trustnoone3007: My first reaction to your comment was "Look at this guy, being a simp"😁 But then I watched the video and yeah, her voice is soothing af
The internet was so cute and novel back then. "Write to Santa" is so charming compared to what we have now. Thanks for these great memories of the past Vampire Robot :)
I was 16 in 96 and this definitely bring back memories. Its crazy to watch her stumble through ordering online. Something we can do now in about 60 seconds.😂
I was 15 in 1996. I remember my first time going online using Netscape. It was in 1995 and I was in the 9th grade. I was at the library and they literally had a huge book just like the yellow pages but for websites. If it weren’t for those listings, I wouldn’t have known what to look for.
Hearing the hard drive spin while the screen was loading is a treasured memory. Crazy to remember my first Amazon order was in 1999. What a ride it's been.
My first Amazon order was in 1998. That’s when I set up my Amazon account. Back then it was because I used Amazon to buy text books for my university classes. It sure has been a ride! What I would do to go back! 😩
@@cristinalopera7030You'd prefer a time when simple graphical images took 5 minutes to load and the only way to access the Internet required a squaking dialup modem running at 14 kilobits per second?
I remember the first time i got on the internet via AOL in 2000. The two websites i frequented the most were Cartoon Network and WWF. The computer i used was my cousins iMac G3, my favorite computer still today. I was 8 going on 9 years old in 2000. Good memories.
I'm glad some people had the insight to film and document what we would consider such mundane tasks. I used to build small websites back in the late 90's / early 2000's and compared to today, it's like going from speaking Chinese to French. Back then, just knowing how to implement DHTML was impressive.
I was 9 at the time. Everything you did was special. Spent the day outside? Wonderful. You were present. No phones. Not even the thought of a phone to distract you or make you less present. Went inside to use the computer? Yeah, it took time to browse the early internet, but all of it was special. Every page, every image, and it was a lot more about discoveries. Every website was its own little world ready to be discovered. Everything you could do was a discovery. Far more creative, expressive and personalized back then. We felt more alive.
@@John_Lee_ I'm pretty sure there wasn't a term for it. I remember in the mid-90's getting drowsy watching certain teachers pass out worksheets... licking their finger with every paper flip. No wonder we fell asleep in class.
All these super cool things become pre-historic in blink of our eyes , i still remember the smell of unpacking my new compaq computer and loads of CDs coming along with it , we never know it was history in making
My father restores vintage cars and he said the hobby really changed in the 90s with Ebay. He has stories about buying car parts from Europe back in the mid 90s. He said that wasn't possible before the internet. In many cases, if you didn't know a person who knew a person who happened to see a particular car at the junk yard, most vintage cars didn't get restored or took forever to get restored. That all changed with the internet.
This is 100% accurate. I grew up scouring junkyards for parts with my dad for his 1969 VW Beetle convertible. You'd also just have to pull up to random stranger's houses on country roads if you happened to see a derelict VW sitting out in the yard and ask if they'd sell parts off it. I'd credit eBay/Yahoo Auctions for making it easier to sell car parts and other junk online easily.
Love it! Her opening the package, the relief that it was what she ordered, and the sound of that old computer hard drive. And you all remember how forever it took to load pages pre-DSL/cable? Wild! But that's what we did to explore what was then the Wild West.
I wonder if the reason people are so much more impatient and angry these days is the instantaneous nature of today's internet. A constant dopamine hit and instant gratification.
I went to high school from 1991 to 1995. I remember transitioning from flipping through card catalogs to being taught how to use the computer to look up library stuff. Then in college, they had some computers with something called CD-ROM.
Lmao the worst was when I was using the internet and someone would pick up the phone & cause the internet connection to drop. It would take forever for aol to connect again.
My freshman year in college. I bought a 14.4kbps external modem around this time for $140 after a $30 rebate. Everyone in my dorm wanted to borrow it to play Doom online. I just charged a flat rate per use and made my money back. 😄 Which I spent $340 "upgrading" my hard drive to 1.2GB in early 1997. 🤦♂️
@@poldarkpirahna5809 nothing wrong with longing for the past. It's called nostalgia. There were so many things better during this 80s and 90s than there are now. I could probably fill up an 8 x 10 page full of them.
I graduated from high school in 1996. Most of us didn't even know what the internet was in '96. It wasn't until '98 or so when most people started using it.
I was ahead of the times in 1995 with my brand new compaq presario all-in-one. parents: go forth into college and prosper with this thing. Me: ok let's see if this encyclopedia britannica CD rom can help me write my molecular biology assignment 💀 💀 💀 Meanwhile Elon is at Wharton a few blocks away.
I remember discovering AOL back in like 95 when I was 12 / 13. Getting into chat rooms and playing this word-based RPG called Dragon's Gate. Was hooked when I first got on it.
That's because she went to a site that had a subdomain (shop.) before its domain. If she had typed "www." which is a different subdomain before "shop." for the IBM store, it would have been a broken URL and not loaded.
The internet without social media and UA-cam. These where the basic simple times. The good old fashioned days. The era I grew up in. Look at the life we live in now. I'll do anything to go back in time and relive those great moments again.
@@thedopplereffect00 Honestly I wasn't always connected to the web. I didn't know too much about the internet during those days. Just enjoying my simple life growing up.
@@dinorosga9147 @dinorosga9147 I grew up in the 90's. I didn't know too much about the internet during those days and wasn't always connected to the web. Just having a simple life back then.
I remember when all of this was so new. I was 9. Basically every site looked like the one she showed, same quality. That didn't last long though, just a couple of years because it all developed so fast. Now we have it to thank for opening up competition with everyone else in the world for jobs and houses etc.
I used to play computer games on the internet with Disney Channel, Cartoon Network, PBS and My Scene with my sister and cousin. But that was in the 2000s.
My first purchase I ever made online was an African wood mask on Ebay when I was a kid in really 2000s. I was obsessed with tribal masks I’d like at pictures of them all day, I still have the one I bought. The idea of online shopping was unthinkable to us, now that’s almost the only way we shop. Amazon changed the whole game.
@@PraveenSrJ01 I think my father got it in 1997 or 1998 on his computer. He had Juno, and actually still had his Juno email account until the day he died. My first Internet service was Blue light (yes, the Kmart one lol!) I got that in 2000 and had it for a very long time! Until we got Wi-Fi in the late 2000s.
We’re so used to the internet now and have like a pre knowledge of how to use it etc and yet we forget there was like a decade of when the internet first started and everyone was learning how to use it So odd how something that is now so vast and endless, that seemed to have been always there had an exact start date not long ago. Incredible also this is giving ASMR lol
Imagine a world with no Google, Facebook or Amazon. No Tik Tok, Instagram, Snapchat or X. Imagine a world without people chained to cell phones. Imagine concerts and sporting events where people actually looked at the performers or athletes. Hard to believe it ever existed now.
Currently have my UA-cam up watching this video. Really appreciative of how fast the internet has gotten compared to this video. I literally typed camera in my safari on my iPhone and it zoomed to the products and had availability of picking up at local stores within the hour. It’s so beautiful to see the past but live in the future. Most people (unlike most of us) take these beautiful things for granted. “Life is but a dream”… 😊
Whats really interesting is how nobody really had "computer desks" back then. We just had our set up on the table or in a corner somewhere. Also, computer chairs werent even a thing back then, just hard oak and a pillow lol
Omg, this is the best thing ever. It almost feels like an elaborate parody channel, where they set and costume design everything and film it with an old camera.
I kinda remember as a kid when AOL looked like that. My dad used it a lot when we had a flat desktop shaped Packard Bell. I had no idea how to use it, (probably a good thing lol) then in 1999 we went to PeoplePC because we got a free Toshiba desktop computer we used up until it crapped out in 2004. (Great times using that machine!)
Websites still rarely use high resolution photos for products. Either that or they present a small view box with a ridiculous zoom. Catalogs are still superior
My older laptop still makes this sound , because it has a physical hard drive. It is not as snappy as my newer laptop with the SSD, but I still like using my old laptop just for that nostalgic hard drive sound.
No actually. In some parts of the world shopping malls are still big. Only in the states they really went downhill. For example; in Canada we still have ours and I dont think many closed.
I kinda miss the way pages loaded back in the day. We had so much more patience. The internet felt so magical. Every page had its own esthetic. Now everything has blended together.
That PC she was using is about the same speed as my browsing is today. Nothing really improved much except the websites. Still slow as snot yet we pay out the nose for services. She seemed so relaxed and calm, unlike people today. Everyone is overly stimulated and in near panic mode 24/7. Control does that to people over time.
10:14 That $24.95 camera in 1996 would be $49.67 today. A 99.1% cumulative rate of inflation. I doubt there’s any digital camera out there that’s even under $50 today tbh.
Each, subsequent generation(s)....have their, "remember when", comparison. For example,...remember when television was only 3 channels/black & white : remember when t.v.'s had 'rabbit ears' and antennas were on top of the roofs : remember when telephones had party-lines/rotary dial/corded phones : etc. _Nowadays_ ,...it's..."remember when the internet was basically "ruled" by America Online/55 kbps"...!??! 😎👍 Glad to be able to say; I've experienced _ALL_ of the above, examples (with the exception of only 3 tv channels)
An unboxing video in 1996? She was ahead of her time. So much of this makes me think "What if things were different? What if people knew what the Internet would become?" If this woman knew what unboxing would become, she might've been the Marques Brownlee of today. If IBM knew what online shopping would become, they might not have abandoned World Avenue. And they would've held onto their Big Tech monopoly. They'd be bigger than Amazon and Apple and Microsoft combined by now. But they were too ahead of their time. There's such a thing as being too early. Like when she remarked on how it "takes a while" to load a page. The technology simply wasn't there yet in 1996 for the Internet to be truly ubiquitous. But eventually it did get there. Why? Because despite the Internet not being very good back then, we stuck with it until it was. Maybe that's what IBM should've done. If they even could.
I remember everybody's parents being super paranoid about putting their credit card number into the internet - really wasn't until a couple years later everybody kinda got over it
Early internet shopping, unboxing, ASMR packaging and voice. Everyone's a winner!
Her voice is so soft and soothing…. Makes you want to fall asleep while she speaks.
I actually did fall sleep, twice.
trustnoone3007: My first reaction to your comment was "Look at this guy, being a simp"😁
But then I watched the video and yeah, her voice is soothing af
💤 😴 🛌 😌
Shit imagine she was born 20 years later. She could be making $$$$ with ASMR
Because in those days everyone knew what a woman was and there was no shame in being a man or a woman.
We need a remake of this video in 2024 with the same lady.
Bloody hell this woman's voice is like butter on my soul
For 1996, that was a pretty advanced site! Most online stores back then were mostly just online catalogs. You still had to call in your order.
I lived through all that and I don't remember IBM hosting a landing page for online retail. It was tough finding stuff online back then.
This 1996 video begins with of the earliest “Unboxing’s” available on UA-cam! Pretty cool!
Way before UA-cam!
@@KeritechElectronics 9 years before UA-cam.
The internet was so cute and novel back then. "Write to Santa" is so charming compared to what we have now. Thanks for these great memories of the past Vampire Robot :)
It still had a lot of character, instead of being just an homogenized money-making machine
2020 version: shake your ass for satan
@@1marcelfilms Lol! Good one!
GeoCities 😍
Man…that AOL webpage brings back memories
Love to hear the clicking of that 1 or 2 gig hard drive while the pages are loading. Very nostalgic.😃 Little did we know what we were in for.
Right? The sounds let you know that things were happening inside the PC. Didn't think those sounds would become so nostalgic!
I forgot about that sound!
my pc in 96' had 256 MEG, yo. 😎
yeah, good luck. try 300-500 megabyte hard drive.
@@elliotfletcher3614you were blessed. Mine in 94 had 120gb drive 😂
we sat around for 20 minutes waiting for a gif to load, and when it finally played we all just sat there gawking at it, taking in the magic of it all.
Now we get irrationally angry if anything take more than half a second to load lol.
That is one of the most beautiful soothing voices I ever heard.
I love her voice so much
1:18 - agree!
yes she has a very pretty voice very soothing I'd love for her to read me a story 😊
@@margar2321she could read me the dictionary and I’d be enthralled. Her voice is so soothing
wish there were more videos her
@@Quake120der der der
I was 16 in 96 and this definitely bring back memories. Its crazy to watch her stumble through ordering online. Something we can do now in about 60 seconds.😂
Most adults had no idea how to use computers back then. She should have learned how to use bookmarks
No kidding, 20 here in 96
My gawd, listen to that hard drive spinning, the clickety clack sounds computers used to make 😂😂
I was 15 in 1996. I remember my first time going online using Netscape. It was in 1995 and I was in the 9th grade. I was at the library and they literally had a huge book just like the yellow pages but for websites. If it weren’t for those listings, I wouldn’t have known what to look for.
I was 10.
Her voice is incredible 😍
Hearing the hard drive spin while the screen was loading is a treasured memory. Crazy to remember my first Amazon order was in 1999. What a ride it's been.
My first Amazon order was in 1998. That’s when I set up my Amazon account. Back then it was because I used Amazon to buy text books for my university classes. It sure has been a ride! What I would do to go back! 😩
@@cristinalopera7030You'd prefer a time when simple graphical images took 5 minutes to load and the only way to access the Internet required a squaking dialup modem running at 14 kilobits per second?
I hope this woman is shopping online today at much faster speeds! What a great look back ❤
I remember the first time i got on the internet via AOL in 2000.
The two websites i frequented the most were Cartoon Network and WWF.
The computer i used was my cousins iMac G3, my favorite computer still today.
I was 8 going on 9 years old in 2000.
Good memories.
Those CN flash games slapped. Don't even get me started on c&gToons
You must be me! Cuz that’s literally the only thing I went on the internet for. CN games were lit
I'm glad some people had the insight to film and document what we would consider such mundane tasks. I used to build small websites back in the late 90's / early 2000's and compared to today, it's like going from speaking Chinese to French. Back then, just knowing how to implement DHTML was impressive.
Her voice is calming
I was 9 at the time. Everything you did was special. Spent the day outside? Wonderful. You were present. No phones. Not even the thought of a phone to distract you or make you less present. Went inside to use the computer? Yeah, it took time to browse the early internet, but all of it was special. Every page, every image, and it was a lot more about discoveries. Every website was its own little world ready to be discovered. Everything you could do was a discovery. Far more creative, expressive and personalized back then. We felt more alive.
Ahhh this is unintentional ASMR. And even better ‘cause in the 90s nobody knew what ASMR was
we just didn't call it that. You think nobody knew the feeling?
@@John_Lee_ I'm pretty sure there wasn't a term for it. I remember in the mid-90's getting drowsy watching certain teachers pass out worksheets... licking their finger with every paper flip. No wonder we fell asleep in class.
You had to have a lot of patience in the 90’s because of the length of time it took to dial up and load webpages
Yes!!! This is what gives me legit tingles, not that fake whispery voice people do on so many ASMR channels.
Yeah, this girl could've had a million subs on UA-cam
Wow this girl is so gentle and beautiful. Really loved the sights and sounds of the old internet too.
All these super cool things become pre-historic in blink of our eyes , i still remember the smell of unpacking my new compaq computer and loads of CDs coming along with it , we never know it was history in making
Unpacking and configuring a new computer meant you had no other plans that day. Having to MANUALLY INSTALL operating systems? What?!
I remember PC games had cardboard box covers that you could flip open and get a nice 4 solid faces of colorful advertising!
Stop saying super
@@dinorosga9147stop being you
Seeing pages slowly load brings on a lot of nostalgic feelings in me. Thanks for uploading.
I love 💕 the nostalgia of the mid 90s
That lady was an absolute stunner! She will likely be in her late 40's or early 50's now. This was even 5 years before the WTC towers fell 👀
Yeah she's really cute.
My father restores vintage cars and he said the hobby really changed in the 90s with Ebay. He has stories about buying car parts from Europe back in the mid 90s. He said that wasn't possible before the internet. In many cases, if you didn't know a person who knew a person who happened to see a particular car at the junk yard, most vintage cars didn't get restored or took forever to get restored. That all changed with the internet.
This is 100% accurate. I grew up scouring junkyards for parts with my dad for his 1969 VW Beetle convertible. You'd also just have to pull up to random stranger's houses on country roads if you happened to see a derelict VW sitting out in the yard and ask if they'd sell parts off it. I'd credit eBay/Yahoo Auctions for making it easier to sell car parts and other junk online easily.
@@Bubblun1 Yup LOL
@@Bubblun1with part prices nowadays and the general trend of where things are headed, going to a junkyard seems viable again
@@The1Music2MyEarssadly but the parts are even more of a pain to find
About to save this to my ASMR playlist.
I think what amazes me the most is how quiet this is. They are so patient waiting for the computer to just work.
This is currently my favorite channel on UA-cam, it’s one of a kind. Thank you for these nostalgic videos.
Love it! Her opening the package, the relief that it was what she ordered, and the sound of that old computer hard drive. And you all remember how forever it took to load pages pre-DSL/cable? Wild! But that's what we did to explore what was then the Wild West.
Exactly! Have to laugh when people complain about "slow" internet speeds today, hahaha
One of the first unboxing videos AND one of the first ASMR videos - she really was ahead of the times, not just with online shopping!
I remember eBay selling stuff with no pics. You would just have to take their word for it. 😂
I just realized my eBay account is now 24 years old.
@@dougfisher1813 Mine will be 25 in August!
@@dougfisher1813man wtf? 👴
Most of the time they were pretty legit and honest because the sellers and buyers could leave negative feedback on each other, unlike today on Ebay.
@@ironfist458 rest in peace?
Purchasing things online! Wild idea.
It'll never catch on.
Give a complete stranger your credit card info?!? How reckless!!!
@@UmmYeahOk My parents still kind of act like that. lol
what if you pay and they mail you a box of rocks?!
I wonder if the reason people are so much more impatient and angry these days is the instantaneous nature of today's internet. A constant dopamine hit and instant gratification.
Not only. The web was so new, that there were very few web-based forums. Internet trolls and regular people would frequent NNTP newsgroups.
Ah, the days of dial up modems. Remember them so well. Seconds dragged like Minutes, and Minutes dragged like Hours waiting for a page to load.
True. I remember hitting refresh a lot to try to speed things along lol 😂😂😂
People would lose their minds if they had to wait that long today 😂
I went to high school from 1991 to 1995. I remember transitioning from flipping through card catalogs to being taught how to use the computer to look up library stuff. Then in college, they had some computers with something called CD-ROM.
Yea it blew my mind when we transitioned from floppy disc's to CD
I suddenly had flashbacks to when my partner would yell up the stairs, "Get off the internet, I have to make a phone call!" 😂
Lmao the worst was when I was using the internet and someone would pick up the phone & cause the internet connection to drop. It would take forever for aol to connect again.
@@BigRed-kx9ke 😂😂😂 and the chatrooms lolol
My freshman year in college. I bought a 14.4kbps external modem around this time for $140 after a $30 rebate. Everyone in my dorm wanted to borrow it to play Doom online. I just charged a flat rate per use and made my money back. 😄 Which I spent $340 "upgrading" my hard drive to 1.2GB in early 1997. 🤦♂️
I used to get so excited going online and loved the sound of that dial up. 😆
I’m losing patience just watching this video 😂 ohhhh the things we take for granted
I'd rather it still be this way less time spent online because of the slow speed. Internet has ruined this World.
I’d take out a $1,000,000 loan just to go back to 1995 without even thinking about it.
Smart because after 30 years you could just stop yourself from getting the loan
Someone's stuck in the past... like really the world declined after 2008 lmaoo. Take a look around life moves on.
@@poldarkpirahna5809 nothing wrong with longing for the past. It's called nostalgia. There were so many things better during this 80s and 90s than there are now. I could probably fill up an 8 x 10 page full of them.
@mehzatsuhaven't violent crime rates gone down over the past 30 years?
Buy Apple and Microsoft stocks. Forget about Yahoo!
This video exemplifies how god awful it was to browse websites back then. Everyone was just winging it... broken links galore, poor layouts, etc.
Don't forget how long it took to load. You really had to consider what links you clicked lol
Modern websites are worst. Information scattered everywhere and slow JavaScript
More like thrilling and exciting, exploring new sites and areas of the WWW, downloading files, etc.
Then just goto Adobe flash sites
Visitor counters and JOIN MY WEBRING! links. I really miss that.
even the lady sounds so elegant those days
Future ASMR artist
@Reefdevil her voice is literally soothing to my brain. 🤤🤤
I graduated from high school in 1996. Most of us didn't even know what the internet was in '96. It wasn't until '98 or so when most people started using it.
My elementary school even had it in 95/96 in the library.
I started using the internet 🛜 in the fall of 1997
I was ahead of the times in 1995 with my brand new compaq presario all-in-one. parents: go forth into college and prosper with this thing. Me: ok let's see if this encyclopedia britannica CD rom can help me write my molecular biology assignment 💀 💀 💀 Meanwhile Elon is at Wharton a few blocks away.
Google didn't come out until 1998 so maybe that's why.
@@PearlFirexx We were using AOL at that time, not Google.
Word has it she was finally able to get the links working a few days ago.
Remember this the next time your internet goes down for 20 minutes. It not working is still faster than 56K dial up.
My internet 🛜 back than was a slow 14.4 kbps!!!
My internet speed is 500 download speed 50.00 upload speed 😂😂 5G
I didn't think 56K was a thing until after 1996. My first computer in 1995 was a 14.4 kbps modem as they were just transitioning to 28.8.
I remember discovering AOL back in like 95 when I was 12 / 13. Getting into chat rooms and playing this word-based RPG called Dragon's Gate. Was hooked when I first got on it.
Love that she didn't type "WWW" in! Didn't realize it wasn't even needed back then yet my mom still insists on typing in 2024 smh
That's because she went to a site that had a subdomain (shop.) before its domain. If she had typed "www." which is a different subdomain before "shop." for the IBM store, it would have been a broken URL and not loaded.
“shop” replaces “www” in this URL.
That AOL channels page. I used to fool around with that so much back in the day.
The internet without social media and UA-cam. These where the basic simple times. The good old fashioned days. The era I grew up in. Look at the life we live in now. I'll do anything to go back in time and relive those great moments again.
There was social media, there were Internet forums and streaming video back then. It was just different.
@@thedopplereffect00 Honestly I wasn't always connected to the web. I didn't know too much about the internet during those days. Just enjoying my simple life growing up.
@@thedopplereffect00 it was very primative back then and nothing like it is today
@@Bates1960never say honestly
@@dinorosga9147 @dinorosga9147 I grew up in the 90's. I didn't know too much about the internet during those days and wasn't always connected to the web. Just having a simple life back then.
This is unintentional ASMR between her voice and the computer sounds. ❤
Take me back to the simpler days
What a great voice
Thank you so much for posting once again, vampire robot! I found this video incredibly soothing for some reason.
This lady looks like she was the same age I was at the time, meaning she’s likely 47-52 years old now
I was thinking the same.. Im 52.
the asmr goes absolutely insane for me on this one 🔥🔥🔥
90s aol asmr… perfect
I remember when all of this was so new. I was 9. Basically every site looked like the one she showed, same quality. That didn't last long though, just a couple of years because it all developed so fast. Now we have it to thank for opening up competition with everyone else in the world for jobs and houses etc.
I used to play computer games on the internet with Disney Channel, Cartoon Network, PBS and My Scene with my sister and cousin. But that was in the 2000s.
My favorite site was Neopets back then.
Yes, they were so cute. I also liked Club Penguin.
My first purchase I ever made online was an African wood mask on Ebay when I was a kid in really 2000s. I was obsessed with tribal masks I’d like at pictures of them all day, I still have the one I bought. The idea of online shopping was unthinkable to us, now that’s almost the only way we shop. Amazon changed the whole game.
I didn't have Internet until 2000, so in 1996, it was still stores and catalogues for me.
I got the internet 🛜 only in the fall of 1997 in the 9th grade
@@PraveenSrJ01 I think my father got it in 1997 or 1998 on his computer. He had Juno, and actually still had his Juno email account until the day he died. My first Internet service was Blue light (yes, the Kmart one lol!) I got that in 2000 and had it for a very long time! Until we got Wi-Fi in the late 2000s.
Her voice is definitely the essence of soothing, calming, ASMR.
Very relaxing time capsule!
It'll never catch on
Oh my god Ian what are you doing here?! :D You’ve seen this channel too?!
The ultimate unintentional ASMR
We’re so used to the internet now and have like a pre knowledge of how to use it etc and yet we forget there was like a decade of when the internet first started and everyone was learning how to use it
So odd how something that is now so vast and endless, that seemed to have been always there had an exact start date not long ago. Incredible also this is giving ASMR lol
after the camera cut she started smashing the keyboard and cursing at the computer for not loading her webpage
It was definitely frustrating back then. I used to download videos before going to bed, and in the morning it was downloaded, took all night for some.
Who remembers AOL " buddy lists" the 90s version of texting lol
Ugh just had literal flashback 😖 I hate myself
Big flashback!!!
this buddy list brings back so much memories espicially the sound it made when you got messages
when a friend got online you'd hear the door opening sound 😊
@@mike20855 yea i was jealous of that sound, so i made fake friends online to acheive it
Imagine a world with no Google, Facebook or Amazon. No Tik Tok, Instagram, Snapchat or X. Imagine a world without people chained to cell phones. Imagine concerts and sporting events where people actually looked at the performers or athletes. Hard to believe it ever existed now.
I hope Snapchat and TikTok be banned and gone forever!
Only the memories remain
Funny enough, Amazon was founded in July 1994. Granted, it was extremely different then, basic as expected and only sold books.
Surfing the information superhighway at a blazing 14.4k! Hard to imagine then that almost 30 years later gigabit connections would be commonplace.
Currently have my UA-cam up watching this video. Really appreciative of how fast the internet has gotten compared to this video. I literally typed camera in my safari on my iPhone and it zoomed to the products and had availability of picking up at local stores within the hour. It’s so beautiful to see the past but live in the future. Most people (unlike most of us) take these beautiful things for granted. “Life is but a dream”… 😊
I love the sounds!
Whats really interesting is how nobody really had "computer desks" back then. We just had our set up on the table or in a corner somewhere. Also, computer chairs werent even a thing back then, just hard oak and a pillow lol
I am in love with this woman
her voice is amazing
There's a reason 😅
@@Ibhenriksen why lol
I remember getting my 1st AOL free trial CD in the mail in 1994.
Was on/off until 2005.
this is the perfect thing to listen to before going to bed
It used to be so cool...
Omg, this is the best thing ever. It almost feels like an elaborate parody channel, where they set and costume design everything and film it with an old camera.
I kinda remember as a kid when AOL looked like that. My dad used it a lot when we had a flat desktop shaped Packard Bell. I had no idea how to use it, (probably a good thing lol) then in 1999 we went to PeoplePC because we got a free Toshiba desktop computer we used up until it crapped out in 2004. (Great times using that machine!)
Those little hard drive sounds add character. Plus the image quality was so bad you were better off looking at a catalogue.
seriously...first thing i noticed
Websites still rarely use high resolution photos for products. Either that or they present a small view box with a ridiculous zoom. Catalogs are still superior
My older laptop still makes this sound , because it has a physical hard drive. It is not as snappy as my newer laptop with the SSD, but I still like using my old laptop just for that nostalgic hard drive sound.
Just what I thought.
Have to understand how much of a novelty this was back then. This was so unusual
The beginning of the end for shopping malls
Shopping was more fun.
No actually. In some parts of the world shopping malls are still big. Only in the states they really went downhill. For example; in Canada we still have ours and I dont think many closed.
Plus; having wifi in malls helped malls.
@@SolarEclipseOGMoon I've never heard of anyone going to the mall to use the Wi-Fi, lol
@@thedopplereffect00 good way to get ur info hacked
I kinda miss the way pages loaded back in the day. We had so much more patience. The internet felt so magical. Every page had its own esthetic. Now everything has blended together.
Everything comes back.. the sounds, the nostalgia and the frustration.. 😂
Ah yes, the days when anything that was meant to be cutting edge was described as 'cyber'. 🙂
I miss when the internet was like this. I had to go to the library and give them my card so I could use the computer. So many memories!
wow very cool to watch this. I was 24 at the time and we were just introduced to online web search at my job. Im a 72 baby gen x
Super cool. Seems like my 90s memories (my childhood) are fading by the day, I'll still be alive but the memories will be gone.
That PC she was using is about the same speed as my browsing is today. Nothing really improved much except the websites. Still slow as snot yet we pay out the nose for services. She seemed so relaxed and calm, unlike people today. Everyone is overly stimulated and in near panic mode 24/7. Control does that to people over time.
I like the noise while waiting to load up and thas when ebay starts
ASMR before ASMR even existed on UA-cam...lol
I was looking for this comment! Absolutely 💯
10:14 That $24.95 camera in 1996 would be $49.67 today. A 99.1% cumulative rate of inflation. I doubt there’s any digital camera out there that’s even under $50 today tbh.
Very well done site for the time, most websites in the mid 90s looked like crap.
love these early 90s videos, relaxing to listen to.
Each, subsequent generation(s)....have their, "remember when", comparison. For example,...remember when television was only 3 channels/black & white : remember when t.v.'s had 'rabbit ears' and antennas were on top of the roofs : remember when telephones had party-lines/rotary dial/corded phones : etc. _Nowadays_ ,...it's..."remember when the internet was basically "ruled" by America Online/55 kbps"...!??! 😎👍 Glad to be able to say; I've experienced _ALL_ of the above, examples (with the exception of only 3 tv channels)
An unboxing video in 1996? She was ahead of her time.
So much of this makes me think "What if things were different? What if people knew what the Internet would become?" If this woman knew what unboxing would become, she might've been the Marques Brownlee of today. If IBM knew what online shopping would become, they might not have abandoned World Avenue. And they would've held onto their Big Tech monopoly. They'd be bigger than Amazon and Apple and Microsoft combined by now.
But they were too ahead of their time. There's such a thing as being too early. Like when she remarked on how it "takes a while" to load a page. The technology simply wasn't there yet in 1996 for the Internet to be truly ubiquitous. But eventually it did get there. Why? Because despite the Internet not being very good back then, we stuck with it until it was. Maybe that's what IBM should've done. If they even could.
I wonder if there are any more videos in existence of this gorgeous woman with the ASMR voice.
I like listening to this girl talk. I wonder if she did any other videos like this
I remember everybody's parents being super paranoid about putting their credit card number into the internet - really wasn't until a couple years later everybody kinda got over it
I’m still paranoid about it. My card got hacked twice. Once this year. Times never change.