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The Museum of Lost Interactions, which contains electronic artefacts discovered by students at the University of Dundee, has become popular around the world, according to its creators.

Among the items on display are an early music downloading tool from the 1920s called an Acoustograph and the 1950s Zenith Radio Hat.

Mobile phone boffins will also be interested by what the museum has to offer. Long before the thing many of us associate with early mobile devices - the brick - ever existed, we had the portable Morse Code device, which

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has been hailed as the earliest precursor to the mobile phone.

The site has generated a great deal of attention from the web community, including those in the blogosphere. Such is its popularity, around 25,000 other sites now link to the museum.

'The interest in this project has been phenomenal and we are delighted that so many people are now logging on to discover our collection,' said Shaun McWhinnie, one of the "archaeologists" studying the university's interactive media design course.

'These are amazing artifacts which offer a thought provoking reflection on the ubiquitous technologies of our present society, and show how such devices would have looked in the pre-digital world.'

The idea behind the museum came about when a tutor asked his third-year students to study lost and dead media and build models of fictitious products that might be the lost precursors to modern-day devices and media.

'The reaction to the museum itself, and the subsequent international publicity, has been overwhelming, but thoroughly deserved: the students' attention to detail exceeded even my expectations,' said module leader, Graham Pullin.

'This experience has improved their design skills, but they have also learnt how to communicate their designs to a wider audience and been exposed to the role of design as commentary on broader social issues.'