Two men once had a dream - to add smell to the internet. And they almost gave it to us.
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Josh and Chuck dive into the wild story of iSmell, a revolutionary internet-connected device from the late 1990s that promised to let you literally smell websites by releasing scented aromas as you browsed. Created by two entrepreneurs with $20 million in venture capital, the iSmell was genuinely impressive technology that used a database of 128 primary odorants to create billions of different scents—but there was one tiny problem: nobody actually wanted to smell the internet. Learn how a product that was practically perfect in every technical way became an epic failure and landed on PC World's list of worst tech products ever.
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Hey Dude
"Hey Dude, the 90s called David Lasher and Christine Taylor, stars of the cult classic show, Hey Dude — Referenced in a podcast advertisement for a show that revisits the 1990s era."
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