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Remember When the U.S. Secretly Built a Social Network to Destabilize Cuba?
U.S.-funded social networks were launched in 2010 with ZunZuneo and Piramideo in 2013.
by
Matt Novak
via
Gizmodo
on
March 15, 2024
Here's What People Thought of YouTube When It First Launched in the Mid-2000s
It took a while for pundits and other observers to truly understand the power of the new platform.
by
Matt Novak
via
Paleofuture
on
February 14, 2020
Animators Brought a Guillotine to the Disney Labor Strike in 1941
It wasn’t simply a static symbol – the “blade” actually moved.
by
Matt Novak
via
Paleofuture
on
November 26, 2019
The Story of the American Inventor Denied a Patent Because He Was a Slave
What happens when the Patent Office doesn't recognize the inventor as a person at all?
by
Matt Novak
via
Paleofuture
on
August 28, 2018
How 1960s Film Pirates Sold Movies Before the FBI Came Knocking
The FBI storms a suspect's property, guns drawn. The crime? Film piracy.
by
Matt Novak
via
Paleofuture
on
May 29, 2018
This Futuristic Color TV Set Concept From 1922 Was Way Ahead of Its Time
Back in the earliest days of imagining what TV looked like, the appliance was a magic technology.
by
Matt Novak
via
Paleofuture
on
May 4, 2018