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SlurpCast

Mark Bernay & Wes get together once a week to eat dinner and chew and slurp into a microphone. Oh, yeah, we also discuss the latest technology and Internet news and often relate the new items to older technology.

Thursday, February 11, 2016

We make the Internet great again!

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Mark and Wes at a secret location in Oakland, CA.

Sites of Interest:

  • The Innernette
  • A Brief History of AOL
  • USB - Micro SD card reader, butt plug and data storage dongle!
  • No UI is the New UI; i.e. the return of the command prompt
  • Examples of modern apps based on a messaging interface: Slack, Campfire, Operator.
  • Order an Uber using Facebook Messenger
  • You can now play Chess in Facebook Messenger
  • All Bluetooth devices will be able to access the Internet directly without going through a computer.
  • Use AirPlay to wirelessly stream content from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
  • An Internet of Things that will number ten billions
  • IPv6 deployment
  • SoundCloud is in major trouble
  • Who bought the most expensive album ever made?
  • Martin Shkreli tried to buy another album, was scammed for $15million?
  • Einstein was right about ripples in spacetime!
  • But Einstein kept changing his mind.
  • How Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s words were freed from old floppy disks
  • Andy Warhol's Amiga computer art found 30 years later
  • The Internet Archive wants your goddamn AOL CDs 
  • Internet Archive: Classic PC Games, MS-DOS games, arcade games
  • Time Inc Acquires Viant, Owner Of Myspace
  • Alternatives for Facebook: Ello, Peach
  • Circuit City is coming back
  • History of electronics stores Good Guys and Circuit City
  • Gorilla Arm prediction for touchscreen monitors

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