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minus-squareGraniteM@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up64·2 months 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-up31·2 months agoWere they still a playing card company then?
minus-squaregwl@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·edit-22 months agoRight until 1970 when they took a hard pivot into the new-fangled tech called “Computers”
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 months agoI thought they pivoted to pachinko machines before going digital
minus-squaregwl@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoAye, and just before that to toys
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoWeren’t they involved with brothels at some point?
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoI’m sorry, I don’t know their history well though to answer that.
minus-squareLemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 months agoDon’t forget Kodak & the Dracula book were apparently contemporaries too: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/22690621
minus-squarerenegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months ago having a Coke and playing Nintendo So playing a card game and drinking literal cocaine?
minus-squarelengau@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoProbably something Bram Stoker did.
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.
Don’t forget Kodak & the Dracula book were apparently contemporaries too: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/22690621
So playing a card game and drinking literal cocaine?
As one does
Probably something Bram Stoker did.