Apple’s "1984" Macintosh commercial aired during the Super Bowl that year and is still widely considered one of the best commercials of all time. The commercial strayed from the norm seen then in ...

January 22, 1984: Apple’s stunning “1984” commercial for the Macintosh 128K airs on CBS during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII. Its dystopian theme and epic visuals pitch the Mac as a ...

Steve Hayden, an award-winning advertising writer and executive who helped create the thunderclap of a television commercial in 1984 that positioned Apple's new Macintosh personal computer as a weapon ...

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Today is the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the Macintosh. The original “Mac” arrived along with the famous 1984 commercial, aired just once (but then aired many times on local and network ...

The 1984 commercial based on 1984 is like taking a sledgehammer to Orwell's memory, but big tech has proved itself an entirely different kind of big brother. Reading time 5 minutes We are all the ...

The ad for the Macintosh computer — which was seen nationally just once, during the Super Bowl — is considered one of the most memorable commercials ever made. By Richard Sandomir Steve Hayden, an ...