Ted Turner, cable TV visionary who created CNN, dies at 87

paddy_m 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ted Turner won the America's cup there in 1977. His team named Courageous was legendary. Robbie Doyle was a team member, and got a degree from Harvard in applied physics. In the middle of the trials to see which team would defend the cup for the US, he remade the sails to be more competitive. Doyle went on to found a racing sailmaking company.

I used to live in Newport, RI. I love sailing and introducing people to the world of sailing. When I had guests I asked them to watch this NBC video about Ted's 77 campaign [1]. It really captures the history of Newport, sailing, and Ted

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr7-BwzceYI&list=PLXEMPXZ3PY...

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julienchastang 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For those of us who came of age at the start of the web, CNN had a pioneering presence on cnn.com. I still check it pretty regularly due to old habits. (Also https://lite.cnn.com/).

	▲	fma 15 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I still use it to see of my Internet connection still works. It's only 3 letters and likely won't be serving me cached content from my browser.
	▲	micah94 16 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I forgot all about lite.cnn.com. Thanks for that reminder.

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Imagenuity 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037009

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bookofjoe 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

https://wapo.st/4eBuS77