LOCAL MATCH BRAIN / ONLINE

Screen lore
for people making things.

A media-rich index of the computers, interfaces, sounds and tiny digital rituals we remember — translated into original recipes you can actually build.

01 THE BRAIN HAS AN OPINION

A few good starting points

Describe a project above and I’ll translate the feeling into surfaces, eras and reference DNA.

READING ASCURATED STARTER PACK

02 BROWSE THE PARTS BIN

The archive

References with a useful afterlife: each one comes with a source, a feeling and a way to make it yours.

03 HOW TO USE A REFERENCE

Find the feeling

Ask for a surface, era, mood or cultural signal. The matcher shows its reasoning instead of pretending to read your mind.

See the source

Open a card for a real clip, image, attribution and the details that make the reference recognisable.

Build the mechanism

Preview a tiny original homage, then copy a build recipe: the behaviour, mood and interaction ingredients — not the original artwork.

04 FEED THE MACHINE

Know a good one?

Submit a digital reference, a forgotten sound, a strange login ritual or a tiny software egg. This first cut saves a structured draft locally so the site can stay static while the community layer takes shape.