Today is Television Day. The 1950's (1955-58) anthology series NAVY LOG featured stories from "official U.S. Navy files." The series provided many actors, including Clint Eastwood, Michael Caine, and Leonard Nimoy, some of their earliest credited roles. In August 1957, then-Senator John F. Kennedy was technical adviser for the "P. T. 109" episode of the program, which related the story of the sinking of the patrol torpedo boat that he commanded. He also was a guest on the broadcast of that episode.
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November 21, 1963: President and Mrs. Kennedy left Washington, DC for a 2-day, 5-city tour of Texas. After landing in San Antonio, they traveled to Houston and then stopped in Fort Worth for the night.
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NPR - All Things Considered
Nov. 21, 1963 | JFK Remarks in San Antonio
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Life Magazine issue that was scrapped tomorrow in 1963 after JFK’s assassination and replaced by a JFK memorial issue:
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Here's the short story on LIFE issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKOK2nwLwGY
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Read it here.
For Finnish students of the JFK story: a take from Pekka Vahvanem, writer for Suomen Kuvalehti, the biggest news magazine in Finland.
Nov 21, 1969: The first permanent ARPANET link was established between the IMP at UCLA and the Interface Message Processor (IMP) at the Stanford Research Institute. By 5 December 1969, the initial four-node network was established.
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Nov 20, 1985: Windows 1.0 released...
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First announced in 1983, Microsoft Windows 1.0 wouldn’t make it to the consumer market for another two years — making it one of the first pieces of software to be dismissed as “vaporware,” a term actually coined by a Microsoft engineer a year before the Windows announcement, as a disparaging title bestowed upon a product that’s announced but never sees the light of day.
Windows 1.0 (fake) Ad aired on TV (1986)
Why did Ballmer say, "except in Nebraska" at the end??
M$FT employee #30 Steve Ballmer created not an Ad, it was never intended for the public, but solely for the entertainment & morale boosting of Microsoft employees. The answer to Nebraska in this 10 min esplainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqNJvMpxxco
IMDB
November 21, 1963: President and Mrs. Kennedy left Washington, DC for a 2-day, 5-city tour of Texas. After landing in San Antonio, they traveled to Houston and then stopped in Fort Worth for the night.
NPR - All Things Considered
Nov. 21, 1963 | JFK Remarks in San Antonio
Life Magazine issue that was scrapped tomorrow in 1963 after JFK’s assassination and replaced by a JFK memorial issue:
Here's the short story on LIFE issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKOK2nwLwGY
Read it here.
For Finnish students of the JFK story: a take from Pekka Vahvanem, writer for Suomen Kuvalehti, the biggest news magazine in Finland.
Nov 21, 1969: The first permanent ARPANET link was established between the IMP at UCLA and the Interface Message Processor (IMP) at the Stanford Research Institute. By 5 December 1969, the initial four-node network was established.
Nov 20, 1985: Windows 1.0 released...
First announced in 1983, Microsoft Windows 1.0 wouldn’t make it to the consumer market for another two years — making it one of the first pieces of software to be dismissed as “vaporware,” a term actually coined by a Microsoft engineer a year before the Windows announcement, as a disparaging title bestowed upon a product that’s announced but never sees the light of day.
Windows 1.0 (fake) Ad aired on TV (1986)
Why did Ballmer say, "except in Nebraska" at the end??
M$FT employee #30 Steve Ballmer created not an Ad, it was never intended for the public, but solely for the entertainment & morale boosting of Microsoft employees. The answer to Nebraska in this 10 min esplainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqNJvMpxxco
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