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Gallery of Past Tech (and Other) Advertising

Posted by kdawson on from the masters-of-persuasion dept.

theodp writes "The Vintage Ad Browser takes you back to the days when Google conjured up images of Barney Google (1948). When the hip music player was a Walkman (1982). When Osborne meant state-of-the-art in computing (1982). When Big Picture TV meant 12" (1948). When compact camera referred to a Pocket Instamatic (1972). And when wireless meant getting phone calls 300 feet from the house (1982)."

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  1. You can't read the ads, just buy them by Gadget_Guy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How useless. I went to the site, found an ad that seemed interesting and clicked on it. Nothing. No, I couldn't zoom in to be able to read the text. The only link is to ebay so I can buy it from the site owner. This is just one big stupid catalog of ebay sales.

    I am just about to put up some stuff on ebay to sell - I must remember to post the "story" here.

    1. Re:You can't read the ads, just buy them by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I don't know, some of it is pretty cool. When I saw this one, I was reminded that once RCA was a pretty cool company.

      Note to self: if you ever own a failing technology company, it's better to close up and try again than sell out.

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      Qxe4