Brian Sholis recently shared a digital portrait of himself—a documention of the autocompleted result after typing each letter of the alphabet into the search bar of his browser. As someone that is chronically online, I was fascinated by the premise and had to try it for myself.

A — are.na

B — Buttondown

C — Google Calendar

D — Dropout

E — Eric Hu (shout out Eric!)

F — Flickr

G — Github

H — High Tide (where I currently work)

I — Instagram

J — Jetson (past client project)

K — Klim

L — http://localhost:4000

M — Mass-Driver

N — Notion

O — OH no Type Co

P — Practice

Q — QuickGlyphs

R — R-Typography

S — Scott Fraser Collection (basically where I buy all of my clothes)

T — Typo.Social

U — Zoom (which feels weird)

V — Commercial Vault

W — nothing

X — Twitter

Y — Youtube

Z — Zoom (we can’t escape it)

The results aren’t particularly surprising (in other words you could say they are accurate), but the exercise was admittedly less and less thrilling the deeper into I got (which is perhaps the side effect of accuracy). It’d be interesting to do this periodically, but I am also scared it won’t change much. (Zoom claiming two spots is actually criminal though.)

This concept did, however, remind me of some browser self portraits I used to do. I tried tracking them down, but sadly couldn’t locate them. In short, when the mobile version of Safari had tabs vertically stacked atop one another like cards, I would periodically take screenshots to document my often chaotic and hilarious pairings of tabs.