Category: Episodes

The time has come to finally discuss SomethingAwful, the notorious forum that changed the internet forever. WARNING: This episode includes an extreme story about mental illness, listen with caution. Dale Beran's "It Came From Something Awful": https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250189745/it-came-from-something-awful Music from this episode by Ruth Dancing: https://ruthdancing.bandcamp.com/album/let-the-cold-light-of-love-back-into-your-heart

We interview Derek Murphy and Mitchell Zemil, creators of the wonderful documentary series "Preserving Worlds" about their efforts documenting online gaming communities that have found ways to thrive beyond their creator's intentions. Watch Preserving Worlds here: https://means.tv/programs/preservingworlds Our website: vaguebooking.net Our email: vaguebookingpod@gmail.com

We sat down with Tom Sexton of the Trillbily Worker's Party to talk about how bizarre it was for the internet to rapidly integrate into our lives. Check out Trillbillies here: https://soundcloud.com/user-972848621-463073718 Our website: vaguebooking.net Our email: vaguebookingpod@gmail.com

In this double-stuffed episode, we talked to Financial Guru Gregg Gethard about the Dotcom Bubble, the various ways early internet companies were always doomed to fail, and how their impact echoes through the too big to fail tech giants of today. Links to our sources can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberian_Outpost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooz.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixelon https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/rx-for-trouble/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfodESl2Dww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sICSyC9u5iI Our website: vaguebooking.net Our email: vaguebookingpod@gmail.com

We were so pleased to get the chance to talk to John Cullen from the excellent podcast Blocked Party! A very lively discussion of what makes people post the way they post, how the internet economy works, and some of the worst things John has been subjected to for the entertainment of his audience. Check out Blocked Party here: https://blockedparty.libsyn.com/ Follow John: @cullenthecomic Our website: vaguebooking.net Our email: vaguebookingpod@gmail.com

This week we take on you on a journey into the wild west of .txt files. We want to thank our friends Pat, Rob, Austin, Z Kelly, Heaven, Shawn, Caleb, and Three Raccoons in a trench coat for lending their voices to make this episode happen! Our website: vaguebooking.net Our email: vaguebookingpod@gmail.com

This week we talk all things warez, the evolving system of game piracy that impacted a lot of hacking culture as a whole. We also talk a good bit about the graffiti-adjacent art style that developed within the warez community. You can find more from Brenden Becker AKA InversePhase in his 2018 presentation at Hackers on Planet Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpu5IxLIPR8 The Lost Art of Warez by Kevin Bouton-Scott: https://vimeo.com/341663153 Our website: vaguebooking.net Our email: vaguebookingpod@gmail.com

We talk to author Ander Monson about his previous life as a teenage boarding school hacker, and the perspective he has now a couple decades later. Ander's website: http://otherelectricities.com/ Music by Pattern: https://patterns.bandcamp.com/album/windows Our website: vaguebooking.net Email: vaguebookingpod@gmail.com

We are joined by Dildog, of the legendary hacker collective Cult of the Dead Cow, to talk about his remarkable strike against Microsoft known as Back Oriface 2000. Relevant Websites: https://cultdeadcow.com BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE HACKTIVISTS WHO TOOK ON MICROSOFT AND THE FBI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHxNEvklKqE

This week we make the crossover from phreaking to hacking, talking to Rob T. Firefly, one of the longtime hosts of 2600 Magazine's Off the Hook podcast. Rob's work: https://robvincent.net (Personal Website) https://modern.technology (Podcast Network) 2600 Collections: Dear Hacker and The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey 1984-2008 Our website: http://vaguebooking.net/ Our email: vaguebookingpod@gmail.com