Feats
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Five Make-or-Break Technologies
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Here, we’ll explore five revolutionary technologies that changed their category’s landscape forever, or collapsed silently, with nobody watching. 1. BetaMax BetaMax lost to VHS in the Videotape format war. But that’s not where the product ended. In 1983, Universal Studios was going up against the entirety of Sony of America. Why? Pirated media. Seems we…
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ComicServer Muncie 3: Unlimited Possibilities
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We’ve written about ComicServer once before, but today we add a new (somewhat short) entry to talk about the newest addition to the Muncie series, Muncie 3. Unlimited Slots ComicServer has restricted users to eight comic slots and one custom slot for the longest time. With this update, though, things change. The service now gives unlimited…
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RCA VideoDisc and the Power of Innovation
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RCA was a pioneer in Telecommunications in the early 1900s, inventing a number of important and innovational technologies. Some things like home radio, color TV, and even NBC were created by them. If they didn’t create it, they at least played a role in the project. Some notable examples of that were television, VHS, and…
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The Story of ComicServer
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ComicServer is a 2-year old project and counting. For that small period of time ComicServer has successfully published six versions to the internet, created a Discord bot for fast access to the service, and even spawned two other services. Those services include this very blog. So how did it happen? May 4, 2020 was the…
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Southampton’s Skyline, 2022
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This photo overlooks a shore near Southampton out of the window of an Airbus A350 en route to London Heathrow. If you look closely, you see signatures of industrialization. In this case, there is a plot of land with what seems to vaguely have the appearance of a power plant. The rest (at least when…
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Boulders Beach, 2019
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Native to Africa (as you can tell by their name), African penguins usually live in southern parts of the continent. Like most other penguins, they are flightless, despite being classified as birds. Unfortunately, African penguins are largely becoming extinct. There was an estimated 1.5 million of the penguins in 1910, but their numbers went down…