#TechHistory

The vocoder was built to compress phone calls. It ended up encrypting Churchill's war dispatches—and eventually defining the sound of Daft Punk, Auto-Tune, and K-pop. The story of technology's most unexpected detour.

In 2021, Clubhouse was the hottest app on earth. Invite codes sold for hundreds of dollars. Then it nearly vanished. The story reveals how social media hype actually works.