(Artifact from the future)
July 22, 2092 — Foster City Clean-Up Zone — Silicon Desert — Work was halted earlier this week on remediation of the Foster City Zone when workers discovered a cache of important artifacts from the early Web 2.0 era. Historical preservationists quickly stepped in, hoping to protect the site for its heritage and archaeological importance.

Among the items found was this primitive, laser-printed diary providing a never-before-seen glimpse of the day-to-day life of a hardy social media pioneer.

The author, @socialmediagenius, was apparently a struggling public relations professional lured to the region by tales of vast wealth.

Typical of the heart wrenching and often inspiring entries are:

• September 14, 2007. Preparing for long winter ahead. Laying in supplies of Cheetos, Coke and frozen pizzas.
• February 9, 2008. must. get. coffee.
• February 11, 2008. Cat crawling across keyboard. So cute!*
• March 27, 2008. Facebook IM sucks.
• May 6, 2008. I just don’t get the appeal of Plurk.
• June 10, 2008. I pray each day the good Lord to protect us from the fail whale.
• July 14, 2008. We face more trials and tribulations. Brightkite not updating to Twitter timeline. Not sure I can go on.
• July 21, 2008. Supplies running low. Disheartened to find local Starbucks slated for closing. Womenfolk holding up well, doing more than their fair share. Mapping bug fixed. Now it would appear my file-generation code is borked.

We are fortunate to live today in an era where this kind of adversity threatens our very survival.

* No further mentions of the cat are made in the diary. It is assumed that the author killed the cat and ate it not long after this entry.