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Post #AwIntbjO9WLtqq11X6 by [email protected] |
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Back at the @tedium commissioned search game!Today’s commission comes from @F… |
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Post #AwIntbrtdt9qHDzonI by [email protected] |
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@ernie Did you come across this Invent This! interview of him? Amazing he lived… |
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Post #AwIntciMUp7otwXiZU by [email protected] |
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“They sold, what I believe were plans to build all sorts of nefarious items l… |
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Post #AwIntd7WzFG4A0Jono by [email protected] |
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In October 1974, a tiny ad appeared in the science and chemistry section of Pop… |
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Post #AwIntdXlPiF3TMalgu by [email protected] |
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It was a professional relationship that continued until at least 2008, when the… |
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Post #AwIntdxHsoeskWX9TU by [email protected] |
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What happened in the meantime? Well, a company grew from nothing into one of th… |
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Post #AwInteM6OYVXzU8y9Y by [email protected] |
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Where’d it come from? You can credit/blame a New Hampshire man named Robert E… |
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Post #AwIntekuuIMDERkmpc by [email protected] |
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As a high schooler, Iannini blew off his left hand, not exactly a shock given t… |
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Post #AwIntfB9KlLCXo1jii by [email protected] |
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(It makes sense that a guy with experience in killing bugs would move into pota… |
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Post #AwIntfb1mY2bq48P3Y by [email protected] |
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Anyway, let’s lean back into Information Unlimited. As I noted in my recent p… |
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Post #AwIntg1yANalBcjv3A by [email protected] |
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But Information Unlimited stands out as a mail-order business as it represents,… |
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Post #AwIntgQQhR9qPUBSAy by [email protected] |
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Yes, there were catalogs. Here’s an example from 1985, accessible on the Inte… |
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Post #AwIntgrj3wzZm8xFiq by [email protected] |
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Iannini had earned a bit of a name for himself among niche and DIY electronics … |
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Post #AwInthNHAeEHLziRto by [email protected] |
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He never wrote for Popular Science (missed opportunity!) but he did publish a l… |
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Post #AwInthl1kLECXepPv6 by [email protected] |
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The company did transition to the internet era—for many decades, its site liv… |
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Post #AwIntiAuC7vbpuw5Fw by [email protected] |
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It even had a YouTube page. Here’s the most popular video on the page:https:/… |
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Post #AwIntib8caub9HD292 by [email protected] |
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Sadly, though, the company seems to have died with Iannini, who passed in 2023. |
