or do u think they were more like, "damn i wish i was alive in 1964 and dropped hella acid with ken kesey and the merry pranksters and got naked on a commune with 69 other sexy hippies and grew a fuckton of weed while naming my kids starshine rainbowkiss"

just a random question ive been wondering

  • LoMeinTenants [any]
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    4 years ago

    Yes, very much so. (good history lesson)

    "1984" is an American television commercial which introduced the Apple Macintosh personal computer for the first time. It was conceived by Steve Hayden, Brent Thomas and Lee Clow at Chiat/Day, Venice, produced by New York production company Fairbanks Films, and directed by Ridley Scott. Anya Major performed as the unnamed heroine and David Graham as Big Brother. Its only U.S. daytime televised broadcast was on January 22, 1984 during and as part of the telecast of the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII. Chiat/Day also ran the ad one other time on television, in December 1983 right before the 1:00 am sign-off on KMVT in Twin Falls, Idaho, so that the advertisement could be submitted to award ceremonies for that year.

    In addition, starting on January 17, 1984 it was screened prior to previews in movie theaters for a few weeks. It has since been seen on television commercial compilation specials, as well as in "Retro-mercials" on TV Land. The estate of George Orwell and the television rightsholder to the novel 1984 considered the commercial to be a flagrant copyright infringement, and sent a cease-and-desist letter to Apple and Chiat/Day in April 1984. The commercial was never televised as a commercial after that.

    • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      seriously, one of the craziest parts about early TV and actually early internet stuff is how much is genuinely lost. No one can recover so much of what to some or a lot was a cultural moment in history. Folks simply did not understand the importance of backing up what would eventually be considered history. Almost everything now is bagged and tagged, you can hardly post a selfie these days without some creep saving it to their ten thousand gigwatt harddrive

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Treating a fucking choice of consumer electronic like some kind of brave act against tyranny

      Advertising is a fuck