{"id":14441,"date":"2018-01-22T23:15:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T23:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/1984-commercial-introduces-the-macintosh-2\/"},"modified":"2018-01-22T23:15:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T23:15:57","slug":"1984-commercial-introduces-the-macintosh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/1984-commercial-introduces-the-macintosh-2\/","title":{"rendered":"1984 Commercial Introduces the Macintosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 22, 1984<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/axSnW-ygU5g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apple Computer broadcasts their now-famous &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1984_(television_commercial)\" target=\"_blank\">1984<\/a>&#8221; commercial introducing the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macintosh\" target=\"_blank\">Macintosh<\/a>,\u00a0during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII. It was the first and last time the ad was truly broadcast. However, it is a little-known piece of trivia that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edibleapple.com\/apples-1984-commercial-first-aired-on-december-15-in-twin-falls-idaho\/\" target=\"_blank\">ad was aired one other time at 1 AM on December 15, 1983 in\u00a0Twin Falls, Idaho<\/a>, but only so that the advertisement could be submitted to award ceremonies for that year. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curtsmedia.com\/cine\/1984.html\" target=\"_blank\">30-second version also ran in theaters<\/a> starting January 17, but it was the broadcast during the Super Bowl that people really took notice of.<\/p>\n<p>I was 9 years old then and I vaguely remember seeing the commercial, but I also remember being more interested in watching the Raiders beat the Redskins at that time. It wasn&#8217;t until many years later that I actually recalled the commercial. Yet when I recalled it, it was as if I remembered that commercial all along. I guess even though I didn&#8217;t appreciate it at the time, I somehow knew that moment truly was changing the world.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/22\/1984-commercial-introduces-the-macintosh\/\">1984 Commercial Introduces the Macintosh<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/22\/1984-commercial-introduces-the-macintosh\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 22, 1984 Apple Computer broadcasts their now-famous &#8220;1984&#8221; commercial introducing the Macintosh,\u00a0during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII. It was the first and last time the ad was truly broadcast. However, it is a little-known piece of trivia that the ad was aired one other time at 1 AM on December 15, 1983 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[3091,1701,381,3092],"class_list":["post-14441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-3091","tag-commercial","tag-introduces","tag-macintosh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}