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Everything came in
avocado green...
EVERYTHING.
PONG blew minds.
- The first scientific calculator is invented.
- Sideburns and bell bottoms are cutting edge fashion statements.
- Bob Barker's "The Price is Right" airs for the first time.
- A new company, Atari, invents something called a “video game.” Its name is Pong and it blows people’s minds.
- New televisions come with a 13” screen – advertised as all anyone will ever need.
- Disposable plastics rule in American households.
- After tremendous success in earlier years, silly Earth Day is a flop in 1972.
- 8" floppy discs (each big enough to hold about 1700 words) are the new standard for state-of-the-art personal computers.
- Everything comes in avocado green. EVERYTHING. Especially blenders and nuclear control panels.
- Cars come with lap belts only, and even those are considered optional.
- Nuclear power is considered perfectly safe. (It’s seven years before the Three Mile Island accident…)
- The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant begins the commercial production of electricity.
Thinking we’ve learned a few things since 1972?
Some people disagree. They ask why should we get rid of something that still kind of works? Just because it’s leaking fluids? Because it’s falling apart? Because it’s grossly outdated and inefficient and unreliable?
Actually... yeah.
Vermont Yankee
went online
(photo
taken in
2008)
Nuclear was
considered safe
