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234: One Step Closer to Bringing Back Webrings
Episode 234
Hey, remember RSS? Friend of the show Wes Fenlon joins us for a record fourth (!!) time to reminisce about the glory days of really simple syndicatio…
1 year, 11 months ago
233: My Wife Is a LaserDisc Guy
Episode 233
We're embarking on a two-part rundown of home video formats this week, with part one focusing on analog video up through the mid-1990s and covering b…
1 year, 11 months ago
232: Secret Search Engine!
Episode 232
April concludes with another round of questions, during which we entertain the idea of inviting Q to assist us with Qs, Will teases a historic search…
1 year, 11 months ago
231: What on Earth Would Ordinary People Want With Computers?
Episode 231
The time has come for our deep dive into Pirates of Silicon Valley, the 1999 made-for-TNT movie that chronicles the parallel rises of Apple and Micro…
1 year, 11 months ago
230: Maybe Gentoo Was Right All Along
Episode 230
This week we attempt to unpack the recent, historic security breach in the open source world, after the discovery of a secret backdoor that was inser…
1 year, 11 months ago
229: IMAX, the TikTok of Film Projection
Episode 229
We're doing a follow-up Q&A this week while we sort out some scheduling hurdles on the backend, and taking a bunch more of your questions from the la…
2 years ago
228: Never Forward a Port to Your Brain
Episode 228
March's Q&A features a wide array of questions that inspired discussions about such wide-ranging topics as our love of screensavers, a world without …
2 years ago
227: A Donut of Good Internet
Episode 227
Inspired by what's probably the most common subject we see questions about on our Discord, this week we're doing an updated primer on home networking…
2 years ago
226: shooter.exe
Episode 226
We've got a two-fer this week, with a pair of topics that might not have filled a whole ep on their own but turn out to be two great podcast tastes t…
2 years ago
225: The Goldblum Conjecture
Episode 225
What makes a great tech demo? Besides killer tech, do you need theatricality? Stage presence? The risk of everything exploding at the seams at any mo…
2 years, 1 month ago