Walk Around an 80s City with LASERDISC! The Domesday Project | Nostalgia Nerd
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- The Domesday Project (spelt Doomsday Project by some) was a collaboration between the BBC, Acorn Computers, Philips and Logica to create a digital and updated version of the 1086 Domesday book. This digital version would use the latest in cutting edge interactive video and be held on the latest LaserDisc technology. Aided by schools across the country, in a huge national collaboration project, this would be an enormous project spanning 2 years and collecting a huge range of data from the UK. Alongside this data were photos, stories and even the ability to walk around several UK towns. Just like Google Earth or Streetview in the 1980s. You can actually experience real 1980s street footage, which you control. If you want a window into the 80s, then this is the multimedia machine to use. All this is the exciting 80s I remember. Packed with emerging technology and exciting projects, and its one reason I love it.
Thank you, as always, to the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge for allowing me to film and use their glorious machinery.
Domesday Resources;
BBC Reloaded National Archives: webarchive.nationalarchives.g...
Domesday Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Dom...
Martin Porter: tartarus.org/martin/
Domesday Information: www.atsf.co.uk/dottext/domesda...
Domesday86 Project: www.domesday86.com/
Acorn User Magazines: 8bs.com/aumags.htm
CAMiLEON Archive: web.archive.org/web/200502042...
Centre for Computing History Resource: www.computinghistory.org.uk/do...
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New drinking game: Down a pint every time I say "BBC"
See you in hospital.
Instructions unclear. Already in hospital. Hic. Buuurp!!!
I'm Irish....I'll have to watch this a few times for the right effect.
And every time you show a map of my home city of Leicester on screen lol 😂
@ True, but it is great fun trying.
You'd be in hospital even if it was a pint of water.
They should upload it onto street view, just slide back to 1985
Mitchell Rogers - That’s a great idea!
BRILLIANT idea!!
oh, yes! they this needs to happen!
Sounds like back to the future
I know, can you imagine how weird it would be walking around a peaceful town with just White people?
I want Tech Moan, Nostalgia Nerd and LGR getting nerdy together about tech in a podcast.
With a happy ending massage.
Yes, please! If they need a fourth, I recommend the 8-Bit Guy.
How much patreon money will this take? I will pay many American dollars.
@@paulrippcord506 I love his videos, but by all accounts he's kind of a dick apparently.
Y"all shouldn't forget Druaga1 or Akbkuku
I am on the doomsday disc :) My parents had to sign a disclaimer from the BBC to allow my article to go on when i was at school.
Tells about this article?
Me too!! Pretty sure I contributed something from school - I just don't remember what...
@addictive object *.* i was looking at where i live in nova scotia on it and oh god i miss billy ds and the places that burnt down a few years ago and carols drugstore and when going to where my house currently is there was a trailer there instead of a house and my mothers strete never even existed then good to know and i saw a 1980s truck that was driving by
Retr0Rewind So is it doomsday or domesday?
Joab Cervantes Domesday, but it is pronounced Doomsday. It’s in old English spelling.
This feels like reading terminal entries in the Fallout games.
*only its actual history*
fallout tech doesn't have the range
It more reminds me of the "Vantage Points" from Horizon: Zero Dawn.
You mean Fallout4 would have been playable if Nostalgia Nerd did the mission vlogs and voiceovers ... yup!
My primary school won a national competition to have a Domesday machine for free! We did a project about a bridge opposite our school that connected the school to the local park and how important it was to us so we could play football after school. I remember getting the machine and the teachers were very excited about it. Us kids couldn't believe what we were seeing: this was VIDEO on a computer! Compared to Dare Devil Dennis (a simple side-scrolling bike game which i held the high score for) this was mind blowing. This really got me into computing and 10 years later I was writing video games. It's great to see the machines are still around, great video!
didu get a gold star?
@@cantstopthemusic456 🤣🤣
It's time for Grand Theft Auto: 1980's Welsh Town!
I'd buy that, shit, why not?
And there will be another Hot Coffee Mod but this time you have to shag a herd of sheep.
Sheep stealing here we come
Ah, so that's why I was plodding round my village, with class mates and a clipboard in hand. 😂
"Where else can you walk around a 1980s Welsh town?" Try Newport or Cwmbran in 2018 LOOOOOL.
LOL so true!
Haha!
Would you like to buy a vowel?
I moved to Wales a few years back to do another degree - the day I arrived I got a text from an old friend asking me what wales was like - at that very moment a bloke walked past me with a Limahl style blonde highlighted mullet
"It's a bit like 1987" I replied
My school had this, always remember one of the discs was an art gallery that you could climb into the paintings, one of them was you could walk down the streets to a block of flats, go up in the lift and walk into some guy's flat who was sitting there smoking a cigarette.
Never seen anything abbut it since sadly :(
If no one here can find it after this video blows up, try posting it to reddit, I bet someone will be able to find it.
I had it too Larry and we had to book a slot to access. I remember booking every Dinner break just so that I could use it and I was blown away with this disc. Which is a shame as the one that I've seen on show is always the OS map which is fun but not as much as this one.
Larry I'm sure I saw a recent video of you and Kim Justice at the Cambridge computing museum a little while ago. That's multiple favourite channels visiting that place, I'm heading there as soon as life permits!
Hopefully you'll be able to track down your elusive interactivity. Wonder what became of your cig smoking man? So many of those people photographed in the project probably aren't with us now. It's fascinating seeing ordinary life in what feels like yesterday but in reality is a few childhoods ago now. Crazy.
Apart from this video?
Larry Bundy Jr z
Well done Gibb Sport! ;-)
1.4GB in 1986!!!
Imagine if somebody resurrects the Laser-disc, but with all the modern technologies like better data layer protection, Blu-Ray density, and rewriteability. It would be a great archival format.
Bluray density on a laser disc sized bluray disc. Imagine the storage capacity! Literally 100s of Terabytes!
all of which vulnerable to scratches, dust and heat deformation? no, thanks. keep the noisy, unreliable disc blenders in the past... I always detested optical discs, because of all of the above.
@@furrball aren't tapes also vulnerable to dust and similar environmental elements?
Back then we were blown away by the whopping *600 megabytes* that the new Compact Disc was now delivering. At the time that seemed enough to handle the entire history of humanity!
wow, that's so advanced for the 80's
@b i t c o r p
Honest question:
What does 'so' mean in that sentence?
wow, that's so advanced for the 80's
wow, that's advanced for the 80's
Not native english speaking - what is the diff between sentences? Thanx mate.
@Atomic Bong
The word 'so' as used here is an intensifier. Think along the lines of 'very' advanced, or 'incredibly' advanced, or 'ludicrously' advanced; you get the picture.
@@@GKong3
Thanx!
Fuck you the 1980s was the most advanced decade of last century and that point in human history
5:28 I didn't know British children in 1985 ate rocks. You learn something new every day i guess
Look up "rock (confectionery)" :-)
Brits were a tougher breed back then
British teeth ain't nothin' to scoff at.
It's a stick of hard candy, likely named Rock because of how hard it is. Think 'candy cane without the hook'.
It's the 1980s, eating rocks kinda fits that. ;)
Gibb Sport, I salute you!
I wish the Netherlands had a project like this back in the day. Sometimes I'm walking through a street thinking "this used to look a lot different when I was a kid... but how?!".. and other than a few photos there's really nothing about it anymore. Oh well
Even now that Google Street View is a thing, I wonder if they're bothering to hold on to the older versions of their data so that at least people in the future would be able to answer that question.
You can see a few different years back by clicking the time (clock) symbol after dropping pegman on the map and drag the slider to an old date.
Me too. Some cities have changed quite a bit since the 80s. Like the central station area of Utrecht for instance. Looks totally different now than it did back then.
P.S.
I love Kayak too, great band!
Start your own project... Preserve your town digitally..
30 years from now people will love your work and insight.
@@blackswan8651 Different time now though.. everybody documents everything around them all the time. And we have street view. Since a few years all this stuff will be better preserved than ever
A long time ago, I had this crazy, and probably an equally-painstaking idea of making a composite of old video footage of feature films shot on-location in various cities/towns, or what have you, stitching them together using algorithms to take out the actors in the foreground, leaving just the background scenery intact (shrubs, buildings, vehicles, etc). I'm talking about footage that would've been shot in the late 1940's to 1970's, back when average people could begin to afford cameras, specifically for shooting film footage as opposed to still photography. Just an idea. (i'm in America, by the way..... but i have to say it is still pretty awesome to see other parts of the world, Britain included, as how they were, even 30 or so years ago!)
I love seeing cities in the past, whether they are here in the U.K. or abroad. Every time I see 70's/80's footage of New York I think it looks quite cool.
@@Xegethra i love 70s & 80s downtown & co...so much character, life...
Now its just people hunched over cells , everyone is round shouldered & getting lower & lower...humps are coming back in style 💯
This is without a doubt the BEST video showcasing 80s tech with features I never even knew existed. I remember my school having a bunch of Model As and some Model Bs mircos but never a laserdic or even an adapted micro to take advantage of a LD player. I miss the 80's so damned much.
I found this absolutely fascinating. You rock, sir!
Thank you for posting this. This is really cool.
I think I speak for everyone when I say that EVERY video you create is a wonderfully nostalgic, relaxing and soothing journey to the past. Love all that you do.
5:28 Not being british, "ate my rock" threw me for a loop at first.
Hah. I was thoroughly confused by the same thing.
Could you explain?
@@jendorei Had to look it up on a "British terms" list - it's a type of candy. (Although different from what we in the US call "rock candy", both in what type of candy it is, and the fact that they refer to it as just "rock", not "rock candy.")
I noticed that as well. I figured it was rock candy but I couldn't help visualizing a 9 year old girl munching on some limestone.
a stick of rock
This is fantastic. Great video. I remember this project, I was 9 at the time
That brought back memories of being in my school library playing with this... I always wondered what it was, thanks for bringing that memory forward and telling me what it was.
Enjoyed that, great vid mate.
Great video ! I was 14 at the time that this was released and was so excited about the idea, but was so disappointed that they had allowed Primary schools to provide the input. If I searched for my town I got a load of pictures of local primary school playgrounds (swings and things....) little else..
But I was was amazed about seeing real video on a computer monitor. This was something we had never seen before !
There was only one Doomsday machine in the reference section of the town library. After the initial excitement, we used it to play Elite... We got thrown out of the library.... the machine vanished less than a year later.
Even at the age of 14 and after learning about the 1086 Doomsday book, I realised that this could have been done a lot better and was a missed opportunity to collect historically useful information on something which would be referred to 1000 years hence.
But video on a 1986 Microvitec Cub monitor was still a marvel of the age :-)
Awesome piece of historical tech content. Well done. 👏
This took up over half of my visit to Cambridge a few months ago. It wowed me 3 decades ago on our school trip to the local museum, where we only had 2 minutes each, and it still wows me now.
I too spent most of that time checking out the grimness of my childhood.
such a practical tool. Love you nostalgia nerd
Crazy, this was clearly ahead of it's time!
Awesome system
Very cool video. Love the google street view comparison bit
I remember discussing the possibillity of using sidechannel data on normal CD as a storage (technology connections). Many argued that 8-bit computers could not possibly use that much storage (sidechannel is only around 20MB). It was a "what if in alternate universe" sort of discussion. And here I am watching this alternate universe ... or at least one very close :).
Petr K CD+G discs use subchannel data.
One of your best videos yet!
I really enjoyed this video. Many Thanks for the Upload.
Amazing! And kick-ass video as always.
Fantastic video... well done on this!
Awesome vid. Thanks!
Your videos - already great - continue to get better and better! Love your book as well!
This is phenomenal. Totally worth a watch! I was wondering while watching this what preservation was like for this and I'm glad you touched on it.
This is fantastic!!!
What an excellent video, very informative and interesting, Thanks
Wow, just watched a history lesson with computers. My favorite kind of history
Brilliant stuff!
This was amazing! I completely forgot it existed! Love your channel mate, genius!
An absolutely fascinating video Mr. Nerd. Fantastic information and a superb narrative. 👍👍
Fantastic Video! As a fan and collector of both Laserdisc and Retro Computers this really is a match made in heaven.
I had no idea this existed! Thank-you for sharing!
Been watching your vids for a while, this video made me subscribe! Great stuff! Thanks for putting in the effort!
this was lovely. thank you. : )
My school must have got it free we did not have toilet doors/toilet paper but had this, run down 80's senior schools were great
This brings back some memories. God I miss the 80's.
Excellent video. Also it was great to hear Octav1us Kitten's voice. :)
Very impressive work! Also, fantastic video!
An absolutely fascinating video, and one that brought back many memories.
I remember my school having a copy of the Domesday project around 1987. I was absolutely blown away with the first person section. My friends and I had never seen anything like it. It really felt like the future was here.
Thank you so much for taking the time to not only put this video together, but for making such a superb job. It's up to BBC TV quality. Well done!
Brilliant, fascinating, awesome! What a great video. This encapsulates so much that I've come to love... Computing, cars (esp retro), history, exploration, tech and everything in between. I'm going to get to Cambridge to visit the museum asap. Thanks so much for putting this together!
This is fascinating stuff. Amazing technological achievement for the time.
Brings a whole new meaning to "think about the children" Not to mention how safe it is for children to wander the UK and map it out for some LD that a small percentage of people knew/cared about. Kids in the USA would've just learned how important it is to carry a firearm instead of mapping their urban environs.
No, back in the 1980's the US was a safe country. The only places you would have had an issue with back then would be Miami, Los Angeles, and New York City. Even today the kids would be fine as long as they stayed the Hell away from leftist run cesspits....you know, the one's attempting to tear themselves apart today. If say they wanted to map all of Florida in 2020 they could and would be completely left alone. However, if they stepped anywhere near New York they would need to each carry a firearm. Hell, they could walk right up to the loser scumbags trying to create another autonomous zone in New York City and ask them for said firearms. I hear they just love to hand 14 year old's AR-15's in those utopias.
fascinating nostalgic video.
Perfect! Fits with my junior school years and is a welcome watch after today!
Well, I hope you have a better day tomorrow.
Excellent video. I've wanted to know more about the Domesday project for a while, and have certainly wanted an 80s Google streetview for the longest time too! Amazing stuff.
Fascinating video! I especially liked the street with video from 1986 and current Google Street View. Nice editing.
Love your documentaries, and I had no idea this project existed despite being a similar age. Very cool and interesting stuff!
Ooh thank you for putting so much work into this video! I remember hearing about the Domesday Project a few years ago and being super fascinated that they managed to pull this off in the 80s, but the available information was absolutely minuscule, to a point where there weren't even any pictures of it in action. I imagined this being entirely different! Wouldn't have ever thought that they basically cut up the country into a grid and in a way had entire towns archived in picture form. This is stuff you cannot even find on the Internet today. Truly fascinating!
This is amazing!!! I remember reading some bits about it in local computer mags but never really understood what it was all about. Thanks for making the video :-)
was just thinking about this last month as in australia only saw it in 89 in high school - nice review, thanks
Amazing!
This is bloody amazing! I remember hearing about this project at the time but I don’t recall my school ever getting involved. I wonder how many libraries still have these discs in storage...
Wow, I remember this turning up at my primary school. I mainly remember being awe struck at the GIANT laser disc. I'd love to look up the info on my school/town. It's almost criminal how badly the data on this has been handled.
All we had were Apple IIGS and IIc's. I think when I moved to the other building in Grade 3 they had Macintosh LC 500 series machines for the school lab, but I'm a bit fuzzy on that.
This is incredible. I love the fact that you went straight to Norwich as well! Something I always do myself being from round these parts as well! :)
I really liked the video. Very interesting. Thanks for choosing Norwich my home city lol. Also sorry to post off topic, but I bought your book and love it!
This thing is awesome!
You are so well in articulating certain feelings: the dark, foreboding 80s aesthetic, very much so!
Also: amazing video. Thank you!
Incredible !
I have a picture on that. What is my wonderful picture? it's of a pay and display ticket machine in a multi-storey car park in Carlisle.
Very well written mate!
Excellent video. Seriously impressive what they achieved at that time.
I love the late 70's early 80's developments of technology. This is another amazing forgotten crazy example. Thank you so much for this program :)
I did a text based submission for this back in the 80s whilst at primary school!
In the late 80s I saw a documentary about this on TV. It was awesome and it really opened my eyes to the possibilities of the future.
I was not able to find something about that project until today. Thanks!!
...awesome!
What an amazing project, and so fun to explore some 30 years on!
Great video, thank you. Remember this in school but us 'cool kids' were using C64s and Speccies at home so naively thought it was 'lame' on the BBC Micro.
Clearly now, years later, I realise how ahead of its time it was.
Fascinating to see the side by side. This laserdisc footage should be preserved.
I remember a group of us being sent out to document local roads and building in the area. Collecting all the data such as dates and what the building were used for.. We had a field day hitting the local pubs so a few of us could get a few games of Asteroids in Lol.
@@philgray3443 That's unreal Philip. I'm one for keeping all tangible data as well as a digital back up. Over the years I've scanned old photos and documents into my PC and periodically look for old photos on the internet of the town I grew up in and save ones that interest me. Old local Railway picture's are of interest to me at the moment.
Wow, what an undertaking.
Really enjoyed this, was really interesting
The side by side is really cool
Wow, really interesting 👍❤️
Everything about laserdiscs are so cool,this forgotten format fascines me.
Finally answers a long held question in my mind! Remember being in primary school and school borrowing a computer that used laser discs and some multimedia involving Bill Oddy - must have been one of these machines! Would have been about 1989
Channels like this one is precisely why I love YT.
I soooo remember this :) absolutely fascinating.. would love to look up my home city :)
Wow, what a labour of love! This vids amazing, so much detail and background! Who though that a retro tech vid would open with 11th century history! Brilliant stuff, When I'm next near the center I'll be having a go!
It's definitely worth a trip. The place is just packed with magnificence.
@@Nostalgianerd it does look incredible, you and Octav1us' tour videos make it look superb!
This is fantastic, as someone who grew with the history of murica and then some British literature, I appreciate this, a pov different, using different media to be useful. Actually useful.
This was an awesome trip back to the 80's
A seriously impressive concept for the time, and they actually executed to a degree.
how awesome is this, wow
I'm amazed that the whole point of the project has not been realised as you can't still access it easily. I remember an episode of Tomorrow's World where people would phone in live to see if they were in it.
I read somewhere that it can never be re-released for public sale or consumption due to copyright issues on the community disc. Something to do with having to get every child`s permission to republish their submission. Yeah, if true thats as stupid and short sighted as it sounds.
@@meetoo594, Well census results aren't allowed to be seen by the general population for 100 years after each edition.
@@Vamptonius That could also be an issue. Our laws really need to catch up with technology and these silly time frames need to be shortened greatly. There is no harm whatsoever in publishing a Census from the mid 80`s now rather than 2085 or whenever. See also copyright on music/film/art.
@@meetoo594, Except for privacy, identity theft, that species of kidney. The idea is that unless you're using it for research, the subjects should be safely dead before releasing their private information. Therefore, there could be an argument for *increasing* the embargo length now people are living for up to 122 years at a time.
@@Vamptonius I see your point, but most people spunk 10 times as much personal data on Facebook alone so a 40 year old Census is probably a lot less dangerous for identity theft and privacy due to the very old and not very relevant to the present dataset.
Impressive stuff .... great video
I remember my school had this Domesday system loaned to us for a limited period, and as children we had to take turns using it in a special corner of the library. It's really hard to describe but the technology was an amazing revelation for the era; there simply was nothing else like it. It was fascinating then and I still find it fascinating now. Great upload from your quality channel.
When I visited the CFCH this year I also browsed through this. Unfortunately I did not find that cool Street View like "virtual walk" - I went there twice while staying in London and still have the feeling I haven't seen everything yet. This was awesome and it shows how much behind Germany already was in the 1980s - while you had the Computer Literacy programme, BBC Micros and the Electrons and Spectrums for the home, if you had a computer in the 80s (or the early 90s for us East-Germans) here in Germany at school you were treated as if you had leper and you were avoided by both other pupils and teachers alike. And this vibe still prevails until today in Germany. I can't say it often enough: If you visit Britain and can get a feasible ride to Cambridge, visit the Centre for Computing History!