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These Covers Of Magazines Advertising Computers In The 80’s Will Make You Go Back In Time
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Now you probably can't even imagine your life without a computer. But computers weren't always that common and there was a time when computers were advertised on magazine covers. If you like computers and are kind of nostalgic, you'll love these covers.
If you like computers and are kind of nostalgic, you'll love seeing these covers from 30 years ago, when many readers of the Bored Panda weren't even born yet.
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Sean Radford 6 years ago
Isn't that the daughter from Different Strokes? She's definitely on drugs in this picture. But then again I bet the photographer was too. Oh the 80's.
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Jonathan Reyes 6 years ago
The sheer weight of these things will definitely give you that workout :)
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So many women using computers on the front pages of magazines and still the loudest men wanted computers all for themselves. Tsk tsk tsk (sorry to bring politics into this, but I couldn't not notice).
That's because computer programming used to be a female-dominated field back in the day. http://www.startupdaily.net/2015/02/women-didnt-just-recently-start-coding-actually-stopped-coding-decades-ago/
I definitely noticed that gender trend, especially some of the cheesier fashion model type covers that were typical for many of the foreign computer mags. But, as Kelly correctly points out, many of the top coders back in the day were women. It was a different universe then . . . back in the early days of Comdex and all that.
I noticed the same thing, how interesting/curious it was that so many of these covers featured women.
Let me mansplain this: it was a good thing they passed that law back around '94 that legalized the purchase of computers by women. Women didn't buy computers in the 80s and early 90s because it was considered "nerdy" and complicated. It took some work to get PCs to do some of the basic things we take for granted today. Women didn't care about any of it until the computer did everything for them.
My mum used to have a white box-like computer back in 2007. It really pissed her off because it was kinda slow and had a really small amount of modern functions but nevertheless, that memory of her, sitting behind the chestnut-colored desk and using the "stupid crumbling" computer often comes to my mind when I think about my early childhood years.
Great collection! I remember those days all too well. So, what about the Amiga??? There was a time when the Amiga was absolutely the platform for early color graphics and 3D rendering development (even before the "video toaster"). I had several of these in my basement home computer lab at the time . . . oh well, just tossing in my 2 cents worth here.
So many women using computers on the front pages of magazines and still the loudest men wanted computers all for themselves. Tsk tsk tsk (sorry to bring politics into this, but I couldn't not notice).
That's because computer programming used to be a female-dominated field back in the day. http://www.startupdaily.net/2015/02/women-didnt-just-recently-start-coding-actually-stopped-coding-decades-ago/
I definitely noticed that gender trend, especially some of the cheesier fashion model type covers that were typical for many of the foreign computer mags. But, as Kelly correctly points out, many of the top coders back in the day were women. It was a different universe then . . . back in the early days of Comdex and all that.
I noticed the same thing, how interesting/curious it was that so many of these covers featured women.
Let me mansplain this: it was a good thing they passed that law back around '94 that legalized the purchase of computers by women. Women didn't buy computers in the 80s and early 90s because it was considered "nerdy" and complicated. It took some work to get PCs to do some of the basic things we take for granted today. Women didn't care about any of it until the computer did everything for them.
My mum used to have a white box-like computer back in 2007. It really pissed her off because it was kinda slow and had a really small amount of modern functions but nevertheless, that memory of her, sitting behind the chestnut-colored desk and using the "stupid crumbling" computer often comes to my mind when I think about my early childhood years.
Great collection! I remember those days all too well. So, what about the Amiga??? There was a time when the Amiga was absolutely the platform for early color graphics and 3D rendering development (even before the "video toaster"). I had several of these in my basement home computer lab at the time . . . oh well, just tossing in my 2 cents worth here.