Soon my son soon! One day the internet shall go to wales! Soon. The world 🌎 fears that Wales just is not ready. One day you will all be on the super highways of the world 🌎.
@@anthonywalsh2520, : I May Be A Bit Thick,?????? But I Don't Understand Your Post, Sorry It Must Be Me, ??????????? Can You Please Explain,????? . Season's Greeting,.
"This is the information superhighway... and earlier today I sent an electronic mail message to the president........ of Nigeria, who wanted to transfer some funds to me for small fee"
Wow. That's... That's the funniest and most original thing I've come across today... Not. 😐 Not every Nigerian does this ffs. Can't blame you though.🤦🏼♂️ And yes, I'm Nigerian.
There's no cringe factor. They talk frankly about what it could eventually do, what it currently can do, and what's standing in the way of progress. Brilliant.
Six years after this I was ten years old and writing my first website in HTML 4, I am still so astounded by the amount of change over the past few decades.
HTML absolutely rocks! You can change font style, size, color, you can make tables, you can insert pictures and hypertext links, it is amazing! Much better than a book!
same here, i remember using dial-up .. i remember what optimization used to mean, something that no longer exists. modern websites are made to waste resources. you need at least 2gb RAM to visit modern websites, they take like 10x more disk space then needed and load 50x slower than they could. horrible ... i remember optimizing my webpages and figuring out how to make them interactive with as little code as possible, i remember optimizing images to be as small in size as possible, while keeping good visuals.
For the past 12 years I have a FO cable that ends on my roof, From there the TV RF coax cable is used to connect the modem inside the house with the box on the roof.
Oh, it saw the "light of day" in that in that day (you lnow when this all kicked off) that is what it wss called. So sit back down, nephew. Wacky idea and straight history are disparate domains. Beeeyach.
28 years later and I still get my 'information superhighway' through copper wires. If the Government was as forward thinking as Tomorrow's World was, we may all have had world-leading fibre to the home by now. Instead, there are parts of the country still devoid of any realistic internet connection with no prospect of it anytime soon.
@@elelegidosf9707 Reading this comment 24hrs later, about a 5 year post, on a 23 year old comment was impressive. You were spot on and concise in only 2 sentences.
@@vaiman7777 Reading this comment 10 days later, about a comment, about a 5 year old post, on a 23 year old comment was impressive. You were spot on and concise in only 2 sentences.
that was back in the days when people still had some common sense left, even tho i was just a poor kid, I miss those days where everything was so simple :(
People in the 90s had a pretty good handle on the technological changes on the horizon. What no one saw was the social effect of those changes. The ability of private citizens to disseminate their own content and compete for influence with governments and corporations has had no parallel in history.
@@ylfaer They did sabotage it. 99% of everything done online is controlled by Google or Apple and if on a PC, Microsoft because you're using a device controlled by one of them. Then you have Twitter, Facebook, RUclips (Google) which heavily influence people, push their narratives and use all sorts various mass censorship to control what people see. All these companies are closely involved with the government too. The information people get is so controlled you don't even notice it most of the time even though everything you see is only what they allow you to. Of course there's plenty of places still on the internet to get information that is completely organic and uncensored but the problem is the vast majority of people don't know about these sites and platforms and things and also don't want to put in the effort. So the vast majority of everyone online only gets information filtered through one of three companies that basically control the internet and they all have the same agendas and narratives that they want everyone to follow. They absolutely "sabotaged it" as you put it by taking control of it and didn't waste any time doing it either.
So many people didn’t believe it would happen. I used to watch Captain Picard on Star Trek the Next Generation, walking around with a handheld tablet reading his daily duties and updates. “ absolute rubbish it will never happen” people said 😀
I always think the same about star trek the next generation which was the first to introduce the touch screen tech and hand held devices, its pretty much happened minus the enterprise lol
@@easydrive3662 very far seeing show, they accurately predicted mobile phones, medical scanners, and bio neural computers, they almost seemed plugged into the mid future before it happened.
I like to think that Gene Rodenberry was a time traveler from the Federation sent back to guide us on a path towards a Star Trek Future and helped lay the seeds.
Given how little of the tech was known back then, this is a very well researched and put together programme. They've nailed the applications at least 15 years before they've become mainstream.
The presenter here, Kate Bellingham, has a Masters degree in Electronic Communications Systems Engineering. She graduated from university before the program was broadcast.
Well, that's not really true. Most of the technology in such programmes was then just only available in laboratory or experimental setups (so basically, some high-ranked people inside the company that were working on the new technology got a chance to try it out at their home). So they knew a lot about the technology back then, could provide experimental setups just for demonstration purposes but it just wasn't cheap enough yet (or still too much restricted by current technology somewhere else) to be brought to the general public.
@@cloerenjackson3699 I know, my dad already worked from home in the eighties by modem. I wasn't talking about that particular subject, but commenting on the original comment by someone who stated they knew little about the technology in those days, while in reality, a lot of very clever people were years and years ahead of the then common technology, researching the possibilities in laboratories and such.
@@weeardguy I don't think you have a valid point. Nothing esoteric or exotic appears in this video. It is all technology which will have been deployed in businesses at the time it was broadcast. It was only relevant because internet access wasn't yet common on the home then. The Presenter, Kate Bellingham, already had a BSc in Electronic Communications Systems Engineering when the program was broadcast. She is describing the subject she studied for her degree. Much of what she is saying will be material she didn't have to research especially for the show because she is already trained in that field. It was her job to explain it to a wide audience of non-specialists.
Hi there from 2020, My small apartment is now a voice commanded universal interactive multimedia entertaiment center, I even have one in my pocket. Cheers!
But now Big Brother knows every secret, every facet of your life. Who you vote for, who you are shagging, where you drink, where you work, where you shop, and even what you like for breakfast. They can even track your movements, down to the nearest 10 square metres. All they need to do, is tap a couple of keys, and they OWN YOU BITCH! They can even make your everday life, virtually impossible, and confine you to your home, if they so wish, then arrest you and FINE you, even when you have committed no crime. Sometimes, I wish it was 1994 again, when the closest we came to religious fanaticism, was the Mormons knocking on your door, or the Salvation Army Christmas appeal on tv. And CCTV was a thing, but only to catch shoplifters, and general ner-do-wells up to their skullduggery. When a fun size mars bar was the same size as today's regular size mars bar. And car tax was the same price for everybody, not free for those who are lucky enough to afford a brand new car. And it was easy to guess the occupation of somebody wearing a hi viz jacket, not wondering if they could potentially be a government operative, looking for somebody to publicly shame, or fine for inadvertently dropping a cigarette butt. Technology has made our lives easier in some ways, but it has also created a selfish, materialistic attitude in many people, and created a society where our fundamental freedoms are scrutinised and have come under threat. And has proliferated an insidious, over-reaching element to how we are governed.
Bill Clinton never got the hang of email. He famously only sent two emails in his entire time as president. It's just as well, he probably would have sent this TV presenter a dick pic.
The first head of state to send an e-mail was Queen Elizabeth II. And that happened in 1976, 22 years before this Tomorrows World episode came out. www.wired.com/2012/12/queen-and-the-internet/
Google earth and Spotify both blew my mind when I first saw them and now I couldn't live without either! My first computer was ZX Spectrum with 16k of RAM. 16k! My toothbrush probably has more RAM than that!
Tomorrow's World was a first class, entertaining, popularist but intelligent programme, which the BBC used to do so well, and I loved watching it as a kid in the 80s and 90s, and of course they were often uncannily spot on about their predictions. Basically Kate described the Internet in a nutshell and what we use it for, but it has expanded way beyond those capacities and what was thought at the time. It was weird to see the type of PCs I used at Uni and at the library, and the simple blocky text of the web pages.
Maybe you mouse-click on the position of the tracking head and it resets at the server terminal? Not sure what would happen if more than one person wants to watch it, though.
It's pretty amazing how much technology advanced in the 90s. Although I do, strangely, miss the days of having to boot up Encarta to find out any information, and also how basic the internet actually was.
Most of the UK has fibre thanks to cable companies like NTL and Telewest (who later merged and became Virgin Media). Only when cable TV providers started offering internet access did the fat, lazy cats at BT start to panic and make promises of ISDN and ADSL connections but by then it was too late. Because BT was the only telephone provider in the country they had no need to upgrade anything, if you wanted to go online you had to use BT and you would have to accept 56k because it was all you were gonna get. So BT must have shit a brick when cable modems landed, I think they shit an even bigger brick when the cable companies started offering free phone lines with your cable modem. I think my whole extended family moved over to Telewest in the same week dropping BT like a ginger baby and never looking back.
"You can transform your home into a massive interactive entertainment center." Yea, or a massive survailance tracking device that records everything you do and puts it in a database for convenient use for others.
I think I remember watching this at the time. Someone told me to you'd be able to buy a house on the computer one day and I could hardly believe it although I did watch a programme at the time where a female reporter was put in a room with nothing but a computer and she had to order certain items online (such as a coat and some socks, and something to eat) to complete her task. I remember the first time I went to someone's house and he was sitting at a desk with a huge monitor in front of him and he was surfing the internet and I thought it was marvellous. Now none of us know how to live without it! ☺
I love how innocent and naive this was. 1994 seems like another dimension now. If only we knew back then what kind of shit the internet would lead to, like social cancers like Facebook and Twitter. Sometimes it's better to dream and use your imagination than meet the reality.
And the facetious comments to your observation prove your point lol The internet has been simultaneously one of the greatest and most harmful technological developments
You don't need hindsight. The "can't play a video" was just with the existing infrastructure. She then goes on to explain that much more will be possible when the infrastructure is upgraded, which was exactly correct.
NO CORRECTRIX, SHE SAID IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE ON COPPER WIRE. MOST OF US STILL USE COPPER, THE MO-DEMS THEMSELVES GOT BETTER AND CAN TRANSFER INFORMATION WITHOUT WIRES. SHE WAS NOT EXACTLY CORRECT CORRECTRIX
Quite some cables between you and the servers are fibre optics. The last few kilometers are copper, but the rest is fiber optics. Not that you're totally wrong, because you can transfer quite some data through copper.
People in 1994 : talking bout internet Me in 2020 using the Internet to see people in 1994 talking bout the future of internet : Hmmmmm interesting....... continue explaining please.
This was the start of all we have today, it was pioneering, and it was on dial-up! 90’s kids and beyond won’t understand any of this! Information superhighway = internet!
And here we are today, watching this video on the internet. You forget how prehistoric the 90s was in terms of technology. I can't believe how far we have come in the last 20 years. Imagine this woman could time travel into the future, she woud be amazed.
Steven Whiting My neighbourhood just got fibre optics last year (after they tore up the street), and only this year was it brought into my apartment building.
All of my neighbours can get 300MB fibre to the premises but yet I can only have 1.5MBps ADSL. I asked them when I can get fibre and they said "never".
I actually met Kate in real life! No joking, she came to my school last Thursday! Also, fun fact: Kate said the reason the BBC used so many monitors on that episode is because they thought it would be 'modern!' -Lightning \[T]/
Honestly though that feature to buy items that appear in what you're watching is kind of cool. Similar to what amazon prime video does where you can see who the actors are in any scene you pause.
Its always the way in the UK. Too nany old fuddy duddies in the Lords holding us back, with their "Lets wait and see" mind set. So nothing gets done quickly, and we lag behind when we SHOULD be at the forefront. It is often left to private investors to get projects off the ground, and the end consumer initially pays a fortune, until other private investors start similar projects, creating competition, thus lowering the cost to the consumer. Yet we spend BILLIONS on foreign aid, so the likes of India can have ITS own space program, and we are left gobsmacked, wondering how they do it! If we spent more money at home, we could be world beaters, in many areas. Look at the French Railways, we pioneered the Railways, yet lag behind france by about 40 or 50 years with our creaking infrastructure. And German car production. How is it they are so successful at it, and we failed so miserably, especially from the late 1960's onwards. The Germans had the same competition from the far east, yet still manage to innovate, and succeed at it. Why are we in the UK so different?
@Hugh Jones Thing is, Labour are just as bad. They talk the talk, but borrow so much money, that we end up being crippled with debt. Then they tax the rich who provide the jobs, and they end uo registering in the Cayman Islands to avoid the high taxes. So then the burden falls to the working class, as per. If Labour were less motivated by generating revenue via taxation, and more motivated by job creation/retention, then there would be more people contributing to the pot, instead of taking from it, via welfare etc. And divert NI contributions directly into private healthcare initiatives, instead of creaming their cut off the top, then there would be no need for a tax payer funded NHS, which IS a drain on the public purse. We must also STOP health tourism too, which costs tge NHS/US, about £6bn per year in lost revenue. Because it costs the NHS more to chase up paynents from foreign governments, than the actual treatment given to THEIR subjects, who all too often, piss off back home, once they've aborted the sprog they can't afford to feed, or once they've had their dental work done. Somebody has to pay, and it is always the tax payer who is saddled with the bill. This country needs a complete change in how it generates and allocates public finance. The solutions are simple, but there is no will for radical change, which only serves to leave us lagging behind.
@@hermanmunster3358 The main reason why internet is working so well is fact that it was not made or invented by any government or state owned company... Your idea that government should be creating jobs is also sily, as most of the time job creation by government ends up with army of bureaucrats that are only producing paper for other bureaucrats and idiotic laws and regulations that are invented often only to prove that this army is necessary and create more bureaucratic jobs for other family members. At the beginning of XX century Austro-Hungarian Empire was the worst country on this planet in the topic of income tax as the income tax was at staggering level of 13%... During WW2 in ocupied by German socilistic government Poland the income tax jumped to 30% as they simply hated Polish people. In 1901 USA got the income tax of 1% up to 4% and for the 1964 tax year, the top marginal tax rate for individuals was lowered to 77%...
@@Bialy_1 I never said "governments should be creating jobs" although governments do have a responsibility to ensure that job creation is a priority. What I was saying was that governments could do more to encourage private initiatives in infrastructure and manufacturing projects, by allowing temporary tax breaks, or providing enterprise zones on former industrial sites, whereby new developments could spring up, or revitalising those areas so that they are brought back into public use. And just so you know, the INTERNET was developed by various scientists and computer engineers, then helped with funding by the US Government's department of defense. Without US Government assistance, the internet as we know it, may never have gotten off the ground. The idea may well have came from one person. But as often is the case during product development, a collaboration is required to see certain ideas through to fruition. Learn to understand what you are reading pal.
@@Bialy_1 Not to challenge your sentiments, but the Internet was invented by government, specifically the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA). The reason the Internet succeeded where others failed, and what you aluded to, was: no centralized control. That's because point of the project was to develop at network which could continue to function to despite "multiple catastrophic failures" (ie. nuclear strikes).
Ahhhhhhhhh 1994 I was one of those 20 million that had taken his first baby steps onto the information superhighway. Has been on fascinating trip. Can't wait to see where we go from here.
Hello from the future. In the future, we have something called RUclips and this is the medium through which I am communicating with you. In the future, the superhighway is up in the air and is wireless, named ‘wifi.’ Seriously, I can’t believe how far we’ve come in the past 25-30 years. Being in my twenties, I really cant fathom the world in which these things didn’t exist. I helped my grandmother with her ‘tablet’ a while back, and she was absolutely blown away, exclaiming I was frightfully clever, while in reality I only helped her tweak a few things with the setting.
Don't laugh but I've started my own search engine to take advantage of this new technology. I'm thinking of calling it Boogle or Doogle or something like that.
Right, except comcast took billions and billions of dollars in government aid and didn't expand to where they were supposed to. They simply expanded to the most dense areas that would make them the most money, which they would do anyway as it was most profitable. Most of the rural areas and less profitable places never got it for decades and many still don't. Another corrupt government handout to billion dollar companies. I'm sure we know who got rich off that deal. And now decades later we finally have space-x with Starlink that is having to fill the gap using fast satellite internet.
In the 90s I thought that with the internet everyone can communicate with people around the world. They can read books, learn history, learn languages and become super smart. Oh how wrong I was in that time. The people of today dont want to read, they want to make selfies on the top of a roof and fall down.
Interesting idea but too complicated and slow for the general public I think. I'll stick to reading books, writing letters and going down the road to the flower shop.
We got our first real computer in 95, 100mhz pentium for like $2400 I member being jelly at my buddy's 133mhz. Another buddy had a 2nd phone line, talk about baller
Argh the good old days xD I also remember the college investing in some new Pentium 133 MHz 'workstations' and they had to lock the room because they felt people would be going crazy to get on them lol Do you also remember the Cyrix CPU's? I had one, and managed to achieve something in the region of a 20 MHz over-clock..I felt like a king. I mean 20 MHz people would laugh at that today. I also had a Commodore Amiga at home, which I felt was way ahead of its time especially when it came to working with video and titling a lot of which cost zilch thanks to public-domain software.
And 28 years later, good ol' Blighty is still pi55ing about with copper and there are large parts of the country that still don't have high speed BB, myself included, despite living in a reasonably large town. I started using the internet in '96, on the old dial up modem, and made my first online purchase within a few weeks, from New Zealand! It was a leap of faith as I had no cetainty that the items would arrive. They did, in just over a week and I was blown away, it was life changing. Shortly afterwards I found Amazon and ordered a number of books, which were about 50% cheaper than buying in the UK. They arrived in 4 days! This is the end of the high street I proclaimed! I just wish I'd bought Amazon shares then, I could have retired by now if I had!
This was just amazing to watch. 1997 was a big year for me, getting a computer online at home (with noisy modem, cable all the way up the stairs!). As a collector of rare vinyl we're STILL adding them to the 'highway'. Things are still effectively 'lost' until info on them all at least is available. Love it's continued growth and watch it with fascination.
Wow, usually when you watch old videos about the future, the things they imagined would come to be are so ridiculous, we laugh when looking at it through a modern lens. Everything in this video came to be almost exactly as anticipated, aside from knowing the suit a guy in a video is wearing (though Google is getting close with their "search within image" feature).
Agreed. Home shopping via television is done by using widgets, it is not in-line like it was in this demonstration. There is still some room for improvement! We do have more of the fiber-optic network infrastructure now, but it still has not been built out as much as it could be. Fiber will, as she said, enable a whole new crop of interactive services
I'm watching this on my PC, on two 4K monitors, downloaded over a 1Gb/sec fibre-optic home Internet connection, in the middle of an Australian suburb. Only took the best part of 30 years :) to achieve.
The Internet is great and all. But, contrary to the prognostications in this video, RUclips still doesn't tell me where that woman's floral waistcoat comes from. Obvious fail.
It actually is very amazing how prescient this show was on so many things. I am going to have to look into who was behind this series and see what they are talking about these days.
@@JK_Clark that's a perfectly legitimate point, also related to confirmation bias. I never did end up going back and looking up what else they predicted, but I think I won't bother. Cheers.
I was already on the web in '94. Got my first email address at University in 1990. It seemed incredibly impractical since the only place you could check it was at the university computer lab, and it wasn't apparent what the purpose was.
Ah, Teletext. It felt a bit like a simple version of the internet (before I knew the internet even existed); checking world news, weather and football scores.
Yea, it's been interesting to witness melody slowly being eliminated from music over the years. I guess these days if it's not auto-tuned or *...wait for the bass drop after a cacophonous din* it isn't music 😋
I'm in Wales. Still waiting
Soon my son soon! One day the internet shall go to wales! Soon. The world 🌎 fears that Wales just is not ready. One day you will all be on the super highways of the world 🌎.
Do you also still point at planes 🤪 and have Betamax. Try this on RUclips. Alan ford at Christmas 3
@@anthonywalsh2520, :
I May Be A Bit Thick,?????? But I Don't Understand Your Post, Sorry It Must Be Me, ??????????? Can You Please Explain,????? . Season's Greeting,.
Is the sheep still tied to the railings?
😂😂😂😂
"This is the information superhighway...
and earlier today I sent an electronic mail message to the president........ of Nigeria, who wanted to transfer some funds to me for small fee"
AHH you too no problem I'll do it for you my friend just send the funds to my account bwana
Hahaahaaa! :)
Hahahahahaha best comment
Wow. That's... That's the funniest and most original thing I've come across today... Not. 😐 Not every Nigerian does this ffs. Can't blame you though.🤦🏼♂️ And yes, I'm Nigerian.
@@techmashup he was making fun of email scams. And I have received so many such emails from supposedly Nigerian elites.
There's no cringe factor. They talk frankly about what it could eventually do, what it currently can do, and what's standing in the way of progress. Brilliant.
They also make sure that you know that John Major isn't doing anything he just wants to leave it up to market forces what a stupid man.
I cringed at her reaction to the UK's lack of an internet policy and her overuse of "information superhighway".
@@Bleda412 your reaction is cringe
@@Bleda412 her words were more informative, thorough and clean
@@Bleda412 That’s how it was.
Six years after this I was ten years old and writing my first website in HTML 4, I am still so astounded by the amount of change over the past few decades.
HTML absolutely rocks! You can change font style, size, color, you can make tables, you can insert pictures and hypertext links, it is amazing! Much better than a book!
What else, besides drones?
same here, i remember using dial-up .. i remember what optimization used to mean, something that no longer exists. modern websites are made to waste resources. you need at least 2gb RAM to visit modern websites, they take like 10x more disk space then needed and load 50x slower than they could. horrible ...
i remember optimizing my webpages and figuring out how to make them interactive with as little code as possible, i remember optimizing images to be as small in size as possible, while keeping good visuals.
Goddam, this looks awesome, can't wait!
really? This looks stupid. Who will ever use it?
+Luis R. As Bill gates once said "no one will ever need more than 512 kb RAM".
The myth is that Bill Gates stated "640K ought to be enough for anyone" and he never really said that.
MilitantAntiTheist yeah but he did say "we will never make a 32 bit operating system". Full of shit that bloke!! Hahaha
+MilitantAntiTheist it was not BG that said that, it was in the design architecture that IBM techs said.
Update: John Major still hasn't got a modem.
:)
neilb13 yeah, I watched that, it's amazing what she can do with a aubergine.
a sax?
Or a degree
R. ROOKSBY Or a brain
26 years later and I'm still waiting for that fibre optic cable.
I think fiber optic is used, but not as the “last mile” to the consumer.
For the past 12 years I have a FO cable that ends on my roof, From there the TV RF coax cable is used to connect the modem inside the house with the box on the roof.
Kate is absolutely gorgeous and her accent is adorable 😍 💕
Another wacky idea that never saw the light of day
we'll just shelve this whacky nonsense along with the a track player and the transparent fridge that pops out of the kitchen counter.
The Superhighway, where you can watch videos?
Ha, that'll be the day, these people are dreaming.
Oh, it saw the "light of day" in that in that day (you lnow when this all kicked off) that is what it wss called. So sit back down, nephew. Wacky idea and straight history are disparate domains. Beeeyach.
@@dfwboxingisback9173 I think that was the joke.
Too many blows to the head?
This will never work
Have you tried Viagra ?
the irony of posting it on said medium
Hold on, I hear something.
@ateb3 No he didn't.
@Blu nah, you're making it up
Just imagine a world in which complete strangers can hurl abuse and death threats at each other over minor disagreements …
have you looked at human history? we've been doing that for thousands of years.
@@tylerferguson3707 you know what he means sir
28 years later and I still get my 'information superhighway' through copper wires. If the Government was as forward thinking as Tomorrow's World was, we may all have had world-leading fibre to the home by now.
Instead, there are parts of the country still devoid of any realistic internet connection with no prospect of it anytime soon.
The PSTN will be switched off at the end of 2025, much like analogue TV in 2012.
"information super highway" I'm am SO happy, that term did not become a thing.
For about 2 years, it was a thing but thankfully died out quickly! ^_^
When I first heard the term 'The Information Super Highway', I thought it was a new digital road traffic announcement system designed for motorists!
I think it sounds pretty cool!
Just like "CYPERSPACE".
Yeah fortunately we wound up with monosyllabic names: The Net, the Web, the Cloud.
To watch this show 23 years later is very impressive. They were spot on and concise in only 4 minutes.
There were real journalists back then before the invention of Twitter and Facebook
To read this comment 5 years later is very impressive. You were spot on and concise in only 2 sentences.
@@elelegidosf9707 Reading this comment 24hrs later, about a 5 year post, on a 23 year old comment was impressive. You were spot on and concise in only 2 sentences.
@@vaiman7777 Reading this comment 10 days later, about a comment, about a 5 year old post, on a 23 year old comment was impressive. You were spot on and concise in only 2 sentences.
that was back in the days when people still had some common sense left, even tho i was just a poor kid, I miss those days where everything was so simple :(
People in the 90s had a pretty good handle on the technological changes on the horizon.
What no one saw was the social effect of those changes. The ability of private citizens to disseminate their own content and compete for influence with governments and corporations has had no parallel in history.
If they did, they would sabotage it.
@@ylfaer They did sabotage it. 99% of everything done online is controlled by Google or Apple and if on a PC, Microsoft because you're using a device controlled by one of them. Then you have Twitter, Facebook, RUclips (Google) which heavily influence people, push their narratives and use all sorts various mass censorship to control what people see. All these companies are closely involved with the government too. The information people get is so controlled you don't even notice it most of the time even though everything you see is only what they allow you to. Of course there's plenty of places still on the internet to get information that is completely organic and uncensored but the problem is the vast majority of people don't know about these sites and platforms and things and also don't want to put in the effort. So the vast majority of everyone online only gets information filtered through one of three companies that basically control the internet and they all have the same agendas and narratives that they want everyone to follow. They absolutely "sabotaged it" as you put it by taking control of it and didn't waste any time doing it either.
So many people didn’t believe it would happen. I used to watch Captain Picard on Star Trek the Next Generation, walking around with a handheld tablet reading his daily duties and updates. “ absolute rubbish it will never happen” people said 😀
I always think the same about star trek the next generation which was the first to introduce the touch screen tech and hand held devices, its pretty much happened minus the enterprise lol
@@easydrive3662 very far seeing show, they accurately predicted mobile phones, medical scanners, and bio neural computers, they almost seemed plugged into the mid future before it happened.
@@easydrive3662 It is only a matter of time before the Enterprise happens too!
Capacitive touchscreens were developed in the UK several years before the original Star Trek was broadcast. That’s how forward looking they were. 🤣
I like to think that Gene Rodenberry was a time traveler from the Federation sent back to guide us on a path towards a Star Trek Future and helped lay the seeds.
"I can't electronically mail our Prime Minister, John Major, because he hasn't got a modem"
😂
still hasn't got one.... lol
Coincidentally he also didn't have policies...on anything
...OR A BRAIN
A millionaire doesn't have a modem.
@@xr6lad Pretty much like our current Tory leader/Prime Minister (Boris Johnson)!
Given how little of the tech was known back then, this is a very well researched and put together programme. They've nailed the applications at least 15 years before they've become mainstream.
The presenter here, Kate Bellingham, has a Masters degree in Electronic Communications Systems Engineering. She graduated from university before the program was broadcast.
Well, that's not really true. Most of the technology in such programmes was then just only available in laboratory or experimental setups (so basically, some high-ranked people inside the company that were working on the new technology got a chance to try it out at their home).
So they knew a lot about the technology back then, could provide experimental setups just for demonstration purposes but it just wasn't cheap enough yet (or still too much restricted by current technology somewhere else) to be brought to the general public.
@@weeardguy
Dude, it was 1994. Public internet existed before the program was made. I've had the internet since 1995.
@@cloerenjackson3699 I know, my dad already worked from home in the eighties by modem. I wasn't talking about that particular subject, but commenting on the original comment by someone who stated they knew little about the technology in those days, while in reality, a lot of very clever people were years and years ahead of the then common technology, researching the possibilities in laboratories and such.
@@weeardguy
I don't think you have a valid point. Nothing esoteric or exotic appears in this video. It is all technology which will have been deployed in businesses at the time it was broadcast. It was only relevant because internet access wasn't yet common on the home then. The Presenter, Kate Bellingham, already had a BSc in Electronic Communications Systems Engineering when the program was broadcast. She is describing the subject she studied for her degree. Much of what she is saying will be material she didn't have to research especially for the show because she is already trained in that field. It was her job to explain it to a wide audience of non-specialists.
I can remember when this here internet was all fields.
Amen, Gary. It was truly a sight to behold. Now the fields near us have been replaced by huge Facebook and Google jails..
paved paradise and put up a pinterest
Hi there from 2020,
My small apartment is now a voice commanded universal interactive multimedia entertaiment center, I even have one in my pocket. Cheers!
But now Big Brother knows every secret, every facet of your life. Who you vote for, who you are shagging, where you drink, where you work, where you shop, and even what you like for breakfast. They can even track your movements, down to the nearest 10 square metres. All they need to do, is tap a couple of keys, and they OWN YOU BITCH!
They can even make your everday life, virtually impossible, and confine you to your home, if they so wish, then arrest you and FINE you, even when you have committed no crime.
Sometimes, I wish it was 1994 again, when the closest we came to religious fanaticism, was the Mormons knocking on your door, or the Salvation Army Christmas appeal on tv. And CCTV was a thing, but only to catch shoplifters, and general ner-do-wells up to their skullduggery.
When a fun size mars bar was the same size as today's regular size mars bar. And car tax was the same price for everybody, not free for those who are lucky enough to afford a brand new car. And it was easy to guess the occupation of somebody wearing a hi viz jacket, not wondering if they could potentially be a government operative, looking for somebody to publicly shame, or fine for inadvertently dropping a cigarette butt.
Technology has made our lives easier in some ways, but it has also created a selfish, materialistic attitude in many people, and created a society where our fundamental freedoms are scrutinised and have come under threat. And has proliferated an insidious, over-reaching element to how we are governed.
she got an autoresponder from the white house
Lmao
Bill Clinton never got the hang of email. He famously only sent two emails in his entire time as president. It's just as well, he probably would have sent this TV presenter a dick pic.
Dan Phillips His wife apparently knows what emails are.
The first head of state to send an e-mail was Queen Elizabeth II. And that happened in 1976, 22 years before this Tomorrows World episode came out. www.wired.com/2012/12/queen-and-the-internet/
That would be the email to President Gerald Ford calling him an arsehole for running over one of her Corgis in his car.
I love it. She lived to see herself on RUclips!!
Funny how she was looking to the future and we are now looking back at her from the future.
@@beachlife2968 And now im looking back at you from the future
@@neilpayne8244 Can't believe my comment was 11 months ago, time flies. Haha
How do you know that? she could be dead
@@Fullmoonlightt Because I am on the positive side of the universe
I like how everything she's saying probably blew everyone's minds back then, but to us, these are everyday things we do that we take for granted.
Google earth and Spotify both blew my mind when I first saw them and now I couldn't live without either! My first computer was ZX Spectrum with 16k of RAM. 16k! My toothbrush probably has more RAM than that!
Tomorrow's World was a first class, entertaining, popularist but intelligent programme, which the BBC used to do so well, and I loved watching it as a kid in the 80s and 90s, and of course they were often uncannily spot on about their predictions.
Basically Kate described the Internet in a nutshell and what we use it for, but it has expanded way beyond those capacities and what was thought at the time. It was weird to see the type of PCs I used at Uni and at the library, and the simple blocky text of the web pages.
How do you rewind the video tape to give it back after you downloaded it?
Just set the needle at any point on the LP and you can listen from any point on the record
Maybe you mouse-click on the position of the tracking head and it resets at the server terminal? Not sure what would happen if more than one person wants to watch it, though.
The same way you rewind DVDs
@@PrinceWesterburg What's a DVD?
It's pretty amazing how much technology advanced in the 90s.
Although I do, strangely, miss the days of having to boot up Encarta to find out any information, and also how basic the internet actually was.
I loved encarta, it was like having wikipedia with youtube videos. I remember the content being much more colourful and vibrant.
@@bluebull399 I started out with Grolier's on the Mac. State ob de art, mang!
Yes, those were the day's cd rom and crap internet.
Encarta! Oh yeah. Britannica was a bit posh.
Everyone's homework was a rehash of Encarta 97😂
I love how back them we spoke about things being "in" the internet or "inside" a website rather than "on" one.
I watched this when I was 14 🙈.
BT had streaming back then! 🙀 didn’t know . lol
If only they had known it would be used for dank memes...
yeah, if only! Then we would surely got it sooner!
No, we could burn it lmao
Dank memes are the billboards of the information superhighway.
and whacking material.
And porn...lots of porn...
20 years down the line and BT is FINALLY installing fibre. Jeez, welcome to 1994.
Most of the UK has fibre, maybe not FTTP but most areas can at least get FTTC. The whole of Cornwall has FTTP.
bluebull399 Welcome to 3 years ago
Charlie Notman i still dont have fibre....im near devizes
Most of the UK has fibre thanks to cable companies like NTL and Telewest (who later merged and became Virgin Media). Only when cable TV providers started offering internet access did the fat, lazy cats at BT start to panic and make promises of ISDN and ADSL connections but by then it was too late.
Because BT was the only telephone provider in the country they had no need to upgrade anything, if you wanted to go online you had to use BT and you would have to accept 56k because it was all you were gonna get. So BT must have shit a brick when cable modems landed, I think they shit an even bigger brick when the cable companies started offering free phone lines with your cable modem. I think my whole extended family moved over to Telewest in the same week dropping BT like a ginger baby and never looking back.
Bt are rubbish. They still using copper hahaha
This sounds like it would be extremely expensive to implement, and very convoluted to use. There's no way this will ever catch on.
Sounds amazing. I see a lot of possibilities for adult entertainment.
I love the style of the nineties. Lets go back to that.
JonDecagon Me To, I miss It.
Good sex too
Embroidered waistcoats and crispy perms? Why would anyone want to go back to that?
Let's not.
No, terrible idea.
Where can I buy her outfit? (no interactive link)
The mid 90’s
U didn’t look this up. But
your happy you found it!
"You can transform your home into a massive interactive entertainment center."
Yea, or a massive survailance tracking device that records everything you do and puts it in a database for convenient use for others.
When is this coming out?
It's coming out in about -20 years ago.
Clovado As soon as you come out
I think I remember watching this at the time. Someone told me to you'd be able to buy a house on the computer one day and I could hardly believe it although I did watch a programme at the time where a female reporter was put in a room with nothing but a computer and she had to order certain items online (such as a coat and some socks, and something to eat) to complete her task. I remember the first time I went to someone's house and he was sitting at a desk with a huge monitor in front of him and he was surfing the internet and I thought it was marvellous. Now none of us know how to live without it! ☺
Mari Buckley
Thanks for this comment! So delightful.
What year was it?
A friend of mine just bought a house in Bulgaria online. He's never even been there!
I love how innocent and naive this was. 1994 seems like another dimension now. If only we knew back then what kind of shit the internet would lead to, like social cancers like Facebook and Twitter. Sometimes it's better to dream and use your imagination than meet the reality.
Andrew Novitsky take the next exit 🤣
And the facetious comments to your observation prove your point lol
The internet has been simultaneously one of the greatest and most harmful technological developments
@@Kibouo Yeap with morons that keep saying *ok boomer*
@@xynn3rx116 ok boomer
@@edwardsmith905 ^moron
I HAVE transformed my home into a mammoth entertainment center and I'm loving every second. I never leave my bedroom and I'm very content.
"You can't play a video down this" - Oh, how hindsight is fun!
yet she just did
You don't need hindsight. The "can't play a video" was just with the existing infrastructure. She then goes on to explain that much more will be possible when the infrastructure is upgraded, which was exactly correct.
NO CORRECTRIX, SHE SAID IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE ON COPPER WIRE. MOST OF US STILL USE COPPER, THE MO-DEMS THEMSELVES GOT BETTER AND CAN TRANSFER INFORMATION WITHOUT WIRES. SHE WAS NOT EXACTLY CORRECT CORRECTRIX
Quite some cables between you and the servers are fibre optics. The last few kilometers are copper, but the rest is fiber optics. Not that you're totally wrong, because you can transfer quite some data through copper.
R Moocher2 She was talking about streaming, not downloading a movie and watching it later.
The lovely Kate Bellingham.
thanks for the name, I scoured this thread long and hard for it !
People in 1994 : talking bout internet
Me in 2020 using the Internet to see people in 1994 talking bout the future of internet : Hmmmmm interesting....... continue explaining please.
This was the start of all we have today, it was pioneering, and it was on dial-up! 90’s kids and beyond won’t understand any of this! Information superhighway = internet!
I was alive at the time and was 10 years old and in grade school 🏫
I love the way she says "that's already happening on something called the internet". Sounds so obvious now.
0:45
Bill Clinton: I did not have any sexual relationship with this women
Haha
I am Clin-ton
As overlord all will kneel trembling before me.
End transmission
"President Bill Clinton is connected, i know this because he is in my EEEHMAYEL asking for photo scans of my vagina and breasts"
I first used the internet way back in '95 as a 13-yr-old kid. I'm almost 38 now, I'm old. 😭
Man we really loved our corny internet metaphors back then - surfing the web, the information superhighway, cyber-everything.
I remember the first time I went to a cyber cafe and how browsing was kind of intuitive seeing the minimize maximize and x -close icon just made sense
The early internet looked like what I'm able to make in html.
I don't think that's something to brag about.
Ryan E lol, same! 😂
Because it was
php, css and javascript would had blown these people's minds
I'm glad we moved on from "Information Super Highway" to describe the internet. I hate the phrase.
TheOrangeType It was more like the M25 back then!
Bring back the information super highway!!
Information super highway - more like the m25!
Agreed! Also, glad 'surfin' the web' is rarely used nowdays either!
I got a new term, WWWB, World wide wank bank
What a great presenter Kate Bellingham was, and a beautiful brainbox too!
On tht time she was 31 yrs old
Her pronunciation is so soothing, i dont even care what she says, it just feels good listening
And here we are today, watching this video on the internet. You forget how prehistoric the 90s was in terms of technology. I can't believe how far we have come in the last 20 years. Imagine this woman could time travel into the future, she woud be amazed.
imagine being im a coma for 20 years from 90-2015 :'D
That's 25 years numb-nut.
Maybe you was not around in the 1970s or 1980s then you might understand HOW far technology have progressed
I would imagine she'd be a bit more amazed she can travel through time. Screw iPhones I want my Delorean!
She's probably still alive, maybe someone could just tell her.
21 years later and because it would cost BT money, lots of us are still stuck on copper lines.
Steven Whiting My neighbourhood just got fibre optics last year (after they tore up the street), and only this year was it brought into my apartment building.
All of my neighbours can get 300MB fibre to the premises but yet I can only have 1.5MBps ADSL. I asked them when I can get fibre and they said "never".
bluebull399 Oh dear. 'Never' is a very long time.
Shared driveway?
I watched this on my 4K 120Hz mobile phone via a wireless connection using my 200 Mbps line. How times have changed!
As I stream this on the toilet in 2019.
I actually met Kate in real life! No joking, she came to my school last Thursday!
Also, fun fact: Kate said the reason the BBC used so many monitors on that episode is because they thought it would be 'modern!'
-Lightning \[T]/
Yeah at the time lol it was
What's her last name? Kate who?
@@LassOfLeicester You can find her easily with a little thought. She even has her own website.
I can't wait this sounds amazing.
Shame its not here yet.
2022 here, haven't seen it yet either. Can the next time traveller please give an update
28 years later, I have the world library at my fingertips & complain when my 4K videos don't stream instantly to my 4K 65" OLED TV.
Honestly though that feature to buy items that appear in what you're watching is kind of cool. Similar to what amazon prime video does where you can see who the actors are in any scene you pause.
"Something called the Internet" HAHAHAHA
Perhaps she also contacted Clinton about an intern vacancy going spare...?
2019 and I am still waiting for fibre!
2020 still waiting....
might aswell give it a miss n get 5G instead!!!
I’m in Manchester and I’m still waiting for high speed fibre in 2022.
Love the sarcastic look she gives about "leaving it to market forces" at 1:26 hehe
Its always the way in the UK. Too nany old fuddy duddies in the Lords holding us back, with their "Lets wait and see" mind set. So nothing gets done quickly, and we lag behind when we SHOULD be at the forefront.
It is often left to private investors to get projects off the ground, and the end consumer initially pays a fortune, until other private investors start similar projects, creating competition, thus lowering the cost to the consumer.
Yet we spend BILLIONS on foreign aid, so the likes of India can have ITS own space program, and we are left gobsmacked, wondering how they do it!
If we spent more money at home, we could be world beaters, in many areas.
Look at the French Railways, we pioneered the Railways, yet lag behind france by about 40 or 50 years with our creaking infrastructure.
And German car production. How is it they are so successful at it, and we failed so miserably, especially from the late 1960's onwards. The Germans had the same competition from the far east, yet still manage to innovate, and succeed at it. Why are we in the UK so different?
@Hugh Jones Thing is, Labour are just as bad. They talk the talk, but borrow so much money, that we end up being crippled with debt. Then they tax the rich who provide the jobs, and they end uo registering in the Cayman Islands to avoid the high taxes. So then the burden falls to the working class, as per.
If Labour were less motivated by generating revenue via taxation, and more motivated by job creation/retention, then there would be more people contributing to the pot, instead of taking from it, via welfare etc. And divert NI contributions directly into private healthcare initiatives, instead of creaming their cut off the top, then there would be no need for a tax payer funded NHS, which IS a drain on the public purse. We must also STOP health tourism too, which costs tge NHS/US, about £6bn per year in lost revenue. Because it costs the NHS more to chase up paynents from foreign governments, than the actual treatment given to THEIR subjects, who all too often, piss off back home, once they've aborted the sprog they can't afford to feed, or once they've had their dental work done. Somebody has to pay, and it is always the tax payer who is saddled with the bill.
This country needs a complete change in how it generates and allocates public finance. The solutions are simple, but there is no will for radical change, which only serves to leave us lagging behind.
@@hermanmunster3358 The main reason why internet is working so well is fact that it was not made or invented by any government or state owned company...
Your idea that government should be creating jobs is also sily, as most of the time job creation by government ends up with army of bureaucrats that are only producing paper for other bureaucrats and idiotic laws and regulations that are invented often only to prove that this army is necessary and create more bureaucratic jobs for other family members.
At the beginning of XX century Austro-Hungarian Empire was the worst country on this planet in the topic of income tax as the income tax was at staggering level of 13%...
During WW2 in ocupied by German socilistic government Poland the income tax jumped to 30% as they simply hated Polish people.
In 1901 USA got the income tax of 1% up to 4% and for the 1964 tax year, the top marginal tax rate for individuals was lowered to 77%...
@@Bialy_1 I never said "governments should be creating jobs" although governments do have a responsibility to ensure that job creation is a priority.
What I was saying was that governments could do more to encourage private initiatives in infrastructure and manufacturing projects, by allowing temporary tax breaks, or providing enterprise zones on former industrial sites, whereby new developments could spring up, or revitalising those areas so that they are brought back into public use.
And just so you know, the INTERNET was developed by various scientists and computer engineers, then helped with funding by the US Government's department of defense. Without US Government assistance, the internet as we know it, may never have gotten off the ground.
The idea may well have came from one person. But as often is the case during product development, a collaboration is required to see certain ideas through to fruition.
Learn to understand what you are reading pal.
@@Bialy_1 Not to challenge your sentiments, but the Internet was invented by government, specifically the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA).
The reason the Internet succeeded where others failed, and what you aluded to, was: no centralized control. That's because point of the project was to develop at network which could continue to function to despite "multiple catastrophic failures" (ie. nuclear strikes).
Ahhhhhhhhh 1994 I was one of those 20 million that had taken his first baby steps onto the information superhighway. Has been on fascinating trip. Can't wait to see where we go from here.
It's changed a bit tho... I still kinda miss chat rooms. Usenet's still kicking around tho :)
I clearly remember watching this episode.
Hello from the future.
In the future, we have something called RUclips and this is the medium through which I am communicating with you. In the future, the superhighway is up in the air and is wireless, named ‘wifi.’
Seriously, I can’t believe how far we’ve come in the past 25-30 years. Being in my twenties, I really cant fathom the world in which these things didn’t exist.
I helped my grandmother with her ‘tablet’ a while back, and she was absolutely blown away, exclaiming I was frightfully clever, while in reality I only helped her tweak a few things with the setting.
Bill clinton was the first person to buy cigars on the internet
Don't laugh but I've started my own search engine to take advantage of this new technology. I'm thinking of calling it Boogle or Doogle or something like that.
I'll foodle for some suggestions.
Archie came first. If you remember using that, then you're a veteran Internet user! :)
Tom Mulligan ~ "alter Vista" ~
Sounds stupid
"What is a google? Why can't they just get a normal word? Google sounds like something someone like a baby would call you like 'goo goo google'"
Life was better before the Internet. It is both the best and worst thing to happen to humanity.
....and here we are, watching this from a "super highway" through phones without cables.
thanks clinton for that bang up job you did with the telecommunications act, realy helped out that comcast spread far and wide
Right, except comcast took billions and billions of dollars in government aid and didn't expand to where they were supposed to. They simply expanded to the most dense areas that would make them the most money, which they would do anyway as it was most profitable. Most of the rural areas and less profitable places never got it for decades and many still don't. Another corrupt government handout to billion dollar companies. I'm sure we know who got rich off that deal. And now decades later we finally have space-x with Starlink that is having to fill the gap using fast satellite internet.
Fuck sake 23 years later and my local exchange still doesn't have fibre!
The fact I am watching this instantly on you tube........... i guess we are seeing it now in 2022!
We have it today. Even wireless. Awesome.
Ya know, I haven't heard anyone call it the "information superhighway" in 20 years! Also, I miss the 2000's Top Gear.
In the 90s I thought that with the internet everyone can communicate with people around the world. They can read books, learn history, learn languages and become super smart. Oh how wrong I was in that time. The people of today dont want to read, they want to make selfies on the top of a roof and fall down.
And we are still waiting for fibre 26 years later.
Stumbled across this today, and loved the brilliant comments. 😂😂
Interesting idea but too complicated and slow for the general public I think. I'll stick to reading books, writing letters and going down the road to the flower shop.
Oh, if only I could return to that life. I'd take it in a heartbeat.
We got our first real computer in 95, 100mhz pentium for like $2400
I member being jelly at my buddy's 133mhz. Another buddy had a 2nd phone line, talk about baller
Argh the good old days xD I also remember the college investing in some new Pentium 133 MHz 'workstations' and they had to lock the room because they felt people would be going crazy to get on them lol Do you also remember the Cyrix CPU's? I had one, and managed to achieve something in the region of a 20 MHz over-clock..I felt like a king. I mean 20 MHz people would laugh at that today. I also had a Commodore Amiga at home, which I felt was way ahead of its time especially when it came to working with video and titling a lot of which cost zilch thanks to public-domain software.
In 1995 I was still rolling on a 386 😂😂😂
And 28 years later, good ol' Blighty is still pi55ing about with copper and there are large parts of the country that still don't have high speed BB, myself included, despite living in a reasonably large town. I started using the internet in '96, on the old dial up modem, and made my first online purchase within a few weeks, from New Zealand! It was a leap of faith as I had no cetainty that the items would arrive. They did, in just over a week and I was blown away, it was life changing. Shortly afterwards I found Amazon and ordered a number of books, which were about 50% cheaper than buying in the UK. They arrived in 4 days! This is the end of the high street I proclaimed! I just wish I'd bought Amazon shares then, I could have retired by now if I had!
This was just amazing to watch. 1997 was a big year for me, getting a computer online at home (with noisy modem, cable all the way up the stairs!). As a collector of rare vinyl we're STILL adding them to the 'highway'. Things are still effectively 'lost' until info on them all at least is available. Love it's continued growth and watch it with fascination.
it's amazing how in a few years they went from this to computers everywhere
Wow, usually when you watch old videos about the future, the things they imagined would come to be are so ridiculous, we laugh when looking at it through a modern lens. Everything in this video came to be almost exactly as anticipated, aside from knowing the suit a guy in a video is wearing (though Google is getting close with their "search within image" feature).
Agreed. Home shopping via television is done by using widgets, it is not in-line like it was in this demonstration. There is still some room for improvement!
We do have more of the fiber-optic network infrastructure now, but it still has not been built out as much as it could be. Fiber will, as she said, enable a whole new crop of interactive services
"aside from knowing the suit a guy in a video is wearing"
Now Google Lens exists.
I'm watching this on my PC, on two 4K monitors, downloaded over a 1Gb/sec fibre-optic home Internet connection, in the middle of an Australian suburb. Only took the best part of 30 years :) to achieve.
Watching on my mobile on WiFi. Love it!
The Internet is great and all. But, contrary to the prognostications in this video, RUclips still doesn't tell me where that woman's floral waistcoat comes from. Obvious fail.
People from the 90's were SURE fond of the phrase "Information Superhighway"
My goodness the 90s tech is so nostalgic
This may be 1994 but her outfit is saying 2005. She was truly ahead of her time
It actually is very amazing how prescient this show was on so many things. I am going to have to look into who was behind this series and see what they are talking about these days.
Survivorship bias - TW got a whole lot wrong as well.
@@JK_Clark that's a perfectly legitimate point, also related to confirmation bias. I never did end up going back and looking up what else they predicted, but I think I won't bother. Cheers.
@@JamesPawson I grew up watching it, it was fun TV but nobody took it that seriously - getting predictions right was more a matter of luck.
That'll be brilliant if it ever happens. Imagine being able to watch videos on a home computer.
Katherine Bellingham (born 1963) - she's nearly 60 now.
Time flies.
She still looks good not much different
She's absolutely gorgeous 😍
I was already on the web in '94. Got my first email address at University in 1990. It seemed incredibly impractical since the only place you could check it was at the university computer lab, and it wasn't apparent what the purpose was.
This 'information super highway' sounds marvelous. I'll finally be able to replace my teletext.
Ah, Teletext. It felt a bit like a simple version of the internet (before I knew the internet even existed); checking world news, weather and football scores.
And 23 years later it's nothing but cat videos, porn, and crappy memes.
And also the entire planet depends on it to function... but yeah, it's not much, is it?
Don’t forget old videos about how great the future will be
...and advertising.
Is that really so bad though
so true
Its amazing how far we've come in such a short time.........even the music, from Take That in the 90's to Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow today
Yea, it's been interesting to witness melody slowly being eliminated from music over the years. I guess these days if it's not auto-tuned or *...wait for the bass drop after a cacophonous din* it isn't music 😋
If only I could go back in time, to the beginnings of the internet... I'd be the pioneer of funny cat videos