Data Is Plural

S1E5: Atari Emails

Jeremy Singer-Vine Season 1 Episode 5

This episode’s guest is Vikram Oberoi, whose atariemailarchive.org was featured in the Sept. 21, 2022 edition of the Data Is Plural newsletter. Vikram explains how he discovered the emails (originally published by former Atari engineer Jed Margolin), their backstory, how they became a yearslong obsession for him, how he processed them into structured data, how organized them into threads, and what he learned along the way.

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Theme music by Nikhil Sonnad.

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