Doing a bit more research to find a song featured in a previous post (which, incidently, is DJ Z-Trip featuring Whipper Whip’s “All about the Music”), I stumbled upon DJ Dusk’s myspace page. Turns out, DJ Dusk (above), a prominent dj in LA, passed away on April 29, 2006. The date is also listed as the last day which he logged in to his account.

I found this peculiar for a number of reasons. First, the comments (about 7 pages of photos, grafiti art, stories, and condolences) acted as a euology for this man’s life and was much more vocal than the average obituary. It made me start to wonder if this was perhaps a more effective way of telling our pasts than the ever wearing mounds of tombstones barely worth a few lines for a few hundred years.

Second, this puts well into perspective how relatively young the Internet is. In our daily lives, it is merely present, as an engine to make our lives easier, not something we are leaving our oily fingerprints all over it. I have never given a thought to the fact that the Internet will most likely outlive me. This myspace account may outlive me. And future generations may mull over these remenants of whispers left disjointed in cyber-past, as one views a shipwreck left in midfloat at the bottom of the sea, trying to piece together the words left by ghosts into a coherent story. What timecapsules am I unknowingly leaving the future?

Glad to know this probably means our ancestors were yokels too.

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