Monthly Archives: June 2009

Accompanied by a really nice electro soundtrack and a nod to Toy Story, this video found on Channel 53 chronicles as well as any the introduction of the personal computer into the leisure arsenal of the child’s play chest. The pseudo educational tone of the clip is echoed by the argument used by every parent in the early 1990′s that a computer, for educational reasons, was a necessary tool for their child’s learning. The video, perhaps prophetically, has the computer’s grand entry accompanied by a puff of smoke and flash of lights like a genie from a lamp (note the Aladdin style trousers). Every child knew about the genie within.