26 March 2025
Framtidslöftet: LunarStorm in internet history
Urban Lindstedt, who visited the customs house (Tullhuset) in spring 2000, highlights LunarStorm and Rickard in the book Framtidslöftet and discusses the site on the podcast Historia.nu.
Small-town thrift and a knack for working miracles with next to nothing.
- Rickard's explanation in the book of why LunarStorm survived the dotcom crash, unlike boo.com.
- Lindstedt interviewed Rickard in his podcast studio on 23 Oct 2023.
- The book: LunarStorm was first in Sweden with a community where a personal profile was linked to commenting and communicating.
- According to the book, 78% of everyone aged 13 to 20 visited LunarStorm every week in 2004.
- The podcast episode: “Sveriges internetrevolution: från digitalt upptäcktsresande till algoritmslaveri” (Sweden's internet revolution: from digital exploration to algorithm slavery).
- On the podcast, about 39 minutes in: “Everyone had Lunarstorm when they were at upper secondary school”, and the joke that Stockholm teenagers chose Playahead because “it was country bumpkins who hung out on Lunar”.
With: Urban Lindstedt