Movies, books, music, and more from 1924 are all entering the public domain today, meaning that you're free to download, upload, and share these titles however you see fit. And it's completely legal.
Franky Zapata was reportedly angry about the plan to refuel over the English Channel, which was required by French authorities for safety reasons.
Certain Boomer basements are little shrines to obsolescence, untidy stockrooms of the one-time cutting-edge. What worthless old technology will Millenials be inexplicably hoarding?
Almost every country in the world uses metric measurements. Every country except for the United States that is. It's usually not a big problem. But there have been some close calls throughout history when people used metric instead of imperial, or vice versa with disastrous results.
Flying used to be more luxurious, but it also used to be much more expensive. Which is perhaps why America saw so many strange airlines crop up in the 1980s after the airline industry was deregulated in 1978, abolishing government mandates on the price of fares and the kinds of routes that airlines could fly.
In the early days of radio broadcasting, there was no easy way to tell how many people were listening so media researchers took to using crude tools to figure out what Americans wanted to hear over the radio waves.
Producers of newsreels from the 1900s until well into the 1920s didn't feel like they had to document a real event for that scene to count as news. Recreations were just fine, even if you didn't tell the audience that what they were seeing was fake.
It's no secret that the 1980 comedy movie "Airplane!" is a parody. But for some reason, I've spent my entire life believing that "Airplane!" was a broad parody of 1970s disaster movies. But it's actually a very specific parody of one movie from 1957.
A trip back through time, gazing forward at the longevity of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Matchbox Twenty.
This concept was not long for this world. One reason? It created a lot of bottlenecks. If the car ahead of you was taking up a lot of time, it caused everyone else to just wait.
This list is both correct and definitive and cannot be changed. And you're wrong.
In the late 1960s, Roberts was manager of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPA (now known as DARPA), and oversaw the development of the ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet.
We have predictions about the future from kids in 1984. And some of them are as dark and terrifying as you might guess for kids who were experiencing ever-present anxiety about the Cold War.
Emergency responders like police and ambulances were going to take to the skies to help save lives, like in this illustration from legendary retro-future artist Frank Tinsley.
Futuristic headlines here in the year 2018 might make you ask "why?" But back in the 1950s, illustrators in Detroit were asking "why not?"
The world of invention is famous for its patent disputes. But what happens when your dispute wasn't with another inventor but whether the Patent Office saw you as a person at all?
Ideas for an invisible missile shield in the sky are much older than the 1980s. As just one example, we have this Sunday comic strip from 1959, which imagined the missile defenses of the future.
We're still waiting on our flying cars. But back in 1923, the magazine Science and Invention assured readers they were just around the corner. And to top it off, the buildings of tomorrow would be built to "solve" the traffic problem.
We've been promised solar-powered semi-autonomous lawnmowers for decades.
Some people here in the 21st century still think of solar power as a futuristic, unproven technology. But solar-powered machines have been around for well over a century.