Episode 228 - Computers / Computer Science

It's episode 228 and time for us to talk about Computers and Computer Science books! We discuss technology, digital humanities, coding, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (2016)
• Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium (2022)
  • I could not find a free version of this online
• Your Computer Is on Fire edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, and Kavita Philip (2021)
• The Computer Always Wins: A Playful Introduction to Algorithms through Puzzles and Strategy Games Paperback by Elliot Lichtman (2025)
• Must Know High School Computer Programming by Julie Sway (2020)
• In the Beginning... Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson (1999)
• A Prehistory of the Cloud by Tung-Hui Hu (2016)
• Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson (2012)

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Soul of the New Machine by Tracy Kidder
• Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents San Francisco by Ellen Ullman
• Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman
• ClickArt 65,000
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1999)
• Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing by Neal Stephenson
  • Mother Earth Mother Board

Links, Articles, and Things

• Separating the data from the CHAFF by Matthew Murray 🦇, Fernando Rios, and Seth Erickson
• 9-track tape
• Academic Book About Emojis Can't Include The Emojis It Talks About Because Of Copyright
• Media Archaeology Lab
• Alice Averlong (formerly Foone)