I came toThieves’ Worldin the first rush of playingAD&Din the early 1980’s. Thieves’ World was tailor-made for aD&Dlocale, and in fact my brother and I had the boxed set of the RPG module before we actually touched the module. That early module, as unforgiving and sometimes sparta...
due in large part to its early adoption of blockchain technology. In November, a virtual plot in The Sandbox set the record for the highest-valued digital land sale when metaverse developer Republic Realmpaid $4.3 million to purchase a digital parcel from Atari. ...
Still cited asone of the greatest TV shows ever made, "The Wire" went off the air more than 10 years ago. The acclaimed HBO drama featured a black ensemble cast, helping to launch the careers of Michael B. Jordan, Idris Elba, and Michael K. Williams, and took a realistic look at Bal...
Jim Rutt is said to have first used the phrase ‘snail mail’ in 1981, and the term spread from there. Created in the 1980s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, theZephyr Notification Systemwas used for earlytext messaging.
It's astounding that a show this strange was able to land a network TV time slot in the early 1990s. The show follows the investigation of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) into the murder of a homecoming queen in a Washington logging town. While the premise makes it sound...
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“The Bob Newhart Show” checked every one of these boxes early enough in the history of the medium to be rightly deemed a pioneer — and broke this ground while centering its story on its star’s unassuming, nebbishy persona. The comedian went on to lead another character-driven comedy ...
and cutting a quick record of tributes bought them some time. It’s more a well-curated and well-performed selection of early R&B and rock ‘n’ roll chestnuts than a nightclub act, though they deliver some potential crowd-pleasing things like the cheeky Lieber-Stoller rug cutter “Saved....
Keep home a haven. Play music, have spontaneous dance parties. Make art. Bake. Be silly. Start playing Christmas music early. Save politics for after the kids’ bedtimes. Use all the coping strategies we honed in lockdown to keep the weight of the world off little shoulders. ...
These Words: The song’s chorus —“Got a long list of ex-lovers / They’ll tell you I’m insane / But I’ve got a blank space, baby / And I’ll write your name” — became a meme upon its release, due to “long list of ex-lovers” being commonly misunderstood by fans as ...