23 Oct 2026
SVT Halland: The founder brings Lunarstorm back to life with AI
SVT Halland, Swedish public television's local news, makes a video feature about the jubilee site. Rick has had AI compile 47,000 emails and thousands of pictures, and on the site you can type your old alias, leave a message in the guestbook and build your own krypin.
Watch the clip on SVT (1 min), in Swedish →Over two million Swedes have grown up with Lunarstorm.
- The feature is just over a minute long, with nostalgic sounds and Rick talking about LunarStorm and the time travel on the jubilee site.
- “My idea was that everyone would hang out digitally”, says Rick about the time when he started programming what became LunarStorm.
- The article comes with a small glossary of nostalgic words from the site: krypin, Bjarne, gästbok (guestbook) and lajv.
- Marcus Alakangas and Casandra Hallberg made the feature. Ten years earlier, in 2016, SVT Halland marked LunarStorm's 20th anniversary.
Sources: SVT Nyheter Halland: Grundaren väcker Lunarstorm till liv med AI, nostalgiresa (23 October 2026)