I was a kid in the 70s and early 80s, and I remember my parents buying our first VCR maybe around 1979. It was big and clunky and very expensive. I also remember the very first floppy disks, which were 8 inches in diameter and were made of a thinner plastic, thus making them actually "floppy."
Same goes for 5.25" floppies. Thin and more delicate in comparison to their 3.5" counterpart. Still have Space Quest II and Doom II on 3.5", but that's about all I have left, sans some utility programs like Lotus.
@@KyLyonnessNo, those are still floppies because the disk inside was floppy. Hard disks are the storage inside the computer, which most of us still use today. HDD, Hard Disk Drive.
When it comes to the pagers/beepers thing, they filled this niche in time when the wireless networks existed, but cellphones were still fairly newish and expensive. Thats why at the time, loads of people, not just doctors, used them, but they were soon phased out by the end of the 90s for most people in favor of cheaper cell phones. And as to whether doctors still use them, they do! And not just doctors, several industries still use them because the pager networks were build long ago and are proven super reliable, as well as the fact that they are allowed to transmit with far greater power than cellular signals, so they are able to receive signals when phones often cant, so they are vital for individuals working in a field where being able to be contacted is crucial.
O.J. Simpson was found not guilty for the murders, but he was later arrested for kidnapping and armed robbery of a sports memorabilia dealer who was selling a bunch of O.J.'s former property. That seller suffered heart attacks days afterward from the ordeal since OJ and a group of guys came into his hotel room and took tons of items (including stuff that didn't previously belong to OJ). Anyway, aside from all that this list really hits home since I was born in the 80's and grew up in the 90's. That AOL sound will forever be stuck in my head. What a time to be alive.
Floppy discs used to be required school materials every year haha. Had to have like 3 or 4 of them to save papers on them. Born in 1990, this video was awesome. I grew up with all of this. I STILL keep a paper map in my car at all times. Never know if your phone is gonna die or something in your cars computer stop working. Paper maps will forever be great to keep in a car.
“Please be kind…rewind” was a sticker on most vhs tapes you rented. It was really just being nice to the next renter. The video store I went to the attendant would open the box to verify the tape was there. If you didn’t rewind they might give you a snide look. It wasn’t a blockbuster video, but for the life of me I can’t remember the name of the store. It was a reasonably well know business and I went there quite often, but I can’t remember. Time marches on, but my memory doesn’t.
80s baby, 90s kid. I do wish they had RUclips when I was in school cause that would've helped me out tremendously. But I miss when life seemed so simple and easy going, not a care in the world.
How interesting. I've Never met or read a post about a Gen Xer who wished the internet and social media was around when they were younger. Just goes to show, there's a first time for everything
@@LA_HA I just wished there was RUclips around to help with school. My parents were of no help and I was too much of a loner and quiet to ask for help from others.
@@JenniferBarrier1 Oh, I understand now. It's just for study purposes. Man, that stinks. I'm an introvert, too, so I know it can be tough when you're shy. Just promise me something -- If you fall through a time hole and go back, I Beg you to stop them from inventing social media. Instead, get rich by inventing an easier way to study and find books and materials if you're shy and have trouble asking for assistance. You'll be a millionaire and save the world at the same time. Haha
Yes, doctors still use pagers. I had one when I was a social worker at a hospital. I think they use them because it is useful to have multiple options for communicating with employees in case of a natural disaster or something catastrophic happening at the hospital. At least that’s the reason we were always given. Plus you pass the pager to other employees when you’re off so the number stays the same despite who is working, which is helpful for emerg or other departments if they need to reach a specific specialty’s staff.
@@malcolmdrake6137 we always had to respond to the pages so I’m not sure how much faster it was for us but I’m sure when you’re a physician and you get a certain page you know it’s time to get moving in that direction immediately. That wasn’t as much the case for the social workers, we were only called for emergencies when they needed us to work with distraught families while waiting for news on their loved one.
just an FYI, Simpson was found innocent in the Criminal trial for Killing Nicole and Ron. He was found guilty in a Civil Trial brought by the Brown and Goldman families. He had to sell most of his football memorabilia to pay the judgement. Some time after that he was found guilty of robbery, when he and 2 other men went to a las vegas hotel, to meet with the person that now owned the memorabilia and took it back while brandishing weapons. This is all from memory, so I may have some details of the robbery incorrect.
He also wrote a book titled " If I did it" or something like that where he basically described how he did it. There is no double jeopardy in USA so he could not be tried again for the same crime even if new evidence or a confession happened.
80s baby/90s kid. The OJ trial was so huge that when the verdict came, the school secretary got on the intercom to the whole school to announce "Not Guilty". I was in 5th grade. 11 years old and we lived in the sticks. So even us rual folks got sucked into it. Most of us kids were just glad it was over so we could have our TV shows back.
That old AOL dial up sound was when each computer would synch up their data speeds, and make sure they both had compatible communication protocols. I still remember how slow a 2400bps modem is.
I was born in 87' and therefore grew up in the 90's. I remember it and all these things like it was yesterday. I still have a few VHS's that my nephew's and niece's watch whenever they come over.
With paper maps you can see an entire area without having to scroll or zoom. And you can also easily mark them with routes you want to take or circle points of interest without the risk of accidentally erasing what you've added. It's nice. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and I use Google Maps, etc. for getting from A to B, but I do like paper for vacations or leisure trips.
Born in the early 80s, a teen in the 90s. Yeah I remember the 90s very fondly. It had this "can do" feeling not only for us teens but also for all the adults around us. I used AOL other dial up ISPs a lot back then. It took forever to download anything like some websites with a lot of images on them could literally take over 2 minutes just to display in your browser window kind of slow. If you ever heard a fax machine dial up and connect to another fax machine, it sounds like that. I had a lot of fun with floppy disks. I used them for games and my homework at the time, but I also used them to make 'rescue disks' for PCs. As one of them 90s computer 'chads' I often tinkered with and fixed computers when I was a teen and in my toolbox where floppies of software utilities for running diagnostics, booting the PC to get files off it, etc. I had a whole stack of them. lol I remember TGIF fondly. Family Matters, Boy Meets World, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch were just some of the shows that were on at the time. Fun times!
You just described my life. I was born in 84. I vividly remember using the messenger ICQ and AOL instant messenger daily. It was basically my text service before I had a cell. 😂
born in the 80's grew up in the 90's. i remember all this. the AOL sound started ringing in my ears when you got to that part. I remember going to a summer camp in another state in the 90's and had to fly there. as a kid it was really nothing to jump on the plane and get off and feel completely safe. now i wouldnt dream of letting my kids fly alone at the age i started flying alone (i think i was about 9 my first solo flight). Also both my parents are still practicing doctors (over 40+ years now) i remember the pagers. it was usually when they were on call and someone at the hospital needed them after normal hours without tying up the home phone line by sending them a message through the pager with a number to call ASAP (urgency had a special code)
Many VHS tape rental stores has a sign that said "Be Kind, Rewind" back in the day. In fact, some of them would fine you if you returned a tape that hadn't been rewound.
90's were a great time. The only thing that ever annoyed me, was being named Sabrina. I was in high-school when "Sabrina, the Teenaged Witch" came out. I heard sooo many jokes.
I was born in '94 and remember most of these things. I never had a floppy disk or a pager though, as CD's and cell phones became prominent by the time I was able to use them. I remember the Beanie Babies craze, because EVERYONE thought they would be super valuable and they flopped. But I had a bunch as a kid and still have some in my closet. The good old days of going to Blockbuster and picking out a movie with my mom. That's where "Be kind and rewind" comes from.
Still got a pair of VCRs and I'm trying to rebuild my lost VHS collection from the 80's and 90's. Got one hooked up to a 27" RCA CRT, along with a DVD player, SNES, NES, and PS2, all on component cables. Nothing beats the old pre-disposable-era of electronics. Things lasted, and they had their own soul to them.
Born in 1972, so remember all of these, makes me feel old lol. I used to own over 200 VHS movies, eventually gave them away when DVD's came out lol. AOL, omg, it took forever to log onto the internet before broadband lol. It was a screaching noise that everybody in the 80's knew lol. Everybody thought computers were going to crash, because computers worked on binary, 0 and 1 lol.
This has probably been answered already but about O.j...O.j. Simpson was aquitted in the murder trial of his ex wife,Nicole Brown-Simpson, and Ron Goldman, a waiter and friend, who I believe was returning something she had left at the restaurant earlier that evening. Robert Kardashian was a friend and one of the attorneys of O.j. and Kris Jenner was Nicole's close friend. The O.j. Simpson trial is where another one of O.j.'s "Dream Team" lawyers, Johnnie Cochran, defended O.J. with the line, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."... O.J. was convicted in 2008 for assault, kidnapping, and armed robbery in connection with his attempt at getting sports memorabilia ( he said it was his) at a hotel in Las Vegas. He was swntenced to 30 years but released after 9 for good behavior...Ron Goldman's family sued O.j. in a civil suit ,after his acquittal in the murder trial,for wrongful death. The Goldman family won the civil suit. According to Google they were awarded $33 million. He wasn't found guilty of their murders but is liable for their deaths. I understand why. It's so frustrating knowing that there was overwhelming evidence of guilt in the murder trial and he was found innocent of the murders BUT guilty of wrongful death. He claimed to write a book (apparently he didn't write it) called "If I did it; Confessions of a killer". It was a book that put Simpson as the killer "hypothetically" and describes how the murders might've been killed...Then he did an interview about the book and in most people's opinions it made him look extremely guilty and proud of himself. You can find that interview on RUclips and is very interesting to say the least.
I loved Zima. It was my gateway to drinking beer, which I didn't like. Taverns around me would, upon request, add a shot of something or other to change the color and make it sort of glow in the bar lights. Nowadays there are plenty of flavored malt drinks to choose from. Back then it was either Zima or a wine cooler. That's how I remember it.
I loved Zima too. We would buy a packet or 2 of kool-aid for a nickel or dime each. Then we add a little into it to give a flavor & color. (I graduated HS in '96.)
Zima was great on a hot summer day! A few years ago, I think like 2018 or 2019, a limited release Zima over that summer was done so we stocked up on it. We still have a 6 pack left.
Man I REALLY miss the 90’s. My teen lives in the hood and always says, “I REALLY wish I grew up in the 90’s. My generation ruins everything they touch.” 😂 BEST TIMES EVER. 🥰
My aunt worked at the frony ticket counter at the airport in the 90s. My mom would bring me and my cousin up there just to hang out. We were allowed to ride the luggage conveyor around in circles, as long as we didn't get on any other conveyors in the back.
I was born in December 86 so i was a 90s kid and turned 13 one month before y2k. I dont remember pagers being that popular in my area, but car phones were. Every family I knew had one at some point.
I am enjoying your reaction videos! Oh yes, I remember the days of the "floppy disks" that were 1.44 mb, but we just called them "3 and a halfs" since they came after something else that was called floppy that were 5 1/4 (or five and a quarter floppy disks). Given that there was a time of overlap between these two sizes, they were called by the sizes instead of floppy to avoid confusion. I grew up in the 80s and can distinctly remember a time where there was no dial-up, and heck no Internet and virtually no home computers. The cell phones that existed were typically only used by doctors and lawyers and were in a bag. I also remember the rotary dial phones and the wired "remote controls" for televisions that had you moving a lever across a labeled dial. From what I remember, it wasn't so much that Americans were glued to the television to watch the OJ trial, but instead it was because no one had a choice. The OJ trial was on every news channel from start to finish. I understand that y'all were born in '99, but the OJ trial had so much more air time than the fall of the Soviet Union a few years earlier. So OJ was indeed acquitted of the murder, but was forced to pay Nicole's family in a civil trial that took place a year (?) later. In US law (as much of the American legal system was taken from the UK, so you might have this as well), double jeopardy doesn't allow someone to be tried for the same criminal charge, but they can be brought to civil court.
Born in 1972 & late childhood and teen years in the 80s. VCRs & VHS tapes came out in the 80s. I constantly recorded Soap Operas while I was in school. I was addicted. 😄 Graduated Highschool in 1990. Occasionally I still see Zima in Walmart. I actually liked it. I doubt I'll ever buy it again.
Nothing will ever overtake vhs. You’d buy blank vhs tapes at the store then you could record anything. It’d be a physical copy, so you wouldn’t have to worry about space. I was born in Jan 1990 so I have memories starting around 1993+
Born in 1989, my childhood is in the 90s. Dial up internet, VHS tapes, and Macarena I remember the most. 1996 when the Macarena was huge, the Green Bay Packers did a parody of the song and called it the Packer-ena; the Packers won the Super Bowl for 1996 season. I'm glad that part of the video about paper maps showed the state of Wisconsin. My hometown is in the center of state called Wausau (wah-saw).
I'm in my mid 60s, so all of this happened when I was well into adulthood. I remember when I first used floppy disks in my first job out of college in 1981. My office used a Digital Deckmate computer, and the floppy disks were the size of vinyl LPs. Computers did not yet have hard drives, so *everything* had to be run from the floppy disk, including whatever programs I might be using. I was late getting on the internet, but when I did, I had a dial-up connection via AOL. I also used a pager for my job, since people had to be able to reach me in an emergency.
I still have my Digital computer with 8-inch disks. The computer still works but the dual drive is bad, and won't read disks anymore. I have been using the internet since 1989 and had access to usegroups and email, though it wasn't all the time. I started using the internet more once the World Wide Web was created.
Born in 91, I often flew back and forth from Las Vegas, Nevada to Minneapolis Minnesota by myself at the age of 4. Often times my mom would walk me to the gate, or my grandparents, or even my aunt and uncle at one point. Smoking was still allowed on planes, and I remember being incredibly annoyed by that. 😅 i was 4 I mean come on. It really brings back memories of how simple it was to fly back then and how complicated it is to fly now. Nowadays, it's not very often that children fly alone, but it happens, airport security generally will take them and bring them to the gate these days. Escorts to and from the plane are heavily monitored/ chaperoned, not that they weren't back then, but I just remember there only being one person for a group of 20 or so kids.
The home VCR began being sold around 1976 in the US, but they were very expensive. The prices for VCRs started going down in the 1980s, and became more affordable for more people, by the 1990s, VCRs were a common sight in many US homes. Then DVD recorders and players came into the US market, with much better picture quality, and they made VCRs obsolete in the 2000s.
Great Reaction...... The Macerena at Weddings, Makes me laugh/chuckle..... If you listen to the lyrics, the Lady talks about having a 3-some with 2 guys neither of which is her boyfriend.
I was mainly in high school and early college in the 90s.we didn't use computers much in high school but in college the internet started and I was taking photography classes. There were no digital cameras but I had one class on Photoshop. Our files were too big to store on floppy disks so just for that class we used 100MB Zip disks or a SyQuest cartridge that held a whole 2GB. I got my first modern computer with AOL internet in 1997. In 1997 my older sister worked for a pager company and for my birthday she said I could pick one for my gift, either the cheapest one or the most expensive one. Guess which I picked. Haha. I was in New York City for Y2K at Times Square. We joked that at midnight the whole city would black out. Nothing happened though, it's was fine.
I was born in 79 so I was a 80's kid and a 90's teenager. I don't remember much before 85 but I remember the 90's very well. In the 90's, I still loved VHS. I didn't buy a dvd player until 2003. My parents got AOL in 99 so I didn't know what the internet was like until I was 19. I don't miss the sounds of dial up. For me that sound is about the same as nails on a chalkboard. I loved TGIF. So many good shows. Especially Family Matters. I remember beepers were pretty popular the year I graduated high school. If you want to know what dial up sounds like, watch the remake of the The Muppets movie. That movie gets the sound down perfectly. I never thought anything would happen with Y2K. My mom was worried about it. I still have paper maps in my glove department but I never use them. I've been using Map Quest on my desktop computer since I was 19. I've never used Google Maps.
80’s kid, 90’s preteen/teen - I still use my VCR everyday. Great way to watch my show and fast forward through commercials and parts of the show I don’t like (especially really bad SNL sketches). I remember floppy disks from the 80s when they were bigger, thinner and truly floppy. TGIF was my Friday night in my teen years. Other great shows that made that line up were Step by Step, Sister Sister, Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper and Dinosaurs. My parents didn’t get Internet until I was in college but I remember people saying that they always being told to get off the computer because someone was waiting for a phone call. If you were on the Internet, the phone line was busy. This led to a lot of people getting second phone lines for the house so one would go to the computer and the other to the house. Did you know you can dance the Macarena to the song Cotton Eye Joe? Next time you hear it, try it. After the initial intro, you can start to dance it. I don’t know the dance to Cotton Eye Joe, so I dance the Macarena instead.
Hi guys! My first daughter was born in 92, my second in 95 and my son in 98. It was a decade of change, from no cell phones to everyone having one. No internet to AOL etc. Records to CD'S. Answering machines. You name it!
OJ was one of the best running backs in the NFL, then went on to do commercials and movies. He was extremely popular. Add to that, the Los Angeles Police Department had a reputation for racism, and it had everyone's attention. They turned on the TV during one of my grade school classes to watch the verdict live. He was acquitted of the murders, but later went to prison for some sports memorabilia deals that went bad.
More specifically, it was not just a deal, but he and some accomplices burglarized a home or hotel room to get some memorabilia of his career. It was one of the worst prosecutorial messups of the century, a harbinger of the horrible state of things in most major American cities today. The most critical factor was an utterly unjustified transfer to a venue unrelated to the crime of Simpson where the defense team could effectively ply their racist appeals to emotion. Another egregious mistake was allowing a 'demonstration' in which Simpson was supposed to try on a pair of gloves found soaked in the victims' blood and - what a surprise - a formerly supple pair of gloves shrunken and stiffened by blood would no longer fit on Simpson's hand.
VHS and Beta Max(a Sony exclusive format) came out in the 1970's, with VHS being more popular and Beta Max dying out in the early 1980s. Then "LaserDisc" came out, followed shortly thereafter by the DVD, which is what killed VHS, then finally we got BlueRay, which was touted as a better quality DVD. Now of course we have digital versions that exist on your laptop or other type of portable player or even on internet storage.
Zima was kind of like an alcoholic version of lemon-lime soda/pop. They went down very easy, and then all of a sudden you'd be eleven or so in and couldn't stand up straight.
Funny thing.. What they show in this video isn't really the "Floppy Disk". Yes people still called them by that name but the original "floppy disks" were big, like 8-10 inches and were in fact very thin like vinyl and so they were floppy. Then the "home computer" came out and dropped the floppy disk size down to like 5.25 inches, but again it was still very thin like vinyl and still quite "floppy". Then the 3.5 inch disk came out, probably late 1980's and as you can see these were hard plastic and rigid. So although they were still called floppy disks anyone seeing them would be totally confused as to why they were called floppy disks.
I was born in ‘71, so of course remember all of these. I think the beanie baby craze was due partly to the way things like old baseball cards, which were bought for pennies, but years later were worth hundreds or thousands or even more for certain players. And really the value of the cards only went up because, even though there were millions printed and sold, most of them were collected by kids, so they were used and played with in many ways, and then lost, damaged, or thrown away as the child grew up. Which of course caused rarity and value. Since that could happen with cardboard picture cards people thought it could happen with all collectibles sometime in the future, so all kinds of collections began, and, like the beanies, many “things” were seen as a possible retirement “fund”. But since so many people were doing it, the rarity and value gain never materialized. But who knows, a hundred years from now those beanies could be really sought after! LOL!
From Wikipedia: "In 2007, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada and charged with armed robbery and kidnapping. In 2008, he was convicted and sentenced to 33 years' imprisonment, with a minimum of nine years without parole. He served his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center near Lovelock, Nevada. He was granted parole on July 20, 2017, which was the minimum sentence. He was released on October 1, 2017".
That's when desktop PCs had storage drives for floppy disks, diskettes/hard disk, and one for CD-ROM. Now that's all been replaced with USB drives/ports.
When my hubs & I came to the UK in 1999 we bought one of those huge Atlas map books, marking all of the places we stayed, camped and enjoyed. I was driving, he gave me directions from the map atlas - I must admit I went around & around more than once in a few roundabouts! We highlighted our 5 week journey all the way to the Isle of Mull where we got married. Still love to pull out the atlas and reminisce :)
Home video started with Sony's Betamax in 1976 and then the VHS in 1977. OJ Simpson was acquitted in the murder trial but convicted several years later of robbery and sent to prison. He was later paroled and wrote a book about the first trial called "If I Did It."
You might not have ever had a floppy disk, but you’re probably seen one without knowing it. The save icon on a lot of programs and websites is shaped like a floppy disk.
My middle school and high school were in the 90s. This brings me back. Those floppy discs that were shown is an upgrade to the real floppy disks. It's weird they call them discs when they were squares
The magnetic disc inside of the plastic sleeve actually WAS disc-shaped though, for both 5.25" and 3.5" disks. It was easier to tell on sight that the 5.25" magnetic media was circular.
I was born in 1981, so i definitely remember the 90s and graduated high school in 2000. So Y2K was our thing. It was on everything in 99' and 2000. I had AOL and dial up internet. I had some beanie babies. I didn't have a pager. But eventual had a flip phone. OJ Simpson was not guilty of murder. But in 2008 went to prison for armed robbery and kidnapping trying to get back his memorabilia. I loved watching full house and boy meets world. Oh macarana, people probably still do it. Oh yeah, flying was so much better back then. Darn sept 11th terrorist attack ruined everything.
I was in my teens and early 20s in the 90s. The actual technology for VCRs were invented in 1956, but didn't get popular and affordable until the 1970s and 1980s. Zima was malt liquor, not beer.
still have a bunch of VHS tapes, and 3 VCRs so that I know i'll be able to watch movies when my internet goes out, which it does fairly frequently in my area lol. Besides, they last a lot longer than dvds and I don't have to worry about losing them if my computer gets fkd.
The map at the 8:15 mark is the State of Wisconsin. During Holiday Parades local politicians running for re-election would had out free road maps "courtesy of the Wisconsin State Bureau of Tourism" with the name of politician, their title, and office address & business. Very few people ever had to ever buy a road map of their own.
After his acquittal, O. J. wrote a book called "If I Did It " and the "If" was just an outline while the "I Did It" was in bold letters. The Goldman family went to court and, if I remember correctly, O.J. wasn't allowed to receive the proceeds. As for the sound the computer made when you connected to the internet, watch the movie "You've Got Mail" with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
My thoughts on the parts of the video in order: #12 VHS machines were new in the 1970's, and very few people had them. They were sufficiently new in the early 1980's for one of my sister's birthdays that we did not have on, causing my parents to rent one along with a couple videos for her birthday party friends to watch. To this day, there are still movies that came out of VHS which haven't seen a proper DVD release, much less one on Blu-Ray. And forget about finding any of them on streaming services. So VHS is still alive in some places simply for that reason, with people hoping that last functioning VHS player doesn't kick the bucket. There were actually cheap devices sold that did nothing but rewind VHS tapes, so you could avoid taking up time on the player itself for that task. Rental places would sometimes charge a small fee for tapes that were returned without being rewound. #11 Floppy disks were never replaced by CD's for copying information between computers. CD's definitely replaced floppies for software installation media, but few people had the ability to write CD discs, and fewer of them bothered to use rewritable CD media. It's hard to say whether anything really replaced floppy disks, as the functional substitute - USB flash drives - started to become popular after the internet did. I'd say much of the functionality of floppy disks was replaced by the internet, with people using e-mail (which is how it was written for a long while, before the current consensus on just email became popular) to send small amounts of information to one another, rather than using physical media. #10 You can find modem negotiation sounds with a bit of searching (ruclips.net/video/ckc6XSSh52w/видео.html). Those of us who have been around for a little while can even recognize the different speed tiers from the noise. The 28.8kbps modems in particular (release as V.FC or V.FAST before the V.34 official spec was finalized) had notably different connection sounds from any previous models. The video I linked has a number of them, so you can hear for yourself what I'm talking about (compare V.32 to V.34). #9 My father had a business/hobby of buying and selling antiques. The general flow was going out to various sales (variously called yard sales, garage sales, or estate sales), buying old stuff that he thought was valuable, then renting a table at flea markets to sell them for a profit. For a time, you'd often see tables rented at these markets full of nothing but those Beanie Babies. They were widely considered, by the typical sellers at such flea markets, as an absurdity. They ultimately turned out to be something of a pyramid scam, like nearly all such engineered attempts at creating a collectible. Those who bought and sold early made some money, while those who bought into the game later ended up holding the bag. #8 Pagers were mostly used by professionals as a way of staying in touch with the office. Pay phones were ubiquitous, so the scenario was you'd get a page, find a pay phone, then call the number (usually with a calling card that either had a balance or simply charged the call to a company). Mobile phones were quite rare at the time. They were just starting to be a manageable size (pagers were always pretty small - all could clip onto a belt unobtrusively), but had yet to reach reasonable pricing. There are still pagers in existence today, but they're pretty much exclusively used by people tethered to legacy software systems which have the ability to automatically send pages, but don't know how to do SMS or something slightly more modern. Everyone who still has a pager also has a mobile phone, so the search for pay phones (which is doomed to failure in 99% of locations) is no longer part of the process. #7 Y2K was a genuine problem. Many who lived through that time will today stupidly claim it was a false alarm. It wasn't. We, as a society, spent billions of dollars beforehand to prevent it from causing problems. Those efforts were >95% successful (some systems still had Y2K glitches). The simple explanation is that many (if not most) major computer software systems in place were created decades earlier, where the difference between two bytes of storage for a year versus four bytes of storage was substantial. Using two bytes (i.e. "75" instead of "1975") would ultimately save tens of thousands if not millions of dollars in hardware costs. There's a saying pretty popular among those in certain fields of endeavor: There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution that works. It's not squarely a match for the situation at hand in the late 1990's, but it's basically the same concept - these decades-old software systems still worked, so they were never replaced. That meant that the institutions using such software had to choose between finally updating to something new, which has a lot of associated costs and risks, or fix the existing software, which has its own costs, but generally fewer risks. Some of that software had to patched at the assembly level, since the source code was long lost (not as bad as it sounds for mainframe software, where assembly language was pretty usable). A big problem was finding people with the expertise to do the job. A lot of people with "outdated" computer experience suddenly had a big payday, as their obsolescent experience became extremely valuable when dealing with all that old software. As a side note, we're about 15 years away from a somewhat similar problem. A lot of software from the 1970's and onward use what's called a Unix timestamp. That's the number of seconds since January 1st, 1970. If you use a standard signed 32-bit integer to store that value, you'll reach its maximum possible value in 2038. Updating such software to an unsigned integer will push the problem out to the year 2106, at the expense of being unable to store dates between 1902 and 1970 (most software using a Unix timestamp for dates doesn't use it for storing historical dates). Or you can replace the 32-bit integers with 64-bit integers (i.e. eight bytes instead of four bytes of storage), which pushes the problem long past the death of the sun. #6 Paper maps are still common for small areas with a lot of points of interest. It's still not particularly easy to put a specific set of points of interests into a GPS mapping system for people to use. Honestly, that's somewhat surprising. One would think that Google would have created a means for someone to provide an "app" download that did nothing but put a specific set of points on the maps application which could be used while filtering out everything else. Big companies like Disney can do it inside their own apps, but a local tourism board lacks to resources to do something like that. Even Disney still has to use paper maps for people who either cannot or will not use the app on a phone (a still-sizable number of people). #5 I definitely remember the marketing hype, but never actually ever had the drink. #4 I don't recall that kind of marketing for TV shows. It was either not widespread, or it came late in the decade, when I paid less attention. Certain days did have more significance than others, but that was a fluid value based on which shows the competing networks had at the time. If anything, Friday primetime (around 20:00) was a less premium time slot, as a lot of people were out and about rather than home watching TV. #3 OJ was found not guilty, and the jury was very widely criticized for reaching that verdict, as it was obvious to the public that he was guilty. He was later found liable in a wrongful death lawsuit. Much later, he ended up convicted of armed robbery, when he decided it was a good idea to steal back some of the memorabilia legally taken from him to satisfy his debts from the lawsuit, while armed. That's how he ended up in prison. #2 Nothing to say on that one. It was annoying. #1 Not for safety. It's security theater. The 9/11 attacks would have been utterly unaffected by the current passenger-facing "security" policies in place.
The phone company had deals on "teen lines" for like $20, so we had the luxury of a second line into the house. AOL was widely used. The 1990s movie "You've Got Mail" with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan was a classic with AOL featured. I just sold a Princess Diana Beanie bear for $130,000 last year. It depended on what you collected and the condition they were in. Mine were bought, packaged and put into a closet. I still have an updated Rand McNally Atlas in my car at all times. I've had GPS fail on me on road trips. GPS doesn't always give you the best route either. Simpson was found guilty of robbery in 2008 in Nevada and was sentenced to 33 years. He made parole after 9 years. Not much heard from him since.
Let me guess- you sold your Princess Diana BB in or right around August of 2022? That's the only time they've really seen a surge in value since shortly after they came out. In fairness, that's one of the only BBs that has the potential to be worth real money. The vast majority of high-dollar BB sales you see on eBay and other marketplaces are money launderers cleaning their illegal cash. eBay doesn't stop them because they have plausible deniability (they turn a blind eye and pretend not to know,) and because they get a final value fee off of every sale as a percentage of the sale. Much like the famed "black diamond" VHSes. Lol...
@@alysonbowler9040 I sold it to a private collector through an intermediary. They may have turned around and sold it on Ebay, I don't know. I have two more and some others. But you're right it's a bit crazy on what people think they are worth. We knew when it came out if the things were going to valuable, it would be that one for sure. Luckily, we managed to get the ones that are considered rare. Their loss, my gain. The taxes sucked though.
AOL dial-up noise: I find myself really feeling old when you two have no idea what that is. Some here may have grown up with it, but old farts like me were ALREADY adults when this came out! So the fact that you weren't born yet blows my mind!
I was a kid in the 70s and early 80s, and I remember my parents buying our first VCR maybe around 1979. It was big and clunky and very expensive. I also remember the very first floppy disks, which were 8 inches in diameter and were made of a thinner plastic, thus making them actually "floppy."
Same goes for 5.25" floppies. Thin and more delicate in comparison to their 3.5" counterpart.
Still have Space Quest II and Doom II on 3.5", but that's about all I have left, sans some utility programs like Lotus.
Yeah, the disks they showed are what I called Hard Disks, not floppy.
I remember my first VCR had a wired remote. If you walked in front of the TV you had to watch you didn't trip on the remote wire.
@@KyLyonnessNo, those are still floppies because the disk inside was floppy. Hard disks are the storage inside the computer, which most of us still use today. HDD, Hard Disk Drive.
@@3DJapan You may have referred to them as floppy disks. I did not.
When it comes to the pagers/beepers thing, they filled this niche in time when the wireless networks existed, but cellphones were still fairly newish and expensive. Thats why at the time, loads of people, not just doctors, used them, but they were soon phased out by the end of the 90s for most people in favor of cheaper cell phones. And as to whether doctors still use them, they do! And not just doctors, several industries still use them because the pager networks were build long ago and are proven super reliable, as well as the fact that they are allowed to transmit with far greater power than cellular signals, so they are able to receive signals when phones often cant, so they are vital for individuals working in a field where being able to be contacted is crucial.
O.J. Simpson was found not guilty for the murders, but he was later arrested for kidnapping and armed robbery of a sports memorabilia dealer who was selling a bunch of O.J.'s former property. That seller suffered heart attacks days afterward from the ordeal since OJ and a group of guys came into his hotel room and took tons of items (including stuff that didn't previously belong to OJ). Anyway, aside from all that this list really hits home since I was born in the 80's and grew up in the 90's. That AOL sound will forever be stuck in my head. What a time to be alive.
Floppy discs used to be required school materials every year haha. Had to have like 3 or 4 of them to save papers on them. Born in 1990, this video was awesome. I grew up with all of this.
I STILL keep a paper map in my car at all times. Never know if your phone is gonna die or something in your cars computer stop working. Paper maps will forever be great to keep in a car.
“Please be kind…rewind” was a sticker on most vhs tapes you rented. It was really just being nice to the next renter. The video store I went to the attendant would open the box to verify the tape was there. If you didn’t rewind they might give you a snide look. It wasn’t a blockbuster video, but for the life of me I can’t remember the name of the store. It was a reasonably well know business and I went there quite often, but I can’t remember. Time marches on, but my memory doesn’t.
Was it Hollywood Video? Palmer Video? Easy Video? West Coast Video? Family Video?
80s baby, 90s kid. I do wish they had RUclips when I was in school cause that would've helped me out tremendously. But I miss when life seemed so simple and easy going, not a care in the world.
How interesting. I've Never met or read a post about a Gen Xer who wished the internet and social media was around when they were younger.
Just goes to show, there's a first time for everything
@@LA_HA I just wished there was RUclips around to help with school. My parents were of no help and I was too much of a loner and quiet to ask for help from others.
@@JenniferBarrier1 Oh, I understand now. It's just for study purposes. Man, that stinks. I'm an introvert, too, so I know it can be tough when you're shy.
Just promise me something -- If you fall through a time hole and go back, I Beg you to stop them from inventing social media.
Instead, get rich by inventing an easier way to study and find books and materials if you're shy and have trouble asking for assistance.
You'll be a millionaire and save the world at the same time.
Haha
Same. Pay phones and Offspring were it in 97
Yes, doctors still use pagers. I had one when I was a social worker at a hospital. I think they use them because it is useful to have multiple options for communicating with employees in case of a natural disaster or something catastrophic happening at the hospital. At least that’s the reason we were always given. Plus you pass the pager to other employees when you’re off so the number stays the same despite who is working, which is helpful for emerg or other departments if they need to reach a specific specialty’s staff.
It's just the fastest way to get whoever is on duty to the floor without waiting for pick-up or response to calls and txts.
@@malcolmdrake6137 we always had to respond to the pages so I’m not sure how much faster it was for us but I’m sure when you’re a physician and you get a certain page you know it’s time to get moving in that direction immediately. That wasn’t as much the case for the social workers, we were only called for emergencies when they needed us to work with distraught families while waiting for news on their loved one.
just an FYI, Simpson was found innocent in the Criminal trial for Killing Nicole and Ron. He was found guilty in a Civil Trial brought by the Brown and Goldman families. He had to sell most of his football memorabilia to pay the judgement. Some time after that he was found guilty of robbery, when he and 2 other men went to a las vegas hotel, to meet with the person that now owned the memorabilia and took it back while brandishing weapons. This is all from memory, so I may have some details of the robbery incorrect.
He also wrote a book titled " If I did it" or something like that where he basically described how he did it. There is no double jeopardy in USA so he could not be tried again for the same crime even if new evidence or a confession happened.
80s baby/90s kid. The OJ trial was so huge that when the verdict came, the school secretary got on the intercom to the whole school to announce "Not Guilty". I was in 5th grade. 11 years old and we lived in the sticks. So even us rual folks got sucked into it. Most of us kids were just glad it was over so we could have our TV shows back.
That old AOL dial up sound was when each computer would synch up their data speeds, and make sure they both had compatible communication protocols. I still remember how slow a 2400bps modem is.
I was born in 87' and therefore grew up in the 90's. I remember it and all these things like it was yesterday. I still have a few VHS's that my nephew's and niece's watch whenever they come over.
Im a 60s baby, 70s kid, 80 teenager and a 90s new mom so my son is the 90s baby/kid.. I love these videos.
With paper maps you can see an entire area without having to scroll or zoom. And you can also easily mark them with routes you want to take or circle points of interest without the risk of accidentally erasing what you've added. It's nice. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and I use Google Maps, etc. for getting from A to B, but I do like paper for vacations or leisure trips.
youtubehas several 30 second examples of the Dial Up sound
Born in the early 80s, a teen in the 90s. Yeah I remember the 90s very fondly. It had this "can do" feeling not only for us teens but also for all the adults around us. I used AOL other dial up ISPs a lot back then. It took forever to download anything like some websites with a lot of images on them could literally take over 2 minutes just to display in your browser window kind of slow. If you ever heard a fax machine dial up and connect to another fax machine, it sounds like that.
I had a lot of fun with floppy disks. I used them for games and my homework at the time, but I also used them to make 'rescue disks' for PCs. As one of them 90s computer 'chads' I often tinkered with and fixed computers when I was a teen and in my toolbox where floppies of software utilities for running diagnostics, booting the PC to get files off it, etc. I had a whole stack of them. lol
I remember TGIF fondly. Family Matters, Boy Meets World, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch were just some of the shows that were on at the time. Fun times!
You just described my life. I was born in 84. I vividly remember using the messenger ICQ and AOL instant messenger daily. It was basically my text service before I had a cell. 😂
@@CptGreenJeans I remember ICQ fondly. Spent a lot of time on that back then. :)
born in the 80's grew up in the 90's. i remember all this. the AOL sound started ringing in my ears when you got to that part. I remember going to a summer camp in another state in the 90's and had to fly there. as a kid it was really nothing to jump on the plane and get off and feel completely safe. now i wouldnt dream of letting my kids fly alone at the age i started flying alone (i think i was about 9 my first solo flight). Also both my parents are still practicing doctors (over 40+ years now) i remember the pagers. it was usually when they were on call and someone at the hospital needed them after normal hours without tying up the home phone line by sending them a message through the pager with a number to call ASAP (urgency had a special code)
Many VHS tape rental stores has a sign that said "Be Kind, Rewind" back in the day. In fact, some of them would fine you if you returned a tape that hadn't been rewound.
I do wish they would have played the dial up sound for you guys. It's basically the sound that defined the 90s.
90's were a great time. The only thing that ever annoyed me, was being named Sabrina. I was in high-school when "Sabrina, the Teenaged Witch" came out. I heard sooo many jokes.
I was born in 1987 so thanks for the trip down memory lane guy's
I was born in 1984. The 90’s kicked ass. I know I’m bias but it’s definitely the best decade ever.
I was born in '94 and remember most of these things. I never had a floppy disk or a pager though, as CD's and cell phones became prominent by the time I was able to use them. I remember the Beanie Babies craze, because EVERYONE thought they would be super valuable and they flopped. But I had a bunch as a kid and still have some in my closet. The good old days of going to Blockbuster and picking out a movie with my mom. That's where "Be kind and rewind" comes from.
I was born in 1982 so i grew up in the 80s and 90s graduated in 2002 and in 2002 had my first daughter.
I’m an 80’s baby, 90’s kid, and I love everything about both decades!!!
Born in mid-late 80s ,I was old enough to have remeber these as a kid in the 90s
Hospitals are often a dead-zone for cell service, so doctors still use beepers for short messaging and communication in case of emergencies.
Still got a pair of VCRs and I'm trying to rebuild my lost VHS collection from the 80's and 90's. Got one hooked up to a 27" RCA CRT, along with a DVD player, SNES, NES, and PS2, all on component cables.
Nothing beats the old pre-disposable-era of electronics. Things lasted, and they had their own soul to them.
VCRs first out in the late 70s and became common in the early 80s.
Born is '86. The 90s where so amazing to me. I would love to re live that era again.
Hey I was born in 87. I remember the 90s quite well. I remember the great flood of 93 and the first Gulf War.
80s were better
I graduated high school in 1983 and we had VHS movies through my high school years.
My dad still used maps when driving until he passed away a few years ago.
Born in 79, teen in the 90s. BEST. TIME. EVER. imo ..... So glad I stumbled upon your channel : )
2000s & early 2010s were best to be a kid but best in general was 50s-80s
Born in 1972, so remember all of these, makes me feel old lol. I used to own over 200 VHS movies, eventually gave them away when DVD's came out lol. AOL, omg, it took forever to log onto the internet before broadband lol. It was a screaching noise that everybody in the 80's knew lol. Everybody thought computers were going to crash, because computers worked on binary, 0 and 1 lol.
VHS tapes first showed up at the end of the 70’s. I think the popularity of VHS was the 80’s.
I was a child in the 90s and love that I grew up during that time.
Happy birthday James!🎂🥳
This has probably been answered already but about O.j...O.j. Simpson was aquitted in the murder trial of his ex wife,Nicole Brown-Simpson, and Ron Goldman, a waiter and friend, who I believe was returning something she had left at the restaurant earlier that evening. Robert Kardashian was a friend and one of the attorneys of O.j. and Kris Jenner was Nicole's close friend. The O.j. Simpson trial is where another one of O.j.'s "Dream Team" lawyers, Johnnie Cochran, defended O.J. with the line, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."... O.J. was convicted in 2008 for assault, kidnapping, and armed robbery in connection with his attempt at getting sports memorabilia ( he said it was his) at a hotel in Las Vegas. He was swntenced to 30 years but released after 9 for good behavior...Ron Goldman's family sued O.j. in a civil suit ,after his acquittal in the murder trial,for wrongful death. The Goldman family won the civil suit. According to Google they were awarded $33 million. He wasn't found guilty of their murders but is liable for their deaths. I understand why. It's so frustrating knowing that there was overwhelming evidence of guilt in the murder trial and he was found innocent of the murders BUT guilty of wrongful death. He claimed to write a book (apparently he didn't write it) called "If I did it; Confessions of a killer". It was a book that put Simpson as the killer "hypothetically" and describes how the murders might've been killed...Then he did an interview about the book and in most people's opinions it made him look extremely guilty and proud of himself. You can find that interview on RUclips and is very interesting to say the least.
I was born in 2001 and I do wish I was around in the 70s 80s and 90s! Those times look so good!
They were.
Born in 89 and this whole video was just a nostalgia blast 🔥
I was born in 87.
I was born in 89 and my parents didn't care about this shit, but VHS and Zima. Haha
I'm 33 and would like to relive the late 90s and early 2000s with my mindset today.
I got my first VCR in 1982 as a high school graduation gift.
Paper maps are so fun because if you get to the correct exit, you celebrate so much you miss the next one.
I loved Zima. It was my gateway to drinking beer, which I didn't like. Taverns around me would, upon request, add a shot of something or other to change the color and make it sort of glow in the bar lights. Nowadays there are plenty of flavored malt drinks to choose from. Back then it was either Zima or a wine cooler. That's how I remember it.
I loved Zima too. We would buy a packet or 2 of kool-aid for a nickel or dime each. Then we add a little into it to give a flavor & color. (I graduated HS in '96.)
Zima was great on a hot summer day! A few years ago, I think like 2018 or 2019, a limited release Zima over that summer was done so we stocked up on it. We still have a 6 pack left.
Watching the movie "you've got mail" with Tom Hanks gives you an idea about AOL sounds.
Man I REALLY miss the 90’s. My teen lives in the hood and always says, “I REALLY wish I grew up in the 90’s. My generation ruins everything they touch.” 😂 BEST TIMES EVER. 🥰
My aunt worked at the frony ticket counter at the airport in the 90s. My mom would bring me and my cousin up there just to hang out. We were allowed to ride the luggage conveyor around in circles, as long as we didn't get on any other conveyors in the back.
I was born in December 86 so i was a 90s kid and turned 13 one month before y2k. I dont remember pagers being that popular in my area, but car phones were. Every family I knew had one at some point.
I am enjoying your reaction videos! Oh yes, I remember the days of the "floppy disks" that were 1.44 mb, but we just called them "3 and a halfs" since they came after something else that was called floppy that were 5 1/4 (or five and a quarter floppy disks). Given that there was a time of overlap between these two sizes, they were called by the sizes instead of floppy to avoid confusion.
I grew up in the 80s and can distinctly remember a time where there was no dial-up, and heck no Internet and virtually no home computers. The cell phones that existed were typically only used by doctors and lawyers and were in a bag. I also remember the rotary dial phones and the wired "remote controls" for televisions that had you moving a lever across a labeled dial.
From what I remember, it wasn't so much that Americans were glued to the television to watch the OJ trial, but instead it was because no one had a choice. The OJ trial was on every news channel from start to finish. I understand that y'all were born in '99, but the OJ trial had so much more air time than the fall of the Soviet Union a few years earlier.
So OJ was indeed acquitted of the murder, but was forced to pay Nicole's family in a civil trial that took place a year (?) later. In US law (as much of the American legal system was taken from the UK, so you might have this as well), double jeopardy doesn't allow someone to be tried for the same criminal charge, but they can be brought to civil court.
My niece was born on December 31st, 1999 at 6:30 PM.
She likes to tell her younger friends all about how life was in the 90s. 😂
My son was born june 1989, My daughter was born june 1990. I used to tell people that would ask if they were twins "no, they were born decades apart".
@@Furball-8994😂😂😂
Born in 1972 & late childhood and teen years in the 80s. VCRs & VHS tapes came out in the 80s. I constantly recorded Soap Operas while I was in school. I was addicted. 😄 Graduated Highschool in 1990.
Occasionally I still see Zima in Walmart. I actually liked it. I doubt I'll ever buy it again.
you two not knowing the dial-up sound makes me feel so old 😂😂
Nothing will ever overtake vhs. You’d buy blank vhs tapes at the store then you could record anything. It’d be a physical copy, so you wouldn’t have to worry about space.
I was born in Jan 1990 so I have memories starting around 1993+
I still have my vhs tapes and my CRT TV! I use it in my gaming room for older consoles.
Born in 1989, my childhood is in the 90s. Dial up internet, VHS tapes, and Macarena I remember the most. 1996 when the Macarena was huge, the Green Bay Packers did a parody of the song and called it the Packer-ena; the Packers won the Super Bowl for 1996 season. I'm glad that part of the video about paper maps showed the state of Wisconsin. My hometown is in the center of state called Wausau (wah-saw).
I'm in my mid 60s, so all of this happened when I was well into adulthood. I remember when I first used floppy disks in my first job out of college in 1981. My office used a Digital Deckmate computer, and the floppy disks were the size of vinyl LPs. Computers did not yet have hard drives, so *everything* had to be run from the floppy disk, including whatever programs I might be using. I was late getting on the internet, but when I did, I had a dial-up connection via AOL. I also used a pager for my job, since people had to be able to reach me in an emergency.
I still have my Digital computer with 8-inch disks. The computer still works but the dual drive is bad, and won't read disks anymore. I have been using the internet since 1989 and had access to usegroups and email, though it wasn't all the time. I started using the internet more once the World Wide Web was created.
Born in 91, I often flew back and forth from Las Vegas, Nevada to Minneapolis Minnesota by myself at the age of 4. Often times my mom would walk me to the gate, or my grandparents, or even my aunt and uncle at one point. Smoking was still allowed on planes, and I remember being incredibly annoyed by that. 😅 i was 4 I mean come on. It really brings back memories of how simple it was to fly back then and how complicated it is to fly now.
Nowadays, it's not very often that children fly alone, but it happens, airport security generally will take them and bring them to the gate these days. Escorts to and from the plane are heavily monitored/ chaperoned, not that they weren't back then, but I just remember there only being one person for a group of 20 or so kids.
I hate that people think this largely 'security theater' really makes them safer.
The home VCR began being sold around 1976 in the US, but they were very expensive. The prices for VCRs started going down in the 1980s, and became more affordable for more people, by the 1990s, VCRs were a common sight in many US homes. Then DVD recorders and players came into the US market, with much better picture quality, and they made VCRs obsolete in the 2000s.
VHS started in the late 80s. We rented movies all the time. One of my friends even owned a video store. So they basically got that wrong.
Great Reaction......
The Macerena at Weddings, Makes me laugh/chuckle..... If you listen to the lyrics, the Lady talks about having a 3-some with 2 guys neither of which is her boyfriend.
I was mainly in high school and early college in the 90s.we didn't use computers much in high school but in college the internet started and I was taking photography classes. There were no digital cameras but I had one class on Photoshop. Our files were too big to store on floppy disks so just for that class we used 100MB Zip disks or a SyQuest cartridge that held a whole 2GB.
I got my first modern computer with AOL internet in 1997.
In 1997 my older sister worked for a pager company and for my birthday she said I could pick one for my gift, either the cheapest one or the most expensive one. Guess which I picked. Haha.
I was in New York City for Y2K at Times Square. We joked that at midnight the whole city would black out. Nothing happened though, it's was fine.
I was born in 79 so I was a 80's kid and a 90's teenager. I don't remember much before 85 but I remember
the 90's very well. In the 90's, I still loved VHS. I didn't buy a dvd player until 2003. My parents got AOL in 99
so I didn't know what the internet was like until I was 19. I don't miss the sounds of dial up. For me that
sound is about the same as nails on a chalkboard. I loved TGIF. So many good shows. Especially Family Matters.
I remember beepers were pretty popular the year I graduated high school. If you want to know what dial up sounds like,
watch the remake of the The Muppets movie. That movie gets the sound down perfectly. I never thought anything would
happen with Y2K. My mom was worried about it. I still have paper maps in my glove department but I never use them.
I've been using Map Quest on my desktop computer since I was 19. I've never used Google Maps.
He tried to get back memorabilia in Las Vegas and went to prison. Eventually released and moving to Florida.
Hearing you speak about Jersey makes me curious. You should do a tour for your fans!
80’s kid, 90’s preteen/teen - I still use my VCR everyday. Great way to watch my show and fast forward through commercials and parts of the show I don’t like (especially really bad SNL sketches). I remember floppy disks from the 80s when they were bigger, thinner and truly floppy. TGIF was my Friday night in my teen years. Other great shows that made that line up were Step by Step, Sister Sister, Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper and Dinosaurs. My parents didn’t get Internet until I was in college but I remember people saying that they always being told to get off the computer because someone was waiting for a phone call. If you were on the Internet, the phone line was busy. This led to a lot of people getting second phone lines for the house so one would go to the computer and the other to the house. Did you know you can dance the Macarena to the song Cotton Eye Joe? Next time you hear it, try it. After the initial intro, you can start to dance it. I don’t know the dance to Cotton Eye Joe, so I dance the Macarena instead.
Born in 92 so I pretty much remember all of those things
Hi guys! My first daughter was born in 92, my second in 95 and my son in 98. It was a decade of change, from no cell phones to everyone having one. No internet to AOL etc. Records to CD'S. Answering machines. You name it!
OJ was one of the best running backs in the NFL, then went on to do commercials and movies. He was extremely popular. Add to that, the Los Angeles Police Department had a reputation for racism, and it had everyone's attention. They turned on the TV during one of my grade school classes to watch the verdict live. He was acquitted of the murders, but later went to prison for some sports memorabilia deals that went bad.
More specifically, it was not just a deal, but he and some accomplices burglarized a home or hotel room to get some memorabilia of his career.
It was one of the worst prosecutorial messups of the century, a harbinger of the horrible state of things in most major American cities today. The most critical factor was an utterly unjustified transfer to a venue unrelated to the crime of Simpson where the defense team could effectively ply their racist appeals to emotion. Another egregious mistake was allowing a 'demonstration' in which Simpson was supposed to try on a pair of gloves found soaked in the victims' blood and - what a surprise - a formerly supple pair of gloves shrunken and stiffened by blood would no longer fit on Simpson's hand.
@@thomasmacdiarmid8251 If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.
VHS and Beta Max(a Sony exclusive format) came out in the 1970's, with VHS being more popular and Beta Max dying out in the early 1980s. Then "LaserDisc" came out, followed shortly thereafter by the DVD, which is what killed VHS, then finally we got BlueRay, which was touted as a better quality DVD. Now of course we have digital versions that exist on your laptop or other type of portable player or even on internet storage.
Zima was kind of like an alcoholic version of lemon-lime soda/pop. They went down very easy, and then all of a sudden you'd be eleven or so in and couldn't stand up straight.
#bringbackzima
@@hepunk It is back....in Japan currently.
Funny thing.. What they show in this video isn't really the "Floppy Disk". Yes people still called them by that name but the original "floppy disks" were big, like 8-10 inches and were in fact very thin like vinyl and so they were floppy. Then the "home computer" came out and dropped the floppy disk size down to like 5.25 inches, but again it was still very thin like vinyl and still quite "floppy". Then the 3.5 inch disk came out, probably late 1980's and as you can see these were hard plastic and rigid. So although they were still called floppy disks anyone seeing them would be totally confused as to why they were called floppy disks.
I was born in ‘71, so of course remember all of these. I think the beanie baby craze was due partly to the way things like old baseball cards, which were bought for pennies, but years later were worth hundreds or thousands or even more for certain players. And really the value of the cards only went up because, even though there were millions printed and sold, most of them were collected by kids, so they were used and played with in many ways, and then lost, damaged, or thrown away as the child grew up. Which of course caused rarity and value.
Since that could happen with cardboard picture cards people thought it could happen with all collectibles sometime in the future, so all kinds of collections began, and, like the beanies, many “things” were seen as a possible retirement “fund”. But since so many people were doing it, the rarity and value gain never materialized. But who knows, a hundred years from now those beanies could be really sought after! LOL!
In 6th grade computer class, we were all required to bring our own floppy disk to save our work. I hated the floppy disk and glad it went away.
From Wikipedia: "In 2007, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada and charged with armed robbery and kidnapping. In 2008, he was convicted and sentenced to 33 years' imprisonment, with a minimum of nine years without parole. He served his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center near Lovelock, Nevada. He was granted parole on July 20, 2017, which was the minimum sentence. He was released on October 1, 2017".
Yep, that get back for being found innocent.
We had VCR's in the 80's
That's when desktop PCs had storage drives for floppy disks, diskettes/hard disk, and one for CD-ROM. Now that's all been replaced with USB drives/ports.
The 90’s truly ended September 11, 2001
True. The world changed drastically after that.
When my hubs & I came to the UK in 1999 we bought one of those huge Atlas map books, marking all of the places we stayed, camped and enjoyed. I was driving, he gave me directions from the map atlas - I must admit I went around & around more than once in a few roundabouts! We highlighted our 5 week journey all the way to the Isle of Mull where we got married. Still love to pull out the atlas and reminisce :)
So glad I grew up in the 1960's.
Zima is still popular in Japan.
Home video started with Sony's Betamax in 1976 and then the VHS in 1977. OJ Simpson was acquitted in the murder trial but convicted several years later of robbery and sent to prison. He was later paroled and wrote a book about the first trial called "If I Did It."
You might not have ever had a floppy disk, but you’re probably seen one without knowing it. The save icon on a lot of programs and websites is shaped like a floppy disk.
Again, I used floppy disks in the 80s. In the 90s, they went from 5 1/2 in (and truly floppy) to 3 1/4 in
Hey, guys I'm a big fan. Cograts on baby!
My middle school and high school were in the 90s. This brings me back. Those floppy discs that were shown is an upgrade to the real floppy disks. It's weird they call them discs when they were squares
The magnetic disc inside of the plastic sleeve actually WAS disc-shaped though, for both 5.25" and 3.5" disks. It was easier to tell on sight that the 5.25" magnetic media was circular.
Oh shoot. I didn't know that. Makes sense. Thanks
A pager was a weed sellers go to around here back then. Can't have customers calling your parent's house. lol
I was born in 1981, so i definitely remember the 90s and graduated high school in 2000. So Y2K was our thing. It was on everything in 99' and 2000.
I had AOL and dial up internet. I had some beanie babies. I didn't have a pager. But eventual had a flip phone.
OJ Simpson was not guilty of murder. But in 2008 went to prison for armed robbery and kidnapping trying to get back his memorabilia.
I loved watching full house and boy meets world.
Oh macarana, people probably still do it.
Oh yeah, flying was so much better back then. Darn sept 11th terrorist attack ruined everything.
I was born in 87 I remember the Y2K panic.
I love love your hair today! Pulled back is very pretty. Well I remember the 90’s well but I’m older than that lol, try’s 60’s
I'm a truck driver and still use the Road Atlases. Don't mind GPS, but it's not always as reliable than to have a proper trip planned out
Zima had a limited release about 4 years ago. I loved that drink. It took be back to time in college during spring break.
Yeah. Loved dropping a few jolly ranchers in them and sneaking them into a movie theater.
I will always have an Atlas in my glove box, js.... What if the internet goes out?? lol
I was in my teens and early 20s in the 90s. The actual technology for VCRs were invented in 1956, but didn't get popular and affordable until the 1970s and 1980s. Zima was malt liquor, not beer.
still have a bunch of VHS tapes, and 3 VCRs so that I know i'll be able to watch movies when my internet goes out, which it does fairly frequently in my area lol. Besides, they last a lot longer than dvds and I don't have to worry about losing them if my computer gets fkd.
The map at the 8:15 mark is the State of Wisconsin. During Holiday Parades local politicians running for re-election would had out free road maps "courtesy of the Wisconsin State Bureau of Tourism" with the name of politician, their title, and office address & business. Very few people ever had to ever buy a road map of their own.
I still have a vhs...and it was before 90s
After his acquittal, O. J. wrote a book called "If I Did It " and the "If" was just an outline while the "I Did It" was in bold letters. The Goldman family went to court and, if I remember correctly, O.J. wasn't allowed to receive the proceeds. As for the sound the computer made when you connected to the internet, watch the movie "You've Got Mail" with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
My thoughts on the parts of the video in order:
#12 VHS machines were new in the 1970's, and very few people had them. They were sufficiently new in the early 1980's for one of my sister's birthdays that we did not have on, causing my parents to rent one along with a couple videos for her birthday party friends to watch.
To this day, there are still movies that came out of VHS which haven't seen a proper DVD release, much less one on Blu-Ray. And forget about finding any of them on streaming services. So VHS is still alive in some places simply for that reason, with people hoping that last functioning VHS player doesn't kick the bucket.
There were actually cheap devices sold that did nothing but rewind VHS tapes, so you could avoid taking up time on the player itself for that task. Rental places would sometimes charge a small fee for tapes that were returned without being rewound.
#11 Floppy disks were never replaced by CD's for copying information between computers. CD's definitely replaced floppies for software installation media, but few people had the ability to write CD discs, and fewer of them bothered to use rewritable CD media. It's hard to say whether anything really replaced floppy disks, as the functional substitute - USB flash drives - started to become popular after the internet did. I'd say much of the functionality of floppy disks was replaced by the internet, with people using e-mail (which is how it was written for a long while, before the current consensus on just email became popular) to send small amounts of information to one another, rather than using physical media.
#10 You can find modem negotiation sounds with a bit of searching (ruclips.net/video/ckc6XSSh52w/видео.html). Those of us who have been around for a little while can even recognize the different speed tiers from the noise. The 28.8kbps modems in particular (release as V.FC or V.FAST before the V.34 official spec was finalized) had notably different connection sounds from any previous models. The video I linked has a number of them, so you can hear for yourself what I'm talking about (compare V.32 to V.34).
#9 My father had a business/hobby of buying and selling antiques. The general flow was going out to various sales (variously called yard sales, garage sales, or estate sales), buying old stuff that he thought was valuable, then renting a table at flea markets to sell them for a profit. For a time, you'd often see tables rented at these markets full of nothing but those Beanie Babies. They were widely considered, by the typical sellers at such flea markets, as an absurdity. They ultimately turned out to be something of a pyramid scam, like nearly all such engineered attempts at creating a collectible. Those who bought and sold early made some money, while those who bought into the game later ended up holding the bag.
#8 Pagers were mostly used by professionals as a way of staying in touch with the office. Pay phones were ubiquitous, so the scenario was you'd get a page, find a pay phone, then call the number (usually with a calling card that either had a balance or simply charged the call to a company). Mobile phones were quite rare at the time. They were just starting to be a manageable size (pagers were always pretty small - all could clip onto a belt unobtrusively), but had yet to reach reasonable pricing.
There are still pagers in existence today, but they're pretty much exclusively used by people tethered to legacy software systems which have the ability to automatically send pages, but don't know how to do SMS or something slightly more modern. Everyone who still has a pager also has a mobile phone, so the search for pay phones (which is doomed to failure in 99% of locations) is no longer part of the process.
#7 Y2K was a genuine problem. Many who lived through that time will today stupidly claim it was a false alarm. It wasn't. We, as a society, spent billions of dollars beforehand to prevent it from causing problems. Those efforts were >95% successful (some systems still had Y2K glitches).
The simple explanation is that many (if not most) major computer software systems in place were created decades earlier, where the difference between two bytes of storage for a year versus four bytes of storage was substantial. Using two bytes (i.e. "75" instead of "1975") would ultimately save tens of thousands if not millions of dollars in hardware costs. There's a saying pretty popular among those in certain fields of endeavor: There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution that works. It's not squarely a match for the situation at hand in the late 1990's, but it's basically the same concept - these decades-old software systems still worked, so they were never replaced. That meant that the institutions using such software had to choose between finally updating to something new, which has a lot of associated costs and risks, or fix the existing software, which has its own costs, but generally fewer risks. Some of that software had to patched at the assembly level, since the source code was long lost (not as bad as it sounds for mainframe software, where assembly language was pretty usable). A big problem was finding people with the expertise to do the job. A lot of people with "outdated" computer experience suddenly had a big payday, as their obsolescent experience became extremely valuable when dealing with all that old software.
As a side note, we're about 15 years away from a somewhat similar problem. A lot of software from the 1970's and onward use what's called a Unix timestamp. That's the number of seconds since January 1st, 1970. If you use a standard signed 32-bit integer to store that value, you'll reach its maximum possible value in 2038. Updating such software to an unsigned integer will push the problem out to the year 2106, at the expense of being unable to store dates between 1902 and 1970 (most software using a Unix timestamp for dates doesn't use it for storing historical dates). Or you can replace the 32-bit integers with 64-bit integers (i.e. eight bytes instead of four bytes of storage), which pushes the problem long past the death of the sun.
#6 Paper maps are still common for small areas with a lot of points of interest. It's still not particularly easy to put a specific set of points of interests into a GPS mapping system for people to use. Honestly, that's somewhat surprising. One would think that Google would have created a means for someone to provide an "app" download that did nothing but put a specific set of points on the maps application which could be used while filtering out everything else. Big companies like Disney can do it inside their own apps, but a local tourism board lacks to resources to do something like that. Even Disney still has to use paper maps for people who either cannot or will not use the app on a phone (a still-sizable number of people).
#5 I definitely remember the marketing hype, but never actually ever had the drink.
#4 I don't recall that kind of marketing for TV shows. It was either not widespread, or it came late in the decade, when I paid less attention. Certain days did have more significance than others, but that was a fluid value based on which shows the competing networks had at the time. If anything, Friday primetime (around 20:00) was a less premium time slot, as a lot of people were out and about rather than home watching TV.
#3 OJ was found not guilty, and the jury was very widely criticized for reaching that verdict, as it was obvious to the public that he was guilty. He was later found liable in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Much later, he ended up convicted of armed robbery, when he decided it was a good idea to steal back some of the memorabilia legally taken from him to satisfy his debts from the lawsuit, while armed. That's how he ended up in prison.
#2 Nothing to say on that one. It was annoying.
#1 Not for safety. It's security theater. The 9/11 attacks would have been utterly unaffected by the current passenger-facing "security" policies in place.
VCR's became available in the late 1970's.
Nice haircut Mr. Beesley 😃!
The phone company had deals on "teen lines" for like $20, so we had the luxury of a second line into the house. AOL was widely used. The 1990s movie "You've Got Mail" with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan was a classic with AOL featured. I just sold a Princess Diana Beanie bear for $130,000 last year. It depended on what you collected and the condition they were in. Mine were bought, packaged and put into a closet. I still have an updated Rand McNally Atlas in my car at all times. I've had GPS fail on me on road trips. GPS doesn't always give you the best route either. Simpson was found guilty of robbery in 2008 in Nevada and was sentenced to 33 years. He made parole after 9 years. Not much heard from him since.
Let me guess- you sold your Princess Diana BB in or right around August of 2022? That's the only time they've really seen a surge in value since shortly after they came out. In fairness, that's one of the only BBs that has the potential to be worth real money. The vast majority of high-dollar BB sales you see on eBay and other marketplaces are money launderers cleaning their illegal cash. eBay doesn't stop them because they have plausible deniability (they turn a blind eye and pretend not to know,) and because they get a final value fee off of every sale as a percentage of the sale. Much like the famed "black diamond" VHSes. Lol...
@@alysonbowler9040 I sold it to a private collector through an intermediary. They may have turned around and sold it on Ebay, I don't know. I have two more and some others. But you're right it's a bit crazy on what people think they are worth. We knew when it came out if the things were going to valuable, it would be that one for sure. Luckily, we managed to get the ones that are considered rare. Their loss, my gain. The taxes sucked though.
AOL dial-up noise: I find myself really feeling old when you two have no idea what that is. Some here may have grown up with it, but old farts like me were ALREADY adults when this came out! So the fact that you weren't born yet blows my mind!
I was born in 1987 and remember most of