The Weekly Squeak — Ranking full stop
A nice and short installment for you this week, mostly focussed around older technology and “where is it now”. Which is a great coincidence, as I started recording my new show this week, “The Enthusiastic Amateur”, and the first episode is all about computer history.
It’s almost like I planned it that way 🤔
x Chinch
Podcast version
Listen to an audio version of this newsletter below.
English Beat, General Public’s Ranking Roger Dead at 56 — www.rollingstone.com
One of my favourite bands of the genre, RIP roger.
MySpace and the Loss of Memories: The Internet Is Not Your Friend — www.rollingstone.com
Things you put online are not for ever. Not by a long shot.
Hardware is hard: The tech products that fooled or failed us — www.zdnet.com
A trip down memory lane with some gadgets that you may or may not want to remember.
The first iPhone prototype: an exclusive look at Apple’s red M68 — www.theverge.com
Apple developed its original iPhone in great secrecy, and The Verge has obtained exclusive access to a prototype developer board. It has all of the original iPhone chips on it, and it was used by engineers to develop the operating system for the phone hardware before it shipped in 2007.
To compete with Netflix, online piracy is upping its game — www.wired.co.uk
Professionalism in video streaming sometimes comes from the strangest places.
