It’s National Aviation Day and National Potato Day, and amazingly, there's a story that brings them both together. Boeing used sacks of potatoes in place of humans when it began testing in-flight WiFi.
27 clumsy years in cyberspace
Next month the website Yahoo Answers is shutting down, after 16 glorious years of... everything that went on over there. We look back at the most famous moments on a site that became, as the New York Times put it this week, a “haven for the confused.”
The internet and social media don't do a great job making the very visual world of meme culture accessible to blind users. The new podcast Say My Meme describes those memes so everyone can enjoy them.
Today we download video games online all the time. Back in the 1980s, gamers without the Internet (such as it was) had to buy or borrow their games. But a few could download programs off the radio.
Nice to be back guest hosting NHPR's Word of Mouth! Today's show includes a look at the new book "Beautiful Souls" by Eyal Press, Chad Lambert's new graphic novel about [...]
