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January 1, 2000
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| Sri Lanka issues a series of postage stamps on the Year 2000, a 100-rupee stamp depicting a personal computer and a 100-rupee stamp depicting a man at a computer. |
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January 9, 2000
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The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA.
- A personal computer is used to run a "Virtual Doctor" medical diagnostic program. The computer has system unit, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
- The program says it is from the maker of "SimSandwich", a reference to the SimCity series of games.
- The program says "You've got leprocy", with the same voice as that of America Online's "You've got mail".
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(Copyright 2000 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
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March 3, 2000
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| Northern Cyprus issues a 275,000-lira postage stamp depicting a computer. |
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March 19, 2000
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The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the US.
- Characters virtually enter the Internet via AOL, where they are attacked by flying advertisements, and can walk into chat rooms.
- A menu window is accessed, with "NEW / OPEN / CLOSE / DISGUISES" mimicing the style of the Mac OS.
- Later, a video email arrives with the message "It's not Spam!", with a window that mimics the Mac OS.
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(Copyright 2000 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
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April 30, 2000
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The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the US.
- In the year 3000, the 3.5-inch diskette is still used to store data.
- A robot uses a mouse and mousepad as chest ornaments.
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(Copyright 2000 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
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June 20, 2000
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| Comedy Central airs the South Park TV show in the USA. A personal computer appears, used to find friends on the Internet. |
(Copyright 2000 Comedy Central) |
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June 28, 2000
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| Comedy Central airs the South Park TV show in the USA. A laptop computer appears, used to write a romance novel. |
(Copyright 2000 Comedy Central) |
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October 9, 2000
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| El Salvador issues a 5-col postage stamp depicting a personal computer. |
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November 5, 2000
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| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A laptop computer is used to access the Internet. |
(Copyright 2000 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
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November 5, 2000
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The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the US.
- A robot in the year 3000 has the name Tandy, and wears a t-shirt saying "Euro TRaSh-80", a reference to the Tandy TRS-80 computer.
- A portrait painting on the wall of a castle has the name "COMMODORE LXIV", a reference to the Commodore 64 computer.
- A scared character runs down a hall chased by the ghosts of a winged toaster and the Windows logo.
- A book "Curse of the Were-Car" says it is for Windows 98.
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(Copyright 2000 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
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November 8, 2000
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| Comedy Central airs the South Park TV show in the USA. Several personal computers appear. |
(Copyright 2000 Comedy Central) |
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November 15, 2000
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| Comedy Central airs the South Park TV show in the USA. Several personal computers appear. |
 
(Copyright 2000 Comedy Central) |
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December 3, 2000
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The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA.
- A scene takes place in a computer store.
- One computer looks like a new Apple Macintosh, with front carrying handle.
- Personal computers appear at many people's houses.
- A Web site includes the "Flying Toasters" animation, from Berkeley Softworks' After Dark program.
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(Copyright 2000 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
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January 1, 2001
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| New Zealand issues a 40-cent postage stamp depicting a personal computer mouse, part of a series for the 100th anniversary of penny universal postage. |
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January 7, 2001
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| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A personal computer is used in purchasing stocks. |
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January 12, 2001
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| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer releases the film AntiTrust to theaters in the USA. Several PCs are used for programming "SYNAPSE". |
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January 24, 2001
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| Cinévia Films releases the film Garrison's Flowers to theaters in France. The film is set in 1991, but a computer store window shows an advertisement for Windows 2000. |
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March 11, 2001
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| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the US. In the year 3000, a computer accesses the Internet, and loads and displays a video clip in a window looking very much like the Apple Computer Mac OS. |
(Copyright 2001 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
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April 6, 2001
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| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the US. A personal computer appears in a school classroom. |
(Copyright 2001 Nickelodeon) |
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April 8, 2001
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| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the US. In the opening credits is "Bender's Humor by Microsoft Joke". |
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April 20, 2001
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The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the US.
- A personal computer appears, with keyboard and mouse.
- A character types at a laptop computer.
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(Copyright 2001 Nickelodeon) |
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April 22, 2001
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| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the US. In the year 3000, a clown makes a joke about Windows 3000 being used as a prison guard because it always locks up. |
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May 13, 2001
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| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A personal computer appears, looking like the Apple Computer iMac. |
 
(Copyright 2001 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
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May 13, 2001
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The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the USA.
- In the year 3000, a celebrity's personality is downloaded from the Internet, and stored on a blank robot. The robot come from a large box shaped like a 3.5-inch diskette box, with label on the box saying "10 BLANK ROBOTS / MAC FORMATTED".
- Later, a personal computer appears, looking just like the original 1984 Apple Computer Macintosh, with built-in monitor, keyboard, and diskette drive.
- Also, a 3.5-inch diskette is still being used as a backup disk.
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(Copyright 2001 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
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May 18, 2001
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| Artisan Entertainment releases the film Startup.com to theaters in the USA. An office full of computers are seen, a laptop, and possibly a Palm Pilot. |
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June 8, 2001
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| Warner Bros. Pictures releases the film Swordfish to theaters in the USA. A Dell laptop computer appears throughout the film. |
  
(Copyright 2001 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
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June 20, 2001
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| Comedy Central airs the South Park TV show in the USA. Several personal computers appear on the desks of a TV show. |
(Copyright 2001 Comedy Central) |
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June 27, 2001
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| Comedy Central airs the South Park TV show in the USA. A personal computer appears, with program called "PhotoWiz", a spoof of Photoshop. |
 
(Copyright 2001 Comedy Central) |
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2001
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| Syria issues a 25-pound postage stamp for the 38th anniversary of the March 8 Revolution, depicting two personal computers. |
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November 2, 2001
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| The Disney/Pixar film Monsters, Inc. includes an advertisement for Apple Macintosh on the back of a magazine in one scene. |
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December 2, 2001
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| The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. Two computers appear among stolen items; one appears to be an Apple Computer. |
(Copyright 2001 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) |
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December 12, 2001
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The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Fairly Oddparents TV show in the US.
- Santa's computer says "You've got magic!", a reference to the America Online software saying "You've got mail".
- A personal computer appears among Christmas presents.
- A portable computer is used to send a message via the Internet.
- Santa Claus' assistant uses a personal computer to record that a child is getting coal.
- Santa's computer says "You've got coal".
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(Copyright 2001 Nickelodeon) |
Other web pages of interest:
- Chronology of Personal Computers
- Disney References in Pop Culture
- Video Game References in Pop Culture
- Chevrolet Corvette References in Pop Culture
- This Day in History
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