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Summary: Finland is responsible for many technological breakthroughs from the last couple decades. But back in the early 1990s, Finland’s tech scene was mostly just a lot of teenagers pirating software illegally. In this episode, Molly Schwartz, who lived there for almost two years, dives deep into 8-bit music, pixelated computer screens and the days when games were distributed on C-cassettes. Just how did this small, cold, dark and sparsely-populated country become an IT powerhouse?