The membership list for The Artemis Society is a wormhole of Geocities sites and Myspace pages. Contact details are for AOL, Compuserve, Genie or Panix email addresses. I’m looking at a snapshot of the site as it existed in 1998 – only a few years after the World Wide Web came into being, and at a time when getting connected was difficult, slow, and expensive.

It was also barely two decades since a human had last walked on the surface of the moon. Starting in 1994, the Artemis Society was determined to place adventurers on the lunar crust once again. Industries were envisioned, and The Lunar Resources Company was incorporated with an unimaginably bold aim: “To advance and engage in space flight as a commercial enterprise, to establish and operate a permanent manned lunar base, and to transact any and all lawful business – on Earth, in outer space, and on other celestial bodies.”