Minitel: How France Built an Online World a Decade Before the Web
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1985, while most American computers sat disconnected on desks, millions of French households ...
8 Okt 20min
The Equifax Breach: Admin Passwords, a Missed Patch, and China's Spies
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The 2017 Equifax breach exposed the Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and credit ...
8 Okt 23min
Emoji: How Japanese Pager Icons Became a Global Digital Language
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries named a picture its word of the year: the face with tears of joy. T...
8 Okt 23min
Duct Tape: From Vesta Stoudt's Letter to FDR to Saving Apollo 13
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The original duck tape had no glue at all. The name comes from the Dutch word doek, a heavy wove...
8 Okt 21min
Douglas Engelbart and the Mother of All Demos: Computing's Lost Mission
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1946, Douglas Engelbart was a young Navy radar technician in the Philippines when he read Van...
8 Okt 21min
Digg: The Site That Invented the Like Button and Lost Its Users
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Digg launched in 2004 as an experiment by Kevin Rose, Jay Adelson, Owen Byrne, and Ron Gorodetzk...
8 Okt 19min
The Dark Web: Tor, Ransomware Franchises, and the Hitman Myth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The dark web is smaller and stranger than its reputation. It accounts for just 3 percent of dail...
8 Okt 24min
Creepypasta: How Internet Ghost Stories Became Modern Folklore
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Creepypasta takes its name from 4chan slang around 2007: a horror version of copypasta, the bloc...
8 Okt 24min
