Clubhouse was like, "What if a conference call was a social network is like basically how I would put it. You would open up the app and there would be rooms you could join and people would be talking about all manner of things. You could start your own room. Uh, anyone could join. And for a inexplicable window in 2021, this was the hottest social network in America." And by the way, I should say Clubhouse does still exist. The app is still around. You can still go use it. ...

I hate to do this to you, but go back with me to mid 2020. We're all cooped up. We're all watching too much television. We're all getting really into making sourdough.And out of nowhere comes an app that promises a new audio only social network. And everybody everybody wants in. From the Virgin Media, this is Virgin History, a show about the best and worst and strangest and most important products in tech history.I'm David Pierce and today on the show we are talking about the brief and wild rise of Clubhous ...