Oct 6, 2020
Episode 29 features Sean Haas, host and creator of Advent of Computing, "a podcast about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing. A lot of little things we take for granted today have rich stories behind their creation."
We discuss the importance of computer history, our device history, and generally geek out about technology.
During the episode we cover:
- Why Computer History?
- First computers
- Learning from Failure
- Looking back to look forward
- Starting Advent of Computing
- The Altair
- Xerox PARC
- Early Internet
- The mouse
- The undocumented history of computers
- Research
- And much more...
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Suggested Reading Mentioned in the Episode
- Fumbling The Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer
- Coders by Clive Thompson is an intriguing glimpse behind the code and into the people writing it
- Innovation Meets Invention: A Review of The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
- How the Internet Happened by Brian McCullough is a brilliant book about the story of the Internet Era
- Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evan“iWoz” is the Great Autobiography of Steve Wozniak by Steve Wozniak with Gina Smith
- A Book Review of “A Mind At Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age” by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
- In constant pursuit of “The New New Thing”
- Charming, rude, sometimes clairvoyant: 1992 biography gives broad – albeit incomplete – look at Bill Gates
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson: A Biography of the Man from the Intersection of Humanities and Sciences
- An Agent Palmer Book Report: Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
- Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy a Defense of the Unconventional Her
You can also hear more Palmer in the meantime on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier and as mentioned on this show as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.
Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.
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