What's that onomatopoeia called, that high-pitched, metallic ring of a trowel striking a buried artifact, that precise moment of contact with history? Clink!
The latest news, announcements, and tw**ts clinks from the foundry.
Cool Site of the Day is live!
An homage to the original Cool Site of the Day (1994-2006), reviving the spirit of web curation that defined the early internet. Discover exceptional websites, updated daily.
Built with Firebase real-time updates, featuring a curated queue of 89+ sites, and integrated into the Unearth network. A digital monument to the indie web.
New field note published, just in time for Christmas!
The First Ghost: An Archaeology of Yahoo and the Original Sin of Centralization: Yahoo didn't lose to Google; it won the game of enclosure. We trace how the "Original Sin" of buying GeoCities birthed the Umbrabyte and taught the web how to lose its soul.
SOLSTICE. The longest night is a quiet paradox: a celebration of light born from the deepest dark.
In observation of the turning year, we have unearthed a new digital space for feeling, not reading.
YULE.IM — Falling snow. Rising embers. A silent witness to the cycle.
THE GROUND HAS SHIFTED.
We are properly settling into our new digital territory. To better organize our growing archive, we have expanded into a dedicated network of Top-Level Domains (TLDs). Each spoke of the foundry now owns its own ground:
The main hub remains at unearth.im. Explore the new structure.
Our new digital monument palette.im is now live and ready for visitors. Step into a carefully curated collection of interface design from the dawn of the digital age—a living archive of pixels, patterns, and the visual language that shaped our online world.
Emojis are 'wearable emotions.' TBH. Now open for business: Digital monuments to the OG of emojis and softness!
EMOTICONS.IM — A museum of emoticons, complete with a "copy" feature! Were you hoping to keep your own emotions?
NOOSPHERE.IM — Now open for your thoughts! You are never thinking alone.
A real-time visualization of planetary consciousness. 200 nodes. Live thought broadcasting. The global mind, visualized. We are building the planetary brain.
The intellectual bedrock of the foundry is set. We've defined Archaeobytology—our generative discipline that links the Archive to the Anvil.
The full series is now available.
We operate on a philosophy and with a set of tools that are unique to our practice. We now have a dedicated glossary designed to orient you to the foundational terms we use, providing a map to our vision.
The crisis is not data loss, but content collapse. The Digital Archaeologist's true dig site is now.
New digital monument alert! The Botanical Garden @ soil.im is open for your planting pleasures.
