Most early home computers (e.g: Commodore 64 or Apple II) suffered from the "Form over function" fallacy. I imagined a 1980s IBM PC clones commercial that featured Melissa Joan Hart as a child fixing PCs. Then the camera zoomed into her belt with the caption "It doesn't take a witch to fix this computer. All it takes is a Phillips Screwdriver." This commercial helped cement the PCs' dominance.
Hart was kind-of pre-destined to become The Witch given Vedek Winn predicted that their final name will be "Meli-Lisa Jo-Anne Heart" based on the profile's previous names.
Author | Shlomi Fish |
Work | Original |
Published | 2021-07-28 |