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Sunday, 17 June 2007
Antique IT ads
Slashdot also has this report on ads for computers and IT related hardware from the past. Although tongue in cheek it is worth considering the impulse to the 'ideology of the new' and the modernist drive to optimal velocity on viewing them. Has anything really changed in 30+ years of advertising 'stuff'?
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