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Paul Layendecker's "WAY BACK WHEN" for Weds., Nov. 23, 2022 1889 The first jukebox was installed, in the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. It was an Edison

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Paul Layendecker's "WAY BACK WHEN" for Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021 1889 The first jukebox was installed, in the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. It was an

From sci-fi to Wi-Fi to my-wi: the future is here Credit: Zhenqing Du In 1965 my dad brought home a transistor radio from the television factory where he worked. At home, we still had the stately valve-amp radiogram that took up half the parlour, where my mother had listened to Churchill’s radio broadcasts while my dad was fighting in the war. As a small child in the 1960s, I liked to sit behind the humming radiogram, watching the orange glow of the glass valves. It was fairy-like and warm. T...