Ranked #1
#14 - The Knowledge
#14 - The Knowledge
Every year, a small group of sports fans scattered across the US play a game called "Last Man." The goal is to be the la... Read more
7 Feb 2014
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13mins
Ranked #2
#13.5 - I'm Matthew Mills
#13.5 - I'm Matthew Mills
A special mini-episode of TLDR to get your mouth watering for tomorrow's non-mini episode! This week, a man named Matthe... Read more
5 Feb 2014
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8mins
Ranked #3
#36 - The Mystery of Childish Gambino
#36 - The Mystery of Childish Gambino
Rapper Childish Gambino (A.K.A actor Donald Glover) famously claims to have received his rap pseudonym, "Childish Gambin... Read more
15 Sep 2014
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11mins
Ranked #4
#19 - Project Flame
#19 - Project Flame
In 1966, a bored college freshman created Project Flame, an early computer dating system that promised to pair lonely he... Read more
20 Mar 2014
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10mins
Ranked #5
#43 - Hey Ladies
#43 - Hey Ladies
If you've ever been a bridesmaid, in a sorority, or just been friends with two or more women, you have probably received... Read more
16 Jan 2015
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14mins
Ranked #6
#42 - GodTube
#42 - GodTube
When Will Rogers discovered GodTube.com, he was bothered by the idea of Christians segregating themselves from the large... Read more
8 Jan 2015
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12mins
Ranked #7
#40 - Tinder Bros
#40 - Tinder Bros
The first message you send to a Tinder match can determine the rest of your relationship. To ease this pressure, some me... Read more
11 Dec 2014
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7mins
Ranked #8
#30 - The Russian Troll Army
#30 - The Russian Troll Army
Last month, documents surfaced that showed a company called the Internet Research Agency was paying people in Russia to ... Read more
26 Jun 2014
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10mins
Ranked #9
#22 - What Happens When You Tell The Whole Internet Your Password
#22 - What Happens When You Tell The Whole Internet Your Password
Earlier this week, a commenter named Y. Woodman Brown posted his online passwords in the Washington Post comments sectio... Read more
18 Apr 2014
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11mins
Ranked #10
#23 - A Bitcoin Story for People Who Don't Care About Bitcoin
#23 - A Bitcoin Story for People Who Don't Care About Bitcoin
When Wired reporter Andy Greenberg read Newsweek's cover story claiming to have found mysterious Bitcoin creator Satoshi... Read more
24 Apr 2014
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10mins
Ranked #11
#31 - Race Swap
#31 - Race Swap
Whether you think the internet is a great or terrible place is partly a reflection of which parts of the internet you ch... Read more
17 Jul 2014
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9mins
Ranked #12
#32 - An Imperfect Match
#32 - An Imperfect Match
This week, dating site OK Cupid put up a blog post describing experiments it conducted on its users. In one experiment, ... Read more
31 Jul 2014
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14mins
Ranked #13
What does TLDR mean?
What does TLDR mean?
Hello! We are taking a week off the podcast to work on some special things that you will like a lot. This episode is a B... Read more
22 Nov 2013
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31mins
Ranked #14
Bringing the Internet to Public Housing, Your Neighbors and a Unicorn
Bringing the Internet to Public Housing, Your Neighbors and a Unicorn
This week on New Tech City, we're crossing the digital divide.
20 Nov 2013
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Ranked #15
#7 - It's Rating Men
#7 - It's Rating Men
Lulu is an app that lets women rate guys they've slept with. Was he willing to commit? Was he gassy? The ratings are ano... Read more
15 Nov 2013
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7mins
Ranked #16
#6 - Ghost Town
#6 - Ghost Town
Before the Internet as we know it today, there were text-based bulletin board systems all over the country that people c... Read more
6 Nov 2013
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8mins
Ranked #17
#5 - Goodbye, Secret, Invisible Internet
#5 - Goodbye, Secret, Invisible Internet
Up until this fall, there was a secret internet. You probably heard about one part of it, the Silk Road, but that was ju... Read more
31 Oct 2013
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7mins
Ranked #18
#24 - The Million Dollar Homepage
#24 - The Million Dollar Homepage
In 2005, Alex Tew was a 21-year-old entrepreneur who wanted to make a million dollars before college. The only problem w... Read more
1 May 2014
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7mins
Ranked #19
#34 - The Accidental Outing of Rwanda's Most Powerful Troll
#34 - The Accidental Outing of Rwanda's Most Powerful Troll
Steve Terrill is a journalist who works in Rwanda. Or at least he worked in Rwanda, until he accidentally got the office... Read more
18 Aug 2014
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12mins
Ranked #20
#11 - RIP Vile Rat
#11 - RIP Vile Rat
This episode of TLDR contains some explicit language. On September 11th, 2012, gunmen attacked two American compounds in... Read more
22 Jan 2014
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10mins