Tech History Part 3: FIRST!!! + Many, Many Bonus Facts and Contest Winners

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

History, Education

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2018

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at a rather interesting fact about Pulp Fiction and Samuel L Jackson’s character’s most famous lines in the film. We then move on to briefly mentioning our sponsor for today- Wix.com, where you can go to create awesome looking, exceptionally easy/fast to create websites for free, as we did here at BrainFood.fm. If you’re interested, please go to https://wix.com/go/brainfood to get started on your Wix website today! And check out our new website for the Brainfood Podcast at https://www.brainfood.fm/ Thanks! Next up, we jump into the main part of the show looking at the surprisingly old first computer and the truth about who really was the first computer programmer. (Note: Not Ada Lovelace, contrary to popular belief.) Next we jump into a variety of bonus facts including looking at why C is the default hard drive letter on most computers, touch on what this had to do with some rather interesting stuff regarding Microsoft’s early days, the correct way to pronounce “wiki” as in “wikipedia”, what Cunningham’s Law has to do with that, the interesting origin of Tetris, how spam came to mean junk message, and much, much more! And if you’re interested, here’s the video on Yankee Doodle Dandy we mentioned. On another note, if you could do us a huge favor and rate and review this show in whatever podcasting platform you’re using (including hopefully giving us some feedback related to the new format), we would be extremely grateful. Thanks! (You can also discuss this episode and view references on The BrainFood Show forum here.) Don’t miss future episodes of this podcast, subscribe here: iTunes | Spotify | Google Play Music | Stitcher | RSS/XML You can also find more episodes by going here: The BrainFood Show The post Tech History Part 3: FIRST!!! + Many, Many Bonus Facts and Contest Winners appeared first on Today I Found Out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to you another episode of the brain food show the show where we talk
0:07.1	about interesting things from history I thought about doing a little what do you think
0:10.3	of that David is like as a little intro because I realize if we have new
0:14.0	people tuning in they'll be like what is this about especially an episode today like
0:17.9	that is just titled first I mean obviously you know it's got something to do with
0:21.8	computers and all of this but I
0:23.4	thought we should do like a little this is what we do on this podcast before can we
0:27.4	have a jingle I really hope we could get a jingle off fibre I'm sure it'll be
0:31.6	amazing I'm I'm on Good. I recently found out
0:34.8	Fiver. It's a for those who don't know five is a website where you used to be able to go and
0:38.3	get little tasks done for five dollars. I've done a couple of jobs on Fiver lately just for little graphic design things and
0:44.8	Fiver is no longer a Fiver it's no longer five dollars. It's matured but I would say you get
0:52.3	better quality out of what you do get most definitely and I kind of the problem where I guess
0:57.8	Starting Fiver is inflation is gonna happen at some points and your business is called Fiber.
1:04.0	Fiber that 4th of July, what is it, Star Spangled?
1:08.0	No. The one about the singing of the...
1:10.0	Was it about the singing of the Star Spangled Doodledandy?
1:12.0	No, the Yankee Doodle Dandy. Yeah, we got that. the really good. This was a video we did what over a year ago right? Yeah two years ago it was it was quite I really liked that one just because of the singing stuff she did because we had these so we had these songs that nobody sings anymore like versions of
1:33.6	Yankee Doodle Day and there's no copy of it anyway so we just hired her to
1:37.8	sing it and she did an amazing job.
1:39.8	It sounds very cool.
1:40.8	Yeah so go check out that video.
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