Posts Tagged ‘Throwback Thursday’
Throwback Thursday: 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.
Read MoreThrowback Thursday: We Are Apple (Leading The Way)!
Could you have any cheesier corporate propaganda?!? Sounds suspiciously like What A Feeling, the Flashdance song.
Read MoreThrowback Thursday: Homes Of The Future
A 1950s vision of the home of the future from Monsanto.
Read MoreThrowback Thursday: 1950s Vision Of Cars Of The Future
A vision of what automobile manufacturers of the 1950s thought cars of the future would look like.
Read MoreThrowback Thursday: The Home PC Of 1999, Circa 1967
Here’s a prediction from 1967 of what the home computer will look like, from a film called 1999 AD: The home computer will be used as a closed-circuit television system, for eShopping, eCommerce, eBanking, and email…with a dollop of sexism on top.
Read MoreThrowback Thursday: Bleeding-Edge Phone Technology, 1962
1962 telephone innovations include an early pager, long-distance dialing, and push-button dialing.
Read MoreThrowback Thursday: The Future Home Computer, Circa 1967
Derek Cooper reports on Europe’s first home computer terminal. Installed in 1967 into the home of industrial consultant Rex Malik.
Read MoreBryant 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.”
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