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S1. Ep 5: A Scottish Jewish joke
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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Jan 25, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This is the story of the very first person to be publicly shamed because of something they did online. It’s 1988, the internet exists only in its most nascent form, and a software designer, Brad Templeton, uploads onto a message board a joke in poor taste. How the architects of the emerging internet respond to the joke will create a set of rules that the rest of us have lived under ever since…
Written and presented by Jon Ronson
Produced by Sarah Shebbeare
Assistant Producer Sam Peach
Original music by Phil Channell
Written and presented by Jon Ronson
Produced by Sarah Shebbeare
Assistant Producer Sam Peach
Original music by Phil Channell
Released:
Jan 25, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (21)
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