pregunta por Ken
30 years and counting
Our cutting-edge technology of the day was a PC with 8mb of ram and 233 megahertz of processing speed, a cell phone, an HP laser printer and a fax machine that shared the landline with our phone. Jobs to be printed were saved to a floppy disk or tape drive and driven to a service bureau to make film to be exposed to metal plates for the printing press.
It may be hard to believe but in 1994 the internet was not widely available, was accessed by dial up on your phone line and was mostly used by researchers and the military. By the end of 94 the web had its first "website" and by the end of the year, 10,000 more popped up. HTML and URL were relatively new terms and email campaigns were a new concept. The term "spam" was coined almost instantly. Yahoo!, Excite, and Infoseek search engines entered service and google wasn't even a thing.
This dark humour meme made its rounds in the mid 90's soon after email campaigns became a marketing staple.
Clubcard began using email to communicate with our tech savvy clients in 1996, moved to a larger studio on Hamilton Street in Yaletown and launched our first website in June 2000. We opened our first storefront shop on Burrard street in 2001 and frequently had small art shows and even published our own newspaper called Vent Magazine with issues featuring art by Shepard Fairey and Dave Kinsey of Black Market Art.
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