If you choose the narrative route, describe the feeling of the "click" when you open a file you haven't seen in years.

Choose the angle that actually excites you; your enthusiasm will make the writing more engaging.

Data permanence, the act of "archiving" one's youth, and the tension between public social media personas and the private files we hide away in folders.

A creative nonfiction piece about finding this specific file on an old hard drive years later.

1. The Digital Time Capsule: Preservation in the Age of the "Zip"

Treat the zip file as a modern-day burial mound. What happens to our identity when it is compressed into a .zip ?