Every week we bring you interesting trivia from the annuals of geekdom. This week in Geek History witnessed the birth of Linux creator Linus Torvalds, the patent for FM radio, and the release of wildly popular 80s arcade game Q*Bert. Read on to learn more about each event.
每个礼拜，我们都会带给您有趣的琐事琐事。 本周在《极客历史》上见证了Linux创造者Linus Torvalds的诞生，调频广播的专利以及发行广受欢迎的80年代街机游戏Q * Bert。 继续阅读以了解有关每个事件的更多信息。
Linux Creator Linus Torvalds的诞生 (Birth of Linux Creator Linus Torvalds)
Shortly after Christmas of 1969 Linus Torvalds was born in Helsinki, Finland to parents who, we think it’s safe to say, had no idea that their child would grown up to be the man who provided the answer to the question “What else would you use if you weren’t using Windows or Mac?”.
1969年圣诞节后不久，莱纳斯·托瓦尔兹(Linus Torvalds)出生在芬兰的赫尔辛基，父母的父母可以肯定地说，他们不知道他们的孩子长大后会成为回答“您还会用什么的人”的人。如果您未使用Windows或Mac？”。
Surely some other fiesty upstart operating system would have claimed the role of “Independent” in the Operating System elections but it certainly wouldn’t be called Linux (which, by the way, was a name bestowed upon the operating system not by Linus himself but by a good friend), and it might not have been built so solidly on open source principles.
当然，其他一些狂喜的暴发户操作系统在操作系统选举中也将扮演“独立”的角色，但它肯定不会被称为Linux(顺便说一句，它不是Linux本身而是 Linux赋予的名称。 (好朋友 ))，而且它可能还没有在开源原则上如此扎实地构建。
Edwin H. Armstrong，首个调频收音机的专利 (Edwin H. Armstrong, patent for first FM radio)
FM Radio is so commonplace we hardly give it a second thought. Nearly anywhere in the civilized world you can flip on an FM radio, spin the dial for a moment, and hear some music. It’s such an old and ubiquitous technology it’s hard to imagine that in decades past everyone listened to static-filled AM broadcasts or to no radio at all. The day after Christmas in 1933, Armstrong received a patent on Frequency Modulation Radio, ushering in the age crystal clear radio broadcasts and Two for Tuesday Power Ballads on the local classic rock station.
调频广播是如此司空见惯，我们几乎不用再考虑了。 在文明世界的几乎任何地方，您都可以打开FM收音机，转动拨盘片刻，然后听听音乐。 这项技术是如此古老且无处不在，几十年来，每个人都听不到静态广播的AM广播，甚至根本没有广播。 1933年圣诞节后的第二天，阿姆斯特朗(Armstrong)获得了调频广播的专利，在当地的经典摇滚电台上播出了年代久远的水晶般清晰的广播节目和《星期二Power Ballads》的两首歌曲。
As an interesting side note in the history of dominant corporations doing everything they can to impede technology progress in the name of their own profits: the RCA corporation did their best to ruin the future of FM radio in an effort to maintain market dominance with AM broadcasting and radios.
占主导地位的公司历史上有趣的一点是，以自己的利益为目的，竭尽全力阻止技术进步：RCA公司竭尽全力破坏FM广播的未来，努力保持AM广播在市场上的主导地位和收音机。
Q * bert抓住了街机迷的心(和宿舍) (Q*bert Captures the Hearts (and Quarters) of Arcade Fans)
Q*Bert is practically the great-great grandfather of all the click-and-solve flash and smartphone games out there. Back in 1982 Q*Bert hit the arcade scene with simple but addictive gameplay. You jumped the sausage-nosed protagonist from square to square attempting to change each of the many cubes to the same color while avoiding the protagonists (snakes and gremlins, to name a few).
Q * Bert实际上是所有单击解决Flash和智能手机游戏的曾曾祖父。 早在1982年，Q * Bert凭借简单但令人上瘾的游戏玩法进入了街机界。 您将香肠尖的主角从一个正方形跳到另一个正方形，试图将许多立方体中的每个都更改为相同的颜色，同时避开了主角(蛇形和小怪兽，仅举几例)。
Q*Bert was well received at launch, selling over 25,000 cabinets and appearing in arcades across the world. Game critics noted that although the game play was addictive the real draw was Q*Bert himself—in an age of games with little personality players related strongly to the cute and swearword-spewing hero.
Q * Bert推出时广受好评，销售了25,000多个机柜，并出现在全球的拱廊中。 游戏评论家指出，尽管游戏令人上瘾，但真正吸引人的是Q * Bert本人，在这个游戏时代，缺乏个性的玩家与可爱而cute亵的英雄有着密切的关系 。
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