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I had no idea that Matt Groening (in his "Life in Hell" era) did a brochure for Apple about how college students should really look at getting a Macintosh computer. Fun stuff (and an extra bonus for showing another artifact of a bygone era, a typewriter eraser.)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I had no idea that Matt Groening (in his "Life in Hell" era) did a brochure for Apple about how college students should really look at getting a Macintosh computer. Fun stuff (and an extra bonus for showing another artifact of a bygone era, a typewriter eraser.) Retronaut – 1989: Matt Groening’s Apple “Student’s Guide” … Continue reading “Computers, Students, and Matt Groening”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,11,20,108,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics","category-hi-tech","category-history","category-my-computer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11034,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/20\/i_think_thats_the_plutoni.html","url_meta":{"origin":45173,"position":0},"title":"I think that’s the Plutonium Anniversary","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Apr-07 7:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, The Simpsons turned twenty years old. 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