How RCA Victor sold Sound Service to classrooms in 1939

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by pncnmnp • 13 days ago

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1Bas-12g• 12 days ago

A "humans have always done it" advertisement for modern Internet "education":

"As you might have imagined, there are a lot of parallels between this and the internet in the education wave. Just like RCA, MOOCs (Coursera, Khan Academy, MIT OCW, and Stanford Online) let a kid anywhere access lectures from the best professors in real-time, no longer limited by what's available locally. Both waves bundled hardware and infrastructure, like Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi kits, with a promise of modernization. And finally, both seemed to arrive against the backdrop of a broader consumer technology boom."

rconti• 12 days ago

The original edutainment?

dtagames4• 12 days ago

It's fascinating to think that sound recording was so new it had to be explained. People needed examples of what someone would record or play back and why.

Every new technology goes through a period like this.

BigTTYGothGF2• 12 days ago

The advertisement is too small for me to read, but in 1939 radio and recorded music had been around for decades.

dtagames4• 12 days ago

But they clearly didn't have market penetration.

Electric cars were invented before gas ones and still don't dominate in most countries, maybe only one?

Stratoscope• 12 days ago

The Bell System did this when dial telephone service was first introduced.

They held town meetings with a giant rotary dial onstage where someone explained it and demonstrated how to dial your calls.

And they made an instructional film about it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p45T7U5oi9Q

dtagames4• 12 days ago

Thanks for the link. I love old educational films and that one was great!

xattt• 6 days ago

Civil engineering-wise, our provincial government ran practice sessions for drivers when roundabouts started going in.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/islander...

ftchd• 6 days ago

This is the same post from 8 days ago from the same user. When you tap on the old er post it opens this one. Why is that?

supermatt• 6 days ago

Probably came through the 2nd chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

How RCA Victor sold Sound Service to classrooms in 1939

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