Here's another interesting episode of the same show (I've got a secret) - it's a 17 year old Ray Kurzweil plaing the piano. His secret is that he wrote a computer program that made the music he's playing. Pretty impressive for a 17 year old in 1965...
I thought the same thing. I guess they were reflecting that the man had survived the times to find himself on a gameshow about 80 years later, and about 60 years after that, the TV show found its way to youtube...
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Here's another interesting episode of the same show (I've got a secret) - it's a 17 year old Ray Kurzweil plaing the piano. His secret is that he wrote a computer program that made the music he's playing. Pretty impressive for a 17 year old in 1965...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Neivqp2K4
Apparently Atlantic is now combing Reddit for old news? Like six months ago news?
Way older than six months. I'm pretty sure I saw this there at least two years ago.
You mean combing for old game show footage on youtube? What does this have to do with reddit?
There was a post on Reddit about this a year or so ago.
http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/j97nn/til_an_...
The video was uploaded Apr 11, 2009, which makes it a bit more than 6 months old.
The Atlantic is converting itself into an SEO-driven blog spam site in the tradition of HuffPo.
I'm not sure why the article is saying this video is now on YouTube. The video pages says it was uploaded in 2009.
I thought the same thing. I guess they were reflecting that the man had survived the times to find himself on a gameshow about 80 years later, and about 60 years after that, the TV show found its way to youtube...
The man's story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Seymour
$80 and pipe tobacco! What a prize
$80 in 1956 is roughly $675 dollars today as calculated by CPI: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2480%20in%201956%20in%...
It's somehow fitting that the YouTube user who posted this also has a number of "OUR CATS..." videos.
I'm happy they had the decency to disable comments. I've noticed youtube comments are normally distasteful.
These crossovers of time are fascinating and interesting to research i.e. people who used the internet before the airplane was invented.
They really got that really quickly, and it was sponsored by tobacco.