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Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York and Berlin, covering art, architecture, urbanism, and technology. She contributes to publications like Frieze, Artforum, e-flux, die Zeit, the Architectural Review, and Metropolis. She's currently a contributing editor at e-flux Journal and Rhizome.
From the weird annals of dial-up internet to the invention of Craigslist to the intricacies of advertising on Facebook, the "Internet History" podcast has plenty of in-depth and bite-sized reporting for the tech-curious. Episodes are arranged into chapters, themed sections that contain several approaches to a similar topic, such as "The Birth of E-Commerce" and "The History of Internet Porn." Host Brian McCullough, who also hosts the daily Techmeme "Ride Home" podcast, digs up interesting people to talk to, both the well-known and the lesser-known. His strategy for devising the podcast was launched from his recent book "How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone," and his knowledge of technical specifics, the tech industry, products, and early internet mythos suggest there are infinite episodes to come.