301: Will Ruined the Internet

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

🗓️ 24 August 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Right smack dab on its 30th birthday, we're here this week to celebrate three decades of Windows 95 with a wide-ranging conversation about what might still be the most hyped computing product in history. We cover everything from the state of PCs beforehand to the enormous marketing blitz, delivery day, the install and upgrade process, bundled software, the multimedia goodies on the CD, the transformative power of built-in TCP/IP and Internet support, Will's shocking participation in the Eternal September, and a bunch of other stuff.

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0:00.0	Brad, I did it again.
0:01.7	Oops, you did it again?
0:02.9	Oops, I did it.
0:03.9	I made another podcast. You played with someone's heart? I got lost in the game. Yeah, I did definitely get lost in the game. Oh, baby, baby. No, that's too far. Okay. I started a new podcast. Real? What? Yeah. Why would you do such a thing? I mean, congratulations. Yeah. Hi.
0:01.4	It aligns with your interests, I think.
0:03.5	No.
0:04.1	Oh. What? Yeah. Why would you do such a thing? I mean, I mean, congratulations. Yeah. Hi.
0:23.8	It aligns with your interests, I think.
0:24.3	Oh.
0:26.2	Over on the full nerd,
0:30.9	PC World's podcast devoted to PC hardware and hardware enthusiasm.
0:31.6	Yes.
0:34.5	We have been at first joking, but increasingly seriously,
0:36.0	calling 2025 the year of Linux because of the impending Windows 10 apocalypse that's happening?
0:42.2	I think it just is.
0:43.9	I think that ship may have sailed.
0:46.0	I think the year of the Linux desktop has arrived.
0:48.9	I think we're in it.
0:49.9	So we started, we were like, hey, we should do a Linux podcast about running desktop Linux.
0:56.2	And so he started it, started doing it.
0:59.0	And it turns out it's real good.
1:00.9	It's, it's real nice to not have, um, your operating system always trying to sell stuff to you.
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