A slightly punk, practical media project about what has gone wrong with the modern internet and the people still creating useful, interesting things on it.
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The internet is more useful, convenient and full than ever. So why does it feel harder to find anything alive?
In Field Recording Zero, James looks at what search, feeds and AI are doing to discovery—and goes looking for the strange, human-made corners still worth visiting.
01 / THE PROJECT
Broken Internet Club is a slightly punk, practical media project about what has gone wrong with the modern internet and the people still creating useful, interesting things on it.
Visits to websites that still feel unmistakably made by a person—and, when possible, the people and places behind them.
Tiny tools, obsessive archives, ancient forums and strangely specific databases. Each trip asks what makes the place worth visiting, what it preserves and what the rest of the internet could learn from it.
Short transmissions about the parts of the modern internet that don’t quite work: platform dependence, zero-click discovery, AI summaries, broken measurement and digital work.
No doom. No guru predictions. Just a clearer look at the signal—and something useful to do next.
04 / THE HUMAN
I’m James Yorke, an in-house SEO and digital specialist and a two-time BrightonSEO speaker.
I started Broken Internet Club to explore how search, AI and platforms are changing the web—and to find the people still building useful, interesting things outside the feed.
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