AT&T 1993 "You Will" Ads

This montage of AT&T ads came from a 1993 Newsweek CD-ROM, when Newsweek thought that one day, magazines would be sent to you in CD-ROM form, sponsored with ads. It's an interesting view of the future.

(via very-appealing.com)

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• AT&T
• ad
• 1990s
• futurism
• tomselleck

[alreadydefective]

What's a phone booth?

[21sibs21]

0:03 Amazon-kindle 0:08 Garmin, TomTom, Magellan 0:18 Apple iPad 0:42 Most websites do that 0:49 Skype 1:04 Sorikey 1:11 MyCare Card 1:21 Cisco, Skype 1:35 Netflix Google them if you haven't heard of it. I had to Google some to.

[lander77477]

@gusem Yeah pretty much all of these are real now, (except that opening a door with your voice thing, does anyone actually do that?) but back then this seemed to futuristic, today these gadgets are about as exciting as a microwave oven

[TikikahTheEagle]

@alreadydefective I hope you're joking. Nobody could be that inept.

[gusem]

Amazing how many of these became true, and the others still can.

[silentiumestaureum93]

Have you ever woke up with a hard-on, or wondered how it feels to be a black man? You will and the company that will bring it to you.. MtV

[mendezWTF]

Netflix, wikipedia and Facetime. Nice :)

[DJBell1986]

Holy shit we are in the future! Still no flying cars >:(

[laxerbra3ad]

does anyone get creeped out in a weird way...

[PetertheAverage]

What's a fax?

[DannyJustiniano]

I've done all of that. :P

[Herestodinner]

0:36 A bunch of bridges has Fast Passes now.