Reply All

A podcast about the internet, hosted by Alex Goldman and PJ Vogt. Listen to our show here.

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An infographic created by our friend Al Rotches on how not to get swatted. A companion to the latest episode of our podcast. Read the full article on Digg

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Blair Myhand is a police officer in the sleepy, 40,000 person town of Apex, NC. One night, he received an unusually disturbing phone call where a person claimed to be holding a woman hostage after murdering several people. Myhand assembled his team, and went to the house, but what they ended up finding was much more bizarre.

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In our Squarespace ad on this week's episode of Reply All, I mentioned that PJ still hasn't met my son, so I created a website that will let all of our listeners know when he finally has.

https://haspjmetalexssonyet.squarespace.com

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On this week's episode of Reply All, a social media mistake for the record books, and a quiet saint of Wikipedia. Prepare yourself for "The Vagina Plane"

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In the early 80's, way before the world wide web existed, the French government shipped a $200 terminal to every home with a phone line, and created a service that for decades ran alongside the internet. It was called The Minitel. Producer Carla Green speaks to reporter Jean-Marc Manach, who, in the early 90's, made a living posing as a woman in sex chat rooms on Minitel.

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On the latest Reply All: A few months ago, the entire internet decided to look at one famous butt at the same time. One man had to ensure that the website hosting Kardashian butt pictures doesn't crash. We talk to that man. The sheer terror and joy of solving that problem. 

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Two Goofs

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I’m a lot cooler on the Internet

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Rare photo of me surfing the innernette.

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This week on Reply All: Yik Yak is a an app that allows users to communicate anonymously with anyone within a 10-mile radius. At Colgate University in upstate New York, the anonymity brought out a particularly vicious strain of racism that shook the school.

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It’s a head splitting cognitive dissonance to be fielding requests for help from friends who have just gotten swatted at the same time as giving someone else numbers on the harassment and abuse perpetrated by GamerGate because someone he’s talking to thinks it’s over and never had a big impact on...

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On the latest episode of Reply All: Sometimes, on his way to work, a feeling of pressure begins thumping in Paul Ford’s chest. His breaths shorten. They speed up. And sometimes, in those moments of extreme anxiety, Paul’s phone talks to him. It tells him everything that’s wrong with him.

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This is an amazing response to Reply All episode #6 about One Direction. Thank you for listening!

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Just a reminder that Alex is doing drawings for anyone who screenshots a positive iTunes review for the show. He did this one of the guy from the cover of Black Market Clash while listening to it with his wife, Sarah O'Holla, author of the alltherecords blog.

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Someone recently started an account called @AhistoricalPics, poking fun at the inaccuracies of accounts like @HistoryInPics and @HistoryInPix. The parody account tweets out obviously false facts, and silly photoshopped creations. But amazingly, the folks behind @HistoryInPix didn’t get the joke. They took that obviously mislabeled photo from the parody account and presented it as real.

86 Viral Images From 2014 That Were Totally Fake (via iamdanw)

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This week we enter the mysterious, Byzantine underworld of domain sales, where people make money speculating on the website naming market. A few years ago, the owners of the popular journalism website longform.org blundered into this world when they innocently tried to procure longform.com. In this episode, we find out about their misadventures, and we hear from the Derek Jeter of URL purchases.