Thoughtful thoughts

The story

By 2010 the hand-coding had stopped; the writing hadn't. It moved to Blogger, under a name lifted straight from the 1999 homepage — thoughtful thoughts was a section there before it was a blog. Essays in Turkish, English and German: politics, integration, travel, whatever needed thinking through.

Unlike the first three exhibits, this one was not recovered from an archive — it was rescued alive. The original still runs on Google's servers, but free platforms have a way of not lasting (ask FortuneCity). In 2026 the whole blog was crawled into the self-contained copy you're about to enter: every post, every archive page, every label, every image — independent of Google's mercy.

The era

2010: the late golden age of blogging. Blogger (Google's since 2003) and WordPress carry most of the personal web; comment threads are where conversation happens. Facebook and Twitter are already at the door, about to absorb exactly this kind of writing.

What was restored

The copy is hermetically sealed: zero requests to Google, zero live external links — fonts, theme graphics and images all live locally, and every outbound link is disarmed with its original URL preserved in the markup. The theme's hamburger-menu sidebar was re-wired with a small local script after Blogger's own JavaScript was stripped. Pictures Blogger itself had already lost stay broken — authentically. Full story in the restoration lab.

Sources

• Live original — still breathing, for now
• Google Takeout export in the repository's backups/ — the lossless canonical source
• Repository — the rescue documented commit by commit