LimeWire: From a $72 Trillion Lawsuit to Buying Fyre Festival
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The recording industry once demanded 72 trillion dollars in damages from a file sharing program,...
8 Loka 22min
LulzSec: The 50-Day Hacking Spree That Ended With an FBI Informant
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the spring of 2011 a handful of anonymous hackers knocked the CIA's public website offline, p...
8 Loka 19min
Spirit Halloween: The Pop-Up Empire Built on Dead Retail Stores
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1983, in the Castro Valley Village shopping center in California, Joseph Marver ran a failing...
8 Loka 39min
La Marzocco: How a Florence Workshop Engineered the Modern Cafe
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The heavy metal espresso machine on the counter of a specialty cafe very often carries the name ...
8 Loka 46min
Unimate: The First Industrial Robot, From GM's Die Casting to Carson
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the 1960s a 4,000 pound, five-axis hydraulic arm rolled onto the stage of The Tonight Show wi...
8 Loka 20min
The Sony Walkman: From Private Soundtrack to Losing the iPod War
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1982 the mayor of Woodbridge, New Jersey, banned pedestrians from wearing portable cassette p...
8 Loka 17min
SCP Foundation: How a 4chan Post Became a Crowdsourced Horror Universe
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2007 a user named Wesley Williams, posting as Moto42 on a 4chan paranormal board, described a...
8 Loka 19min
History of the Phonograph: From Soot Tracings to Hip-Hop Turntables
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The earliest known recording of a human voice was made in 1860, almost two decades before Thomas...
8 Loka 27min
