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TLDR - #9 – The Second Life of Marion Stokes
Marion Stokes was a hoarder. When she died last year, her family had to figure out what to do with 9 separate residences and 3 storage locations full of stuff - everything from tens of thousands of books to decades-old Apple computers. This is the story of how they found a home for the strangest artifact in her collection — 140,000 videocassettes filled with 35 years of round-the-clock cable TV news.
Curious City - Hosting the enemy: Our WWII POW camps
Daring escapes, unexpected romance and more true stories from German prisoners held in our area.
TLDR - #8 – The Pace Picante Salsa Robot Has Gone Haywire
This episode of TLDR contains some explicit language.
This has been a crazy season for internet hoaxes. This week, we investigate one we actually deeply enjoyed being fooled by -- about a social media bot for Pace Picante Salsa going insane and inadvertently revealing an entire world of corporate conspiracy. We talk to the comedian behind the hoax, Randy Liedtke, who has his own very funny podcast called The Bone Zone.
TLDR - What does TLDR mean?
Hello! We are taking a week off the podcast to work on some special things that you will like a lot. This episode is a Best Of*, in case you have a friend who hasn't gotten a chance to check us out who you might like to share TLDR with. It also includes an answer to one of our show's enduring mysteries - just what the hell TLDR stands for.
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TLDR - Bringing the Internet to Public Housing, Your Neighbors and a Unicorn
This week on New Tech City, we're crossing the digital divide.
TLDR - #7 – It’s Rating Men
Lulu is an app that lets women rate guys they've slept with. Was he willing to commit? Was he gassy? The ratings are anonymous, and men can't see their profiles.
TLDR - #6 – Ghost Town
Before the Internet as we know it today, there were text-based bulletin board systems all over the country that people could dial into. One of those systems, M-net, happened to live in Alex's backyard, and it was his internet home base for the better part of a decade. Alex went back this week and found out that it's actually still running.
Curious City - Neon No More: Lincoln Avenue’s Motel Row
Here’s the evolution of the Lincoln Avenue motels, from sensible to seedy to retro spectacle.
TLDR - #5 – Goodbye, Secret, Invisible Internet
Up until this fall, there was a secret internet. You probably heard about one part of it, the Silk Road, but that was just one secret website among many. This week, we talk to Gawker's Adrian Chen about the rest of the dark part of the internet, and how it's been damaged by the Silk Road arrests.