Wed. 04/07 - The 1970s Clubhouse Precursor

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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When social media happened over the phone. Have physicists found a new force of nature? And the long-lost Lord of the Rings made-for-TV-movie produced by Soviet Russia. Sponsor: Mint Mobile, Get a new wireless plan for just $15 a month mintmobile.com/kottke Links: The Prototype for Clubhouse Is 40 Years Old, and It Was Built by Phone Hackers (OneZero) Remote learning isn't new: Radio instruction in the 1937 polio epidemic (The Conversation) What Did the Old Telephone Network Sound Like? Overview of the Recordings (Evan Doorbell, YouTube) 'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature (BBC) Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab Finds Hint of New Particles (Quanta Magazine) Fermilab’s latest muon measurements hint at cracks in the Standard Model (Ars Technica) Finding From Particle Research Could Break Known Laws of Physics (NY Times) The long-lost Lord of the Rings adaptation from Soviet Russia is a glorious fever dream (The Verge) Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after 30 years (The Guardian) The Emoji Story: You should never have this much fun learning about Unicode (Ars Technica) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	welcome to the cotkey ride home for wednesday, April 7th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.
0:42.1	A look at back when social media happened over the phone. Have physicists found a new force of nature?
0:52.3	And the long-lost Lord of the Rings made for TV movie produced by Soviet Russia.
0:59.2	Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:05.0	I'm sure you've had this thought sometime in the past year.
1:08.4	What if the pandemic had happened before we had such widespread access
1:13.2	to and applications for the internet? Before video conferencing for work and keeping in touch with
1:18.9	people, before social media as a means of both information and communication with people
1:23.8	beyond our own pod. I actually think that parts of it would have been pretty similar, if a bit more clunky.
1:31.1	You know, conference calls over the phone have been a thing for decades,
1:33.8	and during various outbreaks in the 20th century, like the 1937 polio outbreak in Chicago,
1:39.7	school districts used to broadcast lessons over the radio so that students could learn at home.
1:45.2	So while the technology that we develop is always new and often more convenient or expansive,
1:49.8	the needs or desires we're working to fulfill usually stay the same.
1:54.6	Which is one reason I'm endlessly fascinated by the creative uses of pre-home internet phone
2:00.6	technology, both sanctioned and not.
2:03.7	The One Zero recently reopened the vault on a particular phone trend from the 70s that feels
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