The Mixtape: From Bronx Cassettes to Drake's $12.99 Loophole
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2014, Mac Miller made fans build a virtual sandwich before they could download Faces. He coul...
8 Loka 21min
Mirai Botnet: How Hacked Webcams Took Down Netflix and Twitter
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On October 21, 2016, Netflix, Twitter, Reddit, GitHub, and Airbnb went dark for millions of peop...
8 Loka 24min
Microsoft Encarta: It Killed Britannica, Then Wikipedia Killed It
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1985, Microsoft asked Encyclopaedia Britannica to partner on a CD-ROM edition. Britannica sai...
8 Loka 14min
Microsoft Bob: The 1995 Flop That Gave Us Clippy and Comic Sans
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Microsoft Bob arrived in early 1995 as the answer to a real problem: home computers were moving ...
8 Loka 15min
Marcus Hutchins: He Stopped WannaCry, Then the FBI Arrested Him
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In May 2017, a 22-year-old on a week off sat in his childhood bedroom in Ilfracombe, Devon, and ...
8 Loka 20min
Mafiaboy: The 15-Year-Old Who Knocked Yahoo and Amazon Offline
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In February 2000, Yahoo, Amazon, CNN, eBay, and Dell were knocked off the internet within days o...
8 Loka 21min
Lotus 1-2-3: The Killer App That Built the PC, Then Lost to Excel
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Type the year 1900 into Microsoft Excel and it still treats it as a leap year. The error is deli...
8 Loka 23min
Linus Torvalds: The Reluctant Titan Behind Linux and Git
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Linus Torvalds was named after both Nobel chemist Linus Pauling and the blanket-carrying kid fro...
8 Loka 21min
