Famous event. Which company is he talking about?
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Steve Jobs talking about a partnership with Microsoft in Macworld 97
What is going on here?!
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Jordan Mechner’s Karateka game had an easter egg - insert the disc upside down into a regular floppy drive and it would play an upside down version of the game on screen!
Identify this parallel network that had research groups around the world going ga-ga for a while.
In fact, one of their concerts was broadcast on it:
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M-Bone, aka the Multicast Backbone -an experimental research network designed to allow multicasting. The Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge 1994 tour concert from Texas was multicasted out on it.
Identify invention and inventor. He’s better known for a ‘bridge’ he created, FYI.
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Charles Wheatstone’s Stereoscope. The inventor of the eponymous Wheatstone’s bridge also created one of the world’s first 3D viewing mechanisms.
What is this?
There is a wealth of information in the image
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The first ever atomic clock
What it is?
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Computer Geek Barbie!
Identify experiment that’s been running since 1840.
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The Oxford Electric Bell.
First ever picture taken of a particular company. Which?
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PayPal
Connect
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Facebook’s new campus is Sun’s ex campus. Wah.
What’s the ‘space’ connection?
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Jeff Bezos (1) started a private space flight company called Blue Origin. Their first flight is named after Robert H Goddard (2). As an aside, Neal Stephenson (3) used to be an employee there.
