Episode 10 - Networking for a Nuclear War, the Americans
In this episode we are going to explore the ARPANET. This is a companion to the last episode, which covered contemporary Soviet attempts to create an early internet. Like with last time, today we are ...
11 Aug 201927min
Episode 9 - Networking for a Nuclear War, the Soviets
Often times people assume the US is the homeland of the internet. Funded by the US Department of Defence, the first attempts at a large-scale network were started during the height of the Cold War, an...
28 Jul 201927min
Episode 8 - Acorn and the BBC
The Raspberry Pi had been a huge success at its stated goals, and continues to be. But, this isn't the first time a British company would design and develop a computer as an accessible platform for le...
14 Jul 201930min
Episode 7 - Attack of the PC Clones
Today, I want to share with you the story of the first PC clones and how they cemented the rise of the x86 chipset. Most of this story takes place between 1981 and 1984, but I think it's fair to say...
30 Jun 201923min
Episode 6.5 - Edge-Notched
In this byte-sized episode we look at edge-notched cards. A punch card adjacent technology with a strange connection to the early internet.
23 Jun 20196min
Episode 6 - Digital Voices
What are the origins of our modern day text-to-speech systems? In this episode we will dive into the rich history of electronic talking machines. Along the way I will tell you the story of the vocoder...
16 Jun 201925min
Episode 5 - Unix for the People, Part 2
Now, as the name suggests this is the second part of a series on the history of UNIX. Part 1 mainly covers the background leading up to UNIX. If you haven't listened to it yet, I strongly suggest you ...
2 Jun 201929min
Episode 4.5 - Space Travel!
In this mini-episode we talk about Space Travel, an obscure video game from 1969.
27 Mai 20195min
