Commercials etc for "new technology"

[Miss Chicken]

I came across this report from 1969 which explains a new technology was about to be introduced to Austalia

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuClDSofyJs#t=13[/yt]



If would love it if people could post similar videos of any sort of "new technology" that is now commonly in use (or even if it has since been displaced by even newer technology).

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9dTio466dY[/yt]

 

[Miss Chicken]

Bette Davis in a 1930 commercial for a dishwasher

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BmidgIRM5Q[/yt]

I have never owned a dishwasher.

 

[scotpens]

Dialing your own phone was a new thing in the late 1920s thru the mid-1930s. Before then, all calls were put through by an operator.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaQm30DDHL8[/yt]

 

[Miss Chicken]

Phone technology has certainly evolved greatly over the years.

I don't remember what sort of phone we had in the first home I lived in but when we moved to a new home in 1965 we had one like this

It wasn't long before we got a Bakerlite phone that was positioned next to Mum's armchair. Our first phone number was 5 digit long (23605) and I remember when it was to six digits (236305). Currently land-phone numbers are 8 digit long in Australia.




Though they date from early in the 20th century, Singer treadle sewing machine were still being widely used in the 1960s and it was what I first learned to sew on. There were really beautiful machine.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlFTlzC5rVI[/yt]



My mother must of bought her first electric sewing machine when I was about 9 years old and after she did the treadle machine was given to my sisters and me to use.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MnQ8EkwXJ0[/yt]

 

[shapeshifter]

First wireless remote control

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BPvBElDZHo[/yt]

 

[Robert Maxwell]

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MnQ8EkwXJ0[/yt]

It's funny how many of those we still don't have. The ones we do, AT&T didn't create (or isn't particularly involved with.)

 

[ManOnTheWave]

I enjoyed the commercials largely for how much they seemed to inspired by Blade Runner (locations and lighting). Twenty years on, AT&T's saber rattling does look pretty funny. For what it's worth, I did get my tablet computer from AT&T. It's made by Apple, but I did get it from AT&T. I doubt I'd use it to send a fax though.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R706isyDrqI[/yt]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V8_5gXdM-o[/yt]

 

[RAMA]

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwj2s_5e12U[/yt]

This is a modern look at 2019.

 

[SmoothieX]

MLB beat me to the punch on the Apple commercial.

 

[Captain Ice]

Anyone remember the first videogames?





How about BetaMax?

 

[Robert Maxwell]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2EIsnr_cv4[/yt]

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Anyone remember the first videogames?

We used to have a Pong when I was a kid - I think it worked for all of one week.

How about BetaMax?

I remember the real reason VHS won the war against Beta: Porn.

 

[SmoothieX]

Just like why the internet beat VHS...

 

[Captain Ice]

Found this ad from 1976...

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr7dvUxeFgQ[/yt]

 

[scotpens]

^^ Home microwave ovens had already been around for more than 20 years when that commercial was made, although they didn't become cheap enough to be a common household appliance until the 1970s.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

We've *got* to install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveries...