121: Dot Com

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Hobbies, Leisure, Education

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2014

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Let's face it, we all heart the internet, so this week, we are jamming pub-quiz-worthy webby facts into the tubes to your brain. Learn about the history behind the @ symbol and how it became synonymous with email, and find out where salad.com and coffee.com take you, along with other generic URLs that cleverly redirects you to some of the top brands and companies. Take the country domain quiz, and just how email savvy are you? ALSO: 1960's Jeopardy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. Hello dearie and dapper darling dings and darth's welcome to good job
0:20.8	brain your weekly quiz show and and Offbeat Trivia Podcast.
0:24.4	This is episode 121 and of course I'm your humble host Karen and we are your
0:29.9	Voltron of vocal voracious volunteers.
0:33.4	Yeah.
0:33.8	I'm Colin.
0:34.5	I'm Dana and I'm Chris.
0:35.9	I like black line.
0:37.8	What are the colors?
0:40.1	Black, green, red, yellow, blue.
0:42.8	Yeah.
0:43.3	Oh, like a looking wings.
0:44.8	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yellow and blue are the legs, green and red are the arms.
0:48.4	Wow!
0:49.7	Oh, that was a fan.
0:50.9	That was the
0:55.0	the possibly as big a Star Wars fan as I am that was possibly my favorite single toy was the
0:58.0	Voltron Lion bot set just awesome awesome piece of toy technology.
1:05.2	It's time for our first segment, which is called
1:08.4	1960s Jeopardy!
1:10.4	Yeah!
1:11.4	Long time listeners may remember that at one point at a flea market here in Berkeley, California, USA.
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