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On 26 March 1976: HM Queen Elizabeth II Became the World’s First Monarch to Send an Email

March 26, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteWhile visiting the Royal Signals & Radar Establishment, HM Queen Elizabeth II sent her first email on 26 […]

Flu Mask of the Future, 1919

March 23, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn 1919, a woman wears what was most likely considered the “flu mask of the future” — a […]

Amazing Vintage Footage Shows the Legendary Finnish Icebreaker Tarmo Working in Helsinki in the 1920s

March 22, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThis video shows opening shots from Peter von Bagh’s 2008 documentary “Helsinki, ikuisesti” (“Helsinki Forever”). It shows a […]

Amazing Vintage Photos of a Very Young Bill Gates in 1984

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This post was originally published on this siteThese amazing photographs captured a very young Bill Gates in 1984 when he was still not yet 30, […]

Cool Snaps Capture Little Kids With Their Headphones in the 1970s

March 12, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteWhen Sony unveiled the Walkman in 1979, it transformed the way we see and experience the world as […]

UFO Detector Ad From the 1960s (With a 100% Money Back Guarantee)

March 11, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteRemember when they detected all those UFOs with these things? And at only $17.95 it’s a bargain! Runs […]

Mac the Mechanical Man on Venice Beach, California, ca. 1935

March 7, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteMac the Mechanical Man was created by inventor Leighton Hilbert. The alleged robot reportedly weighed 250 pounds and […]

20 Amazing Vintage Photos of the Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound, 1974

March 6, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteWeighed over 70 tons, comprise dozens and then hundreds of amps, speakers, subwoofers, and tweeters, stand over three-stories […]

A Ham Radio Operator Using a Teletype Model 15, 1963

February 23, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteHere’s a picture of a ham radio operator using a Teletype Model 15 paired with a Morse key. […]

Controlled Impact Demonstration: In 1984, NASA Made Airliners Safer by Crashing a Boeing 720

February 17, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe Controlled Impact Demonstration (or colloquially the Crash In the Desert) was a joint project between NASA and […]

Saab 99 Test Mules: When the Swedish Company Used Their Prototype ‘Paddan’ and Labeled It “Daihatsu’ to Test a Car

February 14, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn 1966 SAAB was secretly developing a new model. They took a body from the old 96 model […]

This Sixteenth Century Clockwork Monk Is Fully Operational

January 3, 2020 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe 15-inch-tall clockwork Padre, the figure of the well-known miraculous monk San Diego de Alcalá, was made of […]

Dec. 30, 1953: The First Compatible Color TV Sets Go on Sale for $1,000 (Around $9,500 Today)

December 30, 2019 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteOn June 25, 1951, CBS broadcast the very first commercial color TV program. Unfortunately, nearly no one could […]

A Man Sold His VHS Player on eBay and Got a Heartwarming Letter Back From the 86-Year-Old Buyer

December 27, 2019 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThey say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. One 31-year-old St. Louis man learned that in the […]

December 26, 1982: TIME’s “Man of the Year” Is a Computer

December 26, 2019 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteTIME magazine had been naming a “Man of the Year” since 1927, but broke with tradition in 1982 […]

Amazing Color Pics Document the Production Line of Porsches in Zuffenhausen in 1970

November 11, 2019 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this site” In 1970, I was able to tour and photograph the ‘production line’ for Porsches in Zuffenhausen, near […]

Zenith Flash-Matic, the First Wireless TV Remote

November 9, 2019 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteChannel surfing was born more than six decades ago. The first TV remote control, called the “Lazy Bones,” […]

Cool Snaps That Defined Television Styles of the 1970s

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This post was originally published on this siteHere is a cool photo set that shows television styles in the 1970s. See more »

50 Years Ago: Amazing Photographs of Apollo Families’ Tears and Ecstasy During Moon Landing Mission in 1969

July 16, 2019 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteFifty years ago, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin made history when they became the first humans to […]

12 Interesting Facts About Nikola Tesla You Probably Didn’t Know

July 10, 2019 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteNikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and […]

Interesting Vintage Photos of Men With Computers at Workplaces in the 1980s

June 15, 2019 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteComputers in the 1980s were rather different from computers of today. They could do the fundamental things a […]

These Vintage Photos of Men at Computers Show We’ve Come a Long, Long Way!

May 30, 2019 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteComputers truly came into their own as great inventions in the last two decades of the 20th century. […]

Manufacturing Concorde, the World’s First Supersonic Passenger Jet

May 14, 2019 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteConcorde remains one of the most iconic and most beautiful aircraft ever to take to the skies and […]

25 Cool Pics That Show People With Technologies in the Eighties

May 14, 2019 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIf you lived through the 1980s, then you know it was an amazing decade. It seemed like every […]

Amazing Vintage Photos of Hughes H-4 Hercules, The World’s Largest Flying Boat That Flew for Only 26 Seconds

May 9, 2019 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn 1942, the U.S. War Department needed to transport war materiel and personnel to Britain. Allied shipping in […]

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