History of Technology

Automats were a short-lived, but interesting development. The first time I became aware that such a thing had existed was in the movie "Dark City" - which is spectacularly good. If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and watch it 😉 https://www.untappedcities.com/automats-cafeterias-nyc/

The Lost Automats and Cafeterias of NYC - Untapped New York

Revisit the lost automats and cafeterias of New York City, self service restaurants that offered New Yorkers a place to socialize and eat!

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The Grande Taberna In Herculaneum

A recreation of what this Roman restaurant probably looked like while it was in use.

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Great video, explains exactly how people learned gradually how to build better defenses - each element was the result of discovering and fixing weaknesses: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ojFAO7UWYkw

Ancient engineers built cities like fortresses

If you travel back to ancient times and become the ruler of a city, the first thing you’d do is build a tall wall around it, your city’s shield against invad…

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The humble shopping cart is already 88 years old

Amazingly, the design evolved very little... The original goal was to allow customers to buy more than they could carry in their shopping baskets. While this might lead some people to buy more than they would have, to me personally, it means that i have to make fewer trips to supermarket over the same time period and I'm pretty sure that this is true for most people.

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To feed your nostalgia, you can now buy a 64 bit Amiga 😅 https://www.a6000.net/

The Apollo A6000

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The evolution of computers

Yes, it's an AI generated video, but frankly very cool. If there ever was a good use for AI videos, this is it. It's fascinating to see how computers changed, generation after generation... it's soon going to be 100 years since the very first computer. 50 years since the first micro-computer!

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Antonov 225, the largest aircraft ever built in history!

Still Soviet technology - fragile and not very useful.

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I hate the fact that all of those great ideas on how to make the tool-less assembly of a PC never made it into the mainstream 😡 There are so many great ideas that could make a significant difference since the 1970s and they just disappeared. Take my all-time favorite keyboard,...See more