"'A podcast about the internet' that is actually an unfailingly original exploration of modern life and how to survive it." - The Guardian. Hosted by Alex Goldman and Emmanuel Dzotsi from Gimlet.
213 episodes transcribedWhat happens when a woman sends a stocky blond stranger to tell her ex she loves him. (Updated with a new interview!) Learn more about your ad choices...
The entire internet decides to look at one famous butt at the same time. One man has to ensure that the website hosting Kardashian butt pictures doesn...
There was a lot that Errol Morris never knew about his brilliant, distant older brother Noel. Decades after Noel's death, Errol read an internet comme...
In the early 80's, way before the world wide web existed, the French government shipped a $200 terminal to every home with a phone line, and created a...
Yik Yak is a an app that allows users to communicate anonymously with anyone within a 10-mile radius. At Colgate University in upstate New York, the a...
Sometimes, on his way to work, a feeling of pressure begins thumping in Paul Ford’s chest. His breaths shorten. They speed up. And sometimes, in those...
This week we enter the mysterious, Byzantine underworld of domain sales, where people make money speculating on the website naming market. A few years...
Depending on who you ask, Keith Calder is either a 35-year old film producer, or one of the players in a vast international conspiracy designed to con...
In 1996 Jennifer Ringley started Jennicam.org, where she recorded and broadcast her entire life, 24/7. It made her famous. And then, one day, she disa...
Writer Chiara Atik has a hobby -- spying on the financial transactions of friends and strangers. She thinks that Venmo, more than any other social med...
Twenty years ago, Ethan Zuckerman did something terrible on the internet. And he's still living with the consequences. Learn more about your ad choice...
An app called Figure One wants to be Instagram, but for doctors. Why would doctors need their own Instagram? We spy on the secret & disgusting medical...
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