295: Hacker Tourism

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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Smart Phone, Society & Culture, Ios, Apple, Amazon, Smartphone, Tesla, Tech Pod, Tech, Phone, Technology, Space, Android, Google, Microsoft, Science, Videogame, Video Game, Games, Electric Car, Techpod

4.8 • 521 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

It's time to reach back into the tech magazine archive again, and this time we landed on the December 1996 issue of Wired, from the early, independent years before the magazine became part of a massive corporation. The whopping 300-page issue features an enormous cover story by Neal Stephenson, who follows the laying of what was at the time the longest undersea fiber optic cable in the world, plus stories that are still relevant today about digital surveillance, AI-driven financial trading, the evolution of the laptop, the beginning of modern ad tracking and consumer data collection, and plenty more. Join us as we do our best to dig through this time capsule and remember that uniquely '90s spirit of the times around the early Internet.

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0:00.0	Okay, I'm going to test your knowledge of material science and maybe physics.
0:04.1	Oh, yeah, let's go.
0:05.0	I love this.
0:06.0	Getting excited.
0:07.3	Yeah.
0:08.1	Hit me.
0:08.9	Now, of course, granted, I could have probably just Googled this in about five seconds,
0:12.0	but what's the point of doing anything in a straightforward manner when you can turn it into content?
0:15.7	Yeah.
0:16.3	That's the meaning of my life.
0:18.0	So with that said, does Rust hinder conductivity? Oh, boy, that's a fun
0:25.7	question. So Rust is iron oxide, right? This is hearkening back to the old Whiskey Media panel
0:30.5	of experts days here. I'm not just, I'm querying my personal Wikipedia here. I don't think that,
0:36.2	I think that Rust impacts connectivity.
0:38.1	I don't think it completely removes it.
0:39.7	But I think it definitely is more resistive than just a piece of iron.
0:43.4	Interesting.
0:44.1	Okay.
0:44.3	This is a guess, though.
0:45.0	I don't know for sure.
0:46.1	Okay.
0:46.4	So what happened is we have, we have a wall clock, an analog wall clock in the bathroom.
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