The Boombox: How a Dutch Tape Recorder Became Hip-Hop's Voice
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The boombox began as a quiet convenience. In 1966 the Dutch company Philips combined a radio tun...
8 Loka 18min
Apple Newton: The $100 Million Flop That Gave the World ARM
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A season six episode of The Simpsons has a bully scribble Beat up Martin on his Apple Newton, on...
8 Loka 25min
The Abacus: From Sumerian Dust to a Calculator Made of Atoms
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1997, IBM scientists with the power to arrange individual atoms built a working calculator at...
8 Loka 25min
The Slide Rule: The Analog Computer That Reached the Moon
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For three centuries, engineers did their hardest arithmetic on a stick with no batteries and no ...
8 Loka 21min
Knight Capital: The $440 Million Software Glitch of August 2012
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On the morning of August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group was the largest trader in U.S. equities, ...
8 Loka 22min
BonziBuddy: The Purple Gorilla That Spied on Early Internet Users
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Around the turn of the millennium, millions of people downloaded a free desktop companion that t...
8 Loka 19min
YouTube: From Failed Dating Site to the Ad-Blocker Wars
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2005, a Craigslist ad offered women $100 to upload videos of themselves to a struggling datin...
8 Loka 24min
John Draper: Captain Crunch, the Phone Phreak Who Taught Apple
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A plastic whistle from a box of Cap'n Crunch cereal happened to blow at exactly 2,600 hertz, the...
8 Loka 20min
