207: When Magazines Were Phone Books

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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4.8 • 521 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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We're firing up the time machine again this week for another visit to the era when computer coverage was "printed" on "paper" in bound volumes called "magazines." This time, we take a look at the voluminous December 2000 issue of PC Gamer, with a look at the early MMO boom brought on by Ultima Online and EverQuest, a preview of EA's weird social game Majestic, reviews of Voyager: Elite Force, Metal Gear Solid for Windows, and the Geforce 2 Ultra, and a bunch more! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	I made a bad mistake, Brad.
0:01.7	So last night, we're sitting at the dining room table.
0:03.8	We're having dinner.
0:05.0	My daughter says, you have a podcast, right, dad?
0:08.9	Oh, no.
0:09.6	Oh, no.
0:10.0	And I said, yeah.
0:11.3	And she said, what's it called?
0:12.9	And I said, well, why don't you tell me what it's called?
0:16.6	And she said, well, I don't know what it's called.
0:18.8	And I said, well, I don't know what it's called. And I said, well, maybe your mom knows.
0:25.7	Mom looked at me and she was like, um, huh.
0:30.2	And I, there was a moment I could have let it go.
0:31.7	I chose not to.
0:32.9	I chose to push on.
0:33.6	Okay. She was like, it took a while.
0:36.2	We got to tech pod.
0:55.0	I was like, that's part of the name. Probably the arguably the important part. I could have backed it down at that point happily. I could have just walked away and taken my lumps and let the ego take the hit and moved right on. But no, it's like, well, what's the full name? Swappants TechPod. I was like, no, that's the Twitter handle because tech pod was taken. That's closer. Yeah, we're getting there. Impressive.
0:57.0	Yeah. So we worked all the way down the path and it took a while. Also, she thinks that the past tense name was the mistake.
1:04.0	It should have been make a tech pod and should have made a tech pod. And I was like, well,
1:07.0	I'm sure to listen to your daughter. This feedback would have been great 200 episodes ago. I just didn't.
1:11.3	I felt a chill down my spine when you opened to this conversation.
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