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Internet Archive

   You may not know about the Internet Archive, but you will have used it if you use the Internet and we should all support it. It is the library for all of those rotten links that no longer work for you and a massive graveyard where all of the Internet content produced is saved. And you can visit this cemetery for free. Here is what has been saved to date:

35 billion web pages

41 million books and texts

14.7 million audio recordings (including 240,000 live concerts)

8.4 million videos (including 2.4 million Television News programs)

4.4 million images

890,000 software programs

Classic TV Commercials

  I rarely watch current television commercials, but remember some from the past which serve as historical markers over the years. Chances are good that if you want to pull up a commercial from your childhood, you will be able to do so from the Internet Archive where over 17,000 are found dating back to 1949. They can be searched by year, by subject and media type and there are even some non-commercial public service examples. Click on the link above to learn more about the Internet Archive. Click on the links below for some enjoyment:

Cars - A Mustang Mid-60s Ad - The Car Even Had a Stereo-Sonic Tape Player.

Canadian - There are many. See this Zellers one from 1999 or this one from the Nova Scotia Department of Health in 1996.

Cigarettes- There is more Canadian content in this Viceroy ad from 1963 with William Shatner. 

   

   There are even commercials for products that no longer exist. If you have 1:36 to spare, see these Classic Commercials for Defunct Products where you will learn about hair products such as "Tip Toni Curl Permanent" or "Satin Set." 

   Listen to the songs from the decades when you were younger with, K-Tel's Let's Disco Album Commercial or Time-Life's CD set of Love Songs of the 60s. 

 And let's not forget Jim Varney, who you will remember as "Ernest." 

The Bonus: 

  During the summer of 2023 you will have not been able to avoid "Barbie." Here she is over 60 years ago - See "Early Barbie Doll Commercials." 

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