Lost Media Archive
The looser, stranger sibling of the main lost media wiki, with more speculation and considerably more unresolved threads.
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How to get the most from it
Lost Media Archive sits in Lost Media under Retro, filed as rabbit hole.
- Open it when the evening is free. It has no natural stopping point.
- It works on a phone or a desktop, so open it on whatever is nearest.
- It works with the sound off, so it is fine on a train or in a quiet office.
- No account needed — you can start without signing up.
- Go in expecting something unsettling and brainy.
About this category: Lost media wikis, obsolete format museums and archives of things that were never meant to outlive their broadcast.
Good for
- A long evening with nothing planned
- A little creeping unease
- Giving your brain a workout
- A quiet break at your desk
- Killing time on your phone
- Trying it with zero commitment
Lost Media Archive: quick answers
Is Lost Media Archive free?
Yes. Lost Media Archive is free to use and needs no account.
Do I need an account to use Lost Media Archive?
No. You can use Lost Media Archive without signing up for anything.
Does Lost Media Archive work on a phone?
Yes. Lost Media Archive works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Is Lost Media Archive safe for work?
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
How long does Lost Media Archive take?
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
More in Lost Media
All 12 in Lost MediaScanned film and broadcasting trade magazines going back to 1904, searchable in full text. The industry writing about itself, live.
- 1 hr+
The Internet Archive's full film and video collection — public domain features, home movies, government reels and stranger things.
- 1 hr+
- Sound on
Every format anybody ever stored anything on, documented with photographs and the dates it lived between. Far more than you expect.
- 1 hr+
Radio drama, comedy and serials from before television took over, in quantities that would take several lifetimes to finish.
- 1 hr+
- Sound on
Same mood: unsettling
All unsettling sitesMIT's trolley problem for driverless cars: decide who the car kills, thirteen times over, then read your own bias summarised back.
- 10 min
Los Angeles museum whose exhibits may or may not be true, with a website built in exactly the same ambiguous spirit.
- 10 min
Fictional US national park built inside a colossal living organism, documented entirely as tourist brochures and incident reports.
- 10 min
The American government's public database of missing and unidentified persons, searchable by absolutely anyone.
- 10 min
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