‘Do You Compute?’ investigates how technology went from being written off as science fiction to something we engage with every day. In the years following the end of World War II, computers were just ...

CRN was launched in 1982, back then it was known as Computer Retail News. As part of our 30th anniversary, we look back at some memorable computer ads from the early days of CRN, like this Texas ...

It's always fun to take a walk down memory lane, especially the gold age in the advent of Personal Computing technologies. Some of the best ways to revisit this era are through print magazine ads that ...

There’s nothing quite like the ego boost of looking at an old computer ad. Without doing absolutely anything remarkable, you get to laugh at the accomplishments of ...

When it comes to the iPad, Apple acts like one of those pushy parents who can never be satisfied no matter how much their kid achieves, or even overachieves. You and I might look at the iPad and see a ...

We all bitch about OSes and hardware, but be thankful that we live in the 21st century. In the early 80’s 2K of RAM was touted as enough to “satisfy our lust for power.” OObject has put together a ...

(From “Do You Compute: Selling Tech from the Atomic Age to the Y2K Bug” by Ryan Mungia and Steven Heller) “I think it was a big challenge for ad agencies, the people who were making the ads, to ...

Microsoft has come out with a new marketing campaign that features a man called Mackenzie Book (read: Mac Book) explaining why a Surface Laptop 2 is a better option than an Apple MacBook, in his ...