The History of Computing

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Lotus: From Yoga to Software

Nelumbo nucifera, or the sacred lotus, is a plant that grows in flood plains, rivers, and deltas....

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Section 230 and the Concept of Internet Exceptionalism

We covered computer and internet copyright law in a previous episode. That type of law began with...

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Bluetooth: From Kings to Personal Area Networks

Bluetooth The King Ragnar Lodbrok was a legendary Norse king, conquering parts of Denmark and...

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One History Of 3D Printing

One of the hardest parts of telling any history, is which innovations are significant enough to...

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Adobe: From Pueblos to Fonts and Graphics to Marketing

The Mogollon culture was an indigenous culture in the Western United States and Mexico that...

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The Evolution of Fonts on Computers

Gutenburg shipped the first working printing press around 1450 and typeface was born. Before then...

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Flight Part II: From Balloons to Autopilot to Drones

In our previous episode, we looked at the history of flight - from dinosaurs to the modern...

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Flight: From Dinosaurs to Space

Humans have probably considered flight since they found birds. As far as 228 million years ago,...

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SABRE and the Travel Global Distribution System

Computing has totally changed how people buy and experience travel. That process seemed to start...

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The Story of Intel

We’ve talked about the history of microchips, transistors, and other chip makers. Today we’re...

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AI Hype Cycles And Winters On The Way To ChatGPT

Carlota Perez is a researcher who has studied hype cycles for much of her career. She’s...

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Hackers and Chinese Food: Origins of a Love Affair

Research into the history of computers sometimes leads down some interesting alleys - or...

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The Silk Roads: Then And Now...

The Silk Road, or roads more appropriately, has been in use for thousands of years. Horses, jade,...

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Simulmatics: Simulating Advertising, Data, Democracy, and War in the 1960s

Dassler shoes was started by Adolf Dassler in 1924 in Germany, after he came home from World War...

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Taiwan, TSMC, NVIDIA, and Foundries

Taiwan is a country about half the size of Maine with about 17 times the population of that...

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The History of Zynga and founder Mark Pincus

Mark Pincus was at the forefront of mobile technology when it was just being born. He is a...

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The Evolution Of Unix, Mac, and Chrome OS Shells

In the beginning was the command line. Actually, before that were punch cards and paper tape. But...

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St Jude, Felsenstein, and Community Memory

Lee Felsenstein went to the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s. He worked at the...

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Research In Motion and the Blackberry

Lars Magnus Ericsson was working for the Swedish government that made telegraph equipment in the...

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Colossal Cave Adventure

Imagine a game that begins with a printout that reads: You are standing at the end of a road...

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