Mass for Shut-ins: The Gin and Tacos Podcast
News:Politics
Dr. Laine Nooney (NYU) joins me to discuss the early days of personal computing - particularly how people figured out what to do with home computers after they became convinced that they needed one - in their 2023 book The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal. If you were alive in the pre-internet era, this book is both a great trip down memory lane and a new way to think about the usual hagiographic "Great Man" retellings of the early years of the industry. If you're a bit younger, you'll get great insight into just how not obvious it was what in the hell we would do with computers at home, even though it seemed like everyone wanted one.
Please support Mass for Shut-ins, an independent and ad-free podcast, via Patreon. Contact me via twitter (@edburmila), at least for now. I am on Bluesky at edburmila.bsky.social as well.
Thanks: Dr. Laine Nooney, the bands that contribute music (IfIHadAHiFi, The Sump Pumps, Oscar Bait), Zachary Sielaff, Question Cathy, and all Patreon supporters, subscribers, and listeners.
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044 - The He-Man Effect with Brian 'Box' Brown
043 - KLF Burns One Million Quid (Literally)
042 - Dan vs. Dave (with David Roth)
Minicast F2: Short Music for Short People
040 - Project Genetrix (feat. Kelsey Atherton)
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037 - Workin' on the Railroad with Matt Weaver and Maximillian Alvarez
036 - Smashing Statues with Erin Thompson
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Minicast E3: MiG Jacker
034 - Ryan Cooper (Left Anchor, American Prospect)
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