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@@stc2828 I knew the "Nigerian Prince scam" was at least as old as email (heck, Fairly OddParents referenced it once from early 00's and you know that means it had to have been at least started in the 90s). But when I looked it up on Wikipedia, they have a link to an old news article from 1898 about a variant "Spanish prisoner scam"
Did you keep watching and forget to eat? Are you still alive? If you don’t respond in a timely manner we can only assume you have been dead for the past 4 years
If you didn't think the US government was logging internet searches then you're a moron. How did you think it worked when you googled a product and then got add for it for the next 2 weeks; if Google AdSense can get your data no shit the government can and will. When the whole Snowden thing happened all I remember thinking is "no shit".
@@MonaLisaHasNoEyebrows You also knew they know literally everything about you and can turn on your camera without you knowing? That they know where you are all the time? Sure.
@@JAnx01 A few off the top of my head (as of the time I'm making this comment anyway, in early 2023): -MySpace as the main social network of the time. Today, MySpace has far fewer users. Facebook existed back then, but now much more popular, and TikTok didn't even exist in 2007. -The 4:3 CRT monitor of the guy who crashed the internet. 16:9 LCD/LED flat monitors are much more common. (Laptops and smartphones are also much more common than desktops today.) -Tony Snow as press secretary. -The handouts replacing emails on the street being email forwards with diet tips and "pass this on to X people, and don't forget the person who sent it to you!" Social networks took over this aspect of "email forwards". -America's Funniest Home Videos (AFV) to make up for UA-cam UA-cam was not as monetized and content-rich as it is now, so the content included a lot of things you might find on AFV instead. -Steve Jobs still alive to meet with other "Internet power players". He is dead.
@@Apodeipnon @AaronThePerson "Craig of Craigslist" is funny for a multitude of reasons but one of many would be his identification as an important internet figure alongside Steve Jobs and Bill Gates .. Aside from the fact that up until about a year ago Craigslist was primarily used to purchase the service of a fine, young prostitute in your local area lmao
Hey it's great to see people are still watching these old Onion videos. I remember watching this one when it just got uploaded in 2008. It's pretty scary to see how a lot of this satire is actually reality today. Anyway, I hope you all have a great day 🙂
0:35 "Extras strike continues in background" these headlines are so underrated and it's so worth watching these videos to see the main story then the headlines haha
Some specifics like MySpace and Steve Jobs are dated, but the jokes still hold up. There's still Nigerian scams, people watch silly videos about dogs, and all that. And it's still funny as hell.
I would honestly be relieved if the entire internet crashed, because it would force me to do things offline and I'm incapable of doing that voluntarily
@@qtulhoo If the world's internet crashes you have the inner peace that you are on the same page as rest of the world like the facebook and apps crash last month.
this painfully reminded me of when i dropped on the floor a hard disk that contained a 5 years worth of full pc backup after i had reinstalled the windows. it had uni essays that i still need, graphic designs i had worked on, and, the most painful one to lose, all dorm memories such as pics and videos. i'm so mad at myself rn
If you really needed those things, you wouldve done everything you needed to .. to double back them up. Think about it, if it was government files that could save the world, would you put all of it in one harddrive? Nah. Your heart is looking for something bigger in life. Much bigger than anything ur even slightly holding onto with that stuff. Chinese word for failure contains the same characters for opportunity. A life with no regrets my friend.. be well.
If all internet history was permanently deleted in 2007: Oh no, my Myspace and memes. If all internet history was permanently deleted in 2019: Hell yeah, my Facebook and memes.
He was a mac user. That's a Gen 5 iMac. Would have topped out at 512MB of RAM with a 2.1GHz PowerPC (single-core?) CPU. For context, a Raspberry Pi 4B has four cores that can be pushed to that clock, and up to 16x the RAM.
Ah yes, the great internet crash of ‘07! Anyone else actually old enough to remember this? Today’s internet users are so young, I guess most of the original users left after the crash.
you see, kids, when this video was made, 15 years ago, that amount of activity on a personal computer was considered impossible. unlike today, when everyone does it during a typical day on your phone.
That's true. Everyone had to read the 473 page manuel to make sure, if they use the internet, they don't break it. But this guy didn't, and then broke the internet. And then we had to start from scratch.
I'm currently watching this video while screen sharing to my friend on discord and chatting with someone on Messenger, updating 10 games on steam, listening to Spotify in the background, and being muted in a zoom class I'm not even paying attention to. I'm currently also downloading a few episodes of a show on Netflix to my phone, and scrolling through TikTok. Prepare for the 2021 internet crash guys!
@@dontspikemydrink9382 Two years late: the joke is that a lot of exchanges coordinated over Craigslist were done in parking lots in broad daylight out of fear that the other person was trying to scam and/or murder the other. Appreciate your handle, btw. Feels apt for this conversation.
Web crash of 2021: thousands of people took to the streets of America's cities and towns to hand out leaflets on what celbrities are mad about today and who is cancealed this weak. Cable news stations begin 3 day celebritory brodcast of a big middle finger, captioned "what are you going to do now bitch, I know you're not reading the fucking paper."
I love how this doesn't sound as crazy as the real story of the grandma who accidentally shut down Armenia's internet after cutting a cable to sell the copper
For those doubting this, yes, it was a Georgian woman, and she took down internet for all of Armenia. How a single individual could take down the internet for an entire country on the other side of the world just speaks to how deeply complex the modern Internet is. And yes, that's the joke.
John Smith It's weird that I'm 2 years people can say "it's 2020 and I still find this funny" I can't believe it's nearly the 2020s. Actually I remember when I thought 2015 looked weird and futuristic
I once had around 59 pages open on a Pokemon site, on a Windows XP home computer. ...I had to log off after each of those 59 interactions. But in other news....a 24 hour channel of AFV would be amazing!!! :O
Lol, 94% of Nigeria's GDP came from "Internet ventures".
Calvin Hodgson 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@DannyDaDuffyDucking Daffer I didn't know Nigeria scam was famous early as 2008.
@@stc2828 I knew the "Nigerian Prince scam" was at least as old as email (heck, Fairly OddParents referenced it once from early 00's and you know that means it had to have been at least started in the 90s). But when I looked it up on Wikipedia, they have a link to an old news article from 1898 about a variant "Spanish prisoner scam"
@@classycogs7571
Yes.
In Nigeria sometimes we call those fraudsters
"Yahoo boys"
The prince
Loving the “35 tabs open” bit and its implication that that’s NOT a totally normal thing for a college student
I have 717 tabs open. Firefox makes that pretty easy. Scrolling back through them feels like archeology.
thats the joke
@@gayjoebiden It is! And I loved that joke.
I remember the days when I thought you were sick if you had *five* tabs open. Now I just try to avoid the dreaded "99+" on my phone's browser...
well it was 15 years ago
I'm in an Onion youtube black hole I cant get out of.
Did you ever get out human from 3 years ago? Send help?
@@katies7158 there’s no way out
Did you keep watching and forget to eat? Are you still alive?
If you don’t respond in a timely manner we can only assume you have been dead for the past 4 years
Just stay
Its a good black hole
"in los angeles actors strike enters third week; extras strike continues in baackground"
That was 10 years ago. What's your current status? 😂😂
@@yusufaden5401 ikr
And then, thanks to Edward Snowden, we found that they actually had backed up the internet after all...
@Spitfire rEaD tHaT aGaIn BuT sLoWlY
NSA is typing...
If you didn't think the US government was logging internet searches then you're a moron. How did you think it worked when you googled a product and then got add for it for the next 2 weeks; if Google AdSense can get your data no shit the government can and will. When the whole Snowden thing happened all I remember thinking is "no shit".
john quinn there’s always an asshat who can’t see a joke but an opportunity to stretch his e-peen about knowing basic things.
@@MonaLisaHasNoEyebrows You also knew they know literally everything about you and can turn on your camera without you knowing? That they know where you are all the time? Sure.
No worries. The porn was not lost. I keep a full backup copy of all porn on the internet.
that must be a very illegal back up
You are doing God's work.
THANK YOU! I was worried about that, actually.
E...even Boko No Picu?
Bluestarfan10 yes even Boku No Pico.
You know it's 2008 when you see AIM and MSN
***** AIM whats that XD
+Cuppa Joe And MySpace, of course.
Pop-Culture Reference Johnson those cjat apoa are for cumbags
And MySpace!!
I miss msn. =/
A timeless Onion classic
Juan Carlos Santisteban this is in no way timeless lol it’s really dated
Chiron Yeetus it is dated, but it's also timeless. It's dated because of the references used, it's timeless because of the reactions discussed.
@@user-dq4yr4wl8x
How can it be dated?
@@user-dq4yr4wl8x we will still be watching this in another 2 years
@@JAnx01
A few off the top of my head (as of the time I'm making this comment anyway, in early 2023):
-MySpace as the main social network of the time.
Today, MySpace has far fewer users. Facebook existed back then, but now much more popular, and TikTok didn't even exist in 2007.
-The 4:3 CRT monitor of the guy who crashed the internet.
16:9 LCD/LED flat monitors are much more common. (Laptops and smartphones are also much more common than desktops today.)
-Tony Snow as press secretary.
-The handouts replacing emails on the street being email forwards with diet tips and "pass this on to X people, and don't forget the person who sent it to you!"
Social networks took over this aspect of "email forwards".
-America's Funniest Home Videos (AFV) to make up for UA-cam
UA-cam was not as monetized and content-rich as it is now, so the content included a lot of things you might find on AFV instead.
-Steve Jobs still alive to meet with other "Internet power players".
He is dead.
"Disney announces plans to re-release song of the south with 30 never-before-seen minutes of racism" Bruh
And now they’ve cucked themselves by putting trigger warnings and banning episodes
"CIA says release of Al-Quaeda 'Best of' video suggests terrorist group running out of ideas"
kai young The Song Of The South isn’t even remotely racist.
@@lentisdophlu5357 hum hello?
@@Game_Hero Hi
Craig of Craigslist!!! 😂😂😂😂
whats so funny? hes a real guy
The founder of Craigslist is literally called craig iirc
@@Apodeipnon @AaronThePerson "Craig of Craigslist" is funny for a multitude of reasons but one of many would be his identification as an important internet figure alongside Steve Jobs and Bill Gates .. Aside from the fact that up until about a year ago Craigslist was primarily used to purchase the service of a fine, young prostitute in your local area lmao
tim apple
@@Apodeipnon, I think his name is Craig Newmark.
"an archaic telephone-line-based network of low-quality printers"... that always cracks me up!
Hey it's great to see people are still watching these old Onion videos. I remember watching this one when it just got uploaded in 2008. It's pretty scary to see how a lot of this satire is actually reality today. Anyway, I hope you all have a great day 🙂
Merry xmas
how many views did the videos get back in the day?
Love the old videos
Huh?
“It’s pretty scary to see how a lot of this satire is actually reality today”
Title of video: All internet data is lost
Very real
FAKE !
So many programs and applications and there was no even one, EVEN ONE porn site in the browser?! Look at this guy. Look at him!
Ronald Mcdonald Very cool.
I wonder if any of my comments will have random threads 4 years later
@@theoreticalphysics3644 I got you
ERROR 404, page not found
his a disgrace to humankind
I love how they call fax machines “An archaic telephone line based network of low quality printers” 😂😂😂
0:35 "Extras strike continues in background" these headlines are so underrated and it's so worth watching these videos to see the main story then the headlines haha
35 tabs; let me check. Just my phone has 78 tabs open.
I can handle a house full of dust and dishes, but 10 or so tabs is my limit. I'll organize that shit long before my taxes.
I've got over 300 open on my Android right now...I'm thinking I should maybe close those.
@@irishjet2687 you should probably just throw your phone away.
@@irishjet2687 lol you monster
How far we've come since 2008.
I love how wonderfully dated this is now.
I love how this is 2008 and they talk about faxes as "ancient technology". I moved to Germany and they still use it here in 2021!
Some specifics like MySpace and Steve Jobs are dated, but the jokes still hold up. There's still Nigerian scams, people watch silly videos about dogs, and all that. And it's still funny as hell.
@@Domihork the wheel is ancient tech and we use it today in 2022 so
I miss those days it as more fun
Yeah, "the blogging community" used to be a thing! lol
"Craig of Craig's List" 😆😆
I laughed at that too! I would never have thought...
Oh my goodness I just googled it and the founder of Craigslist is actually called Craig 🤣🤣🤣
As a Nigerian, I gotta say that line was savagely funny Hahahaha
I just saw another comment on a different video where you were swedish.
@@josephharmon1286 Yeah and he was Mexican in that Taco video
@@Playerism Don't you ever speak to me or my wife's son again.
419 eh?
@@josephharmon1286 Swedish? Abeg oh, no be me...
I would honestly be relieved if the entire internet crashed, because it would force me to do things offline and I'm incapable of doing that voluntarily
Tell us your IP and I am sure someone could boot you off.
@@qtulhoo If the world's internet crashes you have the inner peace that you are on the same page as rest of the world like the facebook and apps crash last month.
@@GunwantBhambra It's clearly a joke chutiya
@@ouroboro266 not asked
Literally Me
"I feel like cntrl+alt+del-ing myself"
same lmao
this painfully reminded me of when i dropped on the floor a hard disk that contained a 5 years worth of full pc backup after i had reinstalled the windows. it had uni essays that i still need, graphic designs i had worked on, and, the most painful one to lose, all dorm memories such as pics and videos. i'm so mad at myself rn
If you really needed those things, you wouldve done everything you needed to .. to double back them up. Think about it, if it was government files that could save the world, would you put all of it in one harddrive? Nah. Your heart is looking for something bigger in life. Much bigger than anything ur even slightly holding onto with that stuff.
Chinese word for failure contains the same characters for opportunity.
A life with no regrets my friend.. be well.
@@baloog8 L
I'm sure it was recoverable if you had paid a data recovery firm a few hundred bucks.
Oh no! Much love to you... I'm sorry that had to happen!
...pick it up?
When you're watching this in 2019 for pure nostalgia...
Right? So many memories and good feelings filling my veins. Wait nope that's dope. Sorry.
And they still have fax machines in use...
When playing wow wow square yellow cat on ur pops old compute stopped anything else connected to the internet to work
In 2020 we watch with fear knowing that it's only a matter of time before the internet crashes .
this was made just before the 2008 crash
just think about that
This video will never get old.
Yup
It gets older with every passing day
If all internet history was permanently deleted in 2007: Oh no, my Myspace and memes.
If all internet history was permanently deleted in 2019: Hell yeah, my Facebook and memes.
You want your memes deleted? What kind of a monster are you sir?
@@TCt83067695 Its impossible to imagine what life must have been like BCV before corona virus
@@magnusanderson6681 BCV 🤣🤦🏾♂️😂
Oh my gosh I'm stealing that
@@TCt83067695 not if I steal it first
@@onoff4244 dammit. Didn't see that coming.
2:06 Nigeria's complete economic collapse over it's internet ventures LOL.
Great vid:)
"actors strike enters 3rd week but extras strike in the background" nicely done
Also the guy that deleted the internet looks just perfect
"downloading Yo La Tengos discography" lmaoo that's literally me
I love that having 35 tabs open used to be a comically and unrealistically large number. I've got 85 open on my _phone_ right now. 😂
Please, don't break the internet again.
i lowkey have 360 open 0-0
35 arecway too fucking many. 16 is still too much. Kerp it to four and close the tabs you don't need right now
@@RealYuri2009 I'd love to, but I'm a hoarder. The call of "but what if I need it later?!" is much too strong... =,(
@@RealYuri2009I have more than three thousand tabs open across 50 windows and there is nothing you can do to stop me.
Remember this is 2008, the average new computer ran Vista and had only 1-2gb of ram, while most people were using XP computers on 256-512mb of ram.
i was very lost until i read mb, im ashamed of myself for that one
Yeah how the fuck did he have that many tabs open? Web bloat isn't a new thing. Remember Flash? That was at its peak back then.
He was a mac user. That's a Gen 5 iMac. Would have topped out at 512MB of RAM with a 2.1GHz PowerPC (single-core?) CPU. For context, a Raspberry Pi 4B has four cores that can be pushed to that clock, and up to 16x the RAM.
Probably the funniest Onion vid. They don't make them like this anymore.
say no to Democide : Nigeria gross product 94% collapsed. Hahahaha!!!
Optimus6128 94% of GDP from "Internet ventures" ;-)
say no to Democide Hey, I was referring to part of the video, making fun of Nigerian mails.
Onion is still on top of their game
Haha, you think THAT was the low point?
2:34 The "pass this on to 7 people" flyer lol
Ah yes, the great internet crash of ‘07! Anyone else actually old enough to remember this? Today’s internet users are so young, I guess most of the original users left after the crash.
Lost all my Limewire p2p content 😢
RIP Megaupload.
This video is a time capsule of my wasted youth.
That supercomputer must have been running a whole 4 gigs of ram
"They are so mad at themselves right now.."
Gotta love Onion news :P
This is the first Onion video I ever watched, and it is still one of my favorites.
you see, kids, when this video was made, 15 years ago, that amount of activity on a personal computer was considered impossible. unlike today, when everyone does it during a typical day on your phone.
That's true.
Everyone had to read the 473 page manuel to make sure, if they use the internet, they don't break it.
But this guy didn't, and then broke the internet.
And then we had to start from scratch.
Yep and it’s ruining our society. The average American spends 5 hours a day on their phone and that’s a problem :(
I'm currently watching this video while screen sharing to my friend on discord and chatting with someone on Messenger, updating 10 games on steam, listening to Spotify in the background, and being muted in a zoom class I'm not even paying attention to. I'm currently also downloading a few episodes of a show on Netflix to my phone, and scrolling through TikTok. Prepare for the 2021 internet crash guys!
It’s crazy seeing all those old logos for things we used to use back in the day. I miss that AOL logo. Damn, what a throwback.
What sounded scary in 2007 would probably be the best thing for humanity if it happened today
100% thought 33 of those tabs was going to be porn.
"And Craig of Craigslist"
I laughed so hard at that!
"Always meant to get around to making one" :D
The thing with the backup is so true... you always say your gonna backup everything, until it's too late.
Yo la Tengo discography? At least it was a noble crash.
Exactly I can’t judge the guy for trying
I FEEL LIKE CTRL+ALT+DEL-ing MYSELF
Don’t we all...
Truly ahead of his time
Here in 2019 we can have 4 computers or more in a house doing double of what he did to crash the internet and have no issues
Please place this video in a time capsule for future generations, the future runs on Onion
If they're inviting Craigslist Craig, I hope the conference center is in a public place near a police station.
y?
@@dontspikemydrink9382 Two years late: the joke is that a lot of exchanges coordinated over Craigslist were done in parking lots in broad daylight out of fear that the other person was trying to scam and/or murder the other.
Appreciate your handle, btw. Feels apt for this conversation.
Damn I miss 2007 😭
Well...have you tried turning it off and on again?
They did it again. They keep predicting the future.
Yea, RIP the internet lel
Ironically that guy doing all that stuff on his computer is something we here in 2020 can do now lol. How PC's have changed.
How's that onion taste?
@@r3ked272 They didn't eat the onion, idiot. They're commenting on how dated the joke seems now in the future.
You could do all that in 2007 as well. Computers haven't changed that much since then.
2:22
Web crash of 2019: "The TV network ABC has begun seizing people's property to fill the void left by UA-cam."
Web crash of 2021: thousands of people took to the streets of America's cities and towns to hand out leaflets on what celbrities are mad about today and who is cancealed this weak. Cable news stations begin 3 day celebritory brodcast of a big middle finger, captioned "what are you going to do now bitch, I know you're not reading the fucking paper."
craig of craigslist
Craig
Of
@@ronture8279 cragislist
I love how this doesn't sound as crazy as the real story of the grandma who accidentally shut down Armenia's internet after cutting a cable to sell the copper
For those doubting this, yes, it was a Georgian woman, and she took down internet for all of Armenia.
How a single individual could take down the internet for an entire country on the other side of the world just speaks to how deeply complex the modern Internet is.
And yes, that's the joke.
@@GSBarlevGeorgia the country or the united state
@@goatdeer8403 Yes
@@goatdeer8403 Given that she turned off the Amernian internet, obviously the country
Craig from Craigslist lmfao
Fun fun fun into funny
Just unplug it and plug it back in.
You all missed the most important information. Can't wait for the gay sex only bathrooms!
When you wrote this the news would have even been relevant because JCP had just declared bankruptcy and closed 200 stores...
its 2015 and i still find this funny.
2017 and still gold. The Onion is timeless.
John Smith
It's weird that I'm 2 years people can say "it's 2020 and I still find this funny"
I can't believe it's nearly the 2020s. Actually I remember when I thought 2015 looked weird and futuristic
Hydra Jamm
Yeah, and then 2030 will look old.
get on my level its 2019 and I still find this funny
Early September 2019 chumps
Hello everyone! Is Eric Tipton at it again?
"Ctr-Alt-Deleting myself" lol im crying
Larry here was fortunately offline at that time, having downloaded everything intended and having saved and made backups of such downloads
The onion feels like GTA radio
Lol tru
This was the first Onion video I ever saw 10 years ago. I truthfully thought it was real
Until you realized you were watching it on UA-cam, so it couldn't be, but then you realized you'd downloaded it and it actually was the case!
You watched a video on a functional Internet and thought the whole Ineternet was gone? Were you eight?
@@safe-keeper1042 well it was in 2007, so not too far off lol
I'm more surprised his computer didn't burst into flames. My god.
2007: Internet crash
2008: Market crash
OHMYGOD!!! I really can't believe that there's even a discussion of whether or not this could be real.
Of course its real!
Where’s that discussion? You’re making it up.
I once had around 59 pages open on a Pokemon site, on a Windows XP home computer. ...I had to log off after each of those 59 interactions. But in other news....a 24 hour channel of AFV would be amazing!!! :O
Did you try unplugging the cable and plugging it back in? How about control alternate delete?
Man said, “I feel like Control, Alt, Deleting myself…. 😂😂😂😂
That character is not Linus. That character's name is "5".
The video froze and broke down at 2:03. OH THE IRONY
I’m still waiting on this to happen in 2022.
12 years later and here we are
if 35 windows crashes the worlds internet and deletes everything just one teacher's computer should end the universe
MySpace still better than Facebook.
That was close, just checked and I have only 34 tabs, discord, steam and spotify running.
lol "Disney announces plans to re-release Song of the South with 30 never before seen minutes of racism"
"and Craig of Craigslist."
haha
So this is where South Park got the idea for the No Internet Episode!
tails230 f
f
F
actually, no.
In South Park, no data was really lost. Only the main internet router was crashed and needed a reboot, which was eventually done.
@@xl000 You're the guy from the video who crashed the internet aren't you
"always meant to get around to making one" - Me before my hard drive failed.
I remember this, but I was lucky as I'd already downloaded nearly fifty megabytes of online data so I had a pretty good backup.
who else is here in 2019?
Yup
"I feel like ctrl-alt-deleting myself!"
I saw it in 2007 and I always find it funny and very well arranged. Congrats for the performance.
@ELREndLondonRule Well since the task manager is normally used to end a task or shutting down a program/computer itself, the relation isnt far off.
I unironically think this would be a good thing for humanity
I remember when cell phones and dial up exploded. It was the end of humanity.
I feel like I could live with this... seems like so many people have stuff on the Internet they regret, we need a redo lol
Ya no if this happened a global recession would w
Ensue
Ohhh, this just makes me miss Myspace.
Best summary of the early internet i've seen!
"i feel like ctrl-alt-deleting myself" lmao!
ikr lol
"they are so mad at themselves right now" LOOOL!
Why have I found these videos over a decade since they were uploaded
It's about to come true
@@starseed96 this just happened 😶
In 2023, we need this event to occur.
"i feel like control alt deleting myself" HAHA classic line xD
"Remembering Princess Di some more!" We'll get right on it after the AFV.
they are so committed to this bit that they upload the hollow point video again because it was deleted in the web crash
As soon as they said the Nigeria story, I immediately paused to see if the top comment was about that... and it was.
" .... and a startling upturn for the economy with more jobs that become available again due to this massive loss .."