Winamp: The Llama, the Lawsuits, and the Leak That Ended an Era
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Winamp greeted new users with a bleating llama and a boast about whipping its backside. Behind t...
8 Loka 23min
VisiCalc: The First Killer App and Its Seven Year Rise and Fall
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1978 Dan Bricklin sat in a Harvard Business School classroom watching a professor build a fin...
8 Loka 25min
Planking: How Lying Face Down Became a Deadly Global Internet Craze
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1983, two teenagers in Edmonds, Washington, lay rigid and face down in the outfield during a ...
8 Loka 20min
IBM Watson: From Jeopardy Champion to Billion Dollar Burnout
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!IBM Watson won a million dollars on national television, tried to become a cancer doctor, drifte...
8 Loka 23min
GeoCities: How Yahoo Bought and Buried a City of 38 Million Pages
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In late 1994 David Bohnett and John Rezner launched Beverly Hills Internet, a small web host in ...
8 Loka 22min
Eric Migicovsky and Pebble: The Smartwatch That Died and Came Back
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Eric Migicovsky took his idea for a smartphone-connected watch through Y Combinator, earned real...
8 Loka 22min
Curt Herzstark: The Pocket Calculator Designed Inside Buchenwald
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Curta was a mechanical calculator small enough to hold in one hand, nicknamed the pepper gri...
8 Loka 23min
The Traitorous Eight: The 1957 Mutiny That Created Silicon Valley
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor, persuaded financier Arnold Beckman to give him ...
8 Loka 29min
