The Lost Interface

Forgotten systems once organized the world. The Lost Interface explores abandoned ways of recording, coordinating, and finding information—from Roman shorthand and decimal time to paper search engines.

Witty, rigorously sourced documentaries about the systems we forgot—and the world they made possible.

Explore three recurring collections: Record, Coordinate, and Find. Visuals are illustrative, stylized reconstructions; sources are linked with every episode.