Retronaut http://www.retronaut.co The past is a foreign country. This is your passport. Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:40:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 HowToBeARetronauthttp://feedburner.google.com “We Are Apple”, 1984 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HowToBeARetronaut/~3/EBk_GfUhy7k/ http://www.retronaut.co/2012/02/we-are-apple-1984/#comments Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:00:25 +0000 Chris http://www.retronaut.co/?p=42673 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbJy0O4UFSM

“A corporate song used during the Macintosh rollout in January 1984. I heard it live, in Manhattan, sitting in the audience with the other authorized Apple dealers”

- Alfred

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Source: Alfred TV via Gajitz

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All images by Vernon Merritt

Source: LIFE Archive

Thank you to LIFE Archive

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“When my grandparents did some housecleaning a few years ago, they offered me this instructional booklet. I estimate it to be from the 1940’s — it’s from an era when it was still proper to capitalize Telephone, much like the capitalization of Internet today.

“It has scribbles on some of the pages, probably from a relative of mine, maybe my mother when she was learning the etiquette of proper phone usage.”

- Scott Steffens, Contact Sheet

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