The show also understood something that the internet age has made almost impossible to replicate: the value of the unknown. In Wellsville, there was always something unexplained around the corner. The mysterious ice cream man. The neighbor whose yard might contain land mines. The metal plate that picks up radio stations from halfway across the world. In a pre-Google era, mystery had a home. You couldn't look things up. You had to sit with not knowing, and in that space, imagination thrived...

Tell us about yourself. Where did you grow up and how did you find yourself interested in design? Was there a pivotal moment that you can remember?  I grew up in Florida in the U.S., but I’ve been living in...

Welcome to the forgotten frontier of surreal software. Before the internet fully engulfed our attention, there were games and “interactive experiences” that lived on floppy disks and jewel case CDs. Fever dreams of edutainment, corporate surrealism, and polygonal psychedelia.  These...