In the early days of the social web, an account appeared under the name . While others were posting curated vacations and lunch photos, Feranki was doing something different: they were running a "Digital Time Capsule."
: The "1980" in the name wasn't just a birth year. Followers began to notice that the metadata on Feranki’s photos was impossible. Images of 1980s street scenes were captured with resolution levels that didn't exist until 2025. feranki1980-s Account
The most recent activity occurred in 2021. A GitHub gist under the handle feranki1980-s was uploaded and deleted within 11 minutes. Fortunately, the Wayback Machine captured it. The gist contained a single line of Bash script: In the early days of the social web,