Windows 1.0 TV Commercial

[P.T Networx Australia]

Not sure if anyone is really interested but I just saw this on Youtube and laughed pretty hard. 
Funny how people would be eager to pay $99 to watch a full screen clock

[JLCitadel]

LMFAO & It's still the same price.

[TheNinjaNextDor]

This should be in hot deals. Please post in the right sub forum.

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[MajorChipHazard]

Ahaahahahaha!!!!

 

Ohhhh Ballmer...

[bob345]

to be honest, i thought this might have been the next gen windows at first haha. "Windows One"

[P.T Networx Australia]

to be honest, i thought this might have been the next gen windows at first haha. "Windows One"

Xbox One, Windows One... I see what you mean. Lol

[JustTooDank]

Sucks to live in Nebraska. LOL.

[Jedicake]

WAIT WHY EXCEPT NEBRASKA? What was going on there?

[P.T Networx Australia]

WAIT WHY EXCEPT NEBRASKA? What was going on there?

 

 

Sucks to live in Nebraska. LOL.

Ballmer's use was a joke, but for many years, there were a whole bunch of things that were available 'except in Nebraska'.

Back in the cold war, when telephone systems were a Bell monopoly, there were, bluntly, not enough phone lines...

... except in Nebraska, where the Strategic Air Command had insisted on a huge number in case of a Nuclear War. Obviously, nuclear war never spread beyond Japan, and certainly not to Nebraska, so for the vast majority of the time, these lines went unused.

A whole bunch of mail order companies set up call centres there, because it was one of the few places you could actually go and order a whole bunch of lines for a business.

However, owing to a Bell rule, you couldn't use a 800 number for out-of-State calls AND in-State calls. So the companies had two choices - either set up two numbers, one for the 98% of the US who were calling out-of-State, and 1 for the locals... or simply point out (as required by advertising law) that a particular offer wasn't available in Nebraska. Many did the latter, and the meme stuck, to the extent that Ballmer used it as a joke.

http://www.quora.com/Microsoft-History/Why-did-Steve-Ballmer-say-except-in-Nebraska-at-the-end-of-the-Windows-1-0-ad

 

[xox]

Don't know how they sold any tbh

[Jedicake]

Ballmer's use was a joke, but for many years, there were a whole bunch of things that were available 'except in Nebraska'.

Back in the cold war, when telephone systems were a Bell monopoly, there were, bluntly, not enough phone lines...

... except in Nebraska, where the Strategic Air Command had insisted on a huge number in case of a Nuclear War. Obviously, nuclear war never spread beyond Japan, and certainly not to Nebraska, so for the vast majority of the time, these lines went unused.

A whole bunch of mail order companies set up call centres there, because it was one of the few places you could actually go and order a whole bunch of lines for a business.

However, owing to a Bell rule, you couldn't use a 800 number for out-of-State calls AND in-State calls. So the companies had two choices - either set up two numbers, one for the 98% of the US who were calling out-of-State, and 1 for the locals... or simply point out (as required by advertising law) that a particular offer wasn't available in Nebraska. Many did the latter, and the meme stuck, to the extent that Ballmer used it as a joke.

http://www.quora.com/Microsoft-History/Why-did-Steve-Ballmer-say-except-in-Nebraska-at-the-end-of-the-Windows-1-0-ad

 

omg that's incredible lol

[GoodBytes]

Ballmer's use was a joke, but for many years, there were a whole bunch of things that were available 'except in Nebraska'.

Back in the cold war, when telephone systems were a Bell monopoly, there were, bluntly, not enough phone lines...

... except in Nebraska, where the Strategic Air Command had insisted on a huge number in case of a Nuclear War. Obviously, nuclear war never spread beyond Japan, and certainly not to Nebraska, so for the vast majority of the time, these lines went unused.

A whole bunch of mail order companies set up call centres there, because it was one of the few places you could actually go and order a whole bunch of lines for a business.

However, owing to a Bell rule, you couldn't use a 800 number for out-of-State calls AND in-State calls. So the companies had two choices - either set up two numbers, one for the 98% of the US who were calling out-of-State, and 1 for the locals... or simply point out (as required by advertising law) that a particular offer wasn't available in Nebraska. Many did the latter, and the meme stuck, to the extent that Ballmer used it as a joke.

http://www.quora.com/Microsoft-History/Why-did-Steve-Ballmer-say-except-in-Nebraska-at-the-end-of-the-Windows-1-0-ad

Learn how to quote! Don't copy and paste someone else work and claims yours. That is just not cool dude.

[P.T Networx Australia]

Learn how to quote! Don't copy and paste someone else work and claims yours. That is just not cool dude.

When did I say it was mine? I clearly left a link at the bottom....

[GoodBytes]

When did I say it was mine? I clearly left a link at the bottom....

Doesn't mater. Because putting a link, indicate a REFERENCE to support a fact. What you said is not a fact, it's a quote.

So, it should be indicated as so.

[Senor Potato]

to be honest, i thought this might have been the next gen windows at first haha. "Windows One"

Or make a windows 1.0 reboot and call it windows one point zero