Published Oct 24, 2026, 1:30 PM EDT

Former radio and TV guy (I Heart Radio and PBS). Now a writer, researcher, and musician who writes about the absurdity of our modern world and other offbeat topics. Specializes in weird music, the old web, retro video games and tech, and researching strange, yet interesting things. His work has appeared in Vice, Tedium, Star Trek.com, Today I Found Out, Typebar, SyFy Wire, and How To Geek.

Currently working on a variety of music, web, and writing projects. Visit him on the web at https://djbuckfreelance.neocities.org/ .

I'm an ardent supporter of archiving things. The Internet Archive and Wayback Machine are two of my most frequented places online. As I was researching something earlier this year , I stumbled upon something I (surprisingly) hadn't heard of before: the WARC format . These things are one of the most fascinating files/formats I've come across since Ogg Vorbis .…