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Watch A Woman From The 1990s Explain What A Computer Is
One of the things that will never fail to make me happy: seeing people stuck in time explain what modern day technology is. Kim Komando hosted an educational series about computer and explains the basics of its hardware, DOS, Microsoft Windows, Writeand more.
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How Canned Food Conquered The World — And How It Almost Didn’t
The BBC has a wonderful dive into the history of canning, tracing its origins from a technology designed to help expand and sustain the British Empire, to a miracle commodity of modern capitalism. And it almost failed before it ever got going.
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Just Imagine If This Crazy Confederate Helicopter Had Actually Been Able To Fly
Back in the 1860s, repeating rifles were a pretty new development. There was a still a lot of horse-riding and open field-fighting. And the Ashokan Farewell played under everything. But the south had a high tech trick under its sleeve. A good old-fashioned whirlybird.
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Photoshop’s Fathers Wax Nostalgic About How It Came To Be
It’s become the de facto standard for digital photo editing and tweaking, but how much do you know about Photoshop’s 22-year history? In this short documentary the creators of what is possibly one of the most pirated pieces of software ever — including Thomas Knoll, John Knoll, Russell Brown and Steve Guttman — talk about…