When I started this show, I knew I wanted "internet history" to be part of it. But what goes in that category isn't always obvious. I often get this feeling like the more I learn about something, the less confident I am in my understanding of
For about a week, I was utterly convinced I was going to ruin this episode. After a stretch of stories that felt heavy and often tragic, I really wanted to write about something else. On my list, I had "MIDI" and I thought it fit the bill. To
This episode started because I wanted to know where the microchip manufacturing process actually begins. I had been watching Instagram reels where people were putting small electronics components under microscopes and I got curious about how we make things that small. The answer I got was that we start by
I had all of these CDs stuck to my bedroom wall when I was a kid. I do not remember asking for them. They were just there. Shiny and everywhere. I remember getting them in the mail, and I know I once saw a kid try to melt one with