If It Had Existed Then...

When I was in a punk band in college, we practiced in the loft of our drummer's dad's electrical shop (Denver Electric: We Mend Your Shorts -- no kidding, actual motto on the sign above the door). As well as being a nice place to practice as loud as we wanted, it also featured an old, worn cardboard box full of Playboys circa the late 1970s and early 80s.

In addition to the less-erotic-than-hilarious pornography of old (women of the Soviet Union!), it also featured some pretty sweet articles (Steve Jobs on the computer wars: "If Bill Gates wins out, there will be no significant improvement in the personal computer in the next 20 years) and ads for technologies that were outdated by the time I could walk heralded as the wave of the future.

But this is really just a long, roundabout way of explaining why I'm really familiar with late 70s magazine ads and their detailed copy of weak attempts at drawing the reader in. It's what makes these rendering of current tech devices rendered as if they came out in the 70s so amusing and spot on. Check it out, especially if you too are familiar with ad copy from the era, even if your familiarity has nothing to do with the sexual proclivities of electrical workers from 30 years ago...