Priceless! The 25 Funniest Vintage Tech Ads
My oh my, how things have changed. These 25 vintage tech ads are guaranteed to take you back -- and, in most cases, remind you how truly terrible our tastes once were.
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Esther Schindler
If the comments are ugly, the code is ugly
claird
SVG a graphics format for 21st century
pasmith
Take Chrome OS for a test spin
Sandra Henry-Stocker
Solaris Tip: Have Your Files Changed Since Installation?
jfruh
Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
mikelgan
What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive
Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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Are things really any better today?
It's fun looking at the stupidity on display in these ads, but I have to wonder--are things any better now? Aren't we still selling dumb products and stupid services using idiotic endorsements today?I have absolutely no doubt that in fifteen or twenty years, we--or our children--will be able to look back at today's ads and feel the same way we do when we look at this collection--what _were_ we thinking?
Ugh. I remember Interlude.
Ugh. I remember Interlude. It was unimpressive—even then. It would ask a few questions, then pick a prefab scenario based upon them.As for the Odyssey 2: Perhaps in a gazebo? ;)
Editorial comments on pictures; not funny.
Having lived through the times in the ads, I can see that the person making the comments might not have? Some of the ads are funny, but most are more interesting as history. Bill's glasses? What? Something like, "I am Bill; hear me roar..." That might be mildly funny. But the glasses? DubyaTeeEff?Nice try. However, I did actually like the ads.
Projecting equipment
Oh that Sabrina's got some projecting equipment all right.it's all in fun
i understand that the new workforce/consumers of today wouldn't find these as amusing as most... I am only in my 30s but i remember these days and i remember how cool my parents were - they were too old to be considered hippies but mature non the less... enjoyed the 70s as it was and moved into the 80s as any normal couple/consumer.the point i REALLY want to make here tho is that without these modern marvels we would not have what we do today! this is just a milestone era in technology. it is just as we see different cellphones and computers year to year now, always outdoing the last design... without them the next design wouldnt exist!