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  • A "Nightly News" segment from 1993 captures the early stages of how people were using the Internet.
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  • @DissociatedWomenIncorporated
    @DissociatedWomenIncorporated 8 років тому +395

    Back when showing celebrity email addresses on-screen didn't matter at all.

    • @MrNncon
      @MrNncon 7 років тому +24

      girls cross eyed

    • @carolea1629
      @carolea1629 5 років тому +34

      Cause no one had an email address or even the internet or even knew how to use it to email those celebrities 😂

    • @tenshiabse
      @tenshiabse 5 років тому

      u pixel gurl

    • @tpsu129
      @tpsu129 2 роки тому +3

      And they were all numbers.

    • @DissociatedWomenIncorporated
      @DissociatedWomenIncorporated 2 роки тому +1

      @@tenshiabse that was my username, yes

  • @QuantumBraced
    @QuantumBraced 8 років тому +61

    I got Internet in 1994. It was amazing. I couldn't believe I could instant message, email, get information in real time from anywhere in the world. One of humanity's greatest accomplishments is linking us together.

    • @Smileyyy21
      @Smileyyy21 7 років тому +1

      I though that we could see inside other people's houses. That was until Web cams appeared.

    • @Tornado1994
      @Tornado1994 6 років тому +1

      You mean. 1995. It wasn't commercial yet in '94 and all there was, was Netscape and Mosaic.

    • @KafkasUniversity
      @KafkasUniversity 5 років тому +2

      @@Tornado1994 There were online services like AOL and CompuServe in 1994 and earlier.

    • @79tazman
      @79tazman 4 роки тому

      Me too got to surf the net after I bought a new 486DX2 with a blazing fast 56k modem it was the best thing ever on windows 3.1

  • @IAmNumber4000
    @IAmNumber4000 3 роки тому +101

    This “internet” thing sounds pretty neat. Could be big!

    • @13Gangland
      @13Gangland 3 роки тому +9

      Or could be the downfall of civilization as we know it, who's to say?

  • @dommidavros2211
    @dommidavros2211 5 років тому +115

    That report from 1993 was actually quite prophetic!! I’m really impressed by their prediction of movies on demand! Shame Blockbuster weren’t paying attention back then!

    • @Mark-sj3xb
      @Mark-sj3xb 4 роки тому +5

      What’s a Blockbuster? Never heard of it.

    • @supremeneon9757
      @supremeneon9757 3 роки тому +1

      @@Mark-sj3xb I think they meant cockbuster

    • @iSyriux
      @iSyriux 2 роки тому +6

      @@Mark-sj3xb Oh hi mark

    • @boredwithadhd
      @boredwithadhd Рік тому +1

      @@Mark-sj3xb Please tell me you're joking

    • @MB_Biggie_Cheese
      @MB_Biggie_Cheese Рік тому +1

      What form of “internet” existed in 1981??

  • @AnthonyClauser
    @AnthonyClauser 8 років тому +84

    Well that wasn't confusing at all. Just wait until 2030 when they use this clip. Cutting back and forth between clips from 2030, 2016, 2001 and 1994.

  • @Luna_Potato
    @Luna_Potato 3 роки тому +37

    1:15
    "By the year 2010 people will be talking to one another by video phone links"
    Me in 2020 doing 90% of my school via google hangouts/zoom: "Oh how right they were"

  • @SoupDragonification
    @SoupDragonification 6 років тому +63

    It'll never catch on.

  • @edmundburke8490
    @edmundburke8490 3 роки тому +31

    I like it when he says, "to those viewers who have access to the Internet...." 😂

  • @John-ct9zs
    @John-ct9zs 3 роки тому +36

    I was in high school in 1993, I didn't know all this stuff was available online for me to use. This is like finding out I grew up with far more advanced tech, but had no idea. But it was so hard to get online back then, a family friend tried to show me his internet connection in 1994 or so, but it took over an hour to log on and he gave up and my parents and I all got bored waiting for "the internet thingy" to load with its slow dial up modem. I don't really remember the "internet" taking off through the roof until 1995, and then by the late 90s, most people I knew where online.

  • @SilversteinRescue
    @SilversteinRescue 6 років тому +33

    “The address for NBC Nightly news on internet is..” lmao at the ‘on internet’ part

    • @ColtraneTaylor
      @ColtraneTaylor 2 роки тому

      At least they haven't taken our lmao away in 2022.

  • @eclecticreader961
    @eclecticreader961 5 років тому +9

    Before the internet became a dump site. The sound of a garbage truck backing up is the theme song of today's internet.

  • @TheMachine2d
    @TheMachine2d 5 років тому +43

    and it only costs $10..Remember when AOL would just give you a CD with hundreds of free hours?

    • @johnfoltz8183
      @johnfoltz8183 4 роки тому +3

      Or two 3.5" floppy disks

    • @jerryakamuadams6399
      @jerryakamuadams6399 3 роки тому +3

      yup. my family first got a computer in like 1995 or 1996 when i was 4 or 5 years old. It was a Tandy from RadioShack running Win95. i remember we didnt have dedicated AOL dial up service, we only used the free hours of service from the AOL trial floppies and CDs they used to send in the mail. My older siblings mostly used the computer to type up school reports and play the single player games offline. i didnt really use it, i didnt have any reports that needed to be typed up on a computer at that age and i had a N64 for video games. however my family finally replaced that computer in 2002 with a Gateway when I was 11 and we also got broadband internet. That pretty much opened the doors for me at that impressionable age: because of that Gateway computer and internet access I got into multiplayer PC gaming, which lead to me wanting to learn how to both build computers and learn to code to make games when i was a teenager. i was obsessed with computers my teenage years, learning all i could about how computers work, both hardware and software, building computers from parts, learning how to code. so of course by the time i got to college in 2009/2010, i majored in both information technology and computer science and now enjoy a successful career in the IT field. And thats all thanks to my families Gateway computer from 2002, i dont give any credit to that crappy Tandy my family had in 1996 lol

  • @markgable1280
    @markgable1280 5 років тому +37

    1996: I like Internet. Internet is the highway of information of computers.
    2019: I like the internet. The internet’s the highway of information of computers.

    • @briankelly9347
      @briankelly9347 5 років тому

      1986

    • @iSyriux
      @iSyriux 2 роки тому +4

      It slowly went from a proper noun to a regular noun because of such a wide usage

    • @ColtraneTaylor
      @ColtraneTaylor 2 роки тому

      @@iSyriux Usually it's the other way round. People drop "the" as it becomes common.

  • @gato7908
    @gato7908 6 років тому +26

    0:58 he was exactly right about that, very impressive

  • @ryandupuis5860
    @ryandupuis5860 6 років тому +54

    they predicted skype and netflix

  • @SpongeSebastian
    @SpongeSebastian 6 років тому +20

    I'm so glad Internet became a thing.

  • @Cod4Wii
    @Cod4Wii 7 років тому +19

    2010? Nice prediction for the iPhone 4 with the selfie camera.

  • @steventopper9310
    @steventopper9310 4 роки тому +12

    Life in the late 90's was simple people talked to each other and kid's played outside! In the late 90's kid's could hang out together go to the movies catch a flick miss those days when we didn't have all these complications. No social media no Facebook Twitter UA-cam or Instagram life was simple! We used VHS tapes VCR's rented movies from our local video stores that was a great time.

    • @maricsira7547
      @maricsira7547 4 роки тому +4

      I agree ☝️ we actually lived but nowadays I feel like we just exist

    • @partIycIoudy
      @partIycIoudy 3 роки тому +3

      Kids still play outside, just not as much as they used to.

    • @capnsteele3365
      @capnsteele3365 3 роки тому +3

      kids play outside, teens just dont do it as much. You would know If you were actually allowed near kids

    • @damianxxx3118
      @damianxxx3118 Рік тому +2

      I feel so lucky for being a 90s kid Im 34 now and I miss those years so much! But maybe just...maybe after all these fkdup years.. better days will come

    • @theruddyone6443
      @theruddyone6443 Рік тому

      @@partIycIoudy no reeally? thats the point. Its not the same at all.

  • @lazarusblackwell6988
    @lazarusblackwell6988 2 роки тому +15

    I miss going to the video store and i miss the days when great movies were still being done.

  • @eclecticreader961
    @eclecticreader961 5 років тому +11

    I miss hearing "you've got mail". I also miss simple database entry, where all you had to do was hit the tab key to input information. Now it's all so crazy with coding and threading and streaming.

    • @TheCleaner76
      @TheCleaner76 2 роки тому

      Now all I hear is "You've got Spam"

    • @jackilynpyzocha662
      @jackilynpyzocha662 Рік тому

      I remember the excitement of getting on the "Net', but the screech of the modem" is something I do not miss!

  • @sign543
    @sign543 4 роки тому +10

    “For any viewers have access TO internet” 😂

  • @roshantulsiani7575
    @roshantulsiani7575 7 років тому +97

    Apple gave a pretty reliable prediction

    • @SilversteinRescue
      @SilversteinRescue 6 років тому +16

      Roshan Tulsiani yeah no kidding. Smartphones and iPads and FaceTime, Skype, etc def were becoming mainstream right around 2010

    • @Mark-sj3xb
      @Mark-sj3xb 4 роки тому +6

      Not really a prediction. It was a planned release. Don’t you know Apple is several years ahead in technology and is releasing it on a schedule to maximize their revenues? I guarantee there’s an iPhone 20 something in working order and ready to roll right now.

    • @Luna_Potato
      @Luna_Potato 3 роки тому +2

      in 2020 that is all the moreaccurate

    • @IvanPlayStation4LiFe
      @IvanPlayStation4LiFe 2 роки тому

      i videochat on my galaxy since 2010

  • @mae2759
    @mae2759 Місяць тому +2

    I really miss the simpler internet times of the 90s and early 2000s. Before the combination of smart phones and social media collectively ruined society and the Internet. Now I'm addicted to it. Can't put the phone down. Reality is now an escape from the Internet instead of the other way around like it was.

  • @TheShaleco
    @TheShaleco 6 років тому +62

    Video telephone by 2010....Facetime was launched in 2010. Apple knows it's own future

    • @erinasherton8411
      @erinasherton8411 6 років тому +9

      TheShaleco There was video Calling service’s before That, The web Camera Came out In 94.

    • @IvanPlayStation4LiFe
      @IvanPlayStation4LiFe 6 років тому

      TheShaleco Android had it ages ago basic

    • @steventopper9310
      @steventopper9310 6 років тому

      1998 4 life!

    • @xjew4ux
      @xjew4ux 4 роки тому

      Video phone came out in 2005 when they had the flip phones

    • @UniverseofDominion
      @UniverseofDominion 4 роки тому +1

      It’s almost like they had a plan 🤔

  • @madringking1119
    @madringking1119 4 роки тому +6

    1:15 WOW! Apple knew we'd had video chat by 2010

    • @Mark-sj3xb
      @Mark-sj3xb 4 роки тому +1

      Because it was planned.

  • @esqrt
    @esqrt 7 років тому +7

    The address for NBC Nightly News on internet is nightly@nbc.com. NO SPACES 😂

  • @kiowastew
    @kiowastew 6 років тому +5

    the "in-ter-net" sure looks amazing.

    • @antred11
      @antred11 4 роки тому +2

      Ah, it's just a fad. It'll never catch on.

  • @crp5591
    @crp5591 3 місяці тому +1

    "By the year 2010 people will be talking to one another by video phone links"
    To think that Apple's FaceTime debuted in 2010 with iOS 4 and Mac OS Snow Leopard 10.6.6... Prophetic indeed! Nailed it!

  • @ninja1676
    @ninja1676 6 років тому +7

    Pretty nobody is watching this on tv, we are just watching this on what they are talking about.

  • @blakesasha3517
    @blakesasha3517 5 років тому +6

    Wow! On demand movies?! I wish I had that! So cool

  • @KraXoom
    @KraXoom 4 роки тому +13

    Love seeing the early versions of FaceTime and Netflix 😂

  • @melaniexoxo
    @melaniexoxo 7 років тому +9

    I was on in 1995 and was hooked from the beginning. I HATED the $250 per month AOL bills though!

    • @robbiejk9613
      @robbiejk9613 4 роки тому +1

      Wow, you mean $2.50 a month bill. If you were paying $250/mo., you were tripping.

  • @ipKonfig
    @ipKonfig 7 років тому +25

    "....no spaces" ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @johnfoltz8183
    @johnfoltz8183 5 місяців тому +1

    Woohoo! I’m surfing the information superhighway on my cellular telephone!

  • @MightyJKF
    @MightyJKF 4 роки тому +4

    1:22 it actually happened in the mid 2000s

  • @yunleung2631
    @yunleung2631 Рік тому +1

    By the year 2010: FaceTime is born.

  • @gavinthecrafter
    @gavinthecrafter 3 роки тому +5

    0:58 Dude this guy was right, nobody uses cable now, it's all streaming

  • @incognito5109
    @incognito5109 2 роки тому +2

    Remember when TVs were considered luxury if you had one 🤣

    • @denny414
      @denny414 Рік тому

      Not really unless you were born in the 40s and 50s 😂 sorry for you

  • @warnockossoffwon5494
    @warnockossoffwon5494 3 роки тому +3

    "They predicted..."
    No, they developed. Companies sent years, sometimes decades, to plan and achieve innovations. Pay attention to "tech predictions" now, that'll be the tech that's taken for granted in the near future.

  • @roshif-tv9xd
    @roshif-tv9xd 4 роки тому +5

    Not trying to be a jerk, but can someone please tell that girl which camera to look at. She looked crosseyed trying to figure it out...😂😂😂

    • @secretsoftware
      @secretsoftware 2 роки тому

      She's probably 50 years old now at least. Who cares?

  • @Lazdinger
    @Lazdinger 8 років тому +39

    I have internet

  • @jcp012000
    @jcp012000 7 років тому +38

    why does that woman keep staring at her nose?

    • @chubbyillusionist
      @chubbyillusionist 6 років тому

      Maybe she's blind? Or having birth defects on her eyeballs? Or just a weirdo? Or she doesn't want to look directly at the camera?

    • @chubbyillusionist
      @chubbyillusionist 6 років тому

      @@VarietyGamerChannel Her eyes I guess?

    • @aibarra5797
      @aibarra5797 5 років тому +2

      I dont know but it looks like she has a nice rack

    • @antred11
      @antred11 4 роки тому +1

      Why do you ask stupid questions?

  • @PoptartzzofGorg
    @PoptartzzofGorg 2 роки тому +1

    This 'internet' is a fade mark my words...

  • @jakethewatersnake
    @jakethewatersnake 7 років тому +5

    Now the part about Apple is just plan spooky.

  • @alejandrokudo5463
    @alejandrokudo5463 8 років тому +21

    Are you sure this is 1993, it looks like late 2000 to me

    • @MadBulik
      @MadBulik 7 років тому +9

      Nah, just look at the newscaster suit :)

    • @alejandrokudo5463
      @alejandrokudo5463 7 років тому +2

      ErykPawlik Yeah, but it clearly says "Almost 2001."

    • @MadBulik
      @MadBulik 7 років тому +5

      Alejandro Kudo
      That's the report's title, referring to the 2001: Space Odyssey movie, hehe :D

    • @alejandrokudo5463
      @alejandrokudo5463 7 років тому +3

      ErykPawlik Ohhhhhhh...😄😄😄

    • @TreenaBeena
      @TreenaBeena 4 роки тому

      This is definitely the ‘90s.

  • @Andrew84UK
    @Andrew84UK 3 роки тому +1

    No ads, no corporate profiling, no vacuous social media. It was actually pretty good! lol

  • @jeromedavis8575
    @jeromedavis8575 11 місяців тому

    Maybe that's how they got the videos for world's most amazing videos through technology. Think about it. It came out in 1999, so this wouldn't be farfetched.

  • @TheCleaner76
    @TheCleaner76 2 роки тому

    Don't you miss that lovely dial up sound EAAAAAARRRR ERRRRRRR RRRRRRRR

  • @DankLaDouge
    @DankLaDouge 7 років тому +3

    What do the 3 people have in common? Bad haircuts

  • @StevieDamnit
    @StevieDamnit 3 роки тому +2

    Am I the only one that finds the cross-eyed woman kinda cute?

  • @jasonwilliams4315
    @jasonwilliams4315 Рік тому +1

    Sounds like another gimmick like those Video game things... In 5 years people will remember it about as well as they do the Nintendo.

  • @Chris-lh7wj
    @Chris-lh7wj Рік тому

    It was so different back then. First off not everyone had computers, in fact most households didn’t. Then you’d dial up, usually in the evenings when we weren’t expecting any phone calls, to have your “internet time” - visiting various websites, going into chat rooms (remember saying “a/s/l” lol).

  • @micklewis3197
    @micklewis3197 2 роки тому +1

    The 10 dollars a month thing didn't last long.

  • @jackilynpyzocha662
    @jackilynpyzocha662 Рік тому

    How did the "Information Super Highway" get combined with "Surfing"?!

  • @19milefall
    @19milefall 3 роки тому

    The way he calls it "Internet" in the last clip lmao

  • @EasternAmerica
    @EasternAmerica Рік тому

    I remember BBS, bulletin board system, had to join to use, then AOL.

  • @I4NI_
    @I4NI_ 3 роки тому +2

    Amazing. Predicted our future to a T
    Was it planned already?

  • @anthonystewart8092
    @anthonystewart8092 3 роки тому

    Everybody knows internet was invented by the Aliens

  • @jackilynpyzocha662
    @jackilynpyzocha662 7 місяців тому +1

    And "Surfing"

  • @darkpope6667
    @darkpope6667 4 роки тому +12

    Back when the internet was not infested by normies.

  • @johnpikathemusician271
    @johnpikathemusician271 2 роки тому

    1:13 We now have Zoom, to have our teachers help us with our HW in the comforts of our homes.

  • @ElephantBandMusic
    @ElephantBandMusic 2 роки тому

    My left eye enjoyed this video

  • @omegaman1409
    @omegaman1409 3 роки тому +3

    I was in the 1992 group joining prodigy internet ISP but I considered that late. I remember going to Sears in 1989 and reading a compuserve retail box. The concept was amazing but where I lived the infrastructure was not there yet.

  • @Smileyyy21
    @Smileyyy21 6 років тому +3

    I remember laying on my bed and my mind would go to what the internet was going to be like. I thought I would be able to type someone's address and I would be able to get into their house. I would get to see what they did and how they lived lol. This would be good so I could check on my friends. Just spy on people.

  • @Mr_Sandman-s3q
    @Mr_Sandman-s3q 6 років тому +2

    1:15 FaceTime prediction

  • @emmas5000
    @emmas5000 3 роки тому

    Hahahaaa imagine the abuse if bill clintons email address was published on tv today

  • @DevinDavidson18
    @DevinDavidson18 2 місяці тому +1

    2010 FaceTime released

  • @capnsteele3365
    @capnsteele3365 3 роки тому

    now there are 4.5 billion users on the internet

  • @ritchienavarro2920
    @ritchienavarro2920 5 років тому +1

    Wow the internet was in use in the 1990s

    • @topologyrob
      @topologyrob 3 роки тому

      Yep, and the 1980s, 1970s and 1960s.

  • @CodyBridge
    @CodyBridge 2 роки тому

    apple predicted themselves inventing the ipad lmao

  • @stevenwatson7668
    @stevenwatson7668 8 років тому

    We've come along way,baby.

    • @russell2952
      @russell2952 2 місяці тому

      One day spell check will be ubiquitous

  • @Myyoutubechannel30004
    @Myyoutubechannel30004 2 роки тому

    Man in watching in 2021 like 😳😳😳😳😃😄

  • @MultiverseGuy579
    @MultiverseGuy579 2 роки тому

    2022 wow internet was different man

  • @edv1z821
    @edv1z821 4 роки тому

    I'm surprised it doesn't require an oil change after each email

  • @IAmNumber4000
    @IAmNumber4000 3 роки тому

    This was... just 25 years ago...

  • @edwindano
    @edwindano 3 роки тому

    Foetal don't realise that this is the equivalent to discovering fire

  • @supertrouper
    @supertrouper Рік тому +1

    For anyone who is viewing this comment, just think of what would have happened if Covid-19 happened in the 1990s. The technology back then was not too advanced and think of how hard it would have been to do remote schooling and working or online shopping and etc.

    • @MB_Biggie_Cheese
      @MB_Biggie_Cheese Рік тому

      What form of internet existed in 1981? Those 213 computers were probably all in the Pentagon

  • @edwardbliss8931
    @edwardbliss8931 2 роки тому

    Around this time, they still haven't figured out that people should pay for printouts yet. So you'd have people standing at the printer for ten minutes while they print out 90 pages from Geocities and Tripod sites.

  • @TheGuyNobodyReallyLikes
    @TheGuyNobodyReallyLikes 2 роки тому

    So the internet will change everything.

  • @user-mx4et6mn3u
    @user-mx4et6mn3u 3 роки тому

    Annnnnd…Siri is real. Blockbuster is the past…..funny

  • @TedCornish
    @TedCornish 6 років тому +1

    You're all wrong Garlic bread is the future

  • @robbiejk9613
    @robbiejk9613 4 роки тому

    This is funny. We were using technology people nowadays think is new while I was in the military. GPS was invented decades ago.

  • @bruhmomentmaker4979
    @bruhmomentmaker4979 3 роки тому +1

    When I get a time machine I'm going back to the past and zip bombing rush limbaugh

  • @jerryakamuadams6399
    @jerryakamuadams6399 3 роки тому

    This internet thing will never catch on

  • @MiddayDolomite
    @MiddayDolomite Рік тому

    ... As I email Billy Idol to ask how he's getting on.

  • @Dreadtheday
    @Dreadtheday Рік тому

    No.... we. Called it "The Web" super highway lingo came out in th early 2000s

  • @geovanniandrade8321
    @geovanniandrade8321 Рік тому

    who is the anchor that’s talking

  • @79tazman
    @79tazman 4 роки тому +2

    I was surfing the web in 1994 on my new top of the line 486 DX2 it had 8 MB of Memory with a fast 66MHZ CPU with Windows 3.1 that had to be loaded with ten or so floppy disks and had a 56K modem that computer cost me almost $2000 bucks back then but it was so awesome it was the best thing ever at the time.

  • @meytr0_
    @meytr0_ 4 роки тому

    "...no spaces"
    L M A O

  • @jegr3398
    @jegr3398 10 місяців тому +1

    The world wide web

  • @omgitsbenhayes
    @omgitsbenhayes 3 роки тому

    What is internet anyway?

  • @Patrick19833
    @Patrick19833 2 роки тому

    People were using the internet way back in 1981? I had no idea that the internet even existed back then.

    • @egu5100
      @egu5100 Рік тому

      The framework for the internet has been around since the 60’s, but only certain universities had access at that time.

  • @laurence2421
    @laurence2421 Рік тому

    Omg NBC. You guys got all the comments in the world now lol

  • @ian_b
    @ian_b 4 роки тому

    I don't know whether to get "Internet" or "World Wideweb".

  • @Maxuras
    @Maxuras Рік тому

    i think the internet began in 1996 when we got ICQ, so we could share the hot new links with friends because how else would you find new fun stuff? Yahoo them?

  • @ILikeMyPrivacytbt
    @ILikeMyPrivacytbt 5 років тому

    Did they say $10 extra dollars a month? My cable internet is about $50.

  • @ShinyToonMonster
    @ShinyToonMonster 3 роки тому +1

    Is she blind? 😂😂

  • @beastieman4207
    @beastieman4207 5 років тому

    facetime came out in 2010 this guy's from the future

  • @unknownunknowns
    @unknownunknowns 7 років тому

    They did get it mostly right.

  • @jessicalanggamez
    @jessicalanggamez 6 років тому

    Scholactic Aptitude Test?? Hahah 1:41