Room 404
The Podcast Corner
Everything you have ever forgotton about can be found in Room 4040. You'll find gadgets and websites, smartphones and computers, games and puzzles, films and TV shows, and more lost treasures waiting to be discovered again. Our guests have a chance to talk to the webmaster of Room 404 to bring back the objects they loved that have been lost to time.
Room 404 – Melissa Pierce
Creator of the award-winning film series Life In Perpetual Beta and (in her words) hundreds of other less well-known good ideas, it’s time for Melissa Pierce to join in with the increasingly popular Room 404. Which old gadgets, techs and principles would she like to see brought back into the modern world, and should anything we use today be banished to the room of things that time forgot? The TRS-80The corded telephoneThe difference engineReel to reel magnetic tapeGPS voices Life in Perpe
Apr 14, 2011 • 35:28
Room 404 – Sarah Blow
Sarah Blow heads into the depths of Room 404 this week, and she has a bundle of “education” to try and bring back for the rest of the world to enjoy once more. Turtles and LOGOTomorrow’s WorldThe Sony WalkmanSpeak ‘n’ SpellPink Gadgets Sarah’s on Twitter (as @GirlyGeekdom) and you can start to follow her at www.sarahblow.com, which links out to the rest of her online life. As for Room 404, you know the drill, head over to iTunes to get the show every week!
Apr 7, 2011 • 38:43
Room 404 – Sascha Pallenberg
This week it’s the turn of Sascha Pallenberg to be welcomed into the depths of Room 404 and try to bring back to the world the forgotten technology of the past. While Sascha today is focused on tablets and netbooks (at www.netbooknews.com) his wish list shows him to be more of a gamer and sharer. The Competition Pro 5000 joystick300 baud modemsThe Atari 2600 VCSThe geek culture of “Copy Parties“Bluetooth headsets You can follow Sascha online via Facebook and his work at&nbs
Mar 31, 2011 • 43:29
Room 404 – James Whatley
James Whatley (@whatleydude) from 1000heads enters Room 404 this week, clutching a list of memories, gadgets, tech and TV shows that he wants to bring back to the public. Can he convince Ewan Spence of their merits? The Nintendo GameCube GameBoy Advanced cable.Visionaries: Knights of the Magical LightKnightmareHero QuestThe Xbox Kinect James spends his working day at 1000heads, and he lurks online mostly on Twitter as @WhatleyDude. Listen to all our shows online at room404.th
Mar 23, 2011 • 32:41
Room 404 – Kevin Marks
Kevin Marks has a big CV. From being one of the founders of microformats and sitting on the Advisroy council of ORG (the UK Digital Rights Group), to working for Technorati, Google and British Telecom, he has a rich history to pick from. Now he’ll attempt to bring back his favourite memories from Room 404, and replace them with some modern technology that he’d rather the world forgets. Routeable IP addressess.Kevin’s Commodore PET back-up tapes.Any Mornington Crescent server.GROGGS.Big [data
Mar 17, 2011 • 32:28
Room 404 – Steve Paine
Steve Paine, better known as Chippy in tech circles, runs Carrypad, a well-respected site for tablet and portable computing. And he’s got some horrors he wants to be brought back out of Room 404. The simple mobile phone.FM radios.Mechanical typewriters.That three-hour delay between taking a picture and having it developed.Television remote controls. You can follow all the mobile computing fun with Steve at www.carrypad.com, and Steve is on Twitter as @Chippy. And while you’re br
Mar 10, 2011 • 33:11
Room 404 – Matthew Cashmore
Matthew Cashmore ventures into Room 404 to try and bring out his fondly remembered pieces of technology, and smuggle in something modern to the room that time forgot. But if he’s not careful, he’s going to cause a paradox with his list of items: The Palm IIIxe PDA.The Commodore 64 home computer.The Sony Ericsson T68i mobile phone.His first pair of Beyer Dynamic 100 headphones.The Sony Minidisc. Follow Matthew’s adventure as he bikes into work e
Mar 3, 2011 • 37:50
Room 404 – Dave Delaney
Dave Delaney is this week’s guest, and ventures into Room 404 to bring back some of the great memories of his childhood, the first wave of podcasting, and reckons he has a solution to all the light-induced headaches he’s having. But will he be able to convince webmaster Ewan Spence to let them out? TSR’s Top Secret RPGThe TRS 80Bulletin Board SystemsPodzingerThe Fluorescent Light Bulb Dave can be found online at www.DaveMadeThat.com, or on Twitter (@DaveDelaney). During the day
Feb 24, 2011 • 33:05
Room 404 – Yoz Grahame
This week, Yoz Grahame joins me to do his best to return his favourite gadgets, software and web services to be brought back out of Room 404. Currently working for Linden Lab, Yoz’s CV includes consulting for The IT Crowd and The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Starship Titanic, and Douglas Adams’ Digital Village. His quest in Room 404 goes something like this: Deluxe Paint 4.JotSpot.The Psion Series 5 keyboard.Audio Galaxy“The concept of friending”. You can follow Yoz online via Twitte
Feb 16, 2011 • 45:59
Room 404 – Ian Kendall
Thanks for all your comments and feedback to last week’s show – it looks like some of you actually like the show and wanted a second episode. So I invited Ian Kendall to be the next visitor to Room 404 to see what he’d like to rescue from the vault… and in a slight twist to the format, which modern item he thinks deserves to be banished. The Sinclair ZX81The Cumana Disk Drive (for the BBC Micro)The Atari PortfolioInfocomThe Apple iPod You can follow Ian online at his w
Feb 10, 2011 • 42:55