Everyone needs a bit of computer love from time to time. Even Bridie needs the "Computer Liebe". She's still getting offers from horny internet users asking if she'll "take her cattle off" in front of a webcam.
I love this 1971 promotional image for Digital's PDP-8/E "minicomputer". It's just so brazen and camp, and unlike anything you would see today. I like to think it was a result from a miscommunication between the CEO of DEC at the time and his advertising department when he asked them to show the PDP-8 "booting up". I love it so much I might have it turned into a T-Shirt to send to Leo Laporte.
Originally this ad for this digital "romance" game must have been the cutting edge of decadence, before descending into laughable cheese as the years passed, only to be respected as the art that life began to imitate. How often does one take their laptop/mobile device into the bed these days without thinking for a quick "browse of the interweb". You know that "Go web, go!" joke don't you? Excellent.
Technically, this 1983 song is about loving the computer device itself but it also fits in quite nicely with the subsequent realisation of people romancing each other through computers. From one of my most favorist albums ever: Ian Anderson's "Walk Into Light".
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