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24 alternatives to Internet History Podcast #119 - The History of Slate With Julia Turner and Jacob Weisberg
Celebrating 20 years of the pioneering digital publication
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Internet History Podcast #119 - The History of Slate With Julia Turner and Jacob Weisberg launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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On the history of Facebook, AIM and WinAmp
2016 · its alternatives →
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Building a blog empire from New Zealand.
2016 · its alternatives →
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I'm a big fan of the BBC podcast In Our Time -- and (like most people) I've been playing with the OpenAI APIs. In Our Time has almost 1,000 episodes on everything from Cleopatra to the evolution of teeth to plasma physics, all still available, so it's my starting point to learn about most topics. But it's not well organised. So here are the episodes sorted by library code. It's fun to explore. Web scraping is usually pretty tedious, but I found that I could send the minimised HTML to GPT-3 and get (almost) perfect JSON back: the prompt includes the Typescript definition. At the same time I…
2023 · genmon.github.io · its alternatives →
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The inventor of modern social media
2016 · its alternatives →
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On silicon valley, the dot-com bubble and web 2.0
2016 · its alternatives →
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In honor of it's 10th Anniversary, this Monday
2017 · its alternatives →
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Joel Johnson on Gawker and the Rise of Professional Blogging
2016 · its alternatives →
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The road to IE
2016 · its alternatives →
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A while ago I was looking for information on a obscure and short lived British computer. I found an article[1] in the archives of BYTE magazine[2] - and was captivated immediately by the tech adverts of bygone eras. This led to a long side project to be able to see all 100k pages of BYTE in a single searchable place. [1]: https://byte.tsundoku.io/#198502-381 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17683184
2025 · byte.tsundoku.io · its alternatives →
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Discussing podcast discovery & community w/ PH & Roman Mars
2015 · its alternatives →
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The birth of Internet Explorer
2016 · its alternatives →
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AI, the future, and defining a new strategy for America
2016 · its alternatives →
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A show about the people who design our favorite products.
2015 · its alternatives →
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A reddit podcast for all the stories behind the stories
2015 · its alternatives →
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Founder of CompuServe Jeff Wilkins
2016 · its alternatives →
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A podcast about data, science, stories, and time.
2016 · its alternatives →
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