Craig Newmark and Craigslist: The Email List That Beat Silicon Valley
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In early 1995, Craig Newmark was a newcomer to San Francisco sending a manually typed email list...
8 Loka 23min
GPS: From Sputnik's Beep to Einstein's Clocks in Your Pocket
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Global Positioning System began with a Soviet satellite and two curious physicists. In 1957,...
8 Loka 21min
Clippy: How Microsoft's Hated Paperclip Became a Symbol of Tech Protest
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Inside Microsoft, the developers building the Office Assistant gave it a code name, TFC, whose f...
8 Loka 20min
Claude Shannon: The Playful Genius Who Invented the Bit and the Digital Age
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Claude Shannon's garage held a flame-throwing trumpet, rocket-powered frisbees, a Rubik's Cube s...
8 Loka 22min
Lorem Ipsum: How a Mangled Cicero Text Became the World's Filler Copy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Lorem ipsum fills design templates, broken WordPress themes, and brochure mockups everywhere, an...
8 Loka 25min
Charlie Bit My Finger: The Davies-Carr Family and a $760,000 Home Video
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In May 2007 in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, Howard Davies-Carr filmed his sons in an armchair. One-y...
8 Loka 20min
The Compact Cassette: From Office Dictation Tool to Tape Revolution
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The compact cassette began as a way to make office dictation less tedious and ended up in pocket...
8 Loka 27min
CB Radio: How Truckers Turned 27 MHz Into America's First Chat Room
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the late 1970s you could twist a dial through the static and hear Betty Ford signing off as F...
8 Loka 22min
