Vintage UK Technology Adverts (Vol.10)

[@tornado_smith]

Totally addicted to old adverts. Amazing that I remember so many. Who says advertising doesn't work etc..

[@garrylawless3550]

Another great collection, it's amazing how technology has come on in such a short space of time! Thanks again Steve.👍🏻😊

[@Trigormike]

Thanks for this Steve. The technology ones are my favourite. It's fun to see how archaic the tech was, while knowing full well that in 40 years time, ours will be regarded the same way.

[@RetroSteveUK]

Nice to have a record of old tech in ad form.

[@herbert9241]

"Simply Palm" - his prospects for the night after missing that opportunity. Some of these ads ring a bell, many others depict an age when I was rarely at home. Unfortunately for kids today they'll never experience the like but the Oracle text service was practically an infinite research and entertainment resource at your fingertips.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I remember being fascinated by teletext and wondered how it all worked. Only ever got to play with it on other people's tellies though - we never had a set that could display it, sadly.

[@herbert9241]

@@RetroSteveUK - Come the revolution, mate - we'll bring back analogue telly. All this digital nonsense is a humanitarian atrocity.

[@RetroSteveUK]

@@herbert9241 The Luddite Revolution?

[@herbert9241]

@@RetroSteveUK - I wouldn't see it as regression.

[@AndreiTupolev]

A touch of the Christines in the ever ready ad.

[@AtheistOrphan]

Yeah you can clearly see the influence.

[@dabe1971]

7:20 David Mitchell !

[@RetroSteveUK]

I thought that might have been him! Glad it's not just me.

[@brittlecharm]

Of course that's the kind of role he would book in an ad

[@AtheistOrphan]

Good spot! Yes that’s him.

[@JacknVictor]

Heard him before I saw him.

[@betaville72]

That Everready ad - The guy just laughing as he watches the fake Beastie Boys getting electrocuted. 😄They don't make ads like that anymore.

[@stevedickson5853]

Looked like the fella on the train at the end was going to get his end away..😂

[@RetroSteveUK]

.. if he could find the time to get away from his wife and family. 🤨

[@stevedickson5853]

@@RetroSteveUK ..🤣

[@mattw8332]

I used to own an Olympus AF10 camera. Sold it on eBay for a reasonable price a couple of years ago.

[@AtheistOrphan]

I had the earlier AF-1. Great little camera.📸

[@RetroElijah1982]

I love Old School technology, and adverts that have to do with Old School technology. Great video Steve, have a great weekend 👍🏽😎👍🏽

[@RetroSteveUK]

Thanks. I will try.

[@gwheregwhizz]

A three minute call to Australia now costs only a few pence more than a gallon of petrol. No wonder they could afford John Hurt.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

Such a great voice. Only Tom Baker is more recognisable.

[@ModelsExInferis]

@@FatNorthernBigot Both Doctor's too!

[@ModelsExInferis]

Had to skip back on the Carphone Warehouse one to see if I knew "Lisa, Milton Keynes"! 😂 I bought a Toshiba DVD player in 1999, it was rubbish, kept freezing up. Had a nightmare trying to return it to Curry's. Bought the first portable player from Panasonic. Worked for years until I lent it to a friend. When I got it back it wasn't working anymore. I still have it. Keep thinking about sending it to Stez Stix Fix, see if Steve can fix it for me!

[@RetroSteveUK]

My first and pretty much only DVD player was a Playstation 2, and the "lend to a friend" thing? I feel your pain on that one. 😑

[@thomascook578]

The Geometry advert, you have to ask....what were the smoking when tgey csne up with that idea 😂, The BeeeeTeee adverts i cant remember, but another great collection

[@RetroSteveUK]

I do remember the ET ones, and yes I agree about the geometry. Watching that was a real wtf moment !??

[@johnnypsycho9628]

Do you remember 2 car Ads from the early 1990's.1 was for The AA as I was an AA Patrolman and hear it a dozen times a day. He's a very very nice man. and the other I'm sure was for Haynes manuals , the gag line was either ,You managed to fix it and save on all these bits..It could be me getting old

[@ModelsExInferis]

Those of us who fix our own cars refer to Haynes manuals as "The Oracle" as there's very little you can't look up in one. I've had one for each of my cars and I wouldn't be without one, worth their weight in gold!

[@RetroSteveUK]

The very nice man advert, I'm sure is on one of the Cars & Transport Ads compilations on this channel.

[@davidbowie2046]

My Friday depression has been cured now you have uploaded your Friday compilation Steve. I had an on digital box, think it was £100 a year and you nearly always had to get a new ariel. Even after that the signal still broke up!

[@RetroSteveUK]

Sounds terrible. I do remember the big digital push. I think we just bought a standard freeview digibox for our telly and plugged the normal aerial into it. Worked a treat.

[@Sheffield_Steve]

And ITV digital was based in Marco Polo House. I can't believe they didn't think that was an omen?! 🤔🤭

[@Sheffield_Steve]

I once bought an old on digital box from Cash Converters for about £40 to take advantage of using the card slot for TopUp TV, I can't imagine why that failed also with UK Gold only available between 5pm & 11pm?? 🤔🤭

[@nellyfett2681]

Bet Elliott is absolutely fuming that ET has found himself a new friend!

[@RetroSteveUK]

Fickle aliens! 👽

[@dawnyWestScotland]

Took me right back! 💙💙💙💙☀️

[@safirahmed]

Carphone Warehouse is now part of Currys so people can now get a mobile phone with Hi-Fi. The Ferguson TV advert is channelling the Twilight Zone.

[@RetroSteveUK]

I usually get my mobiles from Currys. Having said that, I only upgrade when the last one is nearly dead, so not very often.

[@AtheistOrphan]

I think the first chap was Reggie Perrin’s boss, CJ.

[@AndreiTupolev]

Ferguson must have had a pretty sizeable advertising budget. I'm still not entirely sure what the message of the ad was

[@AndreiTupolev]

So did BT have a full-on marketing tie-in with Universal Pictures, then? That must have cost a pretty tidy packet. Probably an even bigger budget than to get Maureen Lipman! 🤣

[@RetroSteveUK]

Must have done. I was quite impressed with the E.T. puppet in those ads.

[@AtheistOrphan]

Ad voiced by Bill Paterson.

[@InAMinMaths]

This narrator 2:03 was in this film 10:59

[@jwb52z9]

What does "electrical retailer" mean? Did electricity companies also sell satellite subscriptions for the channel companies in the UK?

[@RetroSteveUK]

Just means electrical products I guess; appliances and such.

[@Sheffield_Steve]

Oracle and ITN News on page 101 were vastly superior to Teletext from the Daily Fail (I only recently found that one out) Oracle (& Thames for that matter) should have never lost their franchises!! B***ard Thatcher!! 🤬