Classic Mac TV ads

It's pretty funny that some 20 years ago we used to use personal computers by typing in commands like DIR and MD FOLDER for simple tasks we today do it by a click with the mouse. Here are some classic TV ads Apple made for their new Macintosh in 1984.

Don't forget to notice how many applications basically haven't changed since. For instance: did you know that Microsoft Word and Excel were originally Mac-only applications? These professional business applications were the Mac alternatives against PC (Dos) applications WordPerfect and Lotus 123.



Here's a great little application called VideoBox to capture & save Flash movies (like YouTube movies) into Quicktime MOV files. Sorry, Mac only!