Description: LifeKnot was a social networking website with a focus on shared interests and hobbies. It was founded in November 2003 by Matt Muro, is based in Cambridge, MA and is privately owned.
lifeknot T-Shirt
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Description: QUBE was an experimental two-way, multi-programmed cable television system that played a significant role in the history of American interactive television. It was launched in Columbus, Ohio, on December 1, 1977. Highly publicized as a revolutionary advancement, the QUBE experiment introduced viewers to several concepts that became central to the future development of TV technology: pay-per-view programs, special-interest cable television networks, and interactive services.
QUBE T-Shirt
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Description: Ask.com (originally known as Ask Jeeves) is a question answering–focused e-business founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky, from his own design. Warthen, Chevsky, Justin Grant, and others built the early AskJeeves.com website around that core engine. In 2006, the "Jeeves" name was dropped and they refocused on the search engine, which had its own algorithm.
Description: Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC /dɛk/), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president until forced to resign in 1992, after the company had gone into precipitous decline.
Description: iVillage, Inc. was a mass media company that operated the ”most popular female-oriented sites” on the internet in the 1990s. In addition to ivillage.com, the company operated iVillage UK, Astrology.com, GardenWeb, and the NBC Digital Health Network. The iVillage website ceased operations on October 31, 2014, and the domain name was redirected to the Today Show website, while the other domain names were sold.
iVillage T-Shirt
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Description: 3dfx Interactive was an American technology company headquartered in San Jose, California, founded in 1994, that specialized in the manufacturing of 3D graphics processing units, and later, video cards. It was a pioneer in the field from the late 1990s until 2000.
3DFX T-Shirt
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Description: Charles Marvin Green Jr. (October 16, 1950 – December 10, 2017), better known as Angry Grandpa, was an American YouTube personality. His videos have been featured on HLN's Dr. Drew, TruTV's Most Shocking, Rude Tube, and MTV's Pranked. Over a span of ten years, Green's YouTube channel TheAngryGrandpaShow amassed a total of 4.72 million subscribers and 1.69 billion views. Following prior health complications, Green died of cirrhosis in 2017.
Description: DailyBooth was a photoblogging website designed for users to take a photo of themselves every day with a caption, in order to document and share their life with others, thus the slogan "your life in pictures." It was similar to social-networking websites such as Twitter in that you could follow other users and allow them to follow you in turn and get real-time updates on what other people are doing. The user base was geared towards teens. In 2009, the site was reported to have over 3 million unique visitors a month with a growth rate of about 35% a month. In November 2012, it was announced that the site would be closing down with users able to access and download their content until the end of 2012, and then it would be deleted completely.
Description: GetGlue's service was launched in June 2010, with headquarters in New York City. In November 2013, GetGlue was acquired by second screen company i.TV. Mashable called the merger “a solid meld between two platforms with similar goals — helping users find and engage with the best TV content — but different strengths.
GetGlue T-Shirt
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Description: AltaVista was a Web search engine established in 1995. It became one of the most-used early search engines, but lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, which retained the brand, but based all AltaVista searches on its own search engine. On July 8, 2013, the service was shut down by Yahoo!, and since then the domain has redirected to Yahoo!'s own search site
Description: nfospace, Inc. was an American company that offered private label search engine, online directory, and provider of metadata feeds. The company's flagship metasearch site was Dogpile and its other notable consumer brands were WebCrawler and MetaCrawler. After a 2012 rename to Blucora, the InfoSpace business unit was sold to data management company OpenMail.
Description: Charles Marvin Green Jr. (October 16, 1950 – December 10, 2017), better known as Angry Grandpa, was an American YouTube personality. His videos have been featured on HLN's Dr. Drew, TruTV's Most Shocking, Rude Tube, and MTV's Pranked. Over a span of ten years, Green's YouTube channel TheAngryGrandpaShow amassed a total of 4.72 million subscribers and 1.69 billion views. Following prior health complications, Green died of cirrhosis in 2017
Description: The Palms was the first venue in Milwaukee to host The Police and U2. An impressive list of bands played gigs at The Palms, including Megadeth, The Replacements, Duran Duran, Dokken, Talking Heads, The Airtones, The Psychedelic Furs, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Stray Cats, Joan Jett, and Meatloaf.
Description: The State Theater was a 1,206-seat single-screen movie theater located at 2616 W. State Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It opened in 1915 and by 1930 it was taken over by the Warner Bros. Circuit Management Corp. The cinema closed in 1957. Between 1976 and 1979 the building was renamed the Electric Ballroom and used as a live music venue, hosting acts such as AC/DC, Judas Priest, Budgie and The Runaways. The building was damaged by a fire in 2017.
Description: WZMF was a rock and roll radio station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1966-1979. At its inception, the station aired a "middle of the road" format.
WZMF T-Shirt
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Description: The Downtown club arrived in time to midwife the explosion of punk/post-punk in the ’80s. Shepherded by drummer Kenny Baldwin, the former disco (owned by his father) became ground zero for a revolving door of locals and touring acts. Today, it’s a parking lot, but The Starship hosted a who’s who of cult favorites including Pere Ubu, Captain Beefheart, the Ventures, D.O.A. and locals like the Oil Tasters and the Stellas (who grew up to become Die Kreuzen). At times, the club even served as an off-hours practice room for local bands in need of a space.
Starship T-Shirt
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Description: Strategically perched like a castle, complete with a watchtower, on the corner of Humboldt and North, Zak’s had been a venue for touring blues bands, bluegrass acts and whatever else came through until Jerome Brisch introduced himself to owner Damian Zak. The guitarist for The Haskels, a pioneering Milwaukee punk rock band, convinced Zak to give the new music a chance. As a result of the club owner’s open mind, Zak’s became the Cream City’s CBGB from 1978-1979, the hub of the emerging local scene and a tour stop for everyone from Pere Ubu to Magazine. The building now stands empty.
Description: Strategically perched like a castle, complete with a watchtower, on the corner of Humboldt and North, Zak’s had been a venue for touring blues bands, bluegrass acts and whatever else came through until Jerome Brisch introduced himself to owner Damian Zak. The guitarist for The Haskels, a pioneering Milwaukee punk rock band, convinced Zak to give the new music a chance. As a result of the club owner’s open mind, Zak’s became the Cream City’s CBGB from 1978-1979, the hub of the emerging local scene and a tour stop for everyone from Pere Ubu to Magazine. The building now stands empty.
Description: The 1888 building had a long history (it had been a bowling alley) before becoming a performance space in the ’70s—a place where musicians and avant-garde theater found a home. Management and focus kept changing. During the early ’80s, Century Hall was a popular restaurant (great fish fry!) where Snopek and other local bands performed. In its final incarnation, it was a popular East Side tavern and—up the stairway—a venue for touring acts ranging from Johnny Thunders to Jonathan Richman, as well as popular locals such as The R&B Cadets and Those X-Cleavers. In 1988, Century Hall exploded in a five alarm fire. A strip mall now occupies its Farwell Avenue location.
Description: In 1987, Jack Koshick, opened the Odd Rock Café, a bar for beer and bands, including some notable out-of-towners such as Hawkwind and Bo Diddley. The Odd Rock closed in 1990, and the old frame building (a sailor’s brothel in the early 20th century) stood empty for years before being torn down to make way for the Milwaukee Road townhouses.
Description: The Beagles is a Saturday morning animated television series that aired on CBS from September 10, 1966, to September 2, 1967. The show was produced by Total Television, which created King Leonardo and His Short Subjects, Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales, and Underdog. The show was cancelled by CBS after one season, despite finishing in the top 10 for Saturday mornings. It then went into reruns on ABC from September 9, 1967, to September 2, 1968. It was also the last animated series produced by Total Television before it was dissolved in 1969.
Description: Batfink is an American animated television series, consisting of five-minute shorts, that first aired in April 1966. The 100-episode series was quickly created by Hal Seeger, starting in 1966, to send up the popular Batman and Green Hornet television series, which had premiered the same year.
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