About John Falco
John Falco is a technologist and cultural analyst who builds tools that help make sense of how media, communities, and ideas actually move through the world. With a background spanning infrastructure, software, and data analysis, he brings a rare mix of big-picture thinking and hands-on execution. His work focuses on clarity over hype—turning messy cultural signals into insights people can understand, trust, and act on. Whether building RewindOS or open-source projects, John is driven by a simple belief: technology should illuminate culture, not distort it.
John brings over 20 years of experience working at the intersection of technology and digital communities. His career spans from early open-source and online community research in the 2000s cutting his teeth on ROM hacking and political forums to becoming a Linux architect by 2024. In 2025, he joined the Library of Congress, where the mission and autonomy of the role allows him to develop RewindOS alongside his professional work.
About RewindOS
RewindOS started as a simple question: what if culture could be measured with the same rigor we apply to markets, elections, or infrastructure? Built by John Falco, RewindOS is a lightweight, experiment-driven platform that treats television, film, and pop culture as data—episodes, phrases, controversies, sentiment shifts, and timing all analyzed not for hype, but for signal. Early projects focus on small, transparent Python tools that answer very specific questions, favoring clarity and repeatability over black-box analytics.
At its core, RewindOS is a tool that is used against AI slop, unverifiable insider scoops, and chaotic cultural narratives driven more by engagement than truth. Instead of chasing rumors or predictions for their own sake, these early stages of the platform documents what actually appears on screen and how audiences respond over time. Whether tracking the decline of holiday episodes, measuring review volatility, or mapping controversy against output, RewindOS is intentionally narrow in scope and is being designed to show how conclusions are reached, not just what they are.
Long-term, RewindOS is meant to grow into a broader cultural terminal—part archive, part analytics lab, part public notebook. It will not be a studio, a prediction market, or a recommendation engine. It’s a framework for asking better questions about modern culture, one small, testable project at a time.