Xerox PARC: The Lab That Invented the Modern PC and Lost It
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On July 1, 1970, Xerox chief scientist Jack Goldman founded the Palo Alto Research Center, placi...
8 Loka 23min
WordPerfect: The Word Processor Microsoft Beat but Never Killed
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1979, Brigham Young University graduate student Bruce Bastian and computer science professor ...
8 Loka 23min
Wikipedia: How a Scratch Pad for Experts Became the Web's Anchor
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Teachers and librarians once warned that a website anyone could edit was where facts went to die...
8 Loka 24min
Lolcats: From Victorian Cat Photos to I Can Has Cheezburger
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the early 1870s, British portrait photographer Harry Pointer posed his cats roller skating an...
8 Loka 24min
Usenet: The 1979 Network That Went Underground and Never Died
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!More than a decade before the World Wide Web, two graduate students, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis,...
8 Loka 23min
Unix: The Bell Labs Side Project That Runs the Modern World
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In January 2026, someone cleaning out a closet at the University of Utah found a nine-track magn...
8 Loka 25min
USB: How One Cheap Port Beat FireWire and Conquered Computing
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1995, connecting a printer, modem, or joystick to a PC meant a tangle of parallel ports, seri...
8 Loka 23min
Tumblr: From a $1.1 Billion Yahoo Buyout to a $3 Million Fire Sale
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2007, David Karp and Marco Arment built Tumblr in a two-week gap between consulting contracts...
8 Loka 20min
