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Rock-Ola. The Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corporation is an American developer and manufacturer of juke boxes and related machinery. It was founded in 1927 by Coin-Op pioneer David Cullen Rockola to manufacture slot machines, scales, and pinball machines. The firm later produced parking meters, furniture, arcade video games, and firearms, but became ...
Seeburg Corporation. Seeburg was an American design and manufacturing company of automated musical equipment, such as orchestrions, jukeboxes, and vending equipment. Founded in 1902, its first products were Orchestrions and automatic pianos but after the arrival of gramophone records, the company developed a series of "coin-operated phonographs."
Seeburg 1000. The Seeburg 1000 Background Music System is a phonograph designed and built by the Seeburg Corporation to play background music from special 16 2⁄3 RPM vinyl records in offices, restaurants, retail businesses, factories and similar locations. Seeburg provided a service similar to that of Muzak.
Jukebox. A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that plays a patron's selection from self-contained media. The classic jukebox has buttons with letters and numbers on them, which are used to select specific records. Some may use compact discs instead.
The disc phonograph record was the dominant commercial audio distribution format throughout most of the 20th century, and phonographs became the first example of home audio that people owned and used at their residences. [5] In the 1960s, the use of 8-track cartridges and cassette tapes were introduced as alternatives.
Sound Leisure. Sound Leisure Ltd (SL) is a design and manufacturing company based in Leeds, United Kingdom. The company has several divisions and product ranges but is known most commonly for their production of jukeboxes. Originally formed by Alan Black and Edward Moss in 1978, the company which is now ran by Christopher and Michael Black ...
Epoch Networks (www.epochnetworks.com) was, at one time, the largest privately held first tier internet service provider ISP founded by Scott Purcell in 1994. It was the fourth commercial internet backbone in the United States. Epoch was also one of the first members of the Commercial Internet eXchange —for which, Scott Purcell served as a ...
2011: Snapchat, photo sharing. 2012: Coursera, massive open online courses. 2016: TikTok, video sharing and social networking. Telenet was an American commercial packet-switched network which went into service in 1975. [1][2] It was the first FCC-licensed public data network in the United States. [3]