Card customization by tailored intergenerational historic snapshots

A method of producing a customized card containing a tailored intergenerational historic snapshot message, the method comprising the steps of:

• obtaining digital values for parameters of a tailored historic snapshot message template data structure stored in a computer-readable memory, the template data structure having predefined text and parameters, the text being interleaved with the parameters to form sentences, the predefined text and parameters of the template data structure including at least one of the following pairs within a sentence:
• “from where you are” and a distance parameter,
• “was your age” and a familial relationship parameter,
• “when she/he turned” and a person's age parameter,
• “like to know” and a person's name parameter,
• “in the year” and a date parameter based on an elder person's birthdate and a younger person's age,
• “people in it” and a historic date population parameter,
• “population of” and a historic date population parameter,
• “just . . . invented” and a historic event parameter with the ellipsis representing text rather than being literal,
• “first successful” and a historic event parameter,
• “world . . . changed” and a person's age parameter, with the ellipsis representing text rather than being literal;
• generating by execution of code with a computer processor a tailored historic snapshot message from the parameters and the template data structure;
• and
• including a version of the tailored historic snapshot message in an electronic version of the customized card, the customized card containing text tailored for at least one of the following subjects:
• an anniversary, a birthday, a congratulation, a gift, a graduation, a seasonal greeting, a holiday, an expression of sympathy.