ICYMI - The Internet Wouldn’t Exist Without Sex
Slate Books
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3.8 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode Rachelle interviews Vice senior editor Samantha Cole about her forthcoming book How Sex Changed the Internet. The two talk about the role of sex in internet technology like videoconferencing, affiliate links and online credit card transactions. Cole also explains how lifecaster Jennifer Ringley is a predecessor to modern vloggers and livestreamers.
This podcast is produced by Kevin Bendis, Daniel Schroeder, Daisy Rosario and Rachelle Hampton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I-C-Y-I-M-I. |
| 0:17.5 | In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about Internet culture. |
| 0:39.6 | And it is Day 2,567 in the long Twitter siege. For now, I still have a blue check. It's unclear how long that will still be true. George Bush and Tony Blair have been resurrected as verified, but presumably unofficial accounts, and they're reminiscing fondly about the Iraq War on Twitter. |
| 0:43.3 | A verified Nintendo account tweeted out Mario flipping us off. |
| 0:47.0 | Another verified account potentially costs a pharmaceutical company millions of dollars. |
| 0:51.8 | Morale is low. |
| 0:53.1 | The vibes are chaotic. It's unclear how long provisions |
| 0:55.8 | of posting energy will hold out. This may be my last entry. Signing off. |
| 1:05.1 | Just kidding! Well, not about any of those verified accounts that all happened, but we have got a show to do, so I'm not signing off just yet. |
| 1:13.7 | Small programming note, we will be doing another Ask a Tech Reporter segment for next Wednesday's episode, all about you guessed it, Twitter. |
| 1:21.9 | So if y'all have any burning questions about like the FTC or consent decrees, please send them our way so someone's smarter |
| 1:30.5 | than me can answer them. But today's show actually isn't about Twitter. Today's show is all about |
| 1:35.0 | sex, baby. It's about you and me. It's about all the good times, the bad times. That may be. |
| 1:40.3 | That's right. We're talking about sex. Specifically specifically sex and the internet. After a short break, |
| 1:45.5 | we'll be back with Samantha Cole, a senior editor at Vice, and the author of the forthcoming book, |
| 1:50.0 | How Sex Changed the Internet, and the Internet Changed Sex. This conversation is so wide-ranging and fun. |
| 1:56.1 | You won't want to miss it. |
| 2:09.8 | And we're back with Samantha Cole, a senior editor at Motherboard, and author of the forthcoming book, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex. |
| 2:13.8 | Sam, I'm so excited to have you here. |
| 2:16.4 | I'm so excited to be here. Thank you so much for having me. |
| 2:18.9 | Of course. So before we dive into your incredible book, I have to ask, what is your very first |
| 2:25.1 | internet memory? My first internet memory, I was just talking about this with someone. I |
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