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  • From: Edward Wesolowski <ids AT idisplay.com>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Fwd: Re: [internetworkers] Farnsworth - Television day, Sept 7th
  • Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 12:32:14 -0400

Steve:
Or somewhere with good Net access so we can all bring laptops with webcams.
...I think this is especially fitting, really! Laptops, streaming video.... I'm in CH. Is there a good place nearby?
David:
Would it not be fitting to meet at a sports bar with huge television screens lining the walls?
Philo was partial to alcohol, I'm partial to espresso; There's a tad more to my reasoning, but it's probably largely personal on my part :-)

How far society has advanced (or declined) thanks to the development of TV.
There's a clip I saw of Farnsworth on the old Gary Moore, "I've Got A Secret" program. The blindfolded panel trying to figure who the mystery guest (Farnsworth) was, asked if he was a psychologist. The low-keyed Farnsworth smiled, said he wasn't,, but that you might need one if you saw his invention. This was in 1955.
I may have a copy of that clip here. I wonder if it could be played on the screens? ...in between the ball games! ...not! What am I thinking :-)

Ed W
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Ed W
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From: burnett AT pobox.com
To: Eudora::InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>

Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Farnsworth - Television day, Sept 7th
Date: 8/24/02 11:21 AM

On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, David Minton wrote:

Would it not be fitting to meet at a sports bar with huge television screens
lining the walls? How far society has advanced (or declined) thanks to the
development of TV.
David

Or somewhere with good Net access so we can all bring laptops with webcams.
Steve

On 8/24/02 10:50 AM, "Edward Wesolowski" <ids AT idisplay.com> wrote:
> Sept 7th is the 65th anniversary of Philo Farnsworth's demonstration of the
> first electronic television system. (In lieu of a more suitable event!) I
> plan to commemorate over an espresso, (or such). If there are any TV
> History buffs among INW membership, who'd like to celebrate too, contact me.
> Thanks
> Ed W
> > ...a brief forray from the early days of the Internet!
> www.idisplay.com/tvhist1
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