{"id":9268,"date":"2006-10-23T20:49:01","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T20:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9268"},"modified":"2006-10-23T20:49:01","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T20:49:01","slug":"vintage-tv-ads-for-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9268","title":{"rendered":"Vintage TV Ads for Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/shatner.jpg\">One of the many cool things about YouTube is the amount of historical tech-related material that&#8217;s finding its way onto it, and how people are aggregating this material in useful, enlightening, and entertaining ways. This <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pcworld.com\/techlog\/archives\/002950.html?tk=nl_wbxblg\" target=\"new\">piece<\/a> from PC World is a perfect example. They&#8217;ve assembled a bunch of computer TV ads, many from the early days of the computer revolution. Some of the ads you&#8217;ll recognize, others you won&#8217;t. It all forms an interesting snapshot of a now quaint and fondly-remembered (at least speaking for myself) time. There are ads going all the way up to the current PC guy\/Mac guy ads. One fun addition is an allegedly never-before-seen second Apple &#8220;Switch&#8221; ad with Ellen Feiss, the stoner-esque teen who became a 15-minute celeb after her first spaceous performance. Mercifully absent is the &#8220;Dude, you&#8217;re getting a Dell&#8221; dude. But who can live without the Shatner VIC-20 commercial (shown above)? Priceless. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many cool things about YouTube is the amount of historical tech-related material that&#8217;s finding its way onto it, and how people are aggregating this material in useful, enlightening, and entertaining ways. This piece from PC World is a perfect example. They&#8217;ve assembled a bunch of computer TV ads, many from the early &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vintage TV Ads for Computers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}