Throwback Thursday! Share a picture of a comic convention you attended years ago. Let's see those retro cosplays at thecomicbookaddicts.com! #ThrowbackThursday #RetroCosplay #OldSchoolCon #TheComicBookAddicts #TBT #ConMemories #GeekHistory Do you prefer signatures on the cover, splash page, or inside the book? https://www.thecomicbookaddicts.com/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
#geekhistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #geekhistory, aggregated by home.social.
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Pensée émue pour la norme SECAM L et le décret Péritel de 1980. Sans le protectionnisme technologique absurde de l'État français, la boîte strasbourgeoise CGV n'aurait jamais pu devenir millionnaire en vendant des boîtiers de transcodage analogique remplis de bobines et de condensateurs. L'exception culturelle, c'était aussi ça. 🎛️🇫🇷
#FOSDem #RetroHardware #GeekHistory #AnalogLife #SecamVictim
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Amstrad PcW16 🤭
Il y a des décisions d'ingénierie qui méritent une médaille d'audace. En 1995, Alan Sugar a validé un PC à processeur Z80 8-bits poussé à 16 MHz pour faire tourner une interface fenêtrée monochrome.C’était le synthétiseur analogique à l'ère du CD MP3. Inutile, brillant, et totalement légendaire. 📟✨
Et aujourd'hui, c'est un superbe collector. Le connaissais-tu ?
A lire https://www.silicium.org/index.php/catalogue/uk/pcw16
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Sécurité décentralisée, niveau 1970. Pour injecter un triple zéro (000) dans la matrice de ce terminal Burroughs, il faut littéralement tourner une clé physique.
C'est le protocole "Cold Storage" le plus stylé de l'histoire. Pas de hack possible sans crocheter du bronze. 💾🔐
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Des 68k en famille avec quelques frères, cousins et descendants :
Ils ont motorisé tant de Macintosh, d'Amiga, d’ST et d'autres…Le CPU des créatifs.
Le CPU des démos.
Le CPU des légendes ?#Motorola #68000 #RetroComputing #Macintosh #Amiga #AtariST #GeekHistory #silicium
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J’adore ces machines où l’UX est… mécanique.
La HP-46 (1973) combine calcul scientifique, RPN et imprimante intégrée : tu obtiens une trace papier immédiate et le clac-clac vaut un ASMR vintage. 😄A lire : https://www.silicium.org/index.php/blog-catalogue/ordis/hewlett-packard/hp46
#HP-46 #HewlettPackard #RetroComputing #VintageTech #RPN #OldHardware #GeekHistory
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#silicium collection :
iQue Player (2003) : N64 intégrée dans une manette 🎮
Cartouches → cartes mémoire, OS propriétaire, marché chinois only.
Du hardware culte et sous-coté. 🇨🇳https://www.silicium.org/index.php/blog-catalogue/consoles/nintendo-ique-player
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#silicium collection
#Radofin Programmable Video System (1983)
1 Ko de RAM, graphismes dignes d’un générateur de bave…
Elle croyait en toi, mais toi qui en a eu une, as-tu cru longtemps en elle ?#retrogaming #retrocomputing #heritage #toulouse
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Today in #GeekHistory 3/1/1893: Nikola Tesla gives the first public radio demo, keeping the death ray idea to himself for the time being.
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/28/1959: The American spy satellite, Discoverer 1 (the first object to achieve a polar orbit) is launched
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/28/1998: Nintendo releases Yoshi's Story for Nintendo 64 in the U.S.
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/28/1954: The first color television sets go on sale to the general public using the NTSC standard
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/25/1971: Sean Astin, who played Mikey Walsh in The Goonies and Samwise Gamgee in LOTR, is born in Santa Monica, CA
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/24/1970: National Public Radio is founded, replacing the National Educational Radio Network.
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/21/1983: The 1st video game world championship (North American Video Game Challenge) takes place at Twin Galaxies in Ottumwa, IA
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/21/1986: The Legend of Zelda is released for the Family Computer Disk System, introducing Link, Zelda, Ganon & the Triforce.
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/20/1962: Mercury Friendship 7 lifts off with John H. Glenn, Jr., the first American in orbit, and orbits the Earth three times.
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/19/1999: Office Space is released, m’kay
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/19/1990: The top rated Star Trek: TNG episode, 'Yesterday's Enterprise' airs.
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/19/1974: Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari Inc) receives a patent for controlling counters dynamically by logic circuits
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/17/1920: Comic book artist, Curt Swan is born in Willmar, MN. He will go on to be the long time artist for Superman (1950s - 80s)
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/17/1996: @NASA launches the 1st in the Discovery series of spacecraft, the 'NEAR' spacecraft, aboard a Delta II-7925-8 rocket.
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/17/1936: The Phantom, a comic strip created by Lee Falk debuts
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/16/1964: Doctor Who's Ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston, is born in Lancashire, England.
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/16/1962: La Jetee a French short film that served as the inspiration to Gilliam's 12 Monkeys is released
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A Great day in #GeekHistory 2/16/1957: LeVar Burton, Star Trek: TNG's Geordie LaForge, is born
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/15/2001: First draft of the complete Human Genome is published in Nature
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/15/1985: The Breakfast Club starring Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall and Ally Sheedy is released
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/14/1995: Wayne's World starring Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe and Tia Carrere opens
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/13/1633: Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
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Today in #GeekHistory 2/11/1938: BBC airs 1st sci-fi TV show with short adaptation of Capek's stage play "R.U.R." (which coined the term "robot" in 1921)
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Artifact of the #sun #sparc era of our lab. #geekhistory #sunmicrosystems #retrocomputing
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If you want to understand something fundamental about how the world works today, you need to learn the story of the transistor and how Robert Noyce changed everything.
In 1947, a trio of geniuses at Bell Labs (John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley) invented the transistor. But it wasn’t all brilliance... there was drama too. Disputes over credit and rights led Shockley to start his own company.
Years later, a young and brilliant engineer named Robert Noyce joined that company. He came up with the idea of replacing germanium with silicon in microchips, making them much more stable and practical. That decision changed technology forever. Later, Noyce went on to co-found Intel, and the rest is history.
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Toy Lines & TV
Jeffrey Harlan takes you on a nostalgic journey through the iconic cartoons of the 1980s.
https://geekunifiedtheory.com/3-toy-lines-and-tv/
#podcast #geek #geekculture #geeklife #geekhistory #scifi #fantasy #comics #superheroes #tv #heman #gijoe #transformers
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The Rise of Geek Culture
Jeffrey Harlan discusses the history and evolution of geek culture.
https://geekunifiedtheory.com/2-the-rise-of-geek-culture/
#podcast #geek #geekculture #geeklife #geekhistory #scifi #fantasy #startrek #starwars #comics #superheroes #books
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Today in #GeekHistory 12/21/1963: The Daleks are first introduced to Doctor Who, in the serial The Daleks.
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Today in #GEEKHISTORY 9/17/1976: The #NASA Enterprise Shuttle was officially dedicated. Most of the #TOS cast on hand for event.
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Today in #GeekHistory 9/15/1970: Monty Python airs the ‘Ministry of Silly Walks’ sketch on BBC One.
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Today in #GeekHistory 7/20/2001: Spirited Away was released in Japan and is frequently regarded as one of the best films of the 21st century as well as one of the greatest animated films ever made. #StudioGhibli
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Today in #GeekHistory 7/10/1962: Telstar 1, U.S. satellite, beams the first live transatlantic telecast.
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Today in #GeekHistory 7/10/1917: Don Herbert, the ever popular 'Mr. Wizard' is born in Waconia, MN
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Today in #GeekHistory 6/21/1969: Patrick Troughton makes his final appearance as the Second Doctor in the final episode of The War Games (#DoctorWho)
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Today in Future #GeekHistory: In 2063, humans & Vulcans will make first contact in Bozeman, Montana. LLAP, future us. Happy #FirstContactDay!
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I really, really want "Shift Happens". I'm sure it is worth $150 dollars, but I can't afford that.
If you love keyboards, history, and can afford it:
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There is a live Request for Comments on this profoundly important sociopolitical question here:
#MSoffice #windows #geekHistory #Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Office_Assistant#Request_for_comment_on_whether_to_use_the_name_'Clippit'_or_'Clippy' -
"Journey of the Sorcerer" feels like a window onto a hidden history, or maybe two histories.
I mean, it's not the Eagles that anyone expects. And it's not what most folks would remember as a globally significant science-fiction theme. Yet it's both of those things.
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Computer Languages in the order I learned (to some extent) them-after 42 years the order may be wrong: BASIC (Sinclair ZX80 & ZX81), dbase II (Osborne 1), Apple Logo (][), Assembler (VICMON Vic 20), dBase IV/FoxPro, Pascal, COBOL, Assembler (IBM something), RPG II/III, C (Kernighan & Ritchie), long break, more to life than computers? Postscript, HTML/CSS (are these languages?), Bash, Perl, SQL, PHP (3 just out), JS. First experience with a computer: Fortran on punch cards. #geekHistory
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History of global regular expression print (grep)