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Geek Trivia: The Mac and the myth

For something that supposedly aired only once, the ad sure does get around.

The Apple Mac ad was one of the rarest ad you could ever see in your life time. It changed the whole computing era. Apple deserves everything it does. Look at iPhone, Apple announced they will give iPhone to the world in 2007 nn they did n wat a fantastic job they have done... its just amazing... even amazing, fantastic n bla bla bla are an under statement

The word is linchpin. I don't even want to contemplate what a "lynchpin" might be.

According to Miriam Websters, Lynchpin is a varaint of Linchpin.

Given the meaning and etymology of the word I think that Webster has erred. Just because a mistake happens often enough doesn't make it right.

Speaking of 1984 Knucklehead... I lived in Lompoc in 1984, and while I didn't live on base, I lived on the grounds of the "other" federal property right by the base. Not as a resident of that installation, but in the family housing for those that worked there. Can you still go and walk around Surf Beach?

Hey - Twin Falls is NOT out of the way!!! Everyone in Southern Idaho rocks that town! LOL

Actually I have been there quite a few times and find it quite an interesting place. It's quite metropolitan compared to where I live.

Does anyone know who the woman with the sledge hammer is?

Her name is Anya Major and she lives in England.

Thanks. She looks like my seventh grade math teacher. Guess she's not.

when you think about the draconian rules that Apple Computers placed on Macintosh software developers and the control they exercised over what could and would not run on that platform, one might suggest that in 1984, Apple computers created a technological microcosm (emphasis on the micro, as it turned out) which bore a striking resemblance to the thought-control in Orwell's novel.

Ironic.

Aha - Now I remember where the spoof ad in Futurama comes from. The one where they defrost the guy from the 80's? I knew there was something tickling the back of my mind when I saw it...

I was watching that.

...who pulled it, and why? I've never seen this ad, only ever heard about it (and passing references, at that)

was actually to the Futurama riff on the ad. After the hammer smashes the screen, this dude in the front stands up and says, "Hey, I was watching that". How oddly coincidental that you had an issue viewing the ad on YouTube. That's funny.