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My earliest memory is a ham sandwich.

Not a face. Not a birthday. A ham sandwich. This is my life as a run of memories, each one a small game you can play, or read right here.

Play from the beginning

  1. Prologue · c. 1987 · age about 3The Ham SandwichMy earliest memory is a ham sandwich, eaten a bite at a time on the front doorstep while my brother and sister were at school.
  2. Disk 1 · c. 1991 · age 7Type-InCopying a game out of a library book, line by line, and finding out it doesn't run until Mum fixes every DATA line.
  3. Disk 2 · early 1990s · age 8–10We Made Our OwnWe couldn't afford Cluedo or Monopoly, so we made our own out of cereal boxes and felt tips.
  4. Disk 3 · early 1990s · age 8–10The Carpet SeaPirates! on the computer with my sister, then a real-life insult sword fight across a living room that turned into the sea.
  5. Disk 4 · c. 1992 · age about 8Track & FieldThree siblings, a hundred metres and a lot of broken joysticks. Somebody had a technique involving a ruler.
  6. Disk 5 · c. 1999 · age 15Because I CouldInstalling a strategy game on every machine in the school, for no reason except that I could. Plus my first website.
  7. Disk 6 · c. 2000–02 · age 16–18Skip IntroI lost the student election, made my own college website in Flash and failed computer science, in that order.
  8. Disk 7 · c. 2002–03 · age 18–19Walking OutCalled out for not listening, answering anyway, being offered the fast track, and walking out of the door.
  9. Disk 8 · c. 2005–06 · age early 20sNo ReloadHotel results that streamed into the page without a reload, and a search split across parallel threads.
  10. Disk 9 · c. 2006 · age 22The Ball PondMy daughter was born in 2005. We spent a whole day in an inflatable pirate ship full of balls, and she didn't do very much.
  11. Disk 10 · 2011 · age about 27Panda UpdateThe SEO team had a teddy panda, because of the Panda update. We kidnapped it overnight and made a hostage video, ransoming it for sweets.
  12. Now · 2026 · age 42NowEverything in the room leads somewhere real, and there's a ham sandwich on the desk.

Disks eleven and later are still being written. Tell me what you thought.