View-Master: The 3D Toy That Trained World War II Gunners
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The View-Master is remembered as a red plastic toy, but its history runs through a Portland drug...
8 Loka 22min
Kevin Poulsen: The Hacker Who Rigged a Porsche Contest, Then Went Straight
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On June 1st, 1990, KIIS-FM in Los Angeles promised a Porsche 944 S2 to its 102nd caller. Kevin P...
8 Loka 19min
Bill Wasik and the Flash Mob: A Prank on Hipsters That Turned Criminal
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In June 2003, more than 130 people gathered around one expensive rug on the ninth floor of Macy'...
8 Loka 21min
Ransomware: From 20,000 Mailed Floppy Disks to a Billion-Dollar Racket
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The first ransomware attack arrived by post. In 1989 a biologist named Joseph Popp mailed around...
8 Loka 24min
Reddit: Fake Users, Unpaid Moderators, and the Sale of Its Data to AI
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Reddit exists because Paul Graham turned down an app for ordering food by text message. In the s...
8 Loka 22min
eBay: From a Broken Laser Pointer to GameStop's $56 Billion Takeover Bid
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1995, programmer Pierre Omidyar listed a broken laser pointer on his hobby site, AuctionWeb, ...
8 Loka 18min
Anonymous: From 4chan Pranks to Hacking Russian State Television
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Anonymous has no face, no leader, and no fixed membership, which makes its life story unusually ...
8 Loka 22min
Evelyn Berezin: The Woman Who Invented the Computerized Word Processor
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the late 1960s, a single slipped finger on page 49 of a legal brief meant pulling the paper o...
8 Loka 19min
