Tuesday, 16 December 2008

AB.com's magical time machine

BT chief says Mideast growth set to slow trumpets ArabianBusiness.com, accompanied by a nice image of a BT phone box. Circa 1992.

The charming BT "piper" logo, adopted by the firm in 1991, and as featured in the AB.com story, was scrapped in favour of its current swishy balls (which probably say a lot more about BT, to be fair).

(Actually the Getty Images pic was from 2006, when - we guess - a desperate Getty staff photographer was unable to find a BT maintenance van, office block, headquarters, etc, and plumped instead for a retro-90s phone box.)

In other news, the UK's Tory party has squeaked home in a general election, and an unknown Democrat called Bill Clinton has trounced George Bush in the US presidential race. And some stuff happened in Bosnia.

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