WebTV: The Internet In Your Living Room
4,797It's the mid-90s. Your aging parents are expressing interest in checking out the Internet and e-mail, but aren't savvy enough to handle the complexities of a personal computer. What do you do? Get them one of these.
Sources:
AOL commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQcCnPWHlLk
Getting Started with WebTV video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhzojvS4B5I
Computer Chronicles, "Internet TV": https://archive.org/details/CC1416_internet_tv
Philips Eindhoven headquarters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips#/media/File:Lichttoren_Eindhoven_1.JPG
"Tuning In to the Web," PC Magazine, February 18, 1997.
Philips WebTV box photo: https://www.ebay.com/itm/195465249997
"Microsoft to Buy WebTV, Blending PC's, TV's and the Internet," The New York Times, April 7, 1997.
Computer Chronicles, "Web Surfing on your TV": https://archive.org/details/WebSurfi2001
"The Dish That Does More," PC Magazine, February 22, 2000.
"Finds For Your Home," Log Home Living, December 2001.
Dreamcast WebTV disc photo: https://www.ebay.com/itm/403390882698
Gateway commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duwqWCNuEmI
Circuit City commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTpVWSQ3Zy0
The Kids' Guide to the Internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81IwlDeV6c
RCA RW2110 box photo: https://www.ebay.com/itm/175342067696
RCA MSN TV photo: https://www.ebay.com/itm/284938486057
RCA MSN rear ports photo: https://www.ebay.com/itm/304704025847
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Intro music by BoxCat Games (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games).