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Article #625674Re: The extinct tech you forgot existed
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 13:10
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 13:10
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Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> writes: >In this ><http://www.bbc.com/future/gallery/20180816-do-you-recognise-these-obsolete-technologies> >BBC article children in the UK between six and 18 years were asked if >they'd recognize ancient technologies like floppy disks or rotary >phones. Suppose results in the rest of the world would had been similar. Re the overhead projector. Was at a concert over the weekend (Zach Gill). It was basically a solo act, but there were two fellows with an overhead projector using it to generate shadows and other displays[*] on the backdrop behind Zach. [*] E.g. colored fluids on a spinning glass plate.
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