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The Rotary Dial: How a Spring-Loaded Wheel Shaped Emergency Numbers
Oct 8, 202625 min
The PDF: Frozen PostScript, Honor System Passwords, and Zip Bombs
Oct 8, 202624 min
Simon: How Ralph Baer Turned an Atari Flop Into a Toy Sensation
Oct 8, 202619 min
Dennis Ritchie: The Quiet Genius Behind C, Unix, and Your Phone
Oct 8, 202622 min
Vantablack: The Blackest Material and the Art Feud It Ignited
Oct 8, 202623 min
Bree Avery and Jessica Lee Rose: YouTube's First Star Was a Hoax
Oct 8, 202622 min
Orkut: Google's Forgotten Social Network That Conquered Brazil
Oct 8, 202618 min
Phone Phreaking: The Cereal Box Whistle That Hacked Ma Bell
Oct 8, 202623 min
The Breakup of AT&T: How Ma Bell Split Apart and Grew Back Together
Oct 8, 202625 min
Super Glue's Accidental Origin: Harry Coover's Failed Wartime Plastic
Oct 8, 202624 min
Deidre LaCarte and the Hampster Dance: A Sibling Bet Gone Viral
Oct 8, 202620 min
Apple's 1984 Super Bowl Ad: The Commercial the Board Tried to Kill
Oct 8, 202622 min
The CueCat: How $185 Million Vanished on a Cat-Shaped Barcode Scanner
Oct 8, 202621 min
Ariane 5 Flight 501: The $370 Million Rocket Killed by One Number
Oct 8, 202624 min
Teflon: The Accidental Discovery Behind Nonstick Pans and PFAS
Oct 8, 202624 min
LimeWire: From a $72 Trillion Lawsuit to Buying Fyre Festival
Oct 8, 202622 min
LulzSec: The 50-Day Hacking Spree That Ended With an FBI Informant
Oct 8, 202619 min
Spirit Halloween: The Pop-Up Empire Built on Dead Retail Stores
Oct 8, 202639 min
La Marzocco: How a Florence Workshop Engineered the Modern Cafe
Oct 8, 202646 min
Unimate: The First Industrial Robot, From GM's Die Casting to Carson
Oct 8, 202620 min
The Sony Walkman: From Private Soundtrack to Losing the iPod War
Oct 8, 202617 min
SCP Foundation: How a 4chan Post Became a Crowdsourced Horror Universe
Oct 8, 202619 min
History of the Phonograph: From Soot Tracings to Hip-Hop Turntables
Oct 8, 202627 min
Adam Osborne and the Osborne 1: The Portable PC That Killed Itself
Oct 8, 202622 min
Robert Tappan Morris and the 1988 Worm That Broke the Early Internet
Oct 8, 202624 min
David L. Smith and the Melissa Virus: The Email That Cost $80 Million
Oct 8, 202620 min
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: A Messy Dare That Funded a Breakthrough
Oct 8, 202620 min
ELIZA: The 1960s MIT Chatbot That Horrified Its Own Creator
Oct 8, 202622 min
Kim Dotcom and Megaupload: The Birthday Raid That Shook the Internet
Oct 8, 202622 min
Dead Internet Theory: Shrimp Jesus, Bot Traffic, and a Hollow Web
Oct 8, 202621 min
The Dancing Baby: How a Discarded 3D Test Became the First Meme
Oct 8, 202620 min
The Boombox: How a Dutch Tape Recorder Became Hip-Hop's Voice
Oct 8, 202618 min
Apple Newton: The $100 Million Flop That Gave the World ARM
Oct 8, 202625 min
The Abacus: From Sumerian Dust to a Calculator Made of Atoms
Oct 8, 202625 min
The Slide Rule: The Analog Computer That Reached the Moon
Oct 8, 202621 min
Knight Capital: The $440 Million Software Glitch of August 2012
Oct 8, 202622 min
BonziBuddy: The Purple Gorilla That Spied on Early Internet Users
Oct 8, 202619 min
YouTube: From Failed Dating Site to the Ad-Blocker Wars
Oct 8, 202624 min
John Draper: Captain Crunch, the Phone Phreak Who Taught Apple
Oct 8, 202620 min
Xerox PARC: The Lab That Invented the Modern PC and Lost It
Oct 8, 202623 min
WordPerfect: The Word Processor Microsoft Beat but Never Killed
Oct 8, 202623 min
Wikipedia: How a Scratch Pad for Experts Became the Web's Anchor
Oct 8, 202624 min
Lolcats: From Victorian Cat Photos to I Can Has Cheezburger
Oct 8, 202624 min
Usenet: The 1979 Network That Went Underground and Never Died
Oct 8, 202623 min
Unix: The Bell Labs Side Project That Runs the Modern World
Oct 8, 202625 min
USB: How One Cheap Port Beat FireWire and Conquered Computing
Oct 8, 202623 min
Tumblr: From a $1.1 Billion Yahoo Buyout to a $3 Million Fire Sale
Oct 8, 202620 min
The Transistor: The Tiny Switch Humanity Has Built 13 Sextillion Times
Oct 8, 202625 min
The Transistor Radio: How Sony Put Rock and Roll in Your Pocket
Oct 8, 202619 min
Tom Fulp and Newgrounds: The Founder Who Never Sold Out or Left
Oct 8, 202619 min