Having trouble with the World Wide Web at a Cybercafe in 1996

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  • @kazamastylebatsurealmofbea6269
    @kazamastylebatsurealmofbea6269 Рік тому +241

    This channel is the closest thing to having a time machine

    • @MindsWithoutBorders
      @MindsWithoutBorders Рік тому +6

      He is a time traveler without a doubt!

    • @KenanTurkiye
      @KenanTurkiye Рік тому +3

      Although I'm working on one (timemachine),
      we may still have to make do with this channel,
      it may take some time. :/

    • @truthseek3017
      @truthseek3017 Рік тому +1

      What do you mean? We are the machine slaves.

    • @suprarace
      @suprarace Рік тому +1

      I’ve been binge watching the videos

    • @dream.machine
      @dream.machine Рік тому

      I made the 200th like! Yes, this really is a time machine 💯Love it.

  • @mushisenpai7611
    @mushisenpai7611 Рік тому +54

    I love how he was trying to pull up a webpage in the file search. Ahh God bless the 90’s! This channel is my new favorite!

  • @enigmatico6209
    @enigmatico6209 Рік тому +136

    These videos are a gold mine for people like me who are very nostalgic about the way we used to live in the 90s and early 2000s. Thank you for uploading those videos!

  • @cgimovieman
    @cgimovieman Рік тому +53

    Thank you to whoever the videographer who shot this is. I work in television, and it used to be a pet peeve of mine when people would shoot CRT computer monitors or TV’s and not balance their cameras to the scan rate of screens, leaving lines. Nicely done. At least with most of this for close up’s.

    • @rovhalt6650
      @rovhalt6650 Рік тому +4

      Wow. I didnt even know you could do that, so we just kept on filming with the lines.

    • @cgimovieman
      @cgimovieman Рік тому +3

      @@rovhalt6650 Yep. I can’t remember exactly how we used to do it, because honestly our videographers were the real experts at it and I was just producing. But it had something to do with adjusting the shutter speed of your camera or the internal modulation of the electronics in the camera to match the scan rate of the CRT monitors. You don’t usually have to worry about it today with modern flat screen TV’s with LED or plasma, because they don’t scan like cathode ray tube TV’s used to. When we did adjust though, you could only match the scanning of just one monitor at a time. So for example if you were in a room full of TV’s or if you had a moving shot moving from screen to screen, it wouldn’t work.

  • @mettakindness5999
    @mettakindness5999 Рік тому +34

    This is incredible footage and truly shows what the internet experience was like during 1996. There are many people today who have no idea or way to frame in their mind what it was like to browse such static websites. I think this type of video should be included in some type of digital historical archive. (Something more reliable and permanent than UA-cam that maybe all museums etc should have access to).

  • @Tr0nzoid
    @Tr0nzoid Рік тому +55

    I became ridiculously obsessed with getting on the internet in that time. Being in a chat room seemed like an amazing thing to do.

    • @TheAbandonedAccount7
      @TheAbandonedAccount7 Рік тому +6

      Its interesting how difficult getting on the internet used to be, back when it was worth going on. but now that theres no use for it, its available everywhere

    • @truthseek3017
      @truthseek3017 Рік тому

      Sad isn't it..

    • @DeE-pt5lz
      @DeE-pt5lz Рік тому

      @@TheAbandonedAccount7 there is no use for the internet nowadays?

    • @TayDays1128
      @TayDays1128 Рік тому +6

      @@DeE-pt5lz No. Its everywhere, its everything. But everybody is trying to get off of it. Back in the 90s/2000s, the internet used to be something that added. It was in the background. Now it's taking away from real life.

  • @ShayTheAntiFeminist
    @ShayTheAntiFeminist Рік тому +80

    I just found this channel and have been hooked ever since. The 90s is my favorite era. It was a different world. I regret taking it for granted. I miss the 90s. I wish I can go back to 90s and stay there forever. In the meantime, this channel is an escape for me and takes me back to my favorite era.

    • @rocknroller77
      @rocknroller77 Рік тому +28

      Well we didn't know the world was going to turn into crapola

    • @GeemailMailboxx
      @GeemailMailboxx Рік тому

      Get a grip and grow up Nancy. Your about to be sent out to War. 🧐

    • @vampirerobot
      @vampirerobot  Рік тому +11

      Appreciate it very much 😃

    • @kazamastylebatsurealmofbea6269
      @kazamastylebatsurealmofbea6269 Рік тому +11

      Same. You appreciate those years alot more when their long gone more than you did when it was still present😔 I miss being an innocent kid back during the late 90s

    • @daved1535
      @daved1535 Рік тому +4

      For me it was the late 70s and 80s

  • @Ultra_Dark_MAGA_Man
    @Ultra_Dark_MAGA_Man Рік тому +11

    Ah the 90s..Searching for your website on the hard drive.

  • @Mag00777
    @Mag00777 Рік тому +18

    Also, I just realized he's using the windows explorer to type in the address to a website on the find bar... @4:53 HA!

  • @LeesReviews69
    @LeesReviews69 Рік тому +29

    Wow the guy at 4:30 was looking for his website on a file finder box 🤦‍♂️ 😂

    • @MatthewNY94
      @MatthewNY94 Рік тому +11

      to be fair, it's easy to laugh now because we all know how the internet works. Back then, it was entirely possible he had never used a computer before.

    • @ericwood3709
      @ericwood3709 Рік тому

      @@MatthewNY94 He seemed young enough to have at least used a computer, though it may only have been in school and it was probably an older type. I'm sure he was new to Windows 95 and the internet, though. I wonder why he was visiting Slate.

    • @screwtewb
      @screwtewb 7 місяців тому

      @@MatthewNY94 And now we've come back around to the point where maybe this scene could take place with today's young people who have never used a PC.

  • @LiamP-597
    @LiamP-597 Рік тому +30

    I'm an '06 kid, so videos like these are always a journey to a time I'll never know. You've quickly become one of my favourite channels on this site, keep up the great work!

    • @vampirerobot
      @vampirerobot  Рік тому +3

      Appreciate this Liam 😊

    • @atlantic_love
      @atlantic_love Рік тому +4

      Imagine being born 1972 (like me) :D

    • @ScottyLiardi
      @ScottyLiardi Рік тому +2

      Jeez.. Way to make the young feel old. I graduated in 06. Growing up in the 90s was amazing. It really was a whole different world.

    • @atlantic_love
      @atlantic_love Рік тому

      @@ScottyLiardi I graduated in 1991.

    • @candy2325
      @candy2325 Рік тому

      Awww 2006 🎉 I was a junior in high school at that time

  • @chobson8602
    @chobson8602 Рік тому +12

    omg so freaking ICONIC! 90s vibes are strong here

  • @MacXpert74
    @MacXpert74 Рік тому +13

    He’s trying to find the internet site on it’s local harddrive. 😂

  • @arnaldonyc
    @arnaldonyc Рік тому +24

    was he trying to go to a website using the file finder?
    hilarious

  • @kylercummins3445
    @kylercummins3445 Рік тому +32

    I’ve been telling people about your channel, the way your videos are shot… it’s like your future self went back in time create a 40-year archive observing people and how our lives looked before/at the beginning of the internet age. I’m 35, and I love these videos. I’ll keep sharing your channel, they really do take you back…it’s sad though, everyone looks so much happier…no one is over simulated with the constant dopamine hits our devices/apps of today were designed for, time being wasted on a screen instead of with others, and I don’t see how things could ever go back to how they were. I’m happy in my life today, but sad for society as a whole. Also great to go back and feel like a kid again

  • @jordana4910
    @jordana4910 Рік тому +9

    I always felt UA-cam would basically be the database of all visual media ever made and this channel is the perfect example of that. 👍 Love it!

  • @AberrationX
    @AberrationX Рік тому +19

    We were on the cusp of blending Tech and Society...
    And it all went wrong.

    • @grabasandwich
      @grabasandwich Рік тому +3

      And now it seems like things are going to get exponentially worse with all these new developments in AI. I'm not a Joe Rogan fan, but I listened to an episode today of him talking with Howie Mandel. They touched on the subject of AI, and it made me wonder how fast this is all going to unfold.

  • @pennyloafers
    @pennyloafers Рік тому +9

    Man opens file search types in url. Lady helps him get the url correct. Employee "you won't find that on our system, you need to open Netscape." 😂

  • @exiles_dot_tv
    @exiles_dot_tv Рік тому +6

    Poor guy was trying to find a website on the computer's C: drive, instead of using a web browser. The lady "helping" him is equally clueless though, ha.

  • @JGD185
    @JGD185 Рік тому +38

    I remember in 1998 going to a place like this in Temple Terrace, Florida called Cyber Cup. It was across the street from my middle school. They had internet and top-of-the-line gaming PCs all hooked up for LAN play. That's where I first played Quake 2 and saw StarCraft and Fallout. It was so awesome.

    • @cdldriver2348
      @cdldriver2348 Рік тому +7

      Lemme guess, Greco Middle School on Gillette & Fowler?
      I grew up 5 blocks from Riverhills Elementary

    • @JGD185
      @JGD185 Рік тому +5

      @@cdldriver2348 Yes! Haha. I went to Greco for 6th and 7th grade

    • @kris78787
      @kris78787 Рік тому +4

      @@JGD185 I graduated from USF so I know exactly where that is

    • @66doa
      @66doa Рік тому +1

      hey im from tampa aswell.

  • @ToeTag9899
    @ToeTag9899 Рік тому +17

    Those 56k days kids today will never understand the pain to download one photo.

    • @johnnyballenatl
      @johnnyballenatl Рік тому +3

      Now it takes three seconds rather than three minutes!

  • @kris78787
    @kris78787 Рік тому +21

    This is about the same time I can remember my dad showing me how to use the internet and the chat rooms on our home computer. Back then, it was like the coolest thing ever. I still remember the sound of the dial up modem. That crunchy, crackling sound that seemed to take forever to log on lol

    • @SilasTheSilent
      @SilasTheSilent Рік тому +3

      Especially when you were supposed to be asleep but decided to sneak on to the internet when everyone was in bed

    • @barfbot
      @barfbot Рік тому

      @@SilasTheSilent towel over the back side of case/56k modem area lol

  • @MadPlasmatist
    @MadPlasmatist Рік тому +21

    Bro I LOL'd so hard... You know what the trouble is right? You see where he's typing that web address? haha I gotta go watch it again!!

    • @bardo0007
      @bardo0007 Рік тому +4

      He forgot to change C: with network . Netscape was famous for it.

    • @LetharG
      @LetharG Рік тому

      @@bardo0007 dude in the video is not using Netscape

    • @LetharG
      @LetharG Рік тому +3

      TEE hee… dude was typing (trying to) an URL in Find. 😂

    • @bardo0007
      @bardo0007 Рік тому +1

      @@LetharG In the old days you could open a file inside Netscape. So Netscape was a browser but you could also access local files. The design was just weird.

    • @LetharG
      @LetharG Рік тому +1

      @@bardo0007 Now that you say it, brings it right back… you could explore a local drive as well 😄 this guy was deffo typing a URL in Find on Win 98 though whil it clearly says it can’t find files with that name. Anyhow, I think there isn’t one person on this planet who’s not had a dumb moment + it was a relatively new medium. Still hilarious af

  • @Mag00777
    @Mag00777 Рік тому +11

    Not sure where you're finding all of these videos, but they're not coming fast enough! keep'em coming! I've hid back in the 90s since finding this channel!

    • @vampirerobot
      @vampirerobot  Рік тому +10

      I'm kinda waiting till it dies down actually to post more. And it's been a terrible few weeks for family health issues.

    • @Mag00777
      @Mag00777 Рік тому +5

      @@vampirerobot Sorry to hear you're going through it. totally understand, I wish you, and your family the best in health!

    • @vampirerobot
      @vampirerobot  Рік тому +1

      @@Mag00777 Thank you Mag00

    • @Mark.Watson
      @Mark.Watson Рік тому

      Hope your situation has improved. Yeah, I keep a steady pace to keep interest in the channel going.

  • @lftdblazer
    @lftdblazer Рік тому +7

    As a vintage computer nerd I can appreciate all those Compaq machines.

  • @LeesReviews69
    @LeesReviews69 Рік тому +5

    I was going to the library in 96 to use the computers

  • @bamboosho0t
    @bamboosho0t Рік тому +16

    Ahh, June 1996! I had just graduated HS and bought my first modem that summer; a 14.4kbps external dialup modem for $120. Then my hard drive crashed my freshman year of college, and had to get it replaced. $380…for 1.2GB. Yes. 1.2GB. 😆

    • @chrishince8947
      @chrishince8947 Рік тому +2

      I can remember spending $129.00 on a 128mb memory stick back in the day! Lol

    • @braidena1633
      @braidena1633 Рік тому

      Yeesh and that stuff would cost roughly double today. My family's first PC has 2 GB which seemed quite a lot of space at the time.

    • @ericwood3709
      @ericwood3709 Рік тому

      @@braidena1633 Our very first system was a clone of the Apple II, so it didn't even have a hard drive. The system we got after that was a Macintosh LC with a 40 _megabyte_ hard drive. Now that was fun.. Next came a Macintosh Performa with a crunchy, grindy sounding 1 GB Quantum hard drive that I remember none too fondly to this day. That whole system was ridiculously slow for a 75 MHz PowerPC. Found out later it was pretty gimped compared to the Power Mac line.

  • @cm2238
    @cm2238 Рік тому +6

    back when monitors were the size of a shack

  • @cooperstonebadge2228
    @cooperstonebadge2228 Рік тому +6

    Weird time period of computers and indoor smoking.

  • @apolk
    @apolk Рік тому +14

    Memory unlocked! I had completely forgotten that cyber cafes were a thing.

    • @Etaoinshrdlu69
      @Etaoinshrdlu69 Рік тому +9

      They still do. Now you just bring your own computer.

    • @bardo0007
      @bardo0007 Рік тому +4

      My last visit to such a place was back in 2010, so only 13 years ago.

    • @yarizsanchez6961
      @yarizsanchez6961 Рік тому +1

      I'm mexico we still have them and they are THRIVING still lol of course they have flat screen pcs now tho

  • @daroldfuapse6178
    @daroldfuapse6178 Рік тому +5

    I like to think that the Saab 900 outside belongs to the guy who hasn’t heard of Netscape Navigator yet. I had a girlfriend with one of those and I later got the 9-3. The ‘90s were great because if you liked computers, you could use them, but if you didn’t want to, you could avoid them entirely. I had a Commodore 64 in the ‘80s and skipped almost the entire ‘90s and didn’t get another computer until ‘99. I was amazed at the graphics. Phat video!

    • @ericwood3709
      @ericwood3709 Рік тому

      I loved computing in the 90s, but only used Macs for most of that decade. Only got a PC when I was given one for free, and that was a huge honking tower with a 486 and a double-height 5.25" 1 GB hard drive. Such a beast of a system. I did have fun experimenting with it, though. As I recall, I even got it to burn CDs later on under Windows NT 4, though for some reason I had to include an audio session in order to burn a data CD successfully. Fun times.

    • @daroldfuapse6178
      @daroldfuapse6178 Рік тому

      @@ericwood3709 Yeah, the main problem imo was that computers were always crashing back then. If you were working with small files, it wasn’t a problem to be saving all the time, but I’m still angry with a certain Mac that cost me hours of work when I didn’t backup in time to the Iomega
      Zip drive.

  • @petersantospago1966
    @petersantospago1966 Рік тому +8

    I didn't even know we had the Internet in 96...😂😂 I didn't have a cell phone and I certainly didn't know we had cyber cafe😮

    • @doylescordy
      @doylescordy Рік тому +3

      I had heard something about it from a friend in 1996, but didn't really comprehend it. First time I used it was around 1997.

  • @blast4me754
    @blast4me754 Рік тому +20

    Imagine being able to go back in time and seeing people that are now dead alive again. I think if I went back I would be smiling and awkwardly hugging everybody.

    • @fventura03
      @fventura03 Рік тому +1

      these people most likely arent dead, 😅

    • @blast4me754
      @blast4me754 Рік тому

      ​@@fventura03I wouldn't be surprised if 30 percent of the 1996 population has died off by now.

    • @tennillej9601
      @tennillej9601 Рік тому

      @@blast4me754I'm not dead I was alive back then

  • @txterbug
    @txterbug Рік тому +3

    I cannot believe that dude was trying to search the operating system for the web url 😂 god damn that is hilarious

  • @musatori
    @musatori Рік тому +2

    The act of "figuring it out" through trial and error, an important step of learning some people today would laugh at. Not me.

  • @SFranklin
    @SFranklin Рік тому +2

    Imagine looking back on this now and knowing you were in this video trying to open the internet in the file directory 😂

  • @DJNurseAnnabella
    @DJNurseAnnabella Рік тому +8

    I definitely remember when cyber cafes were all the rage during the late 90s/early 00s. Before I owned a computer that's where I went to look at the net besides school. This looks like it could also be from 2004 lol.

    • @paratext
      @paratext Рік тому

      I somewhat agree but you can tell it's definitely very early late '90's based on the chic fashion trends and even the mellow social etiquette of the time. 2004 had the same video quality but had a more dark romantic feel to it.

    • @LetharG
      @LetharG Рік тому +2

      @@paratext I once had very soft hard candy, turns out they were left by the window.
      In '04 folks would shoot in 720p (or at least 480p on DVD or SD card) semi-profesionally. With respect to the hue, I remember a cold yellowish hue in '04 but that might just be PAL. Warm romantic notes were more the purview of the early 90s.

  • @trustnoone3007
    @trustnoone3007 Рік тому +7

    Wow this Vampire Robot is just everywhere..... He could be inside my home while looking over my shoulder as I'm watching this video now. 😳 !!!!!! 👀🔪 (😬 This is worse than *SCREAM* )

    • @vampirerobot
      @vampirerobot  Рік тому +3

      Nothing is worse than Scream...4 🤣🤣

  • @cartwrightworm1317
    @cartwrightworm1317 Рік тому +4

    I didn’t even know what the internet was until I was a senior in high school in 1998.

  • @oldtwinsna8347
    @oldtwinsna8347 Рік тому +6

    Amazing, no google back then. Social media was not a term but the concept crudely existed on some sites. Most computers could not play mp3 files as they were too weak and video was limited to grainy postage stamp sized images for a few seconds. Ecommerce, while it existed, was not ruled like it is today by the big players and so you most definitely could not find rely on it for day to day purchases but only niche items.

  • @photadyta
    @photadyta Рік тому +2

    lol searching for a webpage in the search feature under start… bless his heart

  • @drfoulcheesevirus
    @drfoulcheesevirus Рік тому +6

    I wish we could go back to before the world was ruined by computers.

    • @TheAbandonedAccount7
      @TheAbandonedAccount7 Рік тому +5

      it wasnt ruined by computers, it was ruined by smart phones, and partly the internet

  • @akbarshabazz-jenkins7847
    @akbarshabazz-jenkins7847 Рік тому +6

    Fast forward almost 30 years and I'm still having trouble with the World Wide Web everytime I try to use Dunkin' Donuts' "free" Wifi

  • @supersmallchibiwolf872
    @supersmallchibiwolf872 Рік тому +10

    Although It was limited to what can be done compared to today the history of computers is interesting. I love watching the reactions of people trying to figure out what we all find so easy to use today. I remember the early 2000's internet and I'm happy to have experienced It. Cool video. ^_^

  • @BWItoATXF
    @BWItoATXF Рік тому +4

    Looking for the HTML file on the C drive. Primitive computer troubleshooting. ❤

  • @hhhhhh-vj2uc
    @hhhhhh-vj2uc Рік тому +5

    The struggle was real.

  • @stephanietipple8331
    @stephanietipple8331 Рік тому +6

    Have been thinking a lot about the person that had the wherewithal to film these. What comes to mind as someone that worked in media, is that these were B-roll clips for a project or to be sold/used for movies and broadcast news. Would love to know more about the videographer.
    Born in 1992, and this is such a nice nostalgia channel.

  • @mikeandstony
    @mikeandstony Рік тому +4

    "come, waste your life, time and meet bad people from other places!"

  • @chrishince8947
    @chrishince8947 Рік тому +4

    I remember back then it was from around $5 to $10 an hour to go online!

  • @TheBigRagooDOTcom
    @TheBigRagooDOTcom Рік тому +1

    I remember my dad bringing home Doom for our computer. Changed my life

  • @ObiWanBillKenobi
    @ObiWanBillKenobi Рік тому +3

    1:25 Wow! Smoking indoors in an eating establishment! 😲🚭 I sure don't miss that!

  • @dmsjca
    @dmsjca Рік тому +2

    The pre 1996 videos, before the computer screens, show
    a level of human interaction that we don't see anymore.
    Now everybody just stares into a screen, shut out from
    the world that goes by.

  • @danielsantana540
    @danielsantana540 Рік тому +5

    In the 90 s I never had a computer. I got my first pc In early 2001

    • @SJHFoto
      @SJHFoto Рік тому +2

      I'm kind of like you (but older). In the 80s, I had a Commodore 64, I learned Basic, and was a pretty hot programmer, but the 90s were a tech void for me. I am a photographer, and only got a computer in 2003 when I went to digital from film. Windows and all that stuff were totally foreign to me

  • @xnotx2
    @xnotx2 Рік тому +4

    Funny that he is looking for a website on his boot partition (C:).
    Maybe he should try to open up IE 😁

  • @VanillatheRabbitLady98
    @VanillatheRabbitLady98 Рік тому +2

    This was filmed the same year my parents got married and my older brother was born later in November. I kind of remember these computers because my dad had a computer at home similar to these when I was really little. I was born in 98 a couple years after this was made. Its so nice to see what life was like before I came along.

  • @MrNateDD
    @MrNateDD Рік тому +2

    Me at a Cyber-Cafe... *quietly installs Duke Nukem 3D*

  • @brianhoffman8055
    @brianhoffman8055 Рік тому +2

    I use to travel often, many different countries in the late 90’s and early 2000 before WiFi. After getting a hotel or hostel I would find the newest cyber cafe. :)

  • @JClaus1221
    @JClaus1221 Рік тому +4

    The year before AOL went monthly cost and changed the entire world. Would say it changed for the better, but hey It didn't.

  • @maxsanchez764
    @maxsanchez764 Рік тому +7

    Nowadays the public library is basically modern cybercafe

    • @vampirerobot
      @vampirerobot  Рік тому +2

      😂😂

    • @maxsanchez764
      @maxsanchez764 Рік тому +2

      @@vampirerobot but thats true right? I can’t think of any place else

    • @vampirerobot
      @vampirerobot  Рік тому

      @@maxsanchez764 Not anywhere I live.

    • @anahitaazadeh3449
      @anahitaazadeh3449 10 місяців тому

      Libraries that have a cafe right next to it or attached >>>>>>

  • @jayydel
    @jayydel Рік тому +2

    Imagine if one of them casually pulls up youtube and winks at the camera

  • @thundorkat
    @thundorkat Рік тому +9

    So wild seeing those giant CRT monitors.

  • @user-tm8jt2py3d
    @user-tm8jt2py3d Рік тому +10

    This is such an emotional scene, just watching some people living in my childhood era.

  • @daved1535
    @daved1535 Рік тому +4

    I didn't even know how to get on the internet in 1996. I got my 1st computer in 2003

  • @alvesrenanmusic
    @alvesrenanmusic 11 місяців тому +1

    I'm a bit triggered after almost 2 minutes of trying to access a website in many wrong ways as possible 😂

  • @Shamanicjourney7
    @Shamanicjourney7 Рік тому +2

    I remember my first Compaq computer and we had dial up. Lol

  • @joshuahsimons9587
    @joshuahsimons9587 Рік тому +2

    27 years later and i have the same issue at times

  • @T1544767
    @T1544767 7 місяців тому

    This channel makes me realize why the machines in The Matrix made the simulated world set in 1999.
    Heck, if there was a simulated 1999, I'd want to live in it too.

  • @emily5968
    @emily5968 Рік тому

    I have no clue why you made these, but I am so glad you did❤

  • @brian8072
    @brian8072 Рік тому +3

    Listen dude I know it sounds crazy but I think you're somehow you are going back in time and filming these locations

  • @benjammin7700
    @benjammin7700 Рік тому +2

    Those keyboard keys wore your fingers out after a while.

  • @danielsantana540
    @danielsantana540 Рік тому +2

    1996 vector man released for sega genesis. A great follow up to 1995 vector man. In which I got both titles

  • @orektez
    @orektez Рік тому +2

    imagine putting a url into windows search ha

  • @rose-marie3330
    @rose-marie3330 Рік тому +1

    Was born in 96 😛 thank you to show tapes the year I was born;

  • @toadsage
    @toadsage Рік тому +2

    This video is almost older than I am! I was born in April of 1996

  • @misfits_brenden2493
    @misfits_brenden2493 Рік тому +2

    I collectibles watched all your videos very great back time :)

  • @1956kirk
    @1956kirk Рік тому +2

    The cameraman was great. Like a fly on the wall in a cyber-cafe in 1996. I really wonder if anyone knew he was there.

  • @tinasmith1391
    @tinasmith1391 Рік тому +16

    My favorite thing about this video is the people walking by outside. Not a single cell phone to be seen. A video of people walking on a busy sidewalk in the 1990s would be a nice vid too. So much different than how it looks today.

    • @folksurvival
      @folksurvival Рік тому +2

      There's an HD video of New York from 1993 with busy sidewalk scenes.

    • @willgibson8534
      @willgibson8534 Рік тому +1

      I had a cell phone in 96 when this video is from, sooooooo did many other people pal!!

  • @deedee.796
    @deedee.796 Рік тому +1

    It's so cool seeing how computers were from the year that I was born.

  • @ScottSpotMedia
    @ScottSpotMedia Рік тому +1

    I spent many hours at cyber cafe back in the day. It was a different time. I also remember the bigger Internet cafe on 42nd St. easyinternetcafe. No smart phones and you had to go to a computer to check email.

  • @paulrus-keaton439
    @paulrus-keaton439 8 місяців тому

    Bless that 90s man's heart.

  • @Nickg222
    @Nickg222 Рік тому +15

    No one there knew how to use an internet browser? Trying to look up a website under “find files?” , too funny lol

    • @mesicek7
      @mesicek7 Рік тому +3

      He was trying to find history folder probably from netscape navigator.

    • @vampirerobot
      @vampirerobot  Рік тому +1

      Let's hope so Mahone!

  • @MarkMeadows90
    @MarkMeadows90 Рік тому +1

    Dave's Archives has been sharing your videos on his live streams on Friday nights. I saw this video on there and had to come back here and comment. I remember when my dad first got internet access. We didn't have internet cafes in my hometown. Hasn't really been a thing.
    But yeah, we experimented with different internet services. Forgot what year we first got internet though. Had to have been sometime in 96-97. We tried AOL, NetZero, Earthlink, and a few free ones I can't name on top of my head. We had 56K modem most of the time. Always remembered how slow it was to download large files and images. Would take an eternity! LOL

    • @vampirerobot
      @vampirerobot  Рік тому +1

      Yes it took forever Mark. It was excruciating...however at the time we didn't know much better.
      If I recall, you had the Internet early because of your father's job.
      I'll have to look up Dave's Archives... don't even know who that is. Thanks for letting me know 😊

    • @MarkMeadows90
      @MarkMeadows90 Рік тому +2

      @@vampirerobot Dave's Archives is a good UA-cam channel. He's got videos of old commercials from the 70s to the early to mid 2000s. All from tape transfers he edits. Good quality stuff!

    • @vampirerobot
      @vampirerobot  Рік тому +1

      @@MarkMeadows90 I think you told me about him awhile ago. I will check him out

  • @LeesReviews69
    @LeesReviews69 Рік тому +1

    I’m glad smoking indoors looks extremely weird and bad nowadays. But it was cool back then

  • @newworldman2112
    @newworldman2112 Рік тому +1

    Even in 1996 I would have been laughing at the guy thinking a web site is a file.

  • @ObiWanBillKenobi
    @ObiWanBillKenobi Рік тому +2

    3:53 Putting the URL into the file name field in the find file window with drive C selected as the search region. Oh, boy. 😑

  • @ObiWanBillKenobi
    @ObiWanBillKenobi Рік тому +2

    This was the year that Ken and Roberta Williams sold Sierra for one billion dollars.

  • @satanicaleve
    @satanicaleve Рік тому

    This dude here is using the window search function to try to open a website. This made me chuckle

  • @d_hurl
    @d_hurl Рік тому +2

    In a lil over a few years from this I'd be having CS LAN parties w/my buddies @ one of these places. *_Killing Spree!_*
    Never ordered a single coffee from one though.

  • @nerdbamarich2063
    @nerdbamarich2063 Рік тому +2

    Wonderful footage

  • @newatlantisrepublic6844
    @newatlantisrepublic6844 6 місяців тому

    1996 the year of ID4

  • @bulgingbattery2050
    @bulgingbattery2050 Рік тому +1

    Get ready, get set, we're surfing on the internet.

  • @darkseraphim6793
    @darkseraphim6793 Рік тому +1

    Love this.

  • @Carnage551
    @Carnage551 Рік тому +1

    Gotta love it champ!!!!

  • @WilliamTell1313
    @WilliamTell1313 Рік тому +1

    Bro is tryna find a web site on the C drive LMAO.

  • @jclark2019
    @jclark2019 Рік тому +1

    Those effing 200 pound monitors! Smoking at the cafe is a national pastime!

  • @MindsWithoutBorders
    @MindsWithoutBorders Рік тому

    Time Traveler at its finest, amazing!

  • @danielsantana540
    @danielsantana540 Рік тому +2

    In grand theft auto 4 xbox 360 ps3 game you can visit an internet Cafe. In fact In one mission its a requirement

  • @BALtimore2001
    @BALtimore2001 Рік тому +6

    Apparently, this dude here is a time traveller.

    • @vampirerobot
      @vampirerobot  Рік тому +6

      I wish. I would go back to 1996 and just stay there!

    • @BALtimore2001
      @BALtimore2001 Рік тому +2

      @@vampirerobot Me too!!

  • @trevour
    @trevour Рік тому +3

    4:35 Can’t find this dang Slate URL as a file… how about if we add a couple more slashes to it and search again? Surely that will give results!

  • @Camaro69z
    @Camaro69z Рік тому

    8:20
    "Father, I'm going to show you how the world wide cyber webz work."
    "Gosh my dear Gershwin........ This is quite the swell randoms of 1's and 0's I tell ya!"