title: Shoebox — Work by Giles Turnbull
url: https://gilest.org/shoebox.html
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I have a habit of using old shoeboxes to keep things in. Old photos, bits of paper, odds-and-ends that don’t have another place to live.
This is my digital shoebox: a bit of website where for the odds-and-ends. I put things here so that I can delete them from other places.
- Sweet Film, an album of photos made using Sweet Film for iOS; I thought about using it for a project, but I never did
- An archive of my Twitter account, 2006-2023. RIP.
- Designs for greetings cards
- Anti-growth coalition
- Breathing is an exchange of gases
- Some quizzes I made for lockdown socialising
- Online Journalism Awards certificate - for being a finalist in the 2012 awards, for Twitter by post
- That time I got interviewed in .net magazine (about Twitter by post)
- Singing thing - a draft of a piece I started for The Morning News but never finished
- Pretend Office tweets, draft tweets from the team at the company that's almost certainly among the best in the field that it's in (see also)
- Science fiction I grew up with, a draft of a blog post I never finished
- The future of social networking, a piece I wrote for The Daily Telegraph (I think) in about 2010-ish (I think)
- I couldn't take this photo
- Scanned sleeve art for Furniture albums
- Nightmare jobs from hell, a note about some of the terrible jobs I did as a youth
- Start thing, a home-made internet start page from the late 1990s. We used to make these ourselves, you know.
- The birth of the internet, a brief email exchange with Leonard Kleinrock, from back when I was a fresh young internet correspondent
- Internet links for UK journalists, another hand-made page from the 90s, when people made "lists" of "links"
- This web site's home page from 22nd December, 2000
- Palm stuff and palmpilot stuff, two versions of an ancient web page about my Palm Pilot