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21st May 2026

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 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 remind us what online spaces used to feel like before everything became content

This is Artifacts Season One: Lost Futures.

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Transcript
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Danny: There are some things we weren't supposed to still care about.

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Danny: Old game consoles, dead websites, burned CDs, internet forums, midnight launches.

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Danny: Tiny digital spaces that disappeared years ago, but somehow still stayed with us.

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Danny: Season 1 of Artifacts explores the emotional history of the internet generation.

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Danny: Not just the technology itself, but the feelings attached to it.

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Danny: The optimism, the weirdness, the creativity, the sense that the internet once

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Danny: felt smaller, more personal, more human.

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Danny: In season one of Artifacts, the Dreamcast becomes a lost future.

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Danny: Old forums become digital neighbourhoods.

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Danny: Burned CDs become emotional time capsules. And forgotten corners of the internet

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Danny: remind us of what online spaces used to feel like before everything became content.

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Danny: Because this isn't really a show about old technology, it's a show about memory,

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Danny: about identity, about the strange emotional fingerprints left behind by the

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Danny: things we carry through our lives.

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Danny: I'm Danny Brown, and this is Artifacts, Season 1, Lost Futures.

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Danny: New episodes weekly, because sometimes the objects fade, but the feeling doesn't.

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Love, love, love this show - thank you for the memories you''re letting us revisit!

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About the Podcast

Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet
A storytelling podcast about the moments technology quietly changed what it meant to be human.
Artifacts is a storytelling podcast about the moments technology quietly changed what it meant to be human.

Each episode begins with a familiar artifact - a burned CD, a dial-up modem, a movie rental store, a family computer, a paper map - and unfolds into a story about memory, identity, creativity, belonging, curiosity, and the experiences we still carry with us today.

This isn't a show about old technology. It's about the people who grew up alongside it.

Hosted by award-winning podcaster Danny Brown, Artifacts blends personal storytelling, cultural history, and thoughtful reflection to explore why some of the most ordinary objects became the milestones of our lives.

Because sometimes the objects fade, but the feeling doesn't.
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Danny Brown

Danny Brown is the host of Artifacts, a storytelling podcast exploring dead tech, lost media, gaming culture, and the emotional history of the internet. He's a Gen X nerd who grew up when dial-up tones were a magical sound of the future, Limewire was in its infancy, and AIM was the original Twitter.

He lives in beautiful Muskoka, Ontario, Canada with his wife, two kids, and various fur babies. He spends winters in front of a cozy fire and summers by the lake. Well, when he finds time away from nerd culture, of course...