This Tech Is Older than You Think...

We test Austin's tech knowledge with a big ol' mystery tech budget on the line

[JimmyChampane]

i cut out the intro and i don't regret it

[Krackerlack]

I just imagined a ww1 soldier vibing in the trenches on spotify

[bakedbeans]

Do something where he has to guess the year big companies were founded

Like not everyone knows that Nintendo was founded in 1889

[brettf]

10:03. Austin was right about the date of downloading games, but for the wrong reason. You could download “text based games” by BBS in the late 1970s, well before the Intellivision. Meaning the correct answer is 1970s.

[windowslab]

In-car navigation started when BMW started making the first in-car interaction system in the whole world on their 7-series sedan (hehe, "touchscreen" but a not-touchable small TFT)

[Erik-prrf]

1930 Iter Avto
Designed and created in the 1930s, it’s more like a “map guidance tool”
since it didn’t really give voice prompts and directions and, of course,
it didn’t use satellites.

The device came with a set of paper maps. These were wrapped from one roll
to another across a display and a cable connected to the speedometer controlled
the scroll rate. The speed with which the display moved was proportional to
the speed of the car so it always showed the correct point. The big problem
was that the moment you drifted from your route, you would have to load a
new map and find the exact spot of your current location.

[getbackjojo]

"This is", should become a podcast... I'm just listening at work and enjoying. Kind of wanted to hear more :\

[pianoplayerkey]

"The Baldwin Mfg Co" around 3:01 -- Hey I wonder if that could be the same Baldwin company (or any relation) that made pianos throughout the 20th century in the USA? (At home, I have two Baldwin school (Hamilton) upright pianos made in the 1950s.)

[Valen_Tubes]

I love learning about old technology that to us NOW is like having a piece of paper but back then it was like having a spaceship. And I also really like the new style the channel got, it's not like before were it's just Austin talking and saying cool facts like its was school or whatever but 2 guys actually telling these things to each other and the audience

[laural]

I clicked on this thinking "Wow, this guy looks like Austin Evans"

...that guy IS Austin Evans

[BobAll-imkj]

I'm over here with my sticks and stones




This is new

[Mazai]

This is (no pun intended) by far the best episode you’ve had on this channel 👌👌👌 keep it up!

[calebreesepaul]

Great work, keep it up!! Maybe next time it could be something along the lines of when each major game company came out with portable systems or when CD’s became preferred instead of Vinyl Discs

[BadKarma]

The intelvision came out on 1979 But The
Intellivision PlayCable was introduced in 1980, and like SEGA Channel fourteen years later, allowed cable companies to provide games via cable wires to an adapter. PlayCable was a joint venture between Mattel and General Instrument, and development began even before the Intellivision had a wide release.

[channeleightyfour]

He's actually right though. The intelevision released December 3rd 1979.

[ryanwilliams]

No “Hello, and Welcome to This Is” intro?

[Cpreston]

I'm just so digging this side channel, guys. Please keep it up. Love it

[filip]

Matt, you should do a questionnaire on The impacts of technology on culture. You'll think of something related to this, um sure.

[introvurtl]

9:20 thats a famicom disk system which you can only use to download things but it uses a key-osk (i don't know how to spell it) so that debatable

[OmegaEnvych]

Funny that I actually knew about Telharmonium as it was also the very first music synthesizer.