1995 Flashback: First-time PC user can’t work computer

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  • @CaptainVelveeta
    @CaptainVelveeta Рік тому +17722

    Nearly 30 years later the printer is still the most problematic piece of machinery on the planet.

    • @user-wb7ot7kt3x
      @user-wb7ot7kt3x Рік тому +728

      As a SysAdmin I do hate printers. Sometimes they don't work for no reason at all.

    • @jroscon3003
      @jroscon3003 Рік тому +90

      Just Epic i agree

    • @xiaokhat
      @xiaokhat Рік тому +484

      Printers are the moodiest piece of tech invented. They know the best time when to act up 😂

    • @jcamargo2005
      @jcamargo2005 Рік тому +103

      The router is second place?

    • @OV3RDRIVE24
      @OV3RDRIVE24 Рік тому +175

      I spent about 20 minutes trying to connect my printer to my PC wirelessly before giving up and going wired USB.

  • @Haffy442
    @Haffy442 3 роки тому +13757

    All of those IT guys who had to deal with 'newbies' every single day are the real legends here.

    • @MarkT1700
      @MarkT1700 3 роки тому +252

      Yeah I wouldn't be able to deal with that. I'd die on my first day.

    • @Commander_HW
      @Commander_HW 3 роки тому +224

      That's me, as a real IT guy, all my family members call me for their computer problems. My mom literally txted me and ask me to make a video of how to turn her iPhone off....... she said every time she does it it's always siri.

    • @NeytAkyide
      @NeytAkyide 3 роки тому +19

      thanks bro im dying everyday again with Pc Newbies

    • @Stanley-px3bt
      @Stanley-px3bt 3 роки тому +49

      Yes, but have you tried turning it off and back on again?

    • @PROGRESSGamingOfficial
      @PROGRESSGamingOfficial 3 роки тому +52

      @@Commander_HW As a previous Android user it also took me a couple of tries to turn an iPhone off. Simply holding the off-button activates Siri instead of turning your device off, not intuitive at all..

  • @Kimchi_Studios
    @Kimchi_Studios 3 роки тому +9796

    A moment of silence for all the call center employees from the 90's who helped us get to this point.

    • @mikekatz7980
      @mikekatz7980 3 роки тому +463

      and for all of the Karens they had to battle along the way.

    • @MrOiram46
      @MrOiram46 3 роки тому +112

      I bet some of them just got fed up and came up with some ways of making computers easier to use like they are now

    • @PajamaJazama
      @PajamaJazama 3 роки тому +129

      @@MrOiram46 theyve become so easy that theyve come full circle and made it harder for more experienced users lol

    • @Adama.1
      @Adama.1 3 роки тому +39

      Rather an applause. Moment of silence suggests they all died, I'm pretty sure most of them are very alive.

    • @oktogen1476
      @oktogen1476 3 роки тому

      point of censorship and programmers that became nurses? no thanks

  • @widowmakerx7
    @widowmakerx7 6 місяців тому +862

    As someone who works in the IT field, a lot of people are still this confused

    • @jean-lucpicard5510
      @jean-lucpicard5510 6 місяців тому +30

      Had a potential employer for an IT role on the phone a while back asking if I has basic CCNa qualifications? Such as can I insert a USB? I'm like.
      "I have a Bachelor's degree in computer maintenance and systems support. I've built pcs since my twenties, installed operating systems, and configuration of cisco routers and switches"

    • @tauranfoster5564
      @tauranfoster5564 5 місяців тому +10

      They will always be confused.

    • @oliveryt7168
      @oliveryt7168 4 місяці тому +9

      ​@@jean-lucpicard5510 so.. no?
      😅😂🎉❤

    • @mermaidlu5125
      @mermaidlu5125 4 місяці тому +4

      I’m a administrative assistant and I still get confused I’m all on a computer 😂😂

    • @BobRooney290
      @BobRooney290 4 місяці тому +1

      as someone that got out of the IT field, it was a live saver. i couldnt imagine working so much for so little. it paid nothing. i dropped it and went straight to finance. best decision i've ever made.

  • @inocente106
    @inocente106 4 роки тому +9211

    Legend has it, she's still trying to plugged it in..

    • @Notolderthanyou
      @Notolderthanyou 3 роки тому +163

      *plug

    • @siamfazlul7129
      @siamfazlul7129 3 роки тому +169

      and the camera man is still standing there doing nothing about it

    • @wordsmith451
      @wordsmith451 3 роки тому +9

      @@Leshan51 I hate that term. Also, there is a family-friendly form of sex: incest! :)

    • @erickabundis7952
      @erickabundis7952 3 роки тому +6

      @@Leshan51 “LeTs KeEp ThIs ChAt FaMiLy FrIeNdLy” headass

    • @youraveragemetalhead226
      @youraveragemetalhead226 3 роки тому +23

      Legend has it, you're still trying to "learned" english

  • @wolfarix
    @wolfarix 3 роки тому +5482

    To this day my dad’s mind is still blown over the fact that he needed training software to learn how to control his cursor and I was able to naturally figure it out as a kid.

    • @Beegeezy144
      @Beegeezy144 3 роки тому +326

      Have you heard of the hundredth monkey effect? That might explain how you knew, but I'm still wondering how he got the software installed if he didn't know how to use the cursor. 😁

    • @2nd-place
      @2nd-place 3 роки тому +285

      @@Beegeezy144 back then you installed everything from the command prompt, lol. I’m a web developer and still install everything through a bash/zsh terminal on my Mac ssh’d into a Linux server. You just install from a repo whatever app you need. Tons of open source frameworks to speed development.

    • @tfat00
      @tfat00 3 роки тому +404

      I remember my parents setting up our first PC and when I tried to help my dad yelled at me so I left. Later my mom told me what I had suggested actually worked when they tried it an hour later 😂

    • @wolfarix
      @wolfarix 3 роки тому +59

      @@Beegeezy144 I think it was at his work. My guess is his IT department set it up and where training him. By the time we got a home PC he knew how it worked.

    • @AW-qz4kk
      @AW-qz4kk 3 роки тому +53

      kids learn better

  • @bottlerocket3218
    @bottlerocket3218 3 роки тому +2727

    "It's printing way too large and I don't know why" - a problem that still happens in 2021, from personal experience, lol.

    • @ElonMasks
      @ElonMasks 3 роки тому +3

      Lool

    • @occidere13
      @occidere13 3 роки тому +1

      Same

    • @MrKPRules
      @MrKPRules 3 роки тому +12

      Printers man.

    • @piedra7040
      @piedra7040 3 роки тому +78

      Printers are still trash in 2021

    • @holocaust_2.0
      @holocaust_2.0 3 роки тому +80

      It's cheaper to just buy new printers than it is to buy new ink cartridges.

  • @numtot2172
    @numtot2172 6 місяців тому +294

    $2,800 in 1995 = almost $6,000 in todays money….for a laptop. Insane how much the price of computers has come down over the year.

    • @ariefarfiansyah3677
      @ariefarfiansyah3677 5 місяців тому +13

      Same as Vision Pro today

    • @duckmercy11
      @duckmercy11 5 місяців тому +4

      Economies of scale

    • @jettrink5810
      @jettrink5810 5 місяців тому +12

      prices of literally everything else have disproportionately gone up way higher compared the the price decrease of PCs though

    • @Jolgeable
      @Jolgeable 5 місяців тому +9

      I don't know what it was like in the US, but in some countries the desktop PC had a price and a laptop was 4 or 5 times more expensive.

    • @duckmercy11
      @duckmercy11 5 місяців тому +4

      @@Jolgeable Yeah laptops were crazy expensive here too.

  • @saurabhgi
    @saurabhgi 3 роки тому +8712

    “4 megabyte memory” ah, the gold standard

    • @coolak7293
      @coolak7293 3 роки тому +486

      This is too much, 640k is enough for everyone...

    • @baganatube
      @baganatube 3 роки тому +341

      That is over four freaking MILLION bytes, what kind of application would be able to utilize such amount of memory.

    • @moneer7139
      @moneer7139 3 роки тому +38

      @@Septagrim on my pc, chrome milks my cpu, so i got opera gx its so much better and cooler

    • @raggedclawstarcraft6562
      @raggedclawstarcraft6562 3 роки тому +47

      @@coolak7293 Everybody laugh at Bill Gates for saying that (if he even said that), but maybe he was correct at a time of saying this phrase.
      It's like saying 1 GB of ram is plenty in early 2000s.

    • @someguywithmtndew5691
      @someguywithmtndew5691 3 роки тому +2

      @@Septagrim lie, oh wait im dumb nvm

  • @VaughnJogVlog
    @VaughnJogVlog 7 років тому +4459

    In fairness, there was more tech jargon and programming knowledge needed back then to operate a computer. Now there are less ports, devices are found automatically, apps install quickly, startup time is minimal.

    • @richardsequeirateixeira
      @richardsequeirateixeira 4 роки тому +444

      USB changed the game dramatically too. Plug and Play.

    • @ian_b
      @ian_b 4 роки тому +165

      @@richardsequeirateixeira So long as you can tell which of the 25 types of USB you have. :D

    • @camaluck678
      @camaluck678 3 роки тому +19

      my computer has 9 ports being used right now, not including the power cable.

    • @revengenerd1
      @revengenerd1 3 роки тому +212

      I find it funny and a little silly how people often think the kids of today are great with tech as show them pre 00's tech not just computers and they get stuck, tell them to do many non plug and play things on a pc and they don't know what to do. All they really know how to do is use apps.

    • @ohrenaugenkatze_
      @ohrenaugenkatze_ 3 роки тому +75

      @@revengenerd1 yep, my grandma thinks im a tech genie cause i changed the aspect ratio on her tv, even though it is just pressing one button ( to be fair, the remote had everything labled in English and she does not speak English)

  • @MikeStavola
    @MikeStavola 3 роки тому +5490

    Back then, it was a severe mistake to buy a laptop as your first PC.

    • @Leonard_MT
      @Leonard_MT 3 роки тому +309

      At least it’s a ThinkPad it has that easy BIOS configuration utility

    • @coreysuffield
      @coreysuffield 3 роки тому +296

      it still nearly is

    • @DaneH64
      @DaneH64 3 роки тому +8

      Exactly

    • @erickabundis7952
      @erickabundis7952 3 роки тому +105

      @@coreysuffield depends

    • @erickabundis7952
      @erickabundis7952 3 роки тому +215

      @@justinepaula-robilliard what?

  • @ilay_ux
    @ilay_ux 6 місяців тому +75

    the amount of self talking from this lady is amazing, my spirit animal

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 3 роки тому +3556

    This needs a “Where are they now”.

  • @dannyzero692
    @dannyzero692 3 роки тому +19285

    "For many newcomers, PC stands for *Pain* and *Confusion* "
    I died laughing at that part

    • @cameroncalzone8860
      @cameroncalzone8860 3 роки тому +863

      i prefer MAC: masochistic and costly

    • @chotai
      @chotai 3 роки тому +78

      @@cameroncalzone8860 selectively not much expensive.
      But my budget can only hold pain.

    • @omairshafiq1998
      @omairshafiq1998 3 роки тому +50

      I mean it hasn't changed in that aspect

    • @dannyzero692
      @dannyzero692 3 роки тому +24

      @@omairshafiq1998 not much but yes, my grandpa still hasn't figured out how to use his mouse

    • @CatololOSU
      @CatololOSU 3 роки тому +3

      it stands for : ''aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa''

  • @sujitwarrier4857
    @sujitwarrier4857 3 роки тому +3311

    In 1996 I was 8 years old, pcs were just coming into India, only the rich people could afford to own one. My parents sent me to computer classes thinking it was the future. All I learnt were some DOS commands as well as MS paint. Now so many years later I'm an experienced software engineer. Smart move mom and dad. Thank you

    • @snipamontage6222
      @snipamontage6222 3 роки тому +63

      Damn

    • @perfectsplit5515
      @perfectsplit5515 3 роки тому +170

      4 years of undergraduate mechanical engineering courses at the university - and computer literacy was what I ended up learning - more than anything else. I became my parents' tech support.

    • @sujitwarrier4857
      @sujitwarrier4857 3 роки тому +229

      @@perfectsplit5515 it doesn't matter what you do. You always are tech support for your parents.

    • @KUNALBISWAS-NEWS-TECH-SHORT
      @KUNALBISWAS-NEWS-TECH-SHORT 3 роки тому +7

      Cost us 67k, HCL ..

    • @sujitwarrier4857
      @sujitwarrier4857 3 роки тому +3

      @@KUNALBISWAS-NEWS-TECH-SHORT what?

  • @yoteslaya7296
    @yoteslaya7296 6 місяців тому +47

    My grandma used to always call me before she deleted any file on her computer. She was terrified she would break it.

    • @poorvachauhan
      @poorvachauhan 3 місяці тому +3

      😂😂😂 she is sweet

    • @alyssasteps
      @alyssasteps 2 місяці тому +2

      Hahaha agree ​@@poorvachauhan

  • @MitchellWiggs
    @MitchellWiggs 3 роки тому +4389

    the first lady looks like she's just figuring out what electricity is

    • @jeepsblackpowderandlights4305
      @jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 3 роки тому +268

      i dunno how old you are you, im 38 but lemme tell ya when i was 7-14 years old my parents were like this. My dad was a computer scientist working in the army space program office, and military intelligence for 22 years in the army, but his first personal computer he bought himself was a pc in 1994-95 and he didnt know how to use it. He had to take computer classes to learn how to use a personal computer.. he knew electronics and satalites in space but didnt know how the new computers worked. My mom was the same thing, in 96 she had a computer its still in storage btw lol. and i remember her on the phone with tech support for 4 hours one night trying to get it to work.
      Computers back then were not simple like they are are.. Once you get the cords all plugged in just installing stuff on a pc back then through floppy disks was complicated. Windows 95 was new, DOS was the main thing.. and to install stuff you had to go into dos and type commands everything. Like CD:/INSTALL DOOM. then to load it you needed to type in commands.. and thats just for CD's.. imagine doing this on 10 floppy disks.. The commands for things were complicated for new users...
      If youre in your 20's or younger you dont know how easy you had things, you put in a CD and things install immediatly you grew up with windows xp .. you just select the hard drive to install it. Now adays for teens they just download things online and install them through steam or what not.. computers now dont even have a dvd or cd drive.

    • @rumblefish9
      @rumblefish9 3 роки тому +92

      MITCHELL WIGGS You say that because you've grown up with a PC but for a lot of people back in the day, using a PC was a massive change and a steep learning curve. Put yourself during that time and I'm sure you'd be struggling too. You don't know pain and torture until you've tried learning to work DOS. Back then there wasn't even a user-friendly user interface. That didn't come until Windows 98. It's all much easier now because of usability.

    • @HandledToaster2
      @HandledToaster2 3 роки тому +46

      @@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 Thanks for sharing your story, man. I appreciate how things have gotten easier throughout the years.

    • @mq5731
      @mq5731 3 роки тому +14

      @@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 I mean...DOS ain’t that hard to use. You just need to know the commands. I can’t imagine someone selling you a program without giving you an instruction manuel...

    • @wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20
      @wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20 3 роки тому +20

      What many people also forget that back then there was no Google and internet was very limited. Now it's so easy when you can google absolutely anything, any technical problem, 1 second of googling and bang, you have an answer.

  • @JelloTalks
    @JelloTalks 3 роки тому +4427

    The IT department at IBM hated dealing with "newbies" so much, the whole company left the consumer market 😂

    • @Wapitiii
      @Wapitiii 3 роки тому +90

      best comment ever

    • @JoeMama-le7lw
      @JoeMama-le7lw 3 роки тому +27

      Underrated comment

    • @hittingyouoverthehead
      @hittingyouoverthehead 3 роки тому +57

      Please do standup. You seem to be funnier than most late night tv hosts

    • @Alpha8713
      @Alpha8713 3 роки тому +12

      I don't blame them.

    • @yusufian49
      @yusufian49 3 роки тому +7

      IBM now owns lenovo irght?

  • @AlexTheGreatish
    @AlexTheGreatish 3 роки тому +1503

    Imagine having to do tech support without the internet...

  • @stick2dapoint88
    @stick2dapoint88 10 місяців тому +258

    Nearly 30yrs later, not much has changed. Gen-Xers and younger grew up with tech, but we still have A LOT of ppl in the workplace that have simply memorized the steps to their job on a computer, and anytime anything happens outside of that sequence, their whole world gets flipped upside-down.

    • @danyoutube7491
      @danyoutube7491 10 місяців тому +10

      Operating systems are more complicated than ever, so it would be impossible for most people to be savvy about things that don't apply to their day to day role (not to mention a waste of their time learning things that they almost certainly would never have to know, and a lot of which would be rendered useless by the frequent updates to Windows). What's more Windows and the computer world in general seems to be have been pushing the consumer to be more reliant on Microsoft, Google etc. to let them do everything, control everything. I am less confident and able now than I was when I first got an IBM compatible in the early 2000s (I had owned a couple of Commodore Amiga computers in the 1990s as well as using IBM style PC at school, so was already computer savvy). I used to be comfortable installing mods for games and so forth on my computer, but things like Steam and Windows from 8 onwards took these things out of my hands (Windows 8 even made it hard for me to make changes to files in game folders on my own computer...).

    • @axeldewater9491
      @axeldewater9491 6 місяців тому +10

      @@danyoutube7491 Linux would revive those skills for you 😉

    • @Jonathan.Gearhart
      @Jonathan.Gearhart 6 місяців тому +6

      Kinda sad that so many redundantly use their phone without knowing or caring about the insane engineering behind it.

    • @DugrozReports
      @DugrozReports 6 місяців тому

      @@danyoutube7491 This 100%
      Up until 2005 or so I could mod things pretty easily, install my own stuff manually, and it was easy. Now the OS either does it for you or you have to be in IT.

    • @aev6075
      @aev6075 6 місяців тому +11

      Sure young people grew up with technology, but they have zero idea how any of it works. It's a struggle for them to get a new social media app running and they don't even know how to work word or excel or any tool for that matter. Staring at a screen != learning about the technology.

  • @chadwaller8192
    @chadwaller8192 3 роки тому +2300

    She spent nearly 5k in 2021 money

    • @mathiastwp
      @mathiastwp 3 роки тому +125

      Big oof, Linus.

    • @smeezekitty
      @smeezekitty 3 роки тому +19

      @TDFPL kek

    • @jackkraken3888
      @jackkraken3888 3 роки тому +72

      Right? That's what's amazing about technology now. This stuff is far cheaper now than in the past and yet even more powerful and feature rich. It's insane.

    • @jonny6702
      @jonny6702 3 роки тому +22

      @@jackkraken3888 Well, yeah. Computers are tens of thousands of times faster at computing now. It wouldn't make sense if a 5000 investment back then would be multiplied tens of thousands of times linearly with the compute ability. You'd end up spending many many millions of dollars for todays modern high frequency, high IPC, multi-core processors. I think that would be more insane.

    • @cozy6308
      @cozy6308 3 роки тому +6

      @@jackkraken3888 do you really think that an old computer with 4mb of memory is very comparable to a 480gb computer which is very fast?

  • @ogaduby
    @ogaduby 3 роки тому +1016

    I'll never forget the look on my moms face when i told her I've got the reply to an email send to my/our cousin(s) in Canada in the same day (I'm European BTW). Mail even had pictures and it moved across the ocean instantly... It was like sci-fi for her.

    • @GeoSae
      @GeoSae 3 роки тому +20

      Yup .. I still remember the telegraph's office building in my hometown, It was about the same size as the Postal Service one, they charged you per letter. The closest we had from instant communication was the International and National LADA phone calls from a land line. Calls were terrible quality and extremely expensive! I remember in 1985 after the earthquake in Mexico City, we were unable to communicate to our relatives living there until a few weeks after the event. And I was possible thanks to the "Radiodifusores" People who owned large CB radios with huge antennas on top of their roofs who communicated with other people in other regions as a hobby. (An expensive one!) What is really amazing is that even with all these limitations, we still could fly in about the same amount of time as now, is just that plane tickets were more expensive.

    • @z1lla4
      @z1lla4 3 роки тому +6

      Your comment is causing me pain and confusion

    • @nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932
      @nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932 3 роки тому +3

      It's still like sci-fi to me, and I grew up with it.

    • @adunce.5422
      @adunce.5422 3 роки тому

      @@toKy0t0 That’s good stuff

    • @Horologica
      @Horologica 3 роки тому +1

      But think about this but in terms of instant material teleportation. This was already achieved on the atomic level

  • @nbarrager
    @nbarrager 3 роки тому +3178

    The only way printers have changed is that they're wireless now

    • @Ultra289
      @Ultra289 3 роки тому +151

      USB printers are still more common

    • @CVerse
      @CVerse 3 роки тому +266

      And yet they still don't wanna work when you need them to, even through USB

    • @dracodrake2973
      @dracodrake2973 3 роки тому +50

      Wireless printers are useless.

    • @breadone_
      @breadone_ 3 роки тому +10

      @@dracodrake2973 ⁉️

    • @abethegamerful
      @abethegamerful 3 роки тому +46

      And yet even more annoying to use

  • @mastershooter64
    @mastershooter64 10 місяців тому +26

    This is crazy! Just 20 years later we have computers everywhere! from our cars to our pockets!

  • @Infarlock
    @Infarlock 3 роки тому +5377

    "Did you try turning it off and on again?"
    - "It's not even plugged in yet"
    1995 was hard

    • @SimonUA
      @SimonUA 3 роки тому +42

      LOL

    • @pratyushkongalla8928
      @pratyushkongalla8928 3 роки тому +24

      🤣😂🤣

    • @gladius_arbor
      @gladius_arbor 3 роки тому +12

      😂 😂

    • @zorkitipafed4626
      @zorkitipafed4626 3 роки тому +90

      Still common nowadays. People who work in PC services or internet providers' technical supports can tell you hundreds of stories about dumb clients who can't handle plugs and on/off buttons of their PC.

    • @hasenel3731
      @hasenel3731 3 роки тому +10

      you seems like a fella will enjoy some street countdown

  • @gtablurt5791
    @gtablurt5791 3 роки тому +2275

    UPDATE:
    She's a Hacker now, beware.

  • @Zanderthegrape
    @Zanderthegrape 3 роки тому +1084

    2:37 lol her frustration while the credits were rolling. The editors made it look like a comedy segment like The Office xD

  • @obienator
    @obienator 6 місяців тому +512

    Jamie is still fighting that damn printer to this day in 2024

    • @ntsejfamyaj
      @ntsejfamyaj 6 місяців тому +21

      That's not fair, that's very condescending, and that was uncalled for. Jamie suffers from acute boomeritis, even though she's not really a boomer. While paying for groceries recently at a nearby grocery store, our local CBS station field reporter, Tricia Takanawa, asked if she would pay using cash, credit, or mobile, but Jamie gave a confused look. Instead, she pulled out a check book.

    • @HMOCreations1807
      @HMOCreations1807 6 місяців тому +1

      😂😂😂

    • @lioninguccisuit
      @lioninguccisuit 6 місяців тому +4

      I'm born in 97, but still had a PC sience i was quite young 5-6 years old. And i remember specific things of how awful the pc interface was, thanks god i was blessed with windows xp, cause 97 and 00 was extremly awful. I remember when you had to go in Total Comander or what was it called, or when a dude gave to my parent a thing for PC that had like 260 games in, sonic, alex kid, jaz rabit, road rage.. Jesus was so nice, i used to be so happy playing. But having to conect the cables is hard, especialy when you don't know what damange you can bring to a pc, with Usb's now and jacks, is sightly harder to destroy something, but with the cable the lady used you could break the pins, plus what if you connect something wrong and burn the circuits ,etc. Is just the same vibe when you build a PC, and you have to put the CPU into the pc, which mean 1 sightly mistake and avoiding to read where to put the cpu, you'll just easly lose 400-1.000$

    • @m.ceniza4688
      @m.ceniza4688 6 місяців тому +3

      @@ntsejfamyajyou laugh but printers are one of the Devil’s earthly minions

    • @backintimealwyn5736
      @backintimealwyn5736 6 місяців тому +5

      nah, my mum used to call the computer "he" ,"he's telling me to press a key" , "But what does he want?" , "why is he blocking the srcreeeen, what did you do to him? (I was alway guilty of soing something evil to "him" )", now she's even more addicted to technology than I am, she can't disconnect for half an hour.

  • @johnj3577
    @johnj3577 3 роки тому +1710

    My Dad bought me a PC after much begging when I was about 18, so it was 1990 ish. I'd read PC Magazines for months and we finally bought a Hyundai 386 SX16 costing around £1400. Worked like a charm and I spent hours every day fascinated with what I could get it to do. Two yrs later after joining a company on work experience, I instantly became their IT Manager because my knowledge of PC's was God level compared to the staff already there... Thanks Dad :)

    • @giovanigeorgis3848
      @giovanigeorgis3848 Рік тому +114

      You brought a car?

    • @Rsconquest
      @Rsconquest Рік тому +101

      @@giovanigeorgis3848 It's actually a pc lmao

    • @giovanigeorgis3848
      @giovanigeorgis3848 Рік тому +46

      @@Rsconquest IK Hyundai is the obscure computer brand also sold by Fry’s Electronics as a last resort to stay in business here in the US and also a car brand.

    • @johnj3577
      @johnj3577 Рік тому +46

      @@giovanigeorgis3848 It was nearly as big as a car!

    • @w4drone720
      @w4drone720 Рік тому +10

      @@giovanigeorgis3848 rip fry's

  • @guillandanthony711
    @guillandanthony711 3 роки тому +1478

    I had to laugh when he said that "PCs for Dummies" had sold 18 million copies. Some clever people back in the day laughed all the way to the bank.

    • @diverman1023
      @diverman1023 3 роки тому +93

      I mean in 1995 a UI like windows 95 was completely unheard of to the vast majority of people. It's like if you took someone from 1700 and told them to fly a plane

    • @sivartb7273
      @sivartb7273 3 роки тому +24

      @@diverman1023 what percent of the human population can fly a plane in 2921?

    • @IvanPlayStation4LiFe
      @IvanPlayStation4LiFe 3 роки тому +22

      Those are the best book there's one for everything subject including stocks. Is the best informative book series that why is still selling like hot cakes or drugs.

    • @sonicSnap
      @sonicSnap 3 роки тому +28

      @@sivartb7273 ah yes, 2921

    • @jaderal
      @jaderal 3 роки тому +6

      @@diverman1023 In 1995 nobody have windows 95, its not like today that you can download, in that time it was not that quick

  • @Andy-vt7sl
    @Andy-vt7sl 3 роки тому +2138

    Having $2,900 in 1995 to spend on a computer is very impressive

    • @engineerated5627
      @engineerated5627 3 роки тому +285

      With this much money, she could have bought some shares of growing companies and become a millionaire today.

    • @gaiusjuliuscaesar9296
      @gaiusjuliuscaesar9296 3 роки тому +55

      @@engineerated5627 Invest in IBM or Apple instead

    • @KH-fv3vq
      @KH-fv3vq 3 роки тому +40

      Some corporate woman

    • @democracyforone
      @democracyforone 3 роки тому +32

      Bitcoin, no doubt.

    • @maliniatb
      @maliniatb 3 роки тому +24

      And im wondering what you could've used it for that its with the money at this point. At least as a normal private Person without any interest in technology

  • @mrsTraveller64
    @mrsTraveller64 7 місяців тому +155

    I can still clearly remember when we got the first computer to my job, I was 37 years old, and a guy came to teach us how to use it. We sat in a circle just staring in disbelief, he picked me first to come and try it. He said put your hand on the mouse and start moving it slowly, I first asked what's a mouse??? After he told me I asked "like how"??? He said oh, you have never used a computer? I said NO I HAVEN'T, WHERE WOULD I HAVE USED ONE??? No one had them at home yet, and I thought I'd never ever learn how to use it..

    • @DugrozReports
      @DugrozReports 6 місяців тому +9

      How did it work out?

    • @mrsTraveller64
      @mrsTraveller64 6 місяців тому +39

      @@DugrozReports well,for me it took a long time to even think I'd be able to learn how to use a computer,it wasn't until I bought one for my home that I really came over beeing so acared to touch it😁 here in our schools the children taught themselves in no-time and then they taught the teachers! I remember seeing on the news how children age 10 sat and gave computer-lessons to their teachers😁

    • @luivalentino8520
      @luivalentino8520 6 місяців тому +6

      Didn't your schools have computers? I grew up in the 80s and our schools had them. Radio shack had tons of them too.

    • @mrsTraveller64
      @mrsTraveller64 6 місяців тому +23

      @@luivalentino8520I went to school in the 70's so no, we had no computers, I can't remember if there was one in the teachers room, but I don't think there was, there was typing machines and when "word" came(I think it was called that?) I remember it was a big thing; not to have to start from the beginning,just erase that ONE misspelled word and continue!

    • @xtlm
      @xtlm 6 місяців тому +2

      @@DugrozReports some say they never figured it out

  • @doemis8573
    @doemis8573 2 роки тому +2744

    Was there ever a point in computer history, where printers just worked? 99% percent of the computer related problems in my office and at home are printer problems.
    That Office Space printer scene felt soooo good!

    • @zachsmith1731
      @zachsmith1731 Рік тому +25

      It's why old job had a ricoh guy on standby at all times

    • @oaooaoipip2238
      @oaooaoipip2238 Рік тому +87

      @@zachsmith1731 Printers has always been like that. They never seems to evolve. It's like formating a an email. Sure you can use HTML and CSS but if you try to do something fancy like setting an image width it will only work in half of the mail clients.

    • @MacTTR
      @MacTTR Рік тому +13

      It's because modern hardware got HARDER to use, because of how wide the range has gotten for drivers. Etc.

    • @trashyraccoon2615
      @trashyraccoon2615 Рік тому +9

      Usually on Mac. Right now I’ve got a Brother printer and I’m running MacOS Mavericks, works every single time

    • @MacTTR
      @MacTTR Рік тому +23

      @@trashyraccoon2615 yes, but the wide majority use windows, Mac is nice, but for certain printers, it's not like " ok it's a pain to get working but I can install drivers!" And then if your not lucky Mac can just not offer drivers... because Apple doesn't like 3rd party stuff... that's what happens when your computer is "virus proof" (not really hating on macs but they do have more flaws then windows compatibility wise...

  • @Doomclown
    @Doomclown 3 роки тому +1000

    Where did they find this lady, I love her. "You'd let me know if I'm about to blow something up?"
    Also so glad we have USB now.

    • @TH3mrBROWN
      @TH3mrBROWN 3 роки тому +38

      That bit was so good, if only they had access to UA-cam back then. She'd know, from watch countless videos, that the person holding the camera never offers any help but simply records the chaos unfold.

    • @sprytnychomik
      @sprytnychomik 3 роки тому +27

      Yes, USB fits nice and tight in the ethernet port, but the printer is still not working.

    • @DiavalloX
      @DiavalloX 3 роки тому +2

      @@sprytnychomik and my HDMI is sitting real nicely in my usb port. Also got a 3.5mm headset plug fit easily in my microusb port

    • @fredericodietrich5209
      @fredericodietrich5209 3 роки тому +1

      @@TH3mrBROWN i think she would actually need a computer for youtube in its first years (the first 2 years)

    • @kathryncarter6143
      @kathryncarter6143 3 роки тому

      You could have come to my house & seen the exact same thing.

  • @fishingangler4315
    @fishingangler4315 3 роки тому +892

    Why did she put a giant save button in her computer?

    • @Gamer-uf1kl
      @Gamer-uf1kl 3 роки тому +48

      Nice

    • @leodf1
      @leodf1 3 роки тому +44

      Good one. Didn't get it for a moment.

    • @DaneH64
      @DaneH64 3 роки тому +9

      Lmao 😆

    • @MicahFleischman
      @MicahFleischman 3 роки тому +32

      This is gonna anger someone 😂

    • @GURken
      @GURken 3 роки тому +29

      Interesting, in what time this joke won't be a joke anymore?

  • @dewilew2137
    @dewilew2137 12 днів тому +2

    This was so relatable and nostalgic. Even though I would have been a toddler when this was filmed. I miss what I remember of the 90s.

  • @theintrovertedowl
    @theintrovertedowl 3 роки тому +2479

    Crazy how I find this funny, but kids in the near future will probably think we are dumb too

    • @skorpius2029
      @skorpius2029 3 роки тому +178

      I don't think people were dumb. It was new technology and it wasn't as beginner friendly as it is now. Compare installation of windows XP with windows 10 and it will be a very different experience.

    • @heramann6916
      @heramann6916 3 роки тому +83

      Very wrong, we live in the year of information. Unlike our parents, we will have no problems keeping up with new tecnologies since we have easy access to/information of them.

    • @Mimi-py8mf
      @Mimi-py8mf 3 роки тому +2

      @@heramann6916 yup, exactly

    • @zarodgaming1844
      @zarodgaming1844 3 роки тому +6

      " U mean you can't compute pi in an instant?
      pffft. Beeetaaa ! "
      ~ future 4 year old, probably

    • @tvvoty
      @tvvoty 3 роки тому +5

      idk, people would install Windows 98 in those days, and now most people can't install win 10

  • @youcanletgox3
    @youcanletgox3 3 роки тому +4892

    Crazy how far we’ve come in 26 short years; now, babies know how to navigate through a smartphone better than some adults lol

    • @notbambang
      @notbambang 3 роки тому +390

      Today's tech is more easier to use, everything can be done wireless, no need to worries about cables and not matching ports

    • @mandinikohl2541
      @mandinikohl2541 3 роки тому +83

      Yo I swear to god all they do is watch us on our phones & scheme until they're dexterous enough to do it too. Lmao

    • @PeaceDweller
      @PeaceDweller 3 роки тому +93

      Ironically, back in the 90s only intelligent people had personal computers/laptops.

    • @beefnoodles4981
      @beefnoodles4981 3 роки тому +14

      Huh??? PC is diffrent from SmartPhone

    • @youcanletgox3
      @youcanletgox3 3 роки тому +29

      @@beefnoodles4981 I’m speaking about technology in general :P

  • @j.s.3414
    @j.s.3414 3 роки тому +1611

    People forget that user manuals used to be written like Technical Manuals...they were actually fairly confusing and full of jargon. Once manufacturers realized the average user didn't have a CS degree, they began writing tech manuals and explaining specifications for non technically literate people.

    • @Ascertivus
      @Ascertivus 3 роки тому +79

      I think that's good! As much as I'd like to have manuals that are full of jargon and all the technical information that goes along with the device, I think that the switch to a more casually-worded manual was smart since it's more practical for most people.
      Thank you for sharing that fact!

    • @shadowxxe
      @shadowxxe 3 роки тому +12

      @@Ascertivus I mean there usually are specs listed at the back page or on the back of the box and when you get into enthusiast pc equipment like high end graphics cards or professional-grade motherboards you will find that the manuals aren't really about how to install the the thing but more about how to diagnose error codes and which ports do what

    • @thisuniquechica
      @thisuniquechica 3 роки тому +18

      And now they just forgo user manuals altogether 🥺

    • @Cowboy1Brian
      @Cowboy1Brian 3 роки тому

      yes, in spanish

    • @tylerchambers6246
      @tylerchambers6246 3 роки тому +32

      That's because the manual was meant to teach you how to actually get the most out of the machine. Nowadays, a user is expected to use their machine the same way everyone else uses it, to accomplish the sake basic tasks, so 'manuals' are really just quick start guides. Which is bad, because how can you get the most out of your machine if you can't mold it around your unique needs and goals?

  • @fireraid9173
    @fireraid9173 6 місяців тому +52

    Describing computers as pain and confusion has to be the most incredibly well aged quote of the century. I swear to god every time I have a "small" problem there's an iceberg under it the size of long island.

    • @ThuNguyen-jy2jt
      @ThuNguyen-jy2jt 6 місяців тому +4

      i feel you. something randomly breaks and i have to go down a rabbit hole to find a solution, and often to no avail. then it adds up and i have to reset windows entirely. computers should be working for us and not the other way around; i dont need to be a computer scientist just to use it.

  • @IkarusKommt
    @IkarusKommt 4 роки тому +677

    It is probably the first time I've seen a 3.5" floppy being inserted with two hands.

    • @ScienceAlliance
      @ScienceAlliance 3 роки тому +21

      *crunch
      that do be interesting doe

    • @gurgy3
      @gurgy3 3 роки тому +4

      Well aren’t you a lucky man

    • @eightbitoni
      @eightbitoni 3 роки тому +4

      i still remember the 8 and 5 inch floppy and was excited for a brief moment when the zip drive was introduced lol

    • @DjVortex-w
      @DjVortex-w 3 роки тому +12

      Wait 'til you see a boomer use a mouse with two hands.

    • @mozzjones6943
      @mozzjones6943 3 роки тому +11

      You must have had some real patient girlfriends then

  • @KeshavGupta27
    @KeshavGupta27 3 роки тому +655

    what 1995, I still found many people who react just like this girl.

    • @JaceTan-90
      @JaceTan-90 3 роки тому +40

      YES! Omg. And the help page is as useless than before.

    • @AT-cy7im
      @AT-cy7im 3 роки тому +28

      Yep - to this day is hard for my to convince to my aunt that she can check her post, or pay bill on the pc. no seriously she's looks at me like I'm from another planet.

    • @rashidhumine
      @rashidhumine 3 роки тому +19

      That's a Woman, not a Girl..

    • @Uria-jz1gu
      @Uria-jz1gu 3 роки тому +26

      @@rashidhumine its a grill

    • @Ace_Tails
      @Ace_Tails 3 роки тому +11

      @@Uria-jz1gu Its a Gurl

  • @jukio02
    @jukio02 3 роки тому +788

    Man, imagine if you bought Microsoft or Apple stock back then.

    • @XelaShade
      @XelaShade 3 роки тому +54

      all you needed was few bitcoins from 2006

    • @range9882
      @range9882 3 роки тому +7

      If u bought Bitcoins would’ve been worth it 99%

    • @Shadow77999
      @Shadow77999 3 роки тому +24

      This was already too late. You shouldve bought in the 80s

    • @santoryu2753
      @santoryu2753 3 роки тому +7

      @@XelaShade not 2006 man. you could have bought bitcoins for few dollars in 2011 too.

    • @XelaShade
      @XelaShade 3 роки тому +1

      @@santoryu2753 not for few cents

  • @d0ntreply
    @d0ntreply 9 місяців тому +8

    ''please refer to troubleshooting'' is probably the worst piece of advice ever given in the history of humanity

  • @carlospwk
    @carlospwk 3 роки тому +773

    A couple of things about this video. Even regular PC computers were relatively complicated by today's standards to install and use. Installing device drivers, getting online, understanding what you were buying etc. all relied on what was printed in the manual, what the salespeople told you at the store and your immediate social circle. You couldn't just Google something or go on UA-cam and look at 10 different videos which explain everything. If you got stuck with something, you remained so until you could find someone to help you with it. Installing new hardware required all kinds of compatibles components and installing drivers by hand. You couldn't just plug something into a USB port (didn't exist) and expect it to start working. And all computer stuff was *expensive*, especially new tech like digital cameras or CD-R drives. Then a year or two later they'd put out something twice as fast and good. It was brutal.

    • @bigalexg
      @bigalexg Рік тому +85

      you get it. I think many here who have no compassion for the newbie in the story weren't there and don't realize how much easier things are these days. I was lucky in that I had a friend who held my hand while setting up my first PC. That was the only way to get a frustration free start in those days. I'd like to see young people today install a sound card in a PC from 93 and have to manually set the DMA and the IRQ or set up a LAN in Windows 3.1. Good luck.

    • @jensenraylight8011
      @jensenraylight8011 Рік тому +24

      it's only hard, if you expect to learn everything in 1 day.
      if you just have fun with it, play with it and don't give it too much expectation, you'll be well versed with it within year.
      there are a lot of amazing thing you can do with it.
      after all, there are things that only PC/laptop could do, that smartphone, tablet, etc won't be able to do.
      all the Companies around the world use PC and not Smartphone or tablet for work for a reason

    • @lashlarue7924
      @lashlarue7924 Рік тому

      I grew up with computers and disagree; these people are cognitively inferior nincompoops. Computers back in the 80's were simple compared to the stuff we have today.

    • @kb-00001
      @kb-00001 Рік тому +3

      easy to miss the perspective!

    • @ChandravijayAgrawal
      @ChandravijayAgrawal Рік тому +6

      this is most sensible of all comments here

  • @kominion
    @kominion 3 роки тому +686

    Poor Jamie, I hope she figured out how computers work and is doing ok today

    • @brendan8812
      @brendan8812 3 роки тому +8

      She is

    • @the_grass_trainer
      @the_grass_trainer 3 роки тому +7

      @@brendan8812 but how can you be so sure?

    • @brianarbenz7206
      @brianarbenz7206 3 роки тому +32

      @@the_grass_trainer haven't we all figured computers out by now?

    • @uXses
      @uXses 3 роки тому +86

      She's fine. A few years later she became a man and won the world series of poker.

    • @tsdobbi
      @tsdobbi 3 роки тому +29

      @@uXses Her name is Dan Bilzerian.

  • @Brian6587
    @Brian6587 9 місяців тому +3

    Cool flashback! It would be neat to see a follow-up interview with her. The first computer I ever remember interacting with was a Macintosh at my elementary school right around this time in 1995. The first home computer I ever had was a IBM PS/2 Model 25 that my uncle gave me. I learned alot about DOS!

  • @Movie_Games
    @Movie_Games Рік тому +257

    It still amazes me today how things just work. I grew up in a world of dial-up, parallel ports, IRQ conflicts, and DOS.

    • @PhilMoskowitz
      @PhilMoskowitz 10 місяців тому +7

      BIOSes and OSes got a whole lot better.

    • @jeremycarter
      @jeremycarter 6 місяців тому +8

      Ahhhh…good ole’ IRQ conflicts. That brings back memories! iSCSCI IRQ on Apple was my confusion. Granted I was just 8 or so when I was putting my Mac components together and didn’t really understand what the heck was going on.

    • @RealMTBAddict
      @RealMTBAddict 6 місяців тому +4

      Amazes you? We've had 40 years to improve on it. I'm not amazed, I'm satisfied.

    • @jirikrajnak9047
      @jirikrajnak9047 6 місяців тому +1

      they've been running on the same principles for decades. it's the users who have become savvy.

    • @PistonAvatarGuy
      @PistonAvatarGuy 6 місяців тому +3

      I still remember having to move, add, or remove jumpers to make changes to the settings for the CPU, peripheral cards, disk drives, etc. Overclocking a CPU involved physically moving some jumpers on the motherboard. Good times.

  • @tdm4485
    @tdm4485 3 роки тому +1939

    Jesus, I think even Satan felt sorry for those working first line support in those days.

    • @ScienceAlliance
      @ScienceAlliance 3 роки тому +10

      true.

    • @DurkMcGerk
      @DurkMcGerk 3 роки тому +18

      @Golem Goyim I always liked: "there's a loose nut behind the keyboard"

    • @leogama3422
      @leogama3422 3 роки тому +1

      @Golem Goyim ID 10-T?

    • @ccmireonthebeat4473
      @ccmireonthebeat4473 3 роки тому

      happy 666 likes

    • @BeexDubb
      @BeexDubb 3 роки тому +8

      People were less entitled and rude back then, so I doubt it’s worse than today.

  • @mdik1366
    @mdik1366 3 роки тому +357

    By watching the girl trying to make the PC work. I noticed something that her fashion wear is today fashion trend :D

    • @pumpernickelplace
      @pumpernickelplace 3 роки тому +39

      totally. funny how on-point she looks for now.

    • @aidenorpington4637
      @aidenorpington4637 3 роки тому

      lmaoo

    • @therealb888
      @therealb888 3 роки тому +21

      @Trippie Nxouch jealous much? She was actually decent and I'd say attractive in some ways.

    • @therealb888
      @therealb888 3 роки тому +1

      @Trippie Nxouch well she did look like a girl in the video tbh. What if she's still in shape & looking good though? ;).
      I've seen girls my age look more like big mamas than her. Hope you ain't one of em.

    • @jayg.2066
      @jayg.2066 3 роки тому +6

      @Trippie Nxouch Stfu

  • @highestsettings
    @highestsettings 6 місяців тому +105

    "This just in, you have to learn new things and you don't instantly know how to use them...
    More at 11."

  • @BigTylt
    @BigTylt 3 роки тому +384

    Someone should find her and ask her if she ever found out how to use her ThinkPad.

    • @mitingtwotch
      @mitingtwotch 3 роки тому +16

      she wouldnt know how to plug it in

    • @maddominican879
      @maddominican879 3 роки тому +10

      She die of frustration and anxiety 1 year ago.she was still trying to make the computer work

    • @saiftama
      @saiftama 3 роки тому +25

      What if she’s like a twitch streamer and does speed coding for fun. I mean she got into computers before most of us were even walking.

    • @BenjitheRabbit
      @BenjitheRabbit 3 роки тому +3

      She did she has a twitter now and is also working as a writer and editor at inquire first

    • @Fjalll
      @Fjalll 3 роки тому +8

      She's been on PC for 26 years I'm sure she's a wizard by now

  • @arik6774
    @arik6774 3 роки тому +236

    I can feel the pain of the call centre workers. I have to teach my dad, aunt and grandma how use youtube and facebook. The hardest part was to make my grandma believe that her post on Facebook will not be viewed by everyone in the internet.

    • @uknowwhatimean5000
      @uknowwhatimean5000 3 роки тому +12

      Its hard man. When ur helping them over the phone. Theres no visuals or something to teach them. Sometimes they got mad, really mad.
      Im a former call center btw

    • @arik6774
      @arik6774 3 роки тому +13

      @Bacon Pancakes she doesn’t know her password. I know it. And she can't even post. I've to write it for her.

    • @danielsjohnson
      @danielsjohnson 3 роки тому +4

      If she sets her post to public it has the *potential* to be viewed by everyone

    • @arik6774
      @arik6774 3 роки тому +13

      @@danielsjohnson that's wha she wants. She wants that everyone in the world will read her post. And she becomes really disappointed when she gets only 6/7 reacts.

    • @sarthakhajirnis1908
      @sarthakhajirnis1908 3 роки тому +3

      I once had to instruct my grandma to download Whatsapp using Play Store and restore the backup chats over the phone. I can relate your pain

  • @koya9466
    @koya9466 3 роки тому +3810

    "PC stands for 'pain and confusion'"
    that made me laugh so hard

    • @Tom-jh3pl
      @Tom-jh3pl 3 роки тому +8

      True, wait, where did the and come from???

    • @rumblefish9
      @rumblefish9 3 роки тому +27

      Eljay Duldulao Try to work DOS and you'll know "pain and confusion"

    • @inceptionsd
      @inceptionsd 3 роки тому +16

      Still hasnt changed.

    • @sulaiman9766
      @sulaiman9766 3 роки тому +7

      yeah get a mac

    • @linussandell831
      @linussandell831 3 роки тому +34

      @@sulaiman9766 Mad and crazy

  • @obiwanfisher537
    @obiwanfisher537 11 місяців тому +5

    I feel so sorry for her. I don't know why, but if people can't use modern technology like phones or computers and are confused, it just melts my heart and I wanna protect them. I grew up with computer, and these days everyone sort of knows so I have no clue what it must be like not knowing.
    Personally I feel that if oyu can live without a computer, you're better off.

  • @quidproquo82
    @quidproquo82 6 років тому +962

    It was more interesting to learn that the word "newbie" goes back that far

    • @jericoba
      @jericoba 5 років тому +46

      Yep, it’s not an - oldie.

    • @ha1vorsen
      @ha1vorsen 4 роки тому +19

      why would it be a new word?

    • @jgon12
      @jgon12 4 роки тому +23

      Even the dinosaurs used it , it's an old word.

    • @Anarchist86ed
      @Anarchist86ed 4 роки тому +20

      @@jgon12 Earliest uses probably date to late twentieth century United States Armed Forces jargon.

    • @marksevastipol1946
      @marksevastipol1946 3 роки тому

      @@jericoba 😂😂😂

  • @hanialturk5981
    @hanialturk5981 3 роки тому +132

    I worked at help desk call center from 98 to 2002. It was tough trying to troubleshoot anything over the phone. I was more confused than the end user.

    • @positiveoutflow6644
      @positiveoutflow6644 3 роки тому +30

      Thank you for your service.

    • @warlock479
      @warlock479 3 роки тому +1

      I would like to know a little bit more... How was life back then? Do you have kids? Were you paid enough? How long you had to work? I am guessing you would be as old as my grandmother...

    • @travis6694
      @travis6694 3 роки тому +1

      @Straight brown Male dude 🤣 🤣 that is funnyyyyy

  • @user02917
    @user02917 3 роки тому +556

    We all would be in “Pain and Confusion” if we were to wake up in 1995 trying to operate these computers.

    • @haywoodjblome4768
      @haywoodjblome4768 3 роки тому +61

      @NuNu there's a big difference between 1995 computers and 1965 computers lol

    • @Mr.Obongo
      @Mr.Obongo 3 роки тому +9

      Nah, we’ll maybe idk. I first started using computers when I was 6 which was around the same time this video was made so I grew up with a lot of these old computers I find them easier to put together and work compared to what’s available now.

    • @olehtomilov2909
      @olehtomilov2909 3 роки тому +2

      @@Mr.Obongo Agree with you. I was born in '88 and grew up with computers

    • @neilquechon8716
      @neilquechon8716 3 роки тому +11

      Even if we managed to operate them we would still be in pain and confusion because it would feel to SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW !

    • @env0x
      @env0x 3 роки тому +2

      The worst pain would be having to buy printer ink all the time. And floppy disks.
      Nowadays it's usb chargers.

  • @Gluosnis9
    @Gluosnis9 Місяць тому +2

    Oh man, I wouldn't wanna go back to those PC's and especially flickering monitors.

    • @YouMissedAgainTimes32024
      @YouMissedAgainTimes32024 Місяць тому

      Hey if you can emulate PS1, Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast Isos and ROMs on it, why complain about the monitors?

    • @Gluosnis9
      @Gluosnis9 Місяць тому

      @@YouMissedAgainTimes32024 I ment I wouldn't want the CRTs to be the only option :)

  • @johnnyfavorite1194
    @johnnyfavorite1194 3 роки тому +270

    I’m still trying to figure out how computer scientists breed squirrels small enough to run on the tiny treadmills that power my phone.

    • @Pengys_world
      @Pengys_world 3 роки тому +2

      mine appears to have this burning fox powering my browser.

    • @declansnyder2281
      @declansnyder2281 3 роки тому +3

      gotta give credit where credit is due, its not the computer scientists you have to thank for that, it's the electrical engineers (well, the ARM architecture also helps a little)

    • @nat0106951
      @nat0106951 3 роки тому +1

      the ece engineers. not computer scientist. CS are mainly on softwares. not hardwares

  • @neoshenlong
    @neoshenlong 3 роки тому +562

    This woman is an example of a good costumer, asking what the specifications mean in order to make an informed purchase. Of course nowadays its a lot easier to do your research on the internet before.
    Edit: Leaving the typo so the comment pointing it out makes sense.

    • @PkmnGymLeader
      @PkmnGymLeader Рік тому +74

      Nowadays people are like “I like that logo. I should buy it for that reason.” 🙄

    • @azetaburn4491
      @azetaburn4491 Рік тому +7

      @@PkmnGymLeader Showing how well consumer protection act works compare to before.

    • @justrosy5
      @justrosy5 Рік тому +8

      It's her (and my) generation that brought you the Internet. Remember that.

    • @CMSonYT
      @CMSonYT Рік тому +9

      Majority of sales has been mostly based on brand and price for more than 20 years.

    • @VVayVVard
      @VVayVVard Рік тому +6

      ​@@justrosy5 That's an all-encompassing generation then, spanning from the late-19th century to the mid-20th.

  • @Rowrin
    @Rowrin 3 роки тому +398

    The good old days where you had to coach people on how to find the any key...

    • @ravanin
      @ravanin 3 роки тому +4

      @Blue Heart better order a tab

    • @TheUnknownHarbingers
      @TheUnknownHarbingers 3 роки тому +4

      sounds like a homer simpson thought

    • @clb8645
      @clb8645 3 роки тому +2

      "I broke the cup holder, how can I order a replacement?"

    • @Cowboy1Brian
      @Cowboy1Brian 3 роки тому +4

      which key IS that? lol

    • @Rowrin
      @Rowrin 3 роки тому +1

      @@Cowboy1Brian Yes

  • @MajesticJoshua
    @MajesticJoshua 5 місяців тому +3

    This is wild. I was 1 in 1995. I don’t think my family had a computer that early, and I’m sure they were confusing, but it’s so strange to see people struggling to use these relics considering how easy and stress-free computers are today.

  • @CgPallaeon
    @CgPallaeon Рік тому +329

    The difficulty back then was that your resources for assistance was either going to be someone in-person or via a phone call. We didn't have smart phones to google "why won't my printer print?". Not to mention a lot of connections back then were incredibly unique and had exposed pins that could bend and get damaged. On top of that, it was time-consuming to do simple things that we take for granted with USB-plugs. Want to use a mouse? Install the software first, turn off the computer, plug it in, turn the computer back on, see if it works. And computers didn't boot quick either. Accidentally unplug your keyboard while the computer is on? You gotta power it off before you plug that keyboard back in to use it.
    These were the years where some of us developed the patience to handle technology today. Some people never cultured it.

    • @roxy3272
      @roxy3272 Рік тому +3

      True.

    • @danek_hren
      @danek_hren Рік тому +7

      "We didn't have smartphones to google 'why doesn't my printer work?"
      Now we do. But I still use it only after I made everything worse AND returned this everything to its first bad state. 😂

    • @watchmania46
      @watchmania46 Рік тому +6

      with PS/2 interface you can plug and unplug your keyboard on the fly.

    • @i_i8924
      @i_i8924 11 місяців тому +3

      i member

    • @Wut78
      @Wut78 11 місяців тому

      My first laptop was a windows vista pc and i can't imagine how bad it might of been for some in the 90s.

  • @swaggy3987
    @swaggy3987 Рік тому +587

    To be fair, getting a printer to work for someone new to computers is like asking a newborn infant to drive an F1 car

    • @piotrmazek540
      @piotrmazek540 6 місяців тому +15

      Especially back then.

    • @alsanchez5038
      @alsanchez5038 6 місяців тому +1

      No

    • @johnmartinez7440
      @johnmartinez7440 6 місяців тому +1

      In what way?

    • @mattt180
      @mattt180 6 місяців тому +2

      @@johnmartinez7440 Sometimes they just don't wanna. So you restart it and it says, "Good nap. Ok, I'll print."

    • @ilhamrj2599
      @ilhamrj2599 6 місяців тому

      ​@@piotrmazek540it is even worse now... it is like asking an infant to fly spaceshuttle....😂

  • @zerdagdir1988
    @zerdagdir1988 3 роки тому +1279

    This girl is now a grandma, yet she acts really similar to people nowdays, no matter how much we say we are not like the last generation, we are more and more similar...

    • @avarice4556
      @avarice4556 3 роки тому +75

      People at call support centers are like "Excuse me Miss did you turn it on"
      Caller is like "Oh, I thought it was already on👁️👄👁️".

    • @fanibelleza
      @fanibelleza 3 роки тому +287

      She looks like she’s in her 20s, if anything she’s the mom of a teenager

    • @mpfmax0
      @mpfmax0 3 роки тому +24

      But today young people mostly know how to use computers right? It's still this same people who are now older on their 50s/60s who still have problems lol

    • @dv9239
      @dv9239 3 роки тому +15

      Bruh people stayed the same since the 70s
      The generation prior to that was very different

    • @zerdagdir1988
      @zerdagdir1988 3 роки тому +22

      @@arjunrajendran4826 if she was close to 30 years old in 95, she could be in her 50's. My dad is in his 50's and I'm in my 20's, so she could be a mom to a teenager, but I doubt it

  • @oddities-whatnot
    @oddities-whatnot 5 місяців тому +1

    I used to be into all this computer stuff when I was a young man in the 80s. The early days of home PCs was brilliant, really easy to learn.

  • @JDsVarietyChannel
    @JDsVarietyChannel 3 роки тому +195

    You know this is old when CBS is using roman numerals at the end!

  • @yeeturmcbeetur8197
    @yeeturmcbeetur8197 3 роки тому +579

    “PC stands for pain and confusion”
    Yea. I feel that when I play league solo.

    • @saadsajidul9001
      @saadsajidul9001 3 роки тому

      What is league???

    • @chocho6766
      @chocho6766 3 роки тому +8

      @@saadsajidul9001 league of legend obviously

    • @saadsajidul9001
      @saadsajidul9001 3 роки тому +2

      @@chocho6766 i hate game, just an opinion no offense

    • @chocho6766
      @chocho6766 3 роки тому +5

      ​@@saadsajidul9001 ok , just fyi playing league solo (alone with random people) is very frustrating it feels like so hard and unfair people will just blame each other when they lose , it's just a stress

    • @saadsajidul9001
      @saadsajidul9001 3 роки тому +2

      @@chocho6766 is it toxic??

  • @SpacePoolNoodle
    @SpacePoolNoodle 3 роки тому +193

    One of the things I fear is that 30 years from now technology will advance further than I can comprehend.

    • @recanimations1563
      @recanimations1563 3 роки тому +4

      Same as me, I understand how to do everything correctly and know a lot about computers but in the future...

    • @spongebobfan78
      @spongebobfan78 3 роки тому +5

      To be fair, if people from 30 years ago see our current technology, it will look as advanced than they can comprehend too. Like the concept of a now-old Nokia phone will already be mind-blowing.

    • @quinndirks5653
      @quinndirks5653 3 роки тому +17

      The human interfaces should become simpler and easier to use over time. However, sometimes there is a tradeoff in a tool between usability and quality. A really good tool is usable without much knowledge, yet provides the possibility of more advanced features if the user has knowledge of those features. On another note, technology has already advanced further than any one person could understand completely. The technology that enables our network of communication -- landlines, computers, monitors, phones, satellites, rockets to take satellites to orbit, orbital mechanics, chemical and mechanical engineering, math etc. -- is all technology that requires many specialists to put the whole system together. You could comprehend a small portion of it. You could specialize in any one certain aspect of it, but you couldn't comprehend all of it at once. Too many moving parts to keep in your head, and too many things you would need to learn and understand. Thankfully, we're not a species that has to learn all aspects of a complex system in order to operate it; we only need to learn the parts of the system where we operate.

    • @LeonardoPolichuth
      @LeonardoPolichuth 3 роки тому +3

      if you really think about it, can you comprehend technology right now, or maybe technology from 20, 30 years ago? Can you understand how you plug a board into a wall plug, electricity goes through, it makes a lot of calculations resulting only 0 or 1, and with that you can connect to the internet, access youtube and read this comment?

    • @delmanpronto9374
      @delmanpronto9374 3 роки тому

      the fear is that more and more people will get replaced if we don't consume more and more energy. so long as machines don't become conscious, we will stay relevant and adapt to a different kind of work (which will drive energy consumption up). what comes in the way is climate change --- the mother of all hurdles.

  • @FreshStartApostolic
    @FreshStartApostolic 6 місяців тому +13

    ISA, PCI, PCIe, parallel ports, ribbon cables, dip switches, IRQ settings, sound card, modem and video card conflicts, configuring the BIOS, IDE...the days of building white boxes! Anyone else remember the "good old days"?

    • @cinefyl
      @cinefyl 6 місяців тому +1

      I had a job once where we needed to plug in a dongle to use an application. And, OF COURSE, the dongle would go missing and then we would spend 2 hours trying to find it so "Mike" could create a visual for his 2:30pm presentation. Good times

    • @FreshStartApostolic
      @FreshStartApostolic 6 місяців тому

      @@cinefyl I remember the dongles. Hahahahahahaha

    • @jw11432
      @jw11432 6 місяців тому +1

      lol duuuude...
      It must have been around 1995 or so. My dad, who was a software developer at the time, had purchased a new computer: a pentium 75! This bad boy had a 4x cd-rom, 8 colossal MB of RAM, and wait for it...a freaking _GIGABYTE_ of hard drive space. I remember inquiring about the video card because the one we used in our family computer was an ISA card (it didn't even have a PCI slot lol, it was a 486 33mhz) and I loved playing Doom in "hi res" mode, but it was so slow and laggy on the family computer, I was curious how the new computer would handle it. My dad told me that the video was on board, so it was basically just as fast as a PCI card and I think it had a 1 MB allocation of video memory. Not only did Doom play faster, it could even handle it in hi res mode without an issue! And it even had sound instead of the PC speaker sound I was accustomed to with the family computer!! The plasma rifle was my favorite sound for a long time.
      I could go on and on with stories like this lol

    • @SteelyGlow
      @SteelyGlow 4 місяці тому

      There was no PCIe in 1995 tho

    • @FreshStartApostolic
      @FreshStartApostolic 4 місяці тому

      @SteelyGlow true. That was in 2003. It is a term not many would know, so I threw it in. LOL

  • @RaawHax
    @RaawHax 3 роки тому +140

    I love how curious and solution-oriented she is, despite the frustration

    • @somebodyelse9130
      @somebodyelse9130 Рік тому

      ​@@seaworth3382 Do you know her?

    • @vdochev
      @vdochev Рік тому +15

      Yeah, she probably already paid thousands of dollars for this (computers weren't that cheap), she passed the point of no return. Might as well continue ahead.

    • @Alaprine
      @Alaprine 11 місяців тому +2

      @@seaworth3382 Only 60-ish years old.

  • @Amonlith
    @Amonlith 3 роки тому +109

    I don't know, I was a kid at the 90', learned myself everything by trial and error.. Was more fascinating than frustrating, maybe because I had the opportunity to do whatever I wanted with my first pc as we got it as a gift from my parents' friends who left the country.. I should be really thankful for that. P.s. It had msdos..

    • @recanimations1563
      @recanimations1563 3 роки тому +5

      I was a kid in late 2000's/early 2010's and I learned the same way. Now my sister and I know a lot more about computers than our friends and we have to help them out all the time lol

    • @turkey4957
      @turkey4957 3 роки тому +10

      I think as a child will always be the best time to learn something. You don't expect anything. You didn't expect anything in particular in the machine besides exploring your curiosity and so you were able to deal with the walls you may have hit with a smile, I'm 26 and born in 95 and I can still relate to her when you hit brick walls of tech difficulties even now in 2020

    • @resmarted
      @resmarted 3 роки тому +4

      I can remember being probably 6 or 7 and sitting down at the family gateway computer for the first time and typing "I want to play a game" on the keyboard. It didn't work.

    • @Kosake82
      @Kosake82 3 роки тому +2

      @@resmarted That is freaking cute.

    • @Russ96
      @Russ96 3 роки тому

      @@resmarted Um isn't that how the WarGames movie started lol

  • @ace942
    @ace942 Рік тому +392

    I remember being part of a computer user group and we would help people becoming familiar with their systems. It was enjoyable to help people become more comfortable with their computers and help them learn new abilities with their machines.

    • @Hasblock
      @Hasblock Рік тому +14

      The best kind of people to explain things are the people who enjoy doing so. I'm sure the people you helped really appreciated that

    • @onemanenclave
      @onemanenclave Рік тому +3

      said no one ever 😂

    • @speedtnt7591
      @speedtnt7591 Рік тому +1

      Thank you for your service sir

    • @yaseemanac
      @yaseemanac 11 місяців тому

      Mister, how to teach people? Could you explain?

    • @crazyaces4042
      @crazyaces4042 9 місяців тому

      @@onemanenclave 😆

  • @OfficialTechMinute
    @OfficialTechMinute 9 місяців тому +6

    $2,832 in 1995 is worth $5,802.97 in 2024, that is wild for a computer.

    • @superfun54
      @superfun54 6 місяців тому

      also not true. the kind of computer she was using in this video clip did not exist.

    • @superfun54
      @superfun54 6 місяців тому

      unless she got it from time-traveling military aliens.

    • @mohann2289
      @mohann2289 5 місяців тому

      Lol what are you on​@@superfun54

    • @trihard7323
      @trihard7323 4 місяці тому

      If she bought Microsoft stock with that $2,800 she would have over $350,000 today

    • @jofx4051
      @jofx4051 3 місяці тому

      It is just what early technology adapters are facing with
      Early expensive cost that will decline over the time with production, obsolence and availability

  • @godnness
    @godnness 3 роки тому +627

    It's hard to believe that I was a child in 90's. Today it seems like it's other dimension.

    • @kurtishendrix
      @kurtishendrix 3 роки тому +27

      I was born in 1990 and i can definitely remember being baffled by a computer in 1995, but my mom was even worse lol

    • @QueenNebulous13
      @QueenNebulous13 3 роки тому +28

      i'm a 90's kid too. i miss the time we had mp3 and cd players 😂

    • @kurtishendrix
      @kurtishendrix 3 роки тому +11

      @@QueenNebulous13 was just talking to my wife about using Napster and Aimster back in the day, and all the burned cd’s we used to have to carry around 😂

    • @QueenNebulous13
      @QueenNebulous13 3 роки тому +2

      @@kurtishendrix haha yes! good times

    • @bradmetcalf5333
      @bradmetcalf5333 3 роки тому +17

      same here. born 1984. These videos dont feel at all like how it felt then

  • @raytoons
    @raytoons 3 роки тому +196

    I remember one of the first things IT would say is, "Did you try rebooting your computer?" Its amazing how problems get fixed when you do that. Still works today.

    • @Ra-Hul-K
      @Ra-Hul-K 3 роки тому +2

      yeah tech guy 101

    • @hittingyouoverthehead
      @hittingyouoverthehead 3 роки тому +9

      But being a computer literate person myself, I always do it first. And it doesn't work and that's why I am reaching out to the support. Hence it infuriates me when the first question the person asks is "Did you try turning your computer off and on again?"
      What is worse is back in my first company, even if I tell them that I did, the IT guys turned off and turned on my computer anyway as if they don't believe me. Or as if I don't know how to turn off and turn on a computer.

    • @yurireis8794
      @yurireis8794 3 роки тому +11

      @@hittingyouoverthehead Would you prefer the support department assume that everyone has technical background or to assume that they don't know whta their are doing. The second is the safer option.

    • @hittingyouoverthehead
      @hittingyouoverthehead 3 роки тому +4

      @@yurireis8794 If those are the only two options then yes you're right but you have a third option- respect the intelligence of other people. If they say they turned off and on, believe them. Especially from the way someone is talking you should be able to figure out how much they know.

    • @yurireis8794
      @yurireis8794 3 роки тому +5

      @@hittingyouoverthehead Yeah i get what you are saying. I just feel that sometimes when you are talking to a lot of customers you just don't try to evaluate the level of understanding that they have in the field, you just go on autopilot, it also gives you some time to think about what could it be if turning it on and off doesn't work. A lot of times when i'm talking to a client about a change in their website and they don't see it's usually just cache from the browser, better to try the easier option before other stuff cause even clients with sites related to tech, where you would think that would know stuff like that usually miss the simpler possible answer.

  • @maverixXXV
    @maverixXXV 3 роки тому +1856

    We evolved from adults struggling to work on their PCs to young teens building high-spec gaming stations at the age of 13

    • @edga7490
      @edga7490 3 роки тому +228

      Nowadays building a pc is easy as breathe.

    • @5starwesley
      @5starwesley 3 роки тому +91

      @@edga7490 fax, it really doesnt take computer knowledge to buy it

    • @AlexIncarnate911
      @AlexIncarnate911 3 роки тому +128

      Back when nerds were not some woke wannabes....

    • @vntamed700
      @vntamed700 3 роки тому +12

      The power of the internet

    • @itsthem5699
      @itsthem5699 3 роки тому +120

      Building a PC now is easier than setting up a laptop + printer + custom modem hardware + phone configuration was back then.

  • @TheCzar1
    @TheCzar1 2 місяці тому +1

    Crazy, I remember being a kid in elementary school in 95 and my school was stil using electronic type writers in the front office, and none of my teachers had computers in their classrooms.
    It wasn't until the late 90s that the schools really started getting computers in the schools from what I remember.

  • @SupaKoopaTroopa64
    @SupaKoopaTroopa64 3 роки тому +390

    "By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."

    • @cdvideodump
      @cdvideodump 3 роки тому +24

      Thanks Paul Krugman for your words of wisdom... /s

    • @yusha1059
      @yusha1059 3 роки тому +31

      Certified bruh moment be like

    • @JohnSmith-ox3gy
      @JohnSmith-ox3gy 3 роки тому +3

      Another certified Paul Grugman moment.

    • @cdvideodump
      @cdvideodump 3 роки тому +9

      @@JohnSmith-ox3gy *THIS IS A CERTIFIED KRUG CLASSIC*

    • @AlexSchwartzATV
      @AlexSchwartzATV 3 роки тому

      @@yusha1059 LOL

  • @jeffmartin8924
    @jeffmartin8924 3 роки тому +230

    I had a small computer store in 1998. Newbies, A nightmare trying to explain there is nothing wrong with your computer. They were just so confused and MAD! lol

    • @vphobicc566
      @vphobicc566 3 роки тому +5

      kids now can use computers better than some adults lmao

    • @jeffmartin8924
      @jeffmartin8924 3 роки тому +4

      @@vphobicc566 I know, Right!?

    • @MaxIronsThird
      @MaxIronsThird 3 роки тому +2

      @@vphobicc566 That is actually not a rule anymore, adults today, grew up with computers and kids only ever had cellphones.

    • @marti-nz
      @marti-nz 3 роки тому

      @@MaxIronsThird I would say a lot still use PCs, as when I was in high and primary school (I'm 20) we all used PCs to do assignments. However, across the past few years there has been a bigger push to move to Chromebooks which are quite different from real PCs.

    • @thisuniquechica
      @thisuniquechica 3 роки тому

      @@MaxIronsThird yeah, they only know how to use like 50% of the power that’s in their smartphones. And probably about 10% of the power on their chromebooks.

  • @Xeno_of_Luyten
    @Xeno_of_Luyten Рік тому +1370

    the same generation of people are still asking the same newbie questions 30 years later...

    • @cebruthius
      @cebruthius 9 місяців тому +60

      That's my mother!

    • @skunksecond
      @skunksecond 9 місяців тому +170

      opposite way too, zoomers and late gen z'ers weren't taught basic tech literacy because of phones, tablets, and chromebooks which simplified everything. there are some of us who dont even know how to make folders

    • @moonlightfitz
      @moonlightfitz 8 місяців тому +25

      same with zoomers lol

    • @TheMexicoBear
      @TheMexicoBear 8 місяців тому +21

      Especially Zoomers dealing with old tech.

    • @bonkyo
      @bonkyo 8 місяців тому +14

      @@skunksecond its funny you mention folders specifically because now i hear knowing HOW to make one on a computer classifies you as a power user nowadays

  • @Phymaths
    @Phymaths 6 місяців тому +13

    I chocked on my coffee when I heard "4 megabyte memory." Not that it was unexpected, but it still got me...

    • @sc2489
      @sc2489 5 місяців тому +3

      We celebrated when we updated our old Tandy to one whole megabyte back in the day. We were cutting edge! 😅

    • @jackilynpyzocha662
      @jackilynpyzocha662 4 місяці тому +3

      I started out with a TI 99 4A in 1983, 16 K, color, BASIC Programming, cartridges, tape, and later, disk drives.

  • @hr1100
    @hr1100 3 роки тому +244

    I really liked how she asked about memory and does it mean when comparing numbers. Shows intelligence and willingness to understand. Sure - the mystery box that fell from outer space would be intimidating at first for her, but i won't be surprised if she picked up programming later on.

    • @KarenWasherGrudzien
      @KarenWasherGrudzien 2 роки тому +1

      SHES MY DAUGHTER AND SHE WAS MURDERED IN 2007 BY HER EX-HUSBAND

    • @paigegold9119
      @paigegold9119 Рік тому +24

      @@KarenWasherGrudzien Wrong Jamie. (I'm her sister.)

    • @nanaak8617
      @nanaak8617 Рік тому +6

      @@paigegold9119 o thank god, cuz that was so unexpected and bizzare .... How's she doing now, if you don't mind me asking?

    • @NYYstateofmind
      @NYYstateofmind Рік тому +11

      She spent 3 grand on a computer in 95' that's probably close to 10k in today's market.
      I'm sure she was pretty intelligent

    • @thequeen901
      @thequeen901 Рік тому +4

      @@nanaak8617 we just smoked a blunt together while watching old western movies, seems good

  • @ohifonlyx33
    @ohifonlyx33 3 роки тому +164

    26 years later and I still have to help my parents set up a new computer and remind them what an app is and how e-mail works. those feelings of frustration and falling behind are still there for a lot of people... we just got used to it.

    • @ArgoIo
      @ArgoIo 3 роки тому +31

      @Genowave Nah, it's people being lazy and just learning the bare minimum instead of the fundamental concepts.

    • @TwinRiver100
      @TwinRiver100 3 роки тому +2

      Probably a combination of both.

    • @aiquesono
      @aiquesono 3 роки тому +5

      today technology is more a matter of whether you learn how to use it or you don't exist anymore

    • @arghyaprotimhalder5592
      @arghyaprotimhalder5592 Рік тому +2

      My mom asks WTF is a cpu waste of money

    • @martinlutherkingjr.5582
      @martinlutherkingjr.5582 Рік тому +10

      Some people are lazy, some people are dumb, some people are both.

  • @msthalamus2172
    @msthalamus2172 3 роки тому +128

    Love the way that poor lady is putting the floppy in the drive as gently as though she were giving a newborn a bath! :)

    • @xpmyt341
      @xpmyt341 3 роки тому +5

      i mean for todays,it is considered to put those old floppys gently

    • @CraigfromOmaha
      @CraigfromOmaha 3 роки тому +2

      Better than the people that used a CD-rom tray as a cup holder.

    • @Rainaman-
      @Rainaman- 3 роки тому +2

      To be fair, it is a 4000$ laptop. You would insert things gently in your new ultra book as well.

    • @AmstradExin
      @AmstradExin 3 роки тому +1

      Have you looked at the price of that thing? :D

  • @esuvan
    @esuvan 9 днів тому

    I would go back to those days in a heartbeat....

  • @mex321
    @mex321 3 роки тому +242

    Glad my dad got us a PC from his work, he was a tech-man back then and now he is a walking talking wikipage.

    • @WMDistraction
      @WMDistraction 3 роки тому +2

      My family was able to afford a PC pretty early on, got Windows 95-based computer practically when it came out. I learned how to use that because I wanted to play MIG 29, which had to be booted through MS-DOS via command line!

    • @Rock-Bottem1982
      @Rock-Bottem1982 3 роки тому +2

      you do realize that Wikipage is extremely inaccurate about everything

    • @InternetExplorerer
      @InternetExplorerer 3 роки тому +20

      @@Rock-Bottem1982 you realise thats not what he meant. He just meant that there is probably no question that man couldn't answer.
      No need to be so literal about everything

    • @Rock-Bottem1982
      @Rock-Bottem1982 3 роки тому +1

      @@InternetExplorerer Wiki is the worst place to get factual information, but I guess its better than someone that tries to be a know-it-all

    • @lukashenrique4295
      @lukashenrique4295 3 роки тому +9

      @@Rock-Bottem1982 up until now, it's been factual enough for me. I work in IT, and discovered some of the first computers, what was a mainframe and what the winDOS was with Wikipedia. I double checked everything because I know what they say about it, and it didn't disappoint me at all. It was correct and it has even more things there than short texts by general media. Some tech pages aren't experts about subjects, it's mostly journalism, so they won't add that many things to it as wikipedia does.

  • @jimmyschmidt14
    @jimmyschmidt14 3 роки тому +415

    Ah yes. Back when nerds laughed at regular peoples computer skills. Now the the AI laughs at us in a robot voice.

    • @kendjinone830
      @kendjinone830 3 роки тому +11

      @LordThunderPro actually you can easily understand the programming of AI it's way easier than Learning about anything in the Universe, Mankind have almost full knowledge on the programming of AI but No knowledge about the world of Dreams for example.

    • @bluecomet1109
      @bluecomet1109 3 роки тому

      @@username6338 exactly BS, what? were supposed to be impressed because some nerd tooled around on a computer?

    • @l0nedoesgaming107
      @l0nedoesgaming107 3 роки тому

      "Hello Mortals"-SciencePhille the AI

    • @The_Man_Who_Sold_the_World.
      @The_Man_Who_Sold_the_World. 3 роки тому

      @@kendjinone830 yea

    • @redpanda4706
      @redpanda4706 3 роки тому +1

      The nerds laughed harder now because they are the one who created the AI

  • @justtestingonce
    @justtestingonce 4 роки тому +2012

    4mb memory, lol

    • @ua7521
      @ua7521 3 роки тому +92

      Even my phone has more memory

    • @ua7521
      @ua7521 3 роки тому +34

      I wonder how much storage it had

    • @greasycheese8095
      @greasycheese8095 3 роки тому +130

      @@ua7521 128 megabytes was the storage of the mac

    • @LightningShiva1
      @LightningShiva1 3 роки тому +43

      @@ua7521 What a surprise..

    • @DeerJerky
      @DeerJerky 3 роки тому +79

      @@ua7521 no way..more than 4mb of memory?

  • @juanf5391
    @juanf5391 День тому

    I was in 4th grade in 1995. I was introduced to computers in 3rd grade and had courses on how to use them, software, and the internet all the way until 2001. I was ready!

  • @ilikememes9052
    @ilikememes9052 3 роки тому +155

    911 : What's your emergency
    Newbie : I can't start My PC 😐
    911 : Me neither 😅

  • @corradokid79
    @corradokid79 Рік тому +157

    Did Jamie Gold ever get her printer set up?? We need a follow-up.

    • @NorthOfEarthAlex
      @NorthOfEarthAlex 6 місяців тому +17

      Found her on LinkedIn. She's a journalist and tech consultant now.

    • @floopsiebraadsie5638
      @floopsiebraadsie5638 6 місяців тому +9

      But is the printer working? These are the things we need to know

    • @thorbjrnhedegaard3049
      @thorbjrnhedegaard3049 6 місяців тому +1

      Yes did she find the printers interface port and connect the cable, this we must know

    • @holger_p
      @holger_p 6 місяців тому +2

      Creating a document first, would have been more conclusive.

    • @mlg_iesus8898
      @mlg_iesus8898 4 місяці тому

      She also won the world series of poker main event in 2006 Kappa

  • @rjmax3311
    @rjmax3311 3 роки тому +66

    She can probably get a job with the FBI cybercrimes division.

    • @spacegoose1574
      @spacegoose1574 3 роки тому +5

      lol
      she would still be the best there

  • @MoonitheBooni
    @MoonitheBooni 3 місяці тому +2

    1995 footage looks clearer than today's security cameras

  • @beartackle
    @beartackle 3 роки тому +44

    This brings back so many memories. Before "plug and play," you needed to know more than usual with your computer. Also, I had mine before the internet, so there was no online help. I remember becoming an expert at config.sys and autoexec.bat in order to get my sound blaster and other things to work. Don't get me started with the many disks you needed for many programs.
    LOL, those were seriously fun and interesting times, despite being a bit annoying at times.

    • @JapaneseSoomi
      @JapaneseSoomi 3 роки тому +6

      Still not plug and play haha ( unless your using AIO ) and especially not when building a pc :-)

    • @MarkRijckenberg
      @MarkRijckenberg 3 роки тому +6

      Or getting a corrupted disk sector error on floppy disk 19 out of 20..... Arggggggggggggg

    • @rofidel178
      @rofidel178 3 роки тому +1

      And the old sound from the disk unity

    • @bioemiliano
      @bioemiliano 3 роки тому +2

      Install Gentoo, you'll get those nostalgic vibes.

    • @HadleyCanine
      @HadleyCanine 3 роки тому +2

      Man, editing your autoexec.bat takes me back. This was before the Internet, but if you had a modem you could connect to local BBSes and find all kinds of shareware software to download.
      At some point I found a hex editor, which is what taught me about binary/hexidecimal, but also is what let me edit my autoexec.bat file so I could use ANSI escape codes in the prompt setting, so my C:\> prompt was really colorful and cool looking (for the 90s).

  • @hardanheavy
    @hardanheavy 3 роки тому +27

    What a huge difference a year or two make. I bought my first PC in 1990. By the time I finished university (studied French) someone told me: hang on! You are fluent in French and you know everything about PCs! This company are looking for someone exactly like that, for the help desk.
    I've worked in customer and technical support for 25 years now, never looked back. Just because I bought a PC a few years before everyone else did.

  • @davetech1269
    @davetech1269 Рік тому +19

    As someone in the IT industry, I can confirm the “pain and confusion” acronym is often accurate still

  • @CatherineRommel
    @CatherineRommel 6 місяців тому +1

    honestly i've had a computer since I was 5 and I still whole heartedly relate to this woman.

  • @LukaDaGoat77
    @LukaDaGoat77 Рік тому +168

    In the year 2023, I’m watching this news clip from 1995 about personal computers on my 6 inch smartphone using my WiFi. How times have changed.😂

    • @MattWeser
      @MattWeser 6 місяців тому +9

      Imagine going back to the time of the video and saying this exact sentence to people...

    • @ShortFuseFighting
      @ShortFuseFighting 6 місяців тому +7

      congrats on using a screen smaller than the one on their laptops from 30 years ago. yall have really come "a long way"....

    • @KaraKubed
      @KaraKubed 6 місяців тому +8

      @@ShortFuseFightingbros acting like the smartphone wasn’t a massive innovation in technology

    • @Cheddar_Wizard
      @Cheddar_Wizard 6 місяців тому +3

      @@ShortFuseFighting Right, because a laptop can fit in your pocket.

    • @ShortFuseFighting
      @ShortFuseFighting 6 місяців тому +2

      @@Cheddar_Wizard "right", cause you cant live without a friggin screen while youre OUTSIDE....