Several readers have submitted claims that the original 1984 ad has been further edited with a change of the date on the screen of "big brother" from 1/26/84 to 1/26/04.
The new ad however is simply a different quality and the text can be read as "84" in certain shots, while it is ambiguous in others.






















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