Memories of the 5460 China Alumni Directory
Author: Zhu Anfeng
What is the oldest trace of yourself that you can still find on the internet? For me, it is the message below on the 5460 alumni site, posted at 12:25 a.m. on September 16, 2000. I probably left it in an internet cafe off campus.
Unfortunately, the 5460 China Alumni Directory has long since disappeared.
Looking back, the online world felt like a vast unknown territory to us back then, full of curiosity and exploration.
Now, as the years have passed, those once simple and sincere interactions have long been swallowed by a fast-changing internet environment and disappeared into the currents of the times.
And yet that screenshot remains like a mark buried deep in the soil of time. It reminds me that even in an age of rapid information updates, we can still look back and feel the presence of who we once were, and of the people who once shared that world with us.