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Mary Tyler Moore on the Dick Van Dyke Show
In the 1950s and 1960s, networks and advertisers imposed strict controls on what could be shown on television. For example, Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke played the married couple Laura and Rob Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke … Continue reading
Link Ch. 10 – How ARPANet Grew
ARPANet was the joint military/academic computer network that would eventually give birth to the Internet. Here are a series of maps that show how ARPANet slowly grew in size and complexity from its founding in 1969 until 1977.
Link Ch. 8 – Silent Movies
Here are a collection of links to some great early, early silent film examples, mostly from my Tumblr: Animations of Muybridge people-in-motion images: Note: Most of these contain some nudity. Simple animations Collection of films based on Muybridge images Edison … Continue reading
Link Ch. 6 – Edward R. Murrow in London
Former NPR anchor Bob Edwards talks about the importance of the legendary radio and television broadcaster Edward R. Murrow.
Posted in Book Link, Chapter 6, Chapter 7
Tagged Edward R. Murrow, media history, radio news
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War correspondent and journalist extraordinaire George Esper, RIP
George Esper died last night. He was 79 years old. He, along with Peter Arnett, was the last western reporter to leave VietNam after the fall of Saigon. And it seemed like he covered every shooting war the US was … Continue reading
Link Ch. 4 – Gutenberg’s Influence
Back in 1999, A&E’s Biography program profiled the top 100 influential people of the Second Millennium. They’re number 1 pick? Johanne Gutenberg. Can’t argue with that.
Link Ch. 4 – A History of Writing
Dr James Clackson, senior lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge, explains how we got our alphabets in this video slide show from the BBC.
Link Ch. 2 – The Endless Presidential Campaign
Does it seem to you like recent presidential campaigns have gone on forever? That may be so, but as Truth 4 points out, Nothing’s new: Everything that happened in the past will happen again. According to NPR’s On The Media, … Continue reading