WEBVTT 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:27.829 We spend half our lives staring into glass. 00:00:27.829 --> 00:00:34.389 We tap on plastic keys. We drag cursors across glowing screens. 00:00:34.389 --> 00:00:39.590 The technology we interact with feels so clean and logical. 00:00:39.590 --> 00:00:47.109 But underneath the glass, it's messy and it is profoundly human. 00:00:47.109 --> 00:00:51.429 If you know where to look, you can find the fingerprints. 00:00:51.429 --> 00:01:15.590 Somewhere deep inside the mouse you hold in your hand, there is a shadow of a classified Canadian bowling ball from the Cold War, hidden in the test files you type out, there are ghost lights dancing on the wing tips of a World War II bomber and a cartoon firefighter from the 1930s who drove a gravitydeying car. 00:01:15.590 --> 00:01:24.709 Every function, framework, and flicker of code has a story. Our machines are haunted by the people who built them. 00:01:24.709 --> 00:01:32.549 Their jokes, their late night desperation, and their grand impossible dreams. 00:01:32.549 --> 00:01:59.879 I'm Daina Bouquin, and this is Lore in the Machine. Stories from Beyond the Screen, uncovering the hidden histories and surprising origins woven into the fabric of computing. The first episodes are loading. Find Lore in the Machine on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen so you don't miss the first stories.