Show Notes

Buffer Overflow: Vague, But Exciting!

Episode 116

The Shiny world of COBOL, The Happy history of the Walkman, and The People who think you need a bigger TV

Hosts

Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner

Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst

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Hank Yee, Delivery Manager

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Longer Topics

The Anniversary Section! Because who DOESN’T LOVE nice round numbers.

* EDSAC performs its first calculation

* May-Dec 1959 – The announcement, development and (near) release of COBOL

* UCLA issues a press release

* Sony releases the first Walkman, model TPS-L2

* 1989 – Tim Berners-Lee invents the World-Wide Web using HTML as its backbone

* His boss at the time famously returned it with the note: “Vague, but exciting.”

Lightning Round

* CloudFlare firewall misconfiguration takes down most of the internet for at least an hour and a half

* Microsoft to close ebook store, delete all your purchased ebooks because F property rights

* Apple buys self-driving company Drive.ai, nobody knows what to do

* YouTube updates acceptable content policy, Hyperventilation ensues

* Size Matters!…at least for TVs

* Samsung may have fixed their folding issues

Music Credits

Intro: Jason Shaw – Tech Talk

Outro: Jason Shaw – Feels Good 2 B