Gary Kildall: The CP/M Genius Who Lost the IBM Deal to Bill Gates
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gary Kildall wrote the first practical operating system for personal computers, yet he is rememb...
8 Loka 22min
Kathleen Antonelli: The Irish-Born ENIAC Programmer History Left Out
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Kathleen Rita McNulty was born in February 1921 in an Irish-speaking village in County Donegal, ...
8 Loka 22min
Nokia 3310: How an Unbreakable Brick Sold 126 Million and Became a Meme
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2015 Finland released a set of national emojis: a couple in a sauna, heavy metal rockers, and...
8 Loka 22min
Gary McKinnon: The UFO Hunter Who Hacked the Pentagon and NASA
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Between early 2001 and early 2002, a Scottish systems administrator working from his girlfriend'...
8 Loka 21min
Wallace Carothers: The Tragic Genius Who Invented Nylon and Never Saw It
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Wallace Hume Carothers created the most famous synthetic material of the 20th century and died 1...
8 Loka 23min
Numa Numa: A Jungle Trail, a Romanian Pop Hit, and Gary Brolsma's Meme
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!What connects a rugged trail on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a pop song calle...
8 Loka 18min
Onel de Guzman and the ILOVEYOU Worm: A $10 Billion Bid for Free Dial-Up
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In April 2019 a journalist followed a tip from an obscure internet forum to a market stall in Ma...
8 Loka 20min
WannaCry: The Stolen NSA Weapon, the Ignored Patch, and a Kill Switch
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On Friday, May 12, 2017, screens around the world turned red with a padlock and a demand: pay 30...
8 Loka 26min
