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Franklin's bad ads for Apple ][ clones and the beloved impersonator they relied on
A beloved hometown impersonator had no idea what he was signing up for with this photoshoot.
The bad ads I'll never fully research
Different format, same absurd advertisements.
In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad
A rough start to what would later become one of my favorite tech ads from the 80s.
A handful of wholesomely bad ads for 90s SPARC clones
In which we enter the era of unrestrained and unintelligible use of stock images instead of actual hardware.
Some not-so-bad ads from 80s computer magazines: Christmas edition!
I really wanted to look at holiday ads. But not all of them were awful so we're switching things up!
USR's campaigns for the Password Modem were historically bad ads
What's the point in rewriting the timeline of a famous figure's if you're not going to make it baroque?
A (1995) company that made nothing but bad ads
5 pages of the worst typography I've ever seen in a magazine.
A bad ad for a device that photographed CRTs
It's funny! It's confusing! It's a camera in a box.
Bad ad, but almost an iPad (in 1984)
I, for one, am glad that one of the greatest paintings of all time wasn't an 8-bit image drawn by this guy.
