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Continuing the "celebrities using computers in the 80s/90s" theme from that Shakira picture, here's Corey Haim, a diet pepsi, and an Atari 1200XL!
This one doesn't really count cause you can only see the monitor and the joystick, but supposedly they're both plugged into an Amstrad.
This is a young Christian Bale.
This is a young Christian Bale.
Here's some David Bowies. Check out that sweet Powerbook Duo with Duo Dock!
Tony Blair... does not know how to use a computer.
Cherie Blair is learning from some kids how to use a computer.
Now she shows the results to Tony
Prince William and his big CRT.
Thanks, Buzzfeed article about 90s British celebrities and computers!
https://www.buzzfeed.com/sophiegadd/deeply-awkward-photos-of-celebrities-and-computers-in-the-90
Thanks, Buzzfeed article about 90s British celebrities and computers!
https://www.buzzfeed.com/sophiegadd/deeply-awkward-photos-of-celebrities-and-computers-in-the-90
Here's then-Vice President Al Gore in '97 rocking some sweet Win95 action.
He needs to buy a mouse.
He needs to buy a mouse.
Same year, President Clinton gets a mouse. How unfair.
1994, a high school student shows off a sweet computer to Al Gore.
President George H. W. Bush using a computer in '91.
George W. Bush using a computer at his Governor's mansion in 2000.
Ronald Reagan helps some kid use a IBM PC.
Reagan gets advice on using a TRS-80.
1998, Clinton uses a Toshiba laptop to send the first presidential email
Jimmy Carter using a word processor to write his memoirs.
Here's Jimmy Carter in 1995 being told about ideas for a computerized Presidental Library, on a Sparc-20.
In 1995 Michael Jackson did a live-chat on AOL with fans, simulcast on MTV.
In 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger looks over the shoulders of some schoolkids, during his run for California Governor.
Almost the same shot, a year earlier.
Magic Johnson in 2002 at the opening of the Magic Johnson Learning Center.
Borderline, but here's David Lynch sitting at a mixing panel (complete with CRT) during a concert in 1999.
linking in ones I've talked about before:
Brad Pitt! https://twitter.com/Foone/status/941457728068730880
Brad Pitt! https://twitter.com/Foone/status/941457728068730880
An addition by @fcassia https://twitter.com/fcassia/status/960221008409047042
Are you a candidate that wants to appear "up on the technologies" but don't know anything about computers? Simple, visit a school computer lab, and look over their shoulder!
You look presidential, technology, kids, education, and many other buzzwords.
Bob Dole, '96.
You look presidential, technology, kids, education, and many other buzzwords.
Bob Dole, '96.
Senator John Kerry, 1996. Visiting the computer lab, yep.
Here's Hillary Clinton pulling the Computer Lab trick. I wasn't able to figure out what year this is, thanks to everyone just making the obvious "delete button" joke.
Another undateable Hillary Clinton Computer Lab picture.
Here's Clinton using a computer at some point in the 90s, while a soldier watches for some reason.
Some more of Clinton doing the Computer Lab trick, plus the rare Reagan sit-and-point.
Clinton and Janet Reno look on as someone at a Thinkpad explains something.
Here's George and Barbara Bush using a Thinkpad in '99.
Governor Michael Dukakis in '83, checking out some computer that I can't easily identify. Anybody know what this is?
1983, Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh trying out an Apple II
I've been avoiding modern LCDs but here's Obama showing the Computer Lab trick is still alive.
Here's Clinton in a computer lab in 1999, but not doing the trick.
Thatcher in '88 checking out a computer.
Thatcher was also apparently presented with the 1 millionth and 2 millionth Commodore computers, but I can't figure out when.
Even Fidel Castro loves the Computer Lab trick.
