One of the benefits about the Internet is sometimes stumbling across a website that you had forgotten about.
This happened to me today. I had an email from an account that I totally forgot I had. It’s for a photo sharing website that I had way before the days of Flickr and Picassa.
Some of the photos on there were just ones I had forgotten about, yet there were one or two, that I thought I had lost forever. This one in particular.
You can see it is a fairly old photo judging by the quality it was taken around 1997. It is of my old working colleague and friend of ten years Simon Kingston.
We first met in 1991 and soon became very good friends back in Bristol. We had some great times and the World Cup of 1998 is a time I will simply never forget like the antics we got up to then made office life very enjoyable.
Alas Simon took his own life in October of that year, and not only was I robbed of a good friend but the world lost a great guy, no matter what the circumstances of his death.
I have used the Internet since 1997, and I cannot even contemplate thinking about the websites I have joined and email accounts that I have created that I have simply forgotten about.
One thing is for sure though I am certainly going to start to try and remember. No doubt I will uncover some more wonderful memories that I thought were lost forever.
