Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo and I'm Brian Schultmeister.

Brian, I have a little follow up about Chaplin Stephens comment last week in the reviews

where he was talking about Earth's number one bully and you assumed it was you. Yeah. Yeah,

it's not. It was about Elon Musk. I'm back and reread it. You could throw in a name. That'd be

helpful. Well, Earth's number one bully. When you think about it, kind of, you did. Well,

I could be Putin. No, no, no, come on. It could be many people. All right. Well, that's good to

know that I'm not the number one bully. That's nice. Yeah. Yeah. Plus shout out to the person

who's named. I forget on the clash royale clan that pointed that out to me and I'm like,

oh, duh. That's Elon. Yeah. Sorry, Stephanie for the miscommunication.

All right. Well, there you go. I saw a really great article over at Slate, the birth of the

modem world and it talks about the forgotten history of how all of this started as the digital

natives are getting older and older. You know, they just kind of assumed they were born with an

iPhone and everything just kind of worked the way it works now and there was an internet and there

was Wi-Fi and you and I know better. I ran my own BBS way back in the day. Those of us that

straddle the divide that were born without all this stuff and kind of pioneered the history of it

and used to put phones down into cradles for modems. And this talks about all of that. So I just

thought it was really interesting for the olds out there like us, much like a generation X's

forgotten in general, the way that all this technology started is also being forgotten.

Well, I will give it a read. Sounds like it's fascinating. A trip down memory lane. Yes.

I was listening to Twit this week, this week in tech, with really a Laporton gang.

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