The 90's were a wonderfully odd time for advertising. We had beer-shilling frogs, parents who couldn't understand Bubble Tape, and hoards of gangs armed with Nerf weapons prowling screens everywhere. But most importantly, subversive icons of the counterculture could be used to sell cutting-edge technology.
In 2013, the idea of using a psychedelic literary rock star like Hunter S. Thompson in a Mac ad would probably lead to every Maude Flanders-inspired Mommy Blogger in the world to type o
