Digital Stories

S4 Ep. 11 - Super Nintendo Entertainment System

December 23, 2023 13:29 - 7 minutes - 6.83 MB

History of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

S4 Ep. 10 - VHS Vs Betamax | JVC Vs Sony

December 16, 2023 12:07 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MB

The side story of the difference between VHS and Betamax tapes and how VHS became the household tape. A company war between JVC and Sony.

S4 Ep. 9 - Tinder | Sean Rad, Jonathan Badeen & Justin Mateen

December 07, 2023 12:34 - 6 minutes - 6.35 MB

Tinder is an online dating and geosocial networking application launched in 2012. On Tinder, users "swipe right" to like or "swipe left" to dislike other users' profiles, which include their photos, a short bio, and some of their interests.

S4 Ep. 8 - OpenAI | Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman & Sam Altman

November 01, 2023 12:00 - 10 minutes - 9.47 MB

History of OpenAI an American artificial intelligence (AI) that researches artificial intelligence with the declared intention of developing "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence, which it defines as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work". OpenAI was founded in 2015 by Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Jessica Livingston, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba,...

S4 Ep. 7 - IBM | Thomas J. Watson

September 30, 2023 07:15 - 6 minutes - 5.94 MB

The International Business Machines Corporation (doing business as IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York and is present in over 175 countries.

S4 Ep. 6 - Tamagotchi | Akihiro Yokoi

July 30, 2023 07:55 - 9 minutes - 8.98 MB

The Tamagotchi (Japanese: たまごっち, "Egg Watch") is a handheld digital pet that was created in Japan by Akihiro Yokoi of WiZ and Aki Maita of Bandai. It was released by Bandai on November 23, 1996, in Japan and in the United States on May 1, 1997, quickly becoming one of the biggest toy fads of the late 1990s and the early 2000s. As of March 2021, over 83 million units have been sold worldwide.

S4 Ep. 5 - Blizzard Entertainment | Allen Adham, Michael Morhaime & Frank Pearce

June 30, 2023 17:48 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MB

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, the company was founded on February 8, 1991, under the name Silicon & Synapse, Inc. by three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles: Michael Morhaime, Frank Pearce and Allen Adham.

S4 Ep. 4 - HoTMaiL | Sabeer Bhatia & Jack Smith

May 28, 2023 08:58 - 9 minutes - 8.64 MB

History of Hotmail service was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith, and was one of the first webmail services on the Internet.

S4 Ep. 3 - Amazon Kindle

April 24, 2023 10:28 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

A brief history from the original Kindle onwards

S4 Ep. 2 - Coinbase | Brian Armstrong

March 11, 2023 10:30 - 10 minutes - 9.51 MB

History of the American publicly traded company that operates a cryptocurrency exchange platform.

S4 Ep. 2 - Coinbase - Brian Armstrong

March 11, 2023 10:30 - 10 minutes - 9.51 MB

History of the American publicly traded company that operates a cryptocurrency exchange platform.

S4 Ep. 1 - Microsoft | CEO Satya Nadella

February 04, 2023 10:24 - 9 minutes - 8.57 MB

How Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella transformed one of the world’s great businesses.

S4 Ep. 1 - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

February 04, 2023 10:24 - 9 minutes - 8.57 MB

How Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella transformed one of the world’s great businesses.

S3 Ep. 13 - Christmas Special

December 27, 2022 15:36 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MB

Most popular tech presents from the 70s till today! Enjoy and Merry Christmas!

S3 Ep. 12 - Vinyl

December 03, 2022 10:43 - 10 minutes - 9.8 MB

The history of the audio supporto Vinyl

S3 Ep. 11 - Cloud Computing

October 30, 2022 10:34 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MB

Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user.

S3 Ep. 10 - Mp3 Audio Format

September 17, 2022 09:08 - 8 minutes - 7.77 MB

MP3 is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany, with support from other digital scientists in the United States and elsewhere. Originally defined as the third audio format of the MPEG-1 standard.

S3 Ep.9 - Apple | App Store

June 25, 2022 09:23 - 8 minutes - 8.01 MB

The history of the app store platform, developed and maintained by Apple Inc., for mobile apps on its iOS and iPadOS operating systems.

S3 Ep.8 - Photoshop | Thomas & John Knoll

May 14, 2022 09:11 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MB

The History of Photoshop and it's functionalities through the years.

S3 Ep.7 - Apple | iPhone

April 30, 2022 08:30 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MB

The story behind the iPhone a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. these devices use Apple's iOS mobile operating system. The first-generation iPhone was announced by then-Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007. Since then, Apple has annually released new iPhone models and iOS updates. As of November 1, 2018, more than 2.2 billion iPhones had been sold.

S3 Ep.6 - Logitech | Daniel Borel & Pierluigi Zappacosta

April 09, 2022 10:07 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MB

Unique history of Swiss manufacturer of computer peripherals and software born in 1981 and still innovating!

S3 Ep.5 - Podcasts

March 14, 2022 08:44 - 14 minutes - 13 MB

Story of this brand new media for 21st century, from Apple iPod to Spotify.

S3 Ep.4 - The Walt Disney Company | Walt Disney Pt.2

February 19, 2022 07:30 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MB

Part 2 (from 80s till today) of Disney's fascinating history. Enjoy!

S3 Ep.3 - The Walt Disney Company | Walt Disney Pt.1

February 05, 2022 11:06 - 16 minutes - 15 MB

The fascinating history of the American multinational entertainment and media conglomerate.

S3 Ep.2 - Activision | Crane, Miller, Whitehead & Levy

January 22, 2022 10:44 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MB

Activision is one of the largest world wide video game publishers in the world and was the top United States founded by ex Atari developers.

S3 Ep.1 - BlackBerry | Mike Lazaridis & Douglas Fregin

January 11, 2022 20:50 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MB

History of the originally known as Research In Motion (RIM), that developed the BlackBerry brand of interactive pagers, smartphones, and tablets in recent times it transitioned to a cybersecurity enterprise software and services company

S2 Ep.20 - Tesla Motors | Elon Musk Pt.2

December 04, 2021 09:33 - 9 minutes - 9.07 MB

Second part of the history of Tesla Motors now Tesla and it's financial waves.

S2 Ep.19 - Tesla Motors | Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning Pt.1

November 20, 2021 09:04 - 7 minutes - 6.55 MB

History of the American electric vehicle and clean energy company based in Palo Alto, California, United States. Tesla designs and manufactures electric cars, battery energy storage from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar roof tiles, and related products and services.

S2 Ep.19 - Tesla Motors | Martin Eberhard & Marc Tarpenning Pt.1

November 20, 2021 09:04 - 7 minutes - 6.55 MB

History of the American electric vehicle and clean energy company based in Palo Alto, California, United States. Tesla designs and manufactures electric cars, battery energy storage from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar roof tiles, and related products and services.

S2 Ep. 18 - Google Chrome

October 31, 2021 08:41 - 7 minutes - 6.68 MB

Story of Google Chrome, a cross-platform web browser developed by Google witch was first released in 2008 and became the market leader.

S2 Ep. 17 - TerraVision | Carsten Schlüter - Juri Müller

October 17, 2021 09:30 - 8 minutes - 7.56 MB

The story of the pioneering project that rebelled against Google.

S2 Ep. 17 - TerraVision/Google Maps | Carsten Schlüter - Juri Müller

October 17, 2021 09:30 - 8 minutes - 7.56 MB

The story of the pioneering project that rebelled against Google.

S2 Ep. 16 (Special #50) - Android | Andy Rubin - Rich Miner - Nick Sears & Chris White

August 12, 2021 09:35 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MB

Unique history of mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices started as a small startup and became the domain OS for the mobile world. A deep dive on the different versions along the years and the future ahead.

S2 Ep. 15 - Dropbox | Drew Houston - Arash Ferdowsi

July 16, 2021 16:53 - 6 minutes - 5.73 MB

History of the most famous file hosting service company based in California.

S2 Ep. 14 - TikTok | Alex Zhu - Luyu Yang

July 02, 2021 13:52 - 8 minutes - 7.72 MB

Story of the unique social media platform used to make a variety of short-form videos, from genres like dance, comedy, and education, that have a duration from fifteen seconds to three minutes.

S2 Ep. 13 - TripAvisor | Stephen Kaufer

June 21, 2021 17:19 - 7 minutes - 6.94 MB

The unique story of TripAdvisor, an American online travel company that operates a website and mobile app with user-generated content and a comparison shopping website.

S2 Ep. 12 - Spotify | Daniel Ek - Martin Lorentzon

May 02, 2021 09:12 - 7 minutes - 7.28 MB

Swedish audio streaming and media services provider, founded in 2006 by Daniel Ek. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in 17 different countries around the world. It is one of the world’s largest music streaming service providers, with over 356 million monthly active users, including 158 million paying subscribers, as of March 2021.

S2 Ep. 11 - PayPal | Max Levchin - Peter Thiel - Luke Nosek - Ken Howery

April 24, 2021 10:12 - 10 minutes - 9.43 MB

PayPal Inc. is an American company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers, and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like checks and money orders.

S2 Ep. 10 - Twitch | Justin Kan - Emmett Shear

March 27, 2021 09:58 - 7 minutes - 6.93 MB

Twitch is an American video live streaming service operated by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon. Introduced as a spin-off of the general-interest streaming platform Justin.tv, the site primarily focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions, in addition to music broadcasts, creative content, and more recently, "in real life" streams. Content on the site can be viewed either live or via video on demand.

S2 Ep. 9 - YouTube | Chad Hurley - Jawed Karim - Steve Chen

March 20, 2021 11:07 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MB

History of YouTube the American online video-sharing platform. The service, created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim was bought by Google in November 2006.

S2 Ep. 8 - Facebook | M. Zuckerberg Pt.3

February 27, 2021 09:21 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MB

(2016 - 2021) From the spread of fake news to Cambridge Analytica scandal.

S2 Ep. 7 - Facebook | M. Zuckerberg Pt.2

February 13, 2021 10:40 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB

(2009 - 2015) The story of Facebook from Zuckerberg's first coding adventures to his time at Harvard to the spread of fake news and trips to Congress.

S2 Ep. 6 - Facebook | M. Zuckerberg Pt.1

February 06, 2021 09:41 - 10 minutes - 9.75 MB

(2004-2009) The story of Facebook from Zuckerberg's first coding adventures to his time at Harvard to the spread of fake news and trips to Congress.

S2 Ep. 5 - Google | L. Page - S. Brin

January 30, 2021 09:43 - 9 minutes - 8.32 MB

History of Google: How It began and what's Happening Beyond 2021 Google has come a long way from its dorm room startup status - here's just how far Google has come in more then 20 years.

S2 Ep. 4 - Microsoft | Xbox Pt.2

January 23, 2021 09:40 - 13 minutes - 12 MB

(pt.2 from Xbox 360 to Xbox serie X) History of Xbox a video gaming brand created and owned by Microsoft. As today the brand consists of five video game consoles, as well as applications (games), streaming services, an online service by the name of Xbox Live, and the development arm by the name of Xbox Game Studios. The brand was first introduced in the United States in November 2001, with the launch of the original Xbox console.

S2 Ep. 3 - Microsoft | Xbox Pt.1

January 16, 2021 07:57 - 10 minutes - 9.51 MB

(pt.1 from Xbox to XboxOne) History of Xbox a video gaming brand created and owned by Microsoft. As today the brand consists of five video game consoles, as well as applications (games), streaming services, an online service by the name of Xbox Live, and the development arm by the name of Xbox Game Studios. The brand was first introduced in the United States in November 2001, with the launch of the original Xbox console.

S2 Ep. 2 - Twitter | Jack Dorsey

January 09, 2021 10:36 - 7 minutes - 6.79 MB

History of the main american microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Launched on March 21st, 2006 by Jack Dorsey and in 2019 reached 330 million registered members all over the world.

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