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- How to send an e mail 1980's style. Electronic message writing down the phone line. First shown on Thames TV's computer programme 'Database' in 1984
07/06/1984
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Quote: VT31003
1984: What's a modem?
2021: What's a modem?
I literally cry knowing that 80% of all Millenials have no idea what a modem is
In Australia if you’re on a Coax, Fiber to the curb or node connection, you still need a ‘modem’. That term will not die here anytime soon.
@@ondrejsedlak4935 pretty sure you still need a modem of some type everywhere. networking just never became very well known.
@@tangerinetech5300 Yeah you do need a ‘modem’ of sorts for the others (now called an NTU), but it’s usually hidden away during installation so as to make it seem invisible. No need to confuzzle the poor users :)
Note:
Fibre to the Node is the only one you still need to buy an actual VDSL modem, while the others are provided after the install (except Fixed wireless and FTTP)
Coax uses a cable-modem and the Fibre to the curb uses a special short range VDSL modem.
Yey Australia and its variety of internet technologies.
Im pretty sure it says cable modem on the box in 2021. I could be wrong tho :)
"Yes, well its very simple really".
Proceeds to CALL the computer.
computer: hello, who's that ?
i mean the guys password is 1234 if you noticed
@@maxm4696 What a stupid password. It's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
@@maxm4696 try to brute force a password with an 8bit computer on a 300 bauds full duplex modem :D
Love this comment! Cracked me up
Hey everyone the reporter Jane is my mum and she's very impressed that the video has so many millions of views all these years later ! 😂
son is that you
Bless her😂❤
Prove it
@@RuckFussia You are so idle. Find your aucking fss a hobby
You should make a video of her talking about her thoughts about email in 1984 and computer people back then!
That doctor whom she emailed was hailed as the oldest working doctor in Britain and died in 2022, having worked as a forensic expert at the age of 94. What a man!
Personal Password is 1234
See, this is why 1234 is a 'bad' password. This is Julian's personal password. Please get your own. ;P
@@tiaxanderson9725
Which would be 5678.
That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
@@kod593 the password on my parent's luggage is still 0000. once, an idiot tried to open their suitcase (I think so, since the lock was damaged), and they didn't manage to open it.
I had to check.. 'Oh no - pwned! This password has been seen 1,296,186 times before'
Before the wife spoke, I thought that was the guys 12 year old son.
Jay Spillers
So true.
The internet has now shown them how to procreate, something that hitherto would not have come to pass.
I thought he was the bigger guy’s younger brother.
John H.
Turns out he was the wife.
lol
I thought exactly the same :Lol:
"It seems a very simple connection to me"
Greatest lie ever told in front of an audience
"It tells me what I have in the freezer !
They don't even do that nowadays
🎉
it wasn't a lie back then
People have no idea how exciting those times were. Nowadays everything is taken for granted. Those of us who saw the growth of computing and network connections know how important these beginnings were.
1980: Personal Password = 1234
2020: Nothing changed
HHAHHAHAHHA dude i see that !
Down Hill you seem to be very intelligent. I never thought about kinda complicated numbers
@ you are truly a hero! xD
Made me lol.
So true lol.
1984: how to send an email 2020: how to stop receiving an email.
lmao
Lol
Spam Mails. 😄
Why? Don't you wanna be the new king of Uganda? lol
@@farhs3133 Emails are great, I won the Nigerian lottery , only had to send them a mere £1000 to cover some costs
These UA-cam Tutorials are great.
I wanted to send an important E-Mail today and had to look it up.
Thank you
😂😂👍
No one who wasn’t there can know the excitement of connecting to an email hub and then being able to have a conversation with some unknown person somewhere on the Internet. Pretty much a nightmare today, but back then it just suddenly opened doors to a world of possibilities. Furthermore, in those first five years or so of this being available, we all used it so very differently from the flamers & extremists online today. We formed an online chat group then used to meet weekly at a pub. Was so fun. It all soured around 1991 when the trolls started up, but before that, it was so innocent and enjoyable. Plus, today, so chronically naive.
I get your point but your example is awful. People still use online chatrooms to make plans for a pub in many forms, I personally used discord to do it this weekend.
I know right? It was magic.
It really took effort to find the like minded people, but when you did it was a whole new world talking with people with interests aligned with yours on any given topic. I think the internet lacks this now.
@@dr.mailman That's not really the same thing, and you know it just as well as I do...
I was one of the people who started AOL - THAT was excitement!
The fact that he dials up the connection with a rotary phone makes this twice as enjoyable
I thought for a moment he was going to use an acoustic coupler!
@@drmal Oh, that's so 1980!
And his password of..1234..!
0:52 and it's "Extremely simple" too.
😂
Who cares about the computer, they are having a real time video conferencing call!
Probably prerecorded.
@@maxunbanned No... it is a tv connection
I mean, it wasn't through a computer, real time live TV was actually the first technology used to transmit television _until_ the 50s when they invented videotapes to broadcast prerecorded stuff.
@@BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele I would say the same thing, microwave back to the studio. Looks like a 2 camera setup at the remote site. Full ENG truck for sure. The 2-way sound is prob by phone line.
Это монтаж :)
Ill never forget back in the early 90s the first time I went into an online chatroom how amazed I was. Incredible how fast tech has developed
Remember A/S/L?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
its amazing nearly 40 years later people still don't understand this
1984: Password is "1234"
2019: Password is "1234"
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Our sophisticated 2019 algorithms will not allow you use such buffoon easy to hack password. It should be something like this: 1234-a
@@jamesmiller2521 I like you mean 1234!
Откуда они узнали мой пароль :)
You're right!!!!
It's actually an extremely simple connection. After only 67 steps you're connected. EZ.
This is what Crypto is like today.... 2021
@@futureforward3153 Nah it's like Crypto was in 2012
@@avatar2233 yeah u right.
@@avatar2233 Crypto in 2009
You don’t realize that was 36 years ago??
This is just amazing. I have a feeling this is going to take off in a few years.
I'm old enough to remember this. Fascinating to watch something emerge from nothing, become a phenomenon, then a mainstay, and then....we just take it for granted.
1:19
"The computer is now asking me to enter my personal password"
types 1234
"Which I've now done"
Vaxtin I was just about to post the same thing. That cracked me up.
Damn that’s the combination to my luggage.
That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard of in my life! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
@@ralphclark Dacht dur gassen, guten flahl lolololol
Wow, i thought you were sarcastically joking at first. I went back 2 times to make sure and you are right.
I'm surprised it doesn't require an oil change after each email
haha : D
I can usually get away with 10 youtube videos before my computer needs one.
it doesn´t ? O_O Better bye one fast
wouldn't that be typewriters?
Hahaha
Kids these days didn't know how mind blowing this was as a nerdy kid back in the day. Holy cow this was amazing.
I love that data transmission via audio at the end of the show. 😂😂
It was uncanny😂
Password: 1234
I believe we've found patient zero.
XD
Not lol must be the number 3 one is the ENIAC password 1234 too
Its not like anyone in the world was interested to access that mans account.
😂🤣😂🤣 Gold!
@Darius Beaumont its a woman not a child. People were midgets back then
Made perfect sense back then to purchase a $5,000 computer to keep records of what’s been in your freezer.
@@aktuellvideography1508 um i use mine to look at naked ladies actually
These two look like they might have had a few bodies in that freezer.
@@aktuellvideography1508 you deserve an award for that comment XD
It would have been like buying a TV in 1945... you could do it but it didnt make sense
Aktuell well done mate :) Actually for every new technology early adopters are most important. So thank you people for buying almost useless computers these days. You pushed technology development :)
I think it's pretty darn cool that they used sound to transmit data, what a crude yet effective way of doing it!
Youd be suprised what is still being trasnmitted by sound like this. All militaries in the world use radio to trasnmit encoded data.
Germany transmits weather info via fax everyday to sailors. Old tech is still extremely useful where you dont have fast internet.
Isn’t that essentially what speaking does? We’ve been at that for thousands of years.
MASSIVELY underrated observation @@44thala49
@@44thala49 But not as long as the birds. They've been at it for a lot longer.
so true! lol@@ElSantoLuchador
I first witnessed Prestel being demonstrated in 1982 at Glasgow University in the then-Maths dept. How it even operated on a 16K ZX Spectrum that had been expanded to 48K still beats me. The software to run it was written by a close friend, who is sadly no longer with us, who went on to have a long successful career in computing. I too went on to have a career in computing which caused me to travel the four corners of the world, I'm now retired and am back in Bonnie Scotland, and done travelling thank goodness.😁
Hey I want to know more about your job like today software engineer jobs are so boring
The software running on the computer at home is just a simple client, it is doing little more than taking the bytes of data received from the modem and displaying characters on the screen.
The processing power to do this is minimal. I know, I have actually written software back in the 1980's to do this.
Even a ZX80 had enough enough processing power and memory to do it.
@@HarshitKumar-bu7ooThat very much depends on the kind of software you are developing.
I have done embedded software for electronic products. Far more interesting and more challenging.
1984 printer: prints immediately
2020 printer: *FEED ME MAGENTA*
made my day :D
Dot matrix printers are insanely slow. You might be able to load/fix a magenta cartridge and print out the document on a modern printer before the dot matrix one finished.
@@encycl07pedia-: Yes, but that dot matrix is still working........your 2020 printer will be dead in 2 yrs or no longer "supported"...XD XD XD
@@wingnutbert9685 "No longer supported" is just one aspect of proprietary software systems like Windows. GNU (the OS in systems like ChromeOS and Ubuntu) was actually inspired by the new concept of proprietary printer drivers that would not allow the user to have control. How right they were; there are now printers that were Designed for Windows that can now only be used on non-Windows systems.
@@wingnutbert9685 My printer is several years old. As long as you're not buying a printer for $30 they tend to last a while.
I've NEVER run into a printer that wasn't "supported" anymore. Are you talking about software?
Care to take another awful assumption?
What do you use the technology for?
1984: To keep household records, process documents, etc.
2020: To share a picture of my lunch, and argue about politics with strangers.
@Christina Reynolds I know. My point is people in 1984 would be appalled at what people in the future do with technology.
People don't need two huge metal boxes in order to keep household records lmao, people use phones and smart watches for all that stuff nowadays
This is the most underrated comment in this thread.
@@Ad-zu8bt a smartphone us a computer too genius
@@ansazeem1234 it seems like you missed my comment's entire point by a mile...
I like how email is in quotes, like it's slang for something
This whole video is wonderfully British from the dial up phone, the accents, mannerisims and interactions. Can confirm we all still connect to the jolly old t'internet this way. Wonderful.
Puuuuuuke
"It's extremely simple"
**starts plugging cables, rotating dial and pushing switches**
:))
Remember, this was technology in the 1980s, not the 2020s
‘Simple’ is relative.
I wonder how 'simple' they will tell if they see something like apple pair 🤣
Back then computer and internet was complex, so only people with basic technical knowledge can use it. Nowadays it was so easy that people who cant delete app on their phone can connect to internet.
1984: dedicating a whole room to a computer
2019:sitting on the toilet watching a video about sending emails in 1984 on my phone
LOL
That's true!!!!🤣🤣🤣
Pahahaha
The future's come.
We used to have a room we called "The Computer Room" lol
I used personal computers from 1977 onwards. I remember in 1983/84 when a roommate bought a Commodore 64, with modem. It was 64baud. We all stood around watching as the connection was made then data displayed one character at a time. Total magic
I'd love to relive the 70s, 80s and 90s computer revolution, it was so exciting. While todays technology is amazing that has been built off it, living back then with new computer innovations coming literally every year, It was a very unique period in history.
Yep, I’d go back and invest heavily in Microsoft stock.
Oh the days when 1234 was a safe password.
It wasn't a safe password in 1984.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36306419
first, you have to get to the password prompt and that was not simple
Unless I've been mistaken for several decades "Not simple" is exactly what a "hacker" does?
Cristos Blanace
Hahaha, whenever I heard this, I remember Spaceballs
That my e.b.t. pin code.
1984: Presses a button and the printer starts printing immediately
2019: Printer cartridge not detected
LOL
Printer Cartridge Refilled 😏
Printer WiFi is not connected.
That's because the printer "cartridge" was actually just a ribbon.
This was before "PC Load Letter"
Those were the times when people appreciated such simple things as sending emails or keeping household records in one place.
They were simply able to enjoy life. Now, for an unknown reason, we are looking down at them asking "how could they use such primitive ways to connect to the network"? Without that technology we wouldn't have today's technology.
I remember being excited to dial up the library terminal and reserve a book.
I like how ridiculously enthusiastic they are when they sign off with "BYE, JANE!". It's like they pre-recorded that part for some reason. Totally incongruous with their low-key manner just a few second earlier.
I like how ridiculously enthusiastic they are when they sign off with "BYE, JANE!". It's like they pre-recorded that part for some reason. Totally incongruous with their low-key manner just a few second earlier.
The whole thing's edited together
1984: that’s weird
2020: that’s weird
Have you tried to turn if off and on yet ?
In 1984 this was not weird I know
Nadejdea mea e El in 1984 this was revolutionary new gen shit
bro and you calling this
Weird 🥱😒
Mario CM it’s really bizarre
lol
"Yeah it's extremely simple really"
*proceeds to launch a ballistic missile towards the USSR*
underrated comment
☠️
Lmao..😂😂😂😂
Do you want to play a game?
hahaha
I don't ever remember using a rotary phone in the 80s, it was always push button. Though I certainly knew WHAT a rotary phone was, and saw enough in TV and movies to figure it out. I was about 8 years old when this video aired in 1984, and it's weird these people have such a hi-tech set up for 1984 but are using a rotary phone when I clearly remember calling my mom on a push button in 1982.
“It’s all very simple” proceeds to spend the next 5 minutes grinding and clanking with cables and connections
I'm going to type 'Electronically Yours' in all my emails here afterwards.
just had the same thought :D :D :D
That's so cool I might now
And if I ever have to live the nightmare to write a letter on paper, what should I write? I don't know how to write letters. 🤪
@@Masood1810 Write "Paperly yours"
lmaoo that is so funny! like what is that???!!
1984: Looking at the future with excitement
2020: Looking back at the past with longing
Lol. Time travel.
So true sir
eh... no.
no
so true
Amazing progress of technology since 1980s
June 7, 1984? I was born five days after this aired…and my family didn’t have a computer till 1994, or internet till 1996. Early times indeed.
My family didn't have a computer or internet till 2012.
Yes I remember the internet became popular in the mid 90s, probably in part due to AOL
They act like there’s someone off camera holding them at gunpoint😂
0:45
I thought that exact thing
The 80's were scary times...
Copied the other post ghey
0:51 🙄
“😓😬” lol
This quarantine got me watching RANDOM sht
sstteevveenn77 same
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yass 😂😭
I know, right? 😂
Omg same 😅
3:47 « Electronically yours » I’ve got to use this greeting in my email 😂
Ahh, simpler times, take me back to 1984 please.
Printout reads: "Hello, I am the prince of Nigera and i require your help to transfer money..."
Ha-ha. Classic.
I am very intrigiued, please tell me more.
@@pakabe8774 John Warosa 😅
Nigeria* don’t disrespect my country lol
Gawd, that is so lol! Already back then...
I'll be ending my emails with "electronically yours" from now on.
"Virtually yours" would be also acceptable. Sincerely, ...
How adorable
@@alteHbs "Digitally yours,..."
@@RaymondHng Nice one
I love this video. They’re in the 21st century while the rest of the world is in 1984.
40 years later mailbox become absolute nightmare.
I think we all sometimes wish that sending emails were more complicated.
Rare footage of a printer that actually works
@@wadi_dog especially if running Windows 10!
Not only that, it worked on the first try! You are the winner of the internet today.
ahhahaha
LMAO
@Shdjdjaskdj Ajdjdjsjdieoq You can find it free by visiting basement\attric
This is where it all started!!! I mean, usage of '1234' passwords...
+daweedian84 You noticed that too :D
1234 password ~ Mr Green.
might be 'asdf'
+joe symptons Nope, it's definitely "1234"..
+daweedian84
Only idiot end users used 1234, us experts used qwerty
Sounds like password and idiot would put on his luggage.
Oh wow, there's a happy memory, the sound of the dot-matrix printer.
Yes and I can smell that paper ... Memories.
How beautiful life must have been without the internet!
They jumped to their nightmares.
Laugh all you want, but they were WAY ahead of their time. I didn't send an email until around 1993 and it was only because our professor made us
And every single day since then, you have been led by the nose.
C Herrera I don't think I did it until 1994 or 95 when a friend introduced me to hotmail on this new-fangled "internet". But it was good - I got hooked, and is still using both emails and occasionally, internet.
Don Reed: Are you an ill-motivated twat?
Imma just continue laughing
I have still yet to send my first email
"electronically yours" this is how I will now end every email I send
Josh Brown lol
That was brilliant
what about 'digitally yours'?
Either works i suppose.
now if only we had someone to email to
We may laugh it up today, but these guys were in the top of the tecnology, and things like that helped to build the world as we know today. In the future, we will be laughed at too
WOW!!! Tech is advanced so much that this video seems from 100 years ago!
This guy is the most early 1980’s looking guy I have ever seen.
😂
I know, the shady looking dark glasses and everything
jeffery dahmer looking ass
He looks anxious
@@cyanrazorCel he looks scared as fuck lol
1984: The amazing communication of electronical mail
2020: Yo why does his wife look like a 13 year old boy
2035: remember when we had a genderless society? Mandela Farms remembers
That was i thought before i play the video, lol. shes a girl
It's Pat!
@@dracul4u Genderless society? What the hell does that mean?? 🧐
IS THAT HIS WIFE? I THOUGH IT WAS HIS SON
its mind blowing how far we've come in 40 years....
The most miraculous thing in the video is everything works in the first try. This is something that isn’t even possible in today 2023.
Ah, that's the magic of television, they don't tell you how many takes it took them to produce the article.
I was born in 69. My grade 8 teacher told me that by the year 2000 everyone will have a miniature computer in their pocket. I thought that he was insane because computers couldn’t do barely anything in 1987. Now 80% of humans have a actual computer in their pocket!
Have you ever gotten OK boomered?
Welcome to future..!!
Nice.
Luke huang >>> born in 1969 would make them "OK Gen-Xer", DUH! Boomers quit being produced around 63/64! Although you could've been sarcastically joking with the whole silly young person fake idea and false premise that anyone born before 1970 is an automatic 1940's/50's BOOMER lol!
Mac TonyMicMac
ok boomer
My parents as kids during this time: Well it's fairly simple.
My Parents now: How do I connect to the WiFi?
Hahahaha . Spot ON !!!
Nah, this was all nerdy specialized stuff at that time. Most kids weren't learning how to use computers. This was 10-15 years before PC's were common in homes and classrooms and ordinary people didn't realize how much they'd be integrated into our daily lives.
@NS 317 They would have been normal.
BS. I bet you know shit about networking too. Who do you think invented all this stuff, not you.
Some say wifi like Y-FY. But some say straight up Wifi like WeeFee.
It's funny how 80s nostalgia is all about the neon, when 80s telly was this beige
These guys enthusiasm for the computer age Brings back fond memories of me and my brother tussling with a new Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer in 1982. Nothing more than glorified keyboard with a processor chip and board buried within. When we learned what the machine was doing it was a great feeling of discovery, like we struck gold😂 40 years later, we now have machines learning how to get rid of us because we’ve run out of luck as we’ve gotten old.
My older brother got a Commodore VIC-20 with modem at about that time. He managed to download a nudie pic to his dot matrix printer from some BBS. It took eight hours, and was the crappiest image you had ever seen on the ribbon paper. And we thought we were living in a freaking episode of Star Trek or something. Greatest moment of my life.
@@texaswunderkind That was probably the most desperate and primitive porn download event ever 🤣 I remember those satisfying‘eureka’ moments, and our weird ‘shrunken head’ Commodore Pet computer at school. The 5th form GCE O level maths pupils gathered round it like it was God of all Casio calculators waiting for a sign of mathematical divinity 😂 Great machine for playing Space Invaders though, when teacher left us to it at lunchtime 😉
Incredible that they're able to facetime each other whilst exchanging emails.
"facetime" LMAO
This was prerecorded footage, it was not a live conversation.
@@petamericangaming6177 r/woooooosh
@@petamericangaming6177 Actually, that was done in real time when recorded. It wasn't that difficult to communicate like that. Look what they did for Live Aid.
It is not, they are using satellite image for their communication. @@petamericangaming6177
"It's a very simple connection to make!"
*Connects one cable, switches another cable, turns on the modem, logs in from the computer and dials a number from the telephone*
EXTREMELY simple indeed
Now we can just ask Siri or Alexa to send one 🙏
Yes, that is actually quite simple to be honest.
As simple as it looks😂
@@rezadroidjr Well people nowadays expect everything to be just 'plug and play' and have no patience with setting anything up. Computing in the early 80s was mostly the reserve of boffins and people with beards and tweed jackets, who liked tinkering with things. At this stage it was just becoming accessible to the home user.
What an innovation to drop a data blast at the end!
Better communication than I have with a doctor
1984: Interviews done virtually.
2021: Interviews done virtually.
Yes i saw that. They had Zoom back then
Not really fair, they are using professional broadcasting equipment.
@@kartoffelbrei8090 r/woooooosh
@@Connie_TinuityError lol as if you cared about that before i said it.
@@Connie_TinuityError "r/woooooosh" It's not woooosh. There are plenty of morons on this video who honestly think they had to pre-record and "simulate a conversation". And don't realize broadcasting has been able to do "video conferencing" for like 70 years.
This video totally sounded like a conversation recording for an English lesson
I guess this is what they’re kinda use for it 😂
ajaja a full. el acento inglés me recuerda a la escuela y las clases en cassette
Nahuel Kiuan y la profe de ingles que llevaba su radio 🤣🤣
i thought i was the only one to think that lol.
Listen and complete the dialogue
I remember the first time I saw this, and I genuinely thought it was something made by Armando Ianucci, or Chris Morris, or Mitchell and Webb, or Little Britain, from the 90s. But it’s 100% real, and I love that.
Incredible looking back.
This was groundbreaking at the time. I was working for British Telecom. Prestel was a great invention but it never really took off publicly in the way that Minitel did in France.
0:52 "It's a very simple connection to make"
"Extremely simple"
*Is literally phone calling his computer with a rotor-dial wired home phone*
beeeb, grrrrr, that is the handshake protocol!
That's right he can used a telephone with keyboard ! after all keyboard or rotor , in 1984 that was a sophisticated technology !
Dont forget also , that computer had an extrem ridiculous small memory , without a hard drive ! the super expensif computers had a hard drive but in the 80s he had something like 50/60MB !!!
@@madjidhamdini8114 40 Mb HDD was enough back then, not that fancy!
Nah for the 1980's it was very simple.
@@Willybean08 In "Jumpin' Jack Flash" a movie from 1986 you can watch woopie goldberg send somes emails !
I was 9 ! my first internet surf was after 2000 at 23...
Also for exemple CD , who had a CD player in 1982/83 ?!? first time i saw a CD was in 1990!
Today we have a lot of good/suck technology but tomorrow for new generation what they having ? who know...
*Kid takes popsicle from freezer*
“Did you update the household database?”
“No?”
“Look, it’s quite simple. You unplug the computer wire and then plug in the modem. Then dial the # on the rotary phone, and wait for dial tone, then you hang up. All you gotta do next is put in the personal password and find the right entry on the micronet. Don’t make me tell you again!!”
Such an under rated post
when she done explaining the kid has grown up and moved out
I think she kept household records on the computer, not in micronet (aka "the cloud").
Lol
This comment made me cry laughing!
I wish I could have watched this show in '84. We had similar shows in the US, but don't remember them broadcasting programs. Pretty cool.
I'd already been working with computers (operating mainframes then programming) for 8 years when this show came out.
I still remember using the Hayes modems with the red LEDs on the front... still felt like magic listening to them dial up and connect. It was worth every penny to get the second phone line...
- Mum, what's for dinner?
- I don't know, let me see what do we have in the freezer.
*Plugs in computer and waits 5 minutes to check the freezer records*
LOL
@@jefferson1962 of all the things to use a computer for hahaha
Lol then the dishwasher was born
🤣🤣🤣 lmao you read my mind !!
🤣
That was a sick song they played for the credits.
New song from Skism I believe
Bobx007 I had to install new subwoofers just to handle all that bass
I baught a cassette of this music. It's totally narley !!
It's called 1200 baud ;)
Darude - 8bitstorm
I’ve never heard of an internet dialup with a rotary dial phone! I didn’t even know that was possible!!
In 1984 she was probably the only human to email her doctor...
who the fuck does that
I remember being a kid and seeing modems on TV and in this movie Wargames and thinking that was the most amazing thing. Truly cutting edge stuff. No one I knew had one. I wanted one so badly!
@@ataparag232 everyone nowaday. in France we now have a website called doctolib and it is mandatory to subscribe to it to take a appointement to the doctor.
@@mehdisol7094 In Belgium too, even for dentists, physiotherapists, other specialists... it's called doctoranytime and it's fast and convenient. Click an hour on a day that's suits you and you have an appointment. No need to phone anymore.
@@pled8395 I think you both are talking about a website, not an "e-mail to your doctor"
-Looks in the freezer
-goes to computer
- writes... buy eggs and milk
- prints it out and heads to the store.
- 5k well invested.
Well, these are the kind of decision making skills you can expect from someone who keeps their eggs and milk in the freezer.
Or you can just write it down on a piece of paper.
This is basically Microsoft To-do or those similar apps lol.
@@monoflea6851 ahahah
These are the applications adoptions that helped reach the moment we're living in, imagine similar crazy scenarios in the future.
My favorite line from the guy :" extremly simple" 😉 😎😂
I like how they always got the bloke to explain things, and asked the wife/son to talk about the freezer 😂
"What do you use the computer for?"
"Keeping household records such as: what I have in the freezer..."
That was hilarious.
I didn't pay attention to this much when she said it on video but reading this literally had me burst laughing. 🤣
What? No PornHub??
it might be bodies by the look of them
@@ashtakmetoza5689 aye, fred & rose!
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1:20 For being a computer expert he sure doesn’t care about security with his 1234-password. 😂
I just wanted to comment the same🤣
To be fair not many hackeres exist back then 😂
Lol xD
it is actually provided by phone company and cannot be changed
There is no such thing as cybersecurity back in the day. Back then, security is more of an afterthought
My first BBS computer was a Northstar 8080 (CP/M), with a 1200 baud modem. I later went to a 286 computer. I had the Candy Store BBS for many years. Last time, a 486 DX-66, 4 gigs HD, 2- diskless workstations, running Wildcat software with 8 phone lines, connected to the Novel server. Expensive hobby back then!!
- "I see you have your computer linked to the telephone line. Can you tell us how you did that?"
- "Yes. Well, it's very simple really..."
Proceeds to triangulate the signal between the Voyager 1, the Kennedy Space Center, and the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Lol got damn
I wouldn't have understood how he did that in 1984 nor would did I understand that today, in 2020!
Haha that made me laugh insanely loud probably one of the greatest come inside reading long time
It's actually simple, and no, I'm not a time traveler. What they are doibg is connecting to the internet, but nowadays it does that automatically and nit through the phone line anymore.
Underrate
1984 online porn: "I am naked." in Bold sans
I laughed so hard thank you great comment !
Easy to mastrubate to.
Imagine comic Sans lol
And if you want to see a picture, it loads one line at a time, and takes like 5 minutes. You better be really really sure you want to see that picture.
lol
Never dialed up like that. Looks like fun. I wish I could still play around with connections like those.
Just love the “broadcasting of software”.
I know of some pirate radio stations that used to broadcast some portaged games for the Amiga. But actually seeing a real, commercial tv-station doing it is pretty cool.
And who have you been talking to?
"A young prince from Kenya who wants to send me millions!"
Lol
Thats gold haha 😀😀😀😀
=))))))
*Nigeria
In 1984 money... 🤣
"What are we having for dinner babe?"
"Not sure, boot up the computer to check the freezer will you?"
I struggled to type this reply I'm laughing so much
@Ken Lompart Godamnit, were gonna have to actually take a look.
Tunnix_HD Haha 😂
Pretty sure they will die of hunger if the computer stops booting.
That's called a cold boot.