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io9 - Apr 23, 2008
For all you whippersnappers out there who never had the experience, here's a primer on how to use a rotary dial telephone. Produced by Big Brother ... I mean, the telephone company ... in the 1930s, the film explained …
Also tagged: telephones
io9 - Apr 23, 2008
Here's Dr. Harry F. Olson, director of the Acoustical and Electromagnetical Laboratory of RCA, with his newly patented phonetic typewriter. Looking very similar to the Machine That Types What Is Spoken To It of 1913 …
Also tagged: technology, typewriters
io9 - Apr 22, 2008
At my first office job in the mid-80s, we backed up the computer every night on reels of magnetic tape. Here, in a scene from a slide show of 1980s IBM mainframe computer ops (all set to a snappy Sousa-esque march) …
Also tagged: ibm mainframe, tape drives, vintage computers
io9 - Apr 20, 2008
If you're a music fan—or a fan of Guitar Hero—chances are good you're familiar with the iconic look of Gibson's Flying V guitar. What you might not know, however, is that the Flying V is only one of a trio of …
io9 - Apr 18, 2008
Direct to you from the pages of the 1966 Montgomery Ward Christmas catalog comes the Plazer, the bleeping, blipping transistorized ray gun of the future. Even though the Plazer's "ray beams" were contained "safely …
Also tagged: toys
io9 - Apr 17, 2008
Vinyl. It's what we'll be wearing in the year 2000, at least according to this 1967 newsreel documenting a space-age fashion show. Luckily for us, this prediction didn't hold - there's nothing worse than having your …
Also tagged: mod
io9 - Apr 16, 2008
Three cartoon cosmonauts (one of them a woman) celebrate their lunar landing in this Soviet-era postcard. The fact that the Russkis have yet to walk on the moon makes it all the more adorable. Click through for a …
Also tagged: space, ussr, space race
io9 - Apr 14, 2008
The next time you're feeling all smug and twenty-first century commuting into the office while using your laptop to catch up on emails or prep for a presentation, consider the following. Back in 1893, a publication …
Also tagged: technology, gizmodo, laptops, typewriters
io9 - Apr 12, 2008
Capitalism triumphs again in this cartoon from a novelty ink blotter dating to the 1950s. Ink blotters, by the way, were absorbent cards used to soak up excess ink from your fountain pen. Thanks to the invention of the …
Also tagged: space, technology, advertising, martians
io9 - Apr 11, 2008
"The white ones are the men and the yellow ones are the women" is the tag line on this odd ad for Univac's experiemental photochromatic technology. Odd because it was 1969 and drugs were the new social scourge - at …
Also tagged: dolls, univac, vintage computers