The Internet Wouldn’t Exist Without Sex
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4.2 • 2K 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 ICYMI, in case you missed it, Slate's podcast |
| 0:19.5 | about internet culture, and it is day 2567 in the long Twitter Siege. |
| 0:27.8 | For now, I still have a blue check. |
| 0:30.5 | It's unclear how long that will still be true. |
| 0:33.5 | George Bush and Tony Blair have been resurrected as verified, but presumably unofficial accounts, |
| 0:40.2 | and the reminiscing family about the REC war on Twitter. |
| 0:43.2 | A verified Nintendo account tweeted out Mario flipping us off. |
| 0:46.8 | Another verified account potentially costs a pharmaceutical company millions of dollars. |
| 0:51.8 | Morales low, the vibes are chaotic. |
| 0:54.6 | It's unclear how long provisions of posting energy will hold out. |
| 0:58.2 | This may be my last entry, signing off. |
| 1:05.7 | Just kidding! |
| 1:06.7 | Well, not about any of those verified accounts that all happened, but we have got a show |
| 1:11.0 | to do, so I'm not signing off just yet. |
| 1:14.1 | Small programming note, we will be doing another Ask a Tech reporter segment for next Wednesday's |
| 1:18.6 | episode, all about you guessed it, Twitter. |
| 1:22.1 | So if you all have any burning questions about the FTC or consent decrees, please send |
| 1:29.2 | them our way, so someone smarter than we can answer them. |
| 1:31.8 | But today's show actually isn't about Twitter. |
| 1:33.9 | Today's show is all about sex, baby. |
| 1:36.8 | It's about you and me. |
| 1:37.8 | It's about all the good times, the bad times, that may be that's right, we're talking about |
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