The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
A podcast exploring the history of technology, and what it teaches us about now.
The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
Latest Episodes
S3E11 - Counted as Cast
Today is Election Day in the US. It feels like this mid-term election carries more weight than other years, so exercise your rights.Thomas Edison’s first invention was a machine for counting votes, and a committee turned it down because ...
S3E11 Bonus - The Lever
US Election Day is tomorrow.Marc and Renee voted. Have you? We're going to publish a day early this week so the episode will release on Election Day and you get the brand new dance craze "The Lever" today.Go vote!Lyrics bel...
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...
