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The Pirate Bay: How a Raided Website Outlived Its Jailed Founders
Oct 8, 202621 min
Karlheinz Brandenburg: How the MP3 Escaped the Lab and Upended Music
Oct 8, 202623 min
Stuxnet: The Computer Worm That Wrecked Iran's Nuclear Centrifuges
Oct 8, 202622 min
Steve Wozniak: The Apple Co-Founder Who Chose Fun Over Fortune
Oct 8, 202622 min
Stephanie Kwolek: The Chemist Who Refused to Throw Away Kevlar
Oct 8, 202621 min
Speak & Spell: How a $25,000 Toy Project Taught Microchips to Talk
Oct 8, 202622 min
Sophia the Robot: Saudi Citizenship, Art Sales and the AI Backlash
Oct 8, 202620 min
Therac-25: The Software Bug That Turned a Cancer Machine Lethal
Oct 8, 202625 min
Seymour Cray: The Reclusive Genius Who Invented the Supercomputer
Oct 8, 202621 min
Graphene: The Nobel-Winning Wonder Material Found With Scotch Tape
Oct 8, 202626 min
SETI@home: The Alien-Hunting Screensaver That Got People Fired
Oct 8, 202623 min
Roomba: From a Lego Prototype Called Dust Puppy to the Smithsonian
Oct 8, 202625 min
Robert Noyce: The Pig Thief Who Co-Founded Intel and Shaped Silicon Valley
Oct 8, 202621 min
Rick Astley: Retired at 28, Revived by the Internet's Biggest Prank
Oct 8, 202618 min
Herman Hollerith: The Punch Card Inventor Whose Machines Became IBM
Oct 8, 202622 min
Poe's Law: Why Online Satire and Extremism Look Exactly Alike
Oct 8, 202620 min
Phishing: From AOL Chat Room Scams to AI Lures and Stolen Sessions
Oct 8, 202623 min
The Pager: A 75-Year History From Doctors' Leash to Deadly Weapon
Oct 8, 202621 min
Nyan Cat: How a Charity Doodle Became a $587,000 NFT
Oct 8, 202622 min
NCSA Mosaic: The Forgotten Browser That Sparked the Dot-Com Boom
Oct 8, 202619 min
The Barcode: From Morse Code in the Sand to the Supermarket Beep
Oct 8, 202627 min
The Mixtape: From Bronx Cassettes to Drake's $12.99 Loophole
Oct 8, 202621 min
Mirai Botnet: How Hacked Webcams Took Down Netflix and Twitter
Oct 8, 202624 min
Microsoft Encarta: It Killed Britannica, Then Wikipedia Killed It
Oct 8, 202614 min
Microsoft Bob: The 1995 Flop That Gave Us Clippy and Comic Sans
Oct 8, 202615 min
Marcus Hutchins: He Stopped WannaCry, Then the FBI Arrested Him
Oct 8, 202620 min
Mafiaboy: The 15-Year-Old Who Knocked Yahoo and Amazon Offline
Oct 8, 202621 min
Lotus 1-2-3: The Killer App That Built the PC, Then Lost to Excel
Oct 8, 202623 min
Linus Torvalds: The Reluctant Titan Behind Linux and Git
Oct 8, 202621 min
Leo Baekeland and Bakelite: The Basement Lab That Launched Plastics
Oct 8, 202621 min
LaserDisc: The 1978 Analog Format That Paved the Way for CD and DVD
Oct 8, 202623 min
Keyboard Cat: Charlie Schmidt's 1984 Tape and the Fight to Own a Meme
Oct 8, 202622 min
Kevin Mitnick: From Most Wanted Hacker to Corporate Security Advisor
Oct 8, 202621 min
Kabosu: How a Teacher's Rescue Dog Became Doge and Moved Markets
Oct 8, 202621 min
Justin Kan and Justin.tv: The Lifecasting Stunt That Became Twitch
Oct 8, 202620 min
Jean Bartik: The ENIAC Programmer Who Wrote Code Without a Manual
Oct 8, 202621 min
Jawed Karim: The YouTube Founder Who Turned Me at the Zoo Into Protest
Oct 8, 202620 min
Jack Kilby: The Empty Lab Summer That Produced the Integrated Circuit
Oct 8, 202620 min
JPEG: The 1992 Image Format That Fools Your Eyes and Refuses to Die
Oct 8, 202626 min
Iridium: The $5 Billion Satellite Bankruptcy That Came Back to Life
Oct 8, 202624 min
Microsoft Tay: The Chatbot Twitter Turned Toxic in Just 16 Hours
Oct 8, 202621 min
ICQ: The Chat App That Invented Online Identity and Died in 2024
Oct 8, 202622 min
The IBM PC 5150: How Project Chess Won the Market and Lost the Empire
Oct 8, 202624 min
Hotmail: From Free Webmail Rebellion to the Password That Opened All
Oct 8, 202621 min
Helvetica: How a 1950s Swiss Typeface Became the Voice of Authority
Oct 8, 202622 min
Heartbleed: The OpenSSL Bug That Exposed the Internet's Unpaid Guards
Oct 8, 202621 min
The Harlem Shake Meme: 30 Seconds That Rewrote the Billboard Charts
Oct 8, 202623 min
HTTP Cookies: How a 1994 Shopping Cart Fix Became Web Surveillance
Oct 8, 202623 min
Grumpy Cat: How Tardar Sauce's Scowl Built a Meme Business Empire
Oct 8, 202619 min
Google Glass: From Skydiving Hype to Glassholes to the Operating Room
Oct 8, 202622 min