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Walter Cronkite predicts 21st century tech in 1967

Posted February 6, 2013 - 12:19 pm

Cool look at how people in the '60s thought we'd be living today.
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The last towns with Operator phone service

Posted January 19, 2013 - 8:01 am

Jump back in the time machine to see a time when people still needed to talk with a human being before using their phone to talk to another human being.
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Watch this pro-phone monopoly video from 1970

Posted December 17, 2012 - 5:35 pm

Archive film from 1970 takes a Schoolhouse Rock approach to a pro-phone company monopoly position.
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Watch the Real Housewives of 1950 abuse a telephone repairman

Posted December 13, 2012 - 12:34 pm

The customer may always be right, except when they're shrewish housewives from the 1950s annoyed with their telephone service.
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Celebrate the 50th anniversary of America's first space 'first': Venus fly-by

Posted December 13, 2012 - 11:21 am

Learn about the 1962 mission to send a spacecraft to fly by Venus
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Watch parents from 1991 gripe about Nintendo

Posted November 15, 2012 - 12:33 pm

Angry parents always make good local news copy. Especially 21 years ago.
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Retro: Hard times for the Dire Straits video CGI guy

Posted November 12, 2012 - 11:40 am

Bad luck for the refrigerator delivery man from the 1980s music video "Money for Nothing".
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Telephone operators discuss War of the Worlds panic

Posted October 24, 2012 - 1:05 pm

What did people do in 1938 when they thought Martians were attacking? They picked up the phone, of course.
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Time Machine: This 1950 film features bad phone behavior

Posted August 31, 2012 - 12:27 pm

Bad phone etiquette is universal across the decades.
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Watch Steve Jobs talking up Toy Story, film technology from 1995

Posted August 29, 2012 - 2:52 pm

An unearthed video of Steve Jobs showcases computer animation discussion.
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Watch George Wendt (Norm on Cheers) in this 1970s training film

Posted August 15, 2012 - 3:23 pm

AT&T unearths early role for George Wendt, who would later gain fame playing Norm on "Cheers."
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Fifth-graders accurately predict future of the Internet in 1995

Posted August 14, 2012 - 4:31 pm

It's all about phones, videos, shopping and cats for these prognosticators.
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When bad poetry and basic computer graphics collide

Posted August 13, 2012 - 11:49 am

Series of 1960s films tried to merge graphics with poetry and freeform jazz.
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Archives: Even AT&T liked cheesy '80s music

Posted July 25, 2012 - 11:08 am

1986 ad campaign asked customers to make "The Right Choice"
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Celebrate 40th anniversary of Landsat by watching this hippy-dippy video

Posted July 23, 2012 - 1:30 pm

NASA video showcases importance of satellite imagery with '70s background music.
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Watch one of the earliest CGI films

Posted July 18, 2012 - 4:16 pm

This 1963 film showing a satellite orbiting a planet is one of the earliest computer-generated films made. Now you can watch it on YouTube. Life rocks.
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Watch some old Telstar footage on its 50th anniversary

Posted July 10, 2012 - 2:10 pm

Jump in the time machine back to 1962 when Telstar was first launched.
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Disaster Recovery in 1975: How AT&T reconnected 170,000 phone lines

Posted June 28, 2012 - 5:39 pm

Archive film from the '70s shows how AT&T rebuilt its phone network after huge fire.
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Did this 1985 film coin the phrase 'information superhighway' and predict Siri?

Posted June 21, 2012 - 5:24 pm

AT&T film from 1985 talks about superhighways of information and computers that people can talk to in order to get information. Ooooh!
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Privacy tips for the future (from 'the past')

Posted June 18, 2012 - 9:56 am

Taking a look at priavcy in the "future" through a fake video from the "past." It's not as complicated as that sentence sounds.
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Watch a creepy puppet teach kids how to use the telephone

Posted June 11, 2012 - 10:31 am

This puppet is either going to teach me how to use the phone or haunt my dreams for the next week.
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1970s phone etiquette film features sexism, horrible bosses

Posted May 11, 2012 - 12:55 pm

How to lose customers through bad phone etiquette...
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Failure means video death: Watch a 1982 report on video games

Posted April 13, 2012 - 10:40 am

Take a trip back to the early days of the video arcade with us and watch a reporter get a lot of things wrong.
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Friday the 13th video fun

Posted April 13, 2012 - 10:11 am

Jason is just trying to move on with his life, but he's having a hard time of it.
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Time Machine: Enter the glamorous world of the 1938 telephone operator

Posted April 12, 2012 - 3:59 pm

Take a trip back to the world of the "one ringy dingy" gals.
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