How many people remember what a pager is? I still remember the day my dad would get a page and we would have to head to the nearest pay phone. When I dive into the memories it almost feels like a fever dream. To think about the age when we were not as available and digitally connected.

I also remember the rise of Myspace. I am sure there are other social media preliminaries but Myspace was the thing for me.

I remember walking a few miles as a middle school kid with my buddy who had moved to our little town because Hurricane Katrina had wrecked his town. He would play a game called Runescape, I would check my Myspace.

Fast-forward through the age of dumb phones into smartphones and constant connection and it makes you wonder how we survived.

I remember getting lost in the woods with my cousins in the middle of nowhere Louisiana. No phone, no tracking device, no tech. Just a group of unsupervised kids lost on an adventure that started out fun and full of play but turned into a survival to get back. What felt like hours of being in the woods, not seeing even a yard ahead seems surreal. But finding a road and watching your uncle pull up in his truck, calling for his dog that had seemingly been with us the entire time, then pulling off without a word — just a confirming grin — said to us that we did it. Him pulling off also said indirectly that he was not giving us a ride back to the house. But at least we knew the direction back home.

We did indeed survive.

And maybe that's the thing. Every generation finds its way back. Not because someone hands them a map, but because something in them still knows how to look for the road.

It seems weird to have lived in between an Analog Age and a Digital Age, but to see generations that have only known Digital return to an Analog way of life is promising. Digital may make our life more convenient but it is a poor substitute for what is real — human connection, daydreaming instead of doom scrolling. I question all technology that does not help us live life better. That doesn't propel us to experience real life. The Analog movement shows that there are generations who feel the same way about this. So much so that they are giving up smartphones, hosting live events, and intentionally experiencing life outside of the screen.

The memories worth keeping were never content. They were moments — muddy shoes, a truck pulling away, a friend beside you on a long walk home. This section exists to help you build more of those. Real ones. The Analog Domain is a space for the people, stories, tools, and gatherings that pull us back into life as it's meant to be lived. We hope you'll find something here worth putting the phone down for.