Is it his or is it someone who has access to certain shows and episodes and is uploading them without consent? Hard to say, this channel just popped up out of nowhere.
@@joecap2919: Biden really is living rent free in your mind isn't he. The algorithm on you Biden haters computers have created this insane rabbit hole of negative information about Biden from all around the Internet and its constantly sending it to your computer and filling your brain full of such nonsense that through evolution your brain has started using the same algorithm. It's crazy and so are you.
It’s crazy how this was only 28 years ago. Back then you’d experience the internet to take a few mins off of our REAL lives. Today we take a few mins off the internet, to LIVE our real lives.
I've seen this interview when this was aired in the 90s. I will never forget this short, funny yet very insightful clip. I was looking for this for the longest time and wanted to show this to my mother as to what MS means to the computer and the beginning of the internet.
Dave: “So you can listen to a baseball game on your computer. Does radio ring a bell?” Bill: “Well Dave, in 27 years you’ll publish this video clip on RUclips.”
@@peabody3000 Not in my world buddy. Tripping over my own two feet like an idiot but at the very last moment, I manage to save myself with the sickest flip and roll and all the girls who are watching just cream themselves. Now that's a dream.
Amazing how much changed within 10 years of this being recorded. From questioning why the internet is better than a radio, to RUclips launching less than 10 years later.
@@mehboobkm3728 I like to think the radio still has a place, listening to the DJ is often more entertaining that just listening to music, and it's were a lot of people hear new songs for the first time. As for news papers, they are going the way of land-line telephones...rapidly dying out, it's hard to justify the cost anymore.
@@user-df2uu3qp3y Yeah, it was a time of huge change and the rise of the internet. Since then the rise of the smart phone has caused another change, but for someone like myself who still mostly uses a PC, the change has be much slower lately.
I love when Dave asks where do you think this will go. And Bills final thought is "eventually we wanna make computers think". He was spot on with AI now here.
That’s actually mainly what I use the internet for and why I’m grateful for it even though at times I hate it and what it has done to the world. A huge part of it gave me an entry way into a world I would have never discovered that include my niche interests.. and not to be dramatic but I probably wouldn’t be a live today if it wasn’t for it
Incredible to be reminded how far advanced we were then, but now nearly thirty years later how much has changed AGAIN. I'd love to see Bill and Dave revisit this and see how they live now, with computers in your pocket, video streaming, etc. Such vision!
This is wild to watch, and to think back to being a kid and fascinated about the idea of the internet, I never would have imagined technology being what it is now.
It’s funny how he says “it’s wild what’s going on”, when referring to the internet. And even today people on social media constantly say it’s “wild” how AI does this and that
Oh yes Bill like as well, 90% of that being women i would believe. Personal assistants ( or secretaries if you prefer ) i might add , and they're suppose to disclaim details of their sexual life/behaviour on the job application...interesting to say the least. I wonder if there's a non-disclousure agreement contract after demission...
Letterman listed a million devices to counter what you can do on a computer, without realising he was effectively proving you'll be able to trim those all down to one device.
4:14 "Do tape recorders ring a bell?" Okay, Letterman, the internet is no improvement on tape recorders... This guy always thought of himself as being the smartest, never realizing how dumb he was
7:12 "Eventually we may figure out how to make the computer think but that turns out to be a very tough problem. In fact there's been almost no progress." It's even more fascinating to listen to this in the age of public AI generators.
I know right? It really is fascinating with people thinking much of AI being anything impactful. But then you look at this and truly see it will only go up hill from here.
I think we need to see AI create several new jokes and come up with clever never-before-seen solutions to math problems before we go too crazy about AI. That still seems like a long ways off. Could be wrong though
Around that time, I sent a request to Gates at Microsoft for an autographed photo (one of my collections) and a while later received a note from a secretary saying that Mr Gates schedule was busy but to be patient. A couple of months passed but I received an autographed 6x4 colour photo from the richest person on the planet.
Well it's running a statistical language model, albeit deeply sophisticated. It's not still thinking per se, but I suppose it is somewhat, if you're willing to use 'thinking' as a refrain of 'calculating', but its doing that no more than it did in 1995 so..
@@roninbayacal7857 I'm so sorry dude, looks like you're outnumbered by people who don't understand how it really works. I guess we've passed that point where people can't tell the difference and so it doesn't really matter anymore. AI researchers tried to invent AGI, but invented something that is surprisingly good enough to do a lot of unexpected things (transformer models), and from the outside looks like something far more complicated than the sum of its parts. OpenAI are still on their quest to create true AGI, but at this point I don't think we even need to in order to accomplish what we thought we needed AGI for.
Feels like a lifetime ago doesn't it? and yet, 20 years later everyone has a computer in their pocket. No other generation in history has seen such a dramatic world change.
That's far from true. If you were 20 years old in 1880 you would have seen massive changes before you were 50. Electric powered homes and machinery, lights, cars, air travel, radio, TV, the list goes on. They went from a 17th century existence to a the 20th century existence in one generation.
Yes, I stopped using social media 6 years ago. When the first internet chat rooms emerged in the mid 90s they were used by intellectuals and universities to discuss theories and articles published in journals. In a short amount of time, chat rooms morphed into a different beast, to what we have now. You Tube is the only social media I do, and that's big enough. Chat room's have there place, but they can be a wild ride.
Bill pays big coin to have the internet scrub any and all negative comments about him .. hence this is why my original comment has disappeared.. thanks RUclips for your adherence and dedication to free speech, that's unless Bill throws a wheel barrow of cash your way. Then it's Bill who? And Jeffrey Epstein pics with Bill they don't exist!!!💲💲💲
@@NoName-ys1cg more like the best one - the problem is you're probably using it for trash content instead of the almost infinite amounts of useful knowledge and information it contains, the internet is a tool and you just don't know how to use it lol
This just shows how to interview someone with knowledge in his field and try to approach it with a mindset of someone who doesn't know anything about computers. Also taking in the fact that people were even less informed about PC's in the 90's as opposed to today he did a very good interview with simple questions. And the questions were of someone who would probably be asked by people around that time. But hey it's not your fault for not seeing past your own ignorance.
Bill had some idea where technology was heading back in the 90’s but even he had no idea how far and how fast it was going to permeate every industry and everyone’s lives.
He did but could not say it on interviews or tv. He could only reveal what they were going to sell in the next 12 to 24 months. Similar to how things are today.
He absolutely does, go and read "the road ahead", it's really a fascinating book to see that bill gate knows about all we are seeing today back then in 1995/1996. I read the book 6 or 5 years ago if I can clearly remember. He was even clearer on what the internet was than Steve Jobs, that's why their internet explorer was the hot thing then.
What's odd for me is that prior to 1995 I was into DOS era computing, gaming, programming as a hobby. So much so, I missed out on a lot of other enjoyable things in life (until I got interested in cars and girls). Today, I have very little interest in computing and only ever play retro games occasionally, but using a smartphone and laptop is now essential in order to participate in everyday life.
@@DarthMessias 😆 Well I had a lot of both, I've been married twice, and I've owned over 50 cars (have 3 today). Maybe I'll get more into games as tine goes on, as I'm middle-aged now.
Yeah, awful shame that BASIC basically ended up becoming the most antiquated programming language. Typing in source code from a subscription magazine seems just wondrously archaic yet charming nowadays. Given that I was born in 2002 I do consider myself somewhat blessed that I wasn't born in such an era, but I would've liked to experience it nonetheless.
In 1975 I graduated from high school/technical college and my goal was to have my own computer. At the same exact time, there was an article in Popular Electronics on building a MITS Altair computer, the very same article that caused Bill Gates to quit Harvard and go to Albuquerque and set up shop there. I had the very first Microsoft product, a 4K BASIC interpreter. I was writing programs on it to help friends because there were no software. If I only had a business sense... I met Bill Gates in 1977? It was awesome to meet him and got to go to the Microsoft campus in 1994. I thought the campus was the coolest thing. Unfortunately, the last remaining buildings was recently torn down to make some more huge buildings and the campus is humongous now but in the Microsoft museum, they have a copy of the original slightly larger 8K version.
In his 1995 book, The Road Ahead, Bill predicted that someday soon everyone would carry around a small device that stored various kinds of information. He called it a 'Wallet PC'. We know it today as the smart phone.
@@LookOutside... i dont agree with that. They still sell flip phones and others like that with limited functionality that aren't necessarily "smart". We have one for our business.
I still remember having conversations with young people at that time who couldn't comprehend the usefulness of the Internet. Now those same people can't imagine life without it.
in 2005 people called me a nerd, everyone I knew looked at me as weird computer guy who spends too much time in his bedroom on his weird computer, but now ALL of them are on their phones 24/7
Not really, there were a lot of computers in The Netherlands in the 90's and internet aswell. All I could remember that there were computers and internet, though dial up at first.
@7:12 - "Eventually we may figure out how to make the computer think" Oh boy Bill. We are much further along now to that goal than he would have ever believed back in 1995.
Bill Gates knew he had won at that point - he was building a 50,000 square foot home and only deceptively modest to reveal it. Gates at that point controlled the operating system and applications (Killer Apps I recall reading in his book is how he described them) such as Word and Excel that everyone using a computer would need to licence and update on a regular basis. He knew at that point and really a number of years before that, that there was nothing that could stop Microsoft from becoming the most powerful company on the planet (well except his friend Steve Jobs over at Apple, but even Jobs needed MS). You can call Gates a dork or a nerd, but the truth is he was the future personified, the next evolution in humans - someone who could communicate with machines and control them to his advantage. Ironic that he called Machine Learning - AI “scary”. I don’t think he believed that - I’m sure he was thinking “that’s on my list”. He just played along because he already understood what it meant to be an influencer.
Letterman really believed he was the center of the universe. You can tell by the way he responds to his guests. He really believes that he is above them all.
Nonsense, BG's answers were mostly mundane but Letterman is stupid with his overly loud, false laugh and cloying attitude. BG wasn't as great as he wants everyone to think. Bill Allen did ALL the real work and was never credited by Gates. Now in 2023 we see the real BG:.sneaky, creepy, totally avaricious - at everyone's expense.
We appreciate him for predicting this past plandemic It helped us prepare for the "vaccine" for the manmade frankeflu. Just ask all of the polio ridden starile children of India what they think And their govt.
The guy who said 256k is enough memory for anyone's computing needs in the future? MS was handed to him by the Rockerfellers. Now he's running the Rockefeller created WHO and he knows nothing about healing people. He's evil but he's no genius.
Just a few years later, the internet was absolutely necessary and taken for granted. I was a teenager when the internet came about, and to everyone under age 30, you have no idea how lucky you are. Treasure it.
@@alainlalonde Actually the HD standard hadn't been finalized in 1995 and p stands for progressive overlay. Not how CRT works and more about how data is encoded. Standard resolution was 1024×768. The big really heavy CRT has 1600×1200
@@doubl0dave you're kidding, right? You've never heard of Bill Gates and his company Microsoft? He used to be CEO there quite a few years back. Today this guy's a billionaire and has been fir a long time. I dont mean to be rude but where have you been living all this time?
Indeed, and what the transition was like from a world with no internet, to the internet being everywhere within a few years. It completely transformed the world unlike anything that's happened since.
Dear Jackson Plop: This is true: Letterman gauges, matches the times and type of personalities. Gates was young and miraculously entrepreneuring: a comfortable guy. In this era, there would be a different approach interacting with this ultra highly prolific, well-rounded dignified gentleman of substance.
Agreed, that's partly why I liked the 90s better. Just enough stuff like music, movies, simpler computers. Now we have way too much info about everything.
Explaining computers and the internet was my job for a fair while. It was very painful at times. I was 20. Explaining things to people my own age was hard enough but older people it was extremely difficult. When setting up a PC for someone and then having them ask me how to use it you learn quickly just how basic you need to start. Just teaching people what a mouse was and how it worked took a long time, and people often got very frustrated, especially considering how un-user friendly windows and DOS were. I too cant believe how much it changed everything in life.
@sandponics Well I wasnt teaching as such, I was doing in house installs and having to teach people who had never seen a computer how to get the basics, starting with locating the power button. As entry level as it gets. This was from 93 to 97 which was a small time but a big difference in general PC awareness. Plus I was expected to do it for free, often after hours, by people who werent there to learn. Usually they had a new toy but no idea it was going to be as complicated as it was. When yr installing software and trying to get the right drivers etc etc and people are asking, why doesnt it just work and what is this DOS thing, it isnt fun at all. So, very different situation I imagine to teaching a class.
@sandponics Plus I should add that I was in sales and later in PC repair at a very large home electrical store who were, in part, aimed at selling to the technologically illiterate. I considered some of their sales practices etc to be straight up unethical, with things like rent to buy loans etc which were all carefully designed to milk people for as much cash as they could. I honestly dont know how some of it is even legal. So it wasnt the customers fault at all, it was just that they had no idea they were buying the most complicated technology on the planet, and that it was also still incredibly hard to use. You have to realise these PC's often didnt even have windows on them, just DOS. And when it came to software and asking people if they knew their RAM, CPU, HD space, sound card etc etc and then having to explain what these things were and why they were important etc, it was just a recipie for disaster. Still today a lot of people have no idea about these things.. and dont want to.
I bought my first computer in 1999. It had 9 gigs of hard drive space and 156k of speed. I thought I'll never be able to use all of this! Now I have two terabytes of space (with room for more) and I've filled up half.
9 GB is massive. I remember finally getting my very first hard disk. 40MB. That's 0.04 GB. 0.04! And I thought that was huge compared to the 1.44 MB and 360 KB floppies!
It's so weird watching 90s videos of tech guys explaining how the internet was going to change the world, and skeptical interviewers who just didn't get it, pretty much mocking them. I'm pretty sure I've seen two or three videos of pretty much the same thing. And it happened _so fast_ too. This interview was 1995... before the next five years were out, before they even reached the end of the 90s, the world-changing nature of the internet was beginning to become apparent. The first big wake-up call for many was probably in 1998 when Matt Drudge (the Drudge Report) broke the Lewinsky scandal before any of the MSM had it.
Right, the radio thing was the biggest cringe, seeing as Dave was also one of the old guys of the time wrong that radio sports broadcast would be a thing of the past due to lack of interest in listening to sport without visual.
The internet is one of the greatest visions turned into reality the world has ever seen. You can place onto the internet information on anything you want, you can communicate with people all over the world practically instantly. Music, movies, TV, info in magazines and books, and even people's opinion on things, people conversing with each other all over the world. The internet changed the way people live in a monumental way like the invention of planes and cars and boats, etc, did. How often do you go onto the internet for any reason like for entertainment or to get info or to communicate, etc? If you are like most people, it is every single day.
At the end there he talks about 'making computers think' but 'there's been almost no progress in it' as 'it turns out that's a very difficult problem'. 30 years later we still haven't solved that.
I was around at this time with similar questions about this thing people were calling "the internet." I remember one of my work colleagues telling me just how big the internet would end up being, and I thought at the time, he's probably exaggerating, like when he talks about all the women he's slept with. So okay, he was right, and I was wrong. Some of us in the mid nineties didn't see how important the internet would end up becoming.
I think nobody, not even Bill, knew how the internet will be. They had big ideas, hopes and knew it will have a bright future. But the current state of the internet and its importance is unimaginable.
Pretty obvious why one of these guys became a multi-billionaire and one did not. Even though one of them had a much bigger platform than the other at the time.
Because one is a talk show host and one is the director of a massive company.... Letterman did will to stay on top for so long, the talk show guys come and go like popstars now. Same thing with Oprah and female talk shows.
Gates: There is one difference.... you can listen to the baseball game whenever you want.... Maybe Bill realised, Dave certainly didnt.... TV was next.
crazy watching this while bill says the goal is to have a computer in every home and now in 2023 i am doing my college classes online on one screen, music on my ipad, youtube on my laptop, a smartphone laying around all while my watch is tracking my heart rate
Dave: "So you can listen to a game whenever you want... Do tape recorders ring a bell" And here we are watching this interview without any tapes, on the internet hahahah
What a life David Letterman has had in making hundreds of millions of dollars and interviewing the some of the most impressive and interesting people of from the last 40 years. I would rank him and Conan the best during their prime.
It would be nice if he gave the guest time to answer his questions instead of jumping in with the next question before the guest has had time to answer the previous question. Somebody should have told him to pause after asking a question and allow the other person to speak. The interview should be allowed to breathe...
@@leonardodalongisland Johnny Carson's kinda overrated. I get why he's praised (he made the late-night format what it is), but he was never the best interviewer.
@@leonardodalongisland I have been watching some of Johnny Carson old interviews and although he is likeable he 1. Was not as funny as Letterman, Leno or Carson. 2. Johnny's skits were never very funny. 3. He did not ask his guest very good questions.
I remember a cover of a Time magazine that came out a little later. I said that Gates was going to own the internet. A couple of years after that, another cover said that Microsoft was going to own Banking with its dot-something service. Things change so quickly and in unexpected ways.
I was in high school when this aired so I was old enough to be aware of the zeitgeist around computers at the time. We knew how to use our word processors. We knew how to buy airline tickets and watch really choppy movie trailers online but...we had no idea how well integrated the computer would be into our lives for everything! No idea! The people in the industry and the hobbyists and computer nerds I went to high school with could see it but us normies? Forget about it!
@@Gr8thxAlot and when they finally got into it, it was too late! I had a Windows phone for about a year. Loved the interface but by that time it was already too late. Microsoft has already created some smart mobile phones in the BlackBerry era but those were more like little PCs, made mostly for programmers who wanted to tinker with creating apps. When they did make a phone for regular people, like I said, the GUI was good but they tried to copy the way Apple shunts all your documents and media into its ecosystem. When you attach the USB cable Zune or Office were the only ways to transfer files on and off the devices! No drag and drop. It wouldn't play obscure file types the way my Android does and, not for nothing, the sound in your headphones was really low! The sound quality was good. It's just, you know, don't be walking down the street with your earbuds in and have a car pass by because you're going to be hitting the rewind button on that podcast or that song 10 times during your walk. Sound was that fragile. And I'm in a city so I do a lot of walking, from my house to the subway, from the subway to work. I walk to whatever take out option I've chosen for the day and walk to a local park and eat my lunch outside. And as I mentioned, I mostly listen to podcasts so the volume's got to be at least at non-dog levels. And it wasn't the headphones, it was the device... I tried several types of headphones. Anyway, in the computer market, the things people like about PCs flexibility, customization, variety. When I see Windows phone, I don't think I'm going to open it up with my screwdriver kit and stick an MSI graphics card in it but I should be able to play more audio types than mp3. And more video types than MP4 or MPEG. No shade, cuz it's just a preference but Apple users want to be locked down into that. Very specific ecosystem with Apple's proprietary file types and they'll just deal. But PC users, and potentially Windows Phone users, want a little bit more room to tinker and to be unshackled from an ecosystem. They almost had it but they got in too late and only offered people considering the switch a very difficult transfer situation. My own wife tried iPhone for a year but when she went back to Android she felt like Tim Robbins. At the end of the Shawshank redemption, she raised her arms and drank in the fresh crisp air of freedom. She had a ton of drive space and her files were now free. She's a dancer. Not a technician. If she gets a thumb drive with some obscure Japanese Enka song that's out of print and not streaming anywhere, she wants to be able to drag and drop it off the thumb drive to the hard drive, to her device, play the song and choreograph to it. She's not looking to play Apple's and Microsoft's DRM match-games with iTunes or Zune.
Yes BIll doesn't have anything to do with Zeitgeist He just provides the computers for them. Huyaa Huya...Were you in Low school before you entered High school?
We can call it quaint when we see old interviews like this where people like Letterman kind of brush off the internet as some "nerd thing" or fad, but no matter what new technology arrives, its not possible to know the massive impact it will have. People thought "radio had little future", and "there's need for about 7 computers in the world". Imagine the early 1900's where people thought that cars were just rich people toys, and that nothing could ever replace the horse. Horses were used as human transportation for millennia, and they became obsolete over the course of 10 years.
Isn't that what burger joints are doing as well though? Some guy invented the burger and they are all selling their own version, copy and paste to all industries.
Actually that was Jobs and Apple. You should read Jobs’ biography. Xerox sat on technology such as the mouse and the GUI (graphic user interface) for years because they believed they could make more money supplying and servicing photocopiers. Funny in hindsight. Bill Gates earned what he built by creating operating systems that could make computer parts - processors and ram operate applications that we could use to communicate and calculate. He changed the world by the time he was 25 with skills and understanding he developed as a teenager. That’s capitalism, American business in a snapshot - the good and the bad, but mostly good and better for Americans that he did it rather than someone in Russia or China.
@@modernwonders9896 But when you think about it it makes sense. Not many businesses are running to make less profit now, in order to make more profit in 10+ years. The majority are only looking at the next few quarters.
Windows 95 must have been exciting at launch. I was too young to remember my parents getting their first PC which ran on Windows 95. Eventually, that was the operating system I first used to interact with a computer. It was super intuitive using the mouse, files in folders and running programs. DOS was a different world. Windows 10 is basically the same sort of system as 95 in practice.
@@dexholland5324 it is in the sense that DOS uses a CMI (command line interface), whereas Windows 95 and Windows 10 uses a GUI (Graphical User Interface).
Mac OS was the true revolution. That same year that this video was filmed, my dad bought me my first computer: a Macintosh Performa 6218 (or something). Very expensive by today's standards, but ahead of its time.
I was born in 1967 so I have lived it all. My parents however, cannot come to terms with the fact that they are carrying a computer in their pockets. For them it's a telephone with a lot of features they will never use. I wonder if it will be the same for me 25 years from now. There are already 3d printers for objects...
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Its ironic that we're now watching this on Letterman's RUclips channel.
Is it his or is it someone who has access to certain shows and episodes and is uploading them without consent? Hard to say, this channel just popped up out of nowhere.
@@OMGWTFLOLSMH its his, he promoted it on his Twitter
Yeah, I forgot to record the original like he suggested! Now I get this Internet thing.
@@OMGWTFLOLSMH It's his, they mentioned it on Seth Meyers.
@@OMGWTFLOLSMH don't matter his shows was bad anyway
Dave and Bill should resume this chat and reflect what they chat in 1995.
Yes !! That would be very interesting !!!
That's right! We should see if Dave can do that! Lol.
And they should do that over a zoom call.
Agree the next year could be great so this will be exactly 30 years after
100% thanks God for Paul Allen
100% thanks God for Steve Jobs
such a classic interview I hope this never gets lost in time
So you like a George Soros cloned Marxist?
It won't. Thanks to the internet...
internet is just a giant centralized answering machine, with storage and multi media
People here think Letterman’s being serious in the mocking though, it’s all jokes, everyone knew the internet in 1995
@@MarkBlackMigo I didn't
Incredible how we lived on a completely different planet 26 years ago. First half of my life was in another world compared with the second half.
@@moncorp1 Me too.
Unfortunately because of Biden, you will be living in a financial mess for generations..
@@joecap2919 Okay then. Time for you to crawl back to your mom's basement.
@@joecap2919: Biden really is living rent free in your mind isn't he. The algorithm on you Biden haters computers have created this insane rabbit hole of negative information about Biden from all around the Internet and its constantly sending it to your computer and filling your brain full of such nonsense that through evolution your brain has started using the same algorithm. It's crazy and so are you.
@@joecap2919: The majority of the stimulus Programs were passed and enacted during trump's presidency not Biden. So please explain
It’s crazy how this was only 28 years ago. Back then you’d experience the internet to take a few mins off of our REAL lives. Today we take a few mins off the internet, to LIVE our real lives.
I went online in 1994 and saw its business potential immediately.
@@raygordonteacheschess5501 I remember in 1994 was the year that the Internet was dramatically promoted in the media.
internet is just a giant centralized answering machine, with storage and multi media
@@mikelisteral7863 look into Internet Computer
that's why these guys are so multi-billionaires
I've seen this interview when this was aired in the 90s. I will never forget this short, funny yet very insightful clip. I was looking for this for the longest time and wanted to show this to my mother as to what MS means to the computer and the beginning of the internet.
Dave: “So you can listen to a baseball game on your computer. Does radio ring a bell?”
Bill: “Well Dave, in 27 years you’ll publish this video clip on RUclips.”
Then suddenly 2022 David Blaine pops up and addresses the 2022 youtube viewers.
And so? That wouldn't have meant anything to anyone at that time.
@@robovac3557 on-demand streaming was always the dream
@@peabody3000 Not in my world buddy. Tripping over my own two feet like an idiot but at the very last moment, I manage to save myself with the sickest flip and roll and all the girls who are watching just cream themselves. Now that's a dream.
@@robovac3557 ah, so you're still in school. very well then..
Amazing how much changed within 10 years of this being recorded. From questioning why the internet is better than a radio, to RUclips launching less than 10 years later.
And we don't use radios any more or for a lot of people magazines and news papers!!
@@mehboobkm3728 I like to think the radio still has a place, listening to the DJ is often more entertaining that just listening to music, and it's were a lot of people hear new songs for the first time. As for news papers, they are going the way of land-line telephones...rapidly dying out, it's hard to justify the cost anymore.
from 95-2005 seems like a century of a difference. but from 2005 till now, it doesnt feel that much of difference.
@@user-df2uu3qp3y Yeah, it was a time of huge change and the rise of the internet. Since then the rise of the smart phone has caused another change, but for someone like myself who still mostly uses a PC, the change has be much slower lately.
@@user-df2uu3qp3y Up next instead of cell phones, they'll probably implant them inside people and we'll all be fully interactive and connected.
I love when Dave asks where do you think this will go. And Bills final thought is "eventually we wanna make computers think". He was spot on with AI now here.
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whatever sheeple
only thing is AI doesnt actually think.
I had the same thought.
@@kurthellis We don't know if Ai thinks or remember, right?
"Computer at every desk & every home!" Mission accomplished!!!
@@moncorp1 soon they're going to be implanted into our brains.
At every member of the household now. Take along everywhere they go.
@@shahrulamar5358 And in every room of the house. I'm looking at you, Alexa.
@@GradyPhilpott Who is Alexa ??
Amazon Alexa.
“You could find other people who have the same unusual interests as you do” is the perfect description
And it took social media another 5 or 6 years to come into existence
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"So, do you like furry ?"
said someone on Reddit.
@@ghaida_alt5082 🤢
That’s actually mainly what I use the internet for and why I’m grateful for it even though at times I hate it and what it has done to the world. A huge part of it gave me an entry way into a world I would have never discovered that include my niche interests.. and not to be dramatic but I probably wouldn’t be a live today if it wasn’t for it
Incredible to be reminded how far advanced we were then, but now nearly thirty years later how much has changed AGAIN.
I'd love to see Bill and Dave revisit this and see how they live now, with computers in your pocket, video streaming, etc.
Such vision!
Im with Dave, that internet thing isnt going anywhere.
For real, I haven't seen it yet...
It's a fad.
yeha i think he was thinking that too to some degree but im sure eveyrone has that in mind on new things..
pure hype.
Internet? What's that? Never heard of it.. Does it taste like lemon?
Bill’s answer to “why don’t I have a computer?” was just brilliant
too many assistants
@@JohnKelly-dz6rrand now they are out of job
Replace your assistants *wink wink*
internet is just a giant centralized answering machine, with storage and multi media
I think Dave still has plenty of assistants. @@r4zi3lgintoro65
This is wild to watch, and to think back to being a kid and fascinated about the idea of the internet, I never would have imagined technology being what it is now.
It’s funny how he says “it’s wild what’s going on”, when referring to the internet. And even today people on social media constantly say it’s “wild” how AI does this and that
"The problem is you have too many assistants." Could not have known how right he was.
🎯
“I like having assistants.” He says.
Bill had a class full of girls. Dave has assistents.
@@xbia1 The innocence with which they say it makes you want to go back to that era... Much better times, unquestionably.
Oh yes Bill like as well, 90% of that being women i would believe. Personal assistants ( or secretaries if you prefer ) i might add , and they're suppose to disclaim details of their sexual life/behaviour on the job application...interesting to say the least. I wonder if there's a non-disclousure agreement contract after demission...
Letterman listed a million devices to counter what you can do on a computer, without realising he was effectively proving you'll be able to trim those all down to one device.
Two devices. Two.
ONE. ONE DEVICE @@spbalance
@@spbalance one, it's called smartphone (compunter in pocket)
@@JackieFrankieful He listed two devices. Not a million. Just thought the exaggeration was completely unhinged for no reason.
4:14 "Do tape recorders ring a bell?" Okay, Letterman, the internet is no improvement on tape recorders... This guy always thought of himself as being the smartest, never realizing how dumb he was
It's insane how fast things have moved, this is less than 30 years ago and it is almost unthinkable to live in those times for a young person.
7:12 "Eventually we may figure out how to make the computer think but that turns out to be a very tough problem. In fact there's been almost no progress."
It's even more fascinating to listen to this in the age of public AI generators.
today ai isnt really ai, just data set training. now the new ai is called agi
I know right? It really is fascinating with people thinking much of AI being anything impactful. But then you look at this and truly see it will only go up hill from here.
I think we need to see AI create several new jokes and come up with clever never-before-seen solutions to math problems before we go too crazy about AI. That still seems like a long ways off. Could be wrong though
we arent anywhere close to real AI.
@@civiccc yep, and a human is just a solution of an encoded string, optimised by evolution
Around that time, I sent a request to Gates at Microsoft for an autographed photo (one of my collections) and a while later received a note from a secretary saying that Mr Gates schedule was busy but to be patient. A couple of months passed but I received an autographed 6x4 colour photo from the richest person on the planet.
That's so cool!
Wow!! That's great!!
Nice
was it an e-mail reuqest?
@@FatLarry-h4z Yep
7:12 and here we are...
Well it's running a statistical language model, albeit deeply sophisticated. It's not still thinking per se, but I suppose it is somewhat, if you're willing to use 'thinking' as a refrain of 'calculating', but its doing that no more than it did in 1995 so..
@@roninbayacal7857 You have no idea what you're talking about.
It is indeed a form of thinking
It's already surpassed thinking. The process of thinking is a slow, human error ridden process. AI is already beyond our thinking abilities.
@@roninbayacal7857 I'm so sorry dude, looks like you're outnumbered by people who don't understand how it really works. I guess we've passed that point where people can't tell the difference and so it doesn't really matter anymore. AI researchers tried to invent AGI, but invented something that is surprisingly good enough to do a lot of unexpected things (transformer models), and from the outside looks like something far more complicated than the sum of its parts. OpenAI are still on their quest to create true AGI, but at this point I don't think we even need to in order to accomplish what we thought we needed AGI for.
Feels like a lifetime ago doesn't it? and yet, 20 years later everyone has a computer in their pocket. No other generation in history has seen such a dramatic world change.
That's far from true.
If you were 20 years old in 1880 you would have seen massive changes before you were 50.
Electric powered homes and machinery, lights, cars, air travel, radio, TV, the list goes on.
They went from a 17th century existence to a the 20th century existence in one generation.
@@niltomega2978 that's really cool, never thought about it before
And the next generation will most likely go backwards for the general public.
its a computer in every pocket.not in every home.
@@niltomega2978 you went to the Moon with your grandfather? Sounds amazing.
“Troubled loner chat room” is the internet.
Prophetic
Troubled loners, and practically everyone else! Do you know anyone who doesn't use the internet today? How old are they?
More specifically, Reddit.
@sandponics sure
Yes, I stopped using social media 6 years ago. When the first internet chat rooms emerged in the mid 90s they were used by intellectuals and universities to discuss theories and articles published in journals. In a short amount of time, chat rooms morphed into a different beast, to what we have now. You Tube is the only social media I do, and that's big enough. Chat room's have there place, but they can be a wild ride.
Hilarious! Dave tried hard to make him squirm, but Bill handled it well. Like him or hate him, Bill Gates influenced our lives in a big way.
Especially if you got the jab.
Or if your name was Jeffrey Epstein.. and Bill would say "he's dead so why are we talking about him!"
In a bad way. Every invention that takes us further from nature gives us more collective zoochosis
He should have stuck with computers
Bill pays big coin to have the internet scrub any and all negative comments about him .. hence this is why my original comment has disappeared.. thanks RUclips for your adherence and dedication to free speech, that's unless Bill throws a wheel barrow of cash your way. Then it's Bill who? And Jeffrey Epstein pics with Bill they don't exist!!!💲💲💲
Less than 30 years ago, plenty of people needed the internet explained to them
Pretty sure _everyone_ needed the internet explained to them. It's not something you're born with.
Most people couldn't understand it no matter how hard you tried.
And yet, 30 years later, there are still people who need the internet explained to them.
@@OMGWTFLOLSMH don't know man, these new kids seem to already know a thing or two about internet and computer when they are born.
People still dont know what the internet really is. And I dont think you do either.
It's mind blowing sometimes you forget how young the internet actually is.
Probably the worst thing to happen to humanity
@@NoName-ys1cg more like the best one - the problem is you're probably using it for trash content instead of the almost infinite amounts of useful knowledge and information it contains, the internet is a tool and you just don't know how to use it lol
@@markovukic6987 okay zombie
This guy just showed the difference between those with vision and those who will be always stuck in the past.
Yes
This just shows how to interview someone with knowledge in his field and try to approach it with a mindset of someone who doesn't know anything about computers. Also taking in the fact that people were even less informed about PC's in the 90's as opposed to today he did a very good interview with simple questions. And the questions were of someone who would probably be asked by people around that time. But hey it's not your fault for not seeing past your own ignorance.
but i appreciate david for the hard questions. bill could handle them, and he did.
his vision for depopulating the planet is a little scary
Letterman would still prefer his Music player, Camera and Phone as separate devices. Aparently
"I like having assistants"
Oh we know, Dave.
Oh this is good
@@jaycuthbert245 good for him nothing wrong with that
@@jaycuthbert245 - I don't doubt he was enjoying the fruits of his labour, but he wasn't married until 2009.
I bust out laughing when he said that!!
@@jaycuthbert245 I didn't know dave was the man
Bill had some idea where technology was heading back in the 90’s but even he had no idea how far and how fast it was going to permeate every industry and everyone’s lives.
He did but could not say it on interviews or tv. He could only reveal what they were going to sell in the next 12 to 24 months. Similar to how things are today.
This was more a Steve Jobs Thing.
@PH - Just like Miles Dyson.
Yeah for the worst.
He absolutely does, go and read "the road ahead", it's really a fascinating book to see that bill gate knows about all we are seeing today back then in 1995/1996. I read the book 6 or 5 years ago if I can clearly remember.
He was even clearer on what the internet was than Steve Jobs, that's why their internet explorer was the hot thing then.
Dave, let me explain. You will no longer have to go to those shady bookstores or go behind the black curtain at the video rental store.
😂😂😂
That's the troubled loner room says Dave
The best time in my life...beginning my career in computers and beyond. Love this
To Typeo: I'd love this too.
I began by inventing fire, we stayed up all night eating cold pizza trying to figure it out, but we had the vision.
Watching this is like reliving the life 27 yrs ago. loved it.
honestly, my life was happier without internet. but today i'm having a real addiction to it.
What's odd for me is that prior to 1995 I was into DOS era computing, gaming, programming as a hobby. So much so, I missed out on a lot of other enjoyable things in life (until I got interested in cars and girls). Today, I have very little interest in computing and only ever play retro games occasionally, but using a smartphone and laptop is now essential in order to participate in everyday life.
Same here
To Boilerhouse Garage: A normal degeneration during the devilish computing -- for other delightful decadence of driving dolls in a Discovery.
What happen to your cars and girls...? xD
@@DarthMessias 😆 Well I had a lot of both, I've been married twice, and I've owned over 50 cars (have 3 today). Maybe I'll get more into games as tine goes on, as I'm middle-aged now.
Yeah, awful shame that BASIC basically ended up becoming the most antiquated programming language.
Typing in source code from a subscription magazine seems just wondrously archaic yet charming nowadays.
Given that I was born in 2002 I do consider myself somewhat blessed that I wasn't born in such an era, but I would've liked to experience it nonetheless.
In 1975 I graduated from high school/technical college and my goal was to have my own computer. At the same exact time, there was an article in Popular Electronics on building a MITS Altair computer, the very same article that caused Bill Gates to quit Harvard and go to Albuquerque and set up shop there. I had the very first Microsoft product, a 4K BASIC interpreter. I was writing programs on it to help friends because there were no software. If I only had a business sense... I met Bill Gates in 1977? It was awesome to meet him and got to go to the Microsoft campus in 1994. I thought the campus was the coolest thing. Unfortunately, the last remaining buildings was recently torn down to make some more huge buildings and the campus is humongous now but in the Microsoft museum, they have a copy of the original slightly larger 8K version.
04:00 When David first time heard about RUclips he was "Cinemas and VCR's .. ever heard of them?"
This really makes it clear what is so impressive about a visionary. We're all so blind to their ideas, and they are 100% spot on.
Tell that to the inventor of the long distance toenail trimmer.
In his 1995 book, The Road Ahead, Bill predicted that someday soon everyone would carry around a small device that stored various kinds of information. He called it a 'Wallet PC'. We know it today as the smart phone.
he also predicted microtransactions
Whats the name of the book?
It’s known as a phone today. Not a smart phone. There’s no need to specify a phone as smart anymore.
@@LookOutside... i dont agree with that. They still sell flip phones and others like that with limited functionality that aren't necessarily "smart". We have one for our business.
@@Orangeflava probably
I miss Dave Letterman SO much! Thank goodness I can watch these!!
I still remember having conversations with young people at that time who couldn't comprehend the usefulness of the Internet. Now those same people can't imagine life without it.
Can you imagine a life with no Bill Gates?
@@jockoharpo2622Yes
in 2005 people called me a nerd, everyone I knew looked at me as weird computer guy who spends too much time in his bedroom on his weird computer, but now ALL of them are on their phones 24/7
90's kids know what life was life before the internet.
i'm 1999, i don't ;/
@sandponics
I still build them. I get stations 300 miles away in the winter
Before the internet, I used to walk ten miles to school uphill in the rain. And I walked back home from school 10 miles uphill in the rain.
Back when baby boomers still had colour in their hair.
Not really, there were a lot of computers in The Netherlands in the 90's and internet aswell. All I could remember that there were computers and internet, though dial up at first.
@7:12 - "Eventually we may figure out how to make the computer think" Oh boy Bill. We are much further along now to that goal than he would have ever believed back in 1995.
Wow, this was aired ONE DAY before Bill Gates turned 40!
I'm reading this one day before turning 40...weird.
@@markroberts6926happy belated birthday 🎂
I love how Gates is low key trolling Dave…
And Dave allowed a dork like Gates to do it.
@@johnnastrom9400 Dorks become the rich ones. The “cool” kids from school work for the DPW.
@@johnnastrom9400A dork worth more than you. A dork who changed the world. Literally. What have you done?
Bill Gates knew he had won at that point - he was building a 50,000 square foot home and only deceptively modest to reveal it. Gates at that point controlled the operating system and applications (Killer Apps I recall reading in his book is how he described them) such as Word and Excel that everyone using a computer would need to licence and update on a regular basis. He knew at that point and really a number of years before that, that there was nothing that could stop Microsoft from becoming the most powerful company on the planet (well except his friend Steve Jobs over at Apple, but even Jobs needed MS). You can call Gates a dork or a nerd, but the truth is he was the future personified, the next evolution in humans - someone who could communicate with machines and control them to his advantage. Ironic that he called Machine Learning - AI “scary”. I don’t think he believed that - I’m sure he was thinking “that’s on my list”. He just played along because he already understood what it meant to be an influencer.
Letterman really believed he was the center of the universe. You can tell by the way he responds to his guests. He really believes that he is above them all.
Gates slammed him like the Hulk multiple times. Puny God ...
LOL Dave looks like Dave's impression of Norm MacDonald.
dave: "you mean the troubled loner chatroom?"
me: well now look who's an internet expert all of the sudden
You mean I’m not here alone?
he predicted Reddit
@@Legend-gv2nx They've had troubled loner chatrooms since the beginning of the internet. Reddit is just the latest iteration.
Bill's comments on AI at 7 minutes in ... as Chat GPT takes over the world.
Bill Gates doesn’t get appreciated for his sharp wit, his delivery comes off as lackadaisical, yet his comedic timing is pretty on point. 👍🏽
🤮🤮🤮
What the...? On point? He's a demonic nerd.
Nonsense, BG's answers were mostly mundane but Letterman is stupid with his overly loud, false laugh and cloying attitude.
BG wasn't as great as he wants everyone to think. Bill Allen did ALL the real work and was never credited by Gates.
Now in 2023 we see the real BG:.sneaky, creepy, totally avaricious - at everyone's expense.
@@jmrich5328 I fully agree
We appreciate him for predicting this past plandemic It helped us prepare for the "vaccine" for the manmade frankeflu. Just ask all of the polio ridden starile children of India what they think And their govt.
This is how a true genius works. Bill is so far ahead its eerie
The guy who said 256k is enough memory for anyone's computing needs in the future?
MS was handed to him by the Rockerfellers.
Now he's running the Rockefeller created WHO and he knows nothing about healing people.
He's evil but he's no genius.
@@onesong2001 what about the third guy who died in a bike accident...
@sandponics And Gates is very much involved with AI at the leading edge.
Just a few years later, the internet was absolutely necessary and taken for granted. I was a teenager when the internet came about, and to everyone under age 30, you have no idea how lucky you are. Treasure it.
I would love to know the resolution of those really high quality screens
720p
@@alainlalonde Actually the HD standard hadn't been finalized in 1995 and p stands for progressive overlay. Not how CRT works and more about how data is encoded. Standard resolution was 1024×768. The big really heavy CRT has 1600×1200
Dave's opinions about the internet haven't changed. He's yelling at his AM radio right now
And his Edison phonograph.
@@Stefan- Actually, I hear he recently upgraded to 8-track.
He probably hates it because there are random kids on youtube with more views than him now in 1990 he had almost no competition.
Wow, this Bill guy seems to know a lot of stuff about computers. He should definitely start his own company one day.
what makes you think he hasn't?
@@robert9495 I just think he could be good at it, maybe even enough for him to become a millionaire one day…
@@doubl0dave you're kidding, right? You've never heard of Bill Gates and his company Microsoft? He used to be CEO there quite a few years back. Today this guy's a billionaire and has been fir a long time. I dont mean to be rude but where have you been living all this time?
@@robert9495 I thought you would have picked up on the joke by now…
@@doubl0dave i was inclined to but the way you expressed yourself didnt seen like it.
"Everybody can publish their own information."
What could go wrong?
Tik tok
4chan..
The literal 45th president
I can publish my own information now i love the future.
The idea was once that people could meet and discuss political views...
Younger people will never really get what life was like before the internet, cell phones, etc.
Indeed, and what the transition was like from a world with no internet, to the internet being everywhere within a few years. It completely transformed the world unlike anything that's happened since.
Older people will never really know what life was like before electricity, the wheel, etc.
@@mrloop1530 What?
And old people will never understand Bitcoin.
@@getreadytotube and those who love BC will never understand value, money, or economics. 🤪
So sad....he was still very human back then. He has lost his humanity since.
100%
And now the internet has turned everyone against each other
all planned by the devil minions !!!
Dave is an entertaining interviewer. Well, at least when the guest is witty and has a good sense of humor.
Dear Jackson Plop: This is true: Letterman gauges, matches the times and type of personalities. Gates was young and miraculously entrepreneuring: a comfortable guy. In this era, there would be a different approach interacting with this ultra highly prolific, well-rounded dignified gentleman of substance.
And dumb.
Unfortunately, I still have windows’95.
3.1 on a VM here on FreeBSD
I love the 90's just enough technology, it's too much now
Agreed, that's partly why I liked the 90s better. Just enough stuff like music, movies, simpler computers. Now we have way too much info about everything.
Then go back to that time, end this nuisance
Don’t be a Luddite. Get on the metaverse and join the hive mind 🐝
yeah eveyrthing is at your fingertips..back then libraries and newspapers and other stuff...books now you just google eveyrthing
Love the time you are living you hoompa loompa..just enough technology not too much...your grandpa would say the same thing
Don’t mind me. Just watching this on my personal phone/music player/video streamer/GPS/information database black mirror that never leaves my side
Ha! I don't recall this specific interview but I was here for every step forward. Now can we just take a pause?
Explaining computers and the internet was my job for a fair while. It was very painful at times. I was 20. Explaining things to people my own age was hard enough but older people it was extremely difficult. When setting up a PC for someone and then having them ask me how to use it you learn quickly just how basic you need to start. Just teaching people what a mouse was and how it worked took a long time, and people often got very frustrated, especially considering how un-user friendly windows and DOS were. I too cant believe how much it changed everything in life.
Grow up
@sandponics Well I wasnt teaching as such, I was doing in house installs and having to teach people who had never seen a computer how to get the basics, starting with locating the power button. As entry level as it gets. This was from 93 to 97 which was a small time but a big difference in general PC awareness. Plus I was expected to do it for free, often after hours, by people who werent there to learn. Usually they had a new toy but no idea it was going to be as complicated as it was. When yr installing software and trying to get the right drivers etc etc and people are asking, why doesnt it just work and what is this DOS thing, it isnt fun at all. So, very different situation I imagine to teaching a class.
@sandponics Plus I should add that I was in sales and later in PC repair at a very large home electrical store who were, in part, aimed at selling to the technologically illiterate. I considered some of their sales practices etc to be straight up unethical, with things like rent to buy loans etc which were all carefully designed to milk people for as much cash as they could. I honestly dont know how some of it is even legal. So it wasnt the customers fault at all, it was just that they had no idea they were buying the most complicated technology on the planet, and that it was also still incredibly hard to use. You have to realise these PC's often didnt even have windows on them, just DOS. And when it came to software and asking people if they knew their RAM, CPU, HD space, sound card etc etc and then having to explain what these things were and why they were important etc, it was just a recipie for disaster. Still today a lot of people have no idea about these things.. and dont want to.
@@lumpylumpyloo ?
@@neutra__l8525 get over it
I bought my first computer in 1999. It had 9 gigs of hard drive space and 156k of speed.
I thought I'll never be able to use all of this!
Now I have two terabytes of space (with room for more) and I've filled up half.
9 GB is massive. I remember finally getting my very first hard disk. 40MB. That's 0.04 GB. 0.04! And I thought that was huge compared to the 1.44 MB and 360 KB floppies!
"It's easy to criticize something you don't fully understand" Genius! Loved him for that disclaimer alone.
Now there is a computer in every pocket, socket and ear drum.
Drive computers too
Dave seems a little too “aware” of the ‘troubled loner chat room’ on the internet. 5:00
“They can listen to a baseball game on your computer. Does radio ring a bell”
Now I get to watch football on my phone. Life is crazy.
It's so weird watching 90s videos of tech guys explaining how the internet was going to change the world, and skeptical interviewers who just didn't get it, pretty much mocking them. I'm pretty sure I've seen two or three videos of pretty much the same thing. And it happened _so fast_ too. This interview was 1995... before the next five years were out, before they even reached the end of the 90s, the world-changing nature of the internet was beginning to become apparent. The first big wake-up call for many was probably in 1998 when Matt Drudge (the Drudge Report) broke the Lewinsky scandal before any of the MSM had it.
Right, the radio thing was the biggest cringe, seeing as Dave was also one of the old guys of the time wrong that radio sports broadcast would be a thing of the past due to lack of interest in listening to sport without visual.
The internet is one of the greatest visions turned into reality the world has ever seen. You can place onto the internet information on anything you want, you can communicate with people all over the world practically instantly. Music, movies, TV, info in magazines and books, and even people's opinion on things, people conversing with each other all over the world. The internet changed the way people live in a monumental way like the invention of planes and cars and boats, etc, did. How often do you go onto the internet for any reason like for entertainment or to get info or to communicate, etc? If you are like most people, it is every single day.
The Dark Web is a hell of a drug...xD
Then Tumblr happened
At the end there he talks about 'making computers think' but 'there's been almost no progress in it' as 'it turns out that's a very difficult problem'. 30 years later we still haven't solved that.
I was around at this time with similar questions about this thing people were calling "the internet." I remember one of my work colleagues telling me just how big the internet would end up being, and I thought at the time, he's probably exaggerating, like when he talks about all the women he's slept with. So okay, he was right, and I was wrong. Some of us in the mid nineties didn't see how important the internet would end up becoming.
@sandponics - if you lived in Denver then, I may have been.
I think nobody, not even Bill, knew how the internet will be. They had big ideas, hopes and knew it will have a bright future. But the current state of the internet and its importance is unimaginable.
@@kleinkurti
And then there is the Dark Web which is even bigger than what we know about the 'internet' today!
He used to look like a decent nice person and was loved...wow. Different and sad day now
deceivement by the sickos demonic fallen angels to the humans!!!
Pretty obvious why one of these guys became a multi-billionaire and one did not. Even though one of them had a much bigger platform than the other at the time.
Because one is a talk show host and one is the director of a massive company....
Letterman did will to stay on top for so long, the talk show guys come and go like popstars now.
Same thing with Oprah and female talk shows.
Gates: There is one difference.... you can listen to the baseball game whenever you want....
Maybe Bill realised, Dave certainly didnt.... TV was next.
having lived through the transition (in education) this conversation brings back a lot of memories.
I like how at 5:50 he hints a virtual reality.
Now every person has a computer in their pockets
and we have Nomophobia.
@@pashadyne Technophobia?
When Dave said "The troubled, loner chatroom on the internet" he predicted the future.
He predicted 8chan
crazy watching this while bill says the goal is to have a computer in every home and now in 2023 i am doing my college classes online on one screen, music on my ipad, youtube on my laptop, a smartphone laying around all while my watch is tracking my heart rate
Dave: "So you can listen to a game whenever you want... Do tape recorders ring a bell"
And here we are watching this interview without any tapes, on the internet hahahah
*"does radio ring a bell?"*
*massive applause*
*"do tape recorders ring a bell?"*
*massive applause*
they had no idea..
Funny though that WiFi uses radio waves.
Most of them did. It was just a funny joke.
“What’s this Internet thing!!”😂😅😂
What a life David Letterman has had in making hundreds of millions of dollars and interviewing the some of the most impressive and interesting people of from the last 40 years. I would rank him and Conan the best during their prime.
It would be nice if he gave the guest time to answer his questions instead of jumping in with the next question before the guest has had time to answer the previous question. Somebody should have told him to pause after asking a question and allow the other person to speak. The interview should be allowed to breathe...
Does Johnny Carson ring a bell?
@@leonardodalongisland Johnny Carson's kinda overrated. I get why he's praised (he made the late-night format what it is), but he was never the best interviewer.
@@applescruff1969 Thanks fio sharing your option.
@@leonardodalongisland I have been watching some of Johnny Carson old interviews and although he is likeable he
1. Was not as funny as Letterman, Leno or Carson.
2. Johnny's skits were never very funny.
3. He did not ask his guest very good questions.
I remember a cover of a Time magazine that came out a little later.
I said that Gates was going to own the internet.
A couple of years after that, another cover said that Microsoft was going to own Banking with its dot-something service.
Things change so quickly and in unexpected ways.
Wow, their future is our past now.
He was impressed by the capability of the internet in future to podcasting a Baseball game.
dave really got him with the call back, "do tape recorders ring a bell?" imagine explaining the internet to someone in the 1930's.
NO DOUBT
Not much of a retort. Analogue tape is no match for a digital file for speed and convenience. It's like comparing a horse and buggy to a car.
It would have depended on who you were talking to. Here is a prediction from the 1960s ruclips.net/video/wC3E2qTCIY8/видео.html (Enjoy)
Those people probably didnt know what a computer was back then.
I was in high school when this aired so I was old enough to be aware of the zeitgeist around computers at the time. We knew how to use our word processors. We knew how to buy airline tickets and watch really choppy movie trailers online but...we had no idea how well integrated the computer would be into our lives for everything! No idea! The people in the industry and the hobbyists and computer nerds I went to high school with could see it but us normies? Forget about it!
Very true! And the "next thing" David mentioned turned out to be mobile. (Which Microsoft completely missed.)
@@Gr8thxAlot and when they finally got into it, it was too late! I had a Windows phone for about a year. Loved the interface but by that time it was already too late. Microsoft has already created some smart mobile phones in the BlackBerry era but those were more like little PCs, made mostly for programmers who wanted to tinker with creating apps. When they did make a phone for regular people, like I said, the GUI was good but they tried to copy the way Apple shunts all your documents and media into its ecosystem. When you attach the USB cable Zune or Office were the only ways to transfer files on and off the devices! No drag and drop. It wouldn't play obscure file types the way my Android does and, not for nothing, the sound in your headphones was really low! The sound quality was good. It's just, you know, don't be walking down the street with your earbuds in and have a car pass by because you're going to be hitting the rewind button on that podcast or that song 10 times during your walk. Sound was that fragile. And I'm in a city so I do a lot of walking, from my house to the subway, from the subway to work. I walk to whatever take out option I've chosen for the day and walk to a local park and eat my lunch outside. And as I mentioned, I mostly listen to podcasts so the volume's got to be at least at non-dog levels. And it wasn't the headphones, it was the device... I tried several types of headphones. Anyway, in the computer market, the things people like about PCs flexibility, customization, variety. When I see Windows phone, I don't think I'm going to open it up with my screwdriver kit and stick an MSI graphics card in it but I should be able to play more audio types than mp3. And more video types than MP4 or MPEG. No shade, cuz it's just a preference but Apple users want to be locked down into that. Very specific ecosystem with Apple's proprietary file types and they'll just deal. But PC users, and potentially Windows Phone users, want a little bit more room to tinker and to be unshackled from an ecosystem. They almost had it but they got in too late and only offered people considering the switch a very difficult transfer situation. My own wife tried iPhone for a year but when she went back to Android she felt like Tim Robbins. At the end of the Shawshank redemption, she raised her arms and drank in the fresh crisp air of freedom. She had a ton of drive space and her files were now free. She's a dancer. Not a technician. If she gets a thumb drive with some obscure Japanese Enka song that's out of print and not streaming anywhere, she wants to be able to drag and drop it off the thumb drive to the hard drive, to her device, play the song and choreograph to it. She's not looking to play Apple's and Microsoft's DRM match-games with iTunes or Zune.
Yes BIll doesn't have anything to do with Zeitgeist He just provides the computers for them. Huyaa Huya...Were you in Low school before you entered High school?
We can call it quaint when we see old interviews like this where people like Letterman kind of brush off the internet as some "nerd thing" or fad, but no matter what new technology arrives, its not possible to know the massive impact it will have. People thought "radio had little future", and "there's need for about 7 computers in the world". Imagine the early 1900's where people thought that cars were just rich people toys, and that nothing could ever replace the horse. Horses were used as human transportation for millennia, and they became obsolete over the course of 10 years.
"You mean the troubled loner chat room on the internet?" Crazy how that seemed like a joke back then
r/fake news
The stare Bill gave Dave after he said “This theater’s not that big Bill.” 🤣
He was TRYING to think of something to say - his software let hom down. Typical M'soft
The great leap forward was around 2000 when we all got broadband.
David: "What is it that you did better and first that put you where you are today?"
Bill: "We were the first to steal the technology from Xerox"
Yep once a crook always a crook.
Then we ripped off the macintosh user interface.
Isn't that what burger joints are doing as well though? Some guy invented the burger and they are all selling their own version, copy and paste to all industries.
Actually that was Jobs and Apple. You should read Jobs’ biography. Xerox sat on technology such as the mouse and the GUI (graphic user interface) for years because they believed they could make more money supplying and servicing photocopiers. Funny in hindsight. Bill Gates earned what he built by creating operating systems that could make computer parts - processors and ram operate applications that we could use to communicate and calculate. He changed the world by the time he was 25 with skills and understanding he developed as a teenager. That’s capitalism, American business in a snapshot - the good and the bad, but mostly good and better for Americans that he did it rather than someone in Russia or China.
@@modernwonders9896 But when you think about it it makes sense. Not many businesses are running to make less profit now, in order to make more profit in 10+ years. The majority are only looking at the next few quarters.
Windows 95 must have been exciting at launch. I was too young to remember my parents getting their first PC which ran on Windows 95.
Eventually, that was the operating system I first used to interact with a computer. It was super intuitive using the mouse, files in folders and running programs.
DOS was a different world. Windows 10 is basically the same sort of system as 95 in practice.
Lol no it’s not
@@dexholland5324 it is in the sense that DOS uses a CMI (command line interface), whereas Windows 95 and Windows 10 uses a GUI (Graphical User Interface).
Windows 95 was the revolution. Every Windows version after that was just evolution.
Mac OS was the true revolution. That same year that this video was filmed, my dad bought me my first computer: a Macintosh Performa 6218 (or something). Very expensive by today's standards, but ahead of its time.
it's good to know DOS tho, just to get a grip of directories, drive letters etc
Even the devil smiles.
Yes.
U can use a teddy bear to show where it hurts in your body when u think Mr. Gates.
This is so satisfying to watch, akin to revealing the content of a time capsule
"You can find other people who have the same unusual interests you do..."
Bill Gates drafting Rule 34.
What's rule 34?
Underrated comment 😆
I was born in 1967 so I have lived it all. My parents however, cannot come to terms with the fact that they are carrying a computer in their pockets. For them it's a telephone with a lot of features they will never use. I wonder if it will be the same for me 25 years from now. There are already 3d printers for objects...
This was a bizarre time capsule. Gates impressed me more back then than he does today
He was an inspiring tech billionaire role model until he became obsessed with black people and vaccines.