Gaz Linden, seventy and still swinging his monster blade. | Photo: Linden Surfboards

Cookie-cutter condo development forces master shaper and big-wave surfer to shutter iconic Oceanside shop after forty-three years!

Hit by the gentrification bulldozer… 

Master shaper and big-wave notable Gary Linden has whittled boards in his Oceanside, CA, shop for forty -three years.

Now he’s forced to move.

The block is being systematically bought out to build high-end condos. 

Many will be displaced.

It’s said If you don’t like gentrification in your city, leave. 

Oceanside had long been immune to major development and is one of the last places along US coastlines with relatively inexpensive housing for its citizens who work ten-hour days hanging drywall, shoveling gravel or working in shaping bays.  There are some parts that aren’t as shiny as its neighboring cities, making Oceanside a bit raw, but affordable and unmolested from corporate hands.

But the town’s city council approved a plan which includes mixed-use structures complete with six and seven-story condos and hotels perched above gyms, coffee bars, and restaurants. They’re investing in cleaning sidewalks, painting over graffiti and hiring additional security for safety to increase tourism and entice new business development.

Gumaro Escarcega, program manager at the downtown business association, told the San Diego Union-Tribune that their plan is expected to bring more jobs and tax revenue to the city.

“Downtown Oceanside is becoming a destination for new investment opportunities. It’s attracting people from San Diego to Los Angeles.”

The plan also calls for the construction of multiple big-box stores, bars, a wave pool,and attention to the arts, an Oceanside centerpiece. 

Unfortunately, the city council is thinking Bob Ross when the town is more Goya. 

The transformation is something many residents do not recognize nor welcome.

Walking around town, you can see hats and tees (courtesy of Real Surf Shop) reading “Localization not Gentrification.”

But Escarcega said, “Most of our downtown residents and neighboring communities are talking positive about downtown Oceanside growth.”

And the eternally upbeat Jason Mraz says that “Oceanside’s the new Brooklyn of San Diego.” 

Sounds cool, if not disorienting.

But let’s hear from Mr. Linden who, like Mraz, is also eternally upbeat but happens to be getting kicked out of his lifelong place of business. 

Here’s Gary’s take:

“Gentrification is a joke! I have been robbed twice in the last four years. When Oceanside was considered a rough place to be the locals protected each other and nothing ever happened. Now there are so many transient people it is impossible to control!

“This building has a huge surf history and before I moved in it was the Plastic Fantastic surfboard factory. You could walk out the back door, check the waves, and cross the tracks to the surf.

“Cleveland Street has been the best place to make surfboards that I have ever been in and I have shaped all over the World. Close to the beach so you can surf on your break time and the onshore breeze keeps the factory cool and aerated. The residents on the street were always really mellow and stoked to see what I was up to building my boards. There was a really homey vibe.

“Oceanside has for so long been kind of a secret jewel in between San Diego and LA. The waves are super-consistent and the crowds were always thin. It was the last major beach town to face the developers’ greed! There was a strong sense of community amongst the residents who faced with the constant portrayal of living in an unsafe place. We took care of each other.

“I am not really sure exactly how it will all play out as in so many ways this place can never be recreated, It was just such a special time and place. I will still be surfing and making boards in Oceanside and hoping some great opportunity presents itself!

“I hope everyone appreciates the fact that life takes its turns and you never know what the future has in store. Keep positive and expect the best. I am sure this will all turn out great!”

Eternally upbeat, for sure.

And you can always help him out by checking out his balsa boards or new agave guns; Gary even finds and cuts his own lumber!

As perfect as they are unique. 

As some of these special boards run up to five gees, it’s ironic the only people who can afford to grab one are the same who will be living in the new condos covering of the footprint of his old shop.

You are not finding these boards in New Brooklyn.

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commenter
6 years ago

Oceanside sucks.

Everything south of Topanga sucks.

You suck.

Although east Oceanside is nice, out in the sticks, if you are one of those desert-loving Englishmen.

We did a photo shoot out there.

It’s rural and quiet and nice.

Cities suck.

The smartest people I know are the M____ who bought a ranch out in L_____ A_____ and are raising their kids in the 19th Century – country manners, country self-sufficiency, no city clutter and congestion.

Cities suck.

You suck.

Garth Bachman
Garth Bachman
6 years ago

Unfortunately alot has changed in O’side in the last several years, definitely not the quaint little surf town it was in the 90’s or the 80’s with the rent control for the Marines which all us young barely working post teen kids benefited from. Where else could you get a 1 bedroom apartment 50 steps to the surf for only $435.00 per month. Capitalism has reered its ugly head and the development has begun. The resort at the end of the pier is an eyesore and the fact that they’ve moved the Top Gun house right in the middle as some sort of historical charity is a mere ache in the side of the developers I’m sure. Having to preserve some local treasure is the last thing on their minds. And I’m sure that small space could have been used for some sort of Wavehouse amusement for it’s soon to be out of state pasty white tourists from Utah looking to live life on the edge.

Now with the Cleveland Street surf industry demise, let’s not forget Stay Covered is right next to Lindens shaping shop and he also has to relocate, after speaking with the owner yesterday it’s definitely going to be at a place where taking off for a quick surf is not going to be convenient. Developers have no regard for anything except the mighty dollar. I know…WAH, WAH, WAH. But as a lover of O’side and all it’s little treasures, no matter how trashy they may be from time to time the latest news is only another leg of the table that’s kicked out and soon we’ll be eating our meal off the floor.

Billy Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years ago

As opposed to fantasizing about the pool cleaner?

Wilbur
Wilbur
6 years ago

I should’ve posted this before. He was 65 in the video!

https://www.surfline.com/su…

On the squatty potty
On the squatty potty
6 years ago

What have I been saying. Oceanside is bout to go belly up if we don’t make it seem scary again! Fuck Encinitas, Fuck the new development downtown. They took out the top gun house for fucks sake… oh and Fuck Mraz too!

Wilbur
Wilbur
6 years ago

Don’t know much about him but I saw him on Greatest Wipeouts on Surfline. Fell in a REALLY bad place on a monster at Puerto Escondido maybe 3 years ago. Pretty impressive seeing someone over 60 years old charging 25 foot beachbreak.

Cool story LMG, I wish him the best.

Uneducated
Uneducated
6 years ago

So you’re saying I’m about 40-50 years behind…that seems about right

Owen Wright's Brains
Owen Wright's Brains
6 years ago

Irony

Greebnurt Hurkurmurgurt
Greebnurt Hurkurmurgurt
6 years ago

That sucks for Gary. And I might get be mistaken, but wasn’t he the guy that defended Todos Santos and told Robbie Madison to get the fuck out of there when Robbie was doing his dirtbike on water thing trying to ride waves and making it all choppy and fucking up the waves for the surfers? Good on Linden for telling him off. I love dirtbikes and have ridden since young, but it just seemed like it was pretty disrespectful to the other guys out there and fucking up their session. I wouldn’t go to some public trails where guys were riding and do some stunt for personal exposure that wrecked the berms and destroyed the trails for the other people that ride, to everyone else’s detriment. Thanks Gary, for regulating the spot and sticking up for the other surfers out there, if that was indeed you.

Uneducated
Uneducated
6 years ago

I really hope it was him, for your sake greebs…you went to some effort there

Greebnurt Hurkurmurgurt
Greebnurt Hurkurmurgurt
6 years ago
Reply to  Uneducated

Just looked online. It was him. Beachgrit even did an article about it.

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago

Wasn’t that chopes?

Greebnurt Hurkurmurgurt
Greebnurt Hurkurmurgurt
6 years ago

Did it at Chopes and then got caught at the end and suffered a two wave hold down. Caught inside for a bunch more waves. Then regrouped, and for his next act, was deciding between Cloudbreak or Todos. Chose Todos and had the altercation with Linden. After bickering all day, he went for it and crashed as soon as he left the barge and hit the water. Ripped his handlebars off of their clamps in the wipeout.

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago

Hey VONR…. I owe you one, here ya go bro…..

As beautiful as words can be……

https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

Your boy steals the show, btw…..

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago

wasn’t that a Cher song?

I’m offended by your attempts to be successful despite not being white.

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago

Intellectual cul de sac

Derek Hynd's Missing Fins
Derek Hynd's Missing Fins
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

Just a cul de sac.

Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram
6 years ago

Liberal usage of exclamation points is always nice! https://youtu.be/YkAX7Vk3JEw

channelbottom
channelbottom
6 years ago

I still have a short sleeve Linden rashie that I picked up on sale in 1996. I might stretch it over my bulbous physic once more, before heading to the local surfshop and ‘wowing’ the local groms as I loudly discuss the merits of various wax types.

Sorry Gary, Time’s infinite ship has sailed, and continues to sail, like toothpaste, as it leaves, and always will be leaving, the dock of progress.

Hang your hat on another peg, in another town and leave the dust to murmur your name alongside the millions of untold previous inhabitants; animal and vegetable ghosting in that very patch of dirt you called your own.

When the sun expands to whisk the last vestiges of moisture from this rock, the books of fame and tradition will have all turned to powder, along with the oceans.

Billy Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years ago
Reply to  channelbottom

You should get into cycling

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  Billy Hunt

I don’t even recycle
Fuk all that greeny shit.
Ice age a comin

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago

Not recycling is like arguing against clean air and water.

It’s not a political statement, it’s an IQ test.

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

Bla bla bla
Mr I’m such an angel who cleans celebrity pools

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago

You know, cleaning pools sounds so therapeutic. Like there are no small jobs, bexy. The satisfaction of discipline. A clients smile as she hands you a check.

Maybe I should learn to clean pools, idyllic and angelic? Count me in and perfect timing. Thanks bex

Amazing career advice……

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

You should get a business that dosent travel that’s for sure, cause every sniffle from now on is deadly, even if its not

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago

Exactly… traveling for work isn’t easy either. Hotels, per diems, friendly business bars, everyone is so happy at happy hour in business hotels, you ever notice that? Everyone is alone too, is this seat taken?

Yeah man, the pool thing… hmmm…. just need an old pickup truck, some sweeper things, some bottles of chlorine and some sunscreen. Might be able to drop into the vocation with 20 grand tops investment.

That’s like 3 Tavarua trips and a surgical strike to Mexico. And since those trips are off the radar, why not!!!!!

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

👍

f u
f u
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

Had a pool business for many years. It’s was great, like you said almost no overhead and super chill. Perfect job for a hippy surfer.

SectionSB
SectionSB
6 years ago
Reply to  f u

How chill? Epic scores? or Weird scores?

f u
f u
6 years ago
Reply to  SectionSB

Epic score on waves when I ditched work but nothing but weirdness in the backyards… fat naked guys smoking cigars kinda weird

SectionSB
SectionSB
6 years ago
Reply to  f u

Damn…another urban legend bites it.
I flounder in our fish pond sometimes. Probably safer than a regular pool, chem wise.

f u
f u
6 years ago
Reply to  SectionSB

Yeah, I would stick to the fish pond too. The chems are the one bad thing about a pool biz.

channelbottom
channelbottom
6 years ago
Reply to  Billy Hunt

I kinda am and kinda am’t.

If I have any time to spend on ‘vehicular exercise / sport’ then I’d waaaaaaaaaaaay rather go surfing. As it is, I commutes few minutes on an old bike held together by duct tape and sweat, and that’s as much as I gots.

I used to go riding for a couple hours up in the hills (roads) behind our house in Scotland. But that was another life.

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  channelbottom

Solid advice.
Shit ain’t forever.
Get your fun where you can cause its all over in a blink then youre dirt and forgotten.

Lemon Next to the Pie
Lemon Next to the Pie
6 years ago

You really have to work on the structure of your haikus.

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago

I’m not a cultural appropriate.

Derek Hynd's Missing Fins
Derek Hynd's Missing Fins
6 years ago
Reply to  channelbottom

Almost have me crying with this one, CB. “Life is suffering” said some dude sitting under a tree on the banks of Ma Ganga a couple K years ago.

Follow the Sun 🌞
Follow the Sun 🌞
6 years ago

Recently (within the past year), I acquired a Linden fiberglass 9’4″ board. Was in a state of disrepair but my brother did some work on it, however it’s still delaminating in the middle toward the bottom of the board. I’d never heard of Linden as I was (and still am) a novice longboarder due to current working location which is not close to good breaks (or any breaks, for that fact of the matter) but I try when I get outta town. It’s sad that guys like Linden have to be kicked outta their place of work and life to cater to building developing twats. Why can’t they just leave the nostalgic surf/board shop there and give the “new development” a piece of history! Make a fucking museum out of it! Shit!

Ricky Spanish
Ricky Spanish
6 years ago

It sucks that Gary and others are being displaced, especially for more of that shitty, generic mixed use bullshit that is somehow everywhere now.

commenter
commenter
6 years ago

Disagree. I usually show up places early. But I’m always on time.

Follow the Sun 🌞
Follow the Sun 🌞
6 years ago
Reply to  commenter

Your understanding of the English language needs work. Punctual vs. punctuation. Two completely different words and meanings. But somehow I think you already know that and are just trolling. But I digress…

commenter
commenter
6 years ago

It is important to be punctilious when it comes to punctuation or punctuality.

Radical Moose Limb
Radical Moose Limb
6 years ago

I have always hated Jason Mraz and his stupid hats

Yeah_na
Yeah_na
6 years ago

Who?

Uneducated
Uneducated
6 years ago

Things always change, very rarely for the better

But i was just listening to the news and heard the term sewage surveillance for the first time. Thats fucking great

Kids can now go to school and aspire to be sewage surveillance technicians!

Teachers always told me I would become a professional shit stirrer…maybe they were right all along

With condos going up all along our coastlines, if nothing else…its a growth industry

Otto
Otto
6 years ago

“Gumaro Escarcega, program manager at the downtown business association…”

Don’t ya just hate white privilege.

ssurferss
ssurferss
6 years ago
Reply to  Otto

I hate morons who don’t understand what white privilege is. Finding a minority with money or power isn’t evidence against the existence of white privilege. Finding poor white people is not evidence against white privilege. White privilege is being pulled over for speeding and not having a reason to fear that you might be dead in 10 minutes.

Blacks make up approximately 15% if the US population, but almost 100% of unjustifiable police murder victims. When there are 5x more videos of white people being killed by cops for no reason than of blacks, you can start doubting white privilege. Then, we might think these shootings are accidents and not systematic persecution of black people a/k/a white privilege.
When just as many white people have their resumes thrown in the trash as blacks instead of getting job interviews because the interviewer doesn’t like names like Brittney, Tyler, Dana, Karen, or Morgan and instead prefers names like Kenisha, DeShawn, Shaniqua, or Deandre, then you might have a point. But you don’t.

I know this hurts because only unsuccessful whites try to deny white privilege – because it hurts that much more being a loser knowing that you started with a leg up. If you don’t want to be seen as a loser, a good starting point is to understand the definition of a term before you insist it doesn’t exist.

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  ssurferss

All the mayor’s in the riot cities appear to be black.
I guess they snuck thru the crack

ValiantScorn
ValiantScorn
6 years ago
Reply to  ssurferss

I’ll bet you twatter to all your other npc’s that you are the greatest race relation human on the whole planet. I’d like to take you on a quick op to the wonderful land of Mogadishu. NOPE, you don’t get any of the Mentholatum to rub under your nose.

Otto
Otto
6 years ago
Reply to  ssurferss

Shut the fuck up you self-righteous little twat. Gentrification is always blamed on whitey, yet here we have a poc in charge of that gentrification.
The only white privilege that exists is education, K-12. The quality of that education relative to what poc’s receive in Democratic run areas. That’s why school choice is so important. To allow poc the choice to go beyond the fucking commie Red for Ed indoctrinators that push victim mentality.
The problem with people like you is that you think people should just be given shit, because that helps you Democrat twats’ propaganda machine perpetuate the victim mentality.
More unarmed white people have been killed by cops than blacks. Get your fucking stats right clown. Prosecutors like Kamala Harris fucked up black people. You see, in 2010 when Kamala was running for CA AG, some interesting shit came to light. In drug cases her office prosecuted. It was discovered that the technician in the Crime Lab testing drugs and testifying in court was pinching coke from the lab for personal use. That made her black “expert” witness unreliable, but also a liability that under precedent needed to be disclosed to the defense. But Kamala’s sorry black ass didn’t do shit. 1000’s of cases she lied in order to safeguard her run for Cali AG. Fucking cunt black woman fucking over minorities to save herself. And yet you want her to be President, cause let’s be serious, Old Joe ain’t making it four years.
If you don’t want to be shot, follow the police orders. It’s super fucking simple. Even the body cams are showing these to be justified. Stupid fuckers will take any excuse, even a bad one, to riot. Fuck them and fuck you for sticking up for them.
You’re living in the fucking past concerning jobs and names. Companies can’t afford exposure to lawsuits for shit like that.
You keep living in your bubble clown.

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago
Reply to  Otto

Sure got you riled up so early in the morning. Or do you go to bed angry too? I don’t really need to know.

Somehow, Republicans blow shit up and you immediately blame their opposition.

The police are meant to restore order not chaos and shooting citizens is not supposed to be their first response.

Go get some waves man, tide is pushing and those little sometimes banks like small swell. You’ll feel better after a paddle, I do. Feels like another no wind day, scorching sun so get on it early-ish. You kind of fucked up the early already, but heaps of daylight rising. Have a great Labor day, drink a beer for me while you’re at it.

f u
f u
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

He doesn’t surf

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago
Reply to  f u

Now that makes sense…. you getting any C k? I love the west side of your gig….

f u
f u
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

North shore is coming back life this week.!
Hope you are enjoying your Labour day and getting some relief from the heat in the water

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago
Reply to  f u

small swell and hordes of morons. my empty spaces are shadowed, the spots that accept the tiny direction are packed to the gills, no parking for miles. favorable tide pushing all morning, but small. very. weak too.

had to go to wine country yesterday, meet and greet and it registered 112. 112. 112.

you see an old skinny dude with a bald head at the bay, tell him Hippy said hello.

f u
f u
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

Yikes! That’s Bangkok hot!
Old skinny bald guy that’s knows a hippie is about 30% of the line up here.

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago
Reply to  f u

Forgot about that…. he does fit a demographic.

You know the right in Kilauea? Maybe that narrows it down.

f u
f u
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

Yeah, I know the right. Is that his go to spot?
Nice wave when it’s not too windy.

commenter
commenter
6 years ago
Reply to  Otto

You’re mostly full of beans – especially when it comes to supporting Fat Bastard – but you are correct when it comes to what appears to be a dysfunction between black people and cops.

White kids are taught to obey police and not disrespect them, and for the most part, white people do – although some of the rascals on COPS are pretty resistant.

Black people? It’s all that rap music: F#$% the Police!!! and etc.

But if you look at the George Floyd and Jacob Blake – well, are they complying, or were they resisting? Struggling? Fighting with cops or walking away from them.

Don’t resist cops, or fight with them or walk away from them. Period.

You’d think all Americans would know that by now, but they don’t seem to.

Did those two deserve to be choked to death or shot?

No. But would that have happened if they had complied?

No.

Don’t argue with cops. Period. They hate it and they will snap and things will go badly.

Otto
Otto
6 years ago
Reply to  commenter

Floyd would have likely died within the hour from the amount of fentanyl he had in his system. He should consider it fortuitous that his baby momma will get some coin in a bogus wrongful death suit that taxpayers have to fork over.
As for Blake, that bastard sexually assaulted his gf while one of his kids was in bed with her. She had an active restraining order against him. He wasn’t supposed to be there. Took the keys of her car, and was trying to take it, with the kids inside. Should the cops just let him kidnap the kids. Fuck that. He doesn’t deserve to feel any sensation in his dick the rest of his life. Fucker earned it!

commenter
commenter
6 years ago
Reply to  Otto

Dude! HARSH!!!!!!!!

But probably true.

America has an ocean of what you might call “under class” people who just don’t understand how to behave.

They don’t understand that not cooperating with cops gets you nowhere – every time.

Cops are just people, doing a crappy job, and they have short tempers.

They don’t want to get shot on the job or injured in any way.

So they are dealt with harshly: https://getyarn.io/yarn-cli…

But still, dude: HARSH!!!!

Otto
Otto
6 years ago
Reply to  commenter

The truth often is.

People act like those cops woke up that morning and thought to themselves “I’m going to go kill a black man today.”

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago
Reply to  Otto

The police knew none of that when they opened fire.

Floyd was murdered in broad daylight on camera.

Otto
Otto
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

Yes they did. Jacob had an active warrant for the sexual assault at the time of contact. The gf had called the police to say he was there in violation of a restraining order related to the sexual assault. The police knew his name before arriving, which was further reason why they couldn’t let him flee with children in the vehicle.

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  Otto

There are so many COP TV shows, movies.
It’s gonna be a struggle coming up with any kinda show now.
Hollywood adores cops

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

You’re living in the 70s man.
They know your life story with a few keystrokes

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  Otto

Can you refer to him as Saint Jacob from now on

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago

I knew you had a heart, what a fitting sign of respect. St jacob, man that has a ring to it.

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  Hippy

Darn tootin
I be hatin on Dem crackers.

Otto
Otto
6 years ago

Nah. I’ll refer to him as Inmate #18741

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  Otto

Dickhead rolls off the tongue easier

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  commenter

Crack rots the brain, so that dosent help decision making.

commenter
commenter
6 years ago

Yeah meth is no help either.

Go take a walk around San Francisco and look people in the eye and tell me what you see.

And by the way I usually sneeringly argue that Australia hasn’t contributed much to world technology or culture, but this Aussie guy here is the best thing to come out of Australia since lithium.

https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  commenter

Wifi
Youre using it right now

commenter
commenter
6 years ago

I only use quality American Wi-Fi.

Not that cheap stuff from south of the border.

And the signal doesn’t reach that far anyway – who are you kidding?

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  commenter

We invented it
Use your WiFi and Google it

commenter
commenter
6 years ago

Tp paraphrase Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder: “Pump the brakes their son. Wi-Fi isn’t necessarily an Australian National treasure.”

Australia contributed a key part to Wi-Fi but not the whole deal.

In 1971, ALOHAnet connected the Great Hawaiian Islands with a UHF wireless packet network. ALOHAnet and the ALOHA protocol were early forerunners to Ethernet, and later the IEEE 802.11 protocols, respectively.

A 1985 ruling by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission released the ISM band for unlicensed use.[7] These frequency bands are the same ones used by equipment such as microwave ovens and are subject to interference. In 1991, NCR Corporation with AT&T Corporation invented the precursor to 802.11, intended for use in cashier systems, under the name WaveLAN.

The Australian radio-astronomer Dr John O’Sullivan with his colleagues Terence Percival, Graham Daniels, Diet Ostry, and John Deane[8] developed a key patent used in Wi-Fi as a by-product of a Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) research project, “a failed experiment to detect exploding mini black holes the size of an atomic particle”.[9] Dr O’Sullivan and his colleagues are credited with inventing Wi-Fi.[10][11] In 1992 and 1996, CSIRO obtained patents[12] for a method later used in Wi-Fi to “unsmear” the signal.[13

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  commenter

Go fuk yself

commenter
commenter
6 years ago

I don’t think I like your tone.

So Australia made a fractional contribution to WiFi.

And what else?

Olivia Newton John? The Thruster? Mad Max? Paul Hogan?

What else?

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  commenter

Black box in planes
Heart pacemaker
Cochlear ear implant
Electric drill
Permaculture
Ultrasound
Cervical cancer vaccine
Wifi
Most surf world champs.
Go fuk yself

commenter
commenter
6 years ago

Black box in planes

Partial contribution around 1953. Patented in the USA.

Heart pacemaker

Partial. https://ethw.org/Pacemakers.

Cochlear ear implant

Modern version innovated decades after original developed right here in the U S Fucking A, pal. André Djourno and Charles Eyriès invented the original cochlear implant in 1957. This original design distributed stimulation using a single channel. Two years later they went their separate ways due to personal and professional differences.[7]

William House also invented a cochlear implant in 1961.[8] In 1964, Blair Simmons and Robert J. White implanted a single-channel electrode in a patient’s cochlea at Stanford University.[9]

However, research indicated that these single-channel cochlear implants were of limited usefulness because they can not stimulate different areas of the cochlea at different times to allow differentiation between low and mid to high frequencies as required for detecting speech.[10]

NASA engineer Adam Kissiah started working in the mid-1970s on what could become the modern cochlear implant. Kissiah used his knowledge learned while working as an electronics instrumentation engineer at NASA. This work took place over 3 years, when Kissiah would spend his lunch breaks and evenings in Kennedy’s technical library, studying the impact of engineering principles on the inner ear. In 1977, NASA helped Kissiah obtain a patent for the cochlear implant; Kissiah later sold the patent rights.[11]

The modern multi-channel cochlear implant was independently developed and commercialized by two separate teams—one led by Graeme Clark in Australia and another by Ingeborg Hochmair and her future husband, Erwin Hochmair in Austria, with the Hochmairs’ device first implanted in a person in December 1977 and Clark’s in August 1978.[12]

Electric drill

Yep, you get all the credit for that one: The invention of the electric drill is credited to Arthur James Arnot and William Blanch Brain of Melbourne, Australia who patented the electric drill in 1889. In 1895, the first portable handheld drill was created by brothers Wilhelm & Carl Fein of Stuttgart, Germany.

Permaculture

Yep but who cares? it’s a bunch of hippie greenie bullshit. KAG 2020!!!

Ultrasound

Partial and later: George Kossoff of Australia engineers the Octason static scanner. The Octason mark 2 images allow us to see detailed fetal anatomy, and marks an important time in the development of ultrasound.

Cervical cancer vaccine

Partial, and one of the originators was a Ching Chong Chinaman: The vaccine was first developed by the University of Queensland in Australia and the final form was made by researchers at the University of Queensland, Georgetown University Medical Center, University of Rochester, and the U.S. National Cancer Institute.[70] Researchers Ian Frazer and Jian Zhou at the University of Queensland have been accorded priority under U.S. patent law for the invention of the HPV vaccine’s basis, the VLPs

] In 2006, the FDA approved the first preventive HPV vaccine, marketed by Merck & Co. under the trade name Gardasil. According to a Merck press release,

in the second quarter of 2007, it had been approved in 80 countries, many under fast-track or expedited review. Early in 2007, GlaxoSmithKline filed for approval in the United States for a similar preventive HPV vaccine, known as Cervarix. In June 2007, this vaccine was licensed in Australia, and it was approved in the European Union in September 2007.

Cervarix was approved for use in the U.S. in October 2009.

Wifi

Partial.

Most surf world champs.

Nobody cares about surfing and Kelly Slater is the greatest competitive surfer in the history of the sport.

Go fuk yself

Partial. America Uber Alles. Other countries have had their minor moments, but America leads the way.

KAG 2020 = Kleptocracy and Greed.

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  commenter

What’s the difference anyway
We are both mainlyl just European.

commenter
commenter
6 years ago

What’s the difference?

America Uber Alles is the damned difference.

Without Uncle Sam making cars and airplanes and computers and stuff, all you’d have is a billy pot and some fried goanna.

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
6 years ago
Reply to  commenter

Uncle Sam is a euro buddy.

commenter
commenter
6 years ago

Uncle Sam is as American asAmerica also invented soft serve ice cream and peanut butter and the wrap dress and rock and roll and Scarlett Johansson and rock and online porn and the automatic bowling pin setter.

Billy Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years ago
Reply to  commenter

… and Ben Marcus … so it’s not all waffles and cream

commenter
commenter
6 years ago
Reply to  Billy Hunt

And nuclear weapons!

Don’t forget!

Where would Asstrailians be if Uncle Sam hadn’t dreamed up the nukes?

You’d be up to your asses in the rice paddies, swearing at water buffalo in Nipponese, growing food for the Emperor.

That’s where.

Nukes and Scarlett Johansen and moving pictures and waffle cones.

And Kelly Slater, who showed you all how it’s done.

You’re just copying.

Billy Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years ago
Reply to  commenter

What step is humility in your program?

commenter
commenter
6 years ago
Reply to  Billy Hunt

Humility?
F#@k that!!!!
Pabst Blue Ribbon!!!
Humility is for the humble.
Americans INVENTED humility, dude.
Invented it and perfected it.
Humility….. right.
Whatever.

Billy Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years ago
Reply to  commenter

So you won’t be deleting your comments in a fit of paranoid self-doubt?

Billy Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years ago
Reply to  Billy Hunt

Or sobriety…

commenter
commenter
6 years ago
Reply to  Billy Hunt

Self doubt is for those who practice humility.

It’s overrated.

Billy Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years ago
Reply to  commenter

So why do you delete your comments?

commenter
commenter
6 years ago
Reply to  Billy Hunt

Because I’m usually paid for what I write and I don’t want to give it away free like your….

Billy Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years ago
Reply to  commenter

Think of it as a community service … she has a talent that needs to be shared

Yeah_na
Yeah_na
6 years ago
Reply to  commenter

Sounds good..you’ve just named and taken credit for the shittiest things on the planet..pack it up and fuck off then.

commenter
commenter
6 years ago
Reply to  Yeah_na

Yeah right you Wannabe Luddite. Do without any of those. I dare you.

Goodbye. Enjoy the fried goanna.

America also invented soft serve ice cream and peanut butter and the wrap dress and rock and roll and Scarlett Johansson and rock and online porn and the automatic bowling pin setter.

Yeah_na
Yeah_na
6 years ago
Reply to  commenter

Apparently also the know it all fukwit ..all the rest are obsolete unless you are American

commenter
commenter
6 years ago
Reply to  Yeah_na

Sod off. Scarlett Johansen will never be obsolete.

Billy Hunt
Billy Hunt
6 years ago

Hang on … did you just say Permaculture?

Roll me over and finger my Mollison … I always knew you were a closet Democrat…

commenter
commenter
6 years ago

Or spelling. Or punctuation.

M.
M.
6 years ago
Reply to  Otto

Are you telling people to “follow orders” if they don’t want to be shot? Well butter my butt and call me toast, I always had the hunch all that freedom and liberties talk is just a bunch of hot air.

Hippy
Hippy
6 years ago
Reply to  M.

yup, police are Judge jury and executioners in the street of their own accord.

Welcome to America.


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