Saturday, October 13, 2007
Things that are as old as Nick
So I found the "[year] introductions" category on Wikipedia today while reading about Nerds candy and decided to check out 1979. Among the things that were introduced in the same year that I was born: the McDonald's Happy Meal, Maglite, Mello Yello, the Sony Walkman, Trivial Pursuit, and Tostitos.
In TV land we also got The Dukes of Hazzard, The Facts of Life, This Old House and the TV show/station Pinwheel which would later bear a variation on my name: Nickelodeon. A show that would later find a home on that very network also came out this year: You Can't Do That on Television. Apparently Pinwheel and You Can't Do That on TV are two of Nickelodeon's longest running shows ever.
Klasinc&Loncar Duo (Just trying to help it get picked up by Google spiders, I maintain it for them)