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1998·Early web, before YouTube

Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial

You might remember it as Gorbachev Pizza Hut ad

This Moment began as a television broadcast, not as a video upload. Originally published on broadcast.

  • SourceNot an upload originally
  • MediaPlayable from the source

A commercial that became internet-famous long after broadcast, and a clean test of an off-platform original.

The story

What this was

It first appeared in 1998, during early web, before YouTube. A surviving copy is on YouTube.

The same internet

Early web, before YouTube

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What we know

Where it came from

There is no original upload to identify: this Moment did not begin as one. What it began as is recorded here, and what is shown is a later copy.

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Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This Moment began as a television broadcast, not as a video upload. Originally published on broadcast.

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Known on YouTube.
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