Time Traveling (Or Old School Done Right)

[Finn]

Another item....

I'd travel to the early 70's or late 60's and introduce microwave ovens

You would be about thirty years too late and subject to potential copyright and patent lawsuits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven

On October 8, 1945 Raytheon filed a U.S. patent for Spencer's microwave cooking process and an oven that heated food using microwave energy was placed in a Boston restaurant for testing. In 1947, the company built the Radarange, the first microwave oven in the world

Not to mention there was a microwave oven in the kitchen in E.T., back in 1982.

 

[Dancing Doctor]

I like the slogan at the bottom of that ad:

"Like a party in your pocket. But not in a weird way."

 

[Rii]

They're a little late with that insight.

I'm shocked to learn that an internet humour site is at something other than the forefront of theoretical physics. Really.

 

[Australis]

Move over SteamPunk-- now we have 70sPunk.

aka REAL Punk

Had an idea for a series with 1970s style technologies (like valve-powered AIs) is space. I called it 'electropunk'.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ How about Funk Punk?

 

[M'Sharak]

Another item....

I'd travel to the early 70's or late 60's and introduce microwave ovens

You would be about thirty years too late and subject to potential copyright and patent lawsuits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven

On October 8, 1945 Raytheon filed a U.S. patent for Spencer's microwave cooking process and an oven that heated food using microwave energy was placed in a Boston restaurant for testing. In 1947, the company built the Radarange, the first microwave oven in the world

Not to mention there was a microwave oven in the kitchen in E.T., back in 1982.

The consumer version of the Radarange ("by Amana!" - always announced in very impressive Don Pardo-like tones) was a staple game-show prize on US television in the late '60s and early '70s. (This had become enough of a cliche by 1975 that it was obliquely parodied by The Tubes in their song "What Do You Want from Life?")

 

[scotpens]

Another item....

I'd travel to the early 70's or late 60's and introduce microwave ovens

You would be about thirty years too late and subject to potential copyright and patent lawsuits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven

On October 8, 1945 Raytheon filed a U.S. patent for Spencer's microwave cooking process and an oven that heated food using microwave energy was placed in a Boston restaurant for testing. In 1947, the company built the Radarange, the first microwave oven in the world

Not to mention there was a microwave oven in the kitchen in E.T., back in 1982.

The consumer version of the Radarange (“by Amana!” - always announced in very impressive Don Pardo-like tones) was a staple game-show prize on US television in the late '60s and early '70s. (This had become enough of a cliche by 1975 that it was obliquely parodied by The Tubes in their song “What Do You Want from Life?”)

Don't watch the food cook!

Yes, the commercial microwave oven was introduced in 1947. Some home kitchens had them in the 1960s, though they were still fairly expensive luxury items. We used to call them “radar ovens.”

And voicemail is just a centralized version of the automatic answering machine, which has been around since the 1930s.

As for me, if I could travel back in time, I'd assassinate the guy who invented the leisure suit. And maybe the geniuses at American Motors Corporation who came up with the Pacer and the Gremlin.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Arthur C Clarke once wrote about how he and his pals used to use the radar equipment to heat up their meals back in WWII.

 

[ITL]

"To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will. " - Mark Shubb

 

[Tan Ru]

I'd like to drop a bug in the Reagan administration's ear about the price of arrogance.

VICTORY??

 

[trekkiedane]

I didn't see this till now:

Stop missing calls. Start interrupting movies.