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1879 ELECTRICITY

In October 1879, nobody would’ve guessed that the world was about to change forever. Edison had already come up with the incandescent bulb with a carbon filament. As a result, the American inventor created a system of electric lighting—reliable and simple by design. Within a year the invention became a successful commercial product, and by the start of the 20th century, electricity lit up not only the homes, but also the streets of all major European cities.

1895 RADIO

On the 7th of May, 1895, Alexander Popov first revealed his invention to Russian physicists and naval officers. A year later, Guglielmo Marconi received a patent for a radio set. And so, the greatest form of mass media and communication of the coming 20th Century was born, though the world knew little of it at first. It was only two years later that the debate regarding its inventor—Popov or Marconi—heated up.

1928 TV

In 1928, engineer Vladimir Zworykin sold the first model of his invention for $75. Back then, this was equal to two-month’s wages for the average American, so the exotic invention didn’t exactly light up the market. A year later, a company named “Visionette” released the first the first serial television receiver; its screen was the size of a postage stamp. Few contemplated that someday TVs would be found in every household, or that they could be the size of entire rooms.

1936 COMPUTER

The year is 1936. The world wasn’t supposed to know about Englishman Alan Turing’s new computing machine. After all, it was used not just for solving difficult math problems, but also to calculate flight trajectories and decode enemy messages. However, the secret wasn’t kept for long; as just five years later, in the heat of World War II, the German Konrad Zuse created the first programmable computer based on Turing’s work.

1957 THE INTERNET

In 1957, secret research began in the United States on the possibility of using computer networks as a new tool of information transmission. Four years later, the chief of the research group, Joseph Licklider, published the “Galactic Network”, describing the future of the Internet. However, during the first data transmission in 1969, the topic was of little interest to most—though this is in part due to the fact that the transmission was the first two letters of the word “login.” Typical consumers were only able to appreciate the invention only a quarter of a century later, when the Internet started to become a means of communication and research.

2008 BLOCKCHAIN

In 2008, blockchain technology was developed, giving people the ability for secure online transactions. Its creator, also the founder of bitcoin (the first form of cryptocurrency) was the person or group of people known as Satoshi Nakamoto. Cryptography enthusiasts understood the significance of this creation, and it wasn’t until bitcoin’s exponential rise made it a global sensation that the wider public became familiar with it as well.

2017 СRYPTOSYSTEM

The year of the launch of PLATINCOIN, the newest cryptosystem. It was founded on the basis of the hybrid technologies of blockchain: Proof-of-Work and the revolutionary Proof-of-Stake. The innovative platform is connected with the social network named PLC Network, a crowdfunding platform named PLC Business, an online store named PLC Market, and the educational platform PLC Academy. PLATINCOIN is already here to change the world and overturn our preconceptions about marketing, business, finance, and the market as a whole. Not too many people on a global scale know about this, however…

Forgotten Homes Sitting Peacefully Alone In The World

A tree emerges through an ancient ruin. [Wales]

This hut was used as a base in Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition (1911-12). After the party died from extreme cold, starvation, and exhaustion on their return journey to the South Pole, the well-stocked hut they were attempting to reach has been left untouched. [Antarctica]

An abandoned prairie house. [Howard, South Dakota, USA]

An abandoned home on North Brother Island, New York City. In 1885, the island was used as a dumping ground for people with smallpox and typhoid fever and later, a rehab center and prison. It has been abandoned since 1963. [New York, USA]

An abandoned child-sized Victorian-style tree house. [Florida]

A decaying wreck amongst trees. [Virginia, USA]

A tired old mansion along U.S. Route 15. [Mansfield, Pennsylvania, USA]

Mark Wahlberg Didn't Always Look Like This

Take a photographic look back at the career of Mark Wahlberg...

Mark Wahlberg, James Madio, and Patrick McGaw in The Basketball Diaries (1995)

Titles: Diario de un rebelde

People: Mark Wahlberg, James Madio, Patrick McGaw

Characters: Neutron

© 1995 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Facts That’ll Make All 30-Year-Olds Feel Really, Really Old.

The actors who played Xander and Willow are as old (or older in Xander’s case) as Anthony Head was when he first played Giles.

Head was 42, though had turned 43 by the time the show aired. Alyson Hannigan is now 42, while Nicholas Brendan is 45!

You were the very last children IN HISTORY to start school before the invention of the World Wide Web.

If you were born before 31 August 1986, you’d have started school in September 1990. Just months before the World Wide Web went live in December 1990. This was also the same month as Home Alone was released, which leads us perfectly into our next fact…

Same goes for YouTube, which was registered in early 2005.

In September of this year, any kids that started secondary school were born AFTER the invention of Facebook.

Whereas you were 18 when it launched, but probably closer to 20 bythe time you actually signed up.

You are SIX years older than Monica and Rachel were meant to be at the start of Friends.

The oldest dog on record, Bluey, reached 29 years old. 

This means every dog that was alive when you were born is no longer with us. :(

You’re also older than the oldest recorded sheep, lion, and tiger. Cats, on the other hand, have been known to live as long as 38! So there might be a handful of cats out there that were around long before you.

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Dog Years

Everybody has heard of this one I'm sure. It is perhaps the biggest myth of all when talking about the animal kingdom. Dogs vary from breed to breed and there really is no linear scale. A vet will probably tell you that after one year, a dog is more like late teens in human years when it comes to total development. But then after that, it's almost impossible to compare.

Bats

I don't know how far it stretches but where I grew up there was a saying "As blind as a bat". I guess some bats don't have the best eyesight but they aren't blind. In fact, many bat species see very well. I mean, they do have eyes…so….

Ostriches

Ostriches will sometimes eat dirt (which you might suggest is weird enough) but for some reason people have decided that they bury their heads for some reason. It isn't true. Maybe we invented that idea so we had a metaphor for ignorance.

Dog’s Nose

Have you ever heard anyone suggest that a healthy dog is one which has a wet nose? Yeah well if you have you can rest assured that it doesn't mean your pup isn't well if it has a dry nose. A wet nose jsut shows the dog has been active, that's all.

Lemmings

I rememebr that very early computer game called Lemmings. It was insanely frustrating but I was a kid at the time so give me a break. Yes lemmings do migrate en masse but no they don't commit mass suicide. If any of them fall from a cliff it is by accident.

Toads

Toads get a bad rap most of the time and I guess a lot of that has to do with how ugly they are. That and they can be devastatingly destructive to native flora and fauna. But they are also mistunderstood. There is a myth that they will give you warts. Like the one about the baby birds, I reckon this was invented by cautious mothers.

Pit Bulls Are Dangerous = Myth

Okay so many people will disagree with this one but the fact remains that when you are referring to a "pit bull", you're actaully referring to a dog of mixed breed. He or she could have bits of all sorts and so trying to narrow a dog down to point and say that is a pit bull is a bit of a waste of time.

Baby Birds

There have been suggestions that if baby birds are for some reason handled by human that they will automatically be rejected by their mothers. I reckon this was invented by a human mother to stop her children trying to peer in to a nest. It isn't true. Birds have a horrible sense of smeel so there's little chance they'd even know.

Elephants

Some people say that elephants are the only creatures on Earth who are incapable of jumping. Now, I'm not going to reject that as myth by saying that they can jump, but simply that there are others like sloths, rhinos, hippos, and giraffes. None of those guys can jump either.

Earthworms

Have you ever heard that if you cut a worm in half then it will grow two worms? Yeah well this is not true. Who made that up? It has some regenerative ability in growing a bit of a tail but it certainly cannt grow a new head to make two worms.

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Bats

Just a few species of bats migrate but the ones that do…well, they’re something to see. The world’s largest mammal migration is the annual journey of Zambia’s straw-coloured fruit bats. An astounding 8 million bats blanket the air during the migration, as they travel to feed on their favourite delicacy, the musuku fruit.

Zooplankton

Zooplankton are the countless numbers of organisms that float in the water column of the world’s oceans and seas and includes organisms as diverse as jellyfish, krill and juvenile fish. The thing about their migration is that it isn’t vertical rather than horizontal. Known as vertical migration, the movement of zooplankton, in relative terms, rivals the seasonal migration of more famous terrestrial creatures.

Salmon

Salmon are capable of traveling hundreds of miles inland via rivers and waterways, and will even ascend thousands of feet up mountain streams to return to the waters where they were born. Remarkably, their journey takes them through both fresh and salt water.

Caribou

North America’s caribou populations migrate the furthest of any terrestrial mammal. The journey can often be more than 3,000 miles in just one year. AS many as half a million individual animals are sometimes involved. These numbers are rivalled only by the African wildebeest.

Monarch butterflies

The monarch butterfly’s migration is outdistanced by dragonflies however, it could very well be the most colourful migration. It spans 7,000 kilometres (about 4,349 miles) includes three to four generations, and occasionally crosses the Atlantic Ocean. It is surely a wondrous thing to witness.

Birds

Of all the bird species on Earth, about 1800 of them are migratory. Seabirds like the albatross spend more of their lives flying than they do at rest, and bar-tailed godwits undertake the longest non-stop flight of any bird, between New Zealand and China. Not all birds migrate via flight; penguins migrate but do so by swimming rather than flight.

Wildebeest

This is one of nature’s greatest spectacles as, along with the wildebeest themselves, as many as 200,000 zebra and 500,000 gazelles also make the journey, followed by some of the savannah’s top predators. The herds often cross crocodile-infested rivers while lions prowl in the tall grass nearby. Amazing…

Dragonflies

These fellas have been known to travel for quite a while but it was only relatively recently that scientists figured out exactly how far. In 2009, scientists discovered a 14,000- to 18,000-kilometre dragonfly migration route that spanned from India to the Maldives, the Seychelles, Mozambique, Uganda and back again. What makes it truly incredible though, is that it is run like a type of relay race over a few different generations.

Baleen Whales

Many sea creatures migrate but none cover such huge distances as do the baleen whales. The gray whale (which travels as far as 14,000 miles round trip annually) and the humpback whale (which travels as far as 16,000 miles round trip annually) migrate a greater distance than any other mammal on Earth, from the tropical areas in winter to the polar regions for summer.

Sea Turtles

Some leatherback turtles have been recorded traveling across the Pacific Ocean between Indonesia and the U.S., up to a huge distance of more than 12,000 miles inside of just 647 days. One of their most impressive feats is the ability to navigate their way back the exact beach where they were born to spawn their own offspring.