Microsoft Zune: The Mocked iPod Rival That Quietly Shaped Modern Tech
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At midnight on December 31, 2008, thousands of first-generation Zune 30 players froze at once. A...
8 Okt 22min
Teletext: The Secret TV Internet Hidden in the Broadcast Signal
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Decades before the World Wide Web, millions of people pulled up news, weather, and sports scores...
8 Okt 23min
The Pocket Calculator: From 33-Pound Desk Machines to a Single Chip
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before the smartphone and the personal computer, the device driving the semiconductor industry w...
8 Okt 23min
Hello World: How Two Words Became Computing's Universal Sanity Check
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The most famous two words in computer science began as the on-air catchphrase of a 1950s New Yor...
8 Okt 23min
Comic Sans: The World's Most Hated Font and Its Scientific Redemption
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1994 Microsoft typographic engineer Vincent Connare looked at a beta of Microsoft Bob, a frie...
8 Okt 20min
Vine: How Six-Second Loops Rewired the Internet and Then Vanished
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Twitter paid a reported 30 million dollars for Vine in October 2012, before the public could eve...
8 Okt 21min
Motorola Razr: The Flip Phone That Broke Its Maker, Then Came Back
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2004 the Motorola Razr V3 landed among chunky plastic handsets like something dropped from or...
8 Okt 20min
Sony Aibo: The Robot Dog That Got a Funeral and a Second Life
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2006 more than a hundred engineers, executives, and designers gathered to hold a funeral for ...
8 Okt 24min
