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Hacker History

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27%

Guest openness

Selective

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Who hosts Hacker History?

Hacker History is hosted by Hacker History Podcast. The show has published 21 episodes to date.

What has Hacker History covered recently?

Recent episodes include "The history of Ela" (29 January 2025, 51 minutes), "The history of Marc Boorshtein" (16 January 2025, 59 minutes), and "The history of Cyberpunk Librarian" (6 January 2025, 64 minutes).

How often does Hacker History publish?

Hacker History publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 45 minutes across 21 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Hacker History?

Booking probability for Hacker History is 27%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Hacker History requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Hacker History's contact route on record: public web form.

Who should pitch Hacker History?

The strongest fits for Hacker History are IT Services & Software Development and Scientific Research & Development. Hacker History has a technology audience.

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Hacker History Podcast hosts Hacker History, a technology podcast with 21 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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  • Hacker History

    The history of Ela

    Jan 29, 202551 minS0

    Ela grew up in East Germany during the 1980s, where they were introduced to computers and electronics at a young age. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ela became deeply involved in the hacker scene, joining the Chaos...

  • Jan 16, 202559 minS0

    Hacker History sits down with Marc Boorshtein, we learn of his journey from tinkering with Doom shareware as a kid and getting free hardware from his Dad. Marc tells us about the early days of LDAP and Kerberos to...

  • Jan 6, 20251h 4mS0

    Hacker History sits down with Cyberpunk Librarian. We hear about his early years of Commodore 64 and BBS, the usual getting in trouble in school and making computers do whatever they want. We then get to learn about the...

  • Dec 18, 202439 minS0

    Hacker History sits down with Johnny Xmas. Johnny tells us about his journey into the world of hacking and tech, starting from his childhood, he discusses taking things apart (like a wall outlet), putting them back...

  • Sep 18, 202451 minS0

    Hacker History sits down with The Gibson. We cover how Gibson got to where he is today. We start out hearing of Gibson's early hacker days, then he decides to get out of the hacker scene for a while. But Gibson is drawn...

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  • Sep 5, 202450 minS0

    Hacker History sits down with Wade Wells. Wade sits on the board of BSides San Diego and has an amazing journey that got him there. Wade recounts how he started out at In-N-Out Burgers and made his way into security...

  • Aug 28, 202456 minS0

    Hacker History sits down with Dana Morrison and hears his story into tech. Dana starts out with a Commodore 64 and writes a war dialer as one of the first projects. He starts out with a BBS and eventually hacks into his...

  • Jun 26, 202432 minS0

    Hacker History sits down with Jindrich Krasek. We hear about how Jindrich's journey started out as a medical researcher. He had to hack a machine he was using to make it work in new ways, and that experience hooked him...

  • Jun 5, 202434 minS0

    Hacker History sits down with HD Moore. We hear about his story when he was young and making hardware work that probably shouldn't have worked. His shenanigans in the days of IRC and warez, and how that led its way into...

  • May 29, 202438 minS0

    Hacker History sits down with Paul Asadoorian and learn about his journey. Paul starts out with an Apple II, BASIC, and Pascal as a youth, then finds himself picking up UNIX and Linux, working at a university on amazing...

  • Apr 24, 202444 minS0

    Hacker History sits down with Emily Fox. We hear about Emily's history in the US Federal Government where she got a start in technology. There are a lot of lessons to be learned from working in the public sector. Then...

  • Oct 25, 202359 minS0

    Hacker History sits down with Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda. Rob tells us all about how he created Slashdot back in the day. Rob's story is full of amazing twists and turns. He started one of the most influential websites ever...

  • Oct 18, 202345 minS0

    Hacker History sits down with Kyle Rankin to hear his story. Kyle walks us through his journey into being an author of many technical books. We touch on early topics like Knoppix, DevOps, infosec, Linux Journal, and...

  • Jun 5, 202348 minS0

    Hacker History sits down with signal9 and talk about his story. He starts out learning computers in the 80's then takes a massive detour into the world of log cabin building (not a metaphor). Eventually he finds his way...

  • May 20, 202232 minS0

    Hacker History sits down with Robert Reif or winxp5421 to hear his story. Robert got a start on some old gear, left tech for a while, and now runs password cracking villages and participates in password cracking...

  • Oct 13, 202136 minS0

    Hacker History sits down with Gianluca Varisco and learns about his story. He started out in 90s working on micro computers. We learn how he got into security, started an ISP. Learned about Linux and open source...

  • Jun 15, 202141 minS0

    Hacker History sits down with Melanie Ensign and learn about how she got started programming church hymns into the home computer. Melanie's journey begins as wanting to study sharks and ends up doing hacker public...

  • Apr 14, 202139 minS0

    Hacker History sits down with Paul to discuss his hacker story. It starts with a home built Apple II clone in the Netherlands. We talk about some shenanigans during the university led to lessons about showing compassion...

  • Mar 31, 202140 minS0

    Hacker History sits down with Carfucar to talk about the history of car hacking. Carfucar was the co-founder of the Car Hacking Village and was one of the pioneers in the world of car hacking. We talk about how Carfucar...

  • Mar 8, 202132 minS0

    Hacker History sits down with Bill Degnan to talk about how he got into computers. Bill started out as as an ice cream man and ended up owning a vintage computer museum. Come for the ice cream, stay for the stories...

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