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Imagine my surprise, upon finding this website -- someone named Greg Fultz has launched My Collection Of Walmart Receipts, a repository of his WalMart shopping habits. Could this be some strange example of parallel evolution? I mean, the internet is enormously responsive to people's ideas...you get an idea, you put it online, and what sort of audacity have I to think I'm the only person who could ever think of putting WalMart receipts online? Then I encountered this tribute to me within the new Receipt Site. Mr. Fultz credits me for the original idea, plus gives a nice overview of my other creations (Voices for one), and generally gives me a big thumbs up for my internet things.I've been linked on Fark for one site (nothing new added) at least three times that I can find, and I seem to remember four. Repeats aren't common on Fark, and while the Receipt Site was around I was one of their favorites. The last time Fark linked me, just a few months before The Site's demise, Jeff the Admin said this:We liked the idea of commenting on Derek's purchases so much that we added comments to our articles shortly after linking to this site.I can't take the credit for Fark's worldwide influence and it's own impact on the internet -- but would Fark be the same without the visitor comments? Yeah, parallel evolution and all that again (Jeff might be joking for all I know), but the influence the Receipt Site has had goes beyond being something emailed to all your friends with a "Look at this!" in the subject line.So, Greg, I hope your new Receipt Site does well, as well as mine. Actually succeeding at something, as I did with my own Receipt Site, is a credit to my talents -- but being imitated and credited by another successful website, that is truly proof of my influence on the internet.
Two additional thoughts:
**First, the 'autographed
receipt' was signed by my
classmates in college,
because I bought treats that
night for class, which I had
bought at WalMart. They all
new about The Site (I had
given a speech on it), so
they all were happy to add
their names to my craziness.
I let the 'myth' continue,
simply because Communal
Thought was something I tried
to nurture with the site.
**Second: I've been debating
for a year now about putting
the Receipt Site back up, but
frowned at the idea of
basically copying myself.
Greg here has come up with
something new, different
layout, different
receipts/locations/purchases,
so I won't put the Receipt
Site back up now...there IS a
Receipt Site out there, and
while it's not mine it still
is a credit to my
creativity. I know I sound
kinda selfish in my post,
wanting Greg to succeed
simply for my own
recognition; I really do hope
his site gets attention,
because it's sad to make a
website nobody sees. --Derek, your Sysop,  12/10/2003 07:58:49
Hello Derek You are very kind
for all your great comments
on your blog entry not to
mention it will be exellent
promotion for my new site i'm
very excited that in 2 days
it has already recieved as
much attention as it has i
only hope i can please the
public as you did and yes it
is true with out you being
the pioneer people would
probaly just look at me weird
and wonder why lol well kinda
like they are now lol anyways
i was just checking out
mystats and saw the all the
attention had to follow it up
and see where it was coming
from and to my surprise it
was coming right from the
original source thats very
cool thanks again now i think
i gotta go to walmart i know
i'm outta something LOL! c-ya! --Greg, 12/11/2003 11:46:15
I dunno, Derek. I checked
it out, and really, I am not
impressed. The comment
format is not user
friendly. I think Greg is
trying too hard to create
something that has already
been done. (attention
whore??) Too bad. - Jenay --Jenay, 2/15/2004 08:08:29
Well Jenay as i said on my
site i welcome comments and
suggestions on how to make
it better and i'm not trying
to create something that has
already been done i am
merely creating my own site
and i never got the chance
to see dereks wr site so i
don't know how he set it up
but i will try to make it
more user friendly :) --Greg, 3/12/2004 14:40:07
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