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#13 Love is Lies
15 februari 2015 · 24 min
A woman starts dating again at 60 after her marriage falls apart. We follow her into a world of millionaire import/export moguls and fifteen-year old internet scammers.
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#1 - An App Sends A Stranger To Say I Love You (Updated)
8 februari 2015 · 20 min
What happens when a woman sends a stocky blond stranger to tell her ex she loves him. (Updated with a new interview!)
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#12 Back End Trouble
1 februari 2015 · 25 min
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't crash. The sheer terror and joy of solving that problem. (Plus, a new Yes/Yes/No.)
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#11 Did Errol Morris' Brother Invent Email?
24 januari 2015 · 17 min
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 comment that said his brother had invented email. So he launched an investigation to find out if it was true.
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#10 The French Connection
18 januari 2015 · 22 min
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 service that for decades ran alongside the internet. It was called The Minitel. Producer Carla Green speaks to reporter Jean-Marc Manach, who, in the early 90's, made a living posing as a woman in sex chat rooms on Minitel.
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#9 The Writing On The Wall
10 januari 2015 · 22 min
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 anonymity brought out a particularly vicious strain of racism that shook the school.
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#8 Anxiety Box
8 januari 2015 · 16 min
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 moments of extreme anxiety, Paul’s phone talks to him. It tells him everything that’s wrong with him.
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#7 This Website Is For Sale
29 december 2014 · 20 min
This week we enter the mysterious, Byzantine underworld of domain sales, where people make money speculating on the website naming market. A few years ago, the owners of the popular journalism website longform.org blundered into this world when they innocently tried to procure longform.com. In this episode, we find out about their misadventures, and we hear from the Derek Jeter of URL purchases.
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#6 This Proves Everything
21 december 2014 · 20 min
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 conceal the greatest love story never told.
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#5 Jennicam
15 december 2014 · 20 min
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 disappeared from the internet entirely. What'd she figure out about the perils of living publicly before the rest of us did? Alex Goldman tracks her down.
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#4 Follow The Money
8 december 2014 · 21 min
Writer Chiara Atik has a hobby -- spying on the financial transactions of friends and strangers. She thinks that Venmo, more than any other social media site, is the place you can find actual, accidental truth online. This week we investigate that claim.
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#3 We Know What You Did
3 december 2014 · 19 min
Twenty years ago, Ethan Zuckerman did something terrible on the internet. And he's still living with the consequences.
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#1 A Stranger Says I Love You
24 november 2014 · 22 min
What happens when a woman sends a stocky blond stranger to tell her ex she loves him.
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#2 The Secret, Gruesome Internet For Doctors
24 november 2014 · 22 min
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 internet, plus we speak to one of its residents.
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