The original PowerPoint was first manufactured in the seventeenth century. The magic lantern was a form of image projector that used bright light to project pictures painted on sheets of glass onto a screen, perhaps a white wall or a sheet.
Back in the 1990s, there was a video rental store on every UK high street. Their shelves were full of the fresh and the classics, the obvious and the odd, and no end of titles such as Cannibal Holocaust or Zombie Flesh Eaters. You could risk little by renting something you’d never heard of; you could always bring it back the next day.
They happened. Not long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, either, but in 2005, in the seat-backs of Virgin Atlantic.
Wait only x minutes…
EXPRESS was one HOUR, not one nanosecond
What we did before Instagram
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(...and sometimes from a bus)
What happens when words disappear
