In the year 2000

Illustration from a 1960 Cinzano ad, shared on Flickr by photographer and vintage ad aficionado Paul Malon of Toronto. His collection is extensive and excellent.

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http://www.tumbleweed.net/ tyger11

Wow – I can’t wait for the year 2000!
http://www.facebook.com/kevynjacobs Kevyn Jacobs

That baby is going to fall out the window! (Upper right)
- petertrepan
  
  I know! The same parental instinct that makes me move cups away from the edge of the table instantly made that the focus of the composition.
- p96
  
  Oh, you can shove those things out the window all you want, the levitation harness will float them back. It’s the #2 prank of siblings in the future.
- http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith
  
  Force Fields. How do they work?
http://twitter.com/knarfblack Knarf Black

Those were the days.
Michael Polo

Now I’m curious what there is to be had at the “Svper Rob” store(maybe super robots?). (note the use of v instead of u, which links up with the classical way the faces are illustrated)
http://twitter.com/someknob Stefan Wrenshall

Similar to the life lived by humans in WALL-E but more slender.
http://www.tumbleweed.net/ tyger11

I think the color sense of people in the year 2000 is pretty awful. Go see Cloud Atlas for a great look at 2177 Neo Seoul; it’s pretty great.
http://twitter.com/ThatNeilGuy Neil Shurley

And people wonder why we were so angry when the year 2000 arrived and it didn’t look all that different from the seventies, architecture-wise. #sigh
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ZQ7TZ4C22MZT4G244CYOWPWAG4 Marc

Why does a monorail with windshields and windows have to be further contained in a pneumatic-esque tube? Is it pneumatic-turbine powered or some other pseudo technology?
- p96
  
  If it were pneumatic, it wouldn’t have to look sleek and aerodynamic.
TheKaz1969

Isn’t this just the intro to Futurama?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

Wow. The Year 2000 looks really, really ugly.

There, I said it.
- http://twitter.com/strugglngwriter strugglngwriter
  
  I concur.
Halloween_Jack

There’s something very Hieronymus Bosch-esque about this picture; some of it may be due to the presence of that disturbing yellow potato-shaped thing on the left side of the picture; it reminds me of a certain urban legend photograph allegedly showing a parasitic infection of the breast that I won’t link to.
IronEdithKidd

Dang. I was hoping for an old Conan vid. Guess that’s what I get for jumping from RSS.
- niktemadur
  
  The mysterious, enigmatic year 2000 will be full of wonder and amazement.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g-s7XN20HE
  - IronEdithKidd
    
    <3!
Yep

Hmm. Yeah that’s the Ted Stevens future. A series of tubes.
p96

Screw the flying cars, why can’t I get decent speed “broadband” network service to my house inside city limits?
http://twitter.com/jimmycasey Jim Casey

Surreal, innit? Almost exactly what the year 2000 was like.
Nash Rambler

So, basically, we should take any predictions of the future and run them through the “suck” filter for a more accurate analysis.
Culturedropout

Wow. Sort of looks like the bastard child of Fisher-Price and Habitrail…
sburns54

Ah, 2000! I remember those days! I LOVED my hover-recliner.
http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt

And note that smoking is still considered ‘cool’ in 2000!
The Grim Snark

OK, Where is my floating bubble chair? I was promised a floating bubble chair!