The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast, where we take a deep dive into geek culture, tech evolution, and the impact of the past on today’s digital world.
Podcasting since 2025 • 14 episodes
The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
Latest Episodes
Please Enter Your Password...Again (trailer)
Just a bit of B roll from Renee's story about Russian's listening in to her recording.
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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S1E13 - Please Enter Your Password… Again
Renee and Marc break down the evolution of authentication in recent times. RSA tokens. The rise of mobile authenticators. The not-so-long, painful reign of SMS codes.They move through SIM swapping, behavioral biometrics, and the shift towar...
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Episode 13
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S1E12 - From Shells to Stablecoins: The Tech of Money
Marc once again drags Renee into a museum. This time the “Hall of Money." Five thousand years of humans trying (and mostly failing) to automate trust. From clay tablets that doubled as IOUs to Renaissance double-entry bookkeeping, colonial funn...
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Episode 12
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S1E11 Tech Ethics: A Short History of Doing It Anyway
Warning up front - we discuss some ethical conundrums and situations with tech. There's one mention of suicide and we talk about the Manhattan Project. We're respectful, but we just wanted to put it out there. Every breakthrough in...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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52:36
S1E10 - Your Printer Hates You. And Now It Can Build Things
Printers used to be the villains of the office...loud, cranky, and prone to eating your best work right before a deadline. But somewhere between the screech of a dot matrix and the hiss of a resin vat, something changed. Printing got interestin...
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Episode 10
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