Nostalgia, the "cringe" of looking back at past versions of ourselves, and the mystery of what "Part 2" might have been.
A creative nonfiction piece about finding this specific file on an old hard drive years later.
If you choose the narrative route, describe the feeling of the "click" when you open a file you haven't seen in years. Part_1-_Hot_grlzip
Treat the zip file as a modern-day burial mound. What happens to our identity when it is compressed into a .zip ?
Which of these directions feels most like the you were going for? Writing a great essay - The University of Melbourne Nostalgia, the "cringe" of looking back at past
Think about why this specific title caught your eye.
The "Hot Girl Summer" ethos of confidence and autonomy vs. the high-pressure labor of maintaining that aesthetic in a digital space. Treat the zip file as a modern-day burial mound
1. The Digital Time Capsule: Preservation in the Age of the "Zip"