Is the Typo near the end of the video an intentional reference I do not understand or is it supposed to be available? Also, thank you for sharing this video with me, it will live in my head rent free all day. DAVID DUCHOVNEY WHY WON'T YOU LOVE ME
Need to correct you on some anachronisms... the web was real by the time this some came out, GeoCities, xoom and other site hosts we home to thousands of fan sites and communities, xfiles yahoo groups and old school newsgroups catered to tens of thousands of participants, and XF fan fiction had several major community hubs that users hoped would not be... ephemeral.
Hey now, Napster was not an "illegal music sharing service" it was a peer-to-peer sharing service that was used to illegally share music along with other legal sharing.
It was a music sharing service that was found infringing on copyright and was unable to comply with court orders and thus, you could call it illegal. Whether it should be illegal is a different question (personally I'm highly critical of current copyright laws), but Hank is not wrong here.
Hank explaining Napster to a bunch of kids on RUclips feels exactly like Fry in Futurama explaining things about 1999 to people in the year 3000. Especially the episode about Napster.
The only issue with futurama being futuristic is that things keep coming up because they have came up in present times, with no irony attached. It can't be new in the future if it's new in the present, without justification.
@@nicolasvecchione6016 yeah, that’s kind of the point of the show. It’s not speculative fiction, it’s comedy and satire about the present through the lens of the future. The more things change, the more the stay the same.
@@margicates553 it’s so funny, when I was going through my intense X Files phase in high school I annoyed all my friends by singing it allllll the time
What a fascinating story! Cool to know….I grew up during that time, was an X-Phile (as fans of the X-Files were called), but still didn’t know about this video. :)
Literal baby boomers were going to Star Trek conventions and passing around printed works of fanfiction on paper long before the X-Files, but I get what you are saying. The X-Files was certainly one of the earliest Fandoms that would have been able to use the Internet for communication.
To this day... I still look at people where I work and if they say "how do we find XYX out?!"... I look at them and smirking my best Mulder Smirk... "that's why they put the I in F. B. I."
Also I have to add this song started playing over the speakers while I was at ikea a couple months ago and it felt like I was in a brilliant, bizarre dream
This video is an absolute vibe. I am giddy at the unbridled joy of Hank singing David Ducovney, while also strutting the merch pretty dang well. I guess we’ll see you tomorrow!
I was not prepared for David Duchovny why won’t you love me today 😂 he was one of my first crushes. I have an x files tattoo. What an absolute gem Rip Gary Shandling
@@MasterofPuberty Okay wait does that mean I WASN"T WRONG in how I've been saying it? And Hank is??? I've always said "kuh-zah" empasis on second syllable. What is it supposed to be??
25 years since 1999...the year we expected the millennium bug to crash the world's computers. Dial up was a thing, rotary telephones still existed, mobile phones couldn't take photos and were the size of bricks, Donald Trump was only known for a TV show. The world seemed bigger. Thanks a feckin' lot Hank! :P
The matrix came out, the world didn't blow up and within a year the Nokia 3310 was out. 2000 was the last year with no bogeyman but the government after the Berlin wall fell.
"I'm not going to explain IRC to you right now." Me, staring blankly into the middle distance for entirely too long with the video paused: "Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written."
This reminds me of the Doctor Who cast and crew video of them all singing "500 Miles." It was made for the going away party of the showrunners... it got me through a very rough year when it came out. It was very nerdy and also never expected to be seen outside of the production crew. Now to track down this DD song... I used to watch X-Files religiously!
The Ballad of Russell and Julie (a take on Victoria Wood's Ballad of Barry and Freda) was another one that the Dr Who cast did that was like that which is really good and I watch it on a semi-regular basis.
This was absolutely instrumental to us back then. You wouldn't have anime culture in NA the way it is now without their hard work. It may be funny as a phrase but I salute those heroes.
My friends and I traded burned CDs with one episode, maybe two episodes at most, like we were drug dealers. Show up to middle school like "you got it?" *pulls a jewel CD case out* "I got it, it's good, trust me."
Discord will be full of old people (if it's still going) before long. That's how it all works, alas. Radio used to be listened to by the young, for reference! It was the hip new thing! ;D
@@gfox9295 I'd wager that, like me, the vast majority of the aforementioned old people have long abandoned IRC and use Discord instead these days to talk mostly with equally old people.
I've never experienced the joy of Discord in the same way. IRC was genuinely socializing with strangers. I feel like now there's always someone trying to ruin the fun
@@Zhiperser Of course, my roommates and I used to IRC each other just for the novelty value and fun of it too. We also played Worms Armageddon while drunk on our co-op LAN.
I have never found my people in IRC, except for very tiny channels with people I knew from elsewhere. Discord has been a much richer experience where it's pretty central to my socializing with all of old, current, and new friends.
Sometimes it's weird to be someone who's chronically on the internet, yet old enough to remember a world without it because I'm periodically reminded that a large percentage of those who are also chronically on the internet ... many of them adults ... are too young to either remember that world or to have experienced it at all and that thought breaks my brain.
@@johnhmaloney I was born in 90 and whilst the internet existed, it wasn't your entire world back then either. I was definitely playing with toys and watching tv and going outside and making up my own card games and skipping rocks on water and a million other things kids born post 2006 wouldn't even think to try and do. It hurts that they will never know pre-youtube internet. Ask jeeves??
@@johnhmaloney '67 here. I remember casually telling my daughter "well, that was before the internet," and watching her eyes glaze over with incomprehension. I remember working in phone sales and having to explain to people that the internet wasn't just a gimmick. It was really going to be a big deal. 😂
*sees video title* *sees video thumbnail* "Is this about the 'David Duchovny, why won't you love me' song?" That song is still in my regular playlist to this very day, but until now i actually had no idea there was a music video to go with it! Gonna have to go check that out!
I was a huge X-Files fan in like 94-97 but I must have started to fall out of that fandom by the time of this song. I didn't know about the song OR the video!
I loved those old spaces. The internet has always been a broken, problematic, creepy space, but there was genuinely something very wholesome about those net 1.0 days. I think it was just the smallness. Which is why I've minimized what i use and how i use it to at least simulate that smallness...
It makes me happy that I still can find some of the old fic authors from those days online at places like Tumblr (some of us still use it, lol). Even if I don't interact with them, it feels nice to have the continuity.
Man, I love that song. Still have it peppered throughout my playlists. And it was So Much Fun back then finding out that the X-Files cast and crew were huge geeks for the show, such open fans, too! So many shows & movies had cast and crew who acted too cool for their own product (I'm looking at you, Roswell), that the cast-produced "Duchovny" video just brought me joy. I never did know who all cameoed in that video, though, because of how low quality it was.
I considered myself a massive X-Files nerd from about 1994 to 1997 but I never heard the song OR saw the video, so... I guess I'd started to fall out of my X-Files fandom by the time it was really big. I even went to little fan gatherings (one of them might have risen to the level of a con... we had the Enigma as a guest! ;D).
You forgot to mention that you also covered that Bree Sharp song back in 2009ish! Your cover got me interested in X-Files and it's still my favorite show
Something I really wasn't aware until I started going to science fiction conventions is how careful early fan creators had to be. Some of them were hit with cease and desist or outright sued over fanfiction which today most people wouldn't bat an eye out. There's a reason why so many fan fictions starts off with this story that I'm using isn't mine please don't sue me. The fact this song came out and was so well received amongst the X-File crew really tells you how supportive they were a fans.
Yes! I was talking about the cease & desist letters in another comment above. Lawyers from FOX did that to a bunch of X-Files web sites and fic authors. It only lasted a little while, but the trend to include disclaimers lasted.
@@akulkisNah, you aren't monetizing off of their IP, even if you are getting a bit of ad revenue, which wasn't really a thing back then, the amount of GOOD press the IP got was worth the literal pennies they "lost" in ad revenue. If you wanna cry laziness go after 50 Shades of Grey, it's literally a Twilight fanfic. That is put right laziness/stealing. Every story has already been told before, the names, characters, and concepts are just swapped around to make it "unique". There is no such thing as a purely unique idea. Also, fanfic is just showing love for an IP that Resonanted with the fans, how is that lazy or bad?
This is actually how the text of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” started, though Irving claimed he learned the story whilst doing some amateur anthropology in the backcountry-the locals told him the story, and if you don’t believe him, go ask them. But that was for a different reason. Apparently at the time, fiction=untrue information=lies=fraud, which is a crime. At least, so it was explained to elementary school me.
Something something about the way blooper reels were edited together and shared in the industry at office parties and then became broadcast as tv specials… as a context for both the forms of virality that were conceivable when this was made, and which were seemingly understood in the industry. Etc, etc. Anyway, I remember this song from back then (even though I didn’t watch the show), but I never knew about the video! So that’s neat.
@@vlogbrothers My parents had a BOOK of radio bloopers, which was very confusing to me as a kid (and probably still now). (And I’m not that much older than you! My parents didn’t grow up listening to Jack Benny on the wireless!)
Genuinely, thank you for the nostalgia. I very, very much remember having to jump through multiple hoops to watch this video in something like a 240p in a quicktime file(?) 25 years ago. And it being 100% worth all the effort, even over our 56k modem. I also very much remember making my sister drive me to the Media Play store 30 miles away so I could buy this album. There are days I very much miss those X Files fan forums. --ScullyKid
FUNNY that you talk about this now!! I was a HUGE X-Files fan during its original run and only several WEEKS ago did I discover the "David Duchovny" video and I was FLOORED that there were SO MANY celebrities in it. Thanks for the memory of a certain time in the 90s. X-Files, "pen-pals" through AOL/ IM's (which, for the first few months I paid BY THE MINUTE and my first month's bill was pretty huge . . .) Alta Vista was where I'd search for stuff, but then, I used Ask Jeeves. Not too many of us were on "the net" (which people were still calling things like "the information super-highway.") And yes we watched the X-Files, discussed it among friends. And don't laugh, but I still have an AOL email address.
Just before one of the Star Wars prequels came out, I invited friends over. We started the download of the trailer on AOL dial up, and then we went downstairs for dinner. After dinner, the video was just about loaded, so we all crowded into my spare room to watch it.... This was a big social event!!!
in the early 2000s, I worked at a Max-Plank-Insitute full of linguistics nerds. We created a lot of videos for our work, mostly as stimuli for language experiments, but we also used our limited free time to create fun videos for people who had something to celebrate or were going to leave for other places. There was a Star Trek version (the institute being taken over by the Borg) and an X-file version... Lots of fun as videos were filmed all over the offices and public spaces of the institute, but still had to be a surprise for the recipient of the video... lots of planning, lots of distraction schemes - and a bonding experience that was much better than an escape room... I am still in awe of the people who orchestrated these videos!
Yup. Started my freshman year of college in 1998. X-Files was my FAVORITE show. Had a poster of Mulder and Skully above my bed in college, a "Truth is Out There" poster, and tons of X-Files memorabilia. Definitely remember this song. Thank you for the blast from the past!
Couple fun facts about actors mentioned! Charles Nelson Reilly played Jose Chung in fan favourite episode Jose Chung’s From Outer Space, and Gary Shandling played Fox Mulder in a movie within the X Files universe! Also. X Files was huge online on message boards and that’s where the term ‘shipping’ came from!
God, the nineties were something special online between USENet, IRC and later E-Groups. Thirty years on and I'm still all about Krycek. Not to mention that I learned a LOT the first time I searched for "Mulder Krycek fanfiction"... ah, I was such a sweet summer child. 😂😂😂
This was my JAM when I was young. I called my radio station to play it and got HUNG UP ON. I downloaded this video over dial-up! If I don't think of Bree Sharp every time I use either brie or sharp cheddar! Iconic, never forgotten video to me. ❤
I haven't had a timewarp, "return me to the 90s including all my emotions" moment like this in a long time.... Wow, the fact that all the lyrics (not that there are very many) all came rushing back makes me realise again how strange life and human brains are
I was so into the XF community back then, writing fanfic, sharing with others, people making videos and comics and just so much creativity, even getting together in person several years in a row to raise money for Gillian Andersons favorite charity (called it Scullython) - think of that - online strangers actually meeting up all over the country to binge XF often in SOMEONE'S HOUSE! It was the best! I drove across my state to attend one year, and hosted it another! I have not found community like that since. There was no commercialization or influencers or any of that, just a bunch of nerds having fun. It just doesnt feel like that exists on the internet anymore. Thank you for this blast from the past!
Yep, I watched X-Files with people I met online in my first couple of years of college. Especially freshman year as I didn't have a TV in my dorm room. What a time, what a time.
I feel like Nerdfighteria has been that online community for me for nearly the last two decades. Mind you, I'm referring to the Nerdfighter Community as a whole, not the specific "Nerdfighteria" FB Group. I've made a decent community out of friends I've met through various local and international Nerdfighter gatherings and meet ups. Before that, the only meetups I had been to were arranged via the X-Files Message Boards. Oy, how time flies. /*feels old*/ /*checks notes*/ /*IS old*/ 👵
Oh my goodness, you just unlocked a memory for me of the comics this one noromo made back around 1997. I was a shipper (or "relationshipper" back then), but I thought those comics were hilarious and used to print them out. I can't recall the name of the artist, but I feel like the main character was a rabbit? And shippers used to try to kidnap him in the comics and force him to watch episodes like Pusher and read sappy fanfic? Lmao. I wish so much that I had saved them.
Talk about worlds colliding! I'm a huge X-Files fan and was when the show aired. Yes, I even have a son named Fox after our favorite "spooky" detective. I can still still belt out all the lyrics to Bree's song and recall the video fondly. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
I saw the pic of David Duchovny and knew exactly what this video was about. I was in college and had this song on my winamp playlist. I was fairly sure I had seen the video, but had to watch again to be sure...and yes, I definitely saw it back in the day. Thanks for the reminder about fun things from online before the modern internet.
As someone who experienced that era through a US Robotics Sportster 28.8 V.34 Dialup modem instead of a fast university connection, I’m only finding out about this video today for the first time. Thank you for giving us the context it takes to understand why it is in fact, the most amazing video on the internet today!
This unlocked a long forgotten memory for me. I have a vague sense that I'd burned this song to a cd at one point and was walking around my community college listening to this banger on my walk-man. Definitely a catchy tune!
Holy Cannoli Batman! That wasn't just a handful of celebrities - that was a new face every few seconds. Look at this featuring list from the video description: Jenna Elfman Brad Pitt Charles Nelson Reilly Jerry O'Connell Melissa Etheridge Garry Shandling Dennis Franz Erik Edtrada Hector Elizondo Kevin Nealon Bebe Neuwirth David Spade Sarah Michelle Gellar Jane Leeves Perry Gelphin Calista Flockhart Kelly Packard Brooke Burns Janine JuliAnne Taylor Hayes Kiss Whoopi Goldberg Rosie O'Donnell Pamela Anderson Janeane Garofalo George Clooney Michael McKean Alex Trebek Jerry Springer Chris Carter Gillian Anderson Mitch Pileggi Nick Lea Vince Gilligan Frank Spotnitz John Shiban Chris Owens William B. Davis Kim Manners Rob Bowman Dan Sackheim Wow.
I graduated college in 1998. When I started only college students had email addresses and probably government people and by the time I graduated AOL was a household name. Thank you for this trip down memory lane and the dancing! Great way to rep the Pizzamas Ts! I want more happy dances... John, I'm looking at you.
This video and the "Troops" video (a Star Wars fan video done in the style of the TV show COPS, following the Stormtroopers sent to Tatooine to recover the droids,) were foundational college and/or internet experiences for me. Man. What a thing to remember.
Feels like a two sentence horror story. Second one being something like "It was the 1920 after all." Referencing the Spanish flu that infected a third of the global population and was one of the deadliest in history.
I saw the thumbnail and the song immediately popped into my head. I had a hard time watching Californication in the 2000s because my head just played the song the entire time. Why won’t he love…?
I'd never consciously thought about how quickly things come and go today. Remember "All your base are belong to us"? People were quoting that for MONTHS. If a funny line like that comes up today, it fizzles out in a week, tops.
I can't believe Hank didn't mention the irony of the content of the song itself- a fan obsessed with a celebrity. This song was such an accurate window into the immediate future, that we would have needed 20/24 vision to see it 🤣
@@EccentricFanboy They found like 2000 year old grafitti from teenagers obsessing over gladiators in the Colosseum. I don't think we've ever not obsessed over celebrities
The screenshot of Serial Experiments Lain spoke to me for I was also a young college kid at the same time. (Without the incredibly fast internet.) Banger of a theme song tho...
in this era, I was using Scour to download video. I specifically remember taking weeks to download Gundam Wing Endless Waltz cut up into 3 episodes to watch it in Japanese with bad or broken fan subs. Good times man
I was thinking about how it was mine for a while when I got my first Nokia Brick phone in High School in 2005! When I learned how to get/make ringback tones on it, I switched it to there & changed my ringtone; The first time my mom called me after that move…was not enjoyable hahaha!!
Man, Hank! You reminded me that the internet had no videos, and I forgot about it! I remember the transition now, it was NUTS! I remember the first webcam my family bought, and at the age of 8/9 I thought: "You know, it would be great to talk to my grandparents on the other side of the ocean in Canada". Now it's just there and we do it every day! IT'S NUTS!
I HAVE THAT VIDEO & THE ORIGINAL CD FROM BREE SHARP WITH THE SONG!! I literally was OBSESSED with David Duchovny & X-Files, so the "David Duchovny, Why Won't You Love Me?" song/video (& multiple versions of it) were one of the first things I made sure to DL online as a teenager! 🥰
Oh, God, I remember this. And I'm also having flashbacks to how, way back in '99, we all first saw the BTVS episodes "Earshot" and "Graduation Day pt. 2" in a way no one intended: in four-part, postage-stamp-sized RealVideo files shared all over the internet. Behold, the early days of online video piracy! (Long story short: The Columbine shootings happened; the WB got understandably leery of school violence plots involving guns and didn't air those episodes right away; a network in Canada did; people who taped them off air converted them, posted them on obscure web pages, and shared them via message boards and mailing lists and, yes, probably IRC.)
I wish there had been more TV plots about it… Republicans might still care about ending school shootings if there had ever been a Very Special Episode about it.
For anyone who doesn't know, BTVS is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I wasn't part of that space, so I only figured it out halfway through googling that acronym.
Hank! Its SO good to see you not only still with us but thriving! It makes me so happy. Been watching you for years now and when you shared you were sick I got so upset I couldn't even watch anymore. When I asked my wife to share this video with me based on the thumbnail and topic and then I saw you looking all healthy, AND with hair no less, it literally not only made my day but my year so far! You take care, Sir! I'm SO happy to be seeing you again! God Bless!
When you said people downloaded napster and filled their computers with...I really thought it was going to end with "every virus known to man." it was really a fantastic time to be a trojan horse!
I feel like not only are all videos created to be viral now, all of public (especially celebrity) life is now a performance with the assumption that anyone and everyone might see you. I'm glad we could see that moment in time before everything turned into the Truman Show.
Everything's a performance because we also don't know when something will be dug up and stripped of all context, held against the cultural or production standards of another time. I really feel like the faster and more convenient the internet becomes, the worse the quality of discourse because we spend less time thinking about any one thing. Ever easier to misrepresent and mislead.
To be fair, part of that is sampling bias. We don't know about the private people because they are private lol. By it's very nature, the internet shows you only the performances that other people already like to see. Put a single period in the search bar of RUclips and scroll down for half an hour, you'll find videos that were not meant to be shared outside of friends and family, things nobody thought would be visible but did not do anything to hide. The private world still exists, it's just harder to crack through the algorithmically-regenerating shell of artifice
Until that year when they moved it from Fridays to Sundays. Feels like it was around the time they switched from Vancouver to Los Angeles for filming the show as well, but I'm fairly sure those two changes happened at different times. Both... big mistakes, IMO.
thank u for not trying to explain IRC, I might have gone into a traumatic episode if you'd have even shows a text screen, let alone requesting someone library they were offering.
Oh man..... Hearing the opening chords of that song just jettisoned me back to 1999. I had this song on repeat. Also, thinking of napster made me nostalgic for the type of internet we once had. I think Nerdfighteria is the closest glimpse of that kind of community I have found.
Right up until 5:10 I was thinking; must go search out that video, surely it's on RUclips now, somewhere ... then it hit me - wonder if Hank is going to show it at the end/I hope he's going to show it at the end/how could he be this transported and _not_ show it at the end? Ohmyfreakingdog!! I'm peeing myself in anticipation here!
I was as online as a kid could be in the 90s, and as big of a fan of the X-Files and DD as a kid could be. I loved the song and LOVED the video. I would get SO EXCITED when it came on the radio. This video is a blast from the past I wasn’t expecting and am so grateful for it! 🎉
So I am 10 years younger than you and seeing this brought back sooo many memories. So thank you for reminding me of the times before everything was online immediately and before I had to pay bills😅
Back in the day when my gig was Internet Helldesk, we had a Mac in the office that served two purposes. One, provide a MacOS example to help the rare customer that had a Mac. And more importantly - house and play the video The Spirit of Christmas. Before South Park. When you saw a tech walk up to the machine and watch the video - you knew they were blowing off steam from a difficult call. The video was bootleg, of course - it was never intended for an public audience. But we were technies working an ethernet segment away from an ISP's uplink. We had lots of cool bootleg stuff. Allegedly.
I remember watching Spirit of Christmas at work too, but I had the excuse of working at a company making Multi-Media authoring tools. That nobody has heard of since. Pour one our for MFactory.
Bingo! I was going to mention that in the comments. South Park now has 20+ seasons and made Trey and Matt millions of dollars, and it all came from bootleg videos that people shared, or mainframes that hosted the video itself.
Huh, I was an X-Files fan who was in college with fast internet (I can remember bragging that I had 100Mb fiber to my friends, and they didn't believe me that it was possible, and because of slow upload speeds on the other end it didn't really matter) in 1999 and I never ran into this in any way. Thanks for sharing a piece of early internet history.
"I AM NOT ABOUT TO EXPLAIN IRC TO YOU, BUT WE FIGURED IT OUT" 😂😂😂 /DEAD Ohhhh, thank you *so much* for the boat loads of nostalgia, you frigging nerd hero. 😊
This is a topic most deserving of a complicated pizzamass video! This song and the video have an indelible place in my heart. Also, it is a real banger at karaoke. I’ll be waiting, in Nevada…
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Is the Typo near the end of the video an intentional reference I do not understand or is it supposed to be available? Also, thank you for sharing this video with me, it will live in my head rent free all day. DAVID DUCHOVNEY WHY WON'T YOU LOVE ME
You did it Hank. You convinced me to buy the magic pizza ball before it sells out.
Need to correct you on some anachronisms... the web was real by the time this some came out, GeoCities, xoom and other site hosts we home to thousands of fan sites and communities, xfiles yahoo groups and old school newsgroups catered to tens of thousands of participants, and XF fan fiction had several major community hubs that users hoped would not be... ephemeral.
Hold on. What's going on with the leaning shelf? Genuine question. Is it built like that or you just kinda 🤷 "meh. It works."
Day two of pizzamas and I’m just finding out?! Algorithm letting me down
This is a Tom Scott video written and performed by Hank Green
I laughed so hard I hurt myself a little.
Well who else was gonna do it with Tom in retirement?
Now I want to see Tom's version of the dance at the end
Facts lol
in a reality where Tom Scott was born in America this is one if his earlier videos
Hey now, Napster was not an "illegal music sharing service" it was a peer-to-peer sharing service that was used to illegally share music along with other legal sharing.
ooo killer semantics! you in law school yet?
I'm dying to know what the legal : illegal ratio was
its only illegal if you get caught... and no one seemed to mind.
It was a music sharing service that was found infringing on copyright and was unable to comply with court orders and thus, you could call it illegal.
Whether it should be illegal is a different question (personally I'm highly critical of current copyright laws), but Hank is not wrong here.
Unfortunately, the DOJ (incorrectly, imo) disagrees with this statement.
"Before Homestar Runner" is a powerful, hateful, painful phrase to indicate how old we're getting.
"Before RUclips" is another, in about 2 years. It already is with me.
😂😂😂
"college students...distributing fansubbed anime" hit me like a truck, which should be an indication to all of you how old this old lady is
@@TheDanishGuyReviews Before RUclips, so like 6 or 8 years ago?
@@MilesFromExtraordinary RUclips released its first video in 2005. I remember a time online with video-watching and sharing before that.
Hank explaining Napster to a bunch of kids on RUclips feels exactly like Fry in Futurama explaining things about 1999 to people in the year 3000. Especially the episode about Napster.
But then he said Cazza?? It's KaZAA! Did we even grow up in the same timelime??
The only issue with futurama being futuristic is that things keep coming up because they have came up in present times, with no irony attached. It can't be new in the future if it's new in the present, without justification.
@@nicolasvecchione6016 yeah, that’s kind of the point of the show. It’s not speculative fiction, it’s comedy and satire about the present through the lens of the future. The more things change, the more the stay the same.
Read this in Fry's voice.
@banditrests IF they actually addressed it this way, but they don't. So it isn't.
As an "elderly" nerdfighter and part of the x-files fandom, i was singing the song in my head 10 seconds into this video. Thanks for the memory.
Me too! Love this song and, of course, I love David Duchovny.
Yessss
"almost a scholar of online video" Hank, you're selling yourself short here.
I need to get my name on some papers...
@@vlogbrothersLiteral one of the founding fathers of the internet
@@HercadosP
At least the Internet as we know it today
The internet without Hank Green is like global warming without Al Gore
That made me notice I was sitting in lit class again rn. Nicely played, Hankertron.
Bold of you to assume I’ve forgotten about this, Bree Sharp’s David Duchovny is my Roman Empire
I regularly send this video to people in an attempt to spread the joy, and genius songwriting that is Bree sharp. ☺️💖
@@margicates553 it’s so funny, when I was going through my intense X Files phase in high school I annoyed all my friends by singing it allllll the time
Her album is full of bangers. Guttermouth is still on a bunch of my playlists
I still know every single word in this song. Damn, I'm old...
Played the shit out of this song on the radio in high school. My immediate area was MADE aware of this song.
Homestar Runner being used as an example of an extremely old thing just hit me like a truck
I recently stumbled upon the memory of homestar runner and it was amazing. I can't believe I ever forgot about it. I was so obsessed with it.
I was too young for Homestar Runner; I have a bachelor's degree. Hope that helps ;)
It was the first online video project and I will die on this hill.
@@DarkkestNite why would you say this? Why? Was it necessary? 😂
Come On Fhqwhgads is 22 years old 😬
Remember the Ally McBeal dancing baby? That was HUGE!
I was fine forgetting about that. Thanks.
@@shawnbottom4769 LOL. You’re welcome.😉
Yep. I actually had Dancing Baby school folders in like 5th grade. Ha ha ha.
What a fascinating story! Cool to know….I grew up during that time, was an X-Phile (as fans of the X-Files were called), but still didn’t know about this video. :)
We don’t talk enough about how instrumental xfiles was in creating what we know today as fandoms. It’s up there with Star Trek and Harry Potter.
Up to and including steps to how we ended up having AO3 with its team of lawyers to protect fanfiction. o7
Literal baby boomers were going to Star Trek conventions and passing around printed works of fanfiction on paper long before the X-Files, but I get what you are saying. The X-Files was certainly one of the earliest Fandoms that would have been able to use the Internet for communication.
To this day... I still look at people where I work and if they say "how do we find XYX out?!"... I look at them and smirking my best Mulder Smirk... "that's why they put the I in F. B. I."
@@TakenTook They didn't say it was the first, only how important it was for the fandom culture we have today.
@@Lutefisk445 -- ergo why I said "but I get what you are saying"
Also I have to add this song started playing over the speakers while I was at ikea a couple months ago and it felt like I was in a brilliant, bizarre dream
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IKEA is always a bizarre dream but that feels like a very different one.
Amazing!
it is WILD that this happened!
This video is an absolute vibe. I am giddy at the unbridled joy of Hank singing David Ducovney, while also strutting the merch pretty dang well. I guess we’ll see you tomorrow!
I was not prepared for David Duchovny why won’t you love me today 😂 he was one of my first crushes. I have an x files tattoo. What an absolute gem
Rip Gary Shandling
@@milkshakebananaz nice. What does the tattoo look like? And those cameos on the Larry Sanders show were priceless!!
@@GinaMarieBarbieri it’s a lil ufo with the “X” in the tractor beam 😊
The Video in question is not even to 500,000 views. Come on Nerdfighters, let's get it to 1/2 a million
I loved all of this, and then Hank's pronunciation of KaZaA murdered me dead.
Entered the comments just to find this comment to like.
@@MasterofPuberty Okay wait does that mean I WASN"T WRONG in how I've been saying it? And Hank is???
I've always said "kuh-zah" empasis on second syllable. What is it supposed to be??
@@IceNixie0102 Yes.
25 years since 1999...the year we expected the millennium bug to crash the world's computers. Dial up was a thing, rotary telephones still existed, mobile phones couldn't take photos and were the size of bricks, Donald Trump was only known for a TV show. The world seemed bigger.
Thanks a feckin' lot Hank! :P
The matrix came out, the world didn't blow up and within a year the Nokia 3310 was out. 2000 was the last year with no bogeyman but the government after the Berlin wall fell.
"I'm not going to explain IRC to you right now."
Me, staring blankly into the middle distance for entirely too long with the video paused: "Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written."
It's like stepping into the matrix. 😉
alt.tv.x-files would also like a word. Although the video itself probably would have been in alt.binaries.x-files ...
what is irc?
Hank doesn't have time to read us all of RFC 2182?
The last time I used IRC was probably 2017
This reminds me of the Doctor Who cast and crew video of them all singing "500 Miles." It was made for the going away party of the showrunners... it got me through a very rough year when it came out. It was very nerdy and also never expected to be seen outside of the production crew. Now to track down this DD song... I used to watch X-Files religiously!
link to the song in the description 🙂
I think the proclaimers are also DTs favorite band which is why it was chosen.
I watch that 500 Miles/Dr Who video on a sorta regular basis. The joy is infectious. And I love the behind the scene folks getting into it. 😊
I've not heard of that before but I love it, thank you for sharing this knowledge!
The Ballad of Russell and Julie (a take on Victoria Wood's Ballad of Barry and Freda) was another one that the Dr Who cast did that was like that which is really good and I watch it on a semi-regular basis.
The fact that you also change microphone items in every shirt shot is a delightful touch
Thank you for noticing!
Oh, well now I feel silly for having been too focused on the microphone changes to even notice the shirts!
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@@mous3kteer you win!! that's hilarious!
No video has ever made me as nostalgic as this video. I love the breakdown of old Internet memes during pizzamas - my favorite internet meme
Oh no, this is exactly in the middle of my Venn diagram of interests.
"So that they could do the important work of distributing fan subbed anime" 😂
This was absolutely instrumental to us back then. You wouldn't have anime culture in NA the way it is now without their hard work.
It may be funny as a phrase but I salute those heroes.
My friends and I traded burned CDs with one episode, maybe two episodes at most, like we were drug dealers. Show up to middle school like "you got it?" *pulls a jewel CD case out* "I got it, it's good, trust me."
To quote something I saw somewhere, "IRC is Discord but for old people"
Who, of course, weren't old people at the time
Discord will be full of old people (if it's still going) before long. That's how it all works, alas.
Radio used to be listened to by the young, for reference! It was the hip new thing! ;D
@@gfox9295 I'd wager that, like me, the vast majority of the aforementioned old people have long abandoned IRC and use Discord instead these days to talk mostly with equally old people.
I've never experienced the joy of Discord in the same way. IRC was genuinely socializing with strangers. I feel like now there's always someone trying to ruin the fun
@@Zhiperser Of course, my roommates and I used to IRC each other just for the novelty value and fun of it too. We also played Worms Armageddon while drunk on our co-op LAN.
I have never found my people in IRC, except for very tiny channels with people I knew from elsewhere. Discord has been a much richer experience where it's pretty central to my socializing with all of old, current, and new friends.
"So they could do the important work of distributing fansubbed anime."
As a mod on my dorm's DC++ hub circa 2004... yeah, that tracks.
Sometimes it's weird to be someone who's chronically on the internet, yet old enough to remember a world without it because I'm periodically reminded that a large percentage of those who are also chronically on the internet ... many of them adults ... are too young to either remember that world or to have experienced it at all and that thought breaks my brain.
A fellow Xennial, I see
@@benalexander9669 Nope, right in middle of Gen X. I was born in '72.
@@johnhmaloney I was born in 90 and whilst the internet existed, it wasn't your entire world back then either. I was definitely playing with toys and watching tv and going outside and making up my own card games and skipping rocks on water and a million other things kids born post 2006 wouldn't even think to try and do.
It hurts that they will never know pre-youtube internet. Ask jeeves??
@@johnhmaloney '67 here. I remember casually telling my daughter "well, that was before the internet," and watching her eyes glaze over with incomprehension. I remember working in phone sales and having to explain to people that the internet wasn't just a gimmick. It was really going to be a big deal. 😂
I have college student born in 2007. They dont know a world without high speed internet
*sees video title* *sees video thumbnail*
"Is this about the 'David Duchovny, why won't you love me' song?"
That song is still in my regular playlist to this very day, but until now i actually had no idea there was a music video to go with it! Gonna have to go check that out!
I still sing that song to myself at times :-)
I was a huge X-Files fan in like 94-97 but I must have started to fall out of that fandom by the time of this song. I didn't know about the song OR the video!
Instant realization!
Same 😁 (Well, almost. I did know there was a video.) Anyone else still prefer the weird, crazy original to the much more sophisticated reboot version?
Hank being a fan of Serial Experiments Lain is the most obvious thing in the world that you would never have guessed.
That was a deep cut!
Also a fitting choice for this topic
Lain references are getting rarer and rarer, so I'm always so excited to see one nowadays.
Present day.... PRESENT TIME!
@@kelpsie Did Lain not get super popular over the pandemic?
I loved those old spaces. The internet has always been a broken, problematic, creepy space, but there was genuinely something very wholesome about those net 1.0 days. I think it was just the smallness. Which is why I've minimized what i use and how i use it to at least simulate that smallness...
It makes me happy that I still can find some of the old fic authors from those days online at places like Tumblr (some of us still use it, lol). Even if I don't interact with them, it feels nice to have the continuity.
Man, I love that song. Still have it peppered throughout my playlists. And it was So Much Fun back then finding out that the X-Files cast and crew were huge geeks for the show, such open fans, too! So many shows & movies had cast and crew who acted too cool for their own product (I'm looking at you, Roswell), that the cast-produced "Duchovny" video just brought me joy. I never did know who all cameoed in that video, though, because of how low quality it was.
this is my favorite vlogbrothers video in quite a while. I also consider myself a web video nerd, and I'd never heard of this!
Pizzamas videos are a different level
But what about tuberculosis?
I considered myself a massive X-Files nerd from about 1994 to 1997 but I never heard the song OR saw the video, so... I guess I'd started to fall out of my X-Files fandom by the time it was really big. I even went to little fan gatherings (one of them might have risen to the level of a con... we had the Enigma as a guest! ;D).
My mom had a copy of this on VHS right when it was still blowing up. But she was running X-Files conventions back then
Conventions including people from X-Files, son
The end of the video where you say, “I love saying this I’ll see you tomorrow” made my heart grow so fast it’s so wholesome ❤
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You forgot to mention that you also covered that Bree Sharp song back in 2009ish! Your cover got me interested in X-Files and it's still my favorite show
Oh my gosh thank you, I was starting to believe I imagined this because I couldn’t find anyone else talking about it!
Something I really wasn't aware until I started going to science fiction conventions is how careful early fan creators had to be. Some of them were hit with cease and desist or outright sued over fanfiction which today most people wouldn't bat an eye out. There's a reason why so many fan fictions starts off with this story that I'm using isn't mine please don't sue me. The fact this song came out and was so well received amongst the X-File crew really tells you how supportive they were a fans.
Yes! I was talking about the cease & desist letters in another comment above. Lawyers from FOX did that to a bunch of X-Files web sites and fic authors. It only lasted a little while, but the trend to include disclaimers lasted.
Since X-Files crew members made the video it's not that surprising.
Fan fic is laziness.
@@akulkisNah, you aren't monetizing off of their IP, even if you are getting a bit of ad revenue, which wasn't really a thing back then, the amount of GOOD press the IP got was worth the literal pennies they "lost" in ad revenue.
If you wanna cry laziness go after 50 Shades of Grey, it's literally a Twilight fanfic.
That is put right laziness/stealing.
Every story has already been told before, the names, characters, and concepts are just swapped around to make it "unique".
There is no such thing as a purely unique idea.
Also, fanfic is just showing love for an IP that Resonanted with the fans, how is that lazy or bad?
This is actually how the text of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” started, though Irving claimed he learned the story whilst doing some amateur anthropology in the backcountry-the locals told him the story, and if you don’t believe him, go ask them.
But that was for a different reason. Apparently at the time, fiction=untrue information=lies=fraud, which is a crime. At least, so it was explained to elementary school me.
Something something about the way blooper reels were edited together and shared in the industry at office parties and then became broadcast as tv specials… as a context for both the forms of virality that were conceivable when this was made, and which were seemingly understood in the industry. Etc, etc. Anyway, I remember this song from back then (even though I didn’t watch the show), but I never knew about the video! So that’s neat.
This is a great point. I was in a giant record store recently and there were VINYLS of RADIO BLOOPERS!!!
@@vlogbrothers My parents had a BOOK of radio bloopers, which was very confusing to me as a kid (and probably still now). (And I’m not that much older than you! My parents didn’t grow up listening to Jack Benny on the wireless!)
Genuinely, thank you for the nostalgia. I very, very much remember having to jump through multiple hoops to watch this video in something like a 240p in a quicktime file(?) 25 years ago. And it being 100% worth all the effort, even over our 56k modem. I also very much remember making my sister drive me to the Media Play store 30 miles away so I could buy this album. There are days I very much miss those X Files fan forums.
--ScullyKid
Never thought I'd see Hank Green reference both Homestar Runner and Lain in the same video, what a time to be alive
FUNNY that you talk about this now!! I was a HUGE X-Files fan during its original run and only several WEEKS ago did I discover the "David Duchovny" video and I was FLOORED that there were SO MANY celebrities in it. Thanks for the memory of a certain time in the 90s. X-Files, "pen-pals" through AOL/ IM's (which, for the first few months I paid BY THE MINUTE and my first month's bill was pretty huge . . .) Alta Vista was where I'd search for stuff, but then, I used Ask Jeeves. Not too many of us were on "the net" (which people were still calling things like "the information super-highway.") And yes we watched the X-Files, discussed it among friends.
And don't laugh, but I still have an AOL email address.
Just before one of the Star Wars prequels came out, I invited friends over. We started the download of the trailer on AOL dial up, and then we went downstairs for dinner. After dinner, the video was just about loaded, so we all crowded into my spare room to watch it....
This was a big social event!!!
I thought you were going to say “12 hours later”, but that was the dial-up speed for a short videos about 5 or so years earlier. 😂
in the early 2000s, I worked at a Max-Plank-Insitute full of linguistics nerds. We created a lot of videos for our work, mostly as stimuli for language experiments, but we also used our limited free time to create fun videos for people who had something to celebrate or were going to leave for other places. There was a Star Trek version (the institute being taken over by the Borg) and an X-file version... Lots of fun as videos were filmed all over the offices and public spaces of the institute, but still had to be a surprise for the recipient of the video... lots of planning, lots of distraction schemes - and a bonding experience that was much better than an escape room... I am still in awe of the people who orchestrated these videos!
I love that the fan subbed anime example was Serial Experiments Lain. Very appropriate
Yup. Started my freshman year of college in 1998. X-Files was my FAVORITE show. Had a poster of Mulder and Skully above my bed in college, a "Truth is Out There" poster, and tons of X-Files memorabilia. Definitely remember this song. Thank you for the blast from the past!
I had a poster back then of the Rolling Stones cover from '96, the one of DD & GA in bed together. Was yours the same?
Couple fun facts about actors mentioned! Charles Nelson Reilly played Jose Chung in fan favourite episode Jose Chung’s From Outer Space, and Gary Shandling played Fox Mulder in a movie within the X Files universe!
Also. X Files was huge online on message boards and that’s where the term ‘shipping’ came from!
God, the nineties were something special online between USENet, IRC and later E-Groups. Thirty years on and I'm still all about Krycek. Not to mention that I learned a LOT the first time I searched for "Mulder Krycek fanfiction"... ah, I was such a sweet summer child. 😂😂😂
@@JustAnotherBuckyLover the Mulder/krycek ship is still alive on Ao3 🤣
@@Veestar88 Ohhhh I am aware. AO3 is my home from home. 😂
As the person who first told the actor who played Krycek about that ship, that was a very strange period of time at family gatherings...
@@PaulSkySwitzer Oh wow, I would never. LMAO How did Nic Lea take it? LOL
Topic-specific message boards were wonderful, and I mourn their loss.
They're alive and well on Something Awful, which isn't the site it used to be 20+ years ago.
2:37 "stuff could happen for six month straight" Napoleon Dynamite happened for like four years straight.
This was my JAM when I was young. I called my radio station to play it and got HUNG UP ON. I downloaded this video over dial-up! If I don't think of Bree Sharp every time I use either brie or sharp cheddar! Iconic, never forgotten video to me. ❤
0:20 anyone notice something about Hank's shirt?
shirtS pizza
What about it?
Shirts
😮😮😮😮😮
Which one, lol
I haven't had a timewarp, "return me to the 90s including all my emotions" moment like this in a long time....
Wow, the fact that all the lyrics (not that there are very many) all came rushing back makes me realise again how strange life and human brains are
I was so into the XF community back then, writing fanfic, sharing with others, people making videos and comics and just so much creativity, even getting together in person several years in a row to raise money for Gillian Andersons favorite charity (called it Scullython) - think of that - online strangers actually meeting up all over the country to binge XF often in SOMEONE'S HOUSE! It was the best! I drove across my state to attend one year, and hosted it another! I have not found community like that since. There was no commercialization or influencers or any of that, just a bunch of nerds having fun. It just doesnt feel like that exists on the internet anymore. Thank you for this blast from the past!
Yep, I watched X-Files with people I met online in my first couple of years of college. Especially freshman year as I didn't have a TV in my dorm room. What a time, what a time.
I feel like Nerdfighteria has been that online community for me for nearly the last two decades. Mind you, I'm referring to the Nerdfighter Community as a whole, not the specific "Nerdfighteria" FB Group.
I've made a decent community out of friends I've met through various local and international Nerdfighter gatherings and meet ups.
Before that, the only meetups I had been to were arranged via the X-Files Message Boards.
Oy, how time flies. /*feels old*/ /*checks notes*/ /*IS old*/ 👵
Oh my goodness, you just unlocked a memory for me of the comics this one noromo made back around 1997. I was a shipper (or "relationshipper" back then), but I thought those comics were hilarious and used to print them out. I can't recall the name of the artist, but I feel like the main character was a rabbit? And shippers used to try to kidnap him in the comics and force him to watch episodes like Pusher and read sappy fanfic? Lmao. I wish so much that I had saved them.
Talk about worlds colliding! I'm a huge X-Files fan and was when the show aired. Yes, I even have a son named Fox after our favorite "spooky" detective. I can still still belt out all the lyrics to Bree's song and recall the video fondly. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
Well you're not the only one. Hi, I'm Fox.
well, my ACTUAL name isn't fox, but my online name has had fox in it since 1994 because of Mulder, so... :::raises hand:::
This is actually super interesting, thank you for explaining the whole context of why this is so weird!
I saw the pic of David Duchovny and knew exactly what this video was about. I was in college and had this song on my winamp playlist. I was fairly sure I had seen the video, but had to watch again to be sure...and yes, I definitely saw it back in the day.
Thanks for the reminder about fun things from online before the modern internet.
I had it too.
As someone who experienced that era through a US Robotics Sportster 28.8 V.34 Dialup modem instead of a fast university connection, I’m only finding out about this video today for the first time. Thank you for giving us the context it takes to understand why it is in fact, the most amazing video on the internet today!
This unlocked a long forgotten memory for me. I have a vague sense that I'd burned this song to a cd at one point and was walking around my community college listening to this banger on my walk-man. Definitely a catchy tune!
Discman memories are excellent memories
Same!! Memories unlocked as soon as the song played
A+ finale. This is quintessential Pizzamas - learning, then dancing.
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Holy Cannoli Batman! That wasn't just a handful of celebrities - that was a new face every few seconds. Look at this featuring list from the video description:
Jenna Elfman
Brad Pitt
Charles Nelson Reilly
Jerry O'Connell
Melissa Etheridge
Garry Shandling
Dennis Franz
Erik Edtrada
Hector Elizondo
Kevin Nealon
Bebe Neuwirth
David Spade
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Jane Leeves
Perry Gelphin
Calista Flockhart
Kelly Packard
Brooke Burns
Janine
JuliAnne
Taylor Hayes
Kiss
Whoopi Goldberg
Rosie O'Donnell
Pamela Anderson
Janeane Garofalo
George Clooney
Michael McKean
Alex Trebek
Jerry Springer
Chris Carter
Gillian Anderson
Mitch Pileggi
Nick Lea
Vince Gilligan
Frank Spotnitz
John Shiban
Chris Owens
William B. Davis
Kim Manners
Rob Bowman
Dan Sackheim
Wow.
So David Dochovny is not in it?
I recognize maybe 10 names of this list, and 2 or 3 I recognize the name, but if I saw the person I wouldn't be able to tell you who they were
What’s the name of the video
I graduated college in 1998. When I started only college students had email addresses and probably government people and by the time I graduated AOL was a household name.
Thank you for this trip down memory lane and the dancing! Great way to rep the Pizzamas Ts! I want more happy dances... John, I'm looking at you.
This video and the "Troops" video (a Star Wars fan video done in the style of the TV show COPS, following the Stormtroopers sent to Tatooine to recover the droids,) were foundational college and/or internet experiences for me. Man. What a thing to remember.
"It went viral, which we didnt have a word for at the time" is way more terrifying out of context.
Feels like a two sentence horror story. Second one being something like "It was the 1920 after all."
Referencing the Spanish flu that infected a third of the global population and was one of the deadliest in history.
Hey now! Jerry O'Connell is great and he's still doing good stuff like Star Trek! He'll always be Quinn Malory to me from Sliders though.
I’m still in awe over how handsome he got since playing Vern in “Stand By Me” at 12 years old.
Quinn Mallory
Quinn Mallory stole Uncle Jesse's wife...
Hank dancing adds five years to my life
I saw the thumbnail and the song immediately popped into my head. I had a hard time watching Californication in the 2000s because my head just played the song the entire time.
Why won’t he love…?
Thank you for distributing Serial Experiments Lain. You’re doing Gods work.
I'd never consciously thought about how quickly things come and go today. Remember "All your base are belong to us"? People were quoting that for MONTHS. If a funny line like that comes up today, it fizzles out in a week, tops.
I still quote all your base. 😅
In my neckof the woods, It was used as a punny title of a dish made for a "weird food party" years later. Out has starting power lol.😊
"All your base" lasted for years!
Even in the Year 2024, sometimes you just gotta Move Zig for Great Justice, y'know?
@@bluetoes591 Ditto.
I think about Buffy Summers threatening to stake Scully three times a week, MINIMUM
I can't believe Hank didn't mention the irony of the content of the song itself- a fan obsessed with a celebrity.
This song was such an accurate window into the immediate future, that we would have needed 20/24 vision to see it 🤣
😂🤣🤣🤣😂
Ayyyyyyyyyyy~
That doesn't seem like so much a window to the future with me? Obsession with celebrities arguable goes back to Liszt in the 1800s.
@@EccentricFanboy They found like 2000 year old grafitti from teenagers obsessing over gladiators in the Colosseum. I don't think we've ever not obsessed over celebrities
I see what you did there! 😂😂
The screenshot of Serial Experiments Lain spoke to me for I was also a young college kid at the same time. (Without the incredibly fast internet.) Banger of a theme song tho...
in this era, I was using Scour to download video. I specifically remember taking weeks to download Gundam Wing Endless Waltz cut up into 3 episodes to watch it in Japanese with bad or broken fan subs. Good times man
The x-files theme is my ringtone and when it played at the beginning of this video I had to remind myself no one was calling me.
I was thinking about how it was mine for a while when I got my first Nokia Brick phone in High School in 2005! When I learned how to get/make ringback tones on it, I switched it to there & changed my ringtone; The first time my mom called me after that move…was not enjoyable hahaha!!
Man, Hank! You reminded me that the internet had no videos, and I forgot about it! I remember the transition now, it was NUTS! I remember the first webcam my family bought, and at the age of 8/9 I thought: "You know, it would be great to talk to my grandparents on the other side of the ocean in Canada".
Now it's just there and we do it every day! IT'S NUTS!
I’m a simple man. I see Mulder, I click
I HAVE THAT VIDEO & THE ORIGINAL CD FROM BREE SHARP WITH THE SONG!! I literally was OBSESSED with David Duchovny & X-Files, so the "David Duchovny, Why Won't You Love Me?" song/video (& multiple versions of it) were one of the first things I made sure to DL online as a teenager! 🥰
It's easy to explain IRC. It's Twitch chat without the stream.
“It’s like discord if discord were nothing like discord.”
It's multiplayer notepad!
Discord is IRC with a bunch of other stuff crammed in
@@phyphor pictochat? Lol
discord if discord servers were actually servers
Newsgroups. That's how we shared things back then. I was lucky enough to have broadband at home already back here in Amsterdam in 1996 I think.
Please do more of these early internet history videos. I absolutely love them and it helps to save the culture of a very specific period in time
Oh, God, I remember this. And I'm also having flashbacks to how, way back in '99, we all first saw the BTVS episodes "Earshot" and "Graduation Day pt. 2" in a way no one intended: in four-part, postage-stamp-sized RealVideo files shared all over the internet. Behold, the early days of online video piracy!
(Long story short: The Columbine shootings happened; the WB got understandably leery of school violence plots involving guns and didn't air those episodes right away; a network in Canada did; people who taped them off air converted them, posted them on obscure web pages, and shared them via message boards and mailing lists and, yes, probably IRC.)
I wish there had been more TV plots about it… Republicans might still care about ending school shootings if there had ever been a Very Special Episode about it.
For anyone who doesn't know, BTVS is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I wasn't part of that space, so I only figured it out halfway through googling that acronym.
@@scyfrixTHANK YOU.
Hank! Its SO good to see you not only still with us but thriving! It makes me so happy. Been watching you for years now and when you shared you were sick I got so upset I couldn't even watch anymore. When I asked my wife to share this video with me based on the thumbnail and topic and then I saw you looking all healthy, AND with hair no less, it literally not only made my day but my year so far! You take care, Sir! I'm SO happy to be seeing you again! God Bless!
It helped that it was legitimately a banger of a song that people wanted to listen to over and over.
When you said people downloaded napster and filled their computers with...I really thought it was going to end with "every virus known to man." it was really a fantastic time to be a trojan horse!
Most unexpected Lain cameo ever
The Hank lipsync alone was worth the thumbs up
6:57 We should make vailable a word
Being old enough to remember David Duchovny, I'm pretty sure he loved a lot of people....especially women....
I feel like not only are all videos created to be viral now, all of public (especially celebrity) life is now a performance with the assumption that anyone and everyone might see you. I'm glad we could see that moment in time before everything turned into the Truman Show.
In the future, everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes!
You're right and it's pretty sad to witness in a lot of ways. People need at least some privacy, even celebrities.
@shellh929 Especially when some celebrities (Chappell Roan) are essentially called ungrateful for setting boundaries
Everything's a performance because we also don't know when something will be dug up and stripped of all context, held against the cultural or production standards of another time. I really feel like the faster and more convenient the internet becomes, the worse the quality of discourse because we spend less time thinking about any one thing. Ever easier to misrepresent and mislead.
To be fair, part of that is sampling bias. We don't know about the private people because they are private lol.
By it's very nature, the internet shows you only the performances that other people already like to see. Put a single period in the search bar of RUclips and scroll down for half an hour, you'll find videos that were not meant to be shared outside of friends and family, things nobody thought would be visible but did not do anything to hide. The private world still exists, it's just harder to crack through the algorithmically-regenerating shell of artifice
I watched the X-Files every Friday night growing up. To this day I still love it. Mulder and Scully are true icons.
Until that year when they moved it from Fridays to Sundays.
Feels like it was around the time they switched from Vancouver to Los Angeles for filming the show as well, but I'm fairly sure those two changes happened at different times. Both... big mistakes, IMO.
thank u for not trying to explain IRC, I might have gone into a traumatic episode if you'd have even shows a text screen, let alone requesting someone library they were offering.
This song is always in my rotation. It's solid gold. I love it so much.
This is such a gemstone! Thank you for sharing and for dancing / singing along to it 😍🥰😌
Oh, man. As an old, i just want to thank you for saying strings of words I haven't heard in decades. ❤
same energy as the doctor who wrap party 500 miles video where david tennant is also just briefly hanging out with the actual proclaimers
Oh man..... Hearing the opening chords of that song just jettisoned me back to 1999. I had this song on repeat.
Also, thinking of napster made me nostalgic for the type of internet we once had. I think Nerdfighteria is the closest glimpse of that kind of community I have found.
I love how the Anime shown for "Anime Fan Subs" was Serial Experiments Lain.
Right up until 5:10 I was thinking; must go search out that video, surely it's on RUclips now, somewhere ... then it hit me - wonder if Hank is going to show it at the end/I hope he's going to show it at the end/how could he be this transported and _not_ show it at the end? Ohmyfreakingdog!! I'm peeing myself in anticipation here!
I was as online as a kid could be in the 90s, and as big of a fan of the X-Files and DD as a kid could be. I loved the song and LOVED the video. I would get SO EXCITED when it came on the radio. This video is a blast from the past I wasn’t expecting and am so grateful for it! 🎉
So I am 10 years younger than you and seeing this brought back sooo many memories. So thank you for reminding me of the times before everything was online immediately and before I had to pay bills😅
Back in the day when my gig was Internet Helldesk, we had a Mac in the office that served two purposes. One, provide a MacOS example to help the rare customer that had a Mac. And more importantly - house and play the video The Spirit of Christmas. Before South Park. When you saw a tech walk up to the machine and watch the video - you knew they were blowing off steam from a difficult call.
The video was bootleg, of course - it was never intended for an public audience. But we were technies working an ethernet segment away from an ISP's uplink. We had lots of cool bootleg stuff. Allegedly.
I remember watching Spirit of Christmas at work too, but I had the excuse of working at a company making Multi-Media authoring tools. That nobody has heard of since.
Pour one our for MFactory.
Bingo! I was going to mention that in the comments. South Park now has 20+ seasons and made Trey and Matt millions of dollars, and it all came from bootleg videos that people shared, or mainframes that hosted the video itself.
Huh, I was an X-Files fan who was in college with fast internet (I can remember bragging that I had 100Mb fiber to my friends, and they didn't believe me that it was possible, and because of slow upload speeds on the other end it didn't really matter) in 1999 and I never ran into this in any way. Thanks for sharing a piece of early internet history.
"I AM NOT ABOUT TO EXPLAIN IRC TO YOU, BUT WE FIGURED IT OUT" 😂😂😂 /DEAD
Ohhhh, thank you *so much* for the boat loads of nostalgia, you frigging nerd hero. 😊
This is a topic most deserving of a complicated pizzamass video! This song and the video have an indelible place in my heart. Also, it is a real banger at karaoke.
I’ll be waiting,
in Nevada…
God it even sounds 90s af