Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet
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. Community. And why some artifacts from the past still feel more human than the polished digital world we live in today. 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. Because sometimes the objects fade. But the feeling doesn’t.
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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 sometimes even love.
From Napster downloa...
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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 tiny digital neighbourhoods.
Why did t...
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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 much?
In the first episod...
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 future
- old forums become digital neighbourhoods
- burned CDs become emotional time capsules
- and forgotten corners of the internet re...
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 still have to them.
But this isn&...
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