The fourth year of Tech Tales episodes in release order.

Tech Tales: Year Four

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, helping guide the country through the Civil War and advocated for an end to slavery. Nearly 100 years later, he was resurrected as a robot for the 1964 New York World's Fair.

Hosted by Corbin Davenport, guest starring Mason Conrad.

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Videos & Photos:
    • https://youtu.be/mvfjvBO2l2Y?t=138
    • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lincoln_Audio-Animatronic_(42346731335).jpg

Sources:
    • https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abraham-Lincoln
    • https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-emporia-gazette-electric-robots/154380075/
    • https://web.archive.org/web/20110717093240/http://d23.disney.go.com/articles/070709_NF_FEAT_StoryofHall.html
    • https://www.disneyhistoryinstitute.com/2014/04/disney-history-institute-celebrates.html
    • https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-edwardsville-intelligencer-disney-de/154344993/
    • https://archive.org/details/IllinoisLandOfLincolnIllinoisPavilionInformationNewYorkWorldsFair19641965/mode/1up
    • https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-register-live-lincoln-created-by-d/154516626/
    • https://www.newspapers.com/article/sun-tattler-disneys-lincoln-star-at-fai/154518175/
    • https://www.newspapers.com/article/wilmington-news-journal-lincoln-at-1964/154519665/
    • https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-herald-review-of-lincoln-figur/154520514/
    • https://www.newspapers.com/article/mt-vernon-register-news-electronic-abe/154523531/
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvfjvBO2l2Y
    • https://d23.com/reliving-one-mans-dream-in-this-walt-disney-world-attraction/
    • https://www.ocregister.com/2021/07/31/disneyland-blinkin-lincoln-animatronic-used-to-go-crazy-and-smash-his-chair-in-a-robotic-fit/
    • https://www.newspapers.com/article/freeport-journal-standard-animated-abe-l/154552579/

Chapters:
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:26 Abraham Lincoln
0:06:08 Building Robot Lincoln
0:20:25 The 1964 World’s Fair
0:22:33 Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln
0:29:08 Reactions to Robot Lincoln
0:38:07 Lincoln at Disneyland
0:41:10 Outro

Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln

The WanaCry ransomware quickly spread to hundreds of thousands of Windows systems on May 12, 2017, impacting everything from car manufacturing to hospitals. A few hours later, it was stopped by a cybersecurity researcher.

Hosted by Corbin Davenport, guest starring Joe Fedewa.

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Video:
    • https://youtu.be/S70zd_ysZag

Sources:
    • https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/
    • https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/security/ransomware/wannacry-ransomware/
    • https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/cambrian-college-ransomware-hack-1.4093634
    • https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-hit-by-wannacry-virus-fears-it-could-cripple-some-jet-production/
    • https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/13/cyber-attack-hits-german-train-stations-hackers-target-deutsche/
    • https://apnews.com/article/36406e3cebe34b148f1fd9bbe6205ace
    • https://www.reuters.com/article/us-honda-cyberattack-idUSKBN19C0EI/
    • https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/case-study-wannacry-attack/
    • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?Name=Ransom:Win32/WannaCrypt
    • https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/05/14/need-urgent-collective-action-keep-people-safe-online-lessons-last-weeks-cyberattack/
    • https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/05/14/need-urgent-collective-action-keep-people-safe-online-lessons-last-weeks-cyberattack/
    • https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/03/researcher-who-stopped-wannacry-ransomware-detained-in-us
    • https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-us-authorities-tracked-down-the-north-korean-hacker-behind-wannacry/

Chapters:
0:00:00 Intro
0:00:54 EternalBlue & Marcus Hutchins
0:09:39 WannaCry Attack
0:25:10 The Aftermath
0:38:04 Outro

WannaCry

Swiss watch company Swatch came up with a new way to tell time in 1998, known as "Internet Time" or ".beats time." It led to an international controversy over advertising, radio frequencies, and Russia's Mir space station.

Hosted by Corbin Davenport, guest starring Cody Toombs.

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Watches:
    • https://www.swatch.com/en-en/webmaster-ii-sqb101c/SQB101C.html
    • https://www.swatch.com/en-en/great-australian-byte-sqz100/SQZ100.html
    • https://www.swatch.com/en-en/webstream-green-yqs1001ag/YQS1001AG.html
    • https://www.swatch.com/en-en/moon-or-beat-iv-yfs4010/YFS4010.html
    • https://www.swatch.com/en-en/sonic-the-hedgehog-sqk101/SQK101.html

Sources:
    • https://www.zdnet.com/article/swatch-wont-take-apple-to-court-over-iwatch-trademark/
    • https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37350870
    • https://www.wnyc.org/story/tldr-15-internet-time/
    • https://www.wired.com/1998/12/time-for-a-change/
    • https://news.mit.edu/1998/summit-1118
    • https://segaretro.org/Press_release:_2000-02-24:_Sega_and_Swatch_Team_Up:_Two_Major_Players_Meet_in_Cyberspace
    • https://lpcwiki.miraheze.org/wiki/Ericsson_T20
    • https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/05/14/lost-in-space-en
    • https://www.wired.com/1999/04/spam-thats-out-of-this-world/
    • https://web.archive.org/web/19991110070006/http://www.ccr.jussieu.fr/physio/amsat-france/Press-rel-05.htm
    • https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/sputnik-40.htm
    • https://www.pso-world.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=883
    • https://web.archive.org/web/20010215002746/http://hamradio-online.com/1999/apr/arrl-swatch.html
    • https://latimes.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-swatch-beatnik-can/170703674/ 
    • https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=25685

Chapters:
0:00:00 Intro
0:00:27 Swatch & Internet Time
0:07:50 The Watches
0:16:44 Adoption of Internet Time
0:20:05 Sputnik 99
0:36:18 Swatch vs. Apple
0:38:00 Outro

Internet Time and Sputnik 99

Tech Tales is a podcast exploring the technology world's epic failures, forgotten successes, and everything in between. Hosted by Corbin Davenport. Made without generative AI.

Tech Tales: Year Four

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