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I actually had a cup holder for a drive bay that was intended as one, it even had a cigarette lighter! https://sep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-39083765508394/thermaltake-x-ra...
One of the very few things that make me lament not being a smoker.
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I'm assuming Seattlites would be able to confirm. However as much discussion we've had about the internet remembering everything, I can't find anything in Google to confirm "Microsoft Coffee" except for this site, discussion of it on Reddit 13 hours ago.
> I'm assuming Seattlites would be able to confirm. Perhaps, however remember the Mandela Effect. I'd expect ong time KOMO viewers and staff to recognise the presenters, and I'm sure they were the right ones. I wouldn't trust their recollection of this story though, especially once they had seen the video - after all the camera never lies. Remember news anchors read dozens of these stories a day, to recall one specif…
KING ran retractions for days, and did their best to bury the footage.
I saw it when KING ran it, and had a good laugh. It was an obvious prank (the video looked like a bad cut & paste job, and the reporters were local comedians from "Almost Live"), but too bad a handful of humorless people ruined it.
I ran into Bill Nye some years later and asked him about it, and he replied they got into a lot of trouble for it.
Is there any reason to believe that this actually happened? Conveniently, it was published on April 1st. The story itself would be a great April Fools' prank. :)
The news footage is pretty convincing
Also, the recording itself is in a pretty bad shape, trying to sell you that it's a very old VHS tape that has been played a huge number of times.
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The news footage is pretty convincing
Yeah - I feel as if the task of building a fake news desk, hiring two (very convincing) actors to pose as anchors, filming it, and chopping it up in Premiere to give it the VHS look is way more effort than someone would put into a prank like this.
This is why computers used to have that cup holder that would slide out and give you a place to put it. When you weren't using it you could even put a music CD in it and it would play music right through your computer speakers!
I actually had a cup holder for a drive bay that was intended as one, it even had a cigarette lighter! https://sep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-39083765508394/thermaltake-x-ra...
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I just called KOMO. They confirmed they covered it, the footage is real, and it happened. In fact, the archives tech I talked to remembered it.
But can you believe them on April 1st?
Other than that, GP may have just been teasing. I mean what's the probability that you call them and they still have the same people there after 25 years? You call them and one of those rare guys (who's still there after 25 years) answers the phone. Or whoever answers the phone is willing to take the time to find someone who has been there since then. Seems unlikely.
Is there any reason to believe that this actually happened? Conveniently, it was published on April 1st. The story itself would be a great April Fools' prank. :)
There's a screenshot of pcweek.com page but unfortunately (or very conveniently) the earliest the internet archive goes for that domain is May of 1996, missed it by just one month! The full link in the screenshot is this and it still works! http://www.pcweek.com/spencer/spencer.html update: adding wayback link: https://web.archive.org/web/19960512211429/http://www.pcweek... update 2: From the main link: "There are a…
This is why computers used to have that cup holder that would slide out and give you a place to put it. When you weren't using it you could even put a music CD in it and it would play music right through your computer speakers!
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Or a little later, if you were anything like me, run a little homegrown music piracy operation for your entire high school!
According to my brother, Dreamcast game piracy was where the money was...
Later when they were cheap to buy used I think the piracy scene really picked up.
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I learned to love bad coffee from drinking it. Starbucks ruined everything. I wish McDonald's would bring back their battery acid coffee.