Jack Kilby: The Empty Lab Summer That Produced the Integrated Circuit
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jack Kilby was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, in 1923 and raised in Great Bend, Kansas, where...
8 Loka 20min
JPEG: The 1992 Image Format That Fools Your Eyes and Refuses to Die
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Every photo on your screen is a carefully built illusion. The Joint Photographic Experts Group s...
8 Loka 26min
Iridium: The $5 Billion Satellite Bankruptcy That Came Back to Life
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the late 1990s, amateur astronomers synchronized their watches to catch Iridium flares, flash...
8 Loka 24min
Microsoft Tay: The Chatbot Twitter Turned Toxic in Just 16 Hours
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On March 23, 2016, Microsoft launched a chatbot on Twitter named Tay, short for Thinking About Y...
8 Loka 21min
ICQ: The Chat App That Invented Online Identity and Died in 2024
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1996, talking to someone online meant shouting into the scrolling chaos of an IRC channel. Th...
8 Loka 22min
The IBM PC 5150: How Project Chess Won the Market and Lost the Empire
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!An analyst once said that IBM building a personal computer would be like teaching an elephant to...
8 Loka 24min
Hotmail: From Free Webmail Rebellion to the Password That Opened All
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On July 4, 1996, Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith launched Hotmail, choosing the date to symbolize f...
8 Loka 21min
Helvetica: How a 1950s Swiss Typeface Became the Voice of Authority
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Helvetica began as a business problem. In 1956, Eduard Hoffmann, art director of the Haas type f...
8 Loka 22min
