AT&T commercial (1989)

[nathanjames098]

at least you could be able to go on irc

[Khaled2Xyon]

at&t is a bad advantage

go to our website

[rstandrew7]

at&t bad network!

[ryano2099]

Such a daring and bold commercial of the future of communication...all brought to you by AT&T...who practically invinted the dropped call.....ironic no?

[TheSalt619]

will you trust all your info over a worldwide network, you will

[lukebccb]

My android phone probably has more computing power than the computers in this video.

[127miles]

so that how phones work o.O

[rogerswahn]

@dmine45 Ah, that makes sense.

[elgavilan2000]

1:21 o look its AT&Ts 3G map :)

[zwinkypimpen09]

@elgavilan2000 yes maby in 19 fucking 89 .

[TheCatandOwlandBat]

They predicted the popularity of the Internet, lol.

[FnnyClps110]

first it wAS cingular

[MELISSA84008]

oops, spelled "ads" wrong duh

[MELISSA84008]

One of AT&T's adds in the Sunday paper about 8 yrs ago had a picture of someone holding a phone and the picture on the screen,was a backwards flag!!!

[rogerswahn]

They had manual switchboard operators in 1989?

[dmine45]

@rogerswahn Only for the International operators. By 1989, domestic operators were either using TSPS terminals, migrating to (then) modern OSPS terminals. But the IOC (International Operator Center) was still manual because of the communications paths to some countries were at that time.

[pikachuthesquirtle]

wow... so that is how those really old operators look like o_O

[SLEHKY12]

Verizon Rules

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rolingmota]

att sucks!!!! they have the whole market in the US!!

[deighbo]

Too bad the management ran this company into the ground...

[53k74n7]

Google ended this deal! =] Enjoin to the World Communication!

[TechForThought]

If they spun off all there companies in 1984, then what was ATT after that? Was it just a name to refer to all the networks or was it just a long distance company?

[Daniel11987]

It became solely a long-distance company. This commercial was telling of its new foray into the Internet and cable television too to make up for the loss of local landlines.

Luckily it didn't get a monopoly there and cable companies are giving it good competition and it's giving them good competition with U-Verse. AT&T knew the power of the internet and wanted to get in on it, but the breakup took away the funds. Imagine what amazing Internet we would've had had AT&T never been broken up.

[dmine45]

@Daniel11987 They did themselves a disservice by selling off the manufacturing arm that eventually became Lucent.

[jrabin1]

First, I love the big hair on that guy on the cable installation.

Also, 20 years later everything there that was cutting edge is now quaintly obsolete, except for the Space Shuttle, which is essentially the same as was in use 20 years ago!

[bigdukem69]

The Space Shuttle is NOT the same as it was 20 years ago. Of course, it took two accidents to make that happen.

[TechForThought]

the space shuttle isn't anything anymore. there scraping it for a new space program with capsles

[mrsmagloo]

Just not over the phone, Cliff! over the INTERNET, the cell phone, and the Blackberry. God, I was just leaving my first husband then ...

[tigerseyeproductions]

This commercial is creepy =/

[stevengomez247]

beautiful

[TechForThought]

i wonder if any part of ATT is like this anymore

[1337h4x0r3r]

0:38 ahahh

[LSDAddikt]

Supported by a worldwide intelligent network that will someday make it possible for people anywhere at anytime to be able to send or recieve information in any form as easily as they use the phone today, I.E. Now

[360guy0]

"And beyond" eh?

[roadragecafe]

is the guy at 0:33 and 0:39 for real?

[MillBelater]

He would have been normal? ten years earlier, but in 89? No.

[thatsdynomite]

They predicted. It came true.

[threefour5]

well put together, beginning sounds like an ad for an anti-depressants

[freddydaddy69]

no, just a local ohio goofy repairman.

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[freddydaddy69]

yeah, day is a fiber optic cable to every continent 'cept dat cole ass shit down sowf...alabama! HA! there are actually multiple cables in the oceans that feed nearly every place. hail satin! cotton rules!

my little dachsy, Freddy, says that i'm retarded.

[freddydaddy69]

i started at ameritech, an ohio bell company, 13 years ago. then came sbc ameritech, sbc, the new at&t and now, at&t.. my paychecks still say ohio bell telephone company. eyes be a repairman, foe reel! my coworker, daves bridge, is a founding member of glad at american telegraph and telephone...

[freddydaddy69]

dady, it be freddy, u ams retarded.

[BrendaQG]

What happened to that America. It was optimistic and looked forward to the future and made bold plans for innovation. "A network that would someday make sending video as easy as a phone call" That is right now, that's every IM client with video chat and youtube as well." What happened to our bold visionaries? Who will antiquate this which we find so modern now?

[RobCampo]

I can't agree more...

[stormsirens2]

@BrendaQG I'm 15 and I think the same way WHAT F HAPPENED to the old America?

[davidmthekidd]

@stormsirens2 what usually happens to all empires. greed, vanity & arrogance.

[Itstherantman]

@BrendaQG That America is still here, just that ads in the 80's were more extravagant than today. Technology is still going forward, not as fast as you and I would want it but it's going forward.

[AlexanderRozhenko]

@BrendaQG That population, European Americans, had already started dying out in 1989 and will be virtually extinct by 2100. That's what happened. Soon, America will look and behave just like the rest of Latin America, due to Caucasians' inability to reproduce themselves. It's all part of a cycle, you see, called Spengler's Civilization Model. We've reached the apogee. We're on the way down.

[petey8887]

@BrendaQG You KNOW it's a good commercial when it's got you this emotional, lol. I'm kind of confused as to why you're so upset. Communicative technology is so advanced today, as you pointed out. We're achieving what we've always set out to do. What's the problem?

[halfprep455]

Actually the computing power of THE ENTIRE Apollo mission control room is equal to that of a mid range pocket calculator. A new car has over 50 times the computing power of the Apollo mission and an average laptop has well over a thousand times the computing power.

[redguard12]

There still was human operators behind the telephone network in 1989 ?!!!! that's f***ing hard to believe.

[MST3kTomServo]

Ma-Bell! Go baby go!

[johnnyafairbanks]

The music in this commercial sounds awfully familiar...Edd Kalehoff maybe??

[johnnyafairbanks]

The music in this commercial sounds awfully familiar...Edd Kalehoff maybe??

[penstube]

at&t does everything. they have a tower out by my place out in the middle of nowhere with about 20 of those microwave horns on it. probably taking care of everything on that commercial.

[justgold79]

Whoa! Did anyone see the foreshadowing of AT&T's stargate network when they say beyond and flash the pyramid?

[eddy7496]

Goodness...I really enjoyed tuning in for this photoplay...It's a neat way of introducing me to the past I never participated in

John

Edmunds Productions

[imanerd36]

AT&T was great before the split up. Now with the "New AT&T" and Cingular and the little friends at the NSA have destroyed the good name.

[TownsendServer]

That was after the split-up, which occured in 1984, at this point, AT&T would have no longer been doing local service but long distance and interenational.

[imanerd36]

True. My mistake.

[Zoomer30]

Wow...look at that control room. 

"Ok lets get nuts, CRANK IT UP TO 14.4 Kbps!" You Mad MAd MAD!!!

[mainmedic]

14.4kbps in 1989? I don't think so you might have be able to get 9600 if you were lucky.

[TheArfdog]

@Zoomer30 Ok but you know they'll say sarcastically in the future: ok go nuts with that 10 Gigabit/sec!! you mad mad mad! lol.

[TwoBun]

This video made me proud to be an American. (foolish earthling). They still have all that same equipment in their Network and NOC. Too many fixes for any Einstein to figure out.

[Silent700]

Interesting, the three countries they show being connected to are Poland, USSR and Cuba. Must be AT&T's "Phone Home, Comrade!" plan.

[moralesale]

Wow! They were already using the space shuttle back then!

[user181]

The Shuttle has been in use since 1980 (aside from the pauses due to the 2 tragedies). This commercial is purported to be from 1989, so the Shuttle was not new at the time.

[josh198869]

it was 9 years old kinda of still new lol

[gmancine]

Cliff Robertson sounds like his CIA character in the movie "Three Days of the Condor". Thanks for posting this ad!

[LeetNewb]

LOL whats up with them looking at the brain, OH NOES WE PROVIDE PSYCHIC COMMUNICATIONS!

[justgold79]

Read johnon's blog about at&t pushing the phone network for everything from telesurgery to ? and how it compares with google pushing the use of the web for everything.

[justgold79]

leetnewb, search johnon d0t c0m for telemedicine or just google for johnon telemedicine

[tomcat5100]

awesome!  operators were still connecting wires on switchboards in the 80's!

[Rob8729]

Think about it, A high end desktop server has more computing power then some of the control rooms shown on this commecial!!

[mikefly562]

actually, there are cell phones today that have more computing power than some of those control rooms. I heard that all of the computing power in the appollo missions to the moon equals that of a mid range cell phone.

[TownsendServer]

Thats great.