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“Your homepage, your rules — the web tidied up, and somehow felt less like home.”
“Sent with a hand-drawn heart, delivered via StreetPass, missed every day since.”
Swapnote, known as Nintendo Letter Box in Europe and Itsu no Ma ni Kōkan Nikki in Japan, let 3DS owners send hand-drawn illustrations and messages adorned with voice clips, photos, and decorative stationery. It was spiritual kin to PictoChat on the DS, and the premise — doodling a little note for a friend — was exactly as charming as it sounds. Notes traveled locally by StreetPass or online to registered friends via
It began life in November 2008 as a DSi project, conceived as a personal diary service before general manager Masaru Shimomura suggested adding networking so users could share their diaries with one another. Production shifted to the 3DS around April 2010 to embrace SpotPass and the console's autostereoscopic 3D effect, and it launched on December 21, 2011. By October 31, 2013, it was gone — a small, sweet experiment
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“Your homepage, your rules — the web tidied up, and somehow felt less like home.”
“It held the door open to the web for millions, then politely showed itself out.”
“Thinner, lighter, and gone before we got tired of looking at it”