The Great Geek Manual

The only way of finding the limits of the possible
is by going beyond them into the impossible.

- The Lost Worlds of 2001 by Arthur Clarke, 1972.

I’ve seen a LOT of fan videos, and this is far and way the best I’ve ever come across. It’s hilarious.

I would love to know how long this took to piece together. I could name the episodes the Star Trek footage was pieced together from right off the top of my head, but remembering the bits of dialogue and fitting them together so tightly must have taken weeks.

1877
Construction begins of a working prototype of a phonograph from a set of drawings made by Thomas Alva Edison.

1835
Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales.

1878
A telephone is first installed in The White House, in Washington, DC, by Alexander Graham Bell himself, for the use of President Rutherford B. Hayes administration. The first call made on the telephone is between Hayes and Bell, thirteen miles away. The first call made on the telephone is between Hayes and Bell, thirteen miles away. The first words he speaks into the phone are, “Please speak more slowly.”

1898
Danish electrical engineer and inventor Valdemar Poulsen patents the first practical magnetic sound recorder, the Telegrafoon, using magnetized piano wire as a recording medium.

1913
The Ford Motor Company opens the first moving assembly line in Highland Park in Detroit, Michigan. Using the assembly line, the factory is capable of producing a car every two minutes and thirty-eight seconds. The method will become so successful that the Ford will rapidly become the world’s largest car manufacturer.
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Dare to be gorgeous and unique.
But don’t ever be cryptic or otherwise unfathomable. Make it unforgettably great.

- Amiga Intuition Reference Manual by Robert J. Mical, 1986.