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Episodes
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#5826: The Thread That Outlived Its AuthorsA Debian bug filed in 1997 got its second reply 24 years later. What happens when a conversation outlives everyone who started it? -
#5700: Did the Internet's Pioneers Know What They Were Building?Vint Cerf says they didn't know — and they did. How early internet subculture formed, where it lived, and whether it survived. -
#5582: Who Invented the Internet? Actually, Seven PeopleThe first message ever sent was "LO" — then the system crashed. The real story of the internet is a stack of seven layers, not one genius. -
#5312: Fighting Fake-Personalized Spam With AI SinkholesScraped flattery, fake familiarity, and the one-sided ask — plus the tarpit history behind Daniel's sinkhole agent idea. -
#5816: Why Linux Still Runs on a 1986 Mailing ListLinux 7.3 release candidates ship through a 1986 email tool. Here's why the kernel never left the listserv. -
#5699: From Dawkins to "Karen": How Memes Really SpreadA biologist coined "meme" in 1976. Fifty years later, a Switch trailer screenshot became "Karen." How did we get here?