CAPTCHA: How Proving You're Human Trained the AI That Beat the Test
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Cloudflare estimates the average person spends about 32 seconds solving a single CAPTCHA, which ...
8 Loka 20min
Bulletin Board Systems: The Dial-Up Underground That Built Online Life
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before the World Wide Web, getting online meant ordering a desktop computer to dial a local phon...
8 Loka 25min
Boo.com: The 3D Fashion Site That Burned $135 Million in 18 Months
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At the turn of the millennium, when most people reached the internet through a screeching dial-u...
8 Loka 20min
The Blue Box: How a Toy Whistle Hacked AT&T and Helped Launch Apple
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A blind seven-year-old with perfect pitch and a plastic whistle from a box of Cap'n Crunch could...
8 Loka 24min
The iPod: How Apple Built a Music Empire in a Year, Then Killed It
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The iPod got its name from a freelance copywriter, Vinnie Chieco, who saw a stark white prototyp...
8 Loka 21min
Annie Easley: The NASA Coder Cut From the Photo Who Powered Centaur
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Annie Jean Easley helped write the code behind the Centaur rocket stage that launched Voyager an...
8 Loka 18min
Andrew Grove: The Refugee Whose Paranoia Rebuilt Intel and Silicon Valley
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Andrew Grove drove Intel's value up by 4,500 percent and helped put a personal computer on every...
8 Loka 20min
AltaVista: The Search Giant That Invented CAPTCHA and Lost to Google
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!AltaVista launched on December 15th, 1995 as the first full-text searchable index of the World W...
8 Loka 18min
