Sir Clive Sinclair's C5: The Electric Trike That Sank a Tech Legend
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On January 10th, 1985, Sir Clive Sinclair, the knighted millionaire behind the pocket calculator...
8 Loka 24min
The Conficker Worm: 15 Million Infected PCs and an Attack That Never Came
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Starting in November 2008, the Conficker worm, also known as Downadup or Kido, infiltrated somew...
8 Loka 16min
The Blue Screen of Death: Why Windows Crashes in Blue and Who Chose It
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The blue screen of death was not designed by psychologists to calm anyone down. When Windows NT ...
8 Loka 27min
Eternal September: When AOL Flooded Usenet and Net Culture Broke
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On certain legacy servers, the date is still counted as a day in September 1993. The joke commem...
8 Loka 20min
The GIF: How a 1987 Dial-Up Hack Survived a Patent War and Went Viral
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Most of the looping clips people send today are not GIF files at all. They are silent video file...
8 Loka 25min
The 1997 PalmPilot: The One-Megabyte PDA That IMAX Still Emulates
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Projectionists running 70 millimeter IMAX prints, some weighing over 600 pounds, control the fil...
8 Loka 21min
Social Engineering: How One Scammer Took $100 Million from Tech Giants
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Google and Facebook spend fortunes on cybersecurity, yet a single Lithuanian fraudster took $100...
8 Loka 24min
HD DVD vs. Blu-ray: How Toshiba Lost $986 Million on the Wrong Disc
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!HD DVD reached stores first, cost less to manufacture, had Microsoft behind it, and carried no r...
8 Loka 14min
