[1986] Casio Databank Watch : vintageads

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

A head full of facts (up to 50 facts maximum)

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

That sounds about right.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure most of the people I know have more than 50 facts in their heads.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's the Alzheimer's edition

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Remember when ads had several paragraphs in small print and everybody read them because there was nothing else to do.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

and detailed information about the products instead of just a list of vague bullet points that really don't tell you anything so you have to scour the internet to find out if the thing will actually work for what you want or not.

[+] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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[-] can@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

You assume that's his arm.

[-] jago@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 year ago

Fair rebuttal; we're meant to infer the left-side hand pointing at the watch belongs to the same model of the right-side arm that's wearing the watch. Admittedly, this is an assumption based on insufficient data. It's not impossible that the finger-pointing left hand and the watch-wearing right wrist are owned by two different models.

That doesn't change the fact that the watch is worn on a right-arm wrist in an orientation that would show it as upside down to a right-arm wrist owner.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Counter rebuttel; my interpretation is sillier

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Counter counter that it’s intentional due to the built in 8-digit calculator. 58008 and its kin.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

the fact that the watch is worn on a right-arm wrist

Are we sure about this? I've looked at it for a while now, and I can kind of believe either. Where would the thumb be?

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And to think yesterday I added 1 trillion additional bytes of storage to my computer for the same purchasing power as that watch cost when it was new. What a time to be alive.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

But did you put 50 things from your head in it?

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 points 1 year ago

Error. My head does not contain 50 unique things.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Buffer underflow.

Me too. Me too.

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Awww. I had one of these as a kid. I thought it was the coolest thing ever at the time.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

And you were right.

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Wow, I don't know if I have ever seen an uglier advertisement... And I lived through the 90s Sunny D campaign.

[-] abrake@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I love it. It's like a dollar store Dali knock off.

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