I got Internet in 1994. It was amazing. I couldn't believe I could instant message, email, get information in real time from anywhere in the world. One of humanity's greatest accomplishments is linking us together.
That report from 1993 was actually quite prophetic!! I’m really impressed by their prediction of movies on demand! Shame Blockbuster weren’t paying attention back then!
I was in high school in 1993, I didn't know all this stuff was available online for me to use. This is like finding out I grew up with far more advanced tech, but had no idea. But it was so hard to get online back then, a family friend tried to show me his internet connection in 1994 or so, but it took over an hour to log on and he gave up and my parents and I all got bored waiting for "the internet thingy" to load with its slow dial up modem. I don't really remember the "internet" taking off through the roof until 1995, and then by the late 90s, most people I knew where online.
yup. my family first got a computer in like 1995 or 1996 when i was 4 or 5 years old. It was a Tandy from RadioShack running Win95. i remember we didnt have dedicated AOL dial up service, we only used the free hours of service from the AOL trial floppies and CDs they used to send in the mail. My older siblings mostly used the computer to type up school reports and play the single player games offline. i didnt really use it, i didnt have any reports that needed to be typed up on a computer at that age and i had a N64 for video games. however my family finally replaced that computer in 2002 with a Gateway when I was 11 and we also got broadband internet. That pretty much opened the doors for me at that impressionable age: because of that Gateway computer and internet access I got into multiplayer PC gaming, which lead to me wanting to learn how to both build computers and learn to code to make games when i was a teenager. i was obsessed with computers my teenage years, learning all i could about how computers work, both hardware and software, building computers from parts, learning how to code. so of course by the time i got to college in 2009/2010, i majored in both information technology and computer science and now enjoy a successful career in the IT field. And thats all thanks to my families Gateway computer from 2002, i dont give any credit to that crappy Tandy my family had in 1996 lol
1:15 "By the year 2010 people will be talking to one another by video phone links" Me in 2020 doing 90% of my school via google hangouts/zoom: "Oh how right they were"
"By the year 2010 people will be talking to one another by video phone links" To think that Apple's FaceTime debuted in 2010 with iOS 4 and Mac OS Snow Leopard 10.6.6... Prophetic indeed! Nailed it!
I really miss the simpler internet times of the 90s and early 2000s. Before the combination of smart phones and social media collectively ruined society and the Internet. Now I'm addicted to it. Can't put the phone down. Reality is now an escape from the Internet instead of the other way around like it was.
1996: I like Internet. Internet is the highway of information of computers. 2019: I like the internet. The internet’s the highway of information of computers.
Life in the late 90's was simple people talked to each other and kid's played outside! In the late 90's kid's could hang out together go to the movies catch a flick miss those days when we didn't have all these complications. No social media no Facebook Twitter RUclips or Instagram life was simple! We used VHS tapes VCR's rented movies from our local video stores that was a great time.
I feel so lucky for being a 90s kid Im 34 now and I miss those years so much! But maybe just...maybe after all these fkdup years.. better days will come
I miss hearing "you've got mail". I also miss simple database entry, where all you had to do was hit the tab key to input information. Now it's all so crazy with coding and threading and streaming.
Not really a prediction. It was a planned release. Don’t you know Apple is several years ahead in technology and is releasing it on a schedule to maximize their revenues? I guarantee there’s an iPhone 20 something in working order and ready to roll right now.
"They predicted..." No, they developed. Companies sent years, sometimes decades, to plan and achieve innovations. Pay attention to "tech predictions" now, that'll be the tech that's taken for granted in the near future.
It was so different back then. First off not everyone had computers, in fact most households didn’t. Then you’d dial up, usually in the evenings when we weren’t expecting any phone calls, to have your “internet time” - visiting various websites, going into chat rooms (remember saying “a/s/l” lol).
I was in the 1992 group joining prodigy internet ISP but I considered that late. I remember going to Sears in 1989 and reading a compuserve retail box. The concept was amazing but where I lived the infrastructure was not there yet.
Maybe that's how they got the videos for world's most amazing videos through technology. Think about it. It came out in 1999, so this wouldn't be farfetched.
I was surfing the web in 1994 on my new top of the line 486 DX2 it had 8 MB of Memory with a fast 66MHZ CPU with Windows 3.1 that had to be loaded with ten or so floppy disks and had a 56K modem that computer cost me almost $2000 bucks back then but it was so awesome it was the best thing ever at the time.
For anyone who is viewing this comment, just think of what would have happened if Covid-19 happened in the 1990s. The technology back then was not too advanced and think of how hard it would have been to do remote schooling and working or online shopping and etc.
Internet is over-rated! Oh you can sit home and not move a muscle and order everything. But that’s boring.. it was fun to actually do stuff.. go shopping not fear mass shootings!
I remember laying on my bed and my mind would go to what the internet was going to be like. I thought I would be able to type someone's address and I would be able to get into their house. I would get to see what they did and how they lived lol. This would be good so I could check on my friends. Just spy on people.
Around this time, they still haven't figured out that people should pay for printouts yet. So you'd have people standing at the printer for ten minutes while they print out 90 pages from Geocities and Tripod sites.
Back when showing celebrity email addresses on-screen didn't matter at all.
girls cross eyed
Cause no one had an email address or even the internet or even knew how to use it to email those celebrities 😂
u pixel gurl
And they were all numbers.
@@tenshiabse that was my username, yes
I got Internet in 1994. It was amazing. I couldn't believe I could instant message, email, get information in real time from anywhere in the world. One of humanity's greatest accomplishments is linking us together.
I though that we could see inside other people's houses. That was until Web cams appeared.
You mean. 1995. It wasn't commercial yet in '94 and all there was, was Netscape and Mosaic.
@@Tornado1994 There were online services like AOL and CompuServe in 1994 and earlier.
Me too got to surf the net after I bought a new 486DX2 with a blazing fast 56k modem it was the best thing ever on windows 3.1
That report from 1993 was actually quite prophetic!! I’m really impressed by their prediction of movies on demand! Shame Blockbuster weren’t paying attention back then!
What’s a Blockbuster? Never heard of it.
@@Mark-sj3xb I think they meant cockbuster
@@Mark-sj3xb Oh hi mark
@@Mark-sj3xb Please tell me you're joking
What form of “internet” existed in 1981??
This “internet” thing sounds pretty neat. Could be big!
Or could be the downfall of civilization as we know it, who's to say?
Well that wasn't confusing at all. Just wait until 2030 when they use this clip. Cutting back and forth between clips from 2030, 2016, 2001 and 1994.
I was in high school in 1993, I didn't know all this stuff was available online for me to use. This is like finding out I grew up with far more advanced tech, but had no idea. But it was so hard to get online back then, a family friend tried to show me his internet connection in 1994 or so, but it took over an hour to log on and he gave up and my parents and I all got bored waiting for "the internet thingy" to load with its slow dial up modem. I don't really remember the "internet" taking off through the roof until 1995, and then by the late 90s, most people I knew where online.
Vi internet en 1997
It'll never catch on.
What a shame... 😉🤣
0:58 he was exactly right about that, very impressive
and it only costs $10..Remember when AOL would just give you a CD with hundreds of free hours?
Or two 3.5" floppy disks
yup. my family first got a computer in like 1995 or 1996 when i was 4 or 5 years old. It was a Tandy from RadioShack running Win95. i remember we didnt have dedicated AOL dial up service, we only used the free hours of service from the AOL trial floppies and CDs they used to send in the mail. My older siblings mostly used the computer to type up school reports and play the single player games offline. i didnt really use it, i didnt have any reports that needed to be typed up on a computer at that age and i had a N64 for video games. however my family finally replaced that computer in 2002 with a Gateway when I was 11 and we also got broadband internet. That pretty much opened the doors for me at that impressionable age: because of that Gateway computer and internet access I got into multiplayer PC gaming, which lead to me wanting to learn how to both build computers and learn to code to make games when i was a teenager. i was obsessed with computers my teenage years, learning all i could about how computers work, both hardware and software, building computers from parts, learning how to code. so of course by the time i got to college in 2009/2010, i majored in both information technology and computer science and now enjoy a successful career in the IT field. And thats all thanks to my families Gateway computer from 2002, i dont give any credit to that crappy Tandy my family had in 1996 lol
1:15
"By the year 2010 people will be talking to one another by video phone links"
Me in 2020 doing 90% of my school via google hangouts/zoom: "Oh how right they were"
"By the year 2010 people will be talking to one another by video phone links"
To think that Apple's FaceTime debuted in 2010 with iOS 4 and Mac OS Snow Leopard 10.6.6... Prophetic indeed! Nailed it!
I like it when he says, "to those viewers who have access to the Internet...." 😂
"to internet".
I really miss the simpler internet times of the 90s and early 2000s. Before the combination of smart phones and social media collectively ruined society and the Internet. Now I'm addicted to it. Can't put the phone down. Reality is now an escape from the Internet instead of the other way around like it was.
“The address for NBC Nightly news on internet is..” lmao at the ‘on internet’ part
At least they haven't taken our lmao away in 2022.
1996: I like Internet. Internet is the highway of information of computers.
2019: I like the internet. The internet’s the highway of information of computers.
1986
It slowly went from a proper noun to a regular noun because of such a wide usage
@@iSyriux Usually it's the other way round. People drop "the" as it becomes common.
Before the internet became a dump site. The sound of a garbage truck backing up is the theme song of today's internet.
It was much worse with pop ups ads everywhere and downloading viruses easily
I miss going to the video store and i miss the days when great movies were still being done.
they predicted skype and netflix
In retrospect, it was inevitable.
Oh they did it very well
They predicted Zoom and Siri.
Life in the late 90's was simple people talked to each other and kid's played outside! In the late 90's kid's could hang out together go to the movies catch a flick miss those days when we didn't have all these complications. No social media no Facebook Twitter RUclips or Instagram life was simple! We used VHS tapes VCR's rented movies from our local video stores that was a great time.
I agree ☝️ we actually lived but nowadays I feel like we just exist
Kids still play outside, just not as much as they used to.
kids play outside, teens just dont do it as much. You would know If you were actually allowed near kids
I feel so lucky for being a 90s kid Im 34 now and I miss those years so much! But maybe just...maybe after all these fkdup years.. better days will come
@@partIycIoudy no reeally? thats the point. Its not the same at all.
2010? Nice prediction for the iPhone 4 with the selfie camera.
I miss hearing "you've got mail". I also miss simple database entry, where all you had to do was hit the tab key to input information. Now it's all so crazy with coding and threading and streaming.
Now all I hear is "You've got Spam"
I remember the excitement of getting on the "Net', but the screech of the modem" is something I do not miss!
Apple gave a pretty reliable prediction
Roshan Tulsiani yeah no kidding. Smartphones and iPads and FaceTime, Skype, etc def were becoming mainstream right around 2010
Not really a prediction. It was a planned release. Don’t you know Apple is several years ahead in technology and is releasing it on a schedule to maximize their revenues? I guarantee there’s an iPhone 20 something in working order and ready to roll right now.
in 2020 that is all the moreaccurate
i videochat on my galaxy since 2010
I'm so glad Internet became a thing.
Video telephone by 2010....Facetime was launched in 2010. Apple knows it's own future
TheShaleco There was video Calling service’s before That, The web Camera Came out In 94.
TheShaleco Android had it ages ago basic
1998 4 life!
Video phone came out in 2005 when they had the flip phones
It’s almost like they had a plan 🤔
“For any viewers have access TO internet” 😂
Woohoo! I’m surfing the information superhighway on my cellular telephone!
the "in-ter-net" sure looks amazing.
Ah, it's just a fad. It'll never catch on.
1:15 WOW! Apple knew we'd had video chat by 2010
Because it was planned.
1:22 it actually happened in the mid 2000s
Sounds like another gimmick like those Video game things... In 5 years people will remember it about as well as they do the Nintendo.
"....no spaces" ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pretty nobody is watching this on tv, we are just watching this on what they are talking about.
Love seeing the early versions of FaceTime and Netflix 😂
Android here
The early version of "FaceTime" was videophone. It was already a thing in the 1960s.
The address for NBC Nightly News on internet is nightly@nbc.com. NO SPACES 😂
Wow! On demand movies?! I wish I had that! So cool
"They predicted..."
No, they developed. Companies sent years, sometimes decades, to plan and achieve innovations. Pay attention to "tech predictions" now, that'll be the tech that's taken for granted in the near future.
I have internet
What's it like???
G.C. Lawrence It's like. It's like warm apple pie.
I wanna try it!
luckkyyy
@@Lazdinger No. It seems like that woman's weird eyes.
And "Surfing"
0:58 Dude this guy was right, nobody uses cable now, it's all streaming
but u have cable internet
That dude shouldve made some big bets then. He’d be rich now
I was on in 1995 and was hooked from the beginning. I HATED the $250 per month AOL bills though!
Wow, you mean $2.50 a month bill. If you were paying $250/mo., you were tripping.
2010 FaceTime released
It was so different back then. First off not everyone had computers, in fact most households didn’t. Then you’d dial up, usually in the evenings when we weren’t expecting any phone calls, to have your “internet time” - visiting various websites, going into chat rooms (remember saying “a/s/l” lol).
why does that woman keep staring at her nose?
Maybe she's blind? Or having birth defects on her eyeballs? Or just a weirdo? Or she doesn't want to look directly at the camera?
@@VarietyGamerChannel Her eyes I guess?
I dont know but it looks like she has a nice rack
Why do you ask stupid questions?
Not trying to be a jerk, but can someone please tell that girl which camera to look at. She looked crosseyed trying to figure it out...😂😂😂
She's probably 50 years old now at least. Who cares?
I was in the 1992 group joining prodigy internet ISP but I considered that late. I remember going to Sears in 1989 and reading a compuserve retail box. The concept was amazing but where I lived the infrastructure was not there yet.
I was -14 in 1992
Remember when TVs were considered luxury if you had one 🤣
Not really unless you were born in the 40s and 50s 😂 sorry for you
Don't you miss that lovely dial up sound EAAAAAARRRR ERRRRRRR RRRRRRRR
Now the part about Apple is just plan spooky.
I remember BBS, bulletin board system, had to join to use, then AOL.
This 'internet' is a fade mark my words...
Are you sure this is 1993, it looks like late 2000 to me
Nah, just look at the newscaster suit :)
ErykPawlik Yeah, but it clearly says "Almost 2001."
Alejandro Kudo
That's the report's title, referring to the 2001: Space Odyssey movie, hehe :D
ErykPawlik Ohhhhhhh...😄😄😄
This is definitely the ‘90s.
By the year 2010: FaceTime is born.
The world wide web
No ads, no corporate profiling, no vacuous social media. It was actually pretty good! lol
Maybe that's how they got the videos for world's most amazing videos through technology. Think about it. It came out in 1999, so this wouldn't be farfetched.
I was surfing the web in 1994 on my new top of the line 486 DX2 it had 8 MB of Memory with a fast 66MHZ CPU with Windows 3.1 that had to be loaded with ten or so floppy disks and had a 56K modem that computer cost me almost $2000 bucks back then but it was so awesome it was the best thing ever at the time.
What do the 3 people have in common? Bad haircuts
You cracked me up
For anyone who is viewing this comment, just think of what would have happened if Covid-19 happened in the 1990s. The technology back then was not too advanced and think of how hard it would have been to do remote schooling and working or online shopping and etc.
What form of internet existed in 1981? Those 213 computers were probably all in the Pentagon
Am I the only one that finds the cross-eyed woman kinda cute?
We've come along way,baby.
One day spell check will be ubiquitous
How did the "Information Super Highway" get combined with "Surfing"?!
Amazing. Predicted our future to a T
Was it planned already?
2022 wow internet was different man
When I get a time machine I'm going back to the past and zip bombing rush limbaugh
The 10 dollars a month thing didn't last long.
This was... just 25 years ago...
Back when the internet was not infested by normies.
Internet is over-rated! Oh you can sit home and not move a muscle and order everything. But that’s boring.. it was fun to actually do stuff.. go shopping not fear mass shootings!
The way he calls it "Internet" in the last clip lmao
1:13 We now have Zoom, to have our teachers help us with our HW in the comforts of our homes.
My left eye enjoyed this video
now there are 4.5 billion users on the internet
This is funny. We were using technology people nowadays think is new while I was in the military. GPS was invented decades ago.
1:15 FaceTime prediction
I remember laying on my bed and my mind would go to what the internet was going to be like. I thought I would be able to type someone's address and I would be able to get into their house. I would get to see what they did and how they lived lol. This would be good so I could check on my friends. Just spy on people.
Mannn
Was that your pre teen years?
Hahahaaa imagine the abuse if bill clintons email address was published on tv today
Wow the internet was in use in the 1990s
Yep, and the 1980s, 1970s and 1960s.
Man in watching in 2021 like 😳😳😳😳😃😄
I'm surprised it doesn't require an oil change after each email
Around this time, they still haven't figured out that people should pay for printouts yet. So you'd have people standing at the printer for ten minutes while they print out 90 pages from Geocities and Tripod sites.
Remember those fuzzy CRT screens? Both the TVs and monitors? Yuck!
apple predicted themselves inventing the ipad lmao
Everybody knows internet was invented by the Aliens
Foetal don't realise that this is the equivalent to discovering fire
who is the anchor that’s talking
No.... we. Called it "The Web" super highway lingo came out in th early 2000s
This internet thing will never catch on
1:21 they show Brazil as South America
they were right about the video calling
They did get it mostly right.
I don't know whether to get "Internet" or "World Wideweb".
Annnnnd…Siri is real. Blockbuster is the past…..funny
So the internet will change everything.
You're all wrong Garlic bread is the future
What is internet anyway?
"...no spaces"
L M A O
Omg NBC. You guys got all the comments in the world now lol
Some day I hope to own a video phone!
If you have any smartphone today, you have a video phone and a computer all at once
... As I email Billy Idol to ask how he's getting on.
facetime came out in 2010 this guy's from the future
People were using the internet way back in 1981? I had no idea that the internet even existed back then.
The framework for the internet has been around since the 60’s, but only certain universities had access at that time.