Technostalgia: Remembering our first computers
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Am I the only one here who can't stop laughing at the PDP-10 ad? While the diverse workforce may have been ahead of its time, everything else just screams 70s. Complete with philodendron in a braided rope hanging basket! (I'm sure someone will correct my horticultural identification/spelling if necessary).
If you told me it was a 2013-era parody of 1970s advertising, I'd absolutely believe it. Is there a Poe's Law equivalent for advertising? "If your ad is so over-the-top stereotypical, it will be mistaken for parody." It even gets perfect the thing that so many early computer ads did: people using computers in postures/set-ups that no one ever would. Could you even type in the position that guy's sitting at the terminal? Wouldn't you feel weird working in a room with a terminal at some random orientation in the middle like that?
If you told me it was a 2013-era parody of 1970s advertising, I'd absolutely believe it. Is there a Poe's Law equivalent for advertising? "If your ad is so over-the-top stereotypical, it will be mistaken for parody." It even gets perfect the thing that so many early computer ads did: people using computers in postures/set-ups that no one ever would. Could you even type in the position that guy's sitting at the terminal? Wouldn't you feel weird working in a room with a terminal at some random orientation in the middle like that?
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