Owen Rowley

Owen Rowley

Author: Karl Kuras October 3, 2023 Duration: 2:06:56

Starting out as a signals decoder for the air force, through to working for Nolan Bushnell's Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatre on its ill-fated Kadabrascope animation initiative, Autodesk, VRML and so many others, Owen Rowley is a man of a thousand lives in tech.

Heck, he may have even helped invent the mousepad.

Listen to some amazing stories, from the dawn of the computer age through to the rough and tumble world of the dot com bubble.

Recorded April 2023

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https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14013035/

The Christmas that Almost Wasn't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BEIoe_YFEo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Air_Command

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_packet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_E._Cheese

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Karamazov_Brothers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Catmull

http://platypuscomix.com/darkvault/misfits/misfit52.html

https://www.showbizpizza.com/info/documents/ptt/ptt_pizzatimes3-1.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sente_Technologies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell#Catalyst_Technologies_Venture_Capital_Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk

https://techmonitor.ai/technology/autodesk_releases_the_cyberspace_developer_kit

https://www.keanw.com/2017/03/autodesks-early-role-in-the-vr-revolution.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk_3ds_Max

https://segaretro.org/Ono-Sendai

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RenderWare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pesce

Servan Keondjian - Direct3D - Interview   https://www.patreon.com/posts/servan-keondjian-75383519

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Lab

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Douglas-Engelbart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML

https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/11/column_cyberbanana_windows/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidelity_Investments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk

https://web.archive.org/web/20010412094448/http://www.echo.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_People%27s_Money

https://twitter.com/owen93

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensorama

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_Sonoma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakes_the_Clown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skidoo_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_for_Fake

https://fortune.com/2023/04/27/elon-musk-lawyers-argue-recordings-of-him-touting-tesla-autopilot-safety-could-be-deepfakes/

Copyright 2023 Karl Kuras


Ever wonder what gamers were actually talking about decades ago, before online forums and endless hot takes? Each month, Video Game Newsroom Time Machine hosted by Karl Kuras does exactly that, dusting off the headlines and magazine pages from the past. This isn't just a nostalgia trip; it's a grounded look at the industry's turning points as they happened. You'll hear about the surprising announcements, the forgotten controversies, and the hardware launches that had everyone buzzing-from arcade trends in Japan to home computer wars in Europe and North America. The podcast specifically revisits news from exactly 30, 40, and 50 years prior, creating a unique layered perspective on how video game culture evolved. It’s like sitting in a newsroom from a different era, piecing together the stories that shaped the games we remember today. Tune in for a monthly dose of context, where the past conversations about pixels and processors feel surprisingly fresh and directly connected to the present.
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