Kopec Explains Software
By David Kopec, Rebecca Kopec
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Episodes: 140
Description
We make software-related technical topics intelligible. We aim to help you develop an intuitive understanding of each subject, instead of emphasizing formal definitions. Join us as we learn about the wide world of software.
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#135 Hacking the Classic Mac OS
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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#134 The CrowdStrike Incident
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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#133 Ad Blockers
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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#132 What is Machine Learning?
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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#131 Abandonware
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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#130 Grace Hopper
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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#129 BASIC
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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#128 Copyright & Machine Learning Models
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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#127 The Google Search Antitrust Lawsuit
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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#126 How Does Google Make Money?
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Classic Episode: iOS vs. Android (2020)
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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#125 What is a Sandbox?
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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#124 What is a Cache?
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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#123 What is a Hash Table?
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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#122 Open Source Licenses
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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#121 Shareware with Richard Moss
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Classic Episode: What is a Byte? (Remastered)
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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#120 What is FreeBSD?
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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#119 Myths About Open Source Software
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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#118 Five ChatGPT Myths
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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#117 Early Video Game Console Software
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May 29, 2023 |
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Classic Episode: What is an Operating System? (Remastered)
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May 15, 2023 |
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#116 The Smallest Possible Programming Language
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May 01, 2023 |
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#115 Why Do Strong Passwords Matter?
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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#114 What is an Instruction Set Architecture?
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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#113 The Go Programming Language
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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#112 Functional Programming
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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#111 The Apple Lisa
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Classic Episode: What Is Software? (Remastered)
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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#110 What Is Mastodon?
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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#109 How Is Memory Managed by Programmers?
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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#108 How Does Mozilla Make Money?
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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#107 Free Software vs. Open Source Software
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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#106 Cross-Platform Mobile Frameworks
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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#105 The 2038 Problem
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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#104 Web Apps vs. Native Apps
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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#103 Expert Systems: A Forgotten Area of AI
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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#102 PDF
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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#101 Accessibility
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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#100 Early Web Innovations
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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#99 Android App Development
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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#98 How Does Apple Make Money?
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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#97 What Are APIs?
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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#96 What is a BIOS?
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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#95 DataOps, Data Pipelines, and Estuary Flow with Johnny Graettinger
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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#94 Software Piracy
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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#93 Phone Location Tracking
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May 30, 2022 |
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#92 Python
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May 16, 2022 |
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#91 PayPal's Early Innovations
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May 02, 2022 |
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#90 Binary Search
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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#89 Multi-Touch
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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#88 Human-Computer Interaction
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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#87 Compilers and Interpreters
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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#86 Tim Howes
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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#85 The End-to-End Encryption Debate
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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#84 What Is Blockchain?
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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#83 Why Was the iPhone's Software Revolutionary?
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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#82 What Are Cookies?
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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#81 Is Software Getting Faster?
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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#80 Logging and the Log4J Vulnerability
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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#79 The Logo Programming Language
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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#78 How Does Amazon Make Money?
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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#77 What is a Memory Leak?
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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#76 What is Protected Memory?
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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#75 Why are Technical Interviews so Intimidating?
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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#74 Hackers (1995): Fact or Fiction?
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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#73 The Swift Programming Language
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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#72 The Missouri Governor and Tech Illiterate Leadership
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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#71 How Does Facebook Make Money?
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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#70 Steve Jobs Remembrance
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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#69 The Objective-C Programming Language
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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#68 Open Source Business Models
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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#67 Clive Sinclair and his Personal Computing Legacy
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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#66 What is a Firewall?
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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#65 What is a Device Driver?
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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#64 What is a Content Management System?
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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#63 Intel's Current Challenges
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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#62 What is an Algorithm?
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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#61 What is a Data Structure?
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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#60 What is JavaScript?
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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#59 What is HTML and CSS?
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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#58 GitHub Copilot's Controversies
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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#57 Version Control Systems, Git, and GitHub
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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#56 What is the Cloud?
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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#55 What is Java?
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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#54 What is Compression?
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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#53 Developer Tools
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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#52 One-Year Anniversary
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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#51 What is Lossless Audio?
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May 31, 2021 |
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#50 What is DRM?
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May 24, 2021 |
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#49 Apple vs Facebook on App Tracking
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May 17, 2021 |
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#48 What's it Like Studying Computer Science in College?
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May 10, 2021 |
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#47 The C++ Programming Language
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May 03, 2021 |
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#46 What is The Internet of Things?
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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#45 Two Software Disasters
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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#44 Google v. Oracle
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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#43 The Lisp Programming Language
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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#42 What was DOS?
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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#41 How to Pick an Internet Service Provider
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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#40 What is the Memory Hierarchy?
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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#39 All About Bugs
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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#38 The History of macOS
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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#37 How do Podcasts Work?
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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#36 What is XML?
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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#35 The C Programming Language
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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#34 Video Game Distribution and GameStop
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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#33 What is the Difference Between Information Technology and Computer Science?
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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#32 What is Unix?
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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#31 PowerPoint
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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#30 Cybersecurity with Duane Dunston
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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#29 Why was the Original Macintosh Significant?
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Trailer
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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#28 Learning to Code
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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#27 Databases
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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#26 Napster
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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#25 Spreadsheets
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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#24 The Browser Wars
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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#23 The Mac's Instruction Set Architecture Transitions
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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#22 Why was the IBM PC a Big Deal?
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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#21 How have UIs Evolved?
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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#20 How do Digital Images Work?
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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#19 What is Linux?
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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#18 How does Email Work?
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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#17 What Is Encryption?
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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#16 The Personal Computer Revolution
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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#15 Product Managers with David Short
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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#14 Computer Chess
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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#13 Artificial Intelligence
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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#12 Open Source Software
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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#11 What is a Programming Language?
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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#10 What is an Emulator?
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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#9 What Does it Take to Make an App?
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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#8 How do Web Search Engines Work?
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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#7 What is a Character Encoding?
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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#6 How does the Web work?
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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#5 How does the Internet work?
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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#4 iOS vs. Android
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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#3 What is a Byte?
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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#2 What is an Operating System?
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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#1 What is Software?
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Jun 15, 2020 |