Time for Olde Tyme Techcitement, when we take a look back at technology relics. It’s basically your grampa talking about the good old days, but sooner and totally more reasonable than dumb boring stories about how all this used to be farmland.
November 20, 2000. We were still reeling from the devastation of Y2K, Creed’s With Arms Wide Open sat atop the Top 40 chart for a third week, and Joey Tribbiani was mere months from returning to Days of our Lives.
It was a strange time.
A savior was needed, and Intel Corporation knew it was time to act. Executive Vice President Paul Otellini was elected to make the announcement that would change the world.
“The Pentium 4 processor is designed to give users performance where they can appreciate it most,” said Paul Otellini, executive vice president and general manager, Intel Architecture Group. “Whether streaming content, playing interactive games, encoding video and MP3 files, or creating Internet content — the Pentium 4 processor is designed to meet the needs of today’s most demanding computer users.”
Yes, the Pentium 4 processor would meet our needs, be our hope, and let us watch porn on dial up while still letting our Sims 1 characters exercise and go to work, as long as we didn’t mind everything locking up every couple minutes.
But mostly, I’ll most remember it for the awesome Blue Man Group commercials. Here’s my favorite.
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And here’s Intel’s product brief for the Pentium 4 processor from back in the day.
I love you, Pentium 4, I really do. I’d love you even more if you didn’t make my computer freeze seven or eight times while writing this piece on my seven-year-old computer.
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