Version History

We’re recording the next six episodes of Version History next week, and I’d love your input on all of them! We want to feature your stories and memories and try to answer your questions. Here are the next six episodes, all related to the smart home:

The third season of Version History kicked off this weekend, and I can confidently tell you it’s the first time that research has required me to spend several hours on Geocities. Such was the toy world in 1998! Furby is a story of technology, of toys, and of human-gadget philosophy. It’s a really fun episode — subscribe wherever you get podcasts, or watch the full episode on the new Version History YouTube channel.

For the next six Sundays, we have stories about tech we talk to… and tech that talks back. We’re starting with Furby, which is truly one of the wildest episodes we’ve done yet. Here’s how to get all things Version History going forward:

We’re getting ready to record the next six episodes of our tech rewatch show (subscribe to make sure you get all the episodes when they drop!) and we want to feature more of your stories, questions, and memories. Here are the six:

We’re doing Google Glass for the first episode back. I cannot believe how many feelings I still have about Google Glass, all these years after I took them off for the last time. Quick PSA: now that our first eight-episode run is over, we’re no longer publishing every episode on the Vergecast feed. If you want to make sure you get every episode when it drops, here’s a few ways to do so:

Thanks to everyone who has listened and watched and given us feedback on the first episodes! We’re refining the Version History Questions, tweaking the Hall of Fame, and more. We’re also about to start production on the next six episodes. Here they are:

It’s called Version History. It’s sort of a history show meets a rewatch podcast: we’re going to tell the stories behind the most interesting tech products ever, and also just hang out and talk about whether we owned a Zune or could successfully ride a hoverboard.