The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
A podcast exploring the history of technology, and what it teaches us about now.
The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
Latest Episodes
S3E10 - House Rules
A Roman die hollowed out and filled with mercury, a slot machine that paid out in beer, and a casino floor that turned out to be a data centre. Every time gambling gets new technology it uses it to take more, faster, from more people, and every...
S3E10 Bonus - Same Seat
This week, the nerds talk gambling tech. Which reminded Marc of a time he was walking to work in Japan and passed a man in a pachinko parlor feeding the machine and smoking his cigarette. Eight hours later...same seat, same man, and a whole lot...
S3E09 - Scope Creep
In 1608 a Dutch spectacle maker put two lenses in a tube to spot enemy ships, and the government wouldn’t even give him a patent. Four hundred years later the same idea is a ten-billion-dollar gold mirror a million miles from home, catching lig...
S3E09 Bonus - Farther Than the Eye
For this week's episode Marc and Renee look to the sky. Big fans of telescopes and astronomy the Nerds run through the history and future of astronomical instruments. Humble beginnings as tools for naval intelligence to instruments that peer in...
