WEBVTT - TechStuff's 10th Anniversary Spectacular! 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:07.160 Get in tech with technology with tech Stuff from how 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:14.080 stuff works dot com. Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:17.240 I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer at 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.439 how Stuff Works and I love all things tech and 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:28.080 happy tenth anniversary. That's right. The show began ten years ago. 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:32.960 We launched tech Stuff and we are almost a thousand 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:38.280 episodes into this run, which is pretty incredible. And uh, 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.280 today I'm gonna look at stuff that launched in two 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.240 thousand and eight and how all that stuff has changed 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:46.199 in the last ten years. I thought that would be 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.880 a fun way to kind of break down the tenth anniversary. 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.880 I didn't want to pick just a topic a company 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:57.520 or a person or anything like that, because I didn't 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.280 feel like there was anything that would really encompass all 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.760 that tech Stuff is. So instead, we're gonna look at 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.360 stuff that was going on in two thousand eight and 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.280 then kind of compared to what's going on today. The 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.560 first thing I wanted to talk about, however, was the 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:14.679 show itself. The very first episode of Tech Stuff that 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:19.360 ever aired, and that's an important designation, was on Tuesday, 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.680 June tenth, two thousand and eight, and it had the 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:27.800 title how the Google Apple Cloud computer will work? Say what. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.560 It was based off an article that was written by 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:34.200 Chris Pallette. He was my original co host on tech Stuff. 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:36.679 He's also one of the editors I used to work 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:38.640 with back when I was a writer for the house 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:43.720 Stuff Works website. And this, uh, this episode. First of all, 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.640 it was very short. It's about five minutes long. Uh. 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.120 The early episodes of tech Stuff were all that short. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.400 Maybe some of you really wish for those days to return, 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.960 but back then we were told we could not go 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.640 longer than five minutes, and that was really really hard. 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:02.160 This particular episod it was again about this article, and 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:06.400 the article was about a hypothetical partnership that could happen 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.000 between Google and Apple, and this was something that was 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:13.519 being talked about by various analysts, but there weren't any 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.400 you know, hard evidence to point out to say, hey, 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.520 this is a this is absolutely happening. But the guess 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.519 was that Google and Apple were going to work together, 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.320 with Google providing the back end computing system for an 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:32.760 Apple based lightweight computing product, possibly a portable one, so 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.040 something along the lines of like the iPad, but where 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.920 all the computing elements would be handled over the cloud, 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.079 sort of like netbooks and later the Chrome books that 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.720 would come out, and as it turned out, that never 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:51.359 really materialized in the way that people were suggesting, although 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.720 we did see that model of cloud computing start to 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.200 take shape, so it's not like it was totally off base. 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.799 But that was the very first episode, and of Tech 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.080 Stuff as a podcast has changed dramatically since those days. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.320 Um Obviously, one thing is that it's now a single 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:12.000 host show, and that happened after Chris Pollette after several years, 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.640 decided he wanted to go pursue other career opportunities. He 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.680 was not terribly interested in being in the limelight. I 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.600 can't necessarily blame him for that. He wanted to kind 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.920 of separate that from his life. He wanted to have 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.639 a more uh private life, and so he left the 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:33.160 show and pursued his other interests and is doing quite well. 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.200 And then Lauren Vogelbaum joined the show for a while 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.960 as co host, and then she too wanted to go 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.120 and launch some new shows, work on some other projects 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.760 and how stuff works, and she couldn't do all that 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.200 and be co host of Tech Stuff, so she also left, 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.640 and since then it's been pretty much just me with 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:56.280 occasional guest co hosts and uh and obviously the show 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.680 has changed quite a bit in length as well. When 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:00.760 we first started, like I said, was about a five 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:05.120 minute long show per episode. We eventually got the um 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.120 the notification that we could go to ten or fifteen minutes, 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.480 and then eventually they said just go as long as 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.640 you need to go for whatever the topic happens to be, 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.120 and that's when we started seeing episodes get into that 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:19.000 forty minute to an hour long range. And we were 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.160 publishing twice a week. Then for a while we were 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.599 publishing for just once a week, and now we're publishing 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:28.080 five times a week, with classic episodes running on Fridays. 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.760 So the show keeps on changing, except I've been on 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:33.840 every single one of them, so I guess I'm the 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:38.000 one constant in all of tech stuff. And uh, yeah, 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.000 we're almost up to a thousand, and by the way, 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.359 just in case you guys are worried, there are no 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.479 plans to get rid of tech stuff. We're going to 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:48.120 keep on going. We're gonna keep on making shows about technology. 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.880 There's no shortage of topics to cover, and I'm really 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.279 looking forward to doing more of those. But now to 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.360 talk about some other stuff that was going on in 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.480 two thousand eight. So one thing that happened in two 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:03.560 thousand eight was the high definition War sort of came 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.320 to an end. Leading up to two thousand eight, there 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.200 were two big formats that were really battling it out. 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:14.039 H D DVD, which was sort of championed by Toshiba, 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.680 and Blu Ray, which was championed by Sony, and the 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.200 two different standards had been fighting it out in the 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:25.440 marketplace for a while. Both companies have been luring various 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:31.520 movie studios and television production companies to provide content for 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:36.320 their particular platform exclusively. It was pretty ugly, and in 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:40.960 two thousand eight it ended up being kind of concluded. 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:45.200 H D DVD ended up bowing out to Blu Ray. Now, 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.280 if you're wondering what the difference was between the two formats, well, 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.839 first of all, they were not compatible. So unless you 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.200 had one of just a couple of pieces of equipment 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.320 that could play both, you had to choose one or 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:59.839 the other. The HD DVD could hold about fifteen gigabytes 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:03.479 of data on a single layer of a h D DVD. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.840 You could do multiple layers and increase that but uh, 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.679 it was fifteen gigabytes for just a standard single layer 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.800 h D DVD. Blue Ray could hold twenty five gigabytes 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.839 on a single layer h D DVD was less expensive 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.440 than Blu ray, but Sony was able to lure more 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.520 major studios to support Blu Ray over to h D DVD, 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:27.440 and in January eight just before c e S, in fact, 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.920 Blu Ray was able to lure Warner Brothers away to 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.880 jump ship because they had been with HD DVD, but 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.760 then they switched over to Blu Ray, and then HD 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.800 DVD would cancel their c E S press conference. In 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.360 the wake of that news, they said, well, we really 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.919 need to reevaluate things. We can't just go ahead with 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:49.840 our press conference anymore. It was a real sabotage of 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:53.320 h D DVD and Blu Ray one out, and usually 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.520 lack of competition is a bad thing for consumers, but 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.159 in this case, what it meant was that more people 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.120 ended up by Blu ray players because it was really 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:06.360 the only platform that was going to actually continue to exist. 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.680 H D DVD was going to go away, and with 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.160 more people buying it, that actually helped bring the price 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:15.080 down on Blu rays and make it more affordable, because 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.040 before that only really early adopters with a good deal 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.240 of disposable income had bought into the system. Next, I 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.000 want to talk about an SLR camera because this is 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.560 kind of a funny story. This is two thousand eight, remember, 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.680 and that's when the Nikon D nine D came out, 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:34.320 and the D ninety was a twelve point three megapixel 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:38.440 digital camera. Still is I guess it's an SLR. SLR 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.920 stands for single lens Reflex and it was the first 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:48.000 digital SLR to feature video recording capabilities. YEP, and two 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.440 thousand eight, this was brand new. It was a DSLR 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.000 capable of shooting video. Before that was all just still images. 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:59.480 It could record video up to seven P resolution with 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:04.560 twenty four frames per second and only mono sound. So 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.760 the camera also had an auto focus feature whenever you're 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.320 using it for still images, but if you wanted to 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.440 use it for video you had to use manual focus tracking. 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.840 I just thought that was interesting that it wasn't until 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.120 two thousand eight that we had a digital SLR that 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.400 could take video. And of course now it's a standard 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.120 feature that you're gonna find on all DSLRs. Pretty much. 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.679 And it's just interesting to me because some of the cameras, 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:30.320 in fact, a lot of the cameras we use here 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:34.160 at hell Stuff Works are DSLRs, and it's just one 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:35.880 of it's funny to think of a time when that 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.680 was new, and funny to think that that was the 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.720 same year that tech Stuff came out. Also in two 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.880 thousand eight, USB three point oh was completed as a standard, 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.440 and actually happened in November two thoight, so it happened 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.440 after tech Stuff launched. The three point oh standard for 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:56.680 USB represented a huge jump from USB two point oh. 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.400 It allowed for data transfer speeds of up to five 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:04.120 gigabits for a second, plus included two unidirectional data paths. 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.280 This made USB three point oh about ten times faster 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:12.319 than USB two point oh for unidirectional data transfers. It 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.760 was even faster if you wanted to exchange data between 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.520 two devices. So what I mean by that is with 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.480 USB two point oh, you had one pathway and it 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:24.360 was one way per data transfer, so you could send 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.960 data from one device to another device in a single direction. 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.360 Then you could stop and send data back the other way, 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:33.839 but you could not do it simultaneously. You only had 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.960 the one channel. USB three point oh had two unidirectional pathways, 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.560 so it's like you have a pathway from device one 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.240 to device two and a different pathway from device two 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.120 back to device one, and you could send data back 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.840 across each device simultaneously, so it could be much much faster. 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.040 The first products to feature USB three point oh would 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.520 not come out until two thousand nine, and even those 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.920 weren't really consumer products. The consumer products wouldn't come out 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.360 until two thousand ten. In so it's still a couple 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.680 of years out before USB three point I would really 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.960 fall into the hands of consumers. Bill Gates retired as 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:12.160 Chief Software Architect for Microsoft in June two thousand and eight. 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.920 I actually remember the c E S presentation where he 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.440 and Steve Balmer came out and they even showed a 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:22.599 video of what Bill Gates's, uh, the last day in 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:24.760 the office would be like. It was very comedic. It 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.960 was a very funny, little self deprecating video. He would 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:32.920 stay on as chairman of Microsoft until two thousand fourteen. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.600 They would he would then hand over the role of 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:39.160 chairman to John W. Thompson. Steve Balmer, who was the 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:43.160 CEO of Microsoft since two thousand would also step down 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.960 in two thousand fourteen and was replaced by Satya Nadela, 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.600 and Microsoft went on to acquire Nokia in two thousand 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:54.319 fourteen for seven point two billion dollars. Also, but mo 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.320 Yang or Mojang for a two point five billion that's 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:02.480 the game company that created Minecraft. Uh. Microsoft has of 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:06.920 course been struggling a little bit, especially in areas like mobile. 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.920 They were never really able to crack mobile in a 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.760 significant way. They weren't able to go up against iPhone 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.160 and Android in a way that was really meaningful. And 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.880 the cloud has also changed the way the company does 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:23.480 business significantly. It's not only Microsoft is in danger of 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:27.240 just going away, but they've certainly kind of lost some 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:31.120 steam with the domination that the company had had back 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.400 in the eighties and nineties. Also in two thousand eight, 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:38.560 in March, just a little bit before we started tech Stuff, 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:43.120 Hulu launched for public access. Now the site actually went 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.280 live in two thousand seven, and originally when it went live, 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:48.880 it was a website that didn't have any content. You 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.240 just went there and it said it was coming soon. 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:55.080 But then a private beta test followed in late two 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.800 thousand seven early two thousand and eight. The actual service 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.120 would not launch until the spring of two thousand eight. 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.760 It was a joint venture still is a joint venture 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.320 between lots of different media companies, but originally it was NBC, 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.600 Universal and Fox, and they've been in the works of 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.720 designing this project for a couple of years. It launched 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:18.280 with shows and movies from around fifty media companies. There 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.840 were a couple of notable absences from that group, CBS 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.880 and ABC. We're both absent from that. Of course, CBS 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:29.800 and ABC are competing broadcast networks with NBC and Fox, 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.760 so it's not a huge surprise. But in two thousand nine, 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.960 the Walt Disney Company announced it would purchase a twenty 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:40.120 seven percent steak in Hulu, and later when Disney announced 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:44.360 in twenty seventeen that it intended to acquire twenty first 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.680 century Fox, it would mean that Disney would end up 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.800 having a thirty percent additional steak in Hulu because Fox 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:56.120 ownedtent of Hulu, so that would give Disney controlling interest 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.360 in Hulu. And two thousand and sixteen, Hulu would end 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:03.440 its free ad supported service because up until then you 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:08.040 could actually log in and watch television shows and movies 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.680 with ads without having to make an account or anything. 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:14.079 You could just watch it. Then it would require users 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.800 to sign up for either a seven dollars and ninety 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:20.640 nine cent tier of service that had limited commercials, or 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.280 an eleven dollar and ninety nine cent tier for an 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.200 ad free service. I remember when this happened, a lot 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.600 of users got upset because they didn't like the idea 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.360 of having to pay for a subscription service where you 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.920 still had ads at all, even if there was another 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.360 option to pay a little bit more and get an 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.040 ad free experience. The idea was, hey, I already had 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:47.240 an ad an ad experience that was otherwise free. Why 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.280 am I now having to pay for that? So there 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.760 was a bit of a backlash on that. Hulu announced 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:56.360 in January two eighteen that had seventeen million subscribers at 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.320 the end of two thousand seventeen, which is about a 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.960 third of what Netflix had at that same time in 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.439 the United States. Also, Hulu and Netflix are very different things. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.640 Netflix is a global entity. It's got a lot of 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.160 services and a lot of different countries, whereas Hulu is 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:16.000 US centric but still even in the United States, Netflix 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.839 is about three times more popular than Hulu right now. 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.480 In two thousand and eight, Tesla began production on the 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:26.320 Tesla Roadster, and there's a sports car that was an 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:30.280 electric sports car of very fancy, kind of sleek looking 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.600 sports car. But they had a lot of issues before 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.760 it came out, had a really rocky journey to production, 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:39.280 and the company nearly collapsed in on itself several times 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:43.200 before the Roadster ever went into mass production. The company 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.760 held a launch party for the Roadster back in two 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.800 thousand and six. This was sort of a preview event 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.760 with prototype Tesla Roadsters, and they were meant to kind 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:56.440 of show off to investors and potential customers and give 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:00.520 people rides in these prototypes. Elon Musk, who who is 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.280 frequently cited as a co founder, though he really came 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.520 on board after the company had already been founded, but 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:12.680 was able to propel it towards its actual eventual ability 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.840 to do business. He later said that the earliest versions 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:20.240 of the Roadster were quote completely unsafe end quote, and 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:24.120 that they quote broke down all the time end quote. 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:28.360 The Roadster could accelerate from zero to a hundred kilometers 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.640 an hour or at sixty two miles per hour in 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.360 four seconds, with a top speed of two d one 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.640 kilometers per hour or hundred twenty five miles per hour, 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:38.520 and on a full battery, it was said to be 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.600 able to travel about two miles or three two kilometers. 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.680 It costs just a touch less than a hundred grand 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:49.360 if you weren't getting any options on it, and the 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:53.240 first Tesla Roadster was delivered to Elon Musk. Big surprise, 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.000 it's the same car that is now in outer space. 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:02.320 Musk's other big project is SpaceX, and SpaceX launched his 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:07.600 Tesla into heliocentric orbit on February six, two thousand eighteen, 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:11.120 using a Falcon heavy rocket. So the car is supposed 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.240 to end up in the neighborhood of Mars, and it's 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.880 blasting David Bowie on the radio, which is pretty appropriate. 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.920 In two thousand eight top Gear gave the roadster a 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.040 bit of a shakedown on their program. They claimed that 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.440 it ran out of juice a little early, and Tesla 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.640 ended up suing the BBC for libel, but British courts 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:33.440 decided against Tesla and in favor of the BBC. Tesla 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.760 sold fewer than two thousand, five hundred roadsters during the 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.160 run of cars which stretched hill two thousand twelve, and 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.600 today Tesla has produced more than three hundred thousand vehicles. 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.520 The company recently held a press conference where it revealed 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.360 it was closing in on its production goal of five 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:53.800 thousand vehicles per week for the Model three series, and 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.000 the company still has some analysts concerned because it burns 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.400 through a lot of cash and it may require more 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:01.760 funding to day in business. So it's it's not all 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:03.960 the woods yet. Next, I want to talk a little 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.080 bit about Spore. Spore was a real time strategy game 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.479 in which you would shape the evolution of life forms 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:11.840 that came out in two thousand and eight. It was 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:16.760 highly anticipated and it actually experienced several delays before it 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.040 finally came out. But it also included some digital rights 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:25.520 management technology called secure rom s e c U upper 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.080 case r o M like read only memory, and that 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.159 potentially could open up the possibility of security risks to 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.119 users computers. That was later revealed, So that was a 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.440 bit of a black eye against the game. Uh. It 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.960 got decent reviews, good critical reception, but it well largely 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:47.920 it underperformed. That same year, Blizzard announced Diablow three, which 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.760 ended up being a big hit. Games that came out 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:55.320 that year included stuff like Burnout, Paradise, Super Smash, Brothers, Brawl, 0:17:56.040 --> 0:18:00.720 Ti Rock, Army of Two, Command and Conquer three, Assassin's 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:05.200 Creed for Windows, Mario Kart, we Grand Theft Auto four, 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:10.199 Mass Effect, Ninja, Guidan To Star Wars, The Force Unleashed 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.399 Bioshot came out for the PS three. It had already 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.680 come out for Xbox the year before Fallout three came out, 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:18.240 and Left for Dead came out. So it was a 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.040 good year for games. And that's just a tiny sample 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.800 of the games that came out. I picked and chose 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:27.000 from a huge list. Those are pretty good year for games. 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:28.639 I fall Out three and Left for Dead or two 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.240 of my favorites. So and I actually really like Grand 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.919 Theft Auto four, although it has a much darker and 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.720 more grim tone than a lot of the other entries 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.880 in that series. Also in two thousand and eight, Nintendo 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:44.640 would release the we Fit. This was a very very 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.840 good selling peripheral for the Nintendo we This was the 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.399 little balance board that you could play with and uh 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.800 play various games. And the we Fit, a game where 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:57.040 you would use it to exercise, was really popular. So popular, 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:59.520 in fact, that it was really hard to find a 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:03.159 we Fit it even months after a debut. Nintendo is 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:07.679 pretty famous for producing fewer units than what demand calls for, 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.919 and the we Fit was no exception, and I remember 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.919 when I was looking for one, it took months before 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:17.040 I finally found one. Um I think it's the third 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:19.880 best selling video game peripheral of all times, so it's 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:23.399 pretty impressive. Also in two thousand eight, the Intel Core 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:27.960 to duo was the state of the art in microprocessors 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:31.720 at the time, and the york Field quad core processor 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:35.199 from Mentel had forty five nanometer components came out in 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.880 March two thousand and eight. The state of the art now, 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:40.320 if you were to compare it to the top of 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.480 the line of Intel, would be the I nine seven 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:47.919 nine eight x C processor, which has eighteen cores, and 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.320 that will set you back nearly two thousand dollars now. 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:54.159 Earlier in eighteen, there was a report that revealed that 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:58.200 two security flaws and Intel chips called Specter and Meltdown 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.520 were in practically every process are made by Intel for 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.200 the last twenty years, and to be fair, they don't 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.000 just affect Intel processors more than that in a second. 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:11.920 So meltdown is a problem where you're you're supposed to 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:17.440 have isolation between applications and a computer's operating system. They're 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:22.000 supposed to be bits that prevent data exchanges from happening. 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:25.440 Willy nilly. It protects data from one app from being 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:29.560 accessed by other apps. But this flaw in various processors 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:33.120 breaks this down. So potentially you could create a program 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:35.880 that would be able to access the information generated by 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:39.200 other programs, and it's possible that since the information could 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.720 be sniffed out and leaked. Specter is kind of similar, 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:46.520 but using a different vulnerability. Specter is harder to implement, 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:50.120 but it's also harder to fix, so if you can 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:54.520 effectively leverage Specter, it's harder to fix it. Jan Horne, 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:56.960 who worked on Google Project zero, was one of the 0:20:57.000 --> 0:21:00.320 individuals to report these flaws. They were report did by 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:04.160 others independently around the same time. It's interesting that Horn 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.080 was able to find both of these on Intel chips, 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:09.600 and the vulnerability would allow an attacker to see all 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:13.440 sorts of sensitive information, including passwords and log in information, 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:16.320 not to mention sensitive stuff you've stored on your computer. 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:20.199 Now the meltdown vulnerability affects all Intel processors that were 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:25.320 produced since n with the exception of Intel Titanium and 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:30.520 the Intel Atom processors from before specters. Even worse, it 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:34.719 affects Intel A and D and ARM processors. Now, this 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:37.960 is a problem that affects MAX and PCs, and it's 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:39.840 likely to be an issue for a really long time, 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:43.959 and there's not an easy fixed respector various operating system 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:47.760 builds can be patched against meltdown. However, now I have 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:49.679 a lot more to say about what happened in two 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:52.240 thousand eight and how it's changed in the ten years since. 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:54.680 But before I get into that, let's take a quick 0:21:54.720 --> 0:22:07.159 break to thank our sponsor. Okay, so Twitter. Now, Twitter 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:09.080 was already a thing in two thousand and eight. It 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:11.359 had had a soft launch in two thousand six. It 0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:13.879 got bigger in two thousand seven after it had a 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:17.720 good showing at south By, and it continued to grow. 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:21.720 In two thousand eight, Jack Dorsey stepped down from his 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:25.520 role as the Twitter CEO and Evan Williams would take 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:30.320 over and Twitter would experience rapid growth. So Twitter had 0:22:30.359 --> 0:22:32.960 a pretty good year in two thousand eight. Now it's 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:36.960 interesting because Jack Dorsey would become the interim CEO again. 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:40.840 In July two thousand fifteen, he would take over, and 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:46.040 then he was named permanent CEO in October two thousand fifteen. 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:51.639 So Dorsey started as CEO, stepped down, took over as 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:54.760 an interim CEO in twenty fifteen, and now as CEO 0:22:54.960 --> 0:22:59.840 of the company once more. Twitter's revenue depends almost entirely 0:22:59.880 --> 0:23:03.200 a UoN advertising, so here's a quick rundown of how 0:23:03.200 --> 0:23:06.800 it's been doing recently. From the two thousand eighteen financial report, 0:23:07.040 --> 0:23:10.120 the company states that more than eighty five of all 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:13.960 revenue comes from ads, and that nearly all that revenue 0:23:14.000 --> 0:23:18.919 comes from promoted tweets, promoted accounts, and promoted trends, and 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:23.280 the net income for seventeen was sixty one million dollars 0:23:23.320 --> 0:23:27.439 with a margin of nine monthly active users. During the 0:23:27.480 --> 0:23:30.320 first quarter of two thousand eighteen, earnings Call was cited 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:33.919 at three d thirty six million people, with sixty nine 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:37.400 million of those in the United States. So not the 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:40.800 dominant factor that it once was, maybe, but still doing 0:23:40.880 --> 0:23:44.080 quite well. One thing that debuted in two thousand eight 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:48.040 that really helped shape the way our world works today 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:51.399 was the iPhone three G and the App store as well. 0:23:51.960 --> 0:23:56.200 Apple's iPhone three G was actually the second generation iPhone, 0:23:57.040 --> 0:24:00.960 and the name refers to the cell net work technology 0:24:01.000 --> 0:24:04.320 it was compatible with, not the generation of the iPhone, 0:24:04.359 --> 0:24:06.880 and that caused some confusion at the time because obviously 0:24:06.880 --> 0:24:09.480 it was the second iPhone. It was called the iPhone 0:24:09.480 --> 0:24:12.679 three G, and so there had some people wondering, well, 0:24:12.920 --> 0:24:15.119 what happened to the iPhone two, Well, it is the 0:24:15.119 --> 0:24:17.359 iPhone two. It's just it's called the three G because 0:24:17.560 --> 0:24:21.720 the three G network provided faster data transfer speeds than 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:25.439 the edge network that the original iPhone depended upon. The 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:28.679 price tag for the phone was just a hundred dollars. 0:24:28.800 --> 0:24:31.879 This was a big price cut from the previous iPhone, 0:24:32.320 --> 0:24:38.280 although that came along with some pretty hefty UH contract requirements, 0:24:38.440 --> 0:24:41.320 so it wasn't like you were really saving money in 0:24:41.320 --> 0:24:44.760 the long run. The money was just shifted to a 0:24:44.800 --> 0:24:48.320 monthly fee as opposed to the upfront fee. The iPhone 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:52.000 three G was in many ways similar to the first iPhone, 0:24:52.040 --> 0:24:55.240 apart from this three G capability. For example, had the 0:24:55.280 --> 0:24:58.480 same sort of camera, a two megapixel camera. There was 0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:02.280 no additional camera, just the one, and it didn't have 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:06.560 video capabilities. At that time, it didn't look that different 0:25:06.640 --> 0:25:09.240 from the original iPhone. If you put them side by side, 0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:12.400 they look very similar, although the iPhone three G had 0:25:12.440 --> 0:25:17.080 a slightly thicker black border around the perimeter of the screen, 0:25:17.960 --> 0:25:20.879 and also the back of the iPhone three G was 0:25:20.960 --> 0:25:23.640 in plastic. It was either in white or black plastic. 0:25:24.160 --> 0:25:27.640 The original iPhone had a recessed three point five millimeter 0:25:27.760 --> 0:25:31.360 headphone jack, which meant that it was really kind of 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:34.480 hard to use third party headphones with it. Because of 0:25:34.520 --> 0:25:37.879 that recessed uh nature, you couldn't a lot of the 0:25:37.880 --> 0:25:40.560 plugs wouldn't reach, and it frustrated a lot of people 0:25:40.600 --> 0:25:43.600 who didn't want to just have to buy Apple products 0:25:43.600 --> 0:25:47.520 to to use the iPhone. So the iPhone three G 0:25:48.040 --> 0:25:51.440 no longer had a recessed three point five millimator headphone jack. 0:25:51.480 --> 0:25:54.480 It was flush with the end of the phone, so 0:25:54.520 --> 0:25:56.920 it made it easier to plug stuff into. The three 0:25:56.960 --> 0:26:00.399 G also included GPS hardware in the phone, and that 0:26:00.400 --> 0:26:02.959 would pretty much foretell the beginning of the end of 0:26:03.040 --> 0:26:06.399 stand alone GPS devices. It's not like they've all disappeared. 0:26:06.400 --> 0:26:10.240 There's still stand alone GPS devices on the market, but 0:26:10.280 --> 0:26:15.120 they've been largely replaced by smartphones, and the iPhone three 0:26:15.119 --> 0:26:19.679 G was kind of the harbinger of that. So for 0:26:19.720 --> 0:26:23.000 those people who still have a stand alone GPS receiver, 0:26:23.600 --> 0:26:26.080 it's kind of interesting. But most people, I think have 0:26:26.200 --> 0:26:28.360 switched over to smartphones. Just as I think a lot 0:26:28.359 --> 0:26:32.359 of people have decided to depend upon their smartphones as 0:26:32.400 --> 0:26:36.320 their MP three player they're streaming video device, they don't 0:26:36.359 --> 0:26:41.240 tend to have as many people depending on stand alone 0:26:41.880 --> 0:26:44.080 dedicated devices. I used to be a holdout for that. 0:26:44.119 --> 0:26:46.320 If you've been listening to tech stuff for a long time, 0:26:46.960 --> 0:26:48.879 you know that. Chris and I when we would have 0:26:48.920 --> 0:26:51.480 these discussions, I would talk to them about how I 0:26:51.520 --> 0:26:53.879 don't want to have all my music on my phone 0:26:54.240 --> 0:26:57.359 because at that time phones had very limited storage space, 0:26:57.600 --> 0:26:59.639 and there weren't a lot of streaming services that you 0:26:59.640 --> 0:27:03.040 could use to listen to music. Uh and if you 0:27:03.119 --> 0:27:04.800 did want to do that, you were eating up a 0:27:04.800 --> 0:27:07.399 lot of data. And if you didn't have a really 0:27:07.400 --> 0:27:11.359 good network nearby or Wi Fi hotspots you could connect to, 0:27:12.119 --> 0:27:14.680 then you have a lot of interruption in your service. 0:27:14.760 --> 0:27:18.240 So I preferred having a dedicated MP three player and 0:27:18.280 --> 0:27:23.160 a dedicated GPS. But these days the technology has improved 0:27:23.240 --> 0:27:26.359 so significantly over the last ten years that I can't 0:27:26.359 --> 0:27:29.960 imagine having carrying around extra MP three player or having 0:27:30.000 --> 0:27:33.960 an extra GPS system to UH to depend upon in 0:27:34.000 --> 0:27:37.720 a vehicle. There's just no need for it anymore. Today's 0:27:37.720 --> 0:27:41.280 iPhones are, of course, way more advanced and sleek than 0:27:41.359 --> 0:27:44.000 the iPhone three G was. They also did away with 0:27:44.000 --> 0:27:47.440 that three point five billimeter headphone jack entirely. Of course, 0:27:47.480 --> 0:27:49.000 the iPhone is not alone in this, A lot of 0:27:49.040 --> 0:27:52.359 phones have gotten rid of that as My Android phone, 0:27:52.400 --> 0:27:55.040 for example, doesn't have a three point five millimeter jack either, 0:27:55.080 --> 0:27:57.479 So I can't just point fingers at Apple for this. 0:27:58.040 --> 0:28:01.200 Apple also launched the apps door in two thousand and eight, 0:28:01.560 --> 0:28:03.359 which is, you know, kind of hard to believe. It 0:28:03.400 --> 0:28:06.399 didn't exist during the original iPhone run. For the full 0:28:06.480 --> 0:28:08.720 year iPhone was out and there was no app store 0:28:08.760 --> 0:28:13.159 at all. Initially, the app store had about five apps available, 0:28:13.200 --> 0:28:16.200 and today it's more than two million, and it wasn't 0:28:16.240 --> 0:28:18.600 always a guarantee that we would get an app store. 0:28:18.640 --> 0:28:21.760 Steve Jobs initially opposed the idea of allowing third party 0:28:21.800 --> 0:28:25.479 developers to create applications for the iPhone. He was worried 0:28:25.520 --> 0:28:28.920 that it would negatively impact the Apple experience. It's a 0:28:29.040 --> 0:28:31.320 very Apple thing, and a very Steve Jobs thing to 0:28:31.359 --> 0:28:35.199 want to control that experience precisely to deliver to the 0:28:35.280 --> 0:28:40.640 user what Steve Jobs felt was the ideal experience. Jobs 0:28:40.720 --> 0:28:43.800 was not about giving the user what he or she wanted. 0:28:44.000 --> 0:28:46.720 Jobs was all about giving the user what Jobs wanted, 0:28:47.440 --> 0:28:51.200 and he was worried that allowing third party developers to 0:28:51.240 --> 0:28:54.920 create apps would fracture his device, it would make it 0:28:55.640 --> 0:28:58.720 uh do things that it wasn't intended to do and 0:28:58.760 --> 0:29:03.080 perhaps dilute the experience. But eventually he was convinced to 0:29:03.120 --> 0:29:07.880 do otherwise, and it ended up being a incredibly profitable 0:29:07.960 --> 0:29:11.240 decision for Apple because Apple would take about thirty of 0:29:11.240 --> 0:29:15.080 the revenues generated from apps, whether it was a purchase 0:29:15.160 --> 0:29:18.320 price upfront or an ongoing subscription fee or whatever it 0:29:18.400 --> 0:29:21.160 might be. Apple would get a thirty percent take, so 0:29:21.280 --> 0:29:26.120 developers would take the other sevent This made Apple truckloads 0:29:26.200 --> 0:29:31.720 of money, like massive truckloads. A Forbes piece from January 0:29:31.800 --> 0:29:35.440 two eighteen stated that the App Store earned eleven point 0:29:35.520 --> 0:29:40.440 five billion dollars in revenue for Apple in two thousand seventeen, 0:29:41.160 --> 0:29:45.719 So it ended up being an incredibly beneficial decision for 0:29:45.800 --> 0:29:48.920 Apple to go with this app store approach. It's a 0:29:49.040 --> 0:29:52.560 very uh low cost way for Apple to make a 0:29:52.680 --> 0:29:56.800 huge amount of money. Google Android came out in two 0:29:56.800 --> 0:29:59.240 thousand and eight. We even did an episode titled how 0:29:59.280 --> 0:30:02.600 the Google Android Phone will work back in the early 0:30:02.720 --> 0:30:06.680 days of tech Stuff. Android was revealed in two thousand seven, 0:30:06.880 --> 0:30:09.520 but the first device running on Android did not come 0:30:09.520 --> 0:30:12.200 out until the fall of two thousand eight. Android had 0:30:12.240 --> 0:30:15.080 started out as a startup in two thousand three. It 0:30:15.200 --> 0:30:18.960 was founded by Rich Minor, Nick Sears, Chris White, and 0:30:18.960 --> 0:30:22.280 Andy Ruben. Reuben wanted to create an operating system platform 0:30:22.360 --> 0:30:26.120 for mobile devices that would allow for more rich experiences 0:30:26.160 --> 0:30:30.720 and one's the largely depend upon context like the location 0:30:30.760 --> 0:30:34.480 of the user, for example, and Google would acquire Android 0:30:34.640 --> 0:30:37.960 the company in two thousand five for a bunch of money, 0:30:38.000 --> 0:30:39.600 but it was kind of a private affair, so that 0:30:39.720 --> 0:30:43.280 number has never been officially acknowledged. Most estimates put somewhere 0:30:43.280 --> 0:30:48.000 around fifty million dollars. The first phone to feature the 0:30:48.120 --> 0:30:51.720 Android operating system was the HTC Dream a k a. 0:30:51.880 --> 0:30:54.960 The g One on the T Mobile network. I don't 0:30:55.000 --> 0:30:57.440 think I had a g One. I remember I got 0:30:57.480 --> 0:31:01.760 the HTC G two. I don't remember event HTC Dream, 0:31:02.320 --> 0:31:05.280 but the HTC G two, which came out in I 0:31:05.440 --> 0:31:11.120 definitely had. And both of those featured a screen that 0:31:11.160 --> 0:31:14.760 would slide up to reveal a physical keyboard underneath, and 0:31:14.800 --> 0:31:18.400 I really like that. I don't like on screen keyboards, 0:31:18.520 --> 0:31:21.400 even though I've had phones for the last several years 0:31:21.520 --> 0:31:23.600 and that's the only kind that I've bought were the 0:31:23.600 --> 0:31:27.080 ones with on screen keyboards. I've always preferred the physical ones. 0:31:27.480 --> 0:31:30.200 I just felt like it gave a better experience. Android 0:31:30.240 --> 0:31:34.440 would trail a year behind iPhone and the iOS obviously 0:31:34.480 --> 0:31:36.760 that came out in two thousand seven, and Android didn't 0:31:36.760 --> 0:31:39.000 have a phone out till two thousand and eight. But 0:31:39.480 --> 0:31:43.840 Dad didn't hurt Android very much. In the Android operating 0:31:43.880 --> 0:31:48.600 system accounts for nearly eighty six percent of all smartphone 0:31:48.640 --> 0:31:54.080 operating system market share worldwide eight six percent. Compare that 0:31:54.120 --> 0:31:58.560 to iOS is about fourteen percent. Pretty Much everything else 0:31:58.640 --> 0:32:01.560 is scrambling for less and a per cent of the share. 0:32:01.960 --> 0:32:06.360 So it's down to mostly Android, a little bit iPhone, 0:32:06.480 --> 0:32:11.720 and then everybody else. So why did Android dominate? It's 0:32:11.720 --> 0:32:15.480 not necessarily a sign that it's a superior operating system. 0:32:15.520 --> 0:32:19.840 Now I prefer Android to iOS, but I think Apple's 0:32:19.920 --> 0:32:23.480 smartphone operating system is pretty amazing, and I don't deny 0:32:23.560 --> 0:32:26.719 that it's it's fantastic. It really is great. I just 0:32:26.840 --> 0:32:32.360 prefer Android. But I think the reason why Android outperforms Apple. 0:32:32.360 --> 0:32:35.160 In fact, i'm pretty sure this is the reason, is 0:32:35.200 --> 0:32:39.400 that Google allows numerous handset manufacturers to use the Android 0:32:39.400 --> 0:32:42.400 operating system on their products. You just license it from Google, 0:32:42.800 --> 0:32:45.280 and if you want an iOS device, you have to 0:32:45.360 --> 0:32:48.920 go through Apple for hardware. Apple is the only company 0:32:48.960 --> 0:32:53.480 that makes devices that run iOS, so there's a limitation 0:32:53.520 --> 0:32:56.960 on what sort of models and which price points you 0:32:57.000 --> 0:33:00.760 can get if you want an iOS device, Whereas with Android, 0:33:01.160 --> 0:33:05.160 there's an entire spectrum. You can expands everything from budget 0:33:05.240 --> 0:33:08.719 smartphones to high end models. So there's a lot more 0:33:08.760 --> 0:33:11.520 availability there, and I think that's the secret to why 0:33:11.640 --> 0:33:15.920 Android is such a dominant player in the operating system space. 0:33:15.960 --> 0:33:19.880 It's not that Android is necessarily superior, although I definitely 0:33:19.880 --> 0:33:23.400 prefer it. It's that Android is available on a lot 0:33:23.520 --> 0:33:27.480 more products than iOS is, and that's the real reason. Now, 0:33:27.520 --> 0:33:30.719 something else that came online in September two eight, and 0:33:30.800 --> 0:33:34.479 also was from Google, was the Chrome browser. It is 0:33:34.600 --> 0:33:38.360 hard for me to believe that tech stuff is older 0:33:38.400 --> 0:33:41.640 than Google Chrome. So what the heck was I using 0:33:41.680 --> 0:33:45.920 to do research back then? That's a rhetorical question. Actually, 0:33:45.960 --> 0:33:49.640 remember it was Firefox. But Chrome's big innovation was that 0:33:49.800 --> 0:33:54.200 every tab was to run as a separate instance, which 0:33:54.240 --> 0:33:57.680 meant that the overall browser was much more stable. All 0:33:57.760 --> 0:34:02.320 processes were isolated, so if something went wrong in one tab, 0:34:02.680 --> 0:34:05.840 it would not cause the entire browser to fail, so 0:34:05.880 --> 0:34:08.359 you can keep your other tabs active. So let's say 0:34:08.400 --> 0:34:10.920 that you have a plug in that has a compatibility 0:34:10.960 --> 0:34:14.239 issue or something, and one tab ends up giving you 0:34:14.280 --> 0:34:16.480 an error. The other tabs would still be fine, so 0:34:16.520 --> 0:34:19.000 you could close out the problematic tab and everything else 0:34:19.000 --> 0:34:22.640 would still be there. Chrome combined a search and address 0:34:22.680 --> 0:34:26.000 bar into a single bar, and that also got people 0:34:26.040 --> 0:34:28.560 confused at first, but that was a very new innovation. 0:34:28.640 --> 0:34:31.839 You could either type a web address directly into the bar, 0:34:32.480 --> 0:34:34.520 or you could just type in some search terms and 0:34:34.560 --> 0:34:36.640 it would pull up a Google search related to that. 0:34:37.360 --> 0:34:39.759 This is, of course, the way Google Chrome still works 0:34:39.800 --> 0:34:43.640 to this day. According to stat Counter, which aggregates data 0:34:43.719 --> 0:34:47.600 to determine market share percentage of various products, Chrome is 0:34:47.640 --> 0:34:51.440 the dominant web browser out there today, accounting for nearly 0:34:51.480 --> 0:34:55.799 six of all browsers. The next highest is Safari, which 0:34:55.840 --> 0:34:59.640 is around four. All other browsers each command ten percent 0:34:59.800 --> 0:35:03.120 or less of the market, so Chrome now dominates. But 0:35:03.200 --> 0:35:06.839 when our show launched, there was no such browser in existence. 0:35:07.360 --> 0:35:11.200 In October two thousand eight, Spotify would launch, so our 0:35:11.200 --> 0:35:13.960 show is actually older than Spotify as well. Now. The 0:35:14.000 --> 0:35:17.759 domain Spotify was registered all the way back in two 0:35:17.760 --> 0:35:21.160 thousand six, and it was founded by Daniel Eck and 0:35:21.239 --> 0:35:25.200 Martin Lawrence En in Stockholm. The service ran a beta 0:35:25.280 --> 0:35:27.680 test that started back in two thousand seven, so that 0:35:27.800 --> 0:35:31.560 predates my show that included running test ads in early 0:35:31.600 --> 0:35:34.960 two thousand eight before they had their official launch. Now 0:35:35.040 --> 0:35:40.120 upon launch, Spotify was initially only available in Scandinavia, the 0:35:40.200 --> 0:35:44.480 United Kingdom, France, and Spain. What's more, the free service 0:35:44.640 --> 0:35:48.239 was invitation only. Now anyone could sign up for a 0:35:48.239 --> 0:35:51.279 premium service that was like a subscription based service, but 0:35:51.360 --> 0:35:53.879 to use just the free ad supported one you had 0:35:53.880 --> 0:35:57.759 to get an invite first. Spotify landed licensing deals with 0:35:58.040 --> 0:36:01.080 most of the major music studios out there, so they 0:36:01.080 --> 0:36:03.759 were able to play lots of music. Apparently it took 0:36:03.840 --> 0:36:06.000 a really long time, like two and a half years 0:36:06.000 --> 0:36:08.480 to get all of that signed up and and sealed 0:36:08.560 --> 0:36:11.600 up before they could launch. Spotify would end up getting 0:36:11.600 --> 0:36:14.600 a bit of a boost from Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook fame, 0:36:15.080 --> 0:36:19.040 but Spotify just didn't become available in the United States 0:36:19.080 --> 0:36:22.480 until two thousand eleven, and by then the company was 0:36:22.560 --> 0:36:27.600 already valued at one billion dollars. In April two thousand eighteen, 0:36:27.680 --> 0:36:31.240 Spotify filed for a direct listing on the stock market 0:36:31.520 --> 0:36:35.200 rather than an initial public offering. This involves doing away 0:36:35.280 --> 0:36:39.319 with intermediaries like underwriters and selling shares directly to the 0:36:39.320 --> 0:36:43.839 public without issuing new shares of stock, so those who 0:36:43.920 --> 0:36:45.920 held stake in the company when it was a private 0:36:46.000 --> 0:36:48.480 entity are free to sell their shares to the public. 0:36:48.520 --> 0:36:54.600 At that point, Reuters calculated Spotify's value at nineteen billion dollars. 0:36:55.080 --> 0:36:58.320 And now let's talk about one of my favorite technologies 0:36:58.360 --> 0:37:01.719 that really came online into the sand eight, the Large 0:37:01.719 --> 0:37:07.040 Hadron Collider. It started up at ten a m September 0:37:07.120 --> 0:37:10.759 two thousand eight. It fired a proton beam around the 0:37:10.840 --> 0:37:14.879 twenty seven kilometer collider for the very first time. And 0:37:15.080 --> 0:37:18.560 the Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator and collider. 0:37:18.800 --> 0:37:23.799 It uses very narrow beams of particles moving at very 0:37:23.880 --> 0:37:26.879 fast speeds, like near the speed of light, in this 0:37:27.120 --> 0:37:30.799 massive circle, going around and round and round, until two 0:37:30.840 --> 0:37:34.560 beams going in opposite directions are directed to have collisions 0:37:35.200 --> 0:37:38.880 at one of several detectors. There. There are several major 0:37:38.960 --> 0:37:44.440 detectors around this circumference of this device, and there you 0:37:44.480 --> 0:37:47.640 have these particles slamming into each other at very high 0:37:48.160 --> 0:37:51.920 velocity and they break apart, and then we pay attention 0:37:51.920 --> 0:37:54.799 and see what happens. Very those magnets are have to 0:37:54.800 --> 0:37:57.040 be super cool. They have to be cooled with first 0:37:57.080 --> 0:38:00.080 liquid nitrogen and then liquid helium to get them so 0:38:00.200 --> 0:38:03.479 cold that they are super conductors. They they you don't 0:38:03.560 --> 0:38:07.799 lose any energy to resistance at that temperature. And the 0:38:07.840 --> 0:38:11.440 collisions produced information about the very basic stuff of our universe. 0:38:12.160 --> 0:38:15.360 Since it came online, and it took a while before 0:38:15.400 --> 0:38:19.080 the Large Hadron Collider was actually able to do collisions 0:38:19.120 --> 0:38:23.960 that would produce data. The online process was a very long, 0:38:24.440 --> 0:38:28.280 laborious one, but since then they were able to prove 0:38:28.760 --> 0:38:32.200 or at least a show evidence for the Higgs boson 0:38:32.360 --> 0:38:35.279 particle that have been hypothesized up to that point but 0:38:35.400 --> 0:38:39.400 never proven. And now we've thought that we've observed it. 0:38:39.760 --> 0:38:42.120 You've got very good proof that we've observed it to 0:38:42.120 --> 0:38:45.360 to a very high degree of certainty. And this particle 0:38:45.520 --> 0:38:50.000 is why matter has mass. It's predicted by the Standard model, 0:38:50.320 --> 0:38:53.920 and it's pretty cool. Also, the Large Hadron Collider in 0:38:53.920 --> 0:38:57.200 general has shown that the Standard model of physics is 0:38:57.360 --> 0:39:01.239 really really good. That there's no stic decays, there are 0:39:01.239 --> 0:39:04.240 no fundamental rules of the Standard model that don't appear 0:39:04.280 --> 0:39:08.000 to hold up. There are no deviations significant deviations from 0:39:08.040 --> 0:39:10.280 the standard model. And in case you're wondering, the standard 0:39:10.360 --> 0:39:14.560 model covers three of the four fundamental forces in the universe, 0:39:14.800 --> 0:39:19.040 and those would be the strong and weak nuclear forces. 0:39:19.120 --> 0:39:22.240 That's two of them, the electromagnetic force that's the third. 0:39:22.480 --> 0:39:26.279 But the fourth one, gravity is not included in the 0:39:26.360 --> 0:39:29.480 standard model. So the Center model is not a complete 0:39:29.560 --> 0:39:32.160 model of how our universe works. It's more of a 0:39:32.200 --> 0:39:35.279 model of how a bunch of our universe works. And 0:39:35.320 --> 0:39:39.640 there's a whole lot left unexplained, including stuff like dark energy. 0:39:40.040 --> 0:39:43.120 So while the LHC has done a lot to reinforce 0:39:43.239 --> 0:39:45.560 the standard model, we still have a lot of questions, 0:39:45.800 --> 0:39:48.560 which is one of the reasons science is so freaking cool. 0:39:49.120 --> 0:39:52.240 Some people are a little disappointed that the LHC hasn't 0:39:52.280 --> 0:39:55.359 turned up stuff outside the standard model, but it has 0:39:55.480 --> 0:39:58.520 only collected about two percent of all the data it 0:39:58.560 --> 0:40:02.040 will generate during its life time, so it's still incredibly 0:40:02.120 --> 0:40:05.680 early in the process. Also, just so you know, it 0:40:05.760 --> 0:40:08.680 did not create an enormous black hole and destroy all 0:40:08.680 --> 0:40:11.719 of us, So that's good. I've got a little bit 0:40:11.760 --> 0:40:13.600 more to talk about with two thousand and eight, but 0:40:13.719 --> 0:40:16.160 before I do, let's take another quick break to thank 0:40:16.160 --> 0:40:26.080 our sponsor. All Right, here's something else that happened in 0:40:26.080 --> 0:40:27.920 two thousand night that I thought was pretty cool. The 0:40:27.960 --> 0:40:32.280 white paper Bitcoin, a Peer to peer Electronic Cash System 0:40:32.400 --> 0:40:35.560 was published in November two thousand eight, written by someone 0:40:35.800 --> 0:40:39.520 or possibly more than one someone using the pen name 0:40:39.680 --> 0:40:43.560 Satoshi Nakamoto. This was the white paper that explained the 0:40:43.600 --> 0:40:47.319 principles behind Bitcoin. And in case you don't remember what 0:40:47.400 --> 0:40:52.000 bitcoin is, it is a digital currency and it relies 0:40:52.160 --> 0:40:56.840 upon a system that puts all of the transactions of 0:40:56.880 --> 0:41:01.239 bitcoin into blocks of data, and those blocks end up 0:41:01.280 --> 0:41:05.080 forming a chain we call it blockchain, and the the 0:41:05.160 --> 0:41:09.880 process of verifying a transaction is UH, and it involves 0:41:10.000 --> 0:41:12.680 solving a really difficult math problem. And if you have 0:41:12.760 --> 0:41:16.160 the computer that solves that math problem first and verifies 0:41:16.200 --> 0:41:20.480 those transactions, you're rewarded with some bitcoins. It's a process 0:41:20.520 --> 0:41:25.480 called mining. The number of bitcoins you're rewarded with decreases 0:41:25.520 --> 0:41:28.680 over time. After a certain number of bitcoins are released 0:41:28.760 --> 0:41:31.960 out into the wild, UH, you get a reduction by 0:41:32.000 --> 0:41:34.920 about half. Actually it is half of the number of 0:41:34.920 --> 0:41:40.600 bitcoins that are released after the next series of successful verifications. 0:41:40.600 --> 0:41:42.320 And this goes on for quite some time until you 0:41:42.360 --> 0:41:45.200 hit another limit, and that's halved again, and so on 0:41:45.239 --> 0:41:48.400 and so forth, until eventually you have all the entire 0:41:48.480 --> 0:41:52.600 supply of bitcoins that will ever exist out in circulation. 0:41:52.880 --> 0:41:56.400 And from that point forward, when you verify a block 0:41:56.400 --> 0:41:59.960 of transactions, you are awarded a small amount of mone 0:42:00.040 --> 0:42:03.719 me as a transaction fee sort of. You're you're rewarded 0:42:04.000 --> 0:42:07.200 for the verification, but you're no longer getting new bitcoins 0:42:07.200 --> 0:42:09.880 at that point, you're just getting a portion of the 0:42:09.920 --> 0:42:12.640 bitcoins that were used in whatever the transaction happened to be. 0:42:12.719 --> 0:42:17.319 It's kind of like getting a charge to run a 0:42:17.360 --> 0:42:22.399 credit card scan. So that's typically how Bitcoin works are 0:42:22.680 --> 0:42:25.439 from a very high level, and no one was really 0:42:25.480 --> 0:42:26.920 sure if it was going to take off or not, 0:42:27.080 --> 0:42:28.279 or if it was just going to be kind of 0:42:28.280 --> 0:42:32.120 this weird scheme. I mean, it's a decentralized currency, there's 0:42:32.160 --> 0:42:36.279 no government agency that dictates what it should be. And 0:42:36.280 --> 0:42:41.240 it's value has changed dramatically over time. So since bitcoin 0:42:41.400 --> 0:42:44.319 became a real thing, well I mean as as real 0:42:44.320 --> 0:42:47.680 a thing as digital data gets anyway, it's value has 0:42:48.239 --> 0:42:52.920 gone from less than less than a dime per bitcoin 0:42:53.400 --> 0:42:57.400 to a high of nearly twenty thousand dollars per bitcoin 0:42:57.480 --> 0:43:01.000 in December two thousand seventeen. Now, as I researched the 0:43:01.080 --> 0:43:04.080 show the value was closer to seven thousand, five hundred 0:43:04.080 --> 0:43:08.280 dollars per bitcoin. That was in early juneens. That's pretty 0:43:08.280 --> 0:43:10.600 wild to think that it used to be twenty grand 0:43:10.600 --> 0:43:14.799 per bitcoin. Now it's per bitcoin, and who knows what 0:43:14.880 --> 0:43:17.880 it will be next month. Now. Recently, a report that 0:43:17.960 --> 0:43:22.960 relied on stylo metric analysis of Nakamoto's white papers, concluded 0:43:23.000 --> 0:43:26.719 that Gavin and Reason, a lead developer on bitcoin, is 0:43:26.800 --> 0:43:31.640 actually Satoshi Nakamoto, saying that Andreason's writing and the white 0:43:31.640 --> 0:43:36.279 papers that were attributed to Nakamoto share a lot of 0:43:36.320 --> 0:43:40.960 similarities and and reason denies that claim. Stylometry, as the 0:43:41.040 --> 0:43:44.360 name implies, compares the writing styles of multiple pieces of 0:43:44.400 --> 0:43:47.000 work in an effort to determine if those pieces were 0:43:47.040 --> 0:43:50.399 in fact written by the same person. Stylometry looks at 0:43:50.400 --> 0:43:56.040 word choice and vocabulary and some other elements, and it's 0:43:56.040 --> 0:43:59.080 not an exact science style of metric. Results can be 0:43:59.200 --> 0:44:02.799 easily influens by tweaking a few different inputs, and that's 0:44:02.880 --> 0:44:05.920 led some people to dismiss the strategy, saying it's not 0:44:06.000 --> 0:44:09.600 really reliable. You can't really be sure that the outcome 0:44:09.920 --> 0:44:14.839 is is truly evidence that two pieces of work were 0:44:14.840 --> 0:44:17.759 written by the same person. But what's the big deal? 0:44:17.760 --> 0:44:21.440 Why why do we care who Knakamoto is anyway, because 0:44:21.480 --> 0:44:24.839 after all, we just need to know the currency works well. 0:44:24.960 --> 0:44:28.560 Nakamoto is believed to own about five percent of all bitcoins, 0:44:28.560 --> 0:44:32.319 which would make him a multibillionaire at this point, at 0:44:32.360 --> 0:44:35.359 least on paper, But there's a generally held belief that 0:44:35.440 --> 0:44:38.920 if Nakamoto were to cash in on this five percent, 0:44:39.560 --> 0:44:41.960 it would be viewed as a vote of no confidence 0:44:42.000 --> 0:44:44.720 in the virtual currency, and the value of the currency 0:44:44.760 --> 0:44:47.919 would plummet. As a result, so Nakamoto would make out 0:44:47.960 --> 0:44:50.560 like a bandit that everyone else would see their currency 0:44:50.640 --> 0:44:53.479 start to lose value, and it could create a sort 0:44:53.480 --> 0:44:55.600 of a run on the currency as everyone tries to 0:44:55.640 --> 0:45:00.360 cash in before the currency is valueless. On a related concern, 0:45:00.520 --> 0:45:04.920 there are these entities called bitcoin whales, and these are 0:45:05.000 --> 0:45:09.560 people or organizations that own a relatively large number of bitcoins. 0:45:09.920 --> 0:45:15.200 According to Bloomberg, about one thou people own of the 0:45:15.480 --> 0:45:19.400 entire bitcoin market. Now that could spell trouble. The worry 0:45:19.480 --> 0:45:21.319 is that if these whales were to sell off a 0:45:21.360 --> 0:45:25.120 significant portion of their holdings, it would precipitate a steep 0:45:25.200 --> 0:45:27.799 drop in bitcoin value, just like I was talking about 0:45:27.840 --> 0:45:31.799 with Nakamoto, and if they all corroborated to cash in 0:45:31.840 --> 0:45:34.520 at the same time, it could cause a total collapse 0:45:34.560 --> 0:45:37.560 of the system. So let's say that you are one 0:45:37.600 --> 0:45:40.160 of these whales. Let's say that you own a significant 0:45:40.239 --> 0:45:43.200 number of bitcoins and you notice that the value has 0:45:43.239 --> 0:45:45.239 crept as high as it's ever been, maybe it's not 0:45:45.320 --> 0:45:48.560 that twenty dollar mark, and you think, I want to 0:45:48.560 --> 0:45:51.839 cash in now because my investment has grown so much 0:45:52.080 --> 0:45:54.160 it's gonna make me a multi millionaire. But it doesn't 0:45:54.200 --> 0:45:56.080 do me any good just to hold onto bitcoins. I 0:45:56.080 --> 0:46:00.760 would rather have quote unquote real currency, because is it's 0:46:00.800 --> 0:46:04.279 hard to spend a currency, a unit of currency if 0:46:04.280 --> 0:46:09.200 its value fluctuates so dramatically so quickly. If one day 0:46:09.320 --> 0:46:13.320 it's worth in the next day it's worth twenty dollars 0:46:13.680 --> 0:46:16.959 and you spend it back when it was, you can't 0:46:17.000 --> 0:46:20.160 help but think, wow, I lost thousands of dollars on 0:46:20.239 --> 0:46:23.239 that transaction because I spent it too quickly. But if 0:46:23.239 --> 0:46:26.279 you trade it in for a more stable currency, then 0:46:26.560 --> 0:46:30.480 you might feel better about it. So if you did that, 0:46:30.760 --> 0:46:33.399 if you went and traded this in, other people might 0:46:33.400 --> 0:46:37.960 see it as a sign that you feel the value 0:46:38.000 --> 0:46:40.200 of bitcoin is as high as it's ever going to be, 0:46:40.640 --> 0:46:42.920 and other people might want to cash in as well, 0:46:43.200 --> 0:46:45.080 And pretty soon you've got a lot of people selling it, 0:46:45.160 --> 0:46:47.480 not a whole lot of people buying, and the value 0:46:47.560 --> 0:46:54.799 of the coin drops as supply greatly outpaces demand, and 0:46:54.840 --> 0:46:58.200 then eventually the value could collapse in on itself. So 0:46:58.239 --> 0:47:01.279 it's a dangerous thing. Hasn't happened yet, though, and at 0:47:01.320 --> 0:47:04.640 least not on that scale. We've definitely seen massive fluctuations 0:47:04.640 --> 0:47:07.640 in value. But some people say it's just little market 0:47:07.640 --> 0:47:12.920 corrections that have returned it to a more stable bitcoin 0:47:13.040 --> 0:47:17.480 per dollar exchange rate. Still astronomical, I mean, for a 0:47:17.480 --> 0:47:22.080 bitcoin is pretty incredible. Also, in two thousand eight, Facebook 0:47:22.160 --> 0:47:25.560 launched a major site redesign that forced all users to 0:47:25.640 --> 0:47:29.759 opt in by September of that year, and people hated it. 0:47:30.480 --> 0:47:32.479 And of course the same thing has happened several times 0:47:32.480 --> 0:47:36.400 since then. Whenever Facebook does a redesign, you can expect 0:47:36.440 --> 0:47:38.439 the next month to be filled with people talking about 0:47:38.440 --> 0:47:40.680 how much they hate the redesign. And these would be 0:47:40.760 --> 0:47:44.480 the same people who hated the last redesign. So eventually, 0:47:44.480 --> 0:47:47.000 what happens is people get used to the redesign. They 0:47:47.080 --> 0:47:48.640 might not love it, but they get used to it, 0:47:48.760 --> 0:47:52.320 and then they hate change anyway. Facebook would turn cash 0:47:52.360 --> 0:47:55.560 flow positive for the very first time in two thousand nine. 0:47:56.080 --> 0:47:59.560 The Social Network, A film about Facebook's early days, would 0:47:59.560 --> 0:48:03.040 debut in two thousand ten. Google Plus would launch in 0:48:03.080 --> 0:48:05.239 two thousand eleven. I'll talk more about that in our 0:48:05.280 --> 0:48:09.440 next episode. Facebook Messenger would launch in two thousand eleven. 0:48:10.080 --> 0:48:13.919 Facebook would acquire Instagram in two thousand twelve for one 0:48:14.000 --> 0:48:17.200 billion dollars. I talked about that recently in the Instagram episodes, 0:48:17.760 --> 0:48:21.040 and Facebook would hold its initial public offering in two 0:48:21.080 --> 0:48:24.200 thousand twelve, and it would be valued at one hundred 0:48:24.360 --> 0:48:29.040 four billion dollars upon opening of the stock market. In 0:48:29.520 --> 0:48:35.799 Facebook acquired Oculus Virtual Reality and also acquired the messaging 0:48:35.920 --> 0:48:39.240 service WhatsApp that year for a massive amount of money. 0:48:39.640 --> 0:48:45.160 My Space was way ahead of Facebook in traffic up 0:48:45.280 --> 0:48:49.080 through the beginning of two thousand and eight until April nineteen, 0:48:49.520 --> 0:48:51.520 and that was the first time when Facebook would take 0:48:51.560 --> 0:48:54.359 the lead in traffic, and then Facebook pretty much kept it. 0:48:55.520 --> 0:48:58.400 So it's hard to remember that now. It's hard to 0:48:58.640 --> 0:49:00.759 believe it, really, but in two thousand eight when tech 0:49:00.800 --> 0:49:04.360 Stuff launched, my Space was a real contender with Facebook. 0:49:04.400 --> 0:49:07.719 It was it was doing well, or at least it 0:49:07.840 --> 0:49:10.799 was on the tail end of doing well. It was 0:49:10.880 --> 0:49:14.920 just on the precipice of dropping off the map. So 0:49:15.080 --> 0:49:18.200 News Corps, which had bought my Space in July two 0:49:18.239 --> 0:49:23.359 thousand five for five hundred eighty million dollars, would hold 0:49:23.360 --> 0:49:25.719 onto the site until two thousand eleven, and at that 0:49:25.800 --> 0:49:29.280 point they tried to sell it, and their first attempts 0:49:29.320 --> 0:49:32.160 to sell it failed. They were looking to get somebody 0:49:32.200 --> 0:49:35.040 to at least put in a bid of fifty million 0:49:35.040 --> 0:49:39.840 dollars and that didn't work. Eventually, they were able to 0:49:40.320 --> 0:49:43.480 sell my Space to a company called Specific Media for 0:49:43.520 --> 0:49:46.080 an undisclosed amount, although it was rumored to be around 0:49:46.120 --> 0:49:49.239 thirty five million. So News Corps bought it at five 0:49:49.680 --> 0:49:53.759 eight million and sold it at thirty five million. Ouch. Eventually, 0:49:53.800 --> 0:49:58.600 Time Inc. Bought my Space in and it used to 0:49:58.640 --> 0:50:00.920 be the most visited site on the Internet, at least 0:50:00.960 --> 0:50:04.640 for US users. Now it's ranked below one thousand, six 0:50:04.719 --> 0:50:07.799 hundred in the United States. And that's just kind of 0:50:07.800 --> 0:50:10.719 a quick overview of some of the things that were 0:50:10.760 --> 0:50:13.120 going on in two thousand eight and how they've changed 0:50:13.160 --> 0:50:16.320 in those ten years. In our next episode, I'm gonna 0:50:16.640 --> 0:50:20.000 dive into this a little bit on a different different path. 0:50:20.040 --> 0:50:23.680 I'm gonna look at things companies that did not exist 0:50:23.719 --> 0:50:26.280 in two thousand and eight but they do exist today 0:50:26.320 --> 0:50:28.640 and tell you a little bit about those. So stuff 0:50:28.680 --> 0:50:31.640 that popped up in the decades since we started doing 0:50:31.680 --> 0:50:35.400 this show, stuff that launched after tech stuff did but 0:50:35.560 --> 0:50:38.920 did not stick around. So I'll talk about companies like 0:50:39.000 --> 0:50:43.759 Pebble and Cool and Yik yak, stuff like that, and 0:50:43.800 --> 0:50:47.799 then the stuff that existed before tech Stuff launched but 0:50:47.960 --> 0:50:52.600 don't exist no more, stuff like Jawbone companies that had 0:50:52.640 --> 0:50:56.960 been around but no longer exist today. So make sure 0:50:57.000 --> 0:50:59.000 you tune into that next episode. It will be kind 0:50:59.000 --> 0:51:02.680 of a part two celebration of tech Stuff's ten years 0:51:03.040 --> 0:51:07.040 to talk about how time has really made a huge impact, 0:51:07.040 --> 0:51:10.680 how technology changes as years pass, and how things that 0:51:10.719 --> 0:51:13.760 we kind of count on one year can go away 0:51:13.800 --> 0:51:16.399 another year and then five years later you don't even 0:51:16.480 --> 0:51:20.520 think about it anymore. But guys, I want to thank 0:51:20.560 --> 0:51:22.959 you for listening to tech Stuff, for supporting this show. 0:51:23.040 --> 0:51:25.800 Some of you have been with me since the very beginning. 0:51:26.239 --> 0:51:29.000 Huge thanks to you, guys. Some of you have probably 0:51:29.000 --> 0:51:31.680 started listening pretty recently, and thanks to you as well. 0:51:32.000 --> 0:51:35.359 I'm glad all of you can be part of this community. 0:51:35.640 --> 0:51:38.480 I really look forward to doing a ton more shows. 0:51:38.719 --> 0:51:41.200 We've got a lot of really cool things coming down 0:51:41.239 --> 0:51:43.560 the line that I think you guys will be excited about, 0:51:43.640 --> 0:51:46.359 including you know, have you ever wanted to buy like 0:51:46.400 --> 0:51:49.680 a tech stuff T shirt? Stay tuned, guys. That's all 0:51:49.680 --> 0:51:53.000 I can say about that, But I'm really excited to 0:51:53.239 --> 0:51:56.040 keep on working on this show and to do brand 0:51:56.040 --> 0:51:58.880 new episodes about all sorts of technology topics. 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