I was born 11 months after this, but I remember camping here in Washington and collecting ash in empty coke bottles. The story fascinated me when my Dad told me about it. Then at 15, 16 years after Mt Saint Helen's blew, my grandma took me and my brother to see the park, even taking a helicopter ride and flying inside the crater. Seeing all those countless trees knocked over in the same direction and the dome still STEAMING is a memory I'll never forget. I took my now wife to see Mt Saint Helen's as she's never seen a volcano in person and proposed to her at the Johnson Ridge observatory, which is the closest you can drive to.
Yeah man, I saw the same thing in 1991. Its incredible how much destruction there was. Even 10, 15 years later and it was still covered with soot and hardly any new vegetation. You go there today and its full of lush green trees again. Such a difference!
So 15 years after the eruption the trees were all still in place? Here in FL, when you get a hurricane that will wipe out huge areas of trees, 15 years later you'd have no idea anything ever happened.
@@rodmunch69 They're were burned out tree trunks everywhere, but no green. The are that had three pyroclastic flows had nothing at all. It looked like the moon.
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This incident was noticeable around the entire world. Even here in Europe, there was a fine layer of volcanic ash everywhere. On cars, you had to be careful with the windscreen wipers scratching the glass when there was no rain for a long time and the air filters clogged a lot faster than normal.
I wonder if some of the recent eruptions had an effect on my car when my dad drove it, the windshield seems to be so much more scratched than it should be
same happened when chernobyl blew up. the radiation cloud drifted clear across the ocean to indiana where I live. and that happened just 3 years before i was born it settled here. wonder if thats why i have autism lol
For some reason, the thought that the rescuers only lower down a wicker basket to this volcano survivor had me laughing so hard it brought tears to my eyes.
I was 17, in a hospital being treated for depression. I lived in Chicago at the time. I remember ash on the cars parked along the street. I heard AC/DC on the radio. The air smelt weird. Dirtier than usual for Chicago.
(7:20) Instead of dying of dysentery on _The Oregon Trail,_ you get smothered by mud or cooked by hot ash in _Mount St. Helens Survival Simulation._ Why didn't The Learning Company publish this?
Mhmm, Vesuvius is by no means extinct and it's a real natural killer... when I watch the satellite pictures of the surrounding urban areas they give me chills
I live about 50 miles away from St. Helen's and I was 7. I still have a jar of ash and a chunk of pumice I remember going to Eastern Washington and other places and it was like being on the moon or something. Literally inches or feet of ash in places. I don't remember ever being in fear. Just one picture in a book with a body in the Toutle river on debris, that creeped me out. Good times, lol.
I lived in Eastern Washington. I was only a baby at the time so I definitely don't remember the eruption....but I do remember ash. There was so much ash and no where for it to go, that it was around for years. I remember when you drove across central Washington even when i was in high school and college, so nearly 2 decades later, you could still see places where there was ash along roadsides. I remember when i was quite young there places with huge piles of ash that had been "plowed" into these enormous piles, even years later.
We went camping over in Eastern WA sometime in the mid '80s when I was very young and I distinctly remember there being ash EVERYWHERE still. I remember it looked like snow and I asked my dad and grandpa what it was and they said it was from the mountain that exploded. Crazy stuff.
I was 14 when this kicked off. I remember watching it on the news. Lots of people refused to evacuate the area and got killed as a result.There were also several volcanologists who were a little to close when it went off. What caught out a lot of people was that the volcano erupted sideways instead of upwards so the effects on the ground were more severe than usual.
I remember when I was a kid, we went to see Mount St Helens. It was 1991, and even though it was 11 years after the fact, the magnitude of the destruction was mind blowing. The area is surrounded by heavy forest, but as soon as you get near the mountain, it clears up. Nothing but black soot covered earth and the remains of burned tree trunks. There was a lake nearby that was just stuffed with felled logs. It was amazing and Ill never forget my experience there as a kid.
the answer about taking photos is a bit morbid, IIRC among the people killed were a scientist and a photographer who basically realized they were screwed and tried to record as much as possible before they died. I wonder if these photos they used are actually the ones the photographer took?
So appropriate! I just re-watched some of the documentaries today! I can't believe that 40 years passed since hearing that news... that dates me. And that was not an animation. Some lucky guy (Gary Rosenquist) shoot continuously all 24 positions of his film camera during the eruption. Those are real pictures!!!
Reminds me of Dante's Peak. Covered this in the volcano section of Geography in the UK, which also included Krakatoa iirc. Of course it ignores the possibility of a helicopter getting clogged up with ash and crashing but I guess it has to have a happy ending.
I was 10 and living in Tacoma, WA when it erupted. I remember the news saying that it will be erupting soon but people ignored the warnings. I don't remember if I saw the first ash cloud but I do remember seeing a few after that from my house.
My grandfather was near Mount Saint Helens when it erupted. As a ceramist, he was eager to collect some of the ash. We still have a huge barrel of it in his old shop.
I was in elementary school when this happened and remember seeing the made-for-HBO movie "St. Helens" about it... This software is interesting, because you're seeing primitive World-Wide-Web-style pages with linking. Looking at the dates, the intro screen says Feb 92 and some of the file dates are in 1994. Mosaic (1st Web Browser) was released about 1993.
The phrase "wicker basket" gives me this mental image of a helicopter lowering down a Mother's Day Gift Basket filled with lavender soaps and such to a volcano survivor
I remember when it erupted, a few local KFC restaurants bought truckloads of ash and gave it away in small containers with each meal. I still have one left of mine, I lost the rest over the years.
I was wondering how we had such similar childhoods despite you being several years younger than me, and then you said you were homeschooled and it all made sense. Homeschooled in the '90s kids represent! "Edutainment" software was my life.
Not much talk here in SW Michigan about Mt. Saint Helens from when I was a kid, but we had a separate 40th anniversary recently. The tornado that struck downtown Kalamazoo had its 40th anniversary last week. I wasn't born yet, but I have a friend that still vividly remembers it. www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2020/05/remembering-the-kalamazoo-tornado-40-years-after-it-struck-may-13-1980.html
I grew up about 70 miles from Mt. St. Helen’s. My dad worked for the Forest Service, which runs the national monument around the mountain. Dad worked at the monument for several years when I was in high school. At one point before he worked there full time, I went with him when he went down for a meeting; someone easy changing out the paper in one of the seismographs monitoring the volcano and let me take it home.
I still hike the area from time to time (I just love Ape Canyon). This software is really neat to see and compare with the giant hole there now! Thanks, Clint!
I love these blerbs, they remind me of your early videos of just showing something off without a script. It's like a double nostalgia since it's been such a long journey.
I was born in WA in 1979, so I have no direct memories of the eruption, but it was still a formative event in my life due to how much people discussed it when I was a child.
Fun fact: Mt. Saint Helens' big bro Mt. Rainier is also active, and is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world due to how many people live in lahar zones (basically the whole Puyallup River Valley).
I was 10 years old when the mountain blew it's top. We were camping at Eel creek campground along the southern Oregon coast. Beautiful morning interrupted by a distant boom boom.....boom boom.
I was quite fascinated with Mount St. Helens as a kid. Being from the Pacific Northwest my family visited it on vacation probably around ten years after the eruption. It looked like a barren wasteland with fallen trees everywhere as you got closer to the mountain. I thought it was quite cool. We went back there again years later but more of the plants had grown back so it wasn't the same. I recognized the "animation" of the eruption from this video though I saw it in a book. It wasn't a video, the photographer literally snapped photos as quickly as he could of the eruption before getting the hell out of there so the framerate isn't poor because of the limitations of a PC at the time.
I enjoyed the video same with every you make, but aside from the interesting topic, your lovely voice and overall quality I learned to expect from your videos, the sound of that computer working in the background :) ahh... eargasmic! Thank you for making Monday interesting while we wait for Friday :)
This invokes some memories. In from a relative backwater in the UK, a city called Newcastle upon Tyne for you Americans. Anyway the local museum, the Hancock museum and this program was part of the display. This was in the early eighties. Now I'm a lot older than LGR and I was quite young when I went to the museum. Probably 1982iah. I don't know if you read the comments LGR, but thanks for the memories.
The explosion was one of my earliest memories. What makes it odd is I was only about 2 years old at the time, but I remember seeing the side come off, I remember the old Zenith television.
I live in Portland and although I'm too young to have been around for it, it obviously effected my city a lot due to our proximity to it. I see St. Helens all the time (or rather did before the quarantine when I actually left the house regularly), and it's weird to imagine an explosion coming from it, and the fact that it looks COMPLETELY different now from how it did when my parents were kids. It's also weird to look at buildings that are 40+ years old and think about how they were covered in ash for a short period after the eruption.
My birthday is today, the day after the eruption, though not the same year, the two are always connected in my mind. Also I can literally see Mt. Saint Helens from my house on a clear day. I can see five mountains; Hood, Adams, Jefferson, Saint Helens, and Rainier.
That was my sister's 8th birthday. My grandparents were on an airplane from Seattle to Portland when it erupted. I was younger, and I remember being fascinated with the ash falling. (We could see the mountain from the upstairs hall window.) Her "birthday present" was to help shovel the ash off the sidewalk. :-D Our grandparents had a hell of a time - while the eruption wasn't a direct threat to their flight, the ash cloud expanding did cause the plane to veer significantly West out of an abundance of caution, and theirs was one of the last flights allowed to land in Portland before the airport closed due to ash accumulation. (Ash is *TERRIBLE* for jet engines, as I learned many years later as an aerospace engineering student.) I just imagine their airline pilot "If you'll look out the left side of the plane, you'll see Mount Saint-WHAT THE HELL!!!"
Mad respect for finding a way to make a video is entertaining on this of software which really seems like you could have used a bit more octane in the tank
There were ash trays made from the ash and of course the legendary "I survived Mount Saint Helens!" T-shirts for sale soon after. That shirt was the first in a long line of other "I survived" shirts.
I'm from Tacoma Washington and I remember when the eruption happened. I was driving that day to my musician friends house. We had some ash but the bulk of it devastated Eastern Washington. I live by a bigger stratovolcano that of Mount Rainier however I am not in the dangerous Lahar designated area rather I am on a hill on the west side of Tacoma.
Ironically, I'm about the same age as you (I think) and live a couple hours from Mt. St. Helens, but I've never seen or heard of this program. My parents have talked about the eruption since they were both in their late 20s when it erupted and while they were too far away to see the ash cloud, they both remember the days and weeks of ash. We visited it once before the visitor center closed down, probably like 15+ years ago and even then the view was still chilling. Even 25+ years after the eruption (at that time) it was still almost lifeless.
Mount St Helens also had a period of dome building in 2004-2008 which I witnessed the start of at the Johnston Ridge Observatory. The eruption was small and had a salt and pepper appearance with the smoke and ash mixing. The Toutle River which gets its source from near the mountain to this day has lots of sediment in both the north and south forks. For a while I went to school in Toutle Washington and remember the river taking on an appearance that looked a bit like beer.
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"Yeah I guess you could stay in your car... If you want to DIE, that is". It's a bit on the nose, and I love the amount of capitalization and exclamation points. One would think it was written by a child.
We had very similar interests as kids. I would take out book after book on volcanos. I was always terrified that a volcano would suddenly appear in my backyard in central Connecticut.
I've done online training that works like this "game". First you read a load of information, and click buttons to advance the text. Then you have to sit through a multiple choice quiz. If you get all the questions right, you're rewarded with a certificate. If you fail, you get to try again!
I remember back In 1982 when I went on holidays to American watching the erruption of Mount St. Helens IMAX. As well as Hail Columbia (Space Shuttle Columbia) IMAX. On the big screen which were incredible for a kid at the time.
Having grown up in Italy in the 80s, I am always surprised to see how common the use of computers and learning software in education was in the US during the same period. We didn't have any of it. I wonder if the US still has an edge in the use of informatics in schools nowadays and if anyone ever assessed the impact of the IT adoption in education. BTW great video as always! ;-)
I was 7 and living in eastern Washington when this happened. Mid day it was dark due to the cloud of ash and at first I thought it was snowing (the ash falling). For a week or so after this everyone had a hard time driving around because the ash would clog cars' radiators and would require constant cleaning. My mom used to go out collecting ash in various containers, I'm sure she still has some somewhere.
I was born 13 days after Mt. St Helens erupted and was born in Washington state nearby. 40 years ago we were wearing masks to be safe from ash and here we are wearing them again for a totally different reason!
You are lucky that you still have your childhood floppy disks... Mine was thrown away by my dad when I was little. (Alongside with some old/broken PC parts that I've collected) He did that without my consent, and behind my back. I remember crying trough half the they when I've found it out :'(
Haha I didn't realize you were homeschooled until the second you mentioned how you got that disk. Ah book fair, and not the public school scholastic ones, but huge ones run by the local home school parents and school supply vendors. It now makes sense why you also had so much edutainment in your life as a kid too.
this reminds me of a coverdisc I had that had a program called Weird on it - it was like an interactive encyclopedia of all things strange - it was actually really good, and had some good gameplay elements - though can't find anything about it on the internet, so may be lost to time unfrotunately. But what you say about certain images getting stuck in your head very much reminds me of that game, specifically a really weird photograph of a "mermaid" creature that was quite grotesque!
Yep I was in Yakima, Wa. Ten years old and out riding my bike that Sunday morning when the ash cloud hit town. That was the bike ride of a lifetime! LOL Scary for a ten y/o.
You see I saw this and thought it said Mount St. Hilary (i.e. Transformers) - which of course was based on Mount St. Helens. An interesting little programme and a good review
There's a crazy video on RUclips of a man walking out of the ash cloud toward the only light he can see, all while talking about his lungs burning. It's definitely something.
Oh wow! I remember playing this "game" on a Commodore Pet (?) when I was 7 or 8 years old. Definitely wasn't the DOS version & and it didn't have those photographs, but I remember those questions and answers!
I was in year 11 in a Sydney Boy school at the time. The Teacher brought in 2 girls from the States who were evacuated from the volcano to explain the ordeal. Well they had our attention in a class full of boys. I vaguely remember photos of car queues to get out of there & news photos of flattened trees. Girls + Volcanoes = cool day at school.
I have a very vague memory of my childhood days of something volcano related. One day I walked into the living room to find my mother sitting in front of the family PS/2, and she was messing with some piece of software or other. I think it was some training material for computers, like I remember an EGA style cartoony drawing of Mt. Saint Helens and something like "Pressing the Function keys make stuff happen. Press F7 to make the volcano erupt." I seem to remember it on CD-ROM though. It's weird.
I was born 11 months after this, but I remember camping here in Washington and collecting ash in empty coke bottles. The story fascinated me when my Dad told me about it. Then at 15, 16 years after Mt Saint Helen's blew, my grandma took me and my brother to see the park, even taking a helicopter ride and flying inside the crater. Seeing all those countless trees knocked over in the same direction and the dome still STEAMING is a memory I'll never forget.
I took my now wife to see Mt Saint Helen's as she's never seen a volcano in person and proposed to her at the Johnson Ridge observatory, which is the closest you can drive to.
A place where dozens of people got killed by something coming straight from hell. How romantic.
Yeah man, I saw the same thing in 1991. Its incredible how much destruction there was. Even 10, 15 years later and it was still covered with soot and hardly any new vegetation. You go there today and its full of lush green trees again. Such a difference!
@@Okurka. she's a odd one for sure lol.
So 15 years after the eruption the trees were all still in place? Here in FL, when you get a hurricane that will wipe out huge areas of trees, 15 years later you'd have no idea anything ever happened.
@@rodmunch69 They're were burned out tree trunks everywhere, but no green. The are that had three pyroclastic flows had nothing at all. It looked like the moon.
“You just dug your own grave. Hot ash will bury you.”
Jesus Christ, that’s savage. 🤣🤣🤣
Oregon: we have a computer game where you die a billion times
Washington: _I want one of those!_
Haha. That’s so true.
Tho, I forgot Mt St Helens is even in Washington. It’s so far south...
you: I'm going to make an unoriginal meme comment like every other unoriginal meme comment made on every single video for the last 6 months
everyone else: please stop
@@doltBmB let people enjoy things. How a comment is formatted affects you precisely 0%.
@@doubtful_seer It does affect me when every single comment on every single video is the exact same garbage.
@@doltBmB you: I can’t just scroll past something that annoys me and get on with my day
Me: we can see that
This incident was noticeable around the entire world. Even here in Europe, there was a fine layer of volcanic ash everywhere. On cars, you had to be careful with the windscreen wipers scratching the glass when there was no rain for a long time and the air filters clogged a lot faster than normal.
seemed like a friendly reminder that the shit going on beneath our feet can kill us pretty quickly
I wonder if some of the recent eruptions had an effect on my car when my dad drove it, the windshield seems to be so much more scratched than it should be
same happened when chernobyl blew up. the radiation cloud drifted clear across the ocean to indiana where I live. and that happened just 3 years before i was born it settled here. wonder if thats why i have autism lol
For some reason, the thought that the rescuers only lower down a wicker basket to this volcano survivor had me laughing so hard it brought tears to my eyes.
It gets in the basket or it gets the ash again.
That's what helicopter rescue baskets where made from at the time. Both light and sturdy.
@@Piotwor Oh my, I think that might be a private helicopter...
It seemed so oddly specific...
reminds me of scuzzlebut the thing from south park who weaves wicker baskets to save people from volcanos and has patrick duffy for a leg lmao
I was 17, in a hospital being treated for depression. I lived in Chicago at the time. I remember ash on the cars parked along the street. I heard AC/DC on the radio. The air smelt weird. Dirtier than usual for Chicago.
Damn
i hope you're doing better now then you were back then
LOL! As Patch Adams says, laughter is the best medicine!
Way to treat depression. Reverse psychology at its finest.
And considering the air quality in Chicago in 1980... that's saying something.
"A considerable amount of TREE damage was done by the force of the tremendous EXPLOSION!!!"
Inside I was like, " _Yeah_ , _take_ _that_ _you_ _stupid_ _trees_ ! _You_ _suck_ ! " LOL
@@Recycled yea take that you stupid trees thats what you get for keeping us alive
WICKER BASKET
I love the casual feeling of Blerbs. Feels like I’m getting more of the real Clint.
yeah its kinda like if he wasnt famous and just doing a random video
@@160rpm is clint famous?
@@HSoW1945 No, but the channel is somewhat more professional, main LGR I mean.
_" Greetings, and welcome an LGR _*_BLERB!_*_ "_
I love how that seems to get a little louder and more pronounced as each video is made. X)
By that math, by the 120th video it should be loud enough to be outside of our hearing range. Yay subtitled blerbs!
LGR but every time he says BLERB the volume increases
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*_That’s called a “Deef”._*
Sure lives up the "watch one errupt" statement.
hehe.
Gotta love the early educational software for kids telling them "you just dug your own grave"
Whereas today, everything explodes into gore in 4K.
(7:20) Instead of dying of dysentery on _The Oregon Trail,_ you get smothered by mud or cooked by hot ash in _Mount St. Helens Survival Simulation._ Why didn't The Learning Company publish this?
Expert software should have picked it up!
I watched this happen from my backyard in Longview, Wa. Weird day. Lost a family friend to the mud slides in Toutle, Wa as well.
Mhmm, Vesuvius is by no means extinct and it's a real natural killer... when I watch the satellite pictures of the surrounding urban areas they give me chills
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Yep, a fairly recent village was buried that few remembers, and that was only a few hundred years ago.
I live about 50 miles away from St. Helen's and I was 7. I still have a jar of ash and a chunk of pumice I remember going to Eastern Washington and other places and it was like being on the moon or something. Literally inches or feet of ash in places. I don't remember ever being in fear. Just one picture in a book with a body in the Toutle river on debris, that creeped me out. Good times, lol.
I lived in Eastern Washington. I was only a baby at the time so I definitely don't remember the eruption....but I do remember ash. There was so much ash and no where for it to go, that it was around for years. I remember when you drove across central Washington even when i was in high school and college, so nearly 2 decades later, you could still see places where there was ash along roadsides. I remember when i was quite young there places with huge piles of ash that had been "plowed" into these enormous piles, even years later.
We went camping over in Eastern WA sometime in the mid '80s when I was very young and I distinctly remember there being ash EVERYWHERE still. I remember it looked like snow and I asked my dad and grandpa what it was and they said it was from the mountain that exploded. Crazy stuff.
I was 14 when this kicked off. I remember watching it on the news. Lots of people refused to evacuate the area and got killed as a result.There were also several volcanologists who were a little to close when it went off. What caught out a lot of people was that the volcano erupted sideways instead of upwards so the effects on the ground were more severe than usual.
erupting sideways? taco bell will do that to ya
I remember when I was a kid, we went to see Mount St Helens. It was 1991, and even though it was 11 years after the fact, the magnitude of the destruction was mind blowing. The area is surrounded by heavy forest, but as soon as you get near the mountain, it clears up. Nothing but black soot covered earth and the remains of burned tree trunks. There was a lake nearby that was just stuffed with felled logs. It was amazing and Ill never forget my experience there as a kid.
Fun fact: the Caribbean island of St Lucia has an extinct volcano with a tunnel that you can drive through.
In another 25 years, you'll stumble upon this game again and be like: you again??? How many times do I have to run into you in a life-time?!
the answer about taking photos is a bit morbid, IIRC among the people killed were a scientist and a photographer who basically realized they were screwed and tried to record as much as possible before they died. I wonder if these photos they used are actually the ones the photographer took?
So appropriate! I just re-watched some of the documentaries today! I can't believe that 40 years passed since hearing that news... that dates me.
And that was not an animation. Some lucky guy (Gary Rosenquist) shoot continuously all 24 positions of his film camera during the eruption. Those are real pictures!!!
I remember playing this on my dad’s 486 a long long time ago
matzeccc LGR made a 486 on his main channel a few years back.
Reminds me of Dante's Peak. Covered this in the volcano section of Geography in the UK, which also included Krakatoa iirc. Of course it ignores the possibility of a helicopter getting clogged up with ash and crashing but I guess it has to have a happy ending.
I was 10 and living in Tacoma, WA when it erupted. I remember the news saying that it will be erupting soon but people ignored the warnings. I don't remember if I saw the first ash cloud but I do remember seeing a few after that from my house.
My grandfather was near Mount Saint Helens when it erupted. As a ceramist, he was eager to collect some of the ash. We still have a huge barrel of it in his old shop.
Mount St Helens is about to blow up and it's gonna be a fine swell day!
Everything's gonna fall down to the ground and turn grey!
@@Torchbuscus all of my friends, family, and animals are probably going to run away
The Dow Jones just fell down to zero and it's gonna be a fine, swell day.
@@min_nari and I wonder if it's going to be as good of a day as yesterday
@@Karmy. All of these business suits that I've just purchased, gonna have to throw them all away
3:36 "Deer and elk razed in the forest and meadows."
RIP
I was in elementary school when this happened and remember seeing the made-for-HBO movie "St. Helens" about it... This software is interesting, because you're seeing primitive World-Wide-Web-style pages with linking. Looking at the dates, the intro screen says Feb 92 and some of the file dates are in 1994. Mosaic (1st Web Browser) was released about 1993.
holy CRAP! My school had this program in our computer lab!! Takin' me back to 3rd grade!
The phrase "wicker basket" gives me this mental image of a helicopter lowering down a Mother's Day Gift Basket filled with lavender soaps and such to a volcano survivor
I remember when it erupted, a few local KFC restaurants bought truckloads of ash and gave it away in small containers with each meal. I still have one left of mine, I lost the rest over the years.
Sorry about your relatives who went camping, here's some ash with your drumstick!
The nostalgia made me search for Encarta mind maze speedruns, and apparently they do exist. Nice video! Cheers
3:15 Whoever created this program made one hell of a mistake saying Mt. Vesuvius is "Extinct"
I was wondering how we had such similar childhoods despite you being several years younger than me, and then you said you were homeschooled and it all made sense. Homeschooled in the '90s kids represent! "Edutainment" software was my life.
I appreciate the preservation.
Accurate recollection is rare and solid substance or software makes a difference as a landmark in time.
Not much talk here in SW Michigan about Mt. Saint Helens from when I was a kid, but we had a separate 40th anniversary recently. The tornado that struck downtown Kalamazoo had its 40th anniversary last week. I wasn't born yet, but I have a friend that still vividly remembers it.
www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2020/05/remembering-the-kalamazoo-tornado-40-years-after-it-struck-may-13-1980.html
My mom, sister and I flew over Mt. St. Helens on our way home to Oregon from Germany the day before it erupted.
I swear remembering this being used at the visitors center for the mountain.
"You have died of dysentery."
Whoa. Tough volcano...
I grew up about 70 miles from Mt. St. Helen’s. My dad worked for the Forest Service, which runs the national monument around the mountain. Dad worked at the monument for several years when I was in high school. At one point before he worked there full time, I went with him when he went down for a meeting; someone easy changing out the paper in one of the seismographs monitoring the volcano and let me take it home.
I still hike the area from time to time (I just love Ape Canyon). This software is really neat to see and compare with the giant hole there now! Thanks, Clint!
Thank you for ressurecting this software. Games, even simple ones, deserve to be remembered. :)
I remember st helens. I was young, but i remember worrying the world might end in cold and ash.
It had happened already, long long ago... it almost wiped out early humans entirely
I love these blerbs, they remind me of your early videos of just showing something off without a script. It's like a double nostalgia since it's been such a long journey.
"You only died once" Yeah because that's totally better than dying three times.
I was born in WA in 1979, so I have no direct memories of the eruption, but it was still a formative event in my life due to how much people discussed it when I was a child.
Even if I don't watch all of your videos, I always click and like all that I see, really want you to succeed Clint.
Fun fact: Mt. Saint Helens' big bro Mt. Rainier is also active, and is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world due to how many people live in lahar zones (basically the whole Puyallup River Valley).
"You can't smell a video!" *sees disk box*
the introductions of civ1 and megalomania.. i will never forget them.
Thanks for doing what you do Clint! More old stuff!!!! Love old computers.
I was 10 years old when the mountain blew it's top. We were camping at Eel creek campground along the southern Oregon coast. Beautiful morning interrupted by a distant boom boom.....boom boom.
Remember being in elementary school when Mount Saint Helen's erupted. They talked about in science class.
I was quite fascinated with Mount St. Helens as a kid. Being from the Pacific Northwest my family visited it on vacation probably around ten years after the eruption. It looked like a barren wasteland with fallen trees everywhere as you got closer to the mountain. I thought it was quite cool. We went back there again years later but more of the plants had grown back so it wasn't the same. I recognized the "animation" of the eruption from this video though I saw it in a book. It wasn't a video, the photographer literally snapped photos as quickly as he could of the eruption before getting the hell out of there so the framerate isn't poor because of the limitations of a PC at the time.
I enjoyed the video same with every you make, but aside from the interesting topic, your lovely voice and overall quality I learned to expect from your videos, the sound of that computer working in the background :) ahh... eargasmic! Thank you for making Monday interesting while we wait for Friday :)
"I wasn't born then..." - I feel exceptionally old now. Thanks, LGR! :)
This invokes some memories. In from a relative backwater in the UK, a city called Newcastle upon Tyne for you Americans. Anyway the local museum, the Hancock museum and this program was part of the display. This was in the early eighties. Now I'm a lot older than LGR and I was quite young when I went to the museum. Probably 1982iah. I don't know if you read the comments LGR, but thanks for the memories.
The explosion was one of my earliest memories. What makes it odd is I was only about 2 years old at the time, but I remember seeing the side come off, I remember the old Zenith television.
The ash was so thick in Washington that it literally turned the middle of the day into night.
2:51 "Click mouse to continue" --- moves cursor to click the actual message. That is how my mother would do it, Clint :)
I live in Portland and although I'm too young to have been around for it, it obviously effected my city a lot due to our proximity to it. I see St. Helens all the time (or rather did before the quarantine when I actually left the house regularly), and it's weird to imagine an explosion coming from it, and the fact that it looks COMPLETELY different now from how it did when my parents were kids. It's also weird to look at buildings that are 40+ years old and think about how they were covered in ash for a short period after the eruption.
My birthday is today, the day after the eruption, though not the same year, the two are always connected in my mind. Also I can literally see Mt. Saint Helens from my house on a clear day. I can see five mountains; Hood, Adams, Jefferson, Saint Helens, and Rainier.
That was my sister's 8th birthday. My grandparents were on an airplane from Seattle to Portland when it erupted. I was younger, and I remember being fascinated with the ash falling. (We could see the mountain from the upstairs hall window.) Her "birthday present" was to help shovel the ash off the sidewalk. :-D
Our grandparents had a hell of a time - while the eruption wasn't a direct threat to their flight, the ash cloud expanding did cause the plane to veer significantly West out of an abundance of caution, and theirs was one of the last flights allowed to land in Portland before the airport closed due to ash accumulation. (Ash is *TERRIBLE* for jet engines, as I learned many years later as an aerospace engineering student.) I just imagine their airline pilot "If you'll look out the left side of the plane, you'll see Mount Saint-WHAT THE HELL!!!"
Mad respect for finding a way to make a video is entertaining on this of software which really seems like you could have used a bit more octane in the tank
Something about that shadow sliding down the screen is hella relaxing....
There were ash trays made from the ash and of course the legendary "I survived Mount Saint Helens!" T-shirts for sale soon after. That shirt was the first in a long line of other "I survived" shirts.
“Ive never seen this referenced anywhere except for my strange memories”. I can relate haha
I swear the thumbnail reminded me of another mountain-related program for DOS where you try to survive climbing to the peak of a mountain.
I'm from Tacoma Washington and I remember when the eruption happened.
I was driving that day to my musician friends house.
We had some ash but the bulk of it devastated Eastern Washington.
I live by a bigger stratovolcano that of Mount Rainier however I am not in the dangerous Lahar designated area rather I am on a hill on the west side of Tacoma.
Ironically, I'm about the same age as you (I think) and live a couple hours from Mt. St. Helens, but I've never seen or heard of this program. My parents have talked about the eruption since they were both in their late 20s when it erupted and while they were too far away to see the ash cloud, they both remember the days and weeks of ash. We visited it once before the visitor center closed down, probably like 15+ years ago and even then the view was still chilling. Even 25+ years after the eruption (at that time) it was still almost lifeless.
Mount St Helens also had a period of dome building in 2004-2008 which I witnessed the start of at the Johnston Ridge Observatory. The eruption was small and had a salt and pepper appearance with the smoke and ash mixing. The Toutle River which gets its source from near the mountain to this day has lots of sediment in both the north and south forks. For a while I went to school in Toutle Washington and remember the river taking on an appearance that looked a bit like beer.
"Yeah I guess you could stay in your car... If you want to DIE, that is". It's a bit on the nose, and I love the amount of capitalization and exclamation points. One would think it was written by a child.
Absolutely! The tone is all over the place and it feels weirdly harsh towards the people who died in that natural disaster.
YOU HAVE PERISHED!!!
We had very similar interests as kids. I would take out book after book on volcanos. I was always terrified that a volcano would suddenly appear in my backyard in central Connecticut.
*_"Learn & watch one erupt!"_*
That's what she said. :")
I've done online training that works like this "game". First you read a load of information, and click buttons to advance the text. Then you have to sit through a multiple choice quiz. If you get all the questions right, you're rewarded with a certificate. If you fail, you get to try again!
You were right, Linkway was IBM's answer to Hypercard
Hey Clint hope your doing well with the stay at home order.
Stay at home order is a joke here in California.
@@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo California is a one big joke
I remember back In 1982 when I went on holidays to American watching the erruption of Mount St. Helens IMAX. As well as Hail Columbia (Space Shuttle Columbia) IMAX. On the big screen which were incredible for a kid at the time.
Having grown up in Italy in the 80s, I am always surprised to see how common the use of computers and learning software in education was in the US during the same period. We didn't have any of it. I wonder if the US still has an edge in the use of informatics in schools nowadays and if anyone ever assessed the impact of the IT adoption in education. BTW great video as always! ;-)
Thank you. Had completely forgotten this program.
I was 7 and living in eastern Washington when this happened. Mid day it was dark due to the cloud of ash and at first I thought it was snowing (the ash falling). For a week or so after this everyone had a hard time driving around because the ash would clog cars' radiators and would require constant cleaning. My mom used to go out collecting ash in various containers, I'm sure she still has some somewhere.
I was born 13 days after Mt. St Helens erupted and was born in Washington state nearby. 40 years ago we were wearing masks to be safe from ash and here we are wearing them again for a totally different reason!
You are lucky that you still have your childhood floppy disks... Mine was thrown away by my dad when I was little. (Alongside with some old/broken PC parts that I've collected) He did that without my consent, and behind my back. I remember crying trough half the they when I've found it out :'(
Haha I didn't realize you were homeschooled until the second you mentioned how you got that disk. Ah book fair, and not the public school scholastic ones, but huge ones run by the local home school parents and school supply vendors. It now makes sense why you also had so much edutainment in your life as a kid too.
Hehe, exactly. Entire convention centers packed with vendors selling interesting software. Fun times!
I was only negative 7. I remember visiting the area when we did a family trip in 2006-8 ish. Seeing all the trees on the ground was impressive
this reminds me of a coverdisc I had that had a program called Weird on it - it was like an interactive encyclopedia of all things strange - it was actually really good, and had some good gameplay elements - though can't find anything about it on the internet, so may be lost to time unfrotunately. But what you say about certain images getting stuck in your head very much reminds me of that game, specifically a really weird photograph of a "mermaid" creature that was quite grotesque!
It still boggles my mind how drastically the look of Mt. St Helens changed after the eruption. Such an unbelievable amount of power.
wait until yellowstone goes. it will take the entire country out.
I was homeschooled and I liked the edutainment because I was more likely to be allowed to play it!
When Clint mentions being homeschooled and you realize you have more in common than you originally thought.
God you have the patience of a goldfish, I had to pause nearly every screen in the simulation section to read it.
I actually remember Linkway. I was in 7th grade in 92-93 and we had a computer class where we learned it, and it was most certainly a HyperCard clone.
Yep I was in Yakima, Wa. Ten years old and out riding my bike that Sunday morning when the ash cloud hit town. That was the bike ride of a lifetime! LOL
Scary for a ten y/o.
You see I saw this and thought it said Mount St. Hilary (i.e. Transformers) - which of course was based on Mount St. Helens. An interesting little programme and a good review
There's a crazy video on RUclips of a man walking out of the ash cloud toward the only light he can see, all while talking about his lungs burning. It's definitely something.
Kinda miss having several containers of 3.5” floppy disks 😂
Oh wow! I remember playing this "game" on a Commodore Pet (?) when I was 7 or 8 years old. Definitely wasn't the DOS version & and it didn't have those photographs, but I remember those questions and answers!
I was in year 11 in a Sydney Boy school at the time. The Teacher brought in 2 girls from the States who were evacuated from the volcano to explain the ordeal. Well they had our attention in a class full of boys. I vaguely remember photos of car queues to get out of there & news photos of flattened trees. Girls + Volcanoes = cool day at school.
5:00 I feel that. A lot of your videos have given me that weird 'why tf did my brain remember this' feeling.
I have a very vague memory of my childhood days of something volcano related. One day I walked into the living room to find my mother sitting in front of the family PS/2, and she was messing with some piece of software or other. I think it was some training material for computers, like I remember an EGA style cartoony drawing of Mt. Saint Helens and something like "Pressing the Function keys make stuff happen. Press F7 to make the volcano erupt." I seem to remember it on CD-ROM though. It's weird.