Dorks and Dinosaurs

OK, I'm splicing together a few things, these were both from PC World. The first one was from comp/mag, which is being disassembled.



This odd ad from PC World (March 1999) features how YOU can get lots of money from repairing PCs in your own home! You even get a powerful IBM computer to do it with. Of course, all this is if you sign up to the "International Correspondence Schools", meaning that to get this spread like McDork here has received, you need to pay thousands of dollars, and to get the FULL set, you probably need to finish the course. Advice: just buy an iMac, which was popular at the time of this ad.

Fast forward a few years and we get a glimpse of an odd advertising campaign circa 2005 for Microsoft Office. Odd because there wasn't a new Office between '03 and '07, unless they upgraded '03, which wouldn't be bad because '07 was complete garbage, and odd because there are people wearing rubber dinosaur masks.




And to be honest, if you were a business using Windows XP, even in 2005, you are still a dinosaur in many aspects.

Nester's Adventures #29

At one time, Nintendo Power ran a monthly comic called "Howard and Nester", co-starring Howard Philips of Nintendo of America. The storylines gave hints for whatever the big game of the time was (typically the comic's theme was last month's cover game) with some mild joke or pun on par with comic strips of today. After Howard left for a job at JVC (in real life), the comic strip was renamed "Nester's Adventures", but the quality of the artwork started to slip (in my opinion) and without Howard, instead relying on random bit players (whether kids or video game players). This eventually proved the beginning of the end, and it was ended in the end of 1993. Nester has made a few comic appearances since (including 1997 and 2008) but not much since then.

This is a 2-page Nester's Adventures strip from Issue 29, and you can see that it's even less funny than H&N (though I have to admit, the Madonna line made me chuckle) and not much game hints either.

These aren't my scans and were taken from Retromags, but I do have the magazines.