Internet Culture

On a day like today, the word "archaeology" brings to mind images of things that last. We picture a terracotta warrior, carefully brushed free from the dust of millennia. We see a stone tablet, its laws still legible after four thousand years, or the fossilized print of a leaf—a perfect ghost... Read more

Not all websites are built to be businesses. Some are built to be memories. At the foundry, when we talk about a Digital Monument, we are describing a very specific kind of creation. It is not a startup, a product, or a service. It is an act of cultural preservation, a piece of digital scholarship,... Read more

An era’s story rarely appears in its official blueprints. It is often found in the worn pathways, the shared jokes, and the invented rituals of the people who inhabited the space. To understand the social web—the period we retroactively call Web 2.0—one must look past the sterile interfaces... Read more