Welcome to Flashback Friday, this week, we're going on a very nostalgic journey back to Apple's most golden moments of television, back to the most memorable moments in their ads. The times when you can't get that ad song out of your head. Although it is very hard to narrow down years of history, we picked the most ads that can leave a song on repeat in your mind. 1- Exodus Honey –...
Apple fans rejoice! Apple's worldwide developer conference is a few days away, taking place in San Jose Conference Center, where the very first WWDC took place in 1988. The San Jose venue was the home of many later WWDCs all the way till 2002 when Apple switched to Moscone West in 2003. We are very excited that Apple is going back to its roots, in fact, last time Steve Jobs took the...
On May 22, 1980, Namco released a game that would end up changing the world of pop culture, and its titular character is still with us today. The news that today marks the 35th anniversary of the release of Pac-Man to Japanese arcades serves to me as a reminder of two things. The first is just how far video games have come. The second being just how old I'm getting as I remember...
Welcome to a new feature on Flashback Friday where we’re going to occasionally look back at the beginning of a smartphone line and compare it to its newest iteration. Up this week, the Galaxy Note says hello to the Galaxy Note 4. The original Galaxy Note was introduced at IFA 2011 and released on Oct. 29, 2011. The Galaxy Note 4 debuted at IFA 2014 this year, but has no official...
This Sunday will mark the 45th anniversary of what is arguably one of the most important technological achievements of mankind: Apollo 11 landing on the moon. It's hard to believe that it has been 45 years since we first made it to the moon. I have to admit, it's always easy for me to remember how many years it has been since I born two years to the day after it happened. Share a...
Google spent a large chunk of its I/O keynote this week discussing its new Android Auto tools for the car. The company discussed how it would increase safety by making the driver less distracted, and it's interesting how far this theme goes back for companies. I uncovered this little 1956 animated gem called Your Safety First while doing my usual Flashback Friday digging. (You would be...
With E3 wrapping up for this year, let us jump back in time to the oddness that was the Game Genie. In the early 1990s a little device showed up on the gaming scene called Game Genie. With this device you could enter codes that would give you all sorts of odd powers within the games such as infinite lives, better weapons and so on. Essentially you were manipulating the code of the game...
During WWDC this week, Apple made some jokes about things going wrong during the presentation, but it was all in jest and everything seemed to work. That, however, has not always been the case with WWDC keynotes. Remember that time Steve Jobs threw a camera at someone? (well, more for them to catch, but you could still tell he wasn't happy) How about when a game demo wouldn't load? A...
In the 1970s Americans were… well… we weren't overly smart, okay? I was born in 1971, I can admit we made odd design choices. Design Line phones are perfect example of this. While ones such as the Mickey Mouse phone went on to be an icon of the 1970s, the others were, to be blunt, just not good phones. Sure they matched your "warm browns and yellows of old Spain that provide(d) the...
Before the Internet was really a thing, one had to actually watch film trailers at movie theaters. In the late 1970s and early 1980s nothing could cause a murmur more than a Star Wars trailer. With the casting news for Episode VII coming out this week, and Sunday being Star Wars day, it's time to go back and look at where all of this began. It's pretty hilarious going back and...