Christmas shopping online in 1996: Part II
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- Опубликовано: 4 май 2024
- Back safe again in good old 1996 .. 😊
Video of people in NYC at an AT&T Holiday Internet Shopping store surfing the net in hopes of finding that perfect gift.
Is this for real?? You must be joking?
Why, yes it is! And no, I am not!
Located at 666 on Fifth Avenue at 52nd street, this short lived retail store featured various computers where customers could shop on the world wide web...for free!
A fitting address for sure for those here (and there are many) that believe the Internet essentially destroyed civilization.
All courtesy from AT&T of course.
Or is it? .. 🤔
Footage of some of the various customers there as they browse the vast and unknown reaches of cyberspace.
This video last around 11 minutes.
#www.
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Online shopping in a physical store, we’ve come a long way!
At least everyone still had to gather and there was a sense of community not hatred and seclusion.
This is a snippet of time, technology, and society that will literally never return.
I actually miss the pre social media internet. It seemed a lot less invasive back then.
I like the information, calculation and telephone all in one. But I don't like how everything has to be connected to it as it's the only way to do anything now days.
My eBay profile says I joined in 2001. I guess it was kind of at the edge of this era but still close enough. Compared to today, I think online shopping has gotten a lot more easier than it did. I mean at the time of this video, you really had to search online and really had to trust the seller would do a good enough of a job. I had a couple of really bad luck purchases or even purchases that never came to my door. I can't remember anytime in the last few years where I gotten a bad online purchase and I never even spoken to anyone.
@@Dan-di9jd I think thats the only thing I like about it now though, is the convenience of buying things online. Other than that, I would love to go back to those days where Facebook and Tik Tok didn't exist
@@Dan-di9jd i was a very young child during the late 90's but must admit, it's alot better looking at videos reminiscing that actually living it...online purchasing, researching, remote job opportunities, easy access to goods online for a low price, having a gps not having to ask randoms for directions, and etc etc are just some reasons why i would not wanted to have been an adult during those years...yeah, i was young then but did witness first hand adults having to use maps, not being able to research which schools, stores, and etc were more ideal vs others and just playing everything by ear is pretty much what made pre 2000's years much more difficult...there was no alternative media either so you never could of found out what was going on behind closed doors aside from the television...i'm thankful i was a 90's baby and not an adult but things were cheaper back then but harder to come by since there were no web outlets.,,also, im into cars, and back in the day, all aftermarket parts had to be made from scratch or you'd get lucky enough to find aftermarket parts from other salvage vehicles with modifications...man, a headache indeed..same time tho, being a child during the late 90's and a teen in the 2010's, i really got to see an amazing transition, and would not wanted to have been born after 2001 either....born in 88-97 allowed for a simple childhood, and easier adulthood aside from the trash economy...
It WAS less invasive!
How can 27 years go by so fast ?! I wish I could go back to 1996, I feel times were safer and better back then. The world and society less crazy and manic.
I love this channel so much, thank you for these uploads. RUclips is literally like a time machine. Love it!!
Not the early days of the internet but the early mainstream days of the internet!
The Internet as we know it today “The Worldwide Web” started around 1993 or 94 depending on what resources you use. So yes, this video was pretty early on. Edit. Looked it up. The Worldwide Web came out April 30, 1993.
@@Losttouchjsthe Internet and the world wide Web are two different things
@@Losttouchjs"internet" started in 1983, some may say even before if you want to get technical. Like @kayasmotha said, internet & www are two different things
@@boardammo1593 The Worldwide Web revolutionized the Internet. It’s as simple as that. A simple Google search will tell you that. The Internet, that we know today started in 1993. The Internet goes back a long time. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about what we know today. The original post stated the early mainstream days of the Internet.
@@Losttouchjsyeah idk why it’s so hard for them to get that.
I miss the days when malls were popular. Online shopping has killed that.
I just love the amazement on everyone's faces at the advanced technology.
I forgot about those huge monitors we used back in the days. Lol
CRTs!
How old are you? They were pretty mainstream till 2004
Monitors were expensive as hell until about 2010, especially large ones. I was using two SGI 21 inch CRT monitors that I bought used until about 2008. Then I bought two 24 inch Soyo LCD monitors. I used the Soyo monitors until 2014. They were cheap, but total crap. I sold one of them on Craigslist for $10. But the guy showed back up at my door, and demanded his money back, claiming I had ripped him off. After that I just threw both monitors in the trash. Since then I have been using nothing but brand new LG monitors.
@@MaxZomboni Agreed, my first LCD was an NEC 1550v that i got on ebay from an office clearance for about £40 in 2007. It would have been about 5 years old at that point with thousands of hours use and probably a LOT of money new. I still have it to this day on my retro win98 pc and it works fine at 22ish years old 😃
@@jackfry they were mainstream until like 2010 wym
I graduated this year. The internet was mostly just a thing to listen to Beavis and Butthead soundboards in the school library back then.
I love me some Vampire Robot , nostalgic and fascinating
March 1995, 7th grade was the first time I surfed the internet, let alone a chat room. AOL on 56k modem was the dominant entry point back then and you were just happy to hear the dial up working. Little did we know…… it’s hard to imagine a time when the thought of having a supercomputer in your pocket let alone a touchscreen would be possible.
I remember being amazed at a simple website and the information on it, like the history of a food item or a TV show episode guide. I would write down URLs whenever I saw them in commercials or printed somewhere just to look at them out of curiosity, and I did not even have internet access yet. Just seeing a clear color picture was fascinating.
I remember getting a big corner desk for Christmas in ‘96 - to supplement my PC with its own dedicated second phone line in my bedroom for dial-up! 😂
You guys must’ve had money!!! 😂
@@MrAlvaradosClass Certainly not haha, I still had to pay for my own line as well as the ISP. Those were my teenage priorities back then!
Ahhhh yes the multiple phone lines where the cord would be soooo long to reach another room where everyone would trip on it trying to get across another room 😂
I don't remember this from my childhood. It's interesting seeing people shop online in stores.
I love looking back at Christmas shopping videos ! 👍😘🎄
Wow, those big, beefy CRT monitors, tons of em, bet they didn't have to use the heaters to keep that store nice and warm lol 🤪
I bought my wife a Sephora gift card for Mother’s Day from my phone on Friday, while waiting to pick our kids up from school. It will send to her email at a customized time. Took me about 3 minutes. And I remember 1996 so clearly. Doing something like that would seem like science fiction. Crazy.
Good memories when it was more normal around and outside looked so calm,cozy and beautiful like when you actually enjoyed the holidays
AOL was boomin' those years
ANd people were pissed it took 3 hours to download their 3 megabyte porn video
1996, the year when the internet was just starting to gain popularity, however people were still stuck between the old and the new, 2 years later everyone wanted a computer.
I got my loaded IBM Computer the very next spring. Was packing 2.5gb of hard drive space and an amazing 64mb of ram. I thought I was lord of all.
Back then, the bigger the back of the monitor, the better. You could calculate cost by footprint. A smaller footprint could lead to monitor-envy.
Right from the time when it was normal not having scroll buttons in our mouses.
Back when the future seemed bright.
The early days of the internet. Mobile phones back in it's basic functions. Back when pagers where the life liners. 1996 the year I was growing up in. During those days I wasn't always connected to the web and didn't much about the internet until the later 90's. Just enjoying the simple life I had back them. These where the good old days.
Mobile phones were almost nonexistent then. Only 2.5% of the population had a mobile phone in 1996. I got my first cell phone in 1999. I have been online since 1996.
@@MaxZomboni Pagers where the life lines back then. You go to a pay phone and dial the number. I've been online since 2000. That's when my internet use started.
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@@marymorenomariposa I got to know the internet in the later 90's. I didn't know too much about the web during those days.
Funny how people always say “back in the 90’s, we shopped and interacted as a community.”
But the internet was already so common by 1996, everyone here is just staring into their PC’s and completely focused on buying whatever product they want online. I didn’t even know online shopping existed back then.
Me and my family used to have a Microsoft Windows 1997 PC.
It worked pretty well.
The irony is not lost on me. "Ah, the days of the AT&T Holiday Internet Store. Now we have these brick and mortar malls. Take me back!"
The beginning of the end.....
LOL
Absolutely!
Pretty much.
Stop being so dramatic 🙄 lmao
Yep the gas tank is in the red zone
I hope this internet thing catches on
Those websites are the ugliest ever !!! How we've come a long way
I loved them. Much better than all the animated moving crap websites we have today. You didn't have to keep closing endless popup windows, like you d today.
Wow I never knew about this. It’s actually a great idea for that time when not everyone had access to a computer. I loved computers from that time. The sound was comforting and cozy.. I can literally smell that smell that used to come from a room full of desktop computers!
I love these uploads! I was 19!
super glad we got flat screen monitors 😅my first computer was a packard bell with Navigator! anyone remember that for getting around their PC?
I just used the wayback machine that Santa Claus website still works lol.
I was 16yrs old In 1996… Man the Christmas 🎄 Nostalgia memories your videos bring back to me… When holidays with family & friends was so much different back I those good old days & times…
I was 15. It's starting to feel like a long time ago.
That makes me feel good Chris. Thank you 😊
I'm a lot younger than you, but I agree the holidays lost their magic feeling around the late 90's/early 2000s
I👍 I do agree… When you don’t get those Sears Christmas Wish Books & J.C. Penny’s Christmas Ones you had to mark with a maker you wanted for Christmas 🎄 & those Toys R Us Christmas ones also…
I wish there was a way to go back to the years 2000-2006 and not advance past that point. No matter how much people say it, we were better when technology was a lot more simple
but things like advancements in medicines are amazing, why would you want to take that away?
Wow one of my most favorite clips you've ever posted. Hard to say how much I always love to know how great my life has been. Time means nothing. We're still there. However I do admit, the computers no doubt are better now lol.
The website they were using at the end reminded me of Elf Bowling which would come out only 2 years later.
😂Oh my gosh, thanks for reminding me. Haha that was so cute and fun.
@@Malisa77 oops sorry. accidentally disliked your comment
Compared to the other videos you can see how much interaction went down the toilet with the internet..
I remember when the corporation I worked for at the time starting moving from paper memos to email. LoL! The IT guy was showing me a book he bought online from a new company called "Amazon"...that's when they started out selling only books. 😆
If only there was just one place where we could buy anything and everything on the "World Wide Web"
- Amazon
Was this before every library had computers? It's alien to me to see people go to a physical location to use the internet for buying stuff out of town.
Yep. In 1998, there were signs in front of my local libraries announcing that it "now" had internet access.
The first computer I ever touched were the library database computers that libraries had for finding books in the mid-1980s. I have been online since 1996, and I know libraries had internet computers before that. But I found library computers to be too big a hassle. The time was limited to 15 or 20 minutes, and you had to sign up for access to a computer, and the wait time was always way too long for me to wait.
Damn! Those monitors for the computers look like something out of Fallout! I forgot just how big they were. Man good memories, I was a Freshman in High School when this was filmed.
Dude that’s sick! So beautiful
I was 14 The early internet, I do remember this. Was It was dial-up with a modem? AT&T was huge back then! Great Video THANK YOU. 👍🏻🇺🇲
Imagine being the poor sap that has to stand there all day and demonstrate this stuff
Life is crazy.
To me, I'd rather just either shop online at home or do it old school and go to the mall and take a nice walk and look at all the merchandise and buy some good stuff!!! Shopping online 1996 seems really different than shopping today online!!
Back then we didn't know any better but seeing how long it took to load pages esp with images is painful! I'm older and in 1996 while working for Xerox we were already mobile workers. Using my company-issued Compaq laptop and a DSL connection and modem I could work from home when I wasn't out at customer sites.
Love it!!!
Wow! The polar express is that old 🤯
Chris Van Allsburg wrote and released the original book in the 1980s.
You have any 90's/80's videos of Halloween time laying around?
Are we in a different universe today? People look and act so different nowadays...
those signs at the beginning give me medieval vibes
Oh boy a tickle me Elmo! You're my number one Christmas boutique gift item!
My mom and dad did the "online shopping" once in a good while in the 90's oh man, that was a good year.
Fantastic footage 😊
Christmas 1996: I remember getting a lot of Space Jam related toys that year. I was obsessed with that movie!
You can order anything using your credit card and have it delivered to your house? 😂
Was waiting for that 🤣🤣
shocking!! 😂😂 ahh the innocence
WorldNet! Wow!
The internet ruined socializing
This is pretty interesting. I usually roll my eyes at most of these videos, or at least the comments about how "things were better" and "I can't get this back"
But something like is legitimately facinating to me. What is essentially an incredibly early version of an internet Cafe.
You cant actually get this back or have it be replicated beyond what it was at this time.
Remember when you went shopping then at Christmas and everything was decorated with Christmas music playing. Actual religious songs. We never realized how it wouldn’t last. The good old days!
I had no idea something like this ever existed, wild
Nice Ultima IV music in background
The beginning of the end of retail...
The beginning of the end🤦
Great to see what Louis Rossman was up to in the 90's 😄
Oh wow! I was an infant when this was recorded haha. But we have come so far with tech over the last few decades. I don't like the 2020s completely, but the tech today is amazing compared to back here. But there is a charm to this immersive scene here in the 90s that I like!
Why do you think today’s tech amazing, is it better?
Didn’t know any different then,back then that was Cadillac
I wasn't even born and it was goated and lindo in 1996 boss.
looks like an internet cafe
Why did everything back then have a serif font
Wow
Good ole days
Tickle me elmo!! Lol
How were people able to shop for cars on the internet back then? Were transactions actually able to be made online back then ?
The enlightenment age of the internet.
Internet ruin everything
Yep!
Says a guy on the internet
@@ZefTillDeath8878but he’s right
The 90’s was such a great time to be alive
it begins 😔
Last minute Christmas shopping at Walgreens in 2006 🎄
Uh oh, these last minute shoppers are in a bit of a crunch with just select items on the shelf left like "Happy Feet" action figures.
I wonder why they didn't sell that well?
... 🤔
Perhaps Frosty the Snowman can save the day for some children!
This video last around 10 minutes.
That sounds amazing Casey! I love it!!
Can I order the new No Doubt cd here??
💔❄️🎅🎄
Come on VampireRobot... Admit it! You are a time traveler.
Saab died as a car brand because they didn't get enough pictures on their consumer guide websites in 1996 and people bought Volkswagens instead.
Probably should have saved this one for the holidays.
Probably right
@@vampirerobot take it down! There's still time
I joined Amazon in 1998. It’s all my fault!
I'd kill for one of those big CRT monitors
LOL, why? eBay has every type of CRT monitor ever made. Shipping costs are pretty high though.
@@MaxZomboni Good luck receiving one shipped in one piece 🤞
@@adamholmes740 They will pack it well. You get your money back if it arrives broken. 👍
when computers were fatter🤣
Windows 98 😂
What was the point 😂
So you drove to a place to then buy things from a digital store? Completely pointless but kinda neat!
It wasn't pointless since that place was the portal allowing one-stop shopping of items at other places.
Didn’t know any different back then.younger people now a days have no clue how easy they have it
Damn....I was trying to be First 😂. Better luck next time.
Nobody cares if you’re first.
@@MorganNye I do!!!!! Don't be jealous lol
Nobody cares if your 1st?
When will people stop using Windows 8-11, those never needed to exist ever, everyone in the world should go back to windows 7, 7 should’ve been the last one ever made, though for me Windows XP will always be number 1 since I was born the year it came out, second is 7, and third is Vista, I don’t care if they are out of date or not, I first used XP when I was 1 in 2002, I’m 23 now and I was born on January 14, 2001 but at least libraries still have windows 95-2000 to this day, right? I also wish internet explorer 8 comes back to popularity to work again, and everyone around the world uses it again because internet explorer 9-12 and chrome look like absolute crap, no text at the top of the screen of what website you are on, the UI looks weird as frick, the highlighters looks odd, a weird looking scroll down thingy, the minimize and maximum and exit buttons are not the real ones from the other pages, and there’s no bar on the bottom that says if the internet is fully connected.
XP all the way!
@@vampirerobot HECK YEAH!!!
Switch to Linux
@@robmarshall9026 Why?
@@MorganNye It's in tune with Microsoft's design philosophy pre Windows 8