Room 404

Apr 14 2011

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Everything you have ever forgotton about can be found in Room 4040. You'll find gadgets and websites, smartphones and computers, games and puzzles, films and TV shows, and more lost treasures waiting to be discovered again. Our guests have a chance to talk to the webmaster of Room 404 to bring back the objects they loved that have been lost to time.

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Room 404 – Melissa Pierce

Apr 14 2011 35 mins

Creator of the award-winning film series Life In Perpetual Beta and (in her words) hundreds of other less well-known good ideas, it’s time for Melissa Pierce to join in with the increasingly popular Room 404. Which old gadgets, techs and principles would she like to see brought back into the modern world, and should anything we use today be banished to the room of things that tim

Room 404 – Sarah Blow

Apr 07 2011 38 mins

Sarah Blow heads into the depths of Room 404 this week, and she has a bundle of "education" to try and bring back for the rest of the world to enjoy once more.

Room 404 – Sascha Pallenberg

Mar 31 2011 43 mins

This week it’s the turn of Sascha Pallenberg to be welcomed into the depths of Room 404 and try to bring back to the world the forgotten technology of the past. While Sascha today is focused on tablets and netbooks (at www.netbooknews.com) his wish list shows him to be more of a gamer and sharer.

Room 404 – James Whatley

Mar 23 2011 32 mins

James Whatley (@whatleydude) from 1000heads enters Room 404 this week, clutching a list of memories, gadgets, tech and TV shows that he wants to bring back to the public. Can he convince Ewan Spence of their merits?

Room 404 – Kevin Marks

Mar 17 2011 32 mins

Kevin Marks has a big CV. From being one of the founders of microformats and sitting on the Advisroy council of ORG (the UK Digital Rights Group), to working for Technorati, Google and British Telecom, he has a rich history to pick from. Now he’ll attempt to bring back his favourite memories from Room 404, and replace them with some modern technology that he’d rather the world

Room 404 – Steve Paine

Mar 10 2011 33 mins

Steve Paine, better known as Chippy in tech circles, runs Carrypad, a well-respected site for tablet and portable computing. And he’s got some horrors he wants to be brought back out of Room 404.

Room 404 – Matthew Cashmore

Mar 03 2011 37 mins

Matthew Cashmore ventures in to Room 404 to try and bring out his fondly remembered pieces of technology, and smuggle in something modern to the room that time forgot. But if he’s not careful, he’s going to cause a paradox with his list of items:

Room 404 – Dave Delaney

Feb 24 2011 33 mins

Dave Delaney is this week’s guest, and ventures into Room 404 to bring back some of the great memories of his childhood, the first wave of podcasting, and reckons he has a solution to all the light-induced headaches he’s having. But will he be able to convince webmaster Ewan Spence to let them out?

Room 404 – Yoz Grahame

Feb 16 2011 45 mins

This week, Yoz Grahame joins me to do his best to return his favourite gadgets, software and web services to be brought back out of Room 404. Currently working for Linden Lab, Yoz’s CV includes consulting for The IT Crowd and The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Starship Titanic, and Douglas Adams’ Digital Village. His quest in Room 404 goes something like this:

Room 404 – Ian Kendall

Feb 10 2011 42 mins

Ian Kendall is our second visitor to Room 404 to decide what he’d like to rescue from the vault… and in a slight twist to the format, which modern item he thinks deserves to be banished.