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HistoryMaps presents: The Day Earth Broke the Alien Internet
On this day, humanity defeated a fleet of super ultra advanced invading aliens by uploading one extremely stupid bug to their mothership.

The aliens had faster-than-light travel, planet-melting lasers, and a network so powerful it could calculate the movement of every atom in the galaxy. Unfortunately, it could not handle one badly named file called final_FINAL_real_one_v7.exe.

Within seconds, the alien command system crashed, their shields turned into karaoke machines, and the mothership started printing error messages in 9,000 languages. The invaders panicked, tried turning it off and on again, and accidentally deleted their entire empire.

The rest of the world was relieved humanity survived the alien invasion, but slightly annoyed that America immediately named the global victory “Independence Day.”

Historians now remember this victory as the day humanity proved that even the most advanced civilization in the universe is still vulnerable to bad software.

Does anyone remember flying with paper airplane tickets? The carbon copies, travel agencies, all of these things are practically obsolete!

I saved a lot - not nearly all - off my old concert ticket stubs from the late 70s through the 80s and here is a list of the concerts and the prices of what I could find:

Bruce Springsteen at Red Rocks, Morrison, CO August 16th, 1981 $13.75. It rained hard for a bit but the band never quit!

Allman Brothers Band Red Rocks August 10th, 1980. $10.45 Great concert!

Frank Zappa Boulder, CO April 10th, 1980 $8.00. Fantastic concert and the very first ever concert at what then was the brand new CU Events Center.

Santana at the Paolo Soleri in Santa Fe, NM October 8th, 1988 $17.50. I mean, it was Santana and the Paolo Soleri was a great outdoor venue.

The Who Madison Square Garden, NYC September 13th, 1979 $12.50. One of my life's regrets is never getting to see the Who with Keith Moon.

Colorado Sunday Folsom Field, Boulder CO $11.00. This is a full afternoon and evening with Country Joe, Bob Welch, Poco, the Doobie Brothers, and topped by Boston.

The Who October 17th. 1982 Folsom Field $16.00. John Mellancamp/Cougar was the opening act and got booed for Jack and Diane.

Yes at the Tingley Collesium in Albuquerque, NM March 31st, 1984 $13.00. I actually saw Yes several times in NYC, New Jersey, and Santa Fe, NM.

Lots of other concerts in those days but these are ticket stubs I still had.

It was reintroduced this year. I was happy 👍

(image borrowed from internet)