What if Twitter were invented in 60 years ago? Then you probably would have seen something like this vintage-style ad in Life or Esquire, touting the service a "virtual locality" and "notorious mechanism." The ad is part of a series that includes full-pagers on Facebook, Skype and YouTube. See them all in the gallery below.

Entertainment Weekly is adding full-motion video with audio next month to its printed page. Sound crazy? The cellphone-sized, wafer-thin screens activate when the reader gets to that page, and will feature characters from prime time television and ads for soft...