0 http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/104/thumb/the_childe_1_.jpg?1238803910 http://hellofuture.ytmnd.com/ http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/104/square/the_childe_1_.jpg?1238803910 2009-04-08T17:29:51Z Homepage of 11 Year old Mike Bloun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= active kids, girls, awkward, 1998, websites 4 <p>&#8220;&#8230; this is what I sound like&#8221;</p> <p>11 year old Mike Blount created the original &#8220;Hello My Future Girlfriend&#8221; site in 1998 while in the sixth grade. Many of the other kids at young Mike&#8217;s elementary school had &#8220;girlfriends,&#8221; and feeling left out, he busted out some <span class="caps">MIDI</span> files and made <a href="http://www.2atoms.com/comedy/worstoftheweb/blount.htm">an epic web-page</a> (note: archive via 2atoms)</p> <p>A YouTube clip with the audio (and an unverified photo of Mike):<br /> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ge7mozA-ptI&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ge7mozA-ptI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p> <h2>Testimony</h2> <p>Mike has explained the story <a href="http://mike.winterdiamond.com/history.php">in his own words:</a></p> <blockquote> <p>&#8230;in an act of desperation, I created the web page. I planned to meet a nice girl in yahoo chat, and then give her the web page address, and hope for the best.</p> </blockquote> <p>And on its viral spread:<br /> <blockquote><br /> In 2000, I received my first email from someone who had seen the web page. It was very negative, and quite surprising. I just shrugged it off, and thought that it was just the one person that saw the page. The next day, my hotmail inbox was flooded; I bet I received at least 50 messages. Some were positive, and some were negative. At the time I was only 13 years old. The positive emails were encouraging and the negative emails had a depressing effect. It seemed for every one positive email, there were three negative ones. Soon the phone calls started. Middle of the night, people would call, and ask if I had a girlfriend. I had not told my parents about the web page, and I really didn&#8217;t want them to know. Well, eventually I had to tell them. They couldn&#8217;t believe I had done it, well, neither could I. So, I tried to get into my tripod account and delete the web page. However, I had forgotten the password, so, there was nothing I could do. Later, I found out that my simple web page had been mirrored all over the internet.</p> </blockquote> <h2>Where is he now?</h2> <p>Mike is still active on the internet to this day, and has a <a href="http://www.myspace.com/chaoticlife05">MySpace</a> and <a href="http://www.mikeirl.com/">a blog</a></p> <p>He also sells &#8220;memeriabilia&#8221; in the <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/hmfg">Official Hello My Future Girlfriend Shop</a> (on CafePress)</p> <p>People have made t-shirts of the meme: http://www.flickr.com/photos/<em>elemenoh</em>/2996613291/</p> <h2>Related</h2> <ul> <li>&#8220;safety not guaranteed&#8221;</li> <li>I Kiss You!</li> </ul> 2009-09-14T15:44:39Z 104 11 http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/104/original/the_childe_1_.jpg?1238803910