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Estimated from 3 chart positions in 3 markets.
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- 🇦🇺AU · Technology#1535K to 30K
- 🇺🇸US · Technology#1725K to 30K
- 🇳🇿NZ · Technology#153500 to 3K
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5.3K to 32K🎙 ~2x weekly·8 episodes·Last published today - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
11K to 63K🇦🇺48%🇺🇸48%🇳🇿5% - Active Followers
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4.2K to 25K
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America on Hold: How the Internet Arrived
May 26, 2026
15m 29s
The Weavers: Memory and the Moon
May 12, 2026
14m 15s
Found
May 11, 2026
1m 03s
I’m Not a Robot: The Internet's Human Test
Apr 28, 2026
9m 24s
The Silent Duel: David Blackwell and the Math Inside AI
Apr 14, 2026
11m 08s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 5/26/26 | ![]() America on Hold: How the Internet Arrived | She was a copywriter turned marketer who watched focus groups attempt to use computers. She knew the internet wasn't a product you could sell. You needed to give people a way in. Her name was Jan Brandt, and she decided to mail it to them. In this episode Jan Brandt: The architect of America Online's carpet bombing strategy that put a billion discs in American handsOmaha Steaks, airlines, and grocery stores: how the discs became inescapableA 150-pound throne and a museum case: What happened t... | 15m 29s | ||||||
| 5/12/26 | ![]() The Weavers: Memory and the Moon | In 1965, engineers were building a computer to fly men to the moon. It had to survive a rocket launch and the vacuum of space. It could not be erased by a power failure, a hard landing, or anything short of physical destruction. They needed to make the code permanent. They needed to weave it. In this episode Hilda Carpenter - MIT technician who assembled the first magnetic-core memory planeThe Raytheon weavers - Textile workers and watchmakers recruited to encode Apollo's computerThe Fairchil... | 14m 15s | ||||||
| 5/11/26 | ![]() Found | The show has a new name. Starting with this episode, Lore in the Machine is now Found in the Machine. Same stories, same voice. The name just finally says what the show actually does. If you're subscribed, your feed will keep updating automatically. If you want to share the show with someone new, the new home is foundinthemachine.com. Support the show Found in the Machine is a narrative technology podcast about the forgotten history of computing, software, and the internet. Hosted... | 1m 03s | ||||||
| 4/28/26 | ![]() I’m Not a Robot: The Internet's Human Test | Listeners, please note that this episode was recorded before the show’s name changed to Found in the Machine, so you’ll hear the old name in this episode. You’ve done this so many times you don’t think about it anymore. A box appears. You squint at some blurry letters, type them out, check the box. It takes about ten seconds. You probably didn’t know that those ten seconds were going somewhere. For years, millions of people solving these security tests were quietly doing something els... | 9m 24s | ||||||
| 4/14/26 | ![]() The Silent Duel: David Blackwell and the Math Inside AI | Listeners, please note that this episode was recorded before the show’s name changed to Found in the Machine, so you’ll hear the old name in this episode. Two people walk toward each other on a dirt road. One bullet each. In a normal duel, a missed shot makes a sound. But in a silent duel, a miss would be invisible. You wouldn't know if your opponent was holding their fire, or had already taken their one shot. How would you know when to stop walking and take your own? In 2024, NVIDIA na... | 11m 08s | ||||||
| 3/31/26 | ![]() Strangers with Keys: A Ritual to Secure the Internet | Listeners, please note that this episode was recorded before the show’s name changed to Found in the Machine, so you’ll hear the old name in this episode. Four times a year, a small group of people fly to a secure facility in either Virginia or California. They submit to retina scanners and palm readers. They enter a metal cage in a signal-proof room. They turn keys in unison. These people are volunteers, and they're there to perform a ritual to secure the internet's core directory.&nb... | 11m 34s | ||||||
| 3/17/26 | ![]() Poison in the Cache: Dan Kaminsky Saves the Internet | Listeners, please note that this episode was recorded before the show’s name changed to Found in the Machine, so you’ll hear the old name in this episode. Every time you type a web address, you're trusting a directory. A vast, invisible system that translates the names you know into the numbers that actually move data across the internet. You trust it the way a town trusts its well. In 2008, a security researcher named Dan Kaminsky discovered that the well had no lid. In this episode ... | 8m 18s | ||||||
| 3/3/26 | ![]() Lipstick and Runes: Hedy Lamarr and the History of Bluetooth | Listeners, please note that this episode was recorded before the show’s name changed to Found in the Machine, so you’ll hear the old name in this episode. Look at your phone settings. There's a small angular icon there that you've probably never thought about much. It's a bind rune showing two characters from the ancient Younger Futhark alphabet, fused together. It's on billions of devices worldwide. How that symbol ended up there is two stories separated by half a century. One starts w... | 11m 22s | ||||||
| 3/3/26 | ![]() Drink Me, Eat Me, README: What Programmers Learned from Alice in Wonderland | Listeners, please note that this episode was recorded before the show’s name changed to Found in the Machine, so you’ll hear the old name in this episode. Every software project has one. It's easy to scroll past. Most of the time it's just a manual telling you system requirements, installation steps, and known bugs. But the README file owes a debt to Lewis Carroll, and a quiet trick built into its name that has been manipulating computers for decades. In this episode, we fol... | 7m 39s | ||||||
| 3/3/26 | ![]() The Bug, The Cat, and The Wooden Mouse: The Unexpected History of the Computer Mouse | Listeners, please note that this episode was recorded before the show’s name changed to Found in the Machine, so you’ll hear the old name in this episode. In 1968, a researcher named Douglas Engelbart took the stage in San Francisco and showed a thousand computer professionals something they had never seen: text editing, clickable links, and video conferencing, all controlled by a small wooden block with a wire trailing out the back. But the mouse didn't begin with Engelbart. In this ep... | 9m 39s | ||||||
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| 3/3/26 | ![]() UFOs, Model Trains, and Code's 'Sacred Syllable': The Origins of Foo | Listeners, please note that this episode was recorded before the show’s name changed to Found in the Machine, so you’ll hear the old name in this episode. Every programmer knows 'foo' as the "insert name here" of software development. But where did it come from? And what does it have to do with 'bar'? In this episode, we trace the history of foo in programming back through three unlikely chapters: a Depression-era comic strip, a WWII air squadron, and a group of MIT students who built ... | 9m 10s | ||||||
| 2/24/26 | ![]() Trailer: Unexpected Stories from Computing History | Every line of code has a story. Most of us just never hear it. Found in the Machine is a narrative technology podcast about the forgotten history of computing, software, and the internet. Each episode uncovers the true story behind a piece of computing history or internet lore to surface the forgotten people, decisions, and accidents that quietly shaped the digital world. If you've ever wondered who actually made something you use every day, and why you've never heard their name b... | 1m 47s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.
Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.

