Apple’s "1984" Macintosh commercial aired during the Super Bowl that year and is still widely considered one of the best commercials of all time. The commercial strayed from the norm seen then in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apple’s iconic Macintosh advert, simply called “1984” and based on George’s Orwell’s novel of the same name, featured a “Big ...

Steve Hayden, an award-winning advertising writer and executive who helped create the thunderclap of a television commercial in 1984 that positioned Apple's new Macintosh personal computer as a weapon ...

Today is the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the Macintosh. The original “Mac” arrived along with the famous 1984 commercial, aired just once (but then aired many times on local and network ...

The suits were freaked out. With Super Bowl XVIII less than a week away, "1984," the game commercial for the brand-new Macintosh personal computer made absolutely no sense to them. Worse, there wasn't ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the 1980s, Steve Jobs positioned Apple as a plucky underdog looking to take down the established tech giants. - Paul Sakuma ...

The ad for the Macintosh computer — which was seen nationally just once, during the Super Bowl — is considered one of the most memorable commercials ever made. By Richard Sandomir Steve Hayden, an ...

The year is 1984. It’s Super Bowl Sunday and you turn on the TV to see a procession of stern men marching through a tunnel. No, it’s not the Los Angeles Raiders. It’s the most important Super Bowl ...