The Computer Monster. - Neatorama

Jim Henson and Frank Oz tackling the Computer Age. Push play or go to YouTube. -via the Presurfer

Update: Anita Bath has more details. This funny computer video, titled Coffee Break Machine, was created by Jim Henson in 1967 as an IBM training video. At the time, the monster was named "Arnold the Munching Monster".

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There's also this Sesame Street video, where Maria explains to Cookie Monster how computers work. I must say, it took, because I'm sure he was my sysadmin at one point...

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It's actually from 1967. The video is from a computer training session that Jim Henson put together for IBM. The monster at the time was called "Arnold the Munching Monster". After his first appearance, Arnold sat in Henson's closet for 2 years, until it made a brief appearance in 2 Munchos potato crisp commercials.

When Arnold appeared in Sesame Street in 1969/1970 (its first season), he was unnamed and still rather scary. He quickly was fashioned as the Cookie Monster and took on the toothless "friendly monster" appearance we all know and love today.

I submitted the video to digg (link here) for anyone that likes it. I thought it was hilarious.

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Thanks, Lala! I had wondered how old this clip was, and from the link you posted, I would guess late 60s.

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this is so old! i read on a few websites that this is what cookie monster looked like back when, green w/ teeth and more scary lookin, here's a link of "Cookie Monster through the years: http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Cookie_Monster_Through_the_Years

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So cookie monster used to have teeth? Thats a new one to me.

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Well it's not like anyone knows the Great Hymn to the Aten anymore. Whatever archaeologists uncover about ancient civilization will just be regarded as "neat" and with very little seriousness put aside to ogle at later.

How manifold it is, what thou hast made!
They are hidden from the face (of man).
O sole god, like whom there is no other!
Thou didst create the world according to thy desire,

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Pretty sure the writing translate to "Insert Tab A into Slot G". Eventually it is going to dawn on Egypt to sue IKEA for stealing their pictograph method of instructing assembly of flat items into various large objects.

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Which reminds me of that Pinky and the Brain cartoon where they into that very same small shaft that the robot is exploring.

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