Index of Feeling is an interactive archive of human emotion pulled from the early blogosphere as a comparison after two decades. It draws from We Feel Fine, a data collection project by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar (2005-2010), which harvested sentences containing "I feel" from LiveJournal, Xanga, MySpace, and Blogger. Each dot is a real entry: a timestamp, a city, a weather condition, a feeling. This is a record of the intimacy that once existed on the internet before it was a consumer market. Click on the dots.

There was an extended moment when the internet was a place you went to feel less alone. Not to be monetized. Not to perform. Just to say: I feel this and mean it.

Index of Feeling draws from We Feel Fine, a project by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar that crawled the early blogosphere from 2005 to 2010, harvesting sentences containing "I feel" from LiveJournal, Xanga, MySpace, and Blogger. Each entry carries a timestamp, a city, a weather condition, a face that may or may not load anymore.

The early blogosphere was imperfect and unruly, but genuinely public in a way nothing online is anymore. It was a third space, and it was taken from us. Slowly at first, then entirely. Replaced, platform by platform, by something that looked like connection yet functioned like a market. Not built for expression, but for commercial engagement. What we called community became a product. What we called self-expression became content. This was the commodification of feeling.

Index of Feeling is an act of nostalgia, and an examination of what we feel after two decades. A reaching for a place that no longer exists. What you are looking at is the collection of a before, and what we gave up without quite realizing.