mastodon 4.7.2Tech Tales is a podcast exploring the technology world's epic failures, forgotten successes, and everything in between. Hosted by @corbin@social.corbin.io. Made without generative AI.
New episode! @corbin@toot.community and @347Online@hachyderm.io discuss the Ouya game console, which started as the most successful Kickstarter project in history, and ended two years later. Also, the LAPD are involved.
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/techtalespodcast/ouya
YouTube: https://youtu.be/7VyT0o1sNEY
New episode tomorrow!
New episode! @corbin@toot.community, @tallshmo@calckey.world, and @wander1236@androiddev.social return to discuss Tron Ares (2025) and a shared disdain for Jared Leto.
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/techtalespodcast/movie-club-tron-ares/
YouTube: https://youtu.be/4kZNTihC-bA
Rebecca Heineman, the video game developer and comics artist you might remember from our DOOM 3DO episode, needs help paying for cancer treatments. Please consider donating and sharing the fundraiser if you can!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebecca-ann-heineman-fight-aggressive-cancer
New episode! @corbin@toot.community and @CodyToombs@mstdn.io discuss ".beat" Internet Time, a new way of telling time from the 1990s, and how it led to an international incident over radio frequencies and Russia's Mir space station.
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/techtalespodcast/internet-time-sputnik-99
YouTube: https://youtu.be/pEfNs67rjc4
The next Movie Club episode will be Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999), starring Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates! Watch the movie now before the episode airs next week.
Where to watch: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/pirates-of-silicon-valley
New episode! @corbin@toot.community, @wander1236@androiddev.social, and @347Online@hachyderm.io discuss Pirates of Silicon Valley, the 1999 docu-drama about the rise of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/techtalespodcast/movie-club-pirates-of-silicon-valley
YouTube: https://youtu.be/-Ylhbm24a0Y
Last reminder to watch Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) before the Movie Club episode goes live next week!
Where to watch: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/pirates-of-silicon-valley
New episode! @corbin@toot.community and @tallshmo@calckey.world discuss Microsoft Kin, the Windows Phone spinoff that went from launch to death in two months.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/IFkWKKxZEIU
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/techtalespodcast/microsoft-kin
New episode! @corbin@toot.community and @tallshmo@calckey.world discuss the WannaCry ransomware attack that crippled hundreds of thousands of Windows systems in just a few hours.
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/techtalespodcast/wannacry
YouTube: https://youtu.be/7Lx6jyb6OL8
Tech Tales is four years old today! This past year, the show had three episodes, over 5K plays on audio platforms, and over 5K views on YouTube. More episodes are on the way, but thanks for sticking around!
Listen to the Year Four playlist: https://soundcloud.com/techtalespodcast/sets/tech-tales-year-four
New episode! @corbin@toot.community and Mason discuss the robotic Abraham Lincoln created for the 1964 New York World's Fair.
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/techtalespodcast/great-moments-with-mr-lincoln
YouTube: https://youtu.be/YoiKJ16wubk
New episode tomorrow!
Thanks for listening in 2024! #SpotifyWrapped
New episode coming tomorrow!
New episode! @corbin@toot.community and @AdamConway@mastodon.ie discuss Google AMP, the project to reinvent mobile websites that didn't go well.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Qr92W7aD5cE
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/techtalespodcast/google-amp
The next episode will be a Movie Club discussion for Tron: Ares! If you want a spoiler-free experience, watch the movie before the episode is published later in March.
Where to watch: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/tron-ares
Get ready for Techathon 2025! Corbin, some Tech Tales guests, and other tech folks will be raising money for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on a livestream this Saturday, September 27th, 2025.
More info: https://techathon.live
New episode next week!
"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty..."
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