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Top 10 Most Memorable Tech Super Bowl Ads

Posted by Zonk on from the hee-she-throws-a-hammer dept.

theodp writes "From 1977's lovable Xeroxing Monk to 2007's smug-and-rich SalesGenie pitch man, Valleywag has rounded up videos for its Top 10 most memorable tech-oriented Super Bowl commercials. The commercials are: Apple (1984), Monster (1999), CareerBuilder (2005), GoDaddy (2005), Xerox (1977), E*Trade (1999), Pets.com (2000), Computer.com (2000), SalesGenie.com (2007) and OurBeginning (2000). This year's ads are coming soon." I've always been a fan of the Outpost.com gerbil cannon spot.

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  1. digg? by loconet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    /me checks the URL. Yes, it says slashdot.org . wtf is going on? I'm scared.

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    1. Re:digg? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I'm a former jock and I don't give a damn about professional sports. What the hell do I care about some massive corporation pitting its employees against each other in arenas that were subsidized by tax payers? You might as well be rooting for coke versus pepsi. Incredibly retarded, but I guess sports suits the goal of placating and soothing the masses so they don't have time or energy to care about important things that are affecting them.

    2. Re:digg? by rossz · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I'd moderate you up, but I don't have any points at the moment.

      The millionaires who demand subsidies to build stadiums or they'll move their team elsewhere insisted that their sporting events helped the local economy by bringing in tax revenues. The first baseball strike proved what a lie that was. What actually happened was people did other things in their cities. They went to dinner and a movie or the theater, etc. They spent roughly the same amount of money except they spread it across multiple businesses instead of only at the stadium. This was actually BETTER for the local economy. More businesses benefited and the tax revenues were often bigger because the professional sports team often received a tax break to stay in town.

      Screw professional sports. The next time one demands the taxpayer's cough up money or they'll walk, show them the door.

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  2. This new look... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is just horrible: Don't go the same way as Digg, or you'll also start attracting the same crowd. I don't need pictures of the movie: If I'm interested enough, I'll click the freaking link...

    1. Re:This new look... by jmv · · Score: 5, Funny

      If I'm interested enough, I'll click the freaking link...

      I'm sorry, this is against the Slashdot terms of conduct.

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  3. You would think... by computerman413 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That Slashdot would bother to announce a major change to its layout. I don't like it any more than I like the new discussion system.

  4. errr..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I preferred the ponies.

  5. oh my god by hav0x · · Score: 5, Funny

    the goggles! they do nothing!

  6. Re:Idle by Planky · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's just an idle dig at Digg...

  7. Grumpy old men... by adam · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Damn kids, get off my lawn!

    Jeeeeez people, calm down. As of composing this, about 75% of the comments are complaining of digg similarities, the new discussion system, blah blah. Calm down, people.. it's still slashdot. As best I can tell, they've just debuted a new section (idle.slashdot). You can still post your retarded memes (In soviet Russia our new CSS web 2.0 overlords welcome I, for one), and otherwise go about your typical slashdot business.

    Back to the actual article.. I'd never heard of computer.com.. I guess it would help if I watched the superbowl.. but, yea, I don't. After viewing all the ads in TFA, some are decent (and I've seen re-run later), and some aren't terribly memorable (the salesgenie ad looks like something a 12 year old kid could storyboard in about an hour). Most of the dotcom ads are from companies I'm aware of (monster, pets.com, etc), although I never heard of computer.com or ourbeginning.com.

    I tried to do some research on computer.com to see what its story was (currently a doorway page for a linkfarm).. and as best I can tell, it burned out right away (Seattle PI story from 2yrs later). (They raised $6M+ in venture funding, and blew $3M on the superbowl ads). There's even a 3yr old /. story that has computer.com in the comments, but TFA doesn't seem to mention computer.com directly (and the linked "video dot-bombs" from TFA doesn't seem to work for me). I'm curious if anyone here knows the full story?

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