Anyhow, it was a big (past) week for you gamer-type geeks. Our first bit-o-knowledge takes us waaay back to 1996; a time when the phrase "you've got mail" actually meant something. On Nov 8th, Eidos Interactive released the first Tomb Raider... giving gamers the best excuse to use the pause button since Chun Li. (I was considering making a Captain N joke, but went with Chun Li)

This (past) Wednesday the 7th was a big day in Geek history. Philip Francis Nowlan's character, Buck Rogers, makes his debut on the airwaves on this day in 1932. The radio show inspired the then-just-budding nerd culture which had sprung up in the previous few years around the science fiction pulps (or Scienti-fiction as it was called then by editor and nerd-enabler Hugo Gernsback). The pulps' readership and the show's listeners were the first real organized group of nerds in history; communicating by letters, debating the finer points of Buck's little hood thing and whether or not Buck Rogers could beat Flash Gordon (come on, they were the primordial nerds-of course the question came up). Back then, scienti-fiction was called "the one true fandom." Included among these pioneer nerds were Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman.
More (past) history after the jump!
Also on this (past) Nov 7th, for all you engineering nerds: in 1940, the famed Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed. I suppose its not too geeky, but any film geek would probably list this as one of their absolute favorite pieces of archival film.

And for fans of boring news and educational tv: on Nov 7th, 1967, LBJ (along with viewers/listeners like you) created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. Huzzah for NPR and PBS!
Then, two years later, on Nov 10th, 1969, the very first episode of Sesame Street aired. So in 1969, the collective childhood of America was born. Now can someone tell me when Snuffleupagus stopped being imaginary?!?

Anyhow, that's more than enough history for this (past) week. Let's see if I can get you some current history this (coming) week.
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