Tech History with Fexingo: Stories of Silicon Valley, Pioneers, and Industry Origins

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...

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...

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...

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...