Wednesday, April 16, 2014

The 1930's "Like" Button For Your Radio

The Man Who Tried to Invent the Like Button in the 1930s
As noted on Paleofuture, Facebook was not the first to think up the idea of a "Like" button.  In the early 1930's, a research engineer and lecturer named Dr. Nevil Monroe Hopkins thought up this little radio set top device that would allow listeners to send a "yes" or "no" signal in response to whatever was being broadcast.

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