History Trivia / TechnologyConnections

* ActingForTwo: PlayedForLaughs, as Alec plays every character in his videos ([[https://youtu.be/Bi_Tp1H9CDs?t=421 except his cat]]).

* {{Corpsing}}: The bloopers reel in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tURHTuKHBZs Why do hurricane lanterns look like that?]]" reveals that Alec had trouble making his jokes about [[WhatsAHenway "Dietz Nuts" and "Bofa deez lanterns"]] without bursting into laughter.

* {{Misblamed}}:
** In the video [[https://youtu.be/GiYO1TObNz8?t=334 The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"]], Alec talks about how LED traffic lights last longer and are more energy efficient compared to the old incandescent bulbs. The only advantage the incandescent traffic bulbs had was their high energy use had a side effect of making the traffic module warm, which prevented snow and ice from building up on the surface. News media and citizens used that one advantage alone to show how the newer LED bulbs are more dangerous and cause more accidents since they don't produce enough heat to melt the snow and ice around them. Alec points out that while there were some fatal accidents in the indicated scenario, it doesn't snow every single day to make this a recurring event and the disadvantages of LED bulbs in the winter doesn't justify not using them in the non winter seasons. In response to the LED's lack of heat, Alec points out that there are LED bulbs that have a heating element inside that can turn on when the air temperature gets low so that snow and ice can't form on the bulbs and even with the heat increasing energy usage, it still uses less energy than incandescent bulbs.
** "[[https://youtu.be/_AdBcTMHG0Q In Defense of the CFL: A Retrospective]]" talks about how Compact Fluorescent Lights, while flawed and generally inferior to [=LEDs=], were blamed for more than they deserved blame for. First, Alec says that colder color temperatures were thought to be inherent to fluorescent lights, despite how much store displays with warm [=CFLs=] tried to dispel that myth. Speaking of warm, users made the innocent mistake of putting [=CFLs=] in smaller enclosed spaces like ceiling light fixtures. The heat the bulbs produced (while less than incandescent) was trapped in the glass dome to build up, which caused them to stop working to no fault of the user.

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** In the video [[https://youtu.be/GiYO1TObNz8?t=334 The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"]], Alec talks about how LED traffic lights last longer and are more energy efficient compared to the old incandescent bulbs. The only advantage the incandescent traffic bulbs had was their high energy use had a side effect of making the traffic module warm, which prevented snow and ice from building up on the surface. News media and citizens used that one advantage alone to show how the newer LED bulbs are more dangerous and cause more accidents since they don't produce enough heat to melt the snow and ice around them. Alec points out that while there were some fatal accidents in the indicated scenario, he also points out that it doesn't snow every single day and the disadvantages of LED bulbs in the winter doesn't justify not using them in the non winter seasons.

** "[[https://youtu.be/_AdBcTMHG0Q In Defense of the CFL: A Retrospective]]" talks about how Compact Fluorescent Lights, while flawed and generally inferior to [=LEDs=], were blamed for more than they deserved blame for. First, Alec says that colder color temperatures were thought to be inherent to fluorescent lights, despite how much store displays with warm [=CFLs=] tried to dispel that myth. Speaking of warm, users made the innocent mistake of putting [=CFLs=] in smaller enclosed spaces like ceiling light fixtures. The heat the bulbs produced (while less than incandescent) caused them to stop working, to no fault of the user.

* {{Misblamed}}: In the video [[https://youtu.be/GiYO1TObNz8?t=334 The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"]], Alec talks about how LED traffic lights last longer and are more energy efficient compared to the old incandescent bulbs. The only advantage the incandescent traffic bulbs had was their high energy use had a side effect of making the traffic module warm, which prevented snow and ice from building up on the surface. News media and citizens used that one advantage alone to show how the newer LED bulbs are more dangerous and cause more accidents since they don't produce enough heat to melt the snow and ice around them. Aelc points out that while there were some fatal accidents in the indicated scenario, he also points out that it doesn't snow every single day and the disadvantages of LED bulbs in the winter doesn't justify not using them in the non winter seasons.

* MilestoneCelebration: To celebrate gaining one million subscribers to his channel, Alec made an episode showing off all the props he has on display in the background and showing how he used a large flat screen TV connected to a computer to make the colored squares in the cubbies.

* ColbertBump: The demand for secondhand Sunbeam Radiant Control toasters went up quite significantly after Alec made an entire video about them.