Historical Context: Recent Episodes
Historical Context
Putting History in Context: Views of the Past, Present, and Future from the Eyes of the World's Oldest Millenial
http://tritonknowledge.com/historicalcontext/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Early-Internet-Intro.mp3 This episode gives a short recap about the history and development of the internet before the internet became used for everything. This episode will set up future episodes about how things were done before you could do them on the internet with just a click of a button. For example, how would you book a flight or hotel, or how you could use catalogs to order things from the mail.
In this random episode, I discuss MLMs (multi-level marketing organizations) and DSAs (direct sales organizations). Although many people have talked about how these organizations are pyramid schemes, this particular episode focuses on other elements of how MLM organizations take advantage of people and why joining an MLM is a terrible idea.
A link to the John Oliver piece, which discusses different facets of MLMs (e.g. the pyramid scheme aspect), is located in the comments below.
http://tritonknowledge.com/historicalcontext/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/MLM-breakdown.mp3
http://tritonknowledge.com/historicalcontext/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Episode-2-VHS.mp3 Episode 2 discusses a time before streaming video, DVDs, or Laserdiscs–when the first widely available medium to record, store and watch video was the norm: the VHS tape.
Here is a youtube video of a VCR at work:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7c/VCR_in_action-01.ogg/VCR_in_action-01.ogg.480p.webm
http://tritonknowledge.com/historicalcontext/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Episode-1-Introduction.mp3 The first episode of Historical Context explores some of the themes this podcast will discuss.
A few post-episode notes:
- The Big Mac was first introduced in 1967 at a few restaurants owned by a Franchisee in Pittsburgh, and it went national about a year later in 1968
- A chalupa is an actual dish served in parts of central Mexico, to nobody’s surprise, it does not resemble the chalupas at Taco Bell
- I don’t have any written records to back this up, but based on my memory the Gordita came out in 1997 (at least where I lived) and then the Chalupa hit in 1999.
- The Honda Accord came out in 1976, but starting in 1982 some Accord production began in Ohio, which marked the first time a Japanese car was produced in the US.
- Michael Jackson did release several of solo albums under the Motown label before Off the Wall and Thriller