I was cleaning up some files on my computer and found I had a directory of old iChat / AIM chat conversation logs going back to 2003 still floating around. Unfortunately they couldn’t be opened directly with the Messages app now on my Mac, and were some sort of binary file that needed to be decoded so I couldn’t simply open them up with a text editor to view the messages themselves. Luckily I found an application called Past for iChat that let me not only open up my old chats, but also let me convert them to Markdown and HTML and PDF files, so I’ve now got over 6,000 conversations from 2003–2011 to look through. I’ve already skimmed through some and found some pretty funny bits from ol’ college Glenn, and many more exchanges that had me stifling laughs, but for every great quote there’s many more that are just “hehehe” or “lolol”.

Now to figure out how I’d like to save some of my favorite quotes…