Editing itself is a series of putting a structure, a controlled narrative, onto life - which is itself uncontrollable. In the book “The Uncontrollability of the World” author Harmut Rosa writes about how, in life today, there can be “no space i

Porn’s sticky fingers are all over the modern internet

Nov 13th, 2023 31m 10s

A lot of credit is given to pornography for driving technological change. In reality it’s often an urban myth. When rival video formats VHS vs Betamax fought a battle for supremacy, pornographers actually hedged their bets and invested in both.

Hot or Not versus Cyberfeminism

Nov 7th, 2023 31m 32s

Web 1.0 is a new six part series from The Irish Times that looks at the origins of the modern internet. We talk to everyone from coders to astrologers and pornographers to hear the stories of people who were there and designed the methods of co

How Irish companies brought us texting and took us online

Nov 6th, 2023 32m 13s

This is the story of how Barry Flanaghan brought the internet into Irish homes. Though it’s an Irish story, there are variations of it in countries across the world.In France there was the Minitel, which was the world's most successful online s

Four court cases and a magazine cover story

Oct 31st, 2023 31m 50s

Why is the internet the way it is? In Web 1.0, a new six-part podcast series, Irish Times videographer Enda O’Dowd explores the arguments and innovations that were happening back when the web was new, and how they reverberate in today’s messy a

Does AI have nightmares of endless September?

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Web 1.0 - a six-part podcast series by Enda O'Dowd

Oct 22nd, 2023 2m 11s

In a six-part series Irish Times videographer Enda O'Dowd meets people who took part in the creation of the Internet and finds out about the arguments and innovations that shaped the online world we are familiar with today. Hosted on Acast. Se

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