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Listening to Episode 423, you asked what games people played during long car rides. I had one of the early cartridge handheld games.
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It was great for its time. There were a number of different games and I thought the graphics were really good until one whole line in the LCD disappeared and I couldn’t see everything.
On This Day In History for February 4, 2015
This is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 days remaining in 2015.
- It was on this date in 1703 that In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master’s death.
- February 4, 1789, George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
- It was 79 years ago today that Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
- Also today in 1967, Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
- Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg on this date in 2004.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to
- Russian physicist and mathematician, Nikolay Umov, born on this date in 1846.
- Also born on this date in 1986, Germany physicist Friedrich Hund.
- The man who discovered the Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh was born today in 1906.
- Also born February 4, 1927 is Rolf Landauer, the German-American physicist .
- Comedian, actor, and author David Brenner would have been 79 today.
- Director and producer George A. Romero turns 75 today.
- Also turning 75, a familiar tertiary character in many Star Trek films and shows, actor John Schuck.
- And finally, American computer scientist and co-developer of the B programming language, Ken Thompson turns 72.
It’s also SIMS day – to celebrate the launch of the Sims software game launched on this date in the year 2000!
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And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 4, 2015
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Remember When
- Code hidden in a bullet! – Fixed
- Every Time Travel Movie Ever, Ranked
- How Radical 70s Scientists Tried to Change the World
- JUST SURF THE NET: A Funky Tribute to The Internet of the 1990s! – Geeks are Sexy Technology
- Wearable Tech In 1922 Was a Radio Inside Your Top Hat
- Incandescent Bulbs, 135 Years Ago and Today
- 100-year-old box of negatives discovered frozen in block of Antarctica’s ice – Imgur
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