History of Technology

Copyright protection from the early days. The threat that you would have to re-load the program was serious - that could take 5 to 10 minutes 😅😅😅

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An interesting part of the recent history of technology: I always hated the fact that IBM chose Intel over Motorola, when they built the PC. The Intel 8080/88 had a really crappy architecture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILOaXwn-zO4

What Happened to the Motorola 68000? The Chip That Powered Macs and Workstations

#Motorola68000 #ComputerHistory #VintageTechnologyWhat happened t…

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A detailed timeline of Chernobyl - the page is old and has some issues, but the data is interesting, as are the linked videos: https://www.chernobylgallery.com/chernobyl-disaster/timeline/

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How Persians made ice in the desert around 2400 years ago

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126 years ago, France was a real country https://x.com/jameslucasit/status/2071580648519725089

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This is real footage from 126 years ago. What you are watching is the trottoir roulant, the moving sidewalk, built for the great World’s Fair in Paris in 1900. More than a century ago, three years before the Wright brothers would make the first airplane flight, the city built

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TV ad from 1950

A little slice of history - merely 76 years ago, TV was advertised as beneficial to children 🤣🙄🤦‍♂️☠️

Remember when this was a great price for a tiny TV with VCR?

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The HP-71B pocket computer - 1984

HP released their HP-71B pocket computer on February 1, 1984. It was spectacular. Here is the full HP Journal from July 1984 which presents the entire hardware and software along with applications - lots and lots of math! This was definitely targeting professionals - scientists,...See more

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This was a pretty ingenious system - slow, very slow, but the result looked very professional: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gcgEWyHnI18

How Engineers Wrote Perfect Letters Before Computers

How Engineers Wrote Perfect Letters Before ComputersCredits : YT/@MadebyEdgar Subscribe for more!👍🏻

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In the 1980s, I had speakers by Jean Maurer, about the same size as the ones in the video. Stunning sound quality!

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Very good points about how the printing press and IT are part of the same continuous information revolution. https://x.com/organizermemes/status/2030721982027780314

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I love this video

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