Note: Originally a sub section on Journaling, Why Write? that I’ve moved to its own post.

spiral binder notebook
One of my notebooks. Rowe Children Adorned

Famous Journal Entries

When I think about my writings, I think about famous journals that have persisted through time.

The First Computer “Bug”

first computer bug
First actual case of a computer bug. American History Collections

Downloaded from https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_334663 with companion meta-data.1

Copper Complaint

Considered the oldest ‘customer complaint’ known.2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nāṣir

https://web.archive.org/web/20240418012802/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/ea-nasir-copper-merchant-ur

The Light Has Gone Out—Roosevelt

A more somber entry. But what a tremendous weight a single X on a page represents.

light has gone out theodore roosevelt

The Birth of an Airline

the birth of an airline

Just a simple napkin and an idea.

Memoirs and Diaries

Diary of Anne Frank maybe being the most famous. Ernest Shackleton’s Diary of the Quest Expedition, 1921-22 another.

John and Abigail Adams letters come to mind.

Family Roots

So many of the artifacts shown on Family Roots include written document, newspapers and other announcements.

Significant Revisions

Footnotes

  1. https://americanhistory.si.edu gets it. I see you, Director Howard Hathaway Aiken. I had wondered if I was silly to include a guid in my files. I wonder no more. ↩

  2. I can only laugh because I archived my own Verizon Complaint. ↩