Internet time just flies by, doesn’t it? Earlier this evening I ran into a Wired article on Lonelygirl15. Remember her? It was just two years ago, though it seems like ages now. I didn’t know anything but the bare details of how it turned out, that she was no more real than WWF wrestling or reality shows in general. I wasn’t very interested anyway—it only took a couple minutes viewing to see this was way too slickly produced and acted to be a “real” vlog. Moreover, everything seemed calculated to push the buttons of typical YouTube users of the time, a much younger demographic than mine.

But reading the Wired article now—it’s a great story, about the birth of a new form of storytelling, with all the strange occurrences and coincidences this kind of event always seems to find. I wonder what happened to the team that comprised Lonelygirl15. Are they still working on it, or some permutation of it? (Things tend to evolve very quickly in Internet time) Of course, I’m so out of it that it could well be that it’s still going strong and I just don’t know.

Anyway, I find this kind of thing, the interface where art meets technology, fascinating. And dammit, it’s a great story.