Adam Osborne and the Osborne 1: The Portable PC That Killed Itself
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1981 portable computing meant dragging a plastic box of nearly 25 pounds, the size of a sewin...
8 Loka 22min
Robert Tappan Morris and the 1988 Worm That Broke the Early Internet
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At about 8:30 on the evening of November 2, 1988, a Cornell graduate student released a program ...
8 Loka 24min
David L. Smith and the Melissa Virus: The Email That Cost $80 Million
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On March 26, 1999, a programmer from Aberdeen Township, New Jersey, used a stolen AOL account to...
8 Loka 20min
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: A Messy Dare That Funded a Breakthrough
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the summer of 2014, for about eight weeks, it seemed everyone with a phone was dumping ice wa...
8 Loka 20min
ELIZA: The 1960s MIT Chatbot That Horrified Its Own Creator
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the mid-1960s at MIT, Joseph Weizenbaum walked into his lab and found his secretary typing at...
8 Loka 22min
Kim Dotcom and Megaupload: The Birthday Raid That Shook the Internet
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On January 19, 2012, Kim Dotcom was marking his 38th birthday in a leased 30 million dollar mans...
8 Loka 22min
Dead Internet Theory: Shrimp Jesus, Bot Traffic, and a Hollow Web
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!An AI-generated image of Shrimp Jesus sits on Facebook above tens of thousands of comments that ...
8 Loka 21min
The Dancing Baby: How a Discarded 3D Test Became the First Meme
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Dancing Baby, also known as Baby Cha-Cha and the Oogachaka Baby, was never meant to be seen ...
8 Loka 20min
