The year is 1984. It’s Super Bowl Sunday and you turn on the TV to see a procession of stern men marching through a tunnel. No, it’s not the Los Angeles Raiders. It’s the most important Super Bowl ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you're not watching for the game or the halftime show, you're probably watching for the ads. Over the past three decades, the ...

In the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII, Apple ran a commercial that changed the Super Bowl and Apple forever. But it almost never aired. Featuring original interviews with Apple co-founder Steve ...

Apple has forever changed how we watch the Super Bowl. Here's why. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) Apple Computer has changed the world through ...

The most famous – and arguably the best – Super Bowl ad in history, the Apple “1984” ad, was nearly killed by the company for whom it was made. The 60-second ad, which announced the arrival of the ...

The Super Bowl is nigh again, which means the annual rodeo of Super Bowl TV commercials. As I’ve written in the past, the idea of convincing people that they should watch the Super Bowl telecast for ...

Apple’s "1984" Macintosh commercial aired during the Super Bowl that year and is still widely considered one of the best commercials of all time. The commercial strayed from the norm seen then in ...

Last Updated on July 9, 2025 by Matt Staff 1984 wasn’t just the title of Orwell’s infamous dystopia. It was the real-world backdrop of Macintosh’s 1984 Super Bowl commercial, the all-out reign of ...