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# From + The + Vault: An Origin Story
- URL: https://www.reyes-chow.com/diving-into-the-vault/
- Published: 2023-07-10T21:58:12.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-11T23:56:42.000Z
- Description: Looking back, reviewing, and consolidating of past thoughts and musings
- Author: Bruce Reyes-Chow
- Tags: from + the + vault, technology

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[From + The + Vault](https://www.reyes-chow.com/tag/from-the-vault/) are posts originally shared around the interwebs. Thanks to the magic of the [Internet Archive Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/), I can reshare from an old [www.reyes-chow.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20240726223005/https://reyes-chow.com/), [Typepad](https://web.archive.org/web/2/http://breyeschow.typepad.com/), my [Moderator Blog](https://web.archive.org/web/20110514133518/http://www.mod.reyes-chow.com/), [SF Gate City Brights](https://web.archive.org/web/20160629194823/http://blog.sfgate.com/reyeschow/), [The Huffington Post](https://www.huffpost.com/author/breyeschow-993?ref=reyes-chow.com), and [Patheos](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/breyeschow/?ref=reyes-chow.com).

[In 2019, I made a huge mistake while making a website host transition.](https://reyes-chow.com/technology-sucks-and-the-brc-website-saga/?ref=reyes-chow.com) With one fateful click, I lost a decade-plus worth of posts and content. Yes, I know I could probably have found it, but I could not figure it out. And yes, I’m an idiot. I still remember how hot my brain got when I realized what I had done. Not that every post was worth saving, but it was EV-ER-RY-THING.

Everything on my personal website — gone.

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I had been blogging since the 2000’s on my own as well as on platforms like [SF Gate City Brights](https://web.archive.org/web/20160629194823/http://blog.sfgate.com/reyeschow/), [The Huffington Post](https://www.huffpost.com/author/breyeschow-993?ref=reyes-chow.com), [Patheos](https://www.patheos.com/blogs/breyeschow/?ref=reyes-chow.com), and all things [www.reyes-chow.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000%2A/https://www.reyes-chow.com/) so, thankfully, much can still be found floating around somewhere on the interwebs. With my move to SubStack and a new season of writing upon me, I have recently been thinking about how much of what I wrote in the past and if it has aged well or if I would be mortified by 2008 Bruce. Thanks to the memories of the internet and the magic of [www.archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000%2A/https://www.reyes-chow.com/) I am going to find out. So, every few weeks, I will share an updated version of something “from the vault” along with a reflection about how I may or may not have changed. I really hope and expect that I have been pretty consistent, but you never know.

If any of you have read my stuff in the past and remember a particular topic or post that you want me to dig up and take a look at, feel free to ask.

This should be interesting.

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