{"id":1703,"date":"2008-06-03T13:32:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T17:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:55","slug":"celebs-and-tech-odd-endorsements-of-the-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/06\/03\/celebs-and-tech-odd-endorsements-of-the-80s\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebs and Tech: Odd Endorsements of the 80s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>PC World has <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/c\/?2160\">a nice summary of celebrity endorsements of computer products<\/a> from the 1980s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When personal computers entered the mainstream in the 1980s, the American public was understandably uneasy. Most people didn&#8217;t know much about using a PC, or how to choose a good one. Where could they turn for advice? Marketers hoped they would turn to on-screen role models, heroes such as Alan Alda, Roger Moore, and William Shatner. Understandable, perhaps. But really, would you buy a computer on the advice of Dom DeLuise or wrestler &#8220;King Kong&#8221; Bundy?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC World has a nice summary of celebrity endorsements of computer products from the 1980s: When personal computers entered the mainstream in the 1980s, the American public was understandably uneasy. Most people didn&#8217;t know much about using a PC, or how to choose a good one. Where could they turn for advice? Marketers hoped they &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommended-web-sites","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}