Déjà vu Stories
2:04:54 PM 07.09.09
Web Page Synchronicity
By: Michael Anthony
For the past year or so I have had my own customized excite page that is set up as the default site for my web browser. It's a page that most of the search engines offer that enables you to have a customized page with your own specialized links, your own customized news, etc.
The URL for this page which is generated by excite is about 30 or 40 letters or digits long. It is set up as my default page on my browser. If I were to try to find it on somebody else's computer it would be pretty much impossible.
Anyway, last week I was travelling. I was in a mall in Menlo Park New Jersey (about a 9 hour drive from my home in Toronto, Canada) My friend and I were walking through a mall and we saw one of those vendors that sells products from a cart off in the distance. It was an internet service provider with a computer set up for people to surf the net for fun.
As we were approaching it, my friend said he would like to check the stock markets. I told him he could go to excite.com because they have a link to the markets there. We got in front of the monitor and I noticed it was already on excites page. Then I noticed it wasn't on excites main page, but it was on somebody's customized page because it said "Mike's page" in the top corner.
I then looked at it closely and noticed the customized links, the customized news, customized reminders, customized weather forecasts, and noticed this internet connection was at MY PERSONALIZED PAGE! This wasn't the browsers default. It just happened to be there.
I couldn't believe it! What are the chances of me being 600 miles from home and walking up to a monitor and finding my page at that specific moment?
UNBELIEVABLE!
We asked the fellow in charge how this could happen to be sitting on my page right now. A page which I wouldn't know how to find on another computer, never mind my friend. (who had been with me all along.) No, he didn't do it as a joke. He wouldn't know how.
The fellow in charge was freaked out as well. He said it made him feel like going to church.
I'll just mark it down as one of life's bizarre events which will forever go unanswered.
http://www.synchronicitytimes.com/mike_and_michael.htm
For the past year or so I have had my own customized excite page that is set up as the default site for my web browser. It's a page that most of the search engines offer that enables you to have a customized page with your own specialized links, your own customized news, etc.
The URL for this page which is generated by excite is about 30 or 40 letters or digits long. It is set up as my default page on my browser. If I were to try to find it on somebody else's computer it would be pretty much impossible.
Anyway, last week I was travelling. I was in a mall in Menlo Park New Jersey (about a 9 hour drive from my home in Toronto, Canada) My friend and I were walking through a mall and we saw one of those vendors that sells products from a cart off in the distance. It was an internet service provider with a computer set up for people to surf the net for fun.
As we were approaching it, my friend said he would like to check the stock markets. I told him he could go to excite.com because they have a link to the markets there. We got in front of the monitor and I noticed it was already on excites page. Then I noticed it wasn't on excites main page, but it was on somebody's customized page because it said "Mike's page" in the top corner.
I then looked at it closely and noticed the customized links, the customized news, customized reminders, customized weather forecasts, and noticed this internet connection was at MY PERSONALIZED PAGE! This wasn't the browsers default. It just happened to be there.
I couldn't believe it! What are the chances of me being 600 miles from home and walking up to a monitor and finding my page at that specific moment?
UNBELIEVABLE!
We asked the fellow in charge how this could happen to be sitting on my page right now. A page which I wouldn't know how to find on another computer, never mind my friend. (who had been with me all along.) No, he didn't do it as a joke. He wouldn't know how.
The fellow in charge was freaked out as well. He said it made him feel like going to church.
I'll just mark it down as one of life's bizarre events which will forever go unanswered.
http://www.synchronicitytimes.com/mike_and_michael.htm
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