INITIAL COMMUNICATION: POST #001
Ed Balls
Esteemed reader,
If you are in receipt of this message, it indicates that I have successfully navigated the intricate and often confounding mechanisms of contemporary digital communication to produce a public-facing statement.
This marks a significant milestone in the history of the Notstalgia Archive.
As an institution devoted to the meticulous preservation of lost and forgotten media, the Archive has historically maintained a policy of minimal external engagement. Our priorities have always been documentation, curation, and controlled access to materials of dubious origin. However, with the relentless advancement of technology, it has become apparent that certain strategic miscalculations have been made in our outreach efforts.
Regrettably, the Archive previously declined to engage with several now-standard forms of communication:
Morse code was deemed too labor-intensive.
Radio broadcasting was dismissed as an ephemeral trend.
Television was considered, but regrettably, we failed to act in time.
Usenet was explored, but following an unfortunate diplomatic misunderstanding on a Norwegian fishing forum, the initiative was swiftly abandoned.
Despite these setbacks, progress is inexorable. With great deliberation, the Archive has determined that a social media presence is now both prudent and necessary.
Regrettably, an internal misinterpretation led to the assumption that a Social Media Manager was an individual tasked with overseeing the condition of the Archive’s dust jackets. This misunderstanding persisted for some time.
That matter has now been rectified. A Social Media Manager has been secured. Legally speaking, his position is permanent.
Thus, from tomorrow onward, the Notstalgia Archive will commence its digital outreach. We trust that this initiative will bring the best of the Archive’s collection to the world, one peculiar post at a time from tomorrow1.
Expect the strange, the forgotten, and the deeply, unsettlingly nostalgic.
We are finally opening the vaults, and while this is a momentous occasion, I must warn you: once you start looking into the past, the past starts looking back.
Anyway, enjoy!
Well, not literally tomorrow as they only work Monday mornings and Thursday lunchtime, but “tomorrow” in a non-literal sense of not today.