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Ten years removed, Roger Waters’ explanation for why he is taking The Wall allbum on tour is a remarably prescient document about how the Internet can become a force for division.

90s-Era Telecommunications Via A 1960s Lens

A video made by the Post Office Research Labs in the 1960s, looking forward to what telecomms might be like in the 1990s.

Could you have any cheesier corporate propaganda?!? Sounds suspiciously like What A Feeling, the Flashdance song.

A 1950s vision of the home of the future from Monsanto.

A photo of a fortune cookie that will screw with you as you prepare for the biggest pitch of your career!

A vision of what automobile manufacturers of the 1950s thought cars of the future would look like.

Looking at how people envisioned the future, disastrously wrong, is always good fun. Hey, at least they got the guys right!

1962 telephone innovations include an early pager, long-distance dialing, and push-button dialing.

Derek Cooper reports on Europe’s first home computer terminal. Installed in 1967 into the home of industrial consultant Rex Malik.

Bryant Gumbel & Katie Couric Can’t Figure Out Internet

A clip from a 1994 Today Show episode of Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric struggling to understand the “Internet.”

Keepin’ It Real

Throwback Thursday: 90s-Era Telecommunications Via A 1960s Lens

Throwback Thursday: We Are Apple (Leading The Way)!

Throwback Thursday: Homes Of The Future

Throwback Thursday: 1950s Vision Of Cars Of The Future

Throwback Thursday: Fashion Of The Future, Circa 1930

Throwback Thursday: Bleeding-Edge Phone Technology, 1962

Throwback Thursday: The Future Home Computer, Circa 1967

Bryant Gumbel & Katie Couric Can't Figure Out Internet