Smart Nonsense 🌈
@SmartNonsense
Followers
9K
Following
833
Media
381
Statuses
627
Stories that explain our world — made fun to know. Makers of @hirewithclipt & @brainblastapp.
Join 4M+ curious nerds 👉
Joined June 2021
What happened to Dell?? How'd they go from a clunky PC in your family’s basement... To a $102,000,000,000 infrastructure giant powering the internet?
2
2
7
Remember Bridgit Mendler from Disney Channel? Turns out she went to Harvard, earned a PhD at MIT, and is now CEO of a space startup that raised $30M from @a16z and @foundersfund... Her first prototype? Built in her garage with Home Depot parts...
2
1
13
Smart Nonsense is hiring a Creative Writer & Producer! If you live and breathe viral video, this is your chance to make the internet your playground 🌈 You’ll own the full content lifecycle, turning wild ideas into viral videos that reach 1B people annually DM me for more info
1
2
7
But nobody uses it anymore! So Ray formats his new email language: (it was so clever we never stopped using it)
0
0
1
Ya, that little symbol was used by medieval merchants to mean ‘at the rate of’ Like:
1
0
0
He looks down at his keyboard.. He needs a symbol that will NEVER appear in someone’s name. Not a period Not a hyphen Not a space (that would break everything) Wait!
1
0
1
Why does every email have ‘@‘ in it? Well, the year was 1971. The guy was this computer engineer, Ray Tomlinson:
1
0
1
Advertising explodes. We’re talkin’ brand campaigns, jingles, slogans, highway billboards, Super Bowl commercials.
0
0
3
BOOM! They invent focus groups and advertising becomes a ~science~.
1
0
3
But here's the thing... Up until the 1960s, advertising was basically just everyone shooting in the dark. Nobody really knew what worked. So TV execs call a meeting with psychologists…
1
0
2
And now advertising is no longer just about who’s within earshot. Papers can be dispersed far and wide, massive audiences can be reached, more products can be sold, and profits become unlimited. Here’s the first book advertisement:
1
0
2
So they start printing handbills, flyers, and pamphlets for everything.
1
0
2