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minus-squareGraniteM@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up72·21 days ago Coca-Cola: Founded 1888 Nintendo: Founded 1889 Dracula, by Bram Stoker: Published 1897 It would have been historically accurate for the vampire hunters who killed Dracula to celebrate by having a Coke and playing Nintendo.
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up34·21 days agoWere they still a playing card company then?
minus-squaregwl@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·21 days agoRight until 1970 when they took a hard pivot into the new-fangled tech called “Computers”
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·21 days agoI thought they pivoted to pachinko machines before going digital
minus-squaregwl@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·21 days agoAye, and just before that to toys
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·21 days agoWeren’t they involved with brothels at some point?
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 days agoI’m sorry, I don’t know their history well though to answer that.
minus-squarerenegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·21 days ago having a Coke and playing Nintendo So playing a card game and drinking literal cocaine?
minus-squarelengau@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·18 days agoProbably something Bram Stoker did.
minus-squareLemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·21 days agoDon’t forget Kodak & the Dracula book were apparently contemporaries too: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/22690621
Coca-Cola: Founded 1888
Nintendo: Founded 1889
Dracula, by Bram Stoker: Published 1897
It would have been historically accurate for the vampire hunters who killed Dracula to celebrate by having a Coke and playing Nintendo.
Were they still a playing card company then?
Right until 1970 when they took a hard pivot into the new-fangled tech called “Computers”
I thought they pivoted to pachinko machines before going digital
Aye, and just before that to toys
Yup!
Weren’t they involved with brothels at some point?
I’m sorry, I don’t know their history well though to answer that.
So playing a card game and drinking literal cocaine?
As one does
Probably something Bram Stoker did.
Don’t forget Kodak & the Dracula book were apparently contemporaries too: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/22690621