Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet

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 Shareware Games That Asked Us to Trust Them

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

The Magic of Encarta

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

Why The Progress Bar Was an Experience

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 Joy of Discovery Before Algorithms

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: The Experiences That Changed Us

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

When the Internet Lived in One Room

Enjoying the show? Support it here. Before we carried the internet in our pockets, it lived in one place. The family computer. Whether it sat in the corner of the livi

The Lost Art of Midnight Launches

Enjoying the show? Support it here. Standing outside a store at midnight shouldn't be memorable. And yet, for millions of people, it was. Before digital downloads, lau

Why We Miss AIM Away Messages

Enjoying the show? Support it here. Before status updates, before social media profiles, and before we carried the internet in our pockets, there were away messages. A

The Strange Emotional Power of Burned CDs

Enjoying the show? Support it here. Before streaming playlists, there were burned CDs. Carefully curated collections of songs, handwritten track lists, homemade cover a

Why Old Internet Forums Felt More Human

Enjoying the show? Support it here. Before social media feeds, algorithms, and endless scrolling, the internet felt different. Smaller. Messier. More personal. In Ep

The Dreamcast Wasn’t Supposed to Matter This Much

Enjoying the show? Support it here. The Dreamcast failed. At least, that’s the official version of the story. Released on 9/9/99, Sega’s final console lasted only a few

Artifacts Season 1: The Objects We Remember

Season One of Artifacts explores the emotional history of the internet generation. Not just the technology itself, but the feelings attached to it. The optimism. The wei

Artifacts — Official Trailer

Remember Winamp skins? Burned CDs? AIM away messages? The Dreamcast? Those weird little corners of the internet that somehow felt more human than everything online today?