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A short clip parodying Windows Vista's cancel-or-allow security prompts, in the style of Apple's Mac vs PC ads.

The short printer-destruction-adjacent clip from Office Space built around the cryptic 'PC LOAD LETTER' error message. It pokes fun at unhelpful printer errors.

A compilation of Apple's 'I'm a Mac, I'm a PC' ad campaign from 2006 onward.

A clip from the 1985 comedy Real Genius in which a laser ignites a giant container of popcorn inside a house.

A short clip from Microsoft's 1995 Judgement Day event in which Bill Gates is inserted into Doom as a promo for Windows 95 and DirectX gaming. It was never publicly released at the time.

A REACT episode where teenagers try Windows 95 for the first time and react to the retro interface and technology.

An episode of REACT in which children try to figure out 1970s-1980s computers, including an Apple II and floppy disks. It was made to promote the AMC show Halt and Catch Fire.

A short Conan segment in which George R. R. Martin explains that he writes his Game of Thrones books on WordStar 4.0 on a DOS machine.

A one-minute clip of the Warcraft II sound card test in setup, where the test sample plays and the voice says the sound card works perfectly.

A nine-minute Stewart Lee stand-up routine about political correctness and the claim that it has gone mad. It is dry, layered British comedy that takes the complaint apart.

A 2007 parody mocking Microsoft's Surface touch table, made by SarcasticGamer.

A scene from Silicon Valley season 4 episode 8 featuring Keenan Feldspar's VR product.