{"id":7711,"date":"2004-07-23T03:25:02","date_gmt":"2004-07-23T01:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/23\/television-history-the-first-75-years\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"television-history-the-first-75-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/23\/television-history-the-first-75-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Television History &#8211; The First 75 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20040723-1957-RCA-21CD7916-21in.jpg|324|328|1957 RCA 21CD7916)%><\/div>\n<div class=\"rightbox\"><%image(20040723-1959_Philco_Predicta_Princess.jpg\" alt=\"1959 Philco Predicta Princess\"><\/p>\n<p>The time machine of my blog has already travelled back to enjoy <a href=\"\/blog\/item\/1392\">old calculators and computers<\/a>.  This time it goes back to gain some knowledge of the Third Best Thing&trade; invented in the 20th centure &#8211; television.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvhistory.tv\/\">TvHistory.tv<\/a> has all you ever wanted to know about television sets.  The site is conveniently broken into few eras of development and staffed with a bunch of pictures, technical data and timelines.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>The time machine of my blog has already travelled back to enjoy old calculators and computers. This time it goes back to gain some knowledge of the Third Best Thing&trade; invented in the 20th centure &#8211; television. TvHistory.tv has all you ever wanted to know about television sets. The site is conveniently broken into few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/23\/television-history-the-first-75-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Television History &#8211; The First 75 Years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10191,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/20\/television\/","url_meta":{"origin":7711,"position":0},"title":"Television","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Once again I'm going to link to Scott Adams' blog. 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