, fifteen — and write to whoever you were then.Write it, keep it · about 2 min
- Your childhood, year by yearTell it the year you were born and it walks you through your own childhood: what you were nine for, what was on television when you were twelve, which phone was in the house, what everyone in your class was listening to.What you were doing at 9 · about 1 min
- What kind of 2000s kid were you?Eight questions and one verdict — the cyber café regular, the back-bench artist, the one with every song on their memory card, the kid who read the whole textbook in week one.Eight questions, one verdict · about 1 min