Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet

Saturday Morning Cartoons and the Rituals We Lost

Enjoying the show? Support it here. Remember Saturday mornings in the 1980s? Cartoons over breakfast, the possibility of heading into town for a cheap cinema double bill

The Video Rental Store: The Friday Nights We Got to Choose

Enjoying the show? Support it here. Remember heading to the video store on a Friday night, browsing the shelves and hoping the film you wanted hadn't already been rented

The PalmPilot and the Devices That Taught Us to Be Connected

Enjoying the show? Support it here. Before smartphones did everything, devices like the PalmPilot and BlackBerry helped us organise our lives and stay connected. From sy

The Game Boy Camera: The Photos We Never Meant to Keep

Enjoying the show? Support it here. Remember the Game Boy Camera? Nintendo's quirky little gadget let you take grainy black-and-white photos, mess around with faces, cre

The Zune: The Music Player We Made Our Own

Enjoying the show? Support it here. Remember the Zune? Microsoft's answer to the iPod never came close to matching Apple's success, but it had some interesting ideas of

Artifacts: Season 3 Trailer

Enjoying the show? Support it here. Season 3 of Artifacts is going back to the things that started it all. This season, I'm looking at the technology, games, objects an

Bonus: This Week in Fandom History

Enjoying the show? Support it here. I recently discovered This Week in Fandom History, a podcast exploring the history of fandom, internet culture and the communities th

What Season 2 Taught Me About Artifacts

Enjoying the show? Support it here. Season 2 of Artifacts was an experiment. After a first season built around the objects and technology we remember, I wanted to try s

The Memory Cards We Couldn't Bear to Lose

Enjoying the show? Support it here. There was a time when saving a game meant writing down a password, carefully copying a code from the screen, or trusting a little pie

Gopher: The Internet We Almost Had

Enjoying the show? Support it here. Before the Web became the Internet as we know it, there were other ways of finding your way around. Gopher was one of them - a menu-d

The Games We Played Before We Knew If They Were Worth Buying

Enjoying the show? Support it here. Before app stores, digital storefronts and endless in-game purchases, there was shareware. You could get a game for free, play it, an

The Home Videos We Never Meant to Keep

Enjoying the show? Support it here. There was a time when recording video felt like an event. Then cameras got smaller, digital storage made recording easier, and sudden

Why Owning Software Used to Feel Different

Enjoying the show? Support it here. Do you remember when software came in boxes? Before downloads, cloud accounts, and subscriptions, buying software meant bringing som

Encarta: When the Whole World Fit on a CD-ROM

Enjoying the show? Support it here. What did it feel like to discover an entire world inside a CD-ROM? A time before Google, Wikipedia, and instant answers, when there w

The Progress Bars That Taught Us to Wait

Enjoying the show? Support it here. What did technology teach us about waiting? Long before instant streaming, cloud storage, and one-click downloads, there was another

The Things We Found When We Weren't Looking

Enjoying the show? Support it here. What if the best discoveries were the ones you never planned to make? Before recommendation engines, personalized playlists, and "Be

Artifacts: Season 2 Trailer

Enjoying the show? Support it here. Season One explored the objects we remember. Season Two explores the experiences they changed. From waiting for a dial-up connectio

The Archive: Season 1 Reflections

Enjoying the show? Support it here. Season 1 may have come to an end, but the archive is still open. In this special bonus episode, Danny reflects on the journey that b

When the Internet Belonged to Us

Enjoying the show? Support it here. The early internet wasn't polished. It was messy. Colourful. Sometimes impossible to navigate. And it was filled with websites, prof

Before We Pressed Start

Enjoying the show? Support it here. Before games taught us how to play, there were instruction manuals. Folded inside the box, they were more than just guides to the co