• Joe (unregistered)

    Hah

  • Too Early In The Morning (unregistered)

    In my non-caffeinated state, I couldn't figure out what forms had to do with blimps.

  • Ian (unregistered)

    Huh, adblock blocks old magazine ads, too.

  • (cs)

    FMS-80 is making us an offer we can't refuse! Now that thats out of the way you can FuhGed About IT

  • Platypus (unregistered)

    Wow, what was Einstein's time in the 40? The NFL draft combine stats don't go back that far.

  • Lyndon (unregistered)

    1 2 and 4 remind me of how much things have changed. 3 reminds me of how much hasn't.
    I am still fighting the never-ending battle, watching in horror as people still take 100 pages of printed data from one electronic system and key it right back in to something else.... I somehow doubt I will ever win the war. In fact it's scarier now, as in the days of the other three (which I do remember) it was understandable of not embracing the electronic way. Now it is just.... painful...

  • Steve (unregistered) in reply to Ian

    Thanks for clearing that up. I had no idea what I was supposed to be looking at!

  • Bob (unregistered)

    0 respect for diss'ing Gutenberg.

    Captcha: nulla Is that a female nullo?

  • Lyndon (unregistered) in reply to Lyndon
    Lyndon:
    1 2 and 4 remind me of how much things have changed. 3 reminds me of how much hasn't.

    Late night... that should obviously have been: 1, 3 and 4 remind... 2 reminds...

  • noone (unregistered)

    SSG Ad -- I didn't even know computers could be properly trained! That's what I've been doing wrong! I haven't been training them!

  • zannon (unregistered) in reply to Ian

    Probably just a way to get us to turn off ABP, which is a good idea to help support the site BTW.

  • Alan (unregistered) in reply to noone
    noone:
    SSG Ad -- I didn't even know computers could be properly trained! That's what I've been doing wrong! I haven't been training them!

    Tell us about it, we still have to put newspaper down on the floor of our server room.

  • (cs)

    #3: I think that's the point. From the ad copy, "Prior to the announcement of micro/SPF(TM) development software, experienced programmers felt programming a personal computer was a lot like playing with a toy. You couldn't take it seriously."

  • Neil (unregistered)

    That guy with the toys all over the computer looks like our company secretary's desk

  • r2k (unregistered)

    I think the real question here is: Why does the Einstein/Gutenberg company have a special phone number for Nebraska?

    I initially thought they may have been based in Nebraska but their address is clearly listed as in Minnesota.

    They were expecting so many Nebraskan calls they didn't want to overwhelm their primary number?

  • Peter (unregistered) in reply to Neil
    Neil:
    That guy with the toys all over the computer looks like our company secretary's desk
    Your company secretary has a desk that looks like a tubby balding bloke?
  • (cs) in reply to noone
    noone:
    SSG Ad -- I didn't even know computers could be properly trained! That's what I've been doing wrong! I haven't been training them!
    If you reward them properly, they'll be at your beck and call. I taught mine to jump over men and horses, hoops and garters, lastly through a hogshead of real fire.

    And of course, it dances the waltz.

  • Pablo Fanque (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    noone:
    SSG Ad -- I didn't even know computers could be properly trained! That's what I've been doing wrong! I haven't been training them!
    If you reward them properly, they'll be at your beck and call. I taught mine to jump over men and horses, hoops and garters, lastly through a hogshead of real fire.

    And of course, it dances the waltz.

    Curse this Ad Block thing. It even discriminates against circus posters from 1845 ... How much memory did the Pink Panther^W^W IBM PC have back then?

  • Jon E. (unregistered)

    Re: The original IBM PC ad with all the toys.

    I worked in a shop where if you broke the build, you got a giant stuffed animal (like in the ad) on your cubical partition as a sort of penance. There the stuffed animal remained until someone else broke the build, whereby the animal would go to his/her desk.

    Seeing that ad, the first thing that came to mind is this guy must have broke a lot of builds...

  • Btrash (unregistered) in reply to Ian

    adblock is blocking them due to them being located in images/ads directory

  • Ozz (unregistered) in reply to Alan
    Alan:
    noone:
    SSG Ad -- I didn't even know computers could be properly trained! That's what I've been doing wrong! I haven't been training them!
    Tell us about it, we still have to put newspaper down on the floor of our server room.
    OK, game over - we have a winner. Please consider donating a portion of your winnings to replace my newly coffee-enhanced monitors and keyboard...
  • A Muffin (unregistered)

    I thought he'd stopped putting the images in a directory that would obviously blocked, thus showing that these articles were not, in fact, cheap attempts at getting people to disable AdBlock? Did he forget or just stop caring again? Then again, considering the linking fail in the third image (apparently he doesn't even proofread enough to tell that a large image is missing), maybe he doesn't care if anyone can see them.

    https://thedailywtf.com/images/ads/90716/1_OrganizesYourOrganization.jpg https://thedailywtf.com/images/ads/90716/2_StopStealingFromYourOwnBusiness.jpg https://thedailywtf.com/images/ads/90716/3_ProgrammingToys.jpg https://thedailywtf.com/images/ads/90716/4_EinsteinGutenberg.jpg

    Note from Alex: To keep the large number of picture/image files organized, Error'd goes to the /errord folder, souvenir pics go to /souv folder, ads go to /ads folder, etc. I guess when it comes to making decisions to make my life easier, worrying about how my file organizational choices will impact those who block ads on the site isn't really at the top of the list...

  • SomeName (unregistered)

    Steve Gutenberg? I remember him, he was in Short Circuit. "Number 5 is Alive!"ui

  • Guesser (unregistered) in reply to A Muffin

    Maybe he expects people who read a technology based website to be intelligent enough to add a filter rule...

  • whitecollar (unregistered)

    The only white collar crimes of 1981 were wearing hideous plaid suits like that. And using products named "NAD" snicker

  • Confused (unregistered)

    Einstein made printers? Is E=mc**2 a seekrit printer formula?

  • Colin (unregistered) in reply to Ian

    took me a minute too

  • (cs) in reply to Confused
    Confused:
    Einstein made printers? Is E=mc**2 a seekrit printer formula?
    Back in the day, PC operating systems didn't have spools for printing. Your application program would print directly to the printer. If your computer was fast, it could send a lot of data to the printer. If the printer was slow, however, your computer would spend a lot of time waiting very quickly for the printer to catch up.
  • dessimus (unregistered) in reply to Peter
    Peter:
    Neil:
    That guy with the toys all over the computer looks like our company secretary's desk
    Your company secretary has a desk that looks like a tubby balding bloke?
    Could be a statue holding up a piece of glass sort of like Atlas, if Atlas were a tubby balding bloke.
  • Walleye (unregistered) in reply to SomeName
    SomeName:
    Steve Gutenberg? I remember him, he was in Short Circuit. "Number 5 is Alive!"ui

    Yeah, and you always had to wait for him to finish making a movie before he would print forms for you.

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to r2k

    Going from memory here, I read something about Nebraska & toll-free routing a long time ago... I'm paraphrasing so I could be off a bit.

    Nebraska used to (or still does, not sure) host the majority of toll-free services and call centers for businesses, so I believe it was a routing issue or quirk - if you lived in Nebraska you had to dial a different number for a hosted business.

  • Worf (unregistered) in reply to Btrash
    Btrash:
    adblock is blocking them due to them being located in images/ads directory

    I don't know much about COmmunity Server, but I'm guessing if you're hosting images of old ads you find, ads sounds like a reasonable directory to host them under.

    Surely you can rewrite your ABP rules to allow you to see the pictures in the story vs. the real ads.

    Then again, I use NoScript, which gets rid of practically all the annoying ads, leaves the good ones behind, and thus, still support the site. Ad-blocking in NoScript is a side effect (handy at that).

  • meah (unregistered) in reply to Peter
    Peter:
    Neil:
    That guy with the toys all over the computer looks like our company secretary's desk
    Your company secretary has a desk that looks like a tubby balding bloke?
    I wonder where she sits...
  • Herohtar (unregistered) in reply to A Muffin
    Note from Alex:
    To keep the large number of picture/image files organized, Error'd goes to the /errord folder, souvenir pics go to /souv folder, ads go to /ads folder, etc. I guess when it comes to making decisions to make my life easier, worrying about how my file organizational choices will impact those who block ads on the site isn't really at the top of the list...

    Following that naming scheme, it would make more sense to put them in a "wta" folder, not "ads".

    Worf:
    Then again, I use NoScript, which gets rid of practically all the annoying ads, leaves the good ones behind, and thus, still support the site.

    There are no good ads. :P

  • Dan (unregistered) in reply to Pablo Fanque
    Pablo Fanque:
    How much memory did the Pink Panther^W^W IBM PC have back then?

    Original PC could take 256K on the main board. 640K through an expansion card, and more using EMS boards, though EMS of course required software to be capable of using/controlling its paging.

  • ScanMan (unregistered)

    I can't help but notice that none of these ancient ads contain any website addresses.

  • phonics4u2 (unregistered)

    The Nebraska exception is probably due to WATS numbers. Nebraska (Omaha) happened to be the home of a couple large switches linked to Offutt AFB, which also helped it become a call center capital. Inter LATA vs. Intra LATA rates probably forced the call center to give out two numbers.

  • Beckoning a beck and call (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    noone:
    SSG Ad -- I didn't even know computers could be properly trained! That's what I've been doing wrong! I haven't been training them!
    If you reward them properly, they'll be at your beck and call. I taught mine to jump over men and horses, hoops and garters, lastly through a hogshead of real fire.

    And of course, it dances the waltz.

    Damn, you caused me to do research and realize that I had been using an incorrect form (although commonly misheard) of the phrase.

  • IT Girl (unregistered) in reply to Beckoning a beck and call
    Beckoning a beck and call:
    Code Dependent:
    noone:
    SSG Ad -- I didn't even know computers could be properly trained! That's what I've been doing wrong! I haven't been training them!
    If you reward them properly, they'll be at your beck and call. I taught mine to jump over men and horses, hoops and garters, lastly through a hogshead of real fire.

    And of course, it dances the waltz.

    Damn, you caused me to do research and realize that I had been using an incorrect form (although commonly misheard) of the phrase.

    And that made me research how it was commonly misheard, since I'd never realized that phrase was mistakenly used.

    capcha (sorry): incassum... incassum urgency, break glass

  • landstander (unregistered) in reply to Btrash

    For Adblock Plus, the following exception rule makes them visible again.

    @@https://thedailywtf.com/images/ads/*

  • Still Not Tim (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    noone:
    SSG Ad -- I didn't even know computers could be properly trained! That's what I've been doing wrong! I haven't been training them!
    If you reward them properly, they'll be at your beck and call. I taught mine to jump over men and horses, hoops and garters, lastly through a hogshead of real fire.

    And of course, it dances the waltz.

    The Hendersons promised us those features too.

    But the hogshead of real fire was disallowed due to Health & Safety concerns.

    And the promised "10 somersets" on solid ground were reduced to 2, despite being some days in preparation.

    The whole matter is being investigated by Ms Penny Lane, who is furious at not being included.

  • Marvin the Martian (unregistered)

    The almost impenetrable captcha system seems to have been broken! All stations!

  • Downfall (unregistered) in reply to Marvin the Martian
    Marvin the Martian:
    The almost impenetrable captcha system seems to have been broken! All stations!

    This wouldn't have happen if they hadn't fired the manual comment approvers! Science be damned!

  • Justin` (unregistered)

    Broken captcha makes me wish I could somehow negatively impact the people doing it. :-( Like if ddos was legal.

    captcha: refoveo - is this an exit message of some type?

  • (cs)

    Cripes! I almost went attic diving for old Byte magazines. Upon glancing at the poster in the background of the FMS ad, I thought the "G" was a "C", and someone had blurred the "T" after the "N"...making it THIS C*NT FOR HIRE".

    I'm OK now.

  • EbiDK (unregistered)

    Funny ads :P

    I sorta miss Byte though, it was nice.

  • chaos95 (unregistered)

    Unfortunately, while adblock can be switched off in order to view the ads, my company's draconian, ad-blocking firewall/proxy cannot, so I am doomed to live without these ads until I get home. :`(

  • (cs) in reply to Still Not Tim
    Still Not Tim:
    But the hogshead of real fire was disallowed due to Health & Safety concerns.

    You know what? I advocate 'hogshead' as the new standard unit of volume. The Formula One championship would be much more fun with 0.01006 hogshead engines.

  • Unknown (unregistered)

    Does the last pic look like fanfic to anyone else?

  • (cs)

    Ummm.... can someone explain why Captcha is required to post a comment, but signing up as a user requires neither Captcha nor even email address confirmation?

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