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- 1993 - The internet was a novelty whose concept few had grasped and most were confused by. This CBC-TV clip from "Prime Time News" reminds us of online's astonishing conquest.
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"There's an interesting kind of restraint... there's not a lot of cursing or swearing, there's not a lot of personal cuts, there's not a lot of putdowns..." lol, the good old days of the internets!
I love watching these old Internet stories and what it is lol...interesting to see how far its come in such a short time
Well back then only huge nerds could get online, so it was a way more polite community. Now every 6 year old has access, so yeah...
+LiquidusSnakeX huge nerds can be really nasty, too
Have you ever seen the comments section of any anime out there? Where there is internet you will find trolls. Kinda like an old German forest, only digital.
Go to hell
I remember when the internet was really polite, like the guy was explaining. I still try and keep my conversations as civil as possible, it really makes conversation less stressful and more enjoyable. I think that kids today might benefit from lessons of civility in school; it might make for a more enjoyable experience online for everyone.
1:48 oh god, if only he knew..
Alexandre Boucher As soon as I heard that line I immediately went to the comments on here.
Lol what a fucking imbecile he was
+Sara Johnstone Oh, the irony of your statement.
+Know Whey Actually there wasn't anything ironic about it. Ironic would be me saying something nice and clean while agreeing with OP's comment. Educate yourself, fool.
+Know Whey Nothing she said was ironic
Someday I want to become an Internet enthusiast.
Before I was fired (for reporting racism from a client), I worked at an internet service provider providing the interweb
Someday I want to become Internet enthusiast.
*Me too, I hope it'll happened in the near future!*
@@MinutesOfMemes happened happened happened
I used the internet for the first time 2 years after this was made....14.4 modem, disabling pictures to make pages load faster...then a little later a 28.8 modem and ICQ. Don't get me wrong I love the internet of today...but nothing can compete with the excitement of connecting for the first time...the internet seemed soooo much bigger and mysterious back then!
I want to install "Internet" in my flying car. It seems like the perfect way to pass time during my daily commute to my advertising job on the moon.
The bit John Allen says about the "restraint" you find on the internet went out the window when RUclips comments were invented.
yeah, that restraint didn't last too long, the era of internet courtesy is long gone, we now have pages upon pages of "go to hell".
Go to hell, man. lol -- I had to.
Jeffrey Pierce Haha! :)
Millennials
Nah, that was gone long before anyone knew WTF RUclips was, trust me.
Today, the 25th Anniverary of the World Wide Web, I could think of only coming here to get this gem of a clip to share on Facebook.
"Not a lot of person cuts or putdowns."
WELCOME TO THE FUTURE.
He's saying that everyone's polite on the Internet? I'm assuming this is before Eternal September. He was in for a shock.
No swearing or screenfulls of Go To Hell? Where is this internet?
its back in 1993
We don't have that now because "Go to hell" would be way too tame of an insult/profanity
I never knew what the internet was until one day in October, 1996, I discovered it at UBC library.
It took me half a second to realize that "The Internet means the END OF BOREDOM!"
I would like to see the entire corpus of knowledge uploaded to the internet. How far along to that goal would you guess we're at?
This was the year I was born so I've been able to see the development of the internet from 1995 when I was 2 years old and started playing with my dads computer till now, I think that's pretty neat.
This was fun to watch. I remember sneaking in to the computer labs at the local univesity (I was in college) to go on-line. What fun :D
The guy calls himself a "playwright and internet enthusiast." LOL
The part about not any cursing or put downs made me laugh.
This video was uploaded to RUclips 15 years after it's original recording. I am now watching this video 15 years after it was uploaded to RUclips and 30 years after it's original recording. People in 1993 couldn't imagine what the internet has become today 30 years later in 2023.
He said not alot of cursing...hahahaha
I know right fucking bitch?
I was there during the early days of the internet. I vividly remember people who wanted to chat was genuine people, there were no trolling or meme'ing or other malicious intent. It was a very different era in internet that will never be replicated again and I am very lucky to be part of it.
I was there too. Miss MSN and MySpace. lol
@@tamara_diamonds422 I miss Yahoo Instant Messenger and AOL chat rooms lol
lol we had to watch this in grade 10 history class back in 1998.
I love this kinda stuff, looking back. I just found a book at home, it came out in 1967. It predicts the year 2000. Really funny and mostly way off.
Wow..it's amazing how the idea of the internet was such a new technology back in 93'. And to think that this news was created 28 years ago...which btw...wasn't too long ago. I say this because I was a young man when this clip came out. 😂
@gODfall CBC has not blocked this video from being viewed in the US. This is a glitch in the RUclips system.
"If this is the only way they can talk to somebody, this is how they'll do it."
Strangely, this applies more than ever. When was the last time you had an enjoyable face-to-face conversation with strangers IRL? I'm struggling to think of a time recently. Most face-to-face conversations are either dripping with toxic positivity or are simply toxic. The best I can hope for is a neutral conversation, neither pleasant nor toxic. A basic sharing of facts about something indisputable between two individuals (such as where are the paper towels located?) is the best one can expect, but also expect the person you are asking for information to treat you in a condescending way by rolling their eyes or other body language that says they feel contempt for you existence.
Personally, there are times I'd rather deal with a computer or machine than a human being. Humans are mean.
watch the bruce willis movie Surrogates
we'll probably end up like that
WEF wants everyone in 15-minute cities by 2030
I was born in 1982. When I think back now its unimaginable growing up without Net & mobile phones as I couldn't live without either now!
Things were much simpler, quieter & less frantic/fast. You played outside with your friends everyday, playing football from when you got up until it went dark, you only spoke with friends actually in their company & going round town on Saturday with pocket money was focal point of the week!
In a lot of ways being a kid/adolescent in 70/80/90s was v. similar
In 1982 I was learning Basic in 8th grade. Not from my teachers, but from other students. The teachers would literally be learning along with us by reading texts out loud to the class. The teachers were clueless and the students would often screw up the code on purpose so that we didn't have to do homework that day and could play games on the computers. (I lived in Washington State and computing was super important to the schools at that time)
I'm sure the teachers were what held back a lot of students from really exploring how to use a computer and what it's capabilities were. I, like most students, used it to make text graphics. ;-)
@BoneThugsandAKon
Same here. Man, do I miss the 90s. Nickelodeon, my old home, tv, ads, everything.
wow... i love the genuine naive outlook this guy has. here we are, ironically, watching this in the one place that people do all of the above (personal attacks especially). every other message board is an ongoing fight of whose more of an idiot. the change is/was that you had to be part of an intellectual community in those days to end up in a chat room, computers were thousands of dollars and you had to be highly literate. now any a-hole with a connection can get online and dump their idiocy.
Oh how times have changed. :)
Dial-up is so powerful. The speed is Over 9000!!!
we showed them
"its intersesting, because one would think if you're anonymous you'd do anything you want... but people in a group have their own sense of community and what we can do..."
This, and the corresponding parts, are sad because there was so much optimism about what the internet could be and how it could show the best of people... I still love it (and couldn't live without it!), but it certainly hasn't lived up to the high ideals and hopes of what the founders thought we could do with anonymity.
its amazing that keyboards and screens look the same today as they did then.
I remember chatting on a black screen, and typing in every web address, and Dose code, LOL.
Who remembers the AOL chat rooms and the beeping of dial up?
whats that sound at 1:17 why does it make that beep sound?
I thought for a second that the guy in the opening frame was Alan Partridge, that is why I clicked.
Pick one
-Internet
-Restraint
LOL, I saw that too! That was on Usenet News.
Wow!
never heard about this "Internet" thing before
I remember the BBS, infact we were through CRS Online, but in Kitchener. Took a full day to download the Doom demo from iD software (3mb file).
The internet was still mostly restricted to universities and some businesses during this time so yeah, it's not surprising it was a lot more civilized back then.
cool. when does this come out?
is that mark cuban at 0:41?
The internet was a geek's paradise even for many years after 1993.
omg I almost forgot the nightmare that was dialup.
I still remember when my parents first got internet, 30 minute dial up connection and all (LOL!) I was eight at the time. It was such a huge deal because until then, only the government had access to the internet. Never did I dream that it would become such an integral part of life and it's one of the only ways the world can function. At least for now.
How do I plug my rotary dial phone into my eniac to access this internet thingydoodle?
long live the cbc!
wow...
"over whelming desire for people to be rooted, the only way the feel rooted is through another person" LOL!
1:49
llololololololololololololololololololollllllllllllllllllll
@igotthefarts1 i myself am also 24 i remember all those things you just said, nostalgia is a wonderful thing when we were on the internet with dial up and our phone would ring and instinctively we would answer it and boot us off the internet, now? we have phones that go on the internet or you can call someone on your phone while being on the internet (all on the phone of course), god what happened to the good old days? its just not the same anymore
How can i use this internet? Its New To Me!
@venturae no im 18 and i remember this sound but i am to young to remember what it was from
Now TV knows how radio felt....Lol
@lordtalon69 I first got on the internet about 1997-98. My family had a very slow dial-up system, and only 1 computer. We really hit the internet when we got cable internet and a wireless router back around 2002-2003.
I wish I knew the internet from back then, as I'd like to see what it was like: the experience, the available websites, the less than professional looking websites (though I'm sure they're still around somewhere). Thanks for not being a troll!
woah i was born in 1993 things sure have changed alot since then
and more now.
@@alexlester8379 yep things have changed more in the last 10 years than from 1993 to the time I posted this comment. The world will be unrecognizable in 20 years from now
Where can I buy this here internet?!
"there's not a lot of swearing, or [...] put downs"
lol
when's this coming out?
lol, wish i could go back and show him /b
I was born in 1993. It so strange that my internetadicction wasn't even possible before I was born.
Yep.
"There's not a lot of cursing or swearing. There's no screen fulls of "GO TO HELL!". LOL HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA OMG LOL HAHAHAH!!!!!!!111!!!!1one!!!!
If you want to see the vintage Peter Mansbridge introduce this segment, go to the CBC archives. There's no "the" before Internet, and no messing with the Mansbridge.
It sure was a novelty back in the day for me to go to the library and use the Internet.
@jakeharvey I don't know what version of 1993 you lived-n, but I remember flamewars going back to the 80s
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And yes with cursing, swearing, insults, and everything you see now
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I can remember in late 90s though maybe into just after turn of Millennium, that Internet chat rooms/orums/newsgroups etc on dial up there was so much less abuse/bullying/trolling etc
It just didn't seem to be an issue. I think back then everyone on the internet had basically grew up without it so I think valued it more and thus behaved better. As time past & people have been brought up on it and the user base has become younger and younger, the trolling and abuse and bullying has become worse
Same I remember the same
True. Sad, but true.
:)
I don't need Internet to talk to people across the world. I have ham radio.
+Patrick McCarron Awesome where do you buy those?
What kind of ham do you use?
The cured kind
I was never into that hobby myself, but I can remember the enthusiasm that ham radioers had in the pre-internet days. When it came to communicating with others all over the world, and in real time, that was the only game in town.
It's so funny to see all the discussion contained to just basic forum discussion... no idea of just how wide its multimedia powers could go.
Aw man, I logged in just to make that joke!
1:44 wow, how things have changed....
Most of the things we have now existed back then, sort of. But almost no one cared because these things weren't easy to find or use, and people who did care were hated for some reason ('nerd' used to be a really hurtful word). For example, you could set most VCRs to record TV shows at a later time, but you had to set their clocks first, and if their clocks weren't set they would flash '12:00' forever until you did. And practically everyone in the world had that flashing '12:00' on their VCRs.
This was obviously the infancy stages of the Internet.
It only took 3 more years for that restraint to be lifted! Lol
I always LOL at 1:50
@Nintendude712
oh even as a 9 year old dail up seemed to take forever. I remember spending over an hour loading the trailer for Star Wars - The Phantom Menace back in 1999
What's it like in 2011, DavidElijah? ;)
I also found it very enlightening, especially as it paints a picture of a far more innocent net-scape than the one we see now.
When is this inter-netting coming out! I want to talk at a table saying football!
@911sanitarium
lol
if you are 18, you should know what dail up is. Dail up was still used in the early 00s
I had an 8yr girl call me a douche bag the other day here on youtube; i'm 30 and pretty sure i didn't deserve it.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@leesieh 2.09 --- yeah the troll had not yet been invented. Although 'flaming' was a popular term back then.
0:55 Woah Twin Towers hidden in the scene
Its funny how we've gone from needing a computer and phone to connect to a computer OR phone
I remember going to a single page and getting 100s of popups.
Now we have lots of internets.
lmao good ole cbc
I wanna have his internet, that one where people are nice.
That's the thing. I wasn't online back in '93 but when I did get online in the late 90s I generally operated a wysiwyg approach. If anything I can do myself more justice on the Internet as I'm a better writer than I am a speaker. OK, in those early days I did a bit of trolling but even that was no where near as malicious as some of the stuff you come accross nowadays.
"there's not a lot of putdowns, swearing, or 'go to hell' on the internet"
Did we...did we break it?
The internet. It's a series of tubes.
born in 84'... so not an adult beforehand, however.. i think people would say that life seemed simpler, more social, less.... degenerate. Aside from tech, materials, health advancements, i imagine life was better long before 1985.
Ah, 1993, it's like "I was 14 yesterday" LoL with time doubled to our days.
The speed limits were like 80 km/h or 55 mph. Gas was like 20 cents per litre, maybe 60 cents per gallon!
It was the first summer of full-blown El Niño.
There's no cursing or putdowns. Well, he probably found out things changed over time.
There was cursing. Just wasn’t how it today. Back then it was more. Your mama jokes.
Internet is a fun invention. Life wouldn't be complete without Internet. Internet loves you. You must get on Internet every day or else Internet will be sad.
the interweb is like a spider's web you will get caught inside. They put "be like us " in it
+TheSkyHMaestro I wonder what the world would be like if the world had no internet?
The Readers Corner majority of human history has been without Internet it's only been around for not even 30 years
"Not a lot of cursing of swearing" Must of been before RUclips.
The WTC is on the desktop at 1:03