The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast

By Renee Murphy, Marc Massar

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Episodes: 70

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A podcast exploring the history of technology, and what it teaches us about now.


Episode Date
S2E25 - The Box That Ate the Living Room
Jul 09, 2026
S2E25 Bonus - Snap Back
Jul 08, 2026
S2E34 - Jell-O, America's Most Unsettled Triumph
Jul 02, 2026
S2E24 Bonus - Ninety-Five
Jun 27, 2026
S2E23 - Come Clean
Jun 19, 2026
S2E23 Bonus - One Went Missing
Jun 17, 2026
S2E22 - Royalty for Pocket Change
Jun 11, 2026
S2E22 Bonus - Level Out
Jun 10, 2026
S2E21 - Keeping it Cool
Jun 05, 2026
S2E21 Bonus - Cold One on the Porch
Jun 04, 2026
S2E20 - The Royal Flush
May 28, 2026
S2E20 Bonus - Flush Away
May 27, 2026
S2E19 - Ten Cents to Anywhere
May 21, 2026
S2E19 Bonus - Quarter Thief
May 20, 2026
S2E18 - Tubes With Wings
May 14, 2026
S2E18 Bonus - 23B
May 13, 2026
S2E17 - Red Means Stop
May 07, 2026
S2E17 Bonus - Just Amber
May 06, 2026
S2E16 - You Are Here
Apr 30, 2026
(S2E16 Bonus) - Three Wrong Turns Home
Apr 29, 2026
S2E15 - Zork to Zelda
Apr 23, 2026
Likely To Be Eaten (S2E15 Bonus)
Apr 22, 2026
S2E14 - When Your Car Says Subscribe
Apr 16, 2026
Chrome and Highway (S2E14 Bonus)
Apr 15, 2026
S2E13 - Warm Coke and the Internet of Things
Apr 09, 2026
Every Room I Left (S2E13 Bonus)
Apr 08, 2026
S2E12 - WarGames Is A Documentary Part 2
Apr 01, 2026
Light Speed (S2E12 Bonus)
Apr 01, 2026
S2E11 - WarGames Is A Documentary Part 1
Mar 26, 2026
Phosphor Glow (S2E11 Bonus)
Mar 26, 2026
S2E10 - You Killed Your Tamagotchi and Now You Trust AI
Mar 20, 2026
Egg Friend (S2E10 Bonus)
Mar 19, 2026
S2E9 - CAPTCHA Stolen Cognition
Mar 12, 2026
I Clicked For You (S2E9 Bonus)
Mar 12, 2026
S2E8 - Neural Nets: The Assembly Line of Thought
Mar 05, 2026
Punch That Card (S2E8 Bonus)
Mar 05, 2026
S2E7 - The Age of Tiny Lights (LEDs)
Feb 27, 2026
Blue Underneath (S2E7 Bonus)
Feb 26, 2026
Six O'Clock News (S2E6 Bonus)
Feb 21, 2026
S2E6 - Who Controls the News?
Feb 19, 2026
S2E5 - Tape: Tough, Tested, Tenacious
Feb 13, 2026
S2E4 - The Quiet Power of Batteries
Feb 06, 2026
S2E3 - The Internet We Lost
Jan 30, 2026
GeoCities (You Let Me Be Ugly) S2E3 Bonus Track
Jan 29, 2026
S2E2 - Blue Boxes, SIM Swaps, and the Myth of Secure Phones
Jan 22, 2026
The Long Distance Blues (S2E2 Bonus)
Jan 22, 2026
The AI Gigawatt Thirst Trap (S2E1 Bonus)
Jan 16, 2026
S2E1 - The AI Gigawatt Thirst Trap
Jan 16, 2026
Elastic Hearts (Oh, Vulcanised Rubber)
Dec 20, 2025
S1E17 - Built on Rubber!
Dec 19, 2025
Steel Titans of the World - An Ode to Shipping Containers
Dec 12, 2025
S1E16 - The (Shipping) Container Monologues
Dec 12, 2025
S1E15 - Bubbles Build the Big Stuff: How Overhyped Tech Leaves Us Infrastructure We Rely On
Dec 05, 2025
Bubbles Build the Big Stuff (Trailer)
Dec 04, 2025
S1E14 - Cinema Reels and Digital Revolutions
Nov 28, 2025
Cinema Reels and Digital Revolutions (Trailer)
Nov 27, 2025
Please Enter Your Password...Again (trailer)
Nov 15, 2025
S1E13 - Please Enter Your Password… Again
Nov 14, 2025
S1E12 - From Shells to Stablecoins: The Tech of Money
Nov 06, 2025
S1E11 Tech Ethics: A Short History of Doing It Anyway
Oct 31, 2025
S1E10 - Your Printer Hates You. And Now It Can Build Things
Oct 24, 2025
S1E8b - Barnum Would’ve Loved the Bots: The Digital Freakshow (Part 2)
Oct 17, 2025
S1E8 - Barnum Would’ve Loved the Bots: The Rise of Agentic Advertising Part 1
Oct 10, 2025
S1E6b - Throughput, Thrills, and Theme Parks
Oct 03, 2025
S1E6a - Throughput, Thrills, and Theme Parks
Sep 30, 2025
S1E5 - From Clippy to Agentic AI
Sep 11, 2025
S1E4 - Bat Boy and How Algorithms Ate the Urban Legend
Sep 05, 2025
S1E3 - Sears, Amazon, and the Eternal Catalog
Aug 28, 2025
S1E2 - Your Own Hyperlocal Meteorologist in Your Pocket - The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast
Aug 21, 2025
The Nostalgic Nerds Podcast - The AI Gigawatt Hunger
Aug 15, 2025