The Millinium Bug Apple Computer Commercial

Computer Technology and Software

January 15th, 2010 by admin

: Photo of Arthur C. Clarke Science Fiction writer

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From long ago, the "Hal" commercial...

Besides making great computers, Macintosh has a firm grasp on making great commercials. They have produced enticing and watchable commercials over and over again. Here is one that takes the iconic Hal - the intelligent computer featured in the Arthur C. Clarke's and Stan Kubrik's movie, 2001 and combines it with the 2000 computer bug threat ( it was feared that most computers would not function when the year date changed from 1999 to 2000). If everyone had been using Apple computers before the end of the 20th century - there would never had been any concern....

Beyond the Fall of Night Arthur C Clark Gregory Benford

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Wind from the Sun Arthur C Clark

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BK411 2061 ODYSSEY THREE by ARTHUR C CLARKE

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Arthur C Clarke The Lost Worlds of 2001 1978

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25 Responses

MasterJericho85 writes:
January 15th, 20104:50 pmat

That voice is just creepy
dermagicmax writes:
January 15th, 20105:16 pmat

LoL! It’s an allusion to the Y2K in the year 1999!

Really funny to hear about such a commercial right now!
wacvet writes:
January 15th, 20105:46 pmat

No, I mean that’s why I originally posted the commercial.
myfriendsarenoobs writes:
January 15th, 20106:11 pmat

oh my bad, i didnt see ur post
wacvet writes:
January 15th, 20106:55 pmat

Good catch! That’s why I originally posted it.
myfriendsarenoobs writes:
January 15th, 20107:05 pmat

HAHAHA ITS BEN FROM LOST
wacvet writes:
January 15th, 20107:44 pmat

That is the voice of Michael Emerson who plays Ben on Lost.
AdelineProductions writes:
January 15th, 20107:52 pmat

Clearly the makers of this commercial are misinformed.

In Y2K, China failed, everywhere else in the world was fine.
HilariousShortFilms writes:
January 15th, 20108:40 pmat

wtf, this doesnt make me want to buy a computer
EclipseEDM writes:
January 15th, 20109:07 pmat

Who is Dave? No Dave here, ffs stupid computer.
ScottZirpolo writes:
January 15th, 20109:52 pmat

I don’t care if he’d try to kill me; I’d take a HAL 9000 over a Mac any day! (For that matter I’d take an abacus over anything Apple makes…)
diesixdie writes:
January 15th, 201010:05 pmat

Well, millions (not billions) of dollars were spent, but most of it was spent correcting old COBOL, IMS and DB2 programs on mainframes. Stuff written decades before. None of those old guys thought their kids would still be running that stuff 30 years later! The PC guys had their stuff fixed pretty quickly. You had to be running code from pretty far back to have a problem. Even then, who, running a Win98 machine is going to have a major problem if the calendar has a minor malfunction?
TheRowdyGenius writes:
January 15th, 201010:43 pmat

hi im scott nice to meet you dave.
gmodmaster20 writes:
January 15th, 201011:37 pmat

lol y2k
jaydogg339 writes:
January 16th, 201012:35 amat

2001:a space oddysey spoof for a commercial? kinda cool
zoidbetag writes:
January 16th, 201012:53 amat

…what?
MachinePRISM writes:
January 16th, 20101:00 amat

I love my God & Creator, these things are nothing to me, except to my enemies – Apple Macintosh & Satan, God loves them.
lazodiac1 writes:
January 16th, 20101:51 amat

Wait a minute!!! I’m not Dave!
zperra writes:
January 16th, 20102:41 amat

That computer has a creepy voice.
readywerx writes:
January 16th, 20102:48 amat

” Dave! Answer Hal for fucks sake!”
lemonrind writes:
January 16th, 20103:40 amat

I never said that Y2K was not blown out of proportion. But to suggest that you could have done nothing beforehand and then fix the problem within hours is completely naive. Many systems needed to be reprogrammed, recompiled, and retested. This is not a process that takes hours.
claymodeling1 writes:
January 16th, 20103:41 amat

That’s like saying there are no elephants in my house because I spent a lot of money on spraying elephant repellant.

If you’ve had a bank account for more than 5 years, rest assured that they have lost and refound your account at least twice. Computer problems happen all the time – nobody dies and there are no riots in the street. Y2K was blown way out of proportion. Any problems would have been found and fixed within hours.
TheLeardMan writes:
January 16th, 20103:45 amat

Yeah Recess copied it.
DiscoA1 writes:
January 16th, 20104:26 amat

im afraid or computers now O_O
norwaypatrick writes:
January 16th, 20104:45 amat

It’s just something I remembered in the back of my head, but …

Wasn’t that machine we saw here called ‘ Sal ‘ used in a episode of ‘ Recess ‘ in Disney Channel XP