While sorting through a bunch of ancient files on my computer
User data for the original The Sims.
Multiple middle-school essays saved as Clarisworks files (a program that will not run on anything later than MacOS System 7).
A text clipping that reads, in its entirety, “mañana”.
My younger brother’s save files for Myst 3.
The entire soundtrack to the original Kingdom Hearts, a game I have never played.
A plain-text file named “junk” whose entire contents read:
A folder titled "Movies" containing no movies. It does contain several python files, but they do not appear to be in any way related to movies.
An empty file named "moof copy".
A Netscape Navigator browser history file from 2001. I can discern a couple of functional urls, like this one, an incredibly low resolution image of the cover to the DND player's handbook: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0786915501.01.10TLZZZZ.jpg
Fourty-four Red Dwarf episode scripts.
A Suitcase font file (which is an older variant on the now-standard .ttf file) for Helvetica.
An ancient birthday wish list in which I apparently asked my parents to get me Norton Antivirus. (?!?)
Many, many folders with variations on the names “Misc”, “Sort Me”, “Other Stuff”, and “Random”.
A complete PDF of Fredrik Lundh's 1999 book "An Introduction to Tkinter".
A folder where, as a child, I methodically went through thousands of files looking for things with interesting icons and copying their icons onto subfolders. There are nearly 500 subfolders here.
An email inbox file. The first message in it, received on August 19th, 2000, is an email from a friend consisting only of the word 'Booga' 3600 times in a row.
As a side note, if anyone knows what game these icons came from I’d be really interested to know, because they look super familiar but I can’t place them and google image search gives me nothing: