In the ’90s, ITT Tech used commercials to put the fear of God into TV viewers

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Given yesterday’s tragic (and tragically overdue) news that ITT Technical Institute has been ordered to shut down its enrollment, it seems like a perfect time to watch a bunch of old ITT Tech commercials from 20-odd years ago. There’s a whole cache of them on YouTube, as you’d expect, with each one shining more light on just how far we’ve come since the mid-’90s.
Take, for instance, this clip from 1994, which probably really scared the shit out of anyone who didn’t feel prepared for “the jobs of tomorrow,” a.k.a. anything to do with computers:
This 1995 ITT Tech commercial is equally terrifying, what with its ominous voiceover about how “what you don’t know can hurt you.”