Related link: http://www.theperlreview.com/Found/

I’m creating “Found Perl”, a little, virtual Perl memorabilia museum. I’ve got a lot of stuff to include, and I bet the community has orders of magnitude more.

I’ve been looking at Found Magazine since I heard about it on This American Life. They publish pictures things that people find lying about: mostly flat things like scraps of paper. I’d like to do that for Perl.

For instance, I have on display:

• Highways signs pointing to Perl, Germany (next to Apach, France).
• The temporary camel tattoo I was giving out at one of the Perl conferences
• My original receipt for my first copy of Programming perl
• Mark Jason’s card announcing “Perl Advanced Techniques Handbook” (now “Higher Order Perl”)
• and some other things

There is a lot of stuff I’d like to find, and even more stuff I probably don’t know about. If you have something, please send me an image or scan at found@theperlreview.com.

• Perl Magnetic Poetry, from The Perl Journal
• Nat’s profane “Perl is my bitch” sticker set (What were the other slogans?)
• An original blow-in card for The Perl Journal
• Pictures of other Perl t-shirts, especially the one given out at the first couple of Perl conferences
• The O’Reilly beret given out at one of the Perl conferences
• Scans of signatures from various Perl people (I don’t have any myself)
• Tim Bunce’s handwriting on a bar napkin saying “Generic database interface: use GDI or something” :)
• Images of swag (keychains, water bottles, pens) that Perl vendors gave out.
• Instances of the string “Perl” in everyday life. I remember seeing an image of a European road sign pointing to “Perl”. I think it was German, but I can’t find it.