Tip: The Internet Archive's advanced search can return results as an RSS feed, ready to import into your podcast app! Here's a feed of The Famous Computer Cafe episodes. You will need to rename it after adding it.<p>1. <a href="https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=creator%3A%22The+Famous+Computer+Cafe%22&fl%5B%5D=identifier&sort%5B%5D=&sort%5B%5D=&sort%5B%5D=&rows=60&page=1&callback=callback&save=yes&output=rss" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=creator%3A%22The+Fa...</a>
I started to listen to Bill Gates' interview [1], just to hear what he had in mind back then. Sounded almost topical in today's world. AI was mentioned, and predicting users' input in the distant future.<p>Side note, archive.org has two players. The first one doesn't have a timestamp where you currently are. The second player, the Winamp clone does have it, but I don't think one can link to specific parts.<p>[1] The Bill Gates interview starts at 10:10 <a href="https://archive.org/details/the-famous-computer-cafe-1984-11-17_Bill_Gates_and_Kazuhiko_Nishi?webamp=default" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/the-famous-computer-cafe-1984-11...</a>
> Interviews in the recovered recordings include Timothy Leary, Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Atari’s Jack Tramiel, Apple’s Bill Atkinson, and dozens of others<p>That's some interesting people listed.<p>Here's the actual archive as a note to myself to listen to it later today: <a href="https://archive.org/details/famous-computer-cafe" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/famous-computer-cafe</a>
In the episode with Joel Berez (Infocom) [1], he says people spent years trying to solve Zork. Imagine saying that about a modern game.<p>[1] at 24:00 mark
<a href="https://archive.org/details/the-famous-computer-cafe-1985-07-12_Joel_Berez" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/the-famous-computer-cafe-1985-07...</a>
Transcript of Gene Roddenberry interview (h/t slashdot)
<a href="https://archive.org/details/Gene-Roddenberry-Interview-Transcript/mode/1up?view=theater" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/Gene-Roddenberry-Interview-Trans...</a><p>What kind of database could one access from a PC in 1985 from which one could learn about saltwqter crocodiles?
On a slightly unrelated note, why is that webpage so slow to load? I'm used to the wayback machine being slow, thats fair enough, but their blog?<p>I've not seen images load a couple columns at a time in quite a while.