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TLDR

A weekly podcast featuring short, surprising stories about the internet.

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#14 - The Knowledge

#14 - The Knowledge

Every year, a small group of sports fans scattered across the US play a game called "Last Man." The goal is to be the la... Read more

7 Feb 2014

13mins

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#13.5 - I'm Matthew Mills

#13.5 - I'm Matthew Mills

A special mini-episode of TLDR to get your mouth watering for tomorrow's non-mini episode! This week, a man named Matthe... Read more

5 Feb 2014

8mins

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#36 - The Mystery of Childish Gambino

#36 - The Mystery of Childish Gambino

Rapper Childish Gambino (A.K.A actor Donald Glover) famously claims to have received his rap pseudonym, "Childish Gambin... Read more

15 Sep 2014

11mins

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#19 - Project Flame

#19 - Project Flame

In 1966, a bored college freshman created Project Flame, an early computer dating system that promised to pair lonely he... Read more

20 Mar 2014

10mins

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#43 - Hey Ladies

#43 - Hey Ladies

If you've ever been a bridesmaid, in a sorority, or just been friends with two or more women, you have probably received... Read more

16 Jan 2015

14mins

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#42 - GodTube

#42 - GodTube

When Will Rogers discovered GodTube.com, he was bothered by the idea of Christians segregating themselves from the large... Read more

8 Jan 2015

12mins

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#40 - Tinder Bros

#40 - Tinder Bros

The first message you send to a Tinder match can determine the rest of your relationship. To ease this pressure, some me... Read more

11 Dec 2014

7mins

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#30 - The Russian Troll Army

#30 - The Russian Troll Army

Last month, documents surfaced that showed a company called the Internet Research Agency was paying people in Russia to ... Read more

26 Jun 2014

10mins

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#22 - What Happens When You Tell The Whole Internet Your Password

#22 - What Happens When You Tell The Whole Internet Your Password

Earlier this week, a commenter named Y. Woodman Brown posted his online passwords in the Washington Post comments sectio... Read more

18 Apr 2014

11mins

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#23 - A Bitcoin Story for People Who Don't Care About Bitcoin

#23 - A Bitcoin Story for People Who Don't Care About Bitcoin

When Wired reporter Andy Greenberg read Newsweek's cover story claiming to have found mysterious Bitcoin creator Satoshi... Read more

24 Apr 2014

10mins

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#31 - Race Swap

#31 - Race Swap

Whether you think the internet is a great or terrible place is partly a reflection of which parts of the internet you ch... Read more

17 Jul 2014

9mins

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#32 - An Imperfect Match

#32 - An Imperfect Match

This week, dating site OK Cupid put up a blog post describing experiments it conducted on its users. In one experiment, ... Read more

31 Jul 2014

14mins

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What does TLDR mean?

What does TLDR mean?

Hello! We are taking a week off the podcast to work on some special things that you will like a lot. This episode is a B... Read more

22 Nov 2013

31mins

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Bringing the Internet to Public Housing, Your Neighbors and a Unicorn

Bringing the Internet to Public Housing, Your Neighbors and a Unicorn

This week on New Tech City, we're crossing the digital divide. 

20 Nov 2013

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#7 - It's Rating Men

#7 - It's Rating Men

Lulu is an app that lets women rate guys they've slept with. Was he willing to commit? Was he gassy? The ratings are ano... Read more

15 Nov 2013

7mins

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#6 - Ghost Town

#6 - Ghost Town

Before the Internet as we know it today, there were text-based bulletin board systems all over the country that people c... Read more

6 Nov 2013

8mins

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#5 - Goodbye, Secret, Invisible Internet

#5 - Goodbye, Secret, Invisible Internet

Up until this fall, there was a secret internet. You probably heard about one part of it, the Silk Road, but that was ju... Read more

31 Oct 2013

7mins

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#24 - The Million Dollar Homepage

#24 - The Million Dollar Homepage

In 2005, Alex Tew was a 21-year-old entrepreneur who wanted to make a million dollars before college. The only problem w... Read more

1 May 2014

7mins

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#34 - The Accidental Outing of Rwanda's Most Powerful Troll

#34 - The Accidental Outing of Rwanda's Most Powerful Troll

Steve Terrill is a journalist who works in Rwanda. Or at least he worked in Rwanda, until he accidentally got the office... Read more

18 Aug 2014

12mins

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#11 - RIP Vile Rat

#11 - RIP Vile Rat

This episode of TLDR contains some explicit language. On September 11th, 2012, gunmen attacked two American compounds in... Read more

22 Jan 2014

10mins

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