In 1972, Atari was formed and by August the first Pong game was completed. But, let’s go back in time to get the full background. Early days In 1966 at the University of Utah, Nolan Bushnell saw something called Spacewar!, he worked with Ted Dabney and they found that they […]
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So this didn’t start in 1970 it really started in 1969 in Bell Labs, which was a division of AT&T when hen Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and many others started working on this thing called Unix. Start of Unix It was all written in C and it started progress that […]
When you think of the gadgets you think of the latest and the greatest but where did all these bloom from? They had to come from somewhere, right? That iPhone didn’t come from the Pegasus galaxy via the Stargate. They didn’t come from Vulcan, unlike velcro did in the episode called Carbon […]
We moved on from Records to something called 8-track and then cassettes. 8-track never caught on. I had a few, well, my parents had a few growing up and our stereo played them along with records, radio, and cassettes. 8-track tapes These were a different type of music as it […]
From 1964 to 10 1988 8 track tapes were a thing, that is if you lived in Japan, Australia, Germany, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. If you lived in another country then you probably have never heard of these before. 1964 Bill Lear, yes of the […]
So I thought I about this after I posted the post about phones, I touched a little bit about landline phones. But what really is a landline phone and what does it have to do with gadgeting. Well, it has a lot to do with gadgeting as it inspires people […]
Jumping back in time a little bit. But, we had these things called landline telephones. Yes, some people still have them today. But, growing up they were a lot different than they are now They were a nice gadget to have. I am not going into a long detail of […]
I am going back to old school gadgets, the type of gadgets you had to have to listen to the music besides the radio. You know that thing in the car, on the wall, the clock radio. Yes, those existed. I had one growing up and I just got rid […]
The Why page talks about what this Website is all about. The domain name might be iamgadgetguy.com, but this site is more than just about gadget’s. Yes, I got this domain thinking about doing reviews on just gadgets that would be fun. Gadgets are great. However, life is more than […]