My Newbie is Showing...Part 3

30dbc: shyster lawyers

On this day in 1952, the first video recorder was demonstrated by John Mullin and Wayne Johnson in Beverly Hills, California. How would you explain YouTube to these gentlemen?

Back in the 1920's the powers that be in Hollywood made contracts with Laurel and Hardy that covered inventions that were not yet invented. Laurel and Hardy and their heirs received nothing from DVD, CD, blue ray, etc. They could not conceive of such things. For any innovative invention, I would put that type of language in the contract because the shysters are loose and running amuck.
I don't know that you can explain such a thing because you would first have to define computers and cellphones. You would be tripping in Star Trek country and that was considered whackydoodle back then, too.