Remember These? AT&T’s You Will Commercials from 1993
Do you remember these commercials from 1993? It’s no longer “You will.” Today, it’s “You do.”
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Do you remember these commercials from 1993? It’s no longer “You will.” Today, it’s “You do.”
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On this day in 1968 Chester Carlson [no relation] died. Chester Floyd Carlson (February 8, 1906 – September 19, 1968) was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington. He is best known for having invented the process of electrophotography, which produced a dry copy rather than a wet copy, as was
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1837 – Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a “stationery and fancy goods emporium”. 1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times. 1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange
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1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality. 1920 – The American Professional Football Association (later renamed National Football League) is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States. 1961 – The world’s first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in
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1620 – The Mayflower starts her voyage to North America 1863 – Robert College of Istanbul–Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist. 1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the nation’s oldest, continuously-independent college
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The Age: THERE is not much of a plot – a goldfish in a bowl – but the scene and others from the same rolls of film have been revealed as the earliest colour moving images ever made in a discovery that has been hailed as ”rewriting film history”. The National Media Museum in Bradford,
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1898 – Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film. 1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident. 1906 – First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe. 1956 – IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305. Henry Hale Bliss (June 13,
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1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit. 1959 – Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color. 2005 – Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny’s Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. Bonanza was a NBC-produced western television series, which ran on that network from September 12, 1959 to January 16,
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1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine. 1932 – The New York City Subway’s third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened. The Independent Subway System (IND or ISS), formerly known as the Independent City-Owned Subway System (ICOS) or the Independent City-Owned Rapid Transit Railroad, was a rapid transit
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On this day in 1885 NarcÃs Monturiol i Estarriol, Catalan intellectual, artist and engineer, inventor of the first combustion engine-driven submarine, which was propelled by an early form of air-independent propulsion was born in 1819. The Ictineo II made her maiden voyage under human power on 20 May 1865, submerging to 30 metres (98 ft).
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