Apple Inc.'s '1984' TV commercial (thanks NewLaunches) was named the best Super Bowl spot in the game's 40-year history said a Florida based communications company. The commercial aired on Jan 22 1984 in the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII launching the Macintosh personal computer. The ad showed an unnamed heroine dressed as an athlete running through an Orwellian world to throw a sledgehammer at a TV image of "Big Brother," suggesting IBM Corp. A concluding message and voiceover said: "On Jan. 24, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like '1984.'" The commercial, which aired only once, was the best "on the basis of impact, sales and viewer memorability" In related news, the Web sites of Dolphin Stadium and the Miami Dolphins team, host to Sunday's Super Bowl football game, have been hacked, and malicious code on those sites has been attempting to infect PCs for at least a week, security experts said today. Another article about the hack can be found here.