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Exploding the Phone
- The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
- By: Phil Lapsley
- Narrated by: Johann North
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell’s revolutionary "harmonic telegraph", by the middle of the 20th century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before. But the network had a billion-dollar flaw, and once people discovered it, things would never be the same.
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a really interesting and curious book
- By Anonymous on 29-05-17
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Exploding the Phone
- The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
- Narrated by: Johann North
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 16-07-13
- Language: English
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Crossed Wires
- The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, from the Post Office to the Internet
- By: Dan Schiller
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 32 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Dan Schiller, who has conducted archival research on United States telecommunications for more than forty years, recovers the extraordinary social history of the major network systems of the United States. Drawing on arrays of archival documents and secondary sources, Schiller reveals that this history has been shaped by sharp social and political conflict and is embedded in the larger history of an expansionary United States political economy.
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Crossed Wires
- The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, from the Post Office to the Internet
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 32 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 23-05-23
- Language: English
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The Friendly Orange Glow
- The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
- By: Brian Dear
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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At a time when Steve Jobs was only a teenager and Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t even born, a group of visionary engineers and designers—some of them only high school students—in the late 1960s and 1970s created a computer system called PLATO, which was light-years ahead in experimenting with how...
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Wonderful book, excellent narration
- By N. Barron on 22-09-23
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The Friendly Orange Glow
- The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 14-11-17
- Language: English
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Stephen Fry On The Phone The Complete Radio 4 Series
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance12
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Stephen Fry traces the evolution of the mobile phone, from hefty executive bricks that required a separate briefcase to carry the battery, to the smartphones available today. There are more mobile phones in the world than there are people on the planet: Stephen Fry talks to the backroom boys who...
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Short and maybe a bit biased?
- By Amazon Customer on 25-06-24
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Stephen Fry On The Phone The Complete Radio 4 Series
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 08-12-11
- Language: English
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Alan Turing
- The Enigma Man
- By: Nigel Cawthorne
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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According to Winston Churchill, Alan Turing made the single biggest contribution to the Allied victory over Nazi Germany with his code-breaking machine. The world is also indebted to Turing's genius for the modern computer. It was clear that Turing had a remarkable mind from an early age. He taught himself to read in just three weeks. At his first school, the headmistress said, "I have had clever and hardworking boys, but Alan has genius."
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Alan Turing
- The Enigma Man
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 29-12-15
- Language: English
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The Technological Republic
- Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
- By: Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska
- Narrated by: Nicholas W. Zamiska
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street Journal From the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of...
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The Technological Republic
- Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
- Narrated by: Nicholas W. Zamiska
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 18-02-25
- Language: English
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Escape
- How a Generation Shaped, Destroyed and Survived the Internet
- By: Marie Le Conte
- Narrated by: Yolanda Kettle
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance11
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Escape is a fascinating exploration of the rise and demise of the internet. It's a look back on the platforms, the people and the online places. It's an analysis of the lessons being online has taught us, how the internet has changed us—and a celebration of the tools it gives us to feel less alone. The online generation have forever altered the world we live in, but is the internet still a place for the people that shaped it?
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The rise and fall of the Internet as a socializing space.
- By Emmanouil N. on 10-04-26
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Escape
- How a Generation Shaped, Destroyed and Survived the Internet
- Narrated by: Yolanda Kettle
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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Designers & Dragons
- The 00's
- By: Shannon Appelcline
- Narrated by: Colby Elliott
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Designers & Dragons: The ‘00s is a comprehensive picture of the new resurgence of the RPG industry. This 2nd edition expands the original single book into a series of four–beginning with the ’70s and ending with the ’00s–and we’ve added over tens of thousands of new words to this final and most updated volume. Take an inside look at d20 companies, watch the growth of new titans like Paizo Publishing, and learn about the growth of indie presses like Evil Hat Productions. Regardless of your gaming background, Shannon Appelcline’s meticulously researched history won’t disappoint.
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Designers & Dragons
- The 00's
- Narrated by: Colby Elliott
- Series: Designers & Dragons, Book 4
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 23-05-23
- Language: English
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- By: James Gleick
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall128
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Performance83
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Story79
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The story...
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Informative but temporarily boring as an audiobook
- By Christos on 25-12-12
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-03-11
- Language: English
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Faster
- How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best
- By: Neal Bascomb
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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As Nazi Germany launched its campaign of racial terror and pushed the world toward war, three misfits banded together to challenge Hitler’s dominance at the apex of motorsport: the Grand Prix. Their quest for redemption culminated in a remarkable race that is still talked about in racing circles to this day - but which, soon after it ended, Hitler attempted to completely erase from history.
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Sheer grit and determination
- By Rollon2021 on 30-09-24
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Faster
- How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 17-03-20
- Language: English
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How Not to Network a Nation
- The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)
- By: Benjamin Peters
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation - to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and patriotic incentives, fail while the American network succeeded? Find out.
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How Not to Network a Nation
- The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 25-08-16
- Language: English
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The Code
- Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
- By: Margaret O'Mara
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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One of New York Magazine's best books on Silicon Valley! The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the...
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The Code
- Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 09-07-19
- Language: English
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The Players Ball
- A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise
- By: David Kushner
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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“An engrossing microcosm of the internet’s Wild West years” (Kirkus Reviews), award-winning journalist David Kushner tells the incredible battle between the founder of Match.com and the con man who swindled him out of the website Sex.com, resulting in an all-out war for control for what...
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The Players Ball
- A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 09-04-19
- Language: English
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Creative Selection
- Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
- By: Ken Kocienda
- Narrated by: Ken Kocienda
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance45
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This program is read by the author. An insider's account of Apple's creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs. Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every day; several thousand work on Apple's campus in Cupertino, California; but only a handful sit at the drawing board...
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An enlightening insight into the software design process of Apple under Steve Jobs
- By Anonymous on 15-01-19
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Creative Selection
- Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
- Narrated by: Ken Kocienda
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-09-18
- Language: English
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The Hacker Crackdown
- Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
- By: Bruce Sterling
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Bruce Sterling delves into the world of high-tech crime and punishment in one of the first books to explore the cyberspace breaches that threaten national security. From the crash of AT&T’s long-distance switching system to corporate cyberattacks, he investigates government and law enforcement efforts to break the back of America’s electronic underground in the 1990s.
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The Hacker Crackdown
- Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-12-20
- Language: English
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The New Breed
- How to Think About Robots
- By: Kate Darling
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A bold, optimistic exploration of the relationship between robots and humans based on our history with animals, from a renowned MIT researcher The robots are here. They make our cars, they deliver fast food, they mine the sea floor. And in the near-future their...
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ENGROSSING
- By Paul Shorten on 20-02-22
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The New Breed
- How to Think About Robots
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 20-04-21
- Language: English
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The Code Book
- The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
- By: Simon Singh
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo...
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The Code Book
- The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 10-10-23
- Language: English
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The Eudaemonic Pie
- The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took on Las Vegas
- By: Thomas A. Bass
- Narrated by: Stephen Tupper
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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The Eudaemonic Pie is the bizarre true story of how a band of physicists and computer wizards took on Las Vegas. It chronicles the origins of personal computers, the history of gambling, and the comedy of living a good life governed according to reason (eudaemonia).
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Bored beyong belief
- By Lee on 09-07-18
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The Eudaemonic Pie
- The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took on Las Vegas
- Narrated by: Stephen Tupper
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 07-09-17
- Language: English
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Nostalgia Nerd's Gadgets, Gizmos & Gimmicks
- A Potted History of Personal Tech
- By: Peter Leigh
- Narrated by: Peter Leigh
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In this eagerly awaited new book from the author of the best-selling Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech, Peter Leigh takes a fun, informative and irreverent romp through the history of more than 40 pieces of personal tech, charting the successes, failures and oddities from over five decades of our obsession with gadgetry.
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An enjoyable romp through my childhood and beyond.
- By Sean NR on 12-01-23
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Nostalgia Nerd's Gadgets, Gizmos & Gimmicks
- A Potted History of Personal Tech
- Narrated by: Peter Leigh
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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How the Internet Happened
- By: Brian McCullough
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The Internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this lively narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we knew about technology. In How the Internet Happened, he chronicles the whole fascinating story for the first time, beginning in a dusty Illinois basement in 1993, when a group of college kids set off a once-in-an-epoch revolution with what would become the first "dotcom".
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a must read. very insightful and well presented.
- By Anonymous on 13-09-22
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How the Internet Happened
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 23-10-18
- Language: English
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