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AT&T early 90's commercials showing us all what would occur

Posted on 7/12/18 at 5:56 pm
Posted by PiscesTiger
Concrete, WA
Member since Feb 2004
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Posted on 7/12/18 at 5:56 pm
Germans or not, I remember seeing these commercials and thinking the future was likely to occur after I was long gone. They knew what they were doing. It's funny because you see all of the devices we now know well...

The future as predicted bt AT&T advertising

Thought it would be an interesting share.
Posted by Jamohn
Das Boot
Member since Mar 2009
13544 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 6:01 pm to
Damn that is scary good but frick that dumbass kid at the end who uses future telecommunication technology to interrupt a lecture to ask "Where did jazz come from?" And then the professor patronizes him by saying "good question." That's a stupid fricking question. Everyone knows where jazz comes from.



Obviously Salt Lake City. They named a basketball team after it and everything.
Posted by HeadChange
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Member since May 2009
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Posted on 7/12/18 at 6:01 pm to
Grainy, but that black doctor in the third commercial has to have been in some movies since then. Looks familiar
Posted by PiscesTiger
Concrete, WA
Member since Feb 2004
53696 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 6:03 pm to


quote:

Jamohn
, yeah...AT&T was far less concerned with their "actors" than their product.


I was thinking he might very well be the artist formally known as "Benson", Headchange,...the professor. The doctor...hmmm....will rewatch.

*can't call that face.
This post was edited on 7/12/18 at 6:05 pm
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
35085 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 6:11 pm to
I remember seeing that video pay phone and thinking how huge and awesome it would be. Now it’s on my cellphone and it’s no big deal.
Posted by white perch
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Member since Apr 2012
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Posted on 7/12/18 at 6:21 pm to
No ATT Lily no care
Posted by lsuwontonwrap
Member since Aug 2012
34147 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 6:25 pm to
"You will...and the company that will bring it to you won't be AT&T."

I actually remember these commercials
Posted by Walt OReilly
Poplarville, MS
Member since Oct 2005
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Posted on 7/12/18 at 6:26 pm to
That’s oretty awesome
Posted by lsuwontonwrap
Member since Aug 2012
34147 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 6:26 pm to
quote:

"Where did jazz come from?" And then the professor patronizes him by saying "good question." That's a stupid fricking question. Everyone knows where jazz comes from.


Must be the father of the "What's a computer?" kid.
Posted by FLTech
the A
Member since Sep 2017
12337 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 6:29 pm to
aaaaaah, the simple days of the 90s.

Now AT&T has fricked up the world
Posted by miamitiger
Member since Aug 2011
2010 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 6:31 pm to
The dooctor is played by Juwanna Mann
Posted by Amazing Moves
Member since Jan 2014
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Posted on 7/12/18 at 6:35 pm to
From the comments..

quote:

Have you ever streamed Brazzers in the Taco Bell bathroom? AT&T.?


Posted by airfernando
Member since Oct 2015
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Posted on 7/12/18 at 6:36 pm to
phone booth
Posted by BowlJackson
Birmingham, AL
Member since Sep 2013
52881 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 6:41 pm to
The mom who "tucks her baby in from a phone booth" looks like Dharma from Dharma & Greg
Posted by HinesvilleThrill
Skidaway Island
Member since Sep 2012
3475 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 6:45 pm to
Is the woman in the phone booth Jenna Elfman?
Posted by BayouBengal51
Forest Hill, Louisiana
Member since Nov 2006
6534 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 6:55 pm to
quote:

The mom who "tucks her baby in from a phone booth" looks like Dharma from Dharma & Greg


That or a young Rosamund Pike.
Posted by East Coast Band
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 7/12/18 at 7:03 pm to
Curious as to what tech companies are predicting they can do in 25 years from now.
Posted by Tall Tiger
Dixie
Member since Sep 2007
3218 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 7:04 pm to
Those predictions aren't that impressive, especially for 1993.

The commercials are well done, though. I didn't know Jenna Elfman had a baby back then.
Posted by St Augustine
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Member since Mar 2006
64183 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 7:21 pm to
I actually remembered it once it got to the end with the “you will” damn it’s been 25 years.
Posted by biglego
Ask your mom where I been
Member since Nov 2007
76271 posts
Posted on 7/12/18 at 7:21 pm to
Kinda reminds me of Michael Scott’s homemade Dundee Mifflin commercial.
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