High Tech: computers and gadgets in 1994
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- Опубликовано: 17 янв 2023
- February 1994
Original script: Remember manual typewriters? Heck, remember pens and pencils? They may be obsolete someday. We’ve gotten to the point where there is some computer or high-tech gadget that will do just about anything we need to do. It can be easy or hard. Fun or frustrating. Tonight, we begin a two-part look at the changes technology has caused in our lives. We call it High Tech 101.
Hal Clement and photojournalist Ben Cutshall delivered the lesson.
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We went from: "Computer, open calculator."
To: "Computer, open calculator. Shut up, Alexa! I'm wasn't talking to you!"
Alexa: "I am sorry. I don't understand what you mean by: I wasn't talking to you."
I thought I was the only one who yells at Alexa and google, LOL. They are nosey!! LOL.
Haha🤣
Love the aesthetic of old computers
Saem
me not 💩
I grew up throughout the 80’s and 90’s, and I miss these times. It was all so exciting practically on a daily basis. Today, nothing “wows” us anymore. You can’t really get much higher resolution than 8K or 16K TV, and even if you could, the human eye could barely distinguish it from 4K. Cell phones you can go so much with that we don’t even use it all now, and you can communicate with anyone around the world at no extra charge. Things like music and movies are available instantly, from at home to in our pockets on smartphones, and in HD with uncompressed audio. You can order products from companies like Amazon laying in bed off an app on your phone, even speaking in the order if you want, and it could be at your door in 2-3 hours. What else is there? It’s become kind of depressing to me, as a person who grew up constantly being “wowed”. Today nothing seems exciting to me anymore.
There is still much to discover, such as new drugs, cures for diseases that at the moment are impossible to cure, sending probes into space much faster than the current ones, exploring 100% of the oceans (we have only explored 5%), creating efficient and commercial nuclear fusion reactors, clean up pollution in the world. There are many things to discover and invent but all in good time, this is what excites me about the future.
The Apple Vision Pro has wowed me in a way that no tech product ever has. Despite it’s many faults, it still feels like a device that is from 10 years in the future.
This is exactly spot on. I had my Palms, and I would download to it the latest from Engadget and all the tech news sites I could, and read it wherever I wanted. Before that AOL and Compuserve opened up the whole world! It was so exciting! There were many years of thrills. Now it doesn’t even matter what phone or computer you have. They are relatively all the same as far as what you can do. I know there will still be big things and of course it moves forward, but there will probably be nothing exactly like that era of amazement and anticipation again! We were the ones who got to transition from being confined to what was going on locally, to holding the world in the palms of our hands!
1994: CDs are replacing records
2024: Records still exist
Records are a very small niche market
@@fivehundrediq5212less niche than CDs these days!
Its ironic that LP Records are still available but not CDs and same goes to Cassettes V/A.
@@fivehundrediq5212 Vinyl outsold CDs the last 2 years.
@@fivehundrediq5212 Records are going mainstream. Gen Z say they've had enough of the digital world and they're going analogue!
30 years later, and VR still hasn't caught on.
What do you mean, there are millions of Quests out there.
@@StatusQuo209 maybe, but there is only trash software and some mid games for it.....
@@Puretea4711 half life Alyx, beat saber, boneworks, project cars 2, Assetto Corsa, Bounce, etc. There are a lot more. I agree though that MOST games are trash. There are a ton of gems tho
For you, it's definitely the future. Spatial computing is 2 steps away from your grumpy ass yelling at it because you don't get it.
those are pc games not quest. pc is too expensive for the average person
Here's the thing, it felt amazing back then.
Agreed. It was quite magical. The home PC evolution along with getting connected to the internet by the masses of society felt very optimistic - almost as if society was on the verge of something pretty amazing.
Right,I was thinking the same thing, we thought sophistication level in which technology became then was enough,boy were we wrong😊,fascinating stuff😊.
Its still amazing. Cameras optics on smartphones are incredible. I can turn lights on in my house, open my electric gate, from anywhere in the world!!
@@Astro_War right just because they are ancient and nostalgic..
@@gamereactz Happens to everyone. One day, maybe, we will all be ancient and nostalgic.
RIP to the man who adopted the Apple Newton.
Technology has come a long way. Now we scroll through social media while sitting on the toilet. 😎
People shit on both toilet and twitter simultaneously nowadays
Now we can brainwash millions of people and get them to vote for us because we tweet lies from our golden toilet!
That's gross who would do that?
As old as these items seem today 30 years after they are still very modern compared to how things were when i grew up in the 70´s.
In 1994 the world already had Doom II. The peak of civilization was reached.
Mobile phones in the 1980s: Ginormous.
Mobile phones in the 1990s: Large.
Mobile phones in the 2000s: Nice and small.
Mobile phones in the 2010s: Large.
Mobile phones in the 2020s: Ginormous.
Everyone mocked me when I had my 6” Lumia in 2014. “I could never carry around a phone that big!” they said.
Fast forward to 2020s, everyone has to have the MAXes, the bigger the better lol. And at the moment I have a 12 Mini! 😂
So much has changed. Yet so much is still the same. "Hey Siri, what time is it?" "HEY SIRI!" "DAMN YOU SIRI, YOU PIECE OF CRAP!"
"I can show you more results on your iPhone"
Fuck off, Siri! I only asked what *date* it is!
I want to go back to 1994 with a friend and, at a coffee shop or restaurant say something like: "I saw on RUclips that Rihanna's Instagram has like 40 million followers. People were talking about it on Facebook. Does this place have a QR code for the menu? *flagging a server* Sir/Ma'am, what's the wifi network here? My 5G isn't connecting."
You guys would not want to have to go back to this trust me
1:38 An eerie simulated preview of the horror of watching landscape video in portrait mode, still decades to come.
1994 was not that long ago, for people like me. It feels like yesterday cause I experienced all these tech.
the foundation for our future was set in the 90's
80s
70s
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50s
@@fakereality96 haha
They were very optimistic about the future at that time, for them we should already be using flying cars...
You are correct.
Best regard: one of those people.
0:16 is still today's VR experience. The look on that guy's face says everything.
damn i miss the 90's
by watching this video I am not sure if we moved anywhere in last 30 years. yes, everything is faster with nicer graphic, but voice controlled computer was thing, VR was thing. we just have crazy resources to run ton of resources for virtualisation for job that can handle calculator in the past
The internet just has better ways of distracting us these days!!
This is fantastic. A moment in that time. Thanks for the upload! 🎉
"Technology has invaded every corner of our lives." ... if they only knew
id love to go back in time with a laptop made today with like a 4090 or smth in it would be so funny to see peoples reactions
I was born in February 1994. People must have thought that they were living in some sci-fi future.
Welcome to the world. Sorry I missed your birth as I'm totally unrelated to you. Hope you've been having a nice time since?.
I live in Nigeria. Been here since the 70s. Yes, we glimpsed at some of these gadgets through movies and thought they were great.
@@JohnFekoloid Don't worry about missing my birth; the majority of the world missed it too. I'll let you off the hook this time. 😜 The world has been pretty good to me so far, and I hope it's been great to you too. I wonder what kind of gadgets we'll get in the future that currently only exist in movies.
Прошло тридцать (!) лет, а виртуальная реальность всё ещё не стала такой, какой мы её представляли.
Now we got Netflix, Smart TV's, iPhones Spotify, AI... Dang! What's next?
what's next is AI and it's already unfolding! It's just in the dial-up phase.
Aside from smartphones, technology now just seems faster and sleeker, but doesn't seem like much revolutionary changes?
It was a bit different at the time.. PC's and being connected to the World Wide Web was something New, amazing, and even revolutionary to most everyone for the time when News papers, Snail Mail, and LAN Phone lines were about as advance as most common folks were use too.That said, I blame smart-phones for killing the PC revolution and outside of gaming PCs, Home PC's and that excitement of wheat a PC can bring to your home - pretty much died.
Computers became like cars. Word and Excel 1997 did already everything anyone would want to do. Internet Explorer in 1998 could show pages like the ones created by Word. My computer monitor in 1998 had a resolution of 1024x768 with 1 million colors. 16 megabytes of Ram could handle that and run Word. The only change is that the internet got fast enough to watch 4K movies, and computers got small enough to fit in a phone.
CPUs are faster and faster each year which matters to people who need performance. GPUs also have experienced crazy growth in last 5 years and power AI and data centre like stuff. Most of the advancements nowadays are in data centre
Wow!! I can't wait!!
News pages are going to be saying this about spatial computing in about 15 years. Here it comes. Ready or not!
It's here!
Wow ☺️ nice flashback
the whooooshing noise 😂
Star Wars 2:20
Had the wrong music.
This is a snippet from ESB, but the music is from ROTJ.
it took me18days and 6hrs to download green days dookie
Well for VR all you needed back then was a SG 300,000 dollar workstation, seems legit!
I don't believe some of this technology will ever be released at least not for a long time
“It will be available sometime in the fall of 1995” then its never released
I miss the 90s.
1994 was the future, anno 2024 everything seems to go backwards whether in sociaty,economy or gui on computers etc,,,
We are living in an annoying age🥲
It was all a dream...or was it?
✨️Amazing✨️
This video is a good example of Moore's law. The number of transistors on a microchip doubles about every two years with a minimal cost increase.. computer technology will get better, smaller, and cheaper.
Yet google photos has the same 15 gigabyte free storage as 10 years ago.
We are as far from this era as this era was as far from the invention of BASIC.
vinyls making a comeback, we love to see it
I was way more materialistic back then than I am today. But I began to experience those feelings of tech-lust again watching this, even though it’s so primitive by today’s standards.
It's interesting to see technology like phones began to replace calendars, planners, notebooks... but nowadays it seems people have hone back to those.
The days before people were addicted to social media....
"Four times a day"
I can get an update on information from second to second. we have evolved
And all of that stuff is now done on a cell phone.
Handheld digital devices? That will never catch on...
What’s a CD? I have all my music on vinyl . It’s the new IN thing now.
Is it just me or the old devices were more useful?
It's safer to say that old devices were more robust and designed for a very specific use.
That meant that they were specialized and optimized for said tasks, which kept things easy to follow and use.
The Apple Newton. The only person to ever own one, was Nelson Muntz, who promptly threw it at Millhouse's head.
Casey Ryback also had one.
6:46 - the ancestor of Siri 😂
30 years from now they will have a video about the iPhone being old technology. 😅
It's weird how records ended up outlasting CDs for the most part.
That’s because a small group of retards want to go back to 1978
6:04 I wonder if Gilligans is OK, looks like they needed help with a guy who won't leave 🤔
AOL did really open up the internet to the world
Is that all real? Looks so cool!
Where was the Walk Man by ＳＯＮＹ.
the first walkman was 12 years old by the time this was made
"E mail" thats just swell. But I dont think it will ever happen.
good new pc incoming :D
Cool 😎
I still have Cinemania….
"Go to a record store these days" A what?
A portable vhs player...
1:25 it will. With a help of another man, but it will, sir. Wait for 20 years.
The information super highway is truly here and its no longer the "super highway". It's a "mega highway"..
Hal is amazon alexa
They can get you coffee now
lol it would have been awesome to see where these people now
probably dead
Imagine what they'd think of todays technology.
What will they think of next?
I remember seeing a really old printer that was at least twice the size of a dishwasher and was "programmed" by pulling out a "circuit board", unplugging wires and rearranging them into preset fields. It was fed "punched cards" from another machine to tell it what to print and each line was printed in its entirety, one line, then the next, making a very rhythmic beat (cha-chunk, cha-chunk, cha-chunk). I think those were all called "data processing machines". I guess they were they precursors of modern computer components. It's hard to imagine what they had to deal with back then.
@ 3:42
Siris Grandma 😆 never knew she was blonde hah
I see tons of zoomers buying VHS nowadays.
The future sucks!
No more magic today. Everything in this video is now done by one device in our pocket. So boring.
VR in 1994, ugly headset. VR in 2024, ugly headset.
none of this will ever take off phht.
First
7:37 you say not true is no. sorry.
I thought CD roms with pre-recorded data was stupid then and I think it is stupid now.