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The show started when Laporte recorded a "roundtable" between himself, Patrick Norton, Sarah Norton, Kevin Rose, David Prager, and Roger Chang at Macworld Expo 2005, and posted it to his weblog. (This episode is now referred to as "the pilot" or "episode 0".) They came up with the idea to make this into a weekly show featuring more former cast members from The Screen Savers. The first episode was posted on Monday, April 18, 2005, and weekly episodes have followed. (There has been one special "mid-week" s ...

This Week in Tech: Encyclopedia II - This Week in Tech - History

This Week in Tech - History

The show started when Laporte recorded a "roundtable" between himself, Patrick Norton, Sarah Norton, Kevin Rose, David Prager, and Roger Chang at Macworld Expo 2005, and posted it to his weblog. (This episode is now referred to as "the pilot" or "episode 0".) They came up with the idea to make this into a weekly show featuring more former cast members from The Screen Savers. The first episode was posted on Monday, April 18, 2005, and weekly episodes have followed. (There has been one special "mid-week" show, episode "8A," released on June 6, 2005.)

When the weekly series started, the show was recorded with all of the hosts staying at their respective homes, talking via an Internet audio chat (i.e. Google Talk, Skype, or a combination of the two). Starting around episode 10, Norton began physically coming to Leo's office during the taping. Upon Rose's announcement that he was moving to San Francisco, Laporte suggested that all of the hosts should get together to record the show. This eventually evolved into a new concept for the show. In episode 15, Laporte announced that new episodes will be recorded in front of a live studio audience, starting in the autumn of 2005. Kevin Rose suggested inviting the Revision3 Studios camera crew, so that the long-discussed video version of the podcast could be released as well. In addition, a local terrestrial radio station offered to broadcast a "live" version of the show, but no details of this deal have been mentioned recently.

Episode 21 was recorded at the San Francisco Apple Store on September, 4, 2005. The Revision3 Studios crew filmed the show, and released the first ever video version of the podcast. Episodes 22 through 24 were recorded at Noonan's Bar and Grill in Larkspur Landing, California. Video versions of episodes 23 and 24 were filmed by Pixel Corps, and distributed by Revision3. Episodes 25 and 26 were recorded at the Gallery Cafe in San Francisco.