And little did you know that all of us will end up recreated from massive data collection and machine learning as individual AI personalities spaning endless simulations throughout the coming millennia. Or not.
"Bitcoin is a scam" "Who needs bitcoin when you have banks" "Anarchist are so stupid" "Is bitcoin a game?" "Is bitcoin even real" "What is bitcoin?" "We need "corrupt" gov'ts" "You must pay your taxes" "The federal income tax applies to everyone not just a very select few exercising privilege to otherwise break the law to earn" "Only govts can create money" "22trillion dollars of debt is sustainable"
90's Internet was a harmless and fun guest you would occasionally invite into your home. Now it's a stalker that won't leave. And it follows you everywhere you go.
It really was like this for most of us. I graduated college in 1996. I didn't have an email address the entire time. A few professors were trying it here and there, but it was optional. I continued to work for the university for a year after graduation. I distinctly recall the day the university's IT people came in and set up internet on our computers. We were all amazed how you could type in a word and have all these pictures and information pop up. Of course, it was only a couple days before someone typed in "boobs." And it went from there...
It wasn't like this in the UK, I remember our school had a whole room full of computers connected to the internet in 1994. We were taught about the internet as part of our education as our government has always invested heavily in anything to do with computers and information. Today all children in British schools are taught computer programming and application development.
No it wasnt, I finished primary school until 1999 and I had never used or heard of the internet until then and it was the same for most others, I had an IBM pc funnily enough but had no notion of the internet. Got my first "proper" PC the same week age of empires 2 came out, so late 1999. High school came around and the internet was literally just starting to become main stream and didnt have that much popularity in school or good access on the computers and this was then the biggest school in the UK, now its the 2nd biggest. Internet was popular in universities before 1999/2000 but until then most households had never used it. Think about when the internet was becoming mildly popular, its the same time people used the free AOL trial discs you could get, which was 1999. You might have used it in school before that to load some clip art images into a document but that was probably about it. 1999 was literally the year most people had used the net and YET, less than 36% of the population had used it by then, mostly academic or work related. Article from late 2000, news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/826834.stm, not even 25% connectivity then in the UK.
My parents hated when I signed onto the internet in the 90's, as our phone line was busy all the time. I had to end up getting my own phone line just to 'surf'. Lol. What a more innocent time back then. Haha
CD burners only got affordable in the 2000s, which coincided with broadband (fast) internet and Napster. For reference, I downloaded a leaked new song in 1997. It was in a .wav file and it took hours to download. I hooked the computer audio out into my aux input on my stereo and recorded it to cassette tape so I could play it in my car.
In '93 I worked in a university where part of my job was introducing the internet to academics and staff. I had hilarious conversations with people like this almost everyday: "What is this 'internet' thing you're talking about?" "Whaddaya mean 'email'? What is that?" "C'mon... you can't just press a magic button and contact someone in Europe." "Another gimmick from the IT Department."
Even as a little kid at the time in 1994, my knowledge of this subject matter was miles beyond these hosts. Especially after watching this video and reading this comment, I now miss those days of feeling superior. With a moment of bitterness, it's hard at the moment for me to say the geeks inherited the Earth when the first UA-cam video I noticed to ever hit 1 billion views was a music video on Taylor Swift's official channel. Popularity once again made something stupid out of something that made geeks powerful.
I remember the first JPEG I downloaded. It was picture of Yoda. It, no joke, took 10 minutes to download. A group of us in primary school huddled around a computer as each line loaded. We watched it download, line by line. So by the time it got to the end it was sort of an anti-climax but at the same time we stared in awe of being able to see a photo on a computer.
I remember my brother and I tried watching the trailer for Episode 1 online. Took like 2hrs to load the whole 1 1/2min clip. We kept saying "don't press play yet.....let a little more load."
I was at a party in college and all the guys were gathered around a computer in the bedroom watching a video download of a women having sex with a horse. It was a significant day in my life.
What I lke most about this clip is that nobody is in a hurry to get in their lines before the next commercial break. They even have time to ask questions and discuss them. It is more like a podcast than what television has become since then.
I was working at Walt Disney Feature Animation on my second film in 1997 when I became aware of what exactly the Internet was. It was still so primitive that a friend of mine had to explain to me the difference between a packaged service like AOL, and simply looking things up on your own with Yahoo. I chose the latter and never opted for any packaged services. But seriously, it was quite a thing to wrap one’s head around as it was forming because the Internet was definitely not robust at all. Neither was the information on it very complete, nor was access to it very smooth. The whole dial up procedure was a pain in the ass to wait out much of the time. I would call the whole experience for a few years after the internet started as “tolerable” at best. It’s so easy to forget that time because internet access has been exponentially improved. Young people will never even know that experience. To them, it’s a, “I had to walk five miles in the snow to school every day” type of story. Oh well, I guess each generation has one to tell.
+dugroz Probably because it was 1994 (21 years ago -- eeeek), and as far as they knew (or as far as I knew, for that matter, in 1994), it was like asking "Can you explain what Radio is? Can you explain what Television is? Can you explain what Short-Wave Broadcasting is?" If someone said to you, "Can you explain what The Television is?", you'd probably think, at minimum, that English wasn't their first language.
It's funny how they had no clue that in the years to follow, people would be able to sit on the toilet and watch videos about how to make an underground swimming pool in the jungle by hand thanks to "Internet."
I really appreciate that instead of dismissing it for being "weird" or "nerdy" they're all fascinated by it, and discussing the practical applications it could have.
Not me. It's 2019 now and at 64 I've been in crypto for 3 years. I keep this video address just to make the point when people diss my blockchain enthusiasm. I was early. Didn't want to be in with the clueless "herd."
Of course people in 20 years will laugh at us for having to HOLD our smartphones and actually TOUCH the screen, rather than just having an implant in our temple.
I know bro. These young people are fucking dumb. Ur so right. 20 years people will be making fun of us. It's a fact. Time changes. The 90s was the Golden Era in my opinion. I was a little kid.. Internet used to be a treat to go on. And fun. Now everyone doesn't appreciate it.
I was a graduate student at the time and I didn't know about the internet until late'95 or early 1996. Thankfully, the university library had computers hooked up to the internet and I could get connected. Made life a lot easier. I was able to buy tickets online for the 1996 Olympics later that year.
Allison is real. She’s my friend. In this time period she invited me to visit the today show. My husband was in NYC for a neurological surgery convention. She is one of the most humble people I’ve ever met. But, gets things done. I got a photo with Bryant and Katie, he took me with Katie and vice versa. I’m embarrassed that Elizabeth Vargas slipped her head in the I think make up room I got to visit or when I sat in Katie’s office since Allison wasn’t immediately located. I got there at 9 am as the show was ending. I was whisked up a private elevator after giving my name to security well, those were the days. Allison and I just had our 51st HS reunion which I missed due to travel and a small illness. Our 50 th was pushed to this year due to Covid. I need to put my px from long ago on with Katie and Bryant. Yes I’m still a today show fan. It was actually at a HS reunion that Allison invited me to “ just call her if I’m in NYC and graciously gave me a world class tour of the Today show set. She also pointed out the window and told me of the soon yo be ground level show where the public could watch. Lots more happy memories of that day.
yep, something tells me this will be tought in history classes 2000 years down the line when kids ask, "Who made the internet?" instead of "Who was Christopher Columbus?".
In 1989 (five years before this clip was recorded), Jim McCarthy (inventor of Lisp, internet pioneer) expected that fax would eclipse e-mail because of the fragmentation of commercial networks. He wrote that e-mail has many obvious advantages over fax, but getting a fax delivered doesn't require you to know all the gateways between sender and receiver, just a phone number.
I remember this exact episode!!!! I also remember thinking it was just a nerd thing and it wouldn't last! Glad I wasn't betting on that! Hard to believe I was just 24
Internet 3.0 is being built out right now and it is going to move value and money the way that we move information and the confusion the fear and the talk around it is just like it was in the early to mid-90s with the first version. All the same doubts and miss understanding. Lots of bad information and crooked people always in early stages of a new unregulated technology....but the technology never goes away
Im 23, now Im hearing about Ai in the same way you might have heard about the internet… this time, there is a feeling of anxiety. I wonder what will come of this all
@malice4422 I really don't know exactly what will play out next, but I'm Elon Musk's age, and I've got mixed feelings for the man, but when he speaks about technology, I listen! The guy is one smart cookie! I couldn't imagine growing up in your time on earth having the technology that was just stuff one could only dream of!!! Don't get me wrong, as a product of the progress of tech, you younger generations make us look like stone age cave people! And I used to joke about that but not anymore! It's advancing so rapidly that it's like watching a monster double in size year after year!!! The year I was born 1970 looks NOTHING like today! I remember music going from 8track tapes going to cassette tape (that I had over 8 or 9 hundred of after years of collecting, then C.D. disk was introduced!!! Man ...I remember thinking how in the Hell was I going to switch my music to C.D's?? Then about the time I was getting my collection back up after spending big money because C.D's were $12-$18 bucks at the time! Lol then hello internet! The mp3 player was next then digital finally arrived to still be top dawg today! What you will have seen by the time you are my age will probably blow you away!! What's next?? How fast will this change take?? Will we survive?? All I know is it's all speeding up at an insane clip and time will only tell. I also remember growing up during the cold War with Russia and I remember worrying about nuclear war! Then it was over and I thought we'd never need to worry about it again. Look what's going on now! I pray for all of us! Especially the younger generations. People used to be kind to one another. That's been gone since 9/11! It's absolutely terrifying really. Good luck to you ✌️
@@Wilders53 Dude, I think about these things all the time. I always look forward to the future because I wonder all of the changes that will go on in our lifetime. I wonder which things we will be right about and which things we will be sorely wrong about… like considering the way we have let social media and screens become such a demanding presence on our lives.. I wonder how that will present itself 20-50 years from now. I wonder if people will see that as a big oversight in our culture, like how everyone was smoking cigarettes indoors in the 1950s. When I see someone significantly older than me, I always think: holy cow, you went through a lot of societal changes and we keep rapidly going to a place of unprecedented, rapid change. You were born in a totally different world than me it seems… it’s so insane to think about! When I was a kid, I had nowhere near the technology access as this upcoming generation… I got my first phone at 14 and although it was around the time that social media was really kicking off, no one was fully adjusted then. It was still in its “fun, innocent time waster”stage. People posted silly pictures and said random stuff. People played fruit ninja. Nowadays, kids were raised on youtube instead of TV. Those are the new celebrities. They have had phones in their faces since birth and they can’t remember a world without such constant technology. But among my generation, it’s normalized to be on your phone in bed for multiple hours a day, scrolling tiktok (rotting in bed, as it is popularly known). Depression is at an all time high… I mean, what’ll it be in even 20 years? What does all this lead to? When does this constant feeling of anxiety and lack of trust in our systems burst? When is the next big crisis that will make us realize we need to drastically change things? What does a generation of ipad children do against rising housing prices, rising inflation, wider wage gaps, infiltration of surveillance and screens/tech… As asked by Mark Fisher: “What happens when the next generation stops creating surprises?” What then?
I was 13 when this aired. This video made me feel like I oughtta go check the real mail and see if my AARP sign-up paperwork had arrived yet. But I couldn’t find my walker since I lost my bifocals last night. 💁🏼♂️👴🏻
Remember when you was a kid and you wondered if you were the only one thinking of a certain thing at that very moment...like you were the only person on the planet that was thinking of that specific thing at that specific time. Guess I wasn't alone after all.
And then she confidently says "No, no". Phone lines were absolutely necessary for internet use in 1994; there was no other way to make a dial-up or digital subscriber line connection. It all worked via smoke signal as far as she was concerned.
I had a friend who had a T1 carrier link at home, where he had servers with anime and NES roms. He did some of the anime rendering to real video format himself. This was circa 1996.
A lot of people in the UK had BBS in the 90's, it was a big thing here. We had the internet but it was very expensive and was only used in schools to educate children about the future.
bluebull399 I can almost remember people in the US starting to catch on to the web at that point. Our family got-dial up in 1996 before most, and didn't switch to dsl until 2005, way after everyone else around us! I had to watch cartoons at school most of the time!
@@pika62221 This right here. It was due to the release of Windows 95. But even in 96 it was very limited. Mostly used for e-mail. Those were the days. Before the internet we had BBSs.
@@topologyrob Before the internet, there were many computer networks, and not all had gateways to other networks. Not all of them were using the internet protocol either.
It was Dec 1994 Germany Stuttgart University, when my fellow students showed me what they do during their breaks. Go to the computer pool room, write emails, write on IRC, and use Yahoo for research, also for research of certain pictures... I applied for an account instantly. It was like entering a new world. I remember sending private mails to my friends still on paper just weeks before. I have never sent any "normal" private mail again since Dec 1994.
In 1994 I didn't know what it was, I probably heard it a couple of times then I went to college in heard of it more along with email but didn't go into it further. It wasn't until 1995 when those AOL commercials started playing non stop that I decided to look into it. I really hated those tin metal square boxes we used to get in the mail with a promotional CD in it. I still have one of those boxes around in the attic.
@@jshepard152Katie has always been a beautiful woman. What the hell are you talking about? Women love Katie because she is intelligent and represented women in media VERY well.
@@Justsomebodyelse235 You must not know the background. Deborah Norville took the Today job at NBC before Katie. Around the same time, Jane Pauley left the show. Female viewers decided that Pauley must have been pushed out by the younger, prettier Norville, and they bombarded NBC with thousands of angry letters and phone calls. Despite winning an Emmy during her tenure, Norville became unpopular with the core female audience, and ratings fell. NBC learned its lesson and pushed Norville out, replacing her with....you guessed it, Katie Couric.
We experience more technological advances in a year than people used to during their lifetimes. We live in a crazy time. Most people don't realize that.
Watching the movie Bitter Moon in 1992, I was totally blown away by the pre-Internet text-based Teletel terminal system the main character used to look up phone numbers and make restaurant reservations.
I"m 41, when I was a kid I grew up seeing this confusion and even disbelief about the internet. Now, with crypto/NFTs/metaverse I see the same confusion and disbelief, people who can't wrap their heads around it but eventually will have to.
Meanwhile in 2016, the Today show did a segment this morning on Pokémon Go that was technologically literate. The anchor even understood what she was talking about; when they cut back to the studio, everyone else was downloading it. welcome to the future.
Bitcoin 1E3g4c36XrV5jNg2nQdB3d1keWvEdZTcwc yes we reached that point, we can only try to make the damage that already started to hurt us slower. We can still accelerate it, but we lost the point where we could reverse it by changing our consumption of fossil fuel.
An "a" inside a complete circle is not an at symbol. It's just an a inside a circle. When this video was shot in 1994 "internet" was access to 2,716 websites. At that time there were 24.6 million internet users in the entire world. By 2005 there were 67.4 million websites and 1 billion internet users in the world. Now in 2015, there are now over 954 million websites with 3.2 billion users. Every second two new users in the world sign on.
channelhismojo I know that @ is an at symbol but the one they showed on the bottom of the screen was just an A inside a complete circle. Not a true at symbol. It confused me the first time I saw one of those.
Bryan A. Are you serious? Just about everybody had the internet by 1999. By 2000 there were 361 million computers on the internet in the world. Times that by six and that's about how many people have internet access today. This site has the info: royal.pingdom.com/2010/10/22/incredible-growth-of-the-internet-since-2000/
This video is from the year I was born. Even in 2002 when my family was getting those AOL free trial CDs for dial up Internet we were still confused by this thing called the Internet. We had just gotten out first family computer which was a gateway CRT monitor connected to a massive computer tower that me and my brothers would just use for flash games. God I miss those days of playing age of empires, rollercoaster tycoon, and StarCraft 😭
electrictroy2010 right, we got internet in 1990 when I was 5 years old. My dad didn’t even try to use it until windows 95 came out and it was simplified for the masses.
I didn't get online until the summer of 1996 when my friend, who went to college, got a computer and showed me usenet boards and IRC. After that, in October of 96, I bought my own PC (A p-133) and got my own internet account (With that 28.8bps modem) to use it myself. Think the first thing I did was find nude pics of the pink power ranger and print them out. What an age.
Carl explains this very clearly on one of the the Simpsons episodes. It's the netting material used in men's bathing suits. And then when Carl got scared, he logged onto the internet.
The fact he didn't even know what the @ sign was. 😂 Now that we're so used to internet, this is so funny. My first time ever hearing of internet was 1998. I read that internet was invented .... some articles say in 1989, some articles say in 1990. So if we all say 1990 to be safe, we're all correct. One article even showed the picture of the guy who invented it, and I wish I could remember the guy's name. What happened was, the ideas for the internet already existed (I think as early as the 1970s), for example, to do direct deposit, and he put all of those ideas together, thus creating the internet.
little did they known, they would end up on the internet
Why dont you have more likes?!?!?!!!
Only in the Twilight Zone
And little did you know that all of us will end up recreated from massive data collection and machine learning as individual AI personalities spaning endless simulations throughout the coming millennia. Or not.
Bro ☝️
Hilarious!
20 years later: "What is a phone line?"
Me
Hahaha. True that.
What is a phone line?
20 years later: "What is live TV?"
It's Death TV 📺 now 😳
This video is historically significant.
I wonder what clips/videos nowadays will be like this in a couple decades... cool to think about
They need to just freakin' cure cancer.... forget about the 20-years-from-now ZOMBIENET.
"Bitcoin is a scam"
"Who needs bitcoin when you have banks"
"Anarchist are so stupid"
"Is bitcoin a game?"
"Is bitcoin even real"
"What is bitcoin?"
"We need "corrupt" gov'ts"
"You must pay your taxes"
"The federal income tax applies to everyone not just a very select few exercising privilege to otherwise break the law to earn"
"Only govts can create money"
"22trillion dollars of debt is sustainable"
@@trysometruth there IS A cute for cancer. You just have to be extremely rich and know the right people to be cured from it.
@@neetrab Ahem. Steve Jobs had a couple of bucks. On the other hand, he did try "holistic" cures for a year...
'What is Internet anyway" should become a meme. It's just too perfect.
Jay said it best: ua-cam.com/video/v2LpJAD5AqQ/v-deo.html
Now it’s “what is the blockchain anyway?”
Indubitably.
@@mcclaink06 Here, Here Kody! I just mentioned this on my share of this video!
Think the guy got a clue since? :D
90's Internet was a harmless and fun guest you would occasionally invite into your home. Now it's a stalker that won't leave. And it follows you everywhere you go.
... bro i remember seeing the goriest most fucked up shit when i was little, dunno what de fock ure on about
So true
No, the difference is that now you are aware of it.
Back then the internet was a creepy nerd
@@NovemDecem As opposed to now?
This is how I feel when I explain about bitcoin
Major banks would love for Bitcoin to become the dominant currency. Without a Central Bank they would have far less oversight and accountability.
Imagine if we could warp back to that moment on that set and hand them an IPad. Minds. Blown.
+quelorepario So True!
+quelorepario This is how I feel when I explain about Ethereum
+Bowowowification I'm still trying to wrap my head around Ethereum.
It really was like this for most of us. I graduated college in 1996. I didn't have an email address the entire time. A few professors were trying it here and there, but it was optional. I continued to work for the university for a year after graduation. I distinctly recall the day the university's IT people came in and set up internet on our computers. We were all amazed how you could type in a word and have all these pictures and information pop up. Of course, it was only a couple days before someone typed in "boobs." And it went from there...
It wasn't like this in the UK, I remember our school had a whole room full of computers connected to the internet in 1994. We were taught about the internet as part of our education as our government has always invested heavily in anything to do with computers and information. Today all children in British schools are taught computer programming and application development.
No it wasnt, I finished primary school until 1999 and I had never used or heard of the internet until then and it was the same for most others, I had an IBM pc funnily enough but had no notion of the internet. Got my first "proper" PC the same week age of empires 2 came out, so late 1999.
High school came around and the internet was literally just starting to become main stream and didnt have that much popularity in school or good access on the computers and this was then the biggest school in the UK, now its the 2nd biggest. Internet was popular in universities before 1999/2000 but until then most households had never used it.
Think about when the internet was becoming mildly popular, its the same time people used the free AOL trial discs you could get, which was 1999. You might have used it in school before that to load some clip art images into a document but that was probably about it. 1999 was literally the year most people had used the net and YET, less than 36% of the population had used it by then, mostly academic or work related.
Article from late 2000, news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/826834.stm, not even 25% connectivity then in the UK.
Billy H "Only a couple of days before someone typed boobs" come on now, only a couple of minutes more like!
bluebull399 1994!? Bullshit! That sounds a little too early for any school in the UK to have been connected online.
@ Reverend X: "No it wasn't . . ." Really butters my biscuit when someone denies the existence of other's life experiences.
"You don't need a phone line to operate the internet? No, no."
Lol. she predicted the future!
that was so funny the way she said no no lol
@@Tony-de4px I know! That's the best part! She's so sure, too! :D :D
Most people still has a line only for internet.
It was true back then.
My parents hated when I signed onto the internet in the 90's, as our phone line was busy all the time. I had to end up getting my own phone line just to 'surf'. Lol. What a more innocent time back then. Haha
"Violence at NBC...what do you, write to it? Like mail?" so innocent. I love it.
A valid point 🤣
Their curious and it's nice, shame for where it went
I write to internet all the time. We even text each other.
20 years from now: “What is a dollar?!”
Absolutely
"People used dirty old printed paper even though they had electronic money already? What for?"
@@noble20xx56 fr though, what is the purpose of paper money?
@@rainaa1997 It's just fake play money. We don't even really have money since the gold and silver backing it is gone.
"Hi, I'd like a piece of bread"
"Here you have it, it's 0.00000000000000000023 bitcoins, thank you"
1994: Allison, can you explain what internet is?
2020: Alexa, can you explain what internet is?
Makes sense to me!
True story.
Manager: "Can you put Internet Explorer on a CD for me? I want to check out the internet over the weekend."
That used to be the way of it in the early 90's.
Sounds wholesome
@@marlondeason4806 yet computers started making cd burners standard in towers. Remember that power when you got your hands on your first one?
CD burners only got affordable in the 2000s, which coincided with broadband (fast) internet and Napster. For reference, I downloaded a leaked new song in 1997. It was in a .wav file and it took hours to download. I hooked the computer audio out into my aux input on my stereo and recorded it to cassette tape so I could play it in my car.
In '93 I worked in a university where part of my job was introducing the internet to academics and staff. I had hilarious conversations with people like this almost everyday:
"What is this 'internet' thing you're talking about?"
"Whaddaya mean 'email'? What is that?"
"C'mon... you can't just press a magic button and contact someone in Europe."
"Another gimmick from the IT Department."
And now look where we’re at lol
Even as a little kid at the time in 1994, my knowledge of this subject matter was miles beyond these hosts. Especially after watching this video and reading this comment, I now miss those days of feeling superior. With a moment of bitterness, it's hard at the moment for me to say the geeks inherited the Earth when the first UA-cam video I noticed to ever hit 1 billion views was a music video on Taylor Swift's official channel. Popularity once again made something stupid out of something that made geeks powerful.
"C'mon... you can't just press a magic button and contact someone in Europe." Had these people never heard of the invention of the telegraph??
I remember the first JPEG I downloaded. It was picture of Yoda. It, no joke, took 10 minutes to download. A group of us in primary school huddled around a computer as each line loaded. We watched it download, line by line. So by the time it got to the end it was sort of an anti-climax but at the same time we stared in awe of being able to see a photo on a computer.
Don't close out of it!!!aaaaahh man!
Whoa!!
I remember my brother and I tried watching the trailer for Episode 1 online. Took like 2hrs to load the whole 1 1/2min clip. We kept saying "don't press play yet.....let a little more load."
I was at a party in college and all the guys were gathered around a computer in the bedroom watching a video download of a women having sex with a horse. It was a significant day in my life.
@@jacobigregory ah, those innocent time.
The internet has destroyed my day off. Surfing for hours on UA-cam then playing videos games online for at least an hour.
We are living in a science fiction novel. This video is proof
You can see live pictures of who you are talking to on your phone. That was the moment I realised we'd entered 'The Future' as TV told me it would be
When the world was still pure.
That's a funny joke.
Before internet porn.
Meh..'pure'
The internet accelerated the downfall of Western society. Just watch.
I could write a book about why, but nobody cares these days.
@@ViezePoeperd some would care but not enough to make a profit so you won't
as pure as WW1 and WW2
Holy shit I think I should invest in this "Internet" thing....
It sure seems promising. Maybe one day it will be.
I am from 2 years in the future and I can tell you that there will be no more internet by the time you catch up to this comment.
I wish I had.
And invest in the Internet of Value
This pets.com thing seems promising!
What I lke most about this clip is that nobody is in a hurry to get in their lines before the next commercial break. They even have time to ask questions and discuss them.
It is more like a podcast than what television has become since then.
Shout out to my fellow peeps who knew what life was like before the internet...simpler times ✊🏻
I was a 70s kid, ah the freedom we had back then!!!!
Ok boomer
Caleb Hall I feel so sorry for you.
Dani H danke
Better times
I was working at Walt Disney Feature Animation on my second film in 1997 when I became aware of what exactly the Internet was. It was still so primitive that a friend of mine had to explain to me the difference between a packaged service like AOL, and simply looking things up on your own with Yahoo. I chose the latter and never opted for any packaged services. But seriously, it was quite a thing to wrap one’s head around as it was forming because the Internet was definitely not robust at all. Neither was the information on it very complete, nor was access to it very smooth. The whole dial up procedure was a pain in the ass to wait out much of the time. I would call the whole experience for a few years after the internet started as “tolerable” at best. It’s so easy to forget that time because internet access has been exponentially improved. Young people will never even know that experience. To them, it’s a, “I had to walk five miles in the snow to school every day” type of story. Oh well, I guess each generation has one to tell.
The modem would screach at us! And we liked it!
this is like talking to my mom about saving her photos to the computer
I like how they refer to it as "internet" not "the internet." Like "it" has a first name, and it is "Internet." ("Hi Internet!" Hi Katie...")
+dugroz Probably because it was 1994 (21 years ago -- eeeek), and as far as they knew (or as far as I knew, for that matter, in 1994), it was like asking "Can you explain what Radio is? Can you explain what Television is? Can you explain what Short-Wave Broadcasting is?" If someone said to you, "Can you explain what The Television is?", you'd probably think, at minimum, that English wasn't their first language.
+trysometruth That set really dates them, I mean they have a set of encyclopedias back there.. Who does that?!
+dugroz I like how some people (in other countries) say "go to hospital" instead of "go to the hospital".
"Now I said 'about' because Im a moron" Sorry, cant stand Bryant Bumble. It's like God created an ego and gave it arms and legs.
Pity the uploader didn't notice that: would have made for a funnier (and more observant) title for the video.
This is still one of my favorite clips ever, and it gets better over time.
They never imagined people would be watching this on smartphones in 2019.
It is pretty silly.
Why would you watch a clipping from live television on a phone?
..... "it's a series of tubes...."
“It’s a Computer billboard” 🤣🤣
It's funny how they had no clue that in the years to follow, people would be able to sit on the toilet and watch videos about how to make an underground swimming pool in the jungle by hand thanks to "Internet."
This may be the most relatable comment I’ve seen
I'm crying! One year later and this comment still wins!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The swimming pool videos are fake; Primitive Technology the GOAT
1994 most people heard about it but never really understood it, then by 1995 it just exploded and more and more people started getting online
Windows 95 is what really helped it explode when computers were all coming out with it..
John Rankin i remember getting excited sending my first email LOL
Wish i was there.
Exciting times. Anyone who used the internet back then knew right away that it was going to change the world--and soon.
It exploded when Netscape created the first browser. That made all the difference.
I love how it's almost referred to as a person or robot. "But you don't need a phone line to operate Internet?" No...no.
I really appreciate that instead of dismissing it for being "weird" or "nerdy" they're all fascinated by it, and discussing the practical applications it could have.
" What is the Internet, Anyway?" Its 2017 and I'm still trying to figure this out
Not me. It's 2019 now and at 64 I've been in crypto for 3 years. I keep this video address just to make the point when people diss my blockchain enthusiasm. I was early. Didn't want to be in with the clueless "herd."
A tool used to gather information by the government
@@kathrynj.hernandez8425 so did you profit from the recent crypto pump.
Of course people in 20 years will laugh at us for having to HOLD our smartphones and actually TOUCH the screen, rather than just having an implant in our temple.
I know bro. These young people are fucking dumb. Ur so right. 20 years people will be making fun of us. It's a fact. Time changes. The 90s was the Golden Era in my opinion. I was a little kid..
Internet used to be a treat to go on. And fun. Now everyone doesn't appreciate it.
@@badgirllllll These young people? And you were born in the 90s? LMAO.
Fuck that I'm not getting an implant. Today they can hack your phone, tomorrow they can hack your fucking brain.
@@shahrazadsaied4426 I was born in the 90s (93) and don't remember most of them
I was a graduate student at the time and I didn't know about the internet until late'95 or early 1996. Thankfully, the university library had computers hooked up to the internet and I could get connected. Made life a lot easier. I was able to buy tickets online for the 1996 Olympics later that year.
Who else was born in 1994 and came to see how old they are how did this make you feel ?
Allison is real. She’s my friend. In this time period she invited me to visit the today show. My husband was in NYC for a neurological surgery convention. She is one of the most humble people I’ve ever met. But, gets things done. I got a photo with Bryant and Katie, he took me with Katie and vice versa. I’m embarrassed that Elizabeth Vargas slipped her head in the I think make up room I got to visit or when I sat in Katie’s office since Allison wasn’t immediately located. I got there at 9 am as the show was ending. I was whisked up a private elevator after giving my name to security well, those were the days. Allison and I just had our 51st HS reunion which I missed due to travel and a small illness. Our 50 th was pushed to this year due to Covid. I need to put my px from long ago on with Katie and Bryant. Yes I’m still a today show fan. It was actually at a HS reunion that Allison invited me to “ just call her if I’m in NYC and graciously gave me a world class tour of the Today show set. She also pointed out the window and told me of the soon yo be ground level show where the public could watch. Lots more happy memories of that day.
I think we're underestimating how powerful the internet really is.. It's literal magic for people just 50 years ago..
This is possibly the most incredible video ive ever seen on Internet
Can't wait to see my future grandkids reactions when they watch this video in 2050 or so lol.
this is the current state of blockchain/ distributed ledger technology/cryptocurrency.
Katie Couric is so well-informed. I'm genuinely so impressed
This is what people sound like with bitcoin now.
True dat. I say this all the time. People glaze over. I'l have the last laugh though.
@Я не знаю как говорить по-русски unfortunately Myspace didn't have a market cap worth over 200 billion...
@@goldsh24 rekt
Except 25 years from now no one will know what bitcoin is, except maybe as the answer to a random trivia question.
@@ccar3y I hope you remember this comment in 25 years, so you can reflect on the nature of foolishness.
I wish we could go back to those days lol... life was so simple back then
Such a perfect clip.. perfect for teaching how culture affects us.
yep, something tells me this will be tought in history classes 2000 years down the line when kids ask, "Who made the internet?" instead of "Who was Christopher Columbus?".
Too bad the internet idea never worked out as they had hoped it would be. Meanwhile we're still stuck at communicating to people by fax and phone.
In 1989 (five years before this clip was recorded), Jim McCarthy (inventor of Lisp, internet pioneer) expected that fax would eclipse e-mail because of the fragmentation of commercial networks.
He wrote that e-mail has many obvious advantages over fax, but getting a fax delivered doesn't require you to know all the
gateways between sender and receiver, just a phone number.
I remember this exact episode!!!! I also remember thinking it was just a nerd thing and it wouldn't last! Glad I wasn't betting on that! Hard to believe I was just 24
“A nerd thing”
🥲
Internet 3.0 is being built out right now and it is going to move value and money the way that we move information and the confusion the fear and the talk around it is just like it was in the early to mid-90s with the first version. All the same doubts and miss understanding. Lots of bad information and crooked people always in early stages of a new unregulated technology....but the technology never goes away
Im 23, now Im hearing about Ai in the same way you might have heard about the internet… this time, there is a feeling of anxiety. I wonder what will come of this all
@malice4422 I really don't know exactly what will play out next, but I'm Elon Musk's age, and I've got mixed feelings for the man, but when he speaks about technology, I listen! The guy is one smart cookie! I couldn't imagine growing up in your time on earth having the technology that was just stuff one could only dream of!!! Don't get me wrong, as a product of the progress of tech, you younger generations make us look like stone age cave people! And I used to joke about that but not anymore! It's advancing so rapidly that it's like watching a monster double in size year after year!!! The year I was born 1970 looks NOTHING like today! I remember music going from 8track tapes going to cassette tape (that I had over 8 or 9 hundred of after years of collecting, then C.D. disk was introduced!!! Man ...I remember thinking how in the Hell was I going to switch my music to C.D's?? Then about the time I was getting my collection back up after spending big money because C.D's were $12-$18 bucks at the time! Lol then hello internet! The mp3 player was next then digital finally arrived to still be top dawg today! What you will have seen by the time you are my age will probably blow you away!! What's next?? How fast will this change take?? Will we survive?? All I know is it's all speeding up at an insane clip and time will only tell. I also remember growing up during the cold War with Russia and I remember worrying about nuclear war! Then it was over and I thought we'd never need to worry about it again. Look what's going on now! I pray for all of us! Especially the younger generations. People used to be kind to one another. That's been gone since 9/11! It's absolutely terrifying really. Good luck to you ✌️
@@Wilders53 Dude, I think about these things all the time. I always look forward to the future because I wonder all of the changes that will go on in our lifetime. I wonder which things we will be right about and which things we will be sorely wrong about… like considering the way we have let social media and screens become such a demanding presence on our lives.. I wonder how that will present itself 20-50 years from now. I wonder if people will see that as a big oversight in our culture, like how everyone was smoking cigarettes indoors in the 1950s. When I see someone significantly older than me, I always think: holy cow, you went through a lot of societal changes and we keep rapidly going to a place of unprecedented, rapid change. You were born in a totally different world than me it seems… it’s so insane to think about! When I was a kid, I had nowhere near the technology access as this upcoming generation… I got my first phone at 14 and although it was around the time that social media was really kicking off, no one was fully adjusted then. It was still in its “fun, innocent time waster”stage. People posted silly pictures and said random stuff. People played fruit ninja. Nowadays, kids were raised on youtube instead of TV. Those are the new celebrities. They have had phones in their faces since birth and they can’t remember a world without such constant technology. But among my generation, it’s normalized to be on your phone in bed for multiple hours a day, scrolling tiktok (rotting in bed, as it is popularly known). Depression is at an all time high… I mean, what’ll it be in even 20 years? What does all this lead to? When does this constant feeling of anxiety and lack of trust in our systems burst? When is the next big crisis that will make us realize we need to drastically change things? What does a generation of ipad children do against rising housing prices, rising inflation, wider wage gaps, infiltration of surveillance and screens/tech…
As asked by Mark Fisher: “What happens when the next generation stops creating surprises?”
What then?
20 years later, what is a bitcoin?
Dang, look how far we've come
+Brian Hubbard The internet used to be a tool for geeks, now there's too many clueless newbs. *Strokes neck beard*
Brian Hubbard "look how far we've come"
anime
tiddies
Covid 19 is a Hoax
Or....how far we've fallen
For the worst.
The same guy in 2022: What is Bitcoin anyway?
I am so glad this clip exists and has been preserved. What an incredible moment in time (to us today).
my ten year old finds this video hillarious
I was 13 when this aired. This video made me feel like I oughtta go check the real mail and see if my AARP sign-up paperwork had arrived yet. But I couldn’t find my walker since I lost my bifocals last night. 💁🏼♂️👴🏻
And on 9th March
they made jokes about NFT's and digital art being sold online for millions
the internet will remember this forever
Remember when you was a kid and you wondered if you were the only one thinking of a certain thing at that very moment...like you were the only person on the planet that was thinking of that specific thing at that specific time. Guess I wasn't alone after all.
Our IT guy for the company I worked at in 1994 said we shouldn’t bother with a website, this internet thing won’t catch on.
When they write they history of the demise of network television, they'll begin with this clip.
I feel bad for kids who missed the boom of internet in the 90's. It's taken for granted now..
Do you also feel bad for us missing food crisis and black plague?
Silly child. You never saw the internet as it was meant to be. It was so free back then....
You can't compare missing a bad thing, to missing a good thing.
still I don't feel bad for kids missing the renaissance
believe me you are not ;)
Reminder that these are the people now regulating the internet.
So weird that I don’t know a life without the internet
do you need a phone line to operate AN internet? haha!!!
And then she confidently says "No, no". Phone lines were absolutely necessary for internet use in 1994; there was no other way to make a dial-up or digital subscriber line connection. It all worked via smoke signal as far as she was concerned.
I had a friend who had a T1 carrier link at home, where he had servers with anime and NES roms. He did some of the anime rendering to real video format himself. This was circa 1996.
A lot of people in the UK had BBS in the 90's, it was a big thing here. We had the internet but it was very expensive and was only used in schools to educate children about the future.
bluebull399 I can almost remember people in the US starting to catch on to the web at that point. Our family got-dial up in 1996 before most, and didn't switch to dsl until 2005, way after everyone else around us! I had to watch cartoons at school most of the time!
Aaron Dickson homing pidgeons..
Pigeon racers rejoiced until they heard the bad news.
The same conversations are being had with Bitcoin now 😂
The difference is that most bitcoin is nothing more than a modern day multi level marketing pyramid scheme/scam
I specifically remember a teacher telling us in early 80s like 1981 saying that computers were the future I was like nah not me.
"You don't need a phone line" (DIAL-UP SOUND!) "Get off the phone, I need to send an E-Mail!"
It's an A in a circle. Like a hole. Some call it an A-hole.
I have to admit, in 1994 I didn't know what "internet" was either.
by 1995 i bet you did though
@@sugargliderdude probably 1996 like the majority of Americans
www.pewresearch.org/politics/1996/12/16/online-use/
@@pika62221 This right here. It was due to the release of Windows 95. But even in 96 it was very limited. Mostly used for e-mail. Those were the days. Before the internet we had BBSs.
@@TonyMontanaDS BBS were on the Internet though
@@topologyrob Before the internet, there were many computer networks, and not all had gateways to other networks. Not all of them were using the internet protocol either.
It was Dec 1994 Germany Stuttgart University, when my fellow students showed me what they do during their breaks. Go to the computer pool room, write emails, write on IRC, and use Yahoo for research, also for research of certain pictures... I applied for an account instantly. It was like entering a new world. I remember sending private mails to my friends still on paper just weeks before. I have never sent any "normal" private mail again since Dec 1994.
I wish it was like this rn.
This happened 26 years ago today... the internet never dies
Dude, these are our ancestrals... Fascinant!
In 1994 I didn't know what it was, I probably heard it a couple of times then I went to college in heard of it more along with email but didn't go into it further. It wasn't until 1995 when those AOL commercials started playing non stop that I decided to look into it. I really hated those tin metal square boxes we used to get in the mail with a promotional CD in it. I still have one of those boxes around in the attic.
Watched this live 21 years ago and everyone was in love with Katie!
Deanna Baumgardner I was 1 year old!
Her supposed charm was lost on me. NBC found that women liked her because she was not attractive enough to be perceived as competition.
@@jshepard152Katie has always been a beautiful woman. What the hell are you talking about? Women love Katie because she is intelligent and represented women in media VERY well.
@@Justsomebodyelse235 You must not know the background. Deborah Norville took the Today job at NBC before Katie. Around the same time, Jane Pauley left the show. Female viewers decided that Pauley must have been pushed out by the younger, prettier Norville, and they bombarded NBC with thousands of angry letters and phone calls. Despite winning an Emmy during her tenure, Norville became unpopular with the core female audience, and ratings fell. NBC learned its lesson and pushed Norville out, replacing her with....you guessed it, Katie Couric.
Sounds like my cousin explaining bitcoin and blockchains to my family at thanksgiving dinner.
We experience more technological advances in a year than people used to during their lifetimes. We live in a crazy time. Most people don't realize that.
This clip will be worth so much one day.
Caption is wrong. He didn't say, "THE Internet." Bryant asked, "What is Internet?" That's why it sounds so weird.
Remember when AOL used to mail out CDs for online access to the Internet and you only got 8 hours or 24 hours internet access for the week!!!
Eww...
Wait, I can get 100 free hours for signing up? Radical, dude!
Watching the movie Bitter Moon in 1992, I was totally blown away by the pre-Internet text-based Teletel terminal system the main character used to look up phone numbers and make restaurant reservations.
I"m 41, when I was a kid I grew up seeing this confusion and even disbelief about the internet. Now, with crypto/NFTs/metaverse I see the same confusion and disbelief, people who can't wrap their heads around it but eventually will have to.
'What do you write to it like mail?!?!?!" HAHAHA
Meanwhile in 2016, the Today show did a segment this morning on Pokémon Go that was technologically literate. The anchor even understood what she was talking about; when they cut back to the studio, everyone else was downloading it.
welcome to the future.
But isn't that like, for kids?
The reason they can make an informed segment today is because they can Google it
Back then: What's the internet?
Today: What's crypto?
the begining of sorrows...the internet....the internet destroyed us
What is global warming anyway?
Bitcoin 1E3g4c36XrV5jNg2nQdB3d1keWvEdZTcwc yes we reached that point, we can only try to make the damage that already started to hurt us slower. We can still accelerate it, but we lost the point where we could reverse it by changing our consumption of fossil fuel.
All Gore isn't a scientist. But the concern is reasonable.
2018: What is Bitcoin anyway? xD
Gumble was so skeptical about it.😂
This guy sums it up. Too busy trying to be funny, rather than listening and learning. Ahh, yes, the internet.
Hilarious. Absolutely priceless.
An "a" inside a complete circle is not an at symbol. It's just an a inside a circle. When this video was shot in 1994 "internet" was access to 2,716 websites. At that time there were 24.6 million internet users in the entire world. By 2005 there were 67.4 million websites and 1 billion internet users in the world. Now in 2015, there are now over 954 million websites with 3.2 billion users. Every second two new users in the world sign on.
+ldchappell1 that's crazy
the @ symbol was called "at" when talking about pricing, as in "24 @ $20"
channelhismojo I know that @ is an at symbol but the one they showed on the bottom of the screen was just an A inside a complete circle. Not a true at symbol. It confused me the first time I saw one of those.
24.6 million internet users in 1994? I find that extremely hard to believe. Maybe in 1999, but not '94.
Bryan A. Are you serious? Just about everybody had the internet by 1999. By 2000 there were 361 million computers on the internet in the world. Times that by six and that's about how many people have internet access today. This site has the info:
royal.pingdom.com/2010/10/22/incredible-growth-of-the-internet-since-2000/
“You don’t need a phone line to operate internet”
I think we’ve found the new tagline of the World Wide Web here in 2019!
This video is from the year I was born. Even in 2002 when my family was getting those AOL free trial CDs for dial up Internet we were still confused by this thing called the Internet. We had just gotten out first family computer which was a gateway CRT monitor connected to a massive computer tower that me and my brothers would just use for flash games. God I miss those days of playing age of empires, rollercoaster tycoon, and StarCraft 😭
I’ve been using the internet since 1988. Of course that was before the WWW arrived so it was just pure text and downloadable programs or photos
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electrictroy2010 right, we got internet in 1990 when I was 5 years old. My dad didn’t even try to use it until windows 95 came out and it was simplified for the masses.
@@donrainesoh what was it like living in CERN?
I used to use it at my brother's place in the mid 80s, and got to send my first email in 1981 at Sydney university.
@@jackson5116 CERN was the web, not the internet.
I didn't get online until the summer of 1996 when my friend, who went to college, got a computer and showed me usenet boards and IRC. After that, in October of 96, I bought my own PC (A p-133) and got my own internet account (With that 28.8bps modem) to use it myself. Think the first thing I did was find nude pics of the pink power ranger and print them out. What an age.
Carl explains this very clearly on one of the the Simpsons episodes. It's the netting material used in men's bathing suits. And then when Carl got scared, he logged onto the internet.
1994: “What is internet anyway?”
2014: “What is Bitcoin anyway?”
@Я не знаю как говорить по-русски bookmarked, stop spreading lies.
2034: "What is Bitcoin anyway?"
Just like "Bitcoin" now.
hehe
Yup
Just like Ethereum, not bitcoin
Steve James just like Iota
ETH and IOTA are the pets.com to Bitcoins google viability
The fact he didn't even know what the @ sign was. 😂
Now that we're so used to internet, this is so funny.
My first time ever hearing of internet was 1998. I read that internet was invented .... some articles say in 1989, some articles say in 1990. So if we all say 1990 to be safe, we're all correct. One article even showed the picture of the guy who invented it, and I wish I could remember the guy's name. What happened was, the ideas for the internet already existed (I think as early as the 1970s), for example, to do direct deposit, and he put all of those ideas together, thus creating the internet.
Man, dude was more out of the loop than I was and I was 10.
This is similar to yesterday's Elon SNL skit about Dogecoin. 'What is Dogecoin?'
Did it ever catch on? 😆