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Episode 9 Notes - Soviet Networking

Jul 31, 2019

ARPANET was the precursor to the modern internet, or at least the network infrastructure we are familiar with today. The design phase of the project started in the early 1960s, with the first infrastructure being placed in '69. Eventually the project would grow into the internet we know today, but there were earlier...


Jul 28, 2019

Often times people assume the US is the homeland of the internet. Funded by the US Department of Defence, the first attempts at a large-scale network were started during the height of the Cold War, and a large part of it's design was redundancy and robust-ness. Some of the researchers were quite frank about it's...


Episode 8 Notes - Literate in the BBC Micro

Jul 16, 2019

With the recent release of the Raspberry Pi 4, I thought it would be a good time to go back and look at the system that inspired it: the BBC Micro. First released in 1981, the Micro was part of a largest push from the BBC to educate the public about computing. But, this initiative didn't happen in a vacuum. During the...


Jul 14, 2019

The Raspberry Pi had been a huge success at its stated goals, and continues to be. But, this isn't the first time a British company would design and develop a computer as an accessible platform for learning programming. In fact, if you've read much about the Pi then you've probably seen people calling it a "BBC Micro...


Episode 7 Notes - PC and the Clone

Jul 3, 2019

The IBM PC is, undeniably, one of the most influential computers of all time. It spawned a legacy that goes on to today. Nearly all computers in 2019 are descended from the PC architecture designed at IBM in the 1980s. However, a lot of its spread and rise to power came from outside of IBM. I'm speaking, of course,...