1950s-era internet ads for YouTube, Facebook, Skype should have been real
By Brian FairbanksAugust 6th, 2010, 12:41 pmComments (5)
After years of Jezebel and other blogs posting sexist and otherwise laughable vintage magazine and newspaper ads, it's about time someone found a few depicting the early days of the internet.
Of course, Skype, Facebook and YouTube would have baffled patent offices and audiences of the Eisenhower era, but that's what makes them so damn entertaining to read over.
By the way, according to Laughing Squid, "Sao Paulo ad agency Moma created [these] as part of the “Everything Ages Fast” ad campaign for Maximidia Seminars."
Via Urlesque.
Commentarium (5 Comments)
I like the computers even though they don't look anything like 1950s computers.
I can't believe its taken this long for someone to make these. Rad.
Only the Skype ad could narrowly pass as 1950s (Eisenhower '50s). Facebook's looks perhaps very early 1960s "Mod" (LBJ's '60's). YouTube is late-1960s-through-early-1970s (Nixon all the way!).
I was looking everywhere and this popped up like notihng!
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Now you say something