Interesting to see this statement at the top of the article. Long live the web fighting back. Not sure I have seen many (any?) sites with this. Calls for some sort of acronym or logo that others can adopt without having a long sentence at the beginning of many pages:
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And we had good skeletons - in 1985, Aardman Animations created this advert for VHS cassettes
https://youtu.be/ffa1E9k3H4k
Angostura 17 hours ago [-]
I can hear the voice of Derek Gyller without even clicking the link.
hkpack 1 days ago [-]
While watching the second video, Futurama theme song started playing in my head :-)
js2 13 hours ago [-]
Maxell. No w.
djmips 23 hours ago [-]
Why is it referred to as a 'bad' floppy ad. I thought it was cool.
jhbadger 20 hours ago [-]
The "bad" is referring to the floppies, not the ad. The ad with the robots at dinner was about buying Maxwell floppies (which were considerably more expensive than no-name floppies) because otherwise the machines might "eat your files". A modern equivalent would be buying a SanDisk SD card over cheaper alternatives.
js2 13 hours ago [-]
Maxell. No w.
blackhaz 23 hours ago [-]
Same. Still a great pleasure to see those ads from the past. Nothing compared to ads today.
fortyseven 17 hours ago [-]
Looks like the whole site revolves around calling ads "bad'. An approach that, itself, is rather bad. Especially in this instance.
forinti 1 days ago [-]
I don't recall ever using a Maxell floppy, but their cassettes were the best.
to11mtm 1 days ago [-]
Semi random fact, but there's actually a Vaporwave artist that used a number of Japanese Maxell advertisements in a distorted/looped manner for the better part of a whole album....
I vaguely remember these but I more clearly remember the Samsung ad which featured a similar looking robot in a dress turning letters on a gameshow, implying that Samsung would still be around even after Vanna White was replaced by a machine. Vanna White sued, claiming a breach of her publicity rights (despite her name, the name "Wheel of Fortune", or her actual likeness not being used) and actually prevailed in court, establishing a precedent in the United States that very broadly protects celebrities' rights to control whether and how they are represented.
It's now 2026 and Vanna White still has not been replaced by robots, but that must have been a successful ad in 1988 for people to remember it decades later.
luxuryballs 1 days ago [-]
> Except the glaring mistake of putting “3½” microdisk” in the copy when there are 5¼” floppies on the table.
The MF 2-DD box shown is 3.5, I think they just used the bigger disks on the table because they are much better props for the video.
camkego 1 days ago [-]
If you look at the first image in the article, the one with a floppy on a serving tray, it looks like an 8 inch floppy to me. I think the floppy disks in the board room might also be 8 inch floppy disks
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Honda was more impressive then with Asimo which was a real robot https://youtu.be/DerM1GNtg5A
https://youtu.be/uKt-KR1TsRg?si=l6KDBOryvtEk6gg2
https://vaporwave.wiki/wiki/Vektroid#fuji_grid_tv
(TIL Vaporwave has a wiki. We live in awesome times.)
https://youtu.be/dgrJEpUqSuw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9DfSCk-6Ko
https://paleofuture.com/blog/2013/2/20/robot-vanna-trashy-pr...
It's now 2026 and Vanna White still has not been replaced by robots, but that must have been a successful ad in 1988 for people to remember it decades later.
The MF 2-DD box shown is 3.5, I think they just used the bigger disks on the table because they are much better props for the video.