In 1989, the same year The Simpsons debuted, Matt Groening was hired by Apple to illustrate a comic book marketing Mac computers to college students
Matt Groening's 1989 Apple Student's Guide
Luke Anderson
Tyler Jenkins
Hudson Sanchez
Henry Thomas
Zachary Sullivan
Jace Price
Michael Clark
Isaac Cox
Asher Hernandez
Landon Torres
Sebastian Flores
Aiden Ross
Angel Cook
Aiden Jones
Ah HyperCard, it was about 15 years ahead of its time and on the wrong platform.
Owen Barnes
Thomas Cook
Luis Rivera
Luke King
Wyatt Jones
Andrew Gomez
Nathaniel Richardson
Michael Hall
Owen Perez
Stop posting, this isn't funny.
Chase Davis
Jason Perry
Jokes on you that was the last page
James Brown
neat but I still prefer the my apple made me gay flash
Thomas Fisher
Neat find. I knew of Matt's Life In Hell comic, but didn't know he did this.
Jose Harris
Scratchy Milhouse?
Matthew Young
Jordan Jones
Fuck you this is history
Landon Ortiz
Matthew Johnson
Luis Roberts
Jonathan Ramirez
Cameron Anderson
This is probably just being a dumbass millennial but the idea of really having to sell people on computers is bizarre to me.
Sebastian Fisher
That's what I was thinking.
Got some Nelson in him
Jeremiah Ortiz
Most people immediately grasped the use of computers but pre about 2000 or so they were expensive and hard to use.
How many people do you know who can actually use the command line?
Nathan Gonzalez
its kinda sad learning that matt frequented little st james and stuff, the money really got to him
Brody Sanders
Holy fuck it's MillMouse
Eli Mitchell
Home Computers were pretty expensive in the beginning also you had to find space in your home for it and many people had no idea how to use computers at the time
Dylan Myers
>that last frame
LOIS REMEMBER THAT TIME I WAS A RABBIT MAN?
Brody Ramirez
Gavin Watson
This has good reaction image potential
Nicholas Reyes
>Coming sooner than you think
Fuck you, Matt.
Justin Ross
It's neat how the tone of these questions still exist today but with other fandoms.
Juan Long
t.
>How do I turn it on?
Alexander Collins
>computers hard to use
>pre-2000s
lol
If me, my friends, cousins, and brothers and sisters at fucking 8-20 year olds could use it, anyone can.
I was 14 or 15 when my sister was taking her college courses in the mid 90s and i learned how to use photoshop, quark express and various other graphical programs just by watching her do stuff on our home computer.
I helped one of my friends set up his PC with Windows 95 without touching an IBM-clone since the 80s, because Windows should have an analogue of everything on Mac OS, right? Anything we didn't know, we figured out by just clicking shit and anything really hard we asked online. Yep, i've online since 1994 and i still have email accounts that still work from 1995.
Sucks that computers OSes got dumbed down and most kids today only know how to use simplistic tablets/smartphones.
Caleb Reed
I'm currently studying computer science, i was born in 2000 and have used computers since i was literally 3 years old, I'm expressing confusion on why you'd need to sell somebody on a computer in general, they're self-evidently incredibly useful, it's like an ad in favour of breathing.
Jayden Cox
>is grampa simpson gay??
>1994
by the way they did in fact make an episode about grampa being gay somewhat recently
Mason James
this is from 1989. Windows 3.1 wasn't even a thing yet.
Joshua Russell
I find it funny how Matt’s passionate work Life in Hell is less fondly remembered compared to The Simpsons.
Either because animation is that accessible or because nobody reads comics.
Considering Simpsons was made so Matt can avoid giving up his rights to Life in Hell.
Jeremiah Fisher
>My whole family hates your show!
That would be me. My parents hate the Simpsons and my older siblings either hate it too or are indifferent.
I forget how controversial the show used to be considering everyone my age likes it now.
Ethan Allen
Mac shit was super easy to use back then too. We had these in our computer labs in grade school and the green monitor shit too, where you had to boot up from the program/disk.
So by the time we got our own Mac, i already knew how to do the most technical shit that wasn't explained in the pamplets and made me look like a l33t hax0r to my family because they only read the thin pamphlet.
Before that? I was using my dad's IBM computer, which broke in around 1987. I only played games, but i still knew how to start shit up. Was maybe in kindergarten when some fat lady came over to set it up and showed my dad how to use it.
Charles Kelly
Man I miss this strip. Is there anywhere I can read all of it?
Josiah Baker
Literally me
Landon Sullivan
>I wrote you three times but you never sent me a drawing of Marge Simpson naked
Oliver Moore
>I wrote you three times but you never sent me a drawing of Marge Simpson naked.
Based
Owen Green
You got lucky, a lot of households are computerless now. They just use their phones for everything.
I was born in 1985. We spent $4000 on our first computer in 1995 and honestly didn't get a lot of use out of it. Email existed but almost nobody used it. Even cell phone use was almost unheard of until the early 2000s and texting was largely the domain of teenage girls. Most business was still conducted either in person or through physical mail. It's actually been fucking insane watching the digital landscape grow up.
Jeremiah Stewart
>Warning: This may be you or you or you.
Okay now that's pretty good
Brayden Walker
Way ahead of its time holy shit Matt really can predict the future
Carter Gutierrez
Have you ever used an old PC? One that lacks a hard drive, instead having two 5.25" floppy disk drives and a CPU that only clocks 50 MHz?