Topic: Yahoo

Thomas Power and Jonnie Jensen reminisce about their first meeting 30 years ago at an advertising agency where Power presented the concept of the internet to skeptical directors. Power details his early tech exposure at Amstrad in 1987 using BT Telecom Gold email. He recounts meeting internet pioneers including Jerry Yang at Yahoo and Jerry Kaplan, as well as his experiences with early platforms like AOL, CompuServe, and Lycos.

A host recounts an early social media mishap involving Yahoo Pipes, an automation tool he used to auto-tweet news. Due to a glitch in the search algorithm, his account accidentally tweeted a disturbing story from a German newspaper regarding a band arrested for necrophilia. The anecdote serves as a cautionary tale about early internet automation.