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This Incredibly Popular Tech Was Nearly a Total Failure. Now It’s Everywhere.
Slate· 56 minutes agoThe hype about new technologies often follows a predictable pattern. Barcode technology was first...
Metro blames 1970s signal equipment for Red Line delays ahead of summer closures
FOX 5 Washington D.C.· 1 day agoMetro officials apologized Tuesday for delays along the Red Line at both the Wheaton and Forest Glen...
Man buys 1970s train for £1 to save it from scrap
BBC via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe 507001 was restored to British Rail blue and grey colour to commemorate its long service [The Class 507 Preservation Society] A rail enthusiast has...
Ernie Barnes Paints What It Feels Like to Move
New York Times· 2 hours agoThe second thing you notice about an Ernie Barnes painting might be its vibrant color scheme. If the painting is “The Sugar Shack,” you might recognize...
Longtime Nevada federal judge Larry Hicks struck by car, dies
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 9 hours agoHicks was also elected and served as Washoe County district attorney in the 1970s, a position his...
Meet the Jewish grandmother who ran New York’s gritty 1970s porn scene
The Independent via Yahoo News· 3 days agoAn unlikely figure dominated the adult entertainment theater scene in New York City in the 1970s and...
Asha Puthli was nearly India's first disco star. She's now 79, and her tour's selling out
LA Times via Yahoo News· 35 minutes agoMy whole raison d'être was to build the bridge between one of the oldest cultures, India, with the...
Trump’s backroom vow to crush pro-Palestinian protesters is a warning
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoDonald Trump told wealthy donors he’d break the back of the pro-Palestinian movement and set it back...
Kim Jong Un’s Balloon Barrage: Bags of Excrement Fly Into the South
The Wall Street Journal· 20 hours agoBut now, South Korea’s offerings tend to highlight the Kim regime’s human-rights atrocities. North...
Photos show what it was like to eat at McDonald's in the 1970s
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