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Throwback Thursday: Vintage Tire Commercial Reflects Sexism Of The 70s

A 1970s-era television commercial for Goodyear Polyglass tires reflects just how breathtakingly sexist our society could be.

In 1995, MTV News anchor Kurt Loder likens the Internet to the CB Radio fad of the 1970s.

A turntable and a reel-to-reel tape recorder are the stars of this 1970s-era Magnavox TV commercial.

NASA’s 1970s-era vision of space colonization, a time of great optimism about space exploration.

Knight Ridder was imagining the tablet computer back in 1992.

This is a 1950s-era AT&T training film that instructs the customer on the intricacies of using a dial telephone.

A 1950s vision of what the hospital of the future will look like.

A video made by the Post Office Research Labs in the 1960s, looking forward to what telecomms might be like in the 1990s.

Could you have any cheesier corporate propaganda?!? Sounds suspiciously like What A Feeling, the Flashdance song.

A 1950s vision of the home of the future from Monsanto.