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Hilarious Antique IT Advertisements
PetManimal writes "Computerworld has gone back through forty years worth of magazines, and came up with some entertaining IT-related advertising gems from decades past. Highlights include The Personal Mainframe, an image of the earliest screenless briefcase portables, and Elvira hawking engineering software. From the article: 'Remember Elvira, Mistress of the Dark? Besides appearing on TV in features like Elvira's Movie Macabre Halloween Special, Elvira also invited Computerworld readers to "cut through paper-based CASE [computer-aided software engineering] methods with LBMS" software. "The scariest thing about CASE is the several hundred pounds of books that land on your desk and for which you've paid fifteen gazillion dollars, when you buy off on a CASE development methodology," she writes. Can you guess what year Elvira appeared in this Computerworld ad? Headline hint: "IBM delays notebook arrival in U.S."'"
Oh LOL and years 15 ago it cost a bomb to buy a mobile phone and some were BRICK SIZED!!11, 75 years ago guess what LOL Hardy was writing about lack of applicability of number theory as there was FFSBBQ NO STRONG CRYPTO!!, 300 years ago we omg even the concepts of mechanisation of reason and number theory hadn't yet been presented by Legendre.. oh oh 3000 years ago LOL NOT EVEN ARISTOTLEAN LOGIC OMG SO FUNNY. Are people so insular today that they find their context within history so surprising as to be hilarious?