20 years of Apple.

[danielreal2k]

Can't believe this advert is 20 years old,  ok they have updated it a bit
with the girl wearing an  iPod.    - but still pretty cool for 20 years old.

http://www.apple.com/hardware/ads/1984

Didn't Ridley Scott make it?  seems very Bladerunner

[Timmay]

What advert?

[Santa's Boyfriend]

Ridley Scott did indeed make an ad for the introduction of the first apple Macintosh in 1984 - and was directly inspired by George Orwell's masterpiece set in the same year, as opposed to blade runner (yes, I know he made both).  Gives you an idea of what he would have done with 1984 had he been given it at the time.  The film is still a masterpiece though - in many ways as good as the book.

[fanny splendid]

Can't believe this advert is 20 years old,  ok they have updated it a bit
with the girl wearing an  iPod.    - but still pretty cool for 20 years old.

http://www.apple.com/hardware/ads/1984

Didn't Ridley Scott make it?  seems very Bladerunner

Yes, i think he did.

Did you know that there is an easter egg in the Duke Nukem game? Press a combination of keys, and that advert will show on the cinema screen in the first bit of the game.

[Garfield And Friends]

It's a classic advert because:

* It was a one-shot (well, originally, but it's widely available on the web now) advertisment during some American Football Superbowl game, being seen by a large TV audience, many of them being guys chugging down beers and well into their american football.

* It was stylistically dark and moody, an impressively directed advertisment by Scott. And Apple didn't hold back the purse strings from the idea.

* It had a fit lass, in a skimpy outfit, running in slow-mo, with nice jiggly breasts. The reason for the ad's classic status? An elusive hot chick. That's yer reason there.




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[Tokyo Sexwhale]

It's 20 years since 1984?  Where did all that time go....

[The Region Legion]

Oh, so THAT'S what Futurama was parodying in that episode.....

[Ambient Sheep]

It's 20 years since 1984?  Where did all that time go....

I know.  I was listening to a Cocteau Twins LP last night and suddenly realised that it's 20 years since their seminal "Treasure" LP came out.

That also means that FGTH's "Two Tribes" is 20 years old this summer too.

Not to mention 20 years since all that Orwell bollocks.

Weird.

[Hairy Chin]

And 20 years this summer since my 3rd birthday. Blimey, I think this is turning out to be some sort of '20' conspiracy.