{"id":16279,"date":"2023-01-20T14:57:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T14:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/dont-call-a-lemming-a-lemming\/"},"modified":"2023-01-20T14:57:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T14:57:29","slug":"dont-call-a-lemming-a-lemming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/dont-call-a-lemming-a-lemming\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Call a Lemming a Lemming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-490\" title=\"Apple Lemmings Commercial\" alt=\"Apple Lemmings Commercial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4d972__lemmings.jpeg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/>January 20, 1985<\/p>\n<p>Apple airs their infamous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lemmings_(advertisement)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lemmings commercial<\/a> during Super Bowl XIX to launch their ill-fated &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macintosh_Office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Macintosh Office<\/a>&#8221; software. The ad was widely considered a failure because the commercial seemingly insulted its intended audience. Perhaps Microsoft should study their tech history before airing any more <a href=\"http:\/\/kensegall.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/microsoft-tries-the-lemmings-approach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windows Phone commercials<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/20\/dont-call-a-lemming-a-lemming\/\">Don&#8217;t Call a Lemming a Lemming<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/20\/dont-call-a-lemming-a-lemming\/\">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 20, 1985 Apple airs their infamous Lemmings commercial during Super Bowl XIX to launch their ill-fated &#8220;Macintosh Office&#8221; software. The ad was widely considered a failure because the commercial seemingly insulted its intended audience. Perhaps Microsoft should study their tech history before airing any more Windows Phone commercials? Don&#8217;t Call a Lemming a Lemming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[1279,4574,4575],"class_list":["post-16279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-call","tag-dont","tag-lemming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279"}],"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=16279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}