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Bring back the computer-advertising raccoons

Rob Beschizza
Apr 23, 2025
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Illo: Erick Ingraham

I came to the U.S. in the early 2000s and was a technology journalist within the decade, so everything from before then I find packed with intrigue and mystery and, sometimes, bafflement. Today I learned about the raccoons who made computer magazine ads great, dredged from the memory hollows by Harry McCracken.

No, what made PC Connec…

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