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Tech History with Fexingo: Stories of Silicon Valley, Pioneers, and Industry Origins
Lucas and Luna explore the hidden backstories of technology's defining moments — from the founding of Fairchild Semiconductor to the rise of the graphical user interface. Each episode takes a single company, product, or figure from Silicon Valley lore and examines the decisions, market pressures, and serendipity that shaped it. They ask: What did Intel's Andy Grove actually believe about operational discipline? How did Atari's culture of chaos birth both Steve Jobs and Nolan Bushnell's downfall? Why did Xerox PARC invent the future and fail to own it? Expect number-literate conversation that t...
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Episodes
The Story Behind the First Microprocessor 22.05.2026 8:54
In this episode of Tech History with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into the untold story of the Intel 4004, the world's first commercially available microprocessor. They explore how a chance meeting between Intel's Ted Hoff and a Japanese calculator company named Busicom led to a paradigm-shifting design decision: instead of building a custom chip for each new calculator, Hoff proposed a general-pu...
The Alto That Invented the Modern PC 21.05.2026 10:59
In this episode of Tech History with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the story of the Xerox Alto, the first personal computer to feature a graphical user interface, a mouse, and Ethernet networking. Developed at Xerox PARC in 1973, the Alto never sold commercially but directly inspired the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. Lucas breaks down the technology, the legendary 1979 visit by Steve Jo...
The SRI Mouse That Changed Everything 21.05.2026 7:39
In this episode of Tech History with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into the origin story of the computer mouse, invented by Douglas Engelbart at Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s. They explore how a wooden shell, two gears, and a single button evolved into the ubiquitous pointing device we use today. Lucas unpacks the 1968 'Mother of All Demos' where Engelbart unveiled the mouse alongside hy...
How Apollo Computer Shaped Modern Engineering Workstations 19.05.2026 11:06
In the debut episode of Tech History with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the story of Apollo Computer, a 1980s company that pioneered the networked engineering workstation. They discuss how Apollo's Domain architecture foreshadowed modern client-server computing, why the company ultimately lost to Sun Microsystems, and what engineers today owe to a machine that cost $50,000 and had just one megab...
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