S2 E6: Briefly Famous
This episode looks back at where all of our main characters landed in their lives after the tech boom and bust and what they have learned.
17 Apr 202546min
S2 E5: Crazy Bill
Goto.com rises to the highest levels of success and even tries to buy Google. But this episode looks at what went wrong.
10 Apr 202555min
S2 E4: Permissionless Innovation
In this episode, we pivot to Pasadena where the world of ecommerce is taking off to broader audiences. Through our ecommerce characters, we meet Bill Gross who is digging into the radically changing w...
3 Apr 202536min
S2 E3: Bad Blood
This episode explores a new protocol war between EIT and Netscape over security.
27 Mar 202544min
S2 E2: Marc the Shark
This is the origin story of when Marc Andreessen first arrives in Silicon Valley. This episode paints a picture of the world he arrives in, who he befriends and who he alienates.
20 Mar 202548min
S2 E1: Illegal, Immoral and Fattening
Episode One introduces our listeners to the next generation of Computer Freaks who are getting into new technologies like the world wide web and ecommerce - just as these fields are opening up to the ...
13 Mar 202544min
S2: Trailer
Season Two of Computer Freaks shifts the narrative from the academic origins of the Arpanet to the aggressive commercialization of the internet in the 1990s. While Season One focused on the "founding ...
28 Feb 20252min
S1 E6: Unintended Consequences
We return to speaking to Joseph Haughney about his hopes for the Arpanet. We ask other founders how they feel about what the internet has become. We also speak to internet early founder Hans Werner Br...
20 Jul 202334min
