Project: Nostalgia - a memory-driven webapp

When we think of the most influential and powerful emotions, love, anger and fear are all common but I'm always surprised by how infrequently nostalgia comes to mind. We have such relatively little understanding of memory to date but it's becoming increasingly more clear just how instrumental it is in shaping our perception, preferences, attitudes, and beliefs.

I've been entirely curious to see what kinds of things we can remember together by sharing pieces of our own nostalgia, whether it's shared or deeply personal, general or specific.

Truly meaningful memories are tough things to get at, but I've been putting together something of a "nostalgia engine" in hopes that through a shared collection of memories we can all get a little closer to understanding the way we think of nostalgia and the things we miss. Check it out, the full webapp is here:

Project: Nostalgia

Right now it's at the stage where everything is ready for some live trial entires, so I'd love to have a few memories of yours added to the collective. Let me say that I've loved everyone's submissions to date - some are simply hilarious. Keep them coming.

Over time I'll be developing some interesting ways to visualize and organize all the entires, so if you have any thoughts on anything you'd like to see, certainly let me know. You guys rock.

"Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson. You find the present tense and the past perfect."

- Owens Lee Pomeroy

(what do you miss or remember?)