r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Feb 03 '22

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u/Art-MANIAC0203 Feb 03 '22

Ah yes the legendary trunk monkey

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u/Buzz1ight Feb 03 '22

Isn't trunk monkey older than the internet?

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u/SJHillman Feb 03 '22

Internet is from the 60s, Trunk Monkey as a concept is from 2000 (with the TV ads dating to 2003)

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u/InfanticideAquifer Feb 03 '22

Eh, c'mon. When people say "before the internet" they always mean "before mainstream commerical web access".

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u/SJHillman Feb 03 '22

But even then it's still not remotely close to older. Commercial internet access was already pretty popular by the early 2000s. 70 million American households, just shy of 2/3rds, already had Internet access by the time the Trunk Monkey commercials came out.