TIL Emperor Nero's most everlasting legacy was that he invented the laugh track

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No he didn't, the laugh track requires recorded sound. He did not have that technology.

Charley Douglass invented the Laugh Track.
- He invented the concept.
  
  No, he didn't do that either. He had no concept of the possibility of recorded sound. Don't get your history information from YouTube videos.
That's not a laugh track... More equivalent to the laugh sign when there's a live studio audience

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