I could write a book about AT&T/Bell System promotional videos of decades past. Most of you have probably never seen any of these. AT&T appears to have killed their "tech channel" site that hosted a range of them, but their YouTube channel is still up.

So let's begin with their 1974 psychedelic pitch to elementary school children: "Telezonia". I won't even try to describe it any more than that. Just be sure that you're sitting down. - ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNxJPYP-ajQ

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@lauren 1974 ??? That's, uh, wow. The word weird isn't quite adequate.

Now we know where Bush got his pipes and tubes model of the Internet, all made of aluminum foil. Who knew?

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