A free daily email from another decade
Monday through Thursday at 6 AM, get the actual news of today's date in 1995, written like it's still that morning. Five minutes, and you're there.
Real history, real receipts. Unsubscribe anytime, but the '90s will miss you.
Who it's for
Taped songs off the radio? Waited all week for one show? Fought for the phone line?
This is your time machine.
How it works
The time machine's first stop: the year the future showed up in a cardboard box. More years coming soon.
Monday through Thursday at 6 AM, the news of that exact date lands in your inbox. The big three stories, quick bites across sports, tech, culture and money, and what to rent tonight.
Stories build day by day, like they did the first time. The verdict lands in October. The Finals go game by game. No spoilers, you live it in order.
Why it hits different
June 1995. Not last week.
August 1995. Not an AI launch.
All of 1995. Some things never change.
That's the trick of Today, then: the past reads like a mirror.
Inside every issue
The biggest American story of the day, with enough catch-up that you're never lost, even if you were seven at the time.
The geopolitics that mattered, and why it landed on American kitchen tables.
The watercooler: the playoffs, the premiere, the launch, the scandal. Whatever the office argued about that day.
Six rapid-fire real headlines across sports, science, business and culture. News, not trivia.
What's on at 8, tonight's video store pick, what you suddenly want to buy, and your answering-machine message of the day.
Real events, real scores, real dates, researched against the archives every issue. No fuzzy nostalgia, no made-up trivia.
Questions
Real. Every issue is researched against archives of that exact date: real headlines, real scores, real releases. The writing is modern-newsletter fun; the facts carry receipts.
Soon. The time machine starts in 1995, the year the web, the trial, and Windows 95 all collided. New years are next, and subscribers hear about them first.
Even better. Every story carries a quick catch-up, so it reads like a great daily paper from a world you get to visit. No homework required.
Yes, early readers ride free. Four mornings a week (Mon–Thu), no spam, unsubscribe in one click.
Your first time jump lands on the next publishing morning, Monday through Thursday at 6 AM. Bring cereal.