AT&T Thought Future Cooking Would Look Like This Circa 1993

More dispatches from At&T’s eerily prescient vision of the future, all the way from the 90s. Here, the simple problem of needing an ingredient for a meal is solved with some cool retrofuturistic tech, replete with cheesy bleeps and boops.

What’s great about this is that, even though the world is clearly built on ugly old Windows 3.1 and Web 1.0, automating your home to find recipes and call your significant other isn’t that far off. Notice the digital coupon at the end? AT&T basically invented Groupon. [curiosity counts]