All Your Base Are Belong to Us: The Zero Wing Typo That Built Meme Culture
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In April 2003, signs reading "You have no chance to survive make your time" appeared around Stur...
8 Loka 19min
Aerogel: The Frozen Smoke That Stops Blowtorches and Catches Comets
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Aerogel can be up to 99.98 percent empty space, yet a sheet of it will shield a flower from a bl...
8 Loka 26min
ARPANET: How a Crashed Login in 1969 Gave Birth to the Internet
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On October 29th, 1969, a student programmer at UCLA tried to send the first message across a new...
8 Loka 25min
AOL Instant Messenger: How AIM Invented the Status Update and Then Died
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!AOL Instant Messenger, released in 1997, was never designed as a consumer hit. It grew out of an...
8 Loka 20min
The Turing Test: From Alan Turing's Imitation Game to AI That Out-Humans Us
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In a study spanning 2025 and 2026, judges chatting through a text window identified an AI model ...
8 Loka 22min
HTTP 404: How Page Not Found Became a Censor, a Canvas, and a Lifeline
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In Tunisia before the 2011 revolution, people saw the page not found screen on so many dissident...
8 Loka 27min
Gordon Moore and Moore's Law: The 1965 Graph That Ran the Chip Industry
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1965 the trade magazine Electronics asked Gordon Moore, then director of research and develop...
8 Loka 25min
Steve Jobs: The Barefoot Dropout Who Demanded Total Control
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Steve Jobs does not fit the usual picture of a tech chief executive. Put up for a closed adoptio...
8 Loka 21min
