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What is MemoryArchive?
MemoryArchive is a place for you, or anyone, to store your memories and share them with others. To contribute your experiences, all you do is type them into MemoryArchive.
How do you contribute to MemoryArchive?
It's easy. Just click here and you're on your way. After your story is entered, the editors will fix superficial things like formatting, typos, etc. We'll also index it so others can find it. Once it's proofed, we'll lock it so no further changes can be made unless you request them. And then it will be preserved forever, or at least a very, very, very long time.
What belongs at MemoryArchive?
The short answer is pretty much anything you remember that someone else might conceivably find interesting, now or in 500 years.
Why would you want to record your experiences at MemoryArchive?
Whether you know it or not, you are a participant in our common histories -- the history of the universe, of our galaxy, of our solar system, of our planet, of humanity, of your country, of your city or town, of your family, and of course your own life. You -- yes, you -- have seen things, heard things, done things, that interest others. Have you ever had the experience of meeting someone who was there too? The excitement is immediate. You were there? You saw that too? Wasn't that incredible? There are millions of people in the world who were "there too," and if they weren't, they may just want to hear about what you saw.
Think of the Future
Your experiences are the stuff of history, literally. You may think "Who would be interested in my experiences of this or that? Lots of people were there, and everyone knows about what happened." Well, that's true, for now. But all the people, like you, who are alive today and who bore witness to the significant events of our age, will pass on. Our collective memory -- yours, mine, all of ours -- will go into the great beyond with us, vanishing forever. Over the coming decade, century, and millenium, your experiences will slowly dissappear. The past, they say, is a foreign country -- distant, strange, often unknowable. Unless you have a map. Your memoirs, recorded and shared at MemoryArchive, are that map for future generations. Go ahead. Tell the future how it was to be alive now. Your children, childrens' children and all who follow will want to know. You've got a story. Make it history.
