Home Podcasts Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet

Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet

Danny Brown 4 Episodes Jul 3, 2026

Artifacts is a storytelling podcast about the forgotten things that still shape us. From dead platforms and failed consoles to burned CDs, AIM away messages, movie rental stores, and the weird early internet, each episode explores the emotional connection we still have to the technology, media, and cultural moments we thought we’d left behind. But this isn’t just nostalgia. It’s about memory, creativity, identity, and community. Hosted by award-winning podcaster Danny Brown, Artifacts blends internet culture, personal storytelling, and reflective cultural analysis into a show about the feelings we attach to the things we carry with us.

Episodes

Before We Pressed Start Jul 3, 2026 03:58 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 controls. They introduced us to new worlds, told stories, shared artwork, and built excitement long before we ever pressed the Start button.In Episode 7 of Artifacts, Danny Brown explores why video game manuals became such an important

When the Internet Lived in One Room Jun 26, 2026 04:58 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 living room, the spare bedroom, or the family office, it was a shared space where homework, games, emails, music, and late-night internet adventures all happened on the same machine.In Episode 6 of Artifacts, Danny Brown explores what it me

The Lost Art of Midnight Launches Jun 19, 2026 04:59 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, launch day was an event. Whether it was a new console, a highly anticipated game, a blockbuster movie, or a must-have album, midnight launches transformed ordinary purchases into shared experiences.In Episode 5 of Artifacts, Danny Brown ex

Why We Miss AIM Away Messages Jun 12, 2026 04:53 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 few lines of text attached to a screen name.And somehow, they mattered.In Episode 4 of Artifacts, Danny Brown explores how AIM away messages became one of the earliest forms of online self-expression. From song lyrics and inside jokes

The Strange Emotional Power of Burned CDs Jun 5, 2026 04:39 Enjoying the show? Support it here.Before streaming playlists, there were burned CDs.Carefully curated collections of songs, handwritten track lists, homemade cover art, and hours spent deciding exactly what came next.In Episode 3 of Artifacts, Danny Brown explores why burned CDs became so much more than a way to listen to music. They were expressions of identity, creativity, friendship, and somet

Why Old Internet Forums Felt More Human May 29, 2026 06:07 Enjoying the show? Support it here.Before social media feeds, algorithms, and endless scrolling, the internet felt different.Smaller.Messier.More personal.In Episode 2 of Artifacts, Danny Brown explores the strange emotional connection people still have to old internet forums - from recognizable usernames and chaotic communities to forum signatures, inside jokes, and the feeling of belonging to ti

The Dreamcast Wasn’t Supposed to Matter This Much May 29, 2026 06:39 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 short years before disappearing from store shelves forever. But decades later, people still talk about the Dreamcast with a kind of emotional reverence usually reserved for much bigger success stories.So why does it still matter so m

Artifacts - Season 1 Trailer May 21, 2026 01:31 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 weirdness. The creativity.The sense that the internet once felt smaller.More personal. More human.This season:the Dreamcast becomes a lost futureold forums become digital neighbourhoodsburned CDs become emotional time capsulesand forgo

Artifacts — Official Trailer May 13, 2026 01:23 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?Maybe we don’t actually miss the technology. Maybe we miss how it made us feel.Artifacts is a podcast about forgotten platforms, dead gadgets, old internet culture, creative communities, and the strange emotional connection we sti

Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet

Episodes

Recommended