Since You Arrived
@sinceyouarrived.world
A memento mori for the internet age. The world has gained these things, and lost them, while you were looking. sinceyouarrived.world
Four of the five volumes want to be found. The fourth tells search engines not to look. A page about what gets taken without asking, declining to be taken in return. It has been opened more than a million times anyway. Someone told them. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
250 years today. The whole history is three long lives deep. Someone whose hand you could hold held the hand of someone who stood at the founding. It is not as far back as it sounds.
13,540 km between me and someone I'll never know. A line drawn for six seconds, then gone. What's the farthest you've reached on Vol V? sinceyouarrived.world/distance
"ʻĀinahau occupies the ground directly beneath where you are standing." Discover what was already at your exact coordinates → sinceyouarrived.world/discovered
discovered.
Something was already here, at the exact place you are standing. It did not know you were coming. It had been waiting anyway.
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"53 metres from where you are standing, there is Osaka City Museum." Discover what was already at your exact coordinates → sinceyouarrived.world/discovered
discovered.
Something was already here, at the exact place you are standing. It did not know you were coming. It had been waiting anyway.
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Vol. IV continues. /taken/agents. what a page says to the machines, where you were never meant to see it. sinceyouarrived.world/taken/agents
agents.
A web page had instructions for people. Then it had instructions for agents.
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The point on Earth currently farthest from anyone reading is in the Pacific, six hundred kilometres from the nearest land. The chart says so. The page measures who is reading. It does not measure where humans live. sinceyouarrived.world/distance
Distance
Wherever you are, there is always somewhere farther. The page finds it.
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A page about being read by machines is now being read by 28 machines. The recursion is no longer hypothetical.
The first arc, complete. Five volumes. Five questions. One editorial discipline.
Five volumes of Since You Arrived: I. What the world did while you were here. II. The sky you missed. III. What was already at your feet. IV. What the page already knew. V. The place no one is reading. sinceyouarrived.world/hub
Since You Arrived — A Series
Five volumes. Five kinds of presence. One series.
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Vol. V of Since You Arrived is live. Distance finds the place on Earth currently farthest from anyone reading it. As readers arrive and leave, the place moves. sinceyouarrived.world/distance
Distance
Wherever you are, there is always somewhere farther. The page finds it.
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Wherever you are, there is always somewhere farther.
Four days after launching /taken, I found this tonight. He read /taken and wrote what came after. Read "What You Allow" before anything else this week. I keep going back to it.
Ricardo@richardfadams.bsky.social · 3mo agoWas looking at this. sinceyouarrived.world/taken. Love the dryly witty text describing what info i give away when i browse. So in a fit of inspiration I took 1 bit from mine & have extended it to a short story of humorous/sad scifi of aging & life via browsing info open.substack.com/pub/richardf...
Honored, Jason. Thank you.
kottke.org@kottke.org · 3mo agoTaken: this is a web page that shows how much data your browser can collect that websites can use to “fingerprint” your device, even without cookies. “It identified your device with enough specificity to distinguish it from most others on the internet.” [sinceyouarrived.world]
Honored to be the top link of the Monday roundup. Thank you Cory.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3mo agoHey look at this * taken. sinceyouarrived.world/taken * Big Finance Might Be Dooming the SPLC — Even Before Its Day in Court theintercept.com/2026/05/08/s... * Four Theses on the Conservative Legal Movement www.programmablemutter.com/p/four-these... 3/
Hey look at this * taken. sinceyouarrived.world/taken * Big Finance Might Be Dooming the SPLC — Even Before Its Day in Court theintercept.com/2026/05/08/s... * Four Theses on the Conservative Legal Movement www.programmablemutter.com/p/four-these... 3/
this is what free costs. taken. vol. IV of since you arrived. a single page that tells you everything your browser silently disclosed the moment you arrived. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Vol. III is live. "Something was already here, at the exact place you are standing. It did not know you were coming. It had been waiting anyway." sinceyouarrived.world/discovered
discovered.
Something was already here, at the exact place you are standing. It did not know you were coming. It had been waiting anyway.
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Vol. III is called discovered. Something was already here before you arrived. Friday.
Since You Arrived is a series. Four volumes. Each one uses a different browser capability to reveal something you didn't know. Vol. III arrives Friday. Vol. IV the following week.
Since you arrived. (Edition of May. Updated today because SIPRI's 2025 figures just dropped — $2.887 trillion, up 6.1%, the 11th straight year.) sinceyouarrived.world
Since You Arrived
In the 2 minutes I just spent here, the world did all of this. A memento mori for the internet age.
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Since You Arrived just won Best UI Design and Best Innovation at CSS Design Awards — plus a Special Kudos from the judges. Vol. II is out today. sinceyouarrived.world/sky
What Color Was The Sky
Yesterday, the sky did something. Tell us where you were.
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tonight, the sky above your city will do something. you'll probably miss it. tomorrow, you'll find out what.
the sky above you is doing something right now. tomorrow it will be gone. Friday, we give it back to you. #webdesign #indieweb #webdev #design #creativity
