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Wed. 11/17 - The 1930s "Streaming" Music Service from Seattle

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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The progenitors to on-demand streaming music, including the multiphone in the 1950s American west and the Théâtrophone in 1880s Paris. Plus, new findings about Jupiter’s Great Red Spot from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. And the woman whose own immune system seems to have effectively cured her of HIV. Sponsors: Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/kottke Tentree, Use code KOTTKE to get 15% off at tentree.com Links: Early On-Demand Music Streaming Required Lots of Nickels (Atlas Obscura) Le streaming du XIXe siècle (ARTE Découverte, YouTube) Seattle's original streaming music service was launched in 1939 (NBC King5) Stop Everything and Behold this Mini Art Deco Telephone Jukebox circa 1935 (Messy Nessy) Jupiter: mission unveils the depth and structure of planet's shrinking red spot and colourful bands (The Conversation) Jupiter's Great Red Spot is deeper than we thought, NASA Juno spacecraft finds (NPR) NASA’s Juno spacecraft finds just how deep Jupiter’s Great Red Spot goes (The Verge) Scientists report finding a second person 'naturally' cured of HIV (STAT) Woman's own immune system has possibly cured her of HIV (NBC News) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today, the progenitors to on-demand streaming music, including the multifone in the 1950s

0:48.5

American West and the Teatrophone in 1880s, Paris.

0:53.3

Plus, new findings about Jupiter's great red spot from NASA's

0:57.7

Juno spacecraft, and the woman whose own immune system seems to have effectively cured her of

1:04.4

HIV. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:15.0

So you know those wallbox jukeboxes that they used to have at diners, you know, they sat on the tables and basically acted as like remotes for the diner's main jukebox so that

1:20.3

diner operators could basically rack up more change by having a bunch of patrons unknowingly

1:24.9

all pay a nickel for the same popular song?

1:28.6

Well, for a brief period in the mid-20th century, mostly just in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, there

1:33.9

was another device that looked slightly similar to those wall boxes, though with less buttons,

1:39.1

and designed to resemble the Empire State Building. And it had a similar function. It lived on the tables at

1:45.3

diners and allowed you to play a song you wanted on-demand for a small fee. But instead of acting

1:51.5

as essentially a remote for a primary jukebox machine, it actually played the music through its

1:58.2

speakers. Had it a device that was invented around the late 1930s

2:02.7

achieved that? Via telephone lines. See, when you slid your nickel, or later dime, into the

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