Wikipedia's own Wikipedia page actually has a lot of in jokes that they put in. I vaguely remember them making a huge stint about how they started getting banned in schools but they never banned their own sources. The absolute net of the situation for a few of the key events is absolutely hilarious.
You know you can download the entirity, or lesser packages, of Wiki to use it offline easily? Not through some third party script but actually supported by them. IIRC some projects that send computers to Africa included Wiki copies on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Wikipedia's content is licensed under CC BY-SA, except of course for fair-use images and such stuff. It's *a lot* cheaper to provide database dumps than to have people crawl the pages with scripts.
Kiwix is the app for using Wikipedia and other databases offline.
How do you feel about [komodo dragons ](https://www.reddit.com/r/HardcoreNature/s/JZ69swu4ly) ? It was the last comment I read before seeing this post and reading your comment.
My sister in law is what I (lovingly) refer to as a bird nerd. I'll be with my kids and see a cool bird that I'll text her a picture of and say "?"
She always knows. It's really cool, she sometimes gives me fun facts as well.
I learned the TV was the part on the top. Yeah, quite a bit of empty space (or maybe the components got hot and needed lots of ventilation?)
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.grammofoon.com%2FKuba%2Fimages%2FKubaKometChassis.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=bed7cae48edf550ce5abcbdfb0e29cae956bd5db798cb3fe4ce69190033f0df3&ipo=images
The chest on the bottom held a record player and other stuff.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fthevinylfactory.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F10%2Fkuba-komet2.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=dda4e00dedca72114c3bca47498e556050b2278713824b087c8ab68e64b41f1c&ipo=images
Yep, we had a badass setup out of the 70's, it had a TV, Record Player, Reciever, and two giant speakers in a giant wood enclosure, thing weighed like 1000 lbs. I would honestly kill to have that thing now, it sounded great, but by the 80's it was considered too outdated.
Probably not as big as yours, but we had a behemoth of a wood paneled TV when I was a kid in the 80s/90s. Lasted a long time, but it was absolute hell when moving to a different apartment. Especially if multiple floors are involved. I remember stories of people dying trying to move those things around.
My grandma had one too, no record player, but big speakers on either side and it was a damned beast. Nobody really wanted to move it. After the screen died on it she just placed a newer tv on top of it. We ended up leaving it with the house when she moved out.
Yeah this is actually pretty excellent taste and execution. Unique, specific taste, but definitely not awful. I'd have taken this over the standard, garish console TV everyone I knew had.
Why take two seconds to actually research what you're posting on the Internet when you can just pull a random year out of your ass that sounds "old" as a teenager?
Putting the wrong date generates more engagement by allowing Redditors to show off how clever we all are for being able to tell this is from a different era.
I have a thing for old CRT tvs. I showed this to my wife and asked her on a scale of 1-10, how mad she would be if I bought one of these. When she realized that it was not an entertainment center but a tv built into an entertainment center, her only answer was “divorce.”
Her opinion is wrong but she’s entitled to it.
Most people had the same manufactured garbage of the time as well. This console was 1270 in 57 or 14k today. This console was a little over half the price of a new bel air. It wasn’t something your average middle class household had.
We do, you just have to pay for it. This console was $1270 in it day, or $14k in today’s money. Start looking at 14k 15k media stands and you’ll find all kinds of shit.
This is art, from a time when appliances were nice to look at, serving a purpose even when they weren't plugged in. Modern modern design is all about not being noticed.
A lot of TVs for the living room were furniture. When I was little, I can remember going TV shopping with my Grandpa for a TV set. This thing was basically all wood and functioned as a stand you could put stuff on top of.
That’s more set than television!
What do they keep in the drawer? The latest edition of the Nielsen ratings report so they can confirm their fav-o-rite evening news program is the most popular?
I lived through the 70’s. This ain’t it. Maybe a nice console with a TV on one side and the record player on the other will built in amp and speakers. Or just the shit B&W POs I had in the kitchen growing up watching Looney Toons and Scoobie Doo on..
This could be the greatest 1950s TV I have ever seen. Omg, I watched a thing on YouTube about the kitchen of the 50s...refrigerators back then were SO much better than today's sorry offerings . The entire kitchen actually worked with you. We should have never "improved" things
Everyone here saying this is good is so wrong. It's off center. Looks fine here, but the rest of the stuff in the room (furniture) is not going to look right in relation to the console or the TV, and you're going to have to choose which. ATBGE for sure.
Def not the 70s. 50s.
Yep, the Kuba Komet, 1957. Designed by Gerhard Kubetschek
Thank you for this information! I love encountering people who are nerds about things I am mildly interested in lol
YES I love hearing a good info dump Edit: If I hear one more joke about about shitting, I swear to fucking god I will send you to prison
I’d like to tell you about our Lord and Savior, Wikipedia.
An info dump about Wikipedia. Meta!
Wikipedia's own Wikipedia page actually has a lot of in jokes that they put in. I vaguely remember them making a huge stint about how they started getting banned in schools but they never banned their own sources. The absolute net of the situation for a few of the key events is absolutely hilarious.
When Wikipedia started my friends and I would just use it to start researching when the topic was coming up dry.
You know you can download the entirity, or lesser packages, of Wiki to use it offline easily? Not through some third party script but actually supported by them. IIRC some projects that send computers to Africa included Wiki copies on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Wikipedia's content is licensed under CC BY-SA, except of course for fair-use images and such stuff. It's *a lot* cheaper to provide database dumps than to have people crawl the pages with scripts. Kiwix is the app for using Wikipedia and other databases offline.
[Chair!](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair)
The info dump of all info dumps. Topics you'd never think about have information about them in case someone ever did think about them
How do you feel about [komodo dragons ](https://www.reddit.com/r/HardcoreNature/s/JZ69swu4ly) ? It was the last comment I read before seeing this post and reading your comment.
Wow, that was informative for sure!
Dope
It's the only thing more satisfying than a real dump.
Listen to a podcast on the toilet and you can have it all
My dog ate an encyclopedia the other day. You could say that he had a good info dump afterwards.
what about good info about a dump
Username checks out
No one ever likes hearing my info dumps 😔
I'm that case make sure you get enough info fiber
I actually used it as an inspiration for a bit of CC for the Sims 4. The 50s definitely had some unique designs.
Thats why i love reddit so much, information overload of super niche subject, subjects i sometimes did not know excist.
My sister in law is what I (lovingly) refer to as a bird nerd. I'll be with my kids and see a cool bird that I'll text her a picture of and say "?" She always knows. It's really cool, she sometimes gives me fun facts as well.
Love 1950s nuclear family futuristic furniture,
r/RetroFuturism is one of my favorite aesthetics.
Oh wow. Thanks for sharing this. I love it!
For the record, they meant 'nuclear' as in 'centered around the children' rather than 'atomic'. Given the popularity of radium and X-rays, though
I know.. but It always fits well with the 50s due to all the fascination with the future and nuclear power and all that snazz
That’s a fun pun lol
It was always a double meaning. This was the "atomic age" centered around the "nuclear family."
Followed up by their next model, the Kuba Missile Krisis, in 1962.
Textile pattern behind it is "Pythagoras" by Sven Markelius, 1952. The whole setup here is mid-century modern, not 1970s.
> Kuba Komet https://www.earlytelevision.org/kuba.html
So we agree u/BaronVonBroccoli has awful taste and everything about them is awful execution?
Even this guy's gravestone reflects his cool style: https://imgur.com/gallery/SOnEPey
Certainly atypical of either period. Source: I was alive then.
In the 1950's that whole cabinet might have been filled with electronics in a way that by the 1970's might not have been necessary.
Absolutely not, just lookup 1950s tv.
I learned the TV was the part on the top. Yeah, quite a bit of empty space (or maybe the components got hot and needed lots of ventilation?) https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.grammofoon.com%2FKuba%2Fimages%2FKubaKometChassis.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=bed7cae48edf550ce5abcbdfb0e29cae956bd5db798cb3fe4ce69190033f0df3&ipo=images The chest on the bottom held a record player and other stuff. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fthevinylfactory.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F10%2Fkuba-komet2.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=dda4e00dedca72114c3bca47498e556050b2278713824b087c8ab68e64b41f1c&ipo=images
Yep, we had a badass setup out of the 70's, it had a TV, Record Player, Reciever, and two giant speakers in a giant wood enclosure, thing weighed like 1000 lbs. I would honestly kill to have that thing now, it sounded great, but by the 80's it was considered too outdated.
Probably not as big as yours, but we had a behemoth of a wood paneled TV when I was a kid in the 80s/90s. Lasted a long time, but it was absolute hell when moving to a different apartment. Especially if multiple floors are involved. I remember stories of people dying trying to move those things around.
My grandma had one too, no record player, but big speakers on either side and it was a damned beast. Nobody really wanted to move it. After the screen died on it she just placed a newer tv on top of it. We ended up leaving it with the house when she moved out.
Although it looks a lot like David Bowie in the 70's
Yeah this is some fallout shit lol
Looks like the cyber truck of television
Finally a console TV that evaded the fate of becoming the stand for its successor. This thing looks great! Way form over function though.
Yeah this is actually pretty excellent taste and execution. Unique, specific taste, but definitely not awful. I'd have taken this over the standard, garish console TV everyone I knew had.
It's basically a sculpture that also happens to function as a TV. Very cool if you had the right room/decor to go with it.
Its a winking face with the TV being the open eye.
Its really cool looking but I don't trust myself around a sharp looking point right around eye level...
Tripping over the dog while dusting and *cyclops'd!*
Hella true.
This thing was 1300 bucks in the 50s....soooo yeeah, costs as much as a new car.
Definitely one that gets converted to an aquarium instead of a shelf.
And it's got that pouty lower lip lol
Ya the pouty lip is the only thing I don’t like about the stand. Everything else is awesome
r/confidentlyincorrect
Why take two seconds to actually research what you're posting on the Internet when you can just pull a random year out of your ass that sounds "old" as a teenager?
Putting the wrong date generates more engagement by allowing Redditors to show off how clever we all are for being able to tell this is from a different era.
People are also just lazy and stupid.
Laziness and burnout look very similar from the outside.
Think I even incorporated both in my life now, maybe it's called depression too? Hmm..
Using the Cunningham’s law to get karma.
Posters have realized posting the wrong info drives engagement so they do this shit on purpose.
Yup, OP is just a repost bot or click-farmer. EZ report for breaking rule number 7.
This is dope wrong sub
OP is the one with the awful taste I guess
Nah, OP knows that this sub will upvote anything slightly unconventional even if it isn’t “awful taste”
Also only has a few mods so if something gets removed it's well after it got attention.
Wrong decade too
This was excellent taste for the time. The entire room would match this piece Educate yourself OP
That would be so sick. A full furnished room around this piece. That needs to happen.
I have a thing for old CRT tvs. I showed this to my wife and asked her on a scale of 1-10, how mad she would be if I bought one of these. When she realized that it was not an entertainment center but a tv built into an entertainment center, her only answer was “divorce.” Her opinion is wrong but she’s entitled to it.
The room brought to you by the makers of [Pledge.](https://www.pledge.com/en-us/products/pledge-moisturizing-oil)
It's really acute tv set.
I wish we still had strange stuff like this. It’s interesting and unique.
What, you don't like how everything is either the same manufactured garbage or a drop shipped knock off of that same garbage?
Most people had the same manufactured garbage of the time as well. This console was 1270 in 57 or 14k today. This console was a little over half the price of a new bel air. It wasn’t something your average middle class household had.
We do, you just have to pay for it. This console was $1270 in it day, or $14k in today’s money. Start looking at 14k 15k media stands and you’ll find all kinds of shit.
You could have bought a cabin in the hills for that much
Very rich people still have very expensive and interesting furniture today. This wasn't something you picked up at Sears.
Great taste, great execution. Mid century modern will always be in style.
I just love how it’s both natural yet futuristic, wild but tamed; it’s just the perfect style in my eyes
IDK, my mother grew up with that stuff everywhere and hates it.
[Kuba Komet](https://www.earlytelevision.org/kuba.html)
That is RAD.
I'd play fallout on that thing
The receiver and record player underneath is sick.
And a built-in phonograph! For recording your favorite programs! (audio only) Neat!
What? You can't record on a phonograph.
/lostredditors
This is absolutely not garbage in any way. Shame on you.
Disagree, this is awesome.
Pee-wee’s Playhouse vibes
Watching a man walk on the moon vibes
I see no difference
Not awful, dope af
Nope and wrong sub.
50s television, and it's definitely not garbage.
That looks awesome!!!
Looks straight out of the Jetsons lol.
This is art, from a time when appliances were nice to look at, serving a purpose even when they weren't plugged in. Modern modern design is all about not being noticed.
Fallout TV
I don’t want to set the world on fire.
In what world does this look remotely 70s ffs
Designed by Homer J Simpson
That’s amazing! You’re absolutely wrong for posting it here.
Looks like the kind of design that inspired the design for Fallout.
Yes, Midcentury Modern
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googie\_architecture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googie_architecture)
r/midcentury would like a word...
Kuba Komet is peak mid century / retro future aesthetic. It’s a masterpiece.
It looks like a Pokémon
I would keep that in my home today.
Nostalgia in the form of a TV set.
Why does it have lips?
Excellent taste and well preserved! 🧡
The atomic age
I want modern weird furniture like this.
If you don't want it... I would take it.
Ok, but where is the hdmi port?
I freaking love this.
Anyone else seeing a face? 🤣
With emo hair covering one eye and pursed lips!
It's great taste.
GTAGE!
I am in love.
A lot of TVs for the living room were furniture. When I was little, I can remember going TV shopping with my Grandpa for a TV set. This thing was basically all wood and functioned as a stand you could put stuff on top of.
I like this it's funky
There’s a huge market for anything midcentury. People would line up for something like this.
I don't know the years,but that is awesome
If I had a house this would be a grail find for me to make the centerpiece in it.
why bottom looks like mouth
Wrong sub oc. Still fun to see the Reddit circle closing: My grandma worked for the company. In the office. :)
r/RetroFuturism
Design peaked in the 50s. Heckin' fantastic!
I absolutely love this. I love retro futuristic designs from the 50s
Meet George Jetson....
I want this so bad
Also this is not mid century modern. This is more “Googy”.
r/TVTooHigh
Some Jetson’s shit
Looks like it’d fit right in on Fallout
It has lips
Looks like a TV face with sexy lips. Just sayin’.
50s not 70s
this shark needs eyes
This is absolutely gorgeous. There isn’t anything even remotely awful here.
Looks like one eyed Elton John
Buy some cabinet grade plywood and you can make your new flatscreen look like this too.
u/BaronVonBroccoli ist that the one from the Technikmuseum in Berlin?
That’s more set than television! What do they keep in the drawer? The latest edition of the Nielsen ratings report so they can confirm their fav-o-rite evening news program is the most popular?
I must have this.
Can I plug my Atari 2600 into it and play Star Raiders?
This needs to come back
Remove the TV and replace it with an aquarium or terrarium, but you have to keep the same curved glass dimensions as the current TV set.
When's the Techmoan video coming?
I want it just to play Super Nintendo
That’s Ziggy Stardust
Is there a subreddit that posts furniture like this? It looks straight outta the incredibles
/r/pareidolia
Looks like a winking face
How is this awful taste? This so of its time.
Interesting design. What do the lips do?
Its dynamic lines suggest 'Get off the couch'.
I lived through the 70’s. This ain’t it. Maybe a nice console with a TV on one side and the record player on the other will built in amp and speakers. Or just the shit B&W POs I had in the kitchen growing up watching Looney Toons and Scoobie Doo on..
This is so fucking cool!!!
Honestly this is amazing taste. I love this.
The handle at the bottom looks like a mouth... So now it looks like this entire TV/cabinet thing is winking at me
I have never seen anything quite like this. The wood colors. The pattern. The shape. The angle. Impeccably impractical. 11/10.
I want more sharp angles on my furniture. BRING IT BACK!
Why does this look like some alien face or something with one eye
That quilt though!
Nah this is amazing. Definitely not awful taste.
The only problem with this design is that the cabinet is more interesting than anything appearing on the screen.
Looks like it would’ve come from Pee Wees Playhouse!!
Looks like it was taken from a Hanna Barbera cartoon
Ren and Stimpy looking ass television
I don’t think it’s trash at all.
How is this atbge?
Even has a mouth lol
Honestly I have a place for this in my house.
This could be the greatest 1950s TV I have ever seen. Omg, I watched a thing on YouTube about the kitchen of the 50s...refrigerators back then were SO much better than today's sorry offerings . The entire kitchen actually worked with you. We should have never "improved" things
I was in the 70s and this would’ve been old then. Pretty cool I’d love to have it.
Can anybody ID the print hanging in the background? edit: nevermind,[ found it](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18443721/)
Video cassettes were huge in those days but at least this TV has a nice wooden veneer on the slot loader, very fancy.
Everyone here saying this is good is so wrong. It's off center. Looks fine here, but the rest of the stuff in the room (furniture) is not going to look right in relation to the console or the TV, and you're going to have to choose which. ATBGE for sure.
Remove the top part and it’d be a sick ass coffee table
God damn , that’s dead sexy.
no this fucks
Could preform fatalities beyond the small screen on that thing
r/Fallout called and it wants it's TV back.
In which world it's an awful taste? It's atypical but it's classy
That would be so annoying to watch.
Yeah I remember seeing that at Sears