Joseph Matheny

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The Why Files: Operation Podcast · The Basement: Joseph Matheny | The Man Who Hacked Reality Before the Internet Existed · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

Memory was at a premium.

Storage space was at a premium because disk space was expensive and slow, unreliable.

So all these things were at a premium.

And so all the ideas I had were not quite...

ready to be implemented because the infrastructure wasn't there, right?

But I knew it was going to be.

So I was like designing all these things.

And I started working at places like Adobe because when I talked about e-books, because remember, I started talking about this before EPUB existed.

There was no Kindle.

I didn't even think there was an Amazon.

Nope.

But there was this thing called portable document format.

And I realized that there was all these things that was not being used for.

because it was a really rich format.

Most people didn't know that you could embed video and trigger events and like all these things you could do.

So I started working in Adobe simply because I wanted to work with the technologies that I thought was going to be the first one out of the gate for eBooks, because I had a vision for a book that would become much more than a book.

Cause it could, again, like when I saw Lynx,

I was like, it can reach out and touch other data and bring it back.

So like this link can always change because I can change it over here.

This data is always changing.

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