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Weblore

by Philip Thompson
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  • Satoshi Nakamoto | Will We Ever Learn Who Invented Bitcoin?

    February 4, 2026 · 15 min

    Ways to support the podcast: Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bmc.link/philipthompson⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Donate via PayPal: 💸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠paypal.me/PhilipT284⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ On 3 January 2009, someone called Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin, embedded a newspaper…

  • Brain Virus | The First PC Virus To Go Global

    January 28, 2026 · 11 min

    Ways to support the podcast: Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bmc.link/philipthompson⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Donate via PayPal: 💸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠paypal.me/PhilipT284⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ In 1986, two brothers in Lahore wrote a few lines of code to punish software pirates. They…

  • Polybius | The CIA's Mind-Control Arcade Game

    January 25, 2026 · 16 min

    Ways to support the podcast: Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bmc.link/philipthompson⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Donate via PayPal: 💸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠paypal.me/PhilipT284⁠⁠⁠⁠ In 1981, a mysterious arcade game appeared in Portland, Oregon. Kids who played it suffered…

  • Ethernet Wars | How The Underdog Won And Connected The World

    January 21, 2026 · 15 min

    Ways to support the podcast: Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bmc.link/philipthompson⁠⁠⁠⁠ Donate via PayPal: 💸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠paypal.me/PhilipT284⁠⁠⁠ Every device in your home speaks Ethernet. Your laptop, your phone, your smart TV—they're all…

  • Friendster | The Spectacular Downfall Of A Social Media Pioneer

    January 14, 2026 · 14 min

    Ways to support the podcast: Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ ⁠⁠⁠https://bmc.link/philipthompson⁠⁠⁠ Donate via PayPal: 💸 ⁠⁠⁠paypal.me/PhilipT284⁠⁠ Before Facebook, before MySpace became a punchline, there was Friendster—the site that invented social…

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  • QWERTY | How We Got Our Keyboards - And Where To Next?

    January 9, 2026 · 15 min

    Ways to support the podcast: Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ ⁠⁠https://bmc.link/philipthompson⁠⁠ Donate via PayPal: 💸 ⁠⁠paypal.me/PhilipT284⁠ Q-W-E-R-T-Y. Six letters that make no sense, yet they've defined how 2 billion people interact with machines…

  • Cicada 3301 | The Internet's Greatest Unsolved Puzzle

    January 9, 2026 · 21 min

    Ways to support the podcast: Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ ⁠https://bmc.link/philipthompson⁠ Donate via PayPal: 💸 ⁠paypal.me/PhilipT284 In January 2012, a cryptic image appeared on 4chan with a simple challenge: find the hidden message. What…

  • ARPANET's First Message | The Day The Internet Was Born

    January 9, 2026 · 15 min

    Ways to support the podcast: Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompson Donate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284 On 29 October 1969, a programmer at UCLA attempted to send the first message across a computer network to a machine…

  • Weblore | Let's Talk About the Internet!

    January 9, 2026 · 2 min

    Ways to support the podcast: Buy Me a Coffee: ☕ https://bmc.link/philipthompson Donate via PayPal: 💸 paypal.me/PhilipT284 Channel trailer. The internet has given us some of the strangest mysteries, most fascinating communities, and…

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About the show

Join host Philip Thompson as he delves into the fascinating history of the internet and all things digital and tech. The internet has given us some of the strangest mysteries, most fascinating communities, and wildest stories in human history. Weblore dives deep into the digital world's most compelling tales. From cryptic puzzles that stumped the smartest minds online, to the culture-defining moments that shaped how we live today, to the bizarre incidents that could only happen in cyberspace. Each episode explores the people, events, and phenomena that built the internet as we know it.