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A social media mistake for the record books, and a quiet saint of Wikipedia.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A woman starts dating again at 60 after her marriage falls apart. We follow her into a world of millionaire import/export moguls and fifteen-year old internet scammers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What happens when a woman sends a stocky blond stranger to tell her ex she loves him. (Updated with a new interview!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The entire internet decides to look at one famous butt at the same time. One man has to ensure that the website hosting Kardashian butt pictures doesn't crash. The sheer terror and joy of solving that problem. (Plus, a new Yes/Yes/No.)  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There was a lot that Errol Morris never knew about his brilliant, distant older brother Noel. Decades after Noel's death, Errol read an internet comment that said his brother had invented email. So he launched an investigation to find out if it was true. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the early 80's, way before the world wide web existed, the French government shipped a $200 terminal to every home with a phone line, and created a service that for decades ran alongside the internet. It was called The Minitel. Producer Carla Green speaks to reporter Jean-Marc Manach, who, in the early 90's, made a living posing as a woman in sex chat rooms on Minitel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Yik Yak is a an app that allows users to communicate anonymously with anyone within a 10-mile radius. At Colgate University in upstate New York, the anonymity brought out a particularly vicious strain of racism that shook the school. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sometimes, on his way to work, a feeling of pressure begins thumping in Paul Ford’s chest. His breaths shorten. They speed up. And sometimes, in those moments of extreme anxiety, Paul’s phone talks to him. It tells him everything that’s wrong with him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we enter the mysterious, Byzantine underworld of domain sales, where people make money speculating on the website naming market. A few years ago, the owners of the popular journalism website longform.org blundered into this world when they innocently tried to procure longform.com. In this episode, we find out about their misadventures, and we hear from the Derek Jeter of URL purchases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Depending on who you ask, Keith Calder is either a 35-year old film producer, or one of the players in a vast international conspiracy designed to conceal the greatest love story never told. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices