Superbowl Tech Ads, 1976–Present 70
Ian Lamont writes "Computerworld has put together a collection of interesting, funny, and just plain weird Superbowl television advertisements from tech companies — excluding Internet retailers. Everyone has seen the Macintosh ad that played during the 1984 Superbowl, but there are a bunch of other gems, starting with a long-winded ad for the Xerox 9200 from 1976. The funniest is probably EDS's 'herding cats' ad from 2000, but there are some oddities, too, including a bizarre ad for Network Associates depicting a Russian nuclear missile launch, and a very dated ad for Sharp from the mid-1980s. Intel has one ad in the collection from 1997, and it turns out that it is returning with two ads this year that it says feature 'geek humor.'"
Usually a couple days after the game... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:EDS Ad (Score:2, Interesting)
I really liked their "building airplanes in mid-air" commercial, but then, I'm an aerospace engineer and built an airplane in my garage.
Dot bomb era (Score:3, Interesting)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnQMq5wtZcg [youtube.com]
And there was another one, from a dot bomb company (1999?). I can't find it but it went something like this:
Guy standing before blank screen
Says:
"We got a bunch of money for a Super Bowl ad. But it was too late to put one together. So I'll just stand here for 30 seconds."
Looks at watch and commercial eventually fades out.
Those two ads epitomize the dot bomb stupidity for me. The market crashed in spring of 2000