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minus-squareGraniteM@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up69·1 day 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-squarerenegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·14 hours ago having a Coke and playing Nintendo So playing a card game and drinking literal cocaine?
minus-squareLemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·20 hours agoDon’t forget Kodak & the Dracula book were apparently contemporaries too: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/22690621
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up33·1 day agoWere they still a playing card company then?
minus-squaregwl@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·edit-221 hours agoRight until 1970 when they took a hard pivot into the new-fangled tech called “Computers”
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·18 hours agoI thought they pivoted to pachinko machines before going digital
minus-squaregwl@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·18 hours agoAye, and just before that to toys
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 hours agoWeren’t they involved with brothels at some point?
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 hours agoI’m sorry, I don’t know their history well though to answer that.
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.
So playing a card game and drinking literal cocaine?
As one does
Don’t forget Kodak & the Dracula book were apparently contemporaries too: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/22690621
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
Weren’t they involved with brothels at some point?
I’m sorry, I don’t know their history well though to answer that.
Yup!