Hello My Future Girlfriend

About

“… this is what I sound like”

11 year old Mike Blount created the original “Hello My Future Girlfriend” site in 1998 while in the sixth grade. Many of the other kids at young Mike’s elementary school had “girlfriends,” and feeling left out, he busted out some MIDI files and made an epic web-page (note: archive via 2atoms)

A YouTube clip with the audio (and a photo of Mike):

Testimony

Mike has explained the story in his own words:

…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.

And on its viral spread:

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’t want them to know. Well, eventually I had to tell them. They couldn’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.

Where is he now?

Mike is still active on the internet to this day, and has a MySpace and a blog

He also sells “memeriabilia” in the Official Hello My Future Girlfriend Shop (on CafePress)

People have made t-shirts of the meme: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elemenoh/2996613291/

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