although this vid is longer than an hour, the editing in the entire vid is SO SO good! u must have been tired making this whole vid kurtis but i really really enjoyed it.. thank uuuu :))
kurtis, danny, and drew all posted the same day. they're also all sponsored by opera. my little game theory is that they were all given the same deadline and all got it done on the last day, as anyone would
I appreciate that y'all recorded the entire Xybernaut Computer segment sitting on the floor of the dining room. Really enhances the vibe of kids playing with a new toy
My parents bought a My Lil Reminder for some reason, and it was from an infomercial so it came with a second one for free. My sisters and I used to record silly dumb little messages and leave them in each other's rooms to be found later. There was one that made me laugh so hard that I kept it on there for ages and over time the quality of the audio degraded so badly until it was just static. Thanks for the fun throwback!
Fun fact about the Casio camera watch: Paul McCartney had one in 2001, and he absolutely LOVED IT. He showed it off, took pictures with it during interviews, and even used a picture of himself taken with his camera watch for the cover of his 2001 album Driving Rain!!
omg no way that album cover is made by a casio camera?? this makes so much sense now... paul has really always been out there on the forefront of music, taking grainy ass emo selfies in a bathroom mirror with a shitty novelty camera and calling it an album cover? indie artists could never reach that level
Those portable TVs were a godsend in Florida through the 90s and early 00s. We'd watch the weather report on them while huddled in a closet during a hurricane.
@@sleepybunny2390Not gonna lie, I lived in Florida for 10 years of my childhood and now those hurricane memories are nostalgic for some reason. There were some aspects that were fun, it was like an adventure for a very bored and isolated homeschooled kid. I was absolutely hyped to go help remove waterlogged furniture from my church friend’s flooded house lol
I leave a comment knowing it will increase your chances of being suggested to people because I really want Kurtis to do a silly little video about silly little As Seen On TV products
Old millenial here (38). Palm Pilots wouldn't originally forget your data when the battery died (that'd be a crazy way to design it really). I'm guessing it has something like an internal ROM battery on the board to keep the volatile memory chip powered, and that's dead now. That same sort of problem happens with old NES or SNES cartridges and prevents them from being able to keep game saves anymore.
Those old game cartridges just use a watch battery, you can replace it pretty easily (and no, doing so does not affect the cart's value among collectors).
The early PalmPilot models would only retain their memory for about 15 minutes if the batteries died. But you were supposed to sync your data with your PC so you could restore it after changing the batteries.
The My Little Reminder is so nostalgic for me only because I used to record a lil message for my dad when he would get deployed and he would record one for me and at 6 years old a year of your dad being somewhere dangerous and having no contact with him was so confusing, but I had that exact My Little Reminder. Even the sound of the key chain clanking and moving triggered hella nostalgia. thank u Kurtis
30:50 - I love the insane design choice of making “delete all photos” the default selected option instead of deleting the singular photo. Imagine how infuriating it would be to navigate off that every time on a PC or phone.
I had that watch as a kid and it happened to me twice that I deleted all my photos. It was devastating to lose all my silly pictures so I just decided to really force myself to only take quality pictures so I wouldn't have to delete anything. I stopped using the watch as a camera only as little after that
with this sort of things you want to delete all. you take the pictures in the day, then transfer them all to your computer and then clear the camera. you dont just keep them on the watch forever
Kurtis should do this with kids tech. I remember the tech for girls was pretty crazy at the time and it's more likely to be usable for one person or meant to be for just one kid and a friend.
I remember having this stupid gadget called mylife that like broke after 10mins of playing. But there was this really cool messaging gadget I had where you could basically just text with ur friends but it was soooo dope
Fr me and my sister had little devices that could talk to each other from 3 houses down when she was at the neighbors. It did take forever to type but we loved it
no one asked, but I'm tipsy and your comment inspired me, so here's a sentimental story about a mundane object I have in 2012 when I was 14, I went on a school trip to new york. while there, we went on a ferry ride, and my boyfriend at the time ditched me for his friends lmao. so I stood there, chilling looking at the statue of liberty, when a friend of mine came up to me and was like "hey, what was that word you used the other day? the thing that means 'crooked,' and I was like "oh, cattywampus. like right now, your beanie is cattywampus." laughed it off, fixed his hat, w/e. about 30 seconds later, a woman to my right who was also leaning on the railing of the boat looked at me and said in a british accent, "excuse me, what was that word you just said?" I said "oh, cattywampus." she said, in such an exaggerated british accent it was almost comical, "catty-WOM-pus?" and I laughed and was like "yeah, it's like southern slang for when something's crooked/off-kilter." we ended up talking for a while, about new york, the twin towers & what it was like for her watching the news footage that afternoon at her office job, the southern US & its weirdness, etc. eventually, we got talking about england & I was like "ohhhh my god I've always wanted to go!! I grew up watching british stuff like monty python, doctor who, etc. and I've always been fascinated by british culture. like, even the money is so cool to me! it's pounds not dollars, and this probably sounds silly to you lol but stuff like that is so cool to me!" she pulled out her wallet and held out a beaten to all hell 1-pound coin from 1997, and I was like "woooow that's so cool!" I looked at every square inch of it (I've always been fascinated by little details lol) and eventually handed it back to her and said "that's so cool, thank you for showing me" she was like "oh, do you want to keep it?" I, being raised with the catholic guilt, was like "oh no, I could never, pls keep your money" and she said "oh, it's fine, you can have it!" I tried bartering, telling her "oh, the exchange rate is like 1.50 USD for 1 british pound, right? lemme pay you the difference," and she laughed me off. she told me to keep it, that it wasn't a big deal and that she hoped I could go to the uk someday some people from my class eventually came up and we all started chatting with this woman and her husband (even took a picture with them lmao), but the summary here is that she gave me that coin & was just so kind and lovely. I took it with me, 10 years later, when I got my master's in the UK. I still have it to this day, and it's one of my most valuable possessions. it's not even a valid coin anymore lol. but I love it & I think about that woman all the time. I hope she's doing well
Dude that's the same handheld my mom had! I loved that thing so much. She was the person who probably used it the most in the whole world She later traded it for a color model and mainly used it to play solitaire, but she would write stuff with it super fast and she had a camera on it too. It was super cool.
My fave thing abt u and Jacob collabs are how wholesome and childlike y’all are with each other so ur little monologue abt wanting to meet him sooner really hurt my heart dude 😭
@@allanabreu1140 if you’re interested, before videophones, teletypewriters were widely used by the deaf community, which essentially was something u could type on and that typed message would be transmitted to the other end of the line, but unlike modern day text it did in fact use typewriters and telephones as the means by which to make this happen
TTY machines are cheaper. A video phone is only useful if you know sign language. Not everyone with verbal phone call issues is hearing impaired and knows sign language. The dumb thing is that as far as I know you can't make TTY calls from a smartphone by itself. You have to connect a TTY machine to your phone. There is no good reason why smartphones can't have built in TTY apps. 711 still works to call a regular phone from via TTY as far as I know. When you call 711 an operator calls the person for you to relay the call. You send text to them, they tell the person what you said and text you back what the other person said.
that much sun on his face is consider a nice day? where i live a nice day is the opposite...a cloudy day with barey any sun and windy...that is what we wait to say...its a nice day (we have to much sun all year and high temperatures too)
@@tootsipop hahahaha yes for me and people in my country that's such a nice day! i live in Finland where half of the year is dark and we don't get sunlight. so i'm definitely biased on this
@@shadow_song well now Finland is on my bucket list, i live in north-west México...the desert part of the country so heat and sun is our main personality hahaha
I thought so, too! Like, I can totally imagine parents giving this to their kid as a last gift before going to uni and how lovely it had to be. Today it's so obvious everyone has a phone, so it doesn't feel that meeningful...
I heard a pawn broker say "everything that comes thru my doors has a story attached to it" &that really helped me get rid of some of my mom's stuff after her passing. Cuz some things were important&some were..The Lil Reminder&other pointless stuff. Like EVERY cell phone she EVER HAD since 2002 😩
Oh wow , the 'my lil reminder' holds a special place in my ❤. My grandma passed away and for years after, Id click it to hear her say "I love you". I didn't know what it was called until now!
I know I'm late to the party, but my grandfather is one of the people who created the AT&T Picturephone! It was created by Bell Labs, which was AT&T's R&D department. He worked on it for over 15 years and when it came out it was revolutionary... except that it was expensive for the picturephone itself, you had to book an appointment to use it since it used so much bandwidth they would have to dedicate multiple lines for it, and it was for only 5 minutes with an outrageous $100 charge for it. We still have one in the closet he got from the company for working on it. Sadly he passed away June 1st, 2010, 6 days before the iPhone 4 was announced. I wish he was able to stay alive long enough to see a true video phone become mainstream.
My dad is a software engineer and when I was real young in the 90s he had a gig programing games for the palm pilot. I remember he would give me his palm pilot to keep me occupied anywhere we had to wait (restaurants, DMV, post office). When I was an adult, he admitted he was basically using me for testing, because I would find bugs and then complain to him that it wasn't working. There were several games, but the things I remember best was mancala and a little drawing pad.
when i was kid my uncle worked revewing videogames before they would have came out, he used to just play a little bit and give them to me and i would report to him. i felt really cool playng assasins creed brotherhood before everyone i knew
That note from the person who had the video phone in law school in 2001 is so sweet , I hope they see this ! I’m sure they’d be happy to know this is where their video phone ended up
I had that exact palm pilot from 20:50 when I was a kid lol. Got it as a hand-me-down from my dad when I was like 10. No part of that thing was useable except for the memo pad, but once I turned on glow-in-the-dark mode and figured out you can summon a keyboard onto the screen, I felt like a king. I spent a lot of nights tapping out my swords-and-sorcery "novels" on one of those babies. I love my modern-day smart phone, but it can't beat that month-long battery life.
I thought that too but then figured the two pictures of the doggo he took couldn't have been that important. Then again he did have to wake them up from a nappp
😂😂😂 I am a 63 year old with ADHD. When I first saw the commercial with the recording thing, I wanted it more than anything I had ever wanted in my life!! I told everyone, and got 4 or 5 for Christmas that year! It took me about six months to lose all of them. 😂😂 adding: this is one of my favorite videos ever!💖
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This is one of the best videos you've ever made. You actually had me at the end there. If the technology could talk it probably would say something like that. And the preservation of that tech is so important because so many new technologies came out and some were actually pretty cool. In an age when everything is evolving so fast, it's really nice to see where what we have came from.
"you know what. i'm too old for all that stuff anyway. i'm just happy i could be a wearable computer for one more day." clearly i need to be getting more sleep because this is tugging my heartstrings
This is so weird! I was a tech reviewer back in 1999 and did a review of the Xybernaut for a tech trade publication. Hadn't thought about that for decades - thanks for a trip down memory lane!
@@leoflores1597 It had a lot of promise but the tech simply wasn't there yet. The publication I worked for at the time focused on IT in government, and I remember talking to the product managers for it, and they had a number of users in the military - stuff like folks walking around with service manuals loaded on the thing so they could service helicopters wearing just that instead of six to ten giant binders with the same info following them around on a cart.
The xybernaut computer is genuinely so sick. "You can do all of that with your phone" the aesthetics, man. I wanna put my whole keyboard on my wrist. Typing like that is so cool
Okay but the clacky noises of the My Little Reminder is so nostalgic though, specifically that frequency of that specific type of cheap metal on that specific density of cheap plastic. That level of low quality material just sent me back to that 2000-2010 era of my childhood man damn
Idk how to explain it, but there’s something I really enjoy about 1990s-2000s era tech. It might be because I grew up with it or the way they’re designed mechanically and artistically, but something about it clicks with my brain in a way that a lot of modern tech can’t.
I agree. Maybe cuz we’ve also moved on to Sleek design. I enjoy the look of early 90s and 2000s ideas. I think the modern equivalent would be cyberpunks organized chaos. The Xenon movies from Disney was such an aesthetic.
this is why i love vintage sci-fi so much tbh, it hits so much different than modern sci-fi because the technology is imagined but its still based off the technology of the time, yknow??
can we bring back transparent plastic tech like the gameboy where we could see the motherboard and all of its technical organs??? I miss cool gadget-like technology!
My grandfather actually worked with Bell in the development of the picture phone, one of the reasons they cited for dropping the project was "nobody wants to get dressed just to use the phone". If only they knew how the times would change!
"This is where man and machine meet, and I'm the one who invited them both to the party" is such an unexpectedly cold line to just throw into this video.
You need to keep that nightmare recording of how to get to Hamilton from Toronto so that someone in the future can stumble upon it and create spooky urban legends about wtf it means
Computer systems networking technician here! Three tips that I can think of at the moment that will help you to access your USB storage with your wearable computer in order of tediousness from least to worst; 1. You appear to be using either windows 95 or windows 98 or windows ME operating system (OS) wherein the OS cannot recognize storage devices over a certain size, if you are lucky you may be able to access part of the storage on a 32GB or maybe 128GB USB stick depending on the OS. 2. You may need to first download the applicable drivers onto your computer. Windows at the time did not have default plug-and-play technology integrated everywhere like today and so every peripheral device you bought usually came with a disc that needed to be installed or would take a minute to install itself when plugged in. 3. Your USB storage device needs to be formatted with FAT32 or an older file organization system in order to be recognized by that version of windows but USB storage these days are formatted as NTFS or sometimes PAL if you're shopping internationally, your USB storage can be reformatted into FAT32 on almost any computer with DOS (all windows systems are built on DOS) and the FAT32 formatted storage will be accessible to almost any working OS with a working USB slot. Formatting a storage device destroys its "file allocation table" (table of contents) telling the storage that it is now empty and can freely overwrite existing data, this means you will lose all files upon starting the process of formatting unless you have the means to recover deleted information eg disc doctor. side notes about other topics in your video: Someone once brought a palm pilot to a high school I went to and everyone was as unimpressed by it as with the rich kids blackberry, really the discman got more attention. I recommend sega game gear for old tech gaming, got one for my birthday when I was young, it was far superior to the gameboy and had a backlit color LCD screen almost a decade before nintendo rolled out the gameboy color, only problem is it wants 6 AAs to run off cord but did the gameboy even come with a cord or did you have to buy it separately? I live relatively close to Sudbury and my old black/white TV can pick up a few channels with a car antennae attached (used to get five channels on it 15 years ago).
Well, it's official. I'm obsolete. I'm col k every educated. Retired RN . I've hung blood transfusions and done peritoneal dialysis. But I didn't understand a WORD!!! You might as well be talking Arabic to me😮😮😮
NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THE GAME GEAR. I had one growing up too, i had to spend most times playing it sitting on the ground next to an outlet but it was so fucking worth it, the quality of the screen was unmatched at the time and it had great games, my fave handheld console of the 90's honestly.
If you check out the wii cracking scene, they can be super helpful for formatting usbs to fat32 and being able to have them accessible by old systems! They have forums that explain it so simply my grandma could do it
"NTFS or PAL" I think you're confusing "NTSC and PAL" , anyway wrong standards, those are for TV broadcasting. Disks are usually formatted in exFAT nowadays for portable disks, or not at all for non-portable. Only ass backwards manufacturers format in NTFS or if the disk comes from the era where FAT32 was hitting its limits of storage and no replacement filesystem was obvious.
@ville__ looked at your channel, and I'm surprised you live your life just trying to rage bait. Is it fun to get reactions, or are you just not getting respect in real life?
PDAs like the Palm you had were designed to let you do stuff on them during the day, then sync it all to your computer when you got home so the memory loss wasn't a huge issue. You'd have a dock and when the device gets plugged in everything is synced automatically.
"You know what... I'm okay. I'm too old for all that stuff anyway. I'm just happy I was able to be a wearable computer for just one more day." Enough to make a grown man cry...
my dad uses a My Lil Reminder when he's building something-- extremely useful for saying a precise measurement for cutting etc so you dont second guess yourself between the time it takes to measure and prepare to cut it. he clips it to his shoulder and doesnt have to stop to write anything down, much quicker. not the intended purpose but it's like the only thing it's perfect for
Lil reminder is easily the most practical product and something potentially useful today for any situation where you want to recall info without unlocking your phone, swiping to the notes app, and visually reading it.
I love how they made a small handheld reminder device, went through the whole process of developing, testing and distributing it, and at no point in this entire process went "Oh wait, couldn't you just buy a small pad of paper for like 3 bucks instead?" I feel like that basically sums of most of these 'cool' products from years back. People overcomplicating simple technology because it sounds futuristic. Explains why Back to the Future 2 feels so comedic in its depiction of 2015.
But it can be used as a recorder for music or voices if you maybe heard something cool in a bar and wanted to prolong the memory. I think it’s kinda cute
If you didn’t live trough this time you can’t imagine how fun it was to easily record and playback your own voice. I doubt many people actually used it to record reminders
kurtis you've outdone yourself with this one, really. what an amazing video. i seriously had tears in my eyes at some point. i love your videos so much, thank you for existing
The "paralyzed by popups" cop segment is actually an ability in the game Shadowrun. It's exactly that: you hack the tech in your opponent and dump a bunch of popups directly into their eyes, it's like a cyberpunk smoke bomb.
"Compact" and "portable" used to mean something different. I own an Underwood typewriter, which was considered one of the first portable typewriters, and it weighs a little under 20 pounds.
The original gameboy "pocket" because yes if your jean's ass pocket was big enough it could technically fit, barely, uncomfortably, and you couldn't sit down.
the tone control found on many pieces of audio equipment and here the bone fone is controlling what we call a "low pass filter". it essentially just rolls off the high frequencies above the cutoff a given amount per octave; with the tone knob controlling the cutoff frequency :)
As far as old technology, I have a 1972 Magnavox Odyssey. It is the first home video game console, predating the Atari. It has 6 game cartridges simply named "1-6," and it uses overlays that stick to the TV screen to make up for its complete lack of graphics. It is magnificent.
I LOVED this video. I’m super sentimental and love retro tech, so I really vibed with the closing thoughts at the end. You gave all those old pieces of tech one last ride of someone genuinely being excited to use them!
i remember the my little reminder commercial so well bc i told my parents they needed it and they said “no we don’t that why we have you” so it became my mission to be the best reminder of all time 😭 like i would study the grocery list on the fridge and the throw it away so my mom would ask me what we needed
loved this video!! i can’t stop thinking about the guy who had the video phone to talk to his parents while in law school, like that is just so sweet!! it was so kind of him to include a little note, i love people sometimes
I had a Palm Pilot at my job at a recycling centre circa 2004-2006.. LOVED that thing. First off, it lived in a dock, so I never had to switch out batteries. Second-IT HAD GAMES ON IT. 10/10 I always wanted a Gameboy and that fulfilled my deep seated NEED for handheld video games, lol. Lastly, the calculator function made my life so much easier!! It was definitely a smart phone before there were smart phones. ♥️
12:38 not sure if anyone mentioned it, but picturephones/videophones were (and to my knowledge still are) super helpful for people who use ASL or other sign languages! I’m from a part of the US that’s considered a “deaf city,” and tons of colleges and other places around use have a separate number for a videophone!
That's super cool! I'm from near Rochester, but I've never actually seen one of these... My ASL professor is an older lady and I'm sure she'd get a kick out of me asking about it.
okay but that's genuinely good art. Like the idea of taking a 25 year old wearable computer, drawing something and throwing an (almost) haiku on it and then signing prints is something I'm super into
Ngl, this is by far my favour video you've done. Those goofball ass dong jokes really did teleport me back to being a kid, selling printed sheets of nokia key sequences for ringtones and drawing dong on every school surface. I miss laughing with a bro when even the dumbest stuff is hilarious. The more friends you hung out with the faster your IQ drops, and you know what... you don't care, because when its funny to say dong, nothing in life can go wrong.
I've been refurbishing my mum's old 80s Sony walkman and got to see her face light up like a kid on Christmas when I got her old Chris De Burgh cassette working again. Retro tech just has so much joy and personality attached to it, so I would LOVE to see another video like this from you!!!
I loved my palm pilot! It actually changed my handwriting.You had to be really careful that your battery didn't die, because you would lose all your data so it came with a cable so that you could link it to your computer and download everything. Mine was rechargable, but again you had to watch it or you would lose everything,
You comment about you & Jacob "missing" out on a childhood together but feeling 10 years old while playing with the stuff literally almost made me cry lol "we were girls together" type
As someone who has struggled with severe short term memory problems (doing much better now), I can guarantee I would completely forget I'd made a reminder and would record over it. I learned to carry around a little notebook and pen, some things don't need to be tech haha
I was thinking that while Kurtis showed the commercial like....bro just use a note pad ?? At most I can see this being useful for visually impaired people but I'm SURE they have better recorders already
With the Palm Pilot, you're expected to constantly sync it with a desktop. It doesn't matter if it factory resets when you swap out the batteries because everything is actually on the desktop. Don't store anything vital in it without syncing. The dangling dongle on the Xybernaut is a nice touch, tho.
As an old man I can tell you that the Palm was created to sync via cradle to your computer because we didn't have laptops. The Palm did eventually get a "jetpack" which added a cell service but it was too late and Blackberry took the entire market.
23:58 Some types of data storage need a very low but constant flow of electricity to keep the data. What companies would often do was put a button battery into the device to keep that data storage fed when there's no other source. If that's the case, that battery might have gone dry by now. I'm a gen 1 pokemon player, I know the pain.
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Kurt is congris 😮😮
bro forgot the ad link 😭
you are holding me back kurtis
Wait this is the same sponsor that Drew had 😭
although this vid is longer than an hour, the editing in the entire vid is SO SO good! u must have been tired making this whole vid kurtis but i really really enjoyed it.. thank uuuu :))
bro literally bought all the things he secretly wanted as a kid and covered it up with this challenge
huhuhuhu bro literally ong fr literally bro huhuhuhu bro bro brother literal bro
@@ahall9839 bro?
@@ahall9839Imagine getting this pressed over someone's word choice lol
@@ahall9839what
And they're all tax-dedactable!
kurtis, danny, and drew all posted the same day. they're also all sponsored by opera. my little game theory is that they were all given the same deadline and all got it done on the last day, as anyone would
i thought i was the only one who noticed lmaooo
Would be even funnier if they all did it before Easter so they wouldn't run out of time cz the holidays
Also the 3 videos end with 6 at the minute mark. 1:06 for Connor, 36 for Drew and 26 for Danny.
Coincidence? I don't think so!!
@ville__ I'll tell you if I die
Finally an "original" comment
I appreciate that y'all recorded the entire Xybernaut Computer segment sitting on the floor of the dining room. Really enhances the vibe of kids playing with a new toy
@ville__Thank Gooooood, I appreciate you, friend!!! ❤ I've been awaiting death for so long!
@ville__please don't disgrace sanskrit like that 😞
The Xybernaut makes you look like the Borg!
@@podgy5is everything okay at home 😭
That was my favorite part of the video, and somehow the thing that made me the most nostalgic of all
My parents bought a My Lil Reminder for some reason, and it was from an infomercial so it came with a second one for free. My sisters and I used to record silly dumb little messages and leave them in each other's rooms to be found later. There was one that made me laugh so hard that I kept it on there for ages and over time the quality of the audio degraded so badly until it was just static. Thanks for the fun throwback!
do you remember what it said?
What did It Say??
That’s so freaking cute
@@anniesmith6165 a sisterly bond is like no other ❤️
Thank you for your story
“This was my personal phone I used when I was at law school in 2001” written in pink pen? Bro literally bought a phone from Elle woods
LITERALLY
fun fact the book legally blonde (written in 2001) was written by a girl who went to law school who loved pink and being hyperfeminine
OMG I thought the same thing
I WAS THINKING THAT SAME THING
This comment is lovely 💗🥹
Fun fact about the Casio camera watch: Paul McCartney had one in 2001, and he absolutely LOVED IT. He showed it off, took pictures with it during interviews, and even used a picture of himself taken with his camera watch for the cover of his 2001 album Driving Rain!!
That is hilarious 😂😂
They made a TV watch , too 😮
That's a very interesting tidbit.
omg no way that album cover is made by a casio camera?? this makes so much sense now... paul has really always been out there on the forefront of music, taking grainy ass emo selfies in a bathroom mirror with a shitty novelty camera and calling it an album cover? indie artists could never reach that level
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you know its a good day when kurtis, danny and drew post on the same day
i didn't even know drew posted omg tripple whammy!!
Fr
The stars have aligned
Same it gave me Kurtis and Danny's notifications but not Drew @@bananaphone420
And they all were sponsored by opera
Those portable TVs were a godsend in Florida through the 90s and early 00s. We'd watch the weather report on them while huddled in a closet during a hurricane.
That's so scary omg...
@@sleepybunny2390Not gonna lie, I lived in Florida for 10 years of my childhood and now those hurricane memories are nostalgic for some reason. There were some aspects that were fun, it was like an adventure for a very bored and isolated homeschooled kid. I was absolutely hyped to go help remove waterlogged furniture from my church friend’s flooded house lol
@@Hatman7525that horrible lol your religious life sounds boring
@@Hatman7525lol that's great such dangerous things become nostalgic 😂 glad ur ok and the hurricanes werent too harsh on ur family or house?
I leave a comment knowing it will increase your chances of being suggested to people because I really want Kurtis to do a silly little video about silly little As Seen On TV products
YES PLS
@ville__ I'll message in a few hours to say that's bs
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Yes please
@ville__ you trying to fear monger lesbians? No cool dude 😔👎
ITS HERE!!!! THE HOUR LONG VIDEO!!!!
I genuinely didn't realize it was an hour long but I'm definitely gonna watch all of it still
I've been waiting since that Instagram story by him😭
i just watched the whole thing and had no idea😭
!!!!!!
im 32 minutes in and just realised💀💀💀💀
You’re really living the dream. You just found a way to monetize buying a bunch of crap you wanted to play with anyway and it was still a banger.
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Brandon Farris has mastered it.
It's all for the Tax write-off.
business expense
Watching this in 240p for the authentic experience
The imagination behind early 2000s tech is so fun. The wearable computer is sick af, so was the fit lmao. I want to see the As Seen On TV products!
Seconded
Reminds me of Johnny Mnemonic in a way lmao
omg
Reminds me of inspector gadget kinda
Old millenial here (38). Palm Pilots wouldn't originally forget your data when the battery died (that'd be a crazy way to design it really). I'm guessing it has something like an internal ROM battery on the board to keep the volatile memory chip powered, and that's dead now. That same sort of problem happens with old NES or SNES cartridges and prevents them from being able to keep game saves anymore.
Those old game cartridges just use a watch battery, you can replace it pretty easily (and no, doing so does not affect the cart's value among collectors).
The early PalmPilot models would only retain their memory for about 15 minutes if the batteries died. But you were supposed to sync your data with your PC so you could restore it after changing the batteries.
@@doctorhandsome I never knew that! I'll have to try on some of my dead snes cartridges
Yeah u gotta leave the snes on 😂
Is that why I can't save my Godzilla and Batman gameboy games?
The My Little Reminder is so nostalgic for me only because I used to record a lil message for my dad when he would get deployed and he would record one for me and at 6 years old a year of your dad being somewhere dangerous and having no contact with him was so confusing, but I had that exact My Little Reminder. Even the sound of the key chain clanking and moving triggered hella nostalgia. thank u Kurtis
Awww that’s sweet
thats so sweet omg 😭
@@jordansstuff thank u 🥺 looking back it definitely altered my childhood in positive ways 🫶🏻
@@tigerlilly6888 thank you 😭😭😭
Alright who's cutting onions 🥲🥲🥲
“Kill the king, go see my friends at the round table, and then go to the pub to enjoy a tankard of mead” 😭😭😭😂
30:50 - I love the insane design choice of making “delete all photos” the default selected option instead of deleting the singular photo. Imagine how infuriating it would be to navigate off that every time on a PC or phone.
I don't think it makes the already strange 'taking pictures of a chick you're into' any better
I had that watch as a kid and it happened to me twice that I deleted all my photos. It was devastating to lose all my silly pictures so I just decided to really force myself to only take quality pictures so I wouldn't have to delete anything. I stopped using the watch as a camera only as little after that
I like to think someone put it in to erase at least *some* of the revenge porn they enabled
with this sort of things you want to delete all. you take the pictures in the day, then transfer them all to your computer and then clear the camera. you dont just keep them on the watch forever
I thought that too! But then, I think a lot of these sort of tech menus were set up alphabetically rather then functionally 😅
Kurtis should do this with kids tech. I remember the tech for girls was pretty crazy at the time and it's more likely to be usable for one person or meant to be for just one kid and a friend.
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Yes! I loved Dream Life and Designers World, which were single game consoles. And then the coolest thing imo was Pixel Chix
I remember having this stupid gadget called mylife that like broke after 10mins of playing. But there was this really cool messaging gadget I had where you could basically just text with ur friends but it was soooo dope
Fr me and my sister had little devices that could talk to each other from 3 houses down when she was at the neighbors. It did take forever to type but we loved it
oh my god yes the leap frog tablet was my childhood 😭
That little note from the original owner of the VideoPhone was so wholesome! I love learning the sentimental stories mundane objects may have
And the writing is so pretty!
no one asked, but I'm tipsy and your comment inspired me, so here's a sentimental story about a mundane object I have
in 2012 when I was 14, I went on a school trip to new york. while there, we went on a ferry ride, and my boyfriend at the time ditched me for his friends lmao. so I stood there, chilling looking at the statue of liberty, when a friend of mine came up to me and was like "hey, what was that word you used the other day? the thing that means 'crooked,' and I was like "oh, cattywampus. like right now, your beanie is cattywampus." laughed it off, fixed his hat, w/e. about 30 seconds later, a woman to my right who was also leaning on the railing of the boat looked at me and said in a british accent, "excuse me, what was that word you just said?" I said "oh, cattywampus." she said, in such an exaggerated british accent it was almost comical, "catty-WOM-pus?" and I laughed and was like "yeah, it's like southern slang for when something's crooked/off-kilter."
we ended up talking for a while, about new york, the twin towers & what it was like for her watching the news footage that afternoon at her office job, the southern US & its weirdness, etc.
eventually, we got talking about england & I was like "ohhhh my god I've always wanted to go!! I grew up watching british stuff like monty python, doctor who, etc. and I've always been fascinated by british culture. like, even the money is so cool to me! it's pounds not dollars, and this probably sounds silly to you lol but stuff like that is so cool to me!"
she pulled out her wallet and held out a beaten to all hell 1-pound coin from 1997, and I was like "woooow that's so cool!" I looked at every square inch of it (I've always been fascinated by little details lol) and eventually handed it back to her and said "that's so cool, thank you for showing me"
she was like "oh, do you want to keep it?"
I, being raised with the catholic guilt, was like "oh no, I could never, pls keep your money" and she said "oh, it's fine, you can have it!"
I tried bartering, telling her "oh, the exchange rate is like 1.50 USD for 1 british pound, right? lemme pay you the difference," and she laughed me off. she told me to keep it, that it wasn't a big deal and that she hoped I could go to the uk someday
some people from my class eventually came up and we all started chatting with this woman and her husband (even took a picture with them lmao), but the summary here is that she gave me that coin & was just so kind and lovely. I took it with me, 10 years later, when I got my master's in the UK. I still have it to this day, and it's one of my most valuable possessions. it's not even a valid coin anymore lol. but I love it & I think about that woman all the time. I hope she's doing well
@@cricketjuices this is so cute
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@@cricketjuices yes, i am reading allat, thats an amazing story!
Dude that's the same handheld my mom had! I loved that thing so much. She was the person who probably used it the most in the whole world
She later traded it for a color model and mainly used it to play solitaire, but she would write stuff with it super fast and she had a camera on it too. It was super cool.
My fave thing abt u and Jacob collabs are how wholesome and childlike y’all are with each other so ur little monologue abt wanting to meet him sooner really hurt my heart dude 😭
I was looking for this comment 😢❤
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Actually go away, Your one video and your Community tab talking sh Bout us women isn't content @ville__
@@FiFiTheFelinebro replied on several comments w the same bullshit
fun fact! videophones were really important for communication between deaf ppl and those were often the people who found them worth the cost
This is such a nice thing to know. It's a shame videophones cost that much. It probably wasn't affordable for a good chunk of folks. But still sweet!
Makes me think what we all take for granted sometimes. The ability to communicate. Life is beautiful everyone ❤
@@allanabreu1140 if you’re interested, before videophones, teletypewriters were widely used by the deaf community, which essentially was something u could type on and that typed message would be transmitted to the other end of the line, but unlike modern day text it did in fact use typewriters and telephones as the means by which to make this happen
TTY machines are cheaper. A video phone is only useful if you know sign language. Not everyone with verbal phone call issues is hearing impaired and knows sign language. The dumb thing is that as far as I know you can't make TTY calls from a smartphone by itself. You have to connect a TTY machine to your phone. There is no good reason why smartphones can't have built in TTY apps. 711 still works to call a regular phone from via TTY as far as I know. When you call 711 an operator calls the person for you to relay the call. You send text to them, they tell the person what you said and text you back what the other person said.
i was thinking about that! i can imagine it would have been a little difficult to sign through all the lag though
25:23 the irony of kurtis sitting outside on a nice beautiful day but he's trying everything he can just to look at a small screen 💀💀
that much sun on his face is consider a nice day? where i live a nice day is the opposite...a cloudy day with barey any sun and windy...that is what we wait to say...its a nice day (we have to much sun all year and high temperatures too)
@@tootsipop hahahaha yes for me and people in my country that's such a nice day! i live in Finland where half of the year is dark and we don't get sunlight. so i'm definitely biased on this
@@shadow_song well now Finland is on my bucket list, i live in north-west México...the desert part of the country so heat and sun is our main personality hahaha
@@tootsipop welcome welcome haha! by the way, as a fun anecdote, the best foreign professors i have had in uni so far have all been Mexican! lol
@@shadow_song im happy to hear that ☺️
the my little reminder sped up sounded like a spirit box
damn danny, drew, and kurtis dropping videos on the same day i’m so happy
AHHHH OMG
whos drew???
Thank the sponsors, they need to upload before the end of the month.
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Chad chad also
the note that came with the video phone was the most wholesome thing ever
no cause why did it make me a lil emotional ; _ ;
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Idk but the message of “it is 2024 and me and my friend Jacob are using the xyber computer” made it really sweet like a kid wrote it
i keep thinking about this comment ur so right thats really pure and cute
it actually made me cry they are just being kids
it's 10 times better when you realize they actually typed out "cumputer" lololol
@@alienlapdance Don't know if I'd say pure considering he wrote it "cumputer" lol
its actualy. cumputer
Dude chewin a mail box was wild
41:42 what a sweet moment between two perfect strangers bonding over the same two things across time
My eyes legit got a bit watery lol I’m such a sap
That note was the cutest thing oh my god I almost cried lmao 😭
Y'all need to get out and have some social interactions if you get sappy over something that unimportant.
so sweet.. i hope somehow they see the video lol
@@Orphioux dog i said something was sweet and nice, im not fucking sobbing over it. Grow the fuck up and allow yourself to see the joy in the world
the videophone note was so sweet, it made me realize how many memories were attached to these silly vintage tech.
I thought so, too! Like, I can totally imagine parents giving this to their kid as a last gift before going to uni and how lovely it had to be. Today it's so obvious everyone has a phone, so it doesn't feel that meeningful...
I heard a pawn broker say "everything that comes thru my doors has a story attached to it" &that really helped me get rid of some of my mom's stuff after her passing. Cuz some things were important&some were..The Lil Reminder&other pointless stuff. Like EVERY cell phone she EVER HAD since 2002 😩
Oh wow , the 'my lil reminder' holds a special place in my ❤. My grandma passed away and for years after, Id click it to hear her say "I love you". I didn't know what it was called until now!
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AWW :( you're going to make me cry. i'm so glad you had something to remember her by.
I feel like this is the only good use for that device. 🩷
This comment made me cry 😢
we did the same with my aunts message machine ❤
I know I'm late to the party, but my grandfather is one of the people who created the AT&T Picturephone! It was created by Bell Labs, which was AT&T's R&D department. He worked on it for over 15 years and when it came out it was revolutionary... except that it was expensive for the picturephone itself, you had to book an appointment to use it since it used so much bandwidth they would have to dedicate multiple lines for it, and it was for only 5 minutes with an outrageous $100 charge for it. We still have one in the closet he got from the company for working on it. Sadly he passed away June 1st, 2010, 6 days before the iPhone 4 was announced. I wish he was able to stay alive long enough to see a true video phone become mainstream.
that is so amazing! thank you for sharing :)
My dad is a software engineer and when I was real young in the 90s he had a gig programing games for the palm pilot. I remember he would give me his palm pilot to keep me occupied anywhere we had to wait (restaurants, DMV, post office). When I was an adult, he admitted he was basically using me for testing, because I would find bugs and then complain to him that it wasn't working. There were several games, but the things I remember best was mancala and a little drawing pad.
You were a little Guinea pig bro
when i was kid my uncle worked revewing videogames before they would have came out, he used to just play a little bit and give them to me and i would report to him. i felt really cool playng assasins creed brotherhood before everyone i knew
@@weedo4269 My cousins are game developers, so I got a key to their game before it came out, which was cool (game's SCP: 5K btw)
Mancala was great on palm
That note from the person who had the video phone in law school in 2001 is so sweet , I hope they see this ! I’m sure they’d be happy to know this is where their video phone ended up
from 45:40 on, the laughter of two long time friends just being idiots at home is genuinely heartwarming
He should get him an AT&T Video Phone (and a landline connection) so they can talk.
SHUT THE HELL UPP @ville__
@ville__ didnt know kurtis had bots! aww he's so luckyy
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I had that exact palm pilot from 20:50 when I was a kid lol. Got it as a hand-me-down from my dad when I was like 10. No part of that thing was useable except for the memo pad, but once I turned on glow-in-the-dark mode and figured out you can summon a keyboard onto the screen, I felt like a king. I spent a lot of nights tapping out my swords-and-sorcery "novels" on one of those babies. I love my modern-day smart phone, but it can't beat that month-long battery life.
"Delete all photos or just the one?"
"Just the one"
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"Dang, guess I gotta do that 90 more times :/ "
Maybe he realised there were old pics on it after he already took his own pics
I thought that too but then figured the two pictures of the doggo he took couldn't have been that important.
Then again he did have to wake them up from a nappp
Just retake those, he said he took 2 pics of his dog
😭
@@meredithjackson7825 and bothering his dawg again? HOW DARE YOU
😂😂😂 I am a 63 year old with ADHD. When I first saw the commercial with the recording thing, I wanted it more than anything I had ever wanted in my life!! I told everyone, and got 4 or 5 for Christmas that year! It took me about six months to lose all of them. 😂😂 adding: this is one of my favorite videos ever!💖
Oh my god 😂 Did they actually help you before you've lost them? What did you use them for?
This is an amazing story 😂
you and me both ginia, you and me both
That’s such a cute story omg
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Trust in His holy word, the Bible, (KJV)!
(John 10:10 > The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.)
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Trust only in Jesus. - (John 14:6 > Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh to the Father, but by me.)
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All praise, and glory, and honour, and strength, and blessing, be to the Lord our God, Jesus. Amen!
This is one of the best videos you've ever made. You actually had me at the end there. If the technology could talk it probably would say something like that. And the preservation of that tech is so important because so many new technologies came out and some were actually pretty cool. In an age when everything is evolving so fast, it's really nice to see where what we have came from.
thanks for watching!!
"you know what. i'm too old for all that stuff anyway. i'm just happy i could be a wearable computer for one more day." clearly i need to be getting more sleep because this is tugging my heartstrings
aww, the little personal note on the video phone is so sweet! I love little personal notes like that on second hand purchases.
I got asked to review this comment 😭 haha
This is so weird! I was a tech reviewer back in 1999 and did a review of the Xybernaut for a tech trade publication. Hadn't thought about that for decades - thanks for a trip down memory lane!
Love it when things like this happen :)
What was your review? Did you like the product at that time?😅
Is your review still available to read?
@@leoflores1597 It had a lot of promise but the tech simply wasn't there yet. The publication I worked for at the time focused on IT in government, and I remember talking to the product managers for it, and they had a number of users in the military - stuff like folks walking around with service manuals loaded on the thing so they could service helicopters wearing just that instead of six to ten giant binders with the same info following them around on a cart.
Genuinely curious what the opinion was in the time. I’m assuming it’s pretty accurate to his- cool for trying something, fuckin weird in general lmao
beatboxing puppy
im the beatboxing puppy🗣‼️
Girl we’ve been knowing how to draw 💅
I know you think its funny
😅😅😅nooo
All the people know they love me
The xybernaut computer is genuinely so sick. "You can do all of that with your phone" the aesthetics, man. I wanna put my whole keyboard on my wrist. Typing like that is so cool
Okay but the clacky noises of the My Little Reminder is so nostalgic though, specifically that frequency of that specific type of cheap metal on that specific density of cheap plastic. That level of low quality material just sent me back to that 2000-2010 era of my childhood man damn
Idk how to explain it, but there’s something I really enjoy about 1990s-2000s era tech. It might be because I grew up with it or the way they’re designed mechanically and artistically, but something about it clicks with my brain in a way that a lot of modern tech can’t.
Tech back then was so creative and experimental
I agree. Maybe cuz we’ve also moved on to Sleek design. I enjoy the look of early 90s and 2000s ideas. I think the modern equivalent would be cyberpunks organized chaos. The Xenon movies from Disney was such an aesthetic.
I agree- I think it was because they were still making things to be new and creative
this is why i love vintage sci-fi so much tbh, it hits so much different than modern sci-fi because the technology is imagined but its still based off the technology of the time, yknow??
can we bring back transparent plastic tech like the gameboy where we could see the motherboard and all of its technical organs??? I miss cool gadget-like technology!
My grandfather actually worked with Bell in the development of the picture phone, one of the reasons they cited for dropping the project was "nobody wants to get dressed just to use the phone". If only they knew how the times would change!
now... no one wants to get dressed to use the phone!
were they... using the phone... naked ??
@@idkwhattoputhere5541 Not naked, but certainly not dressed up. Usually like fresh out of bed, or ready for bed.
so did @ jalisaalanaye1662 !
"This is where man and machine meet, and I'm the one who invited them both to the party" is such an unexpectedly cold line to just throw into this video.
i love how 'my lil reminder' is just a needlessly complicated version of taking notes
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You need to keep that nightmare recording of how to get to Hamilton from Toronto so that someone in the future can stumble upon it and create spooky urban legends about wtf it means
Computer systems networking technician here! Three tips that I can think of at the moment that will help you to access your USB storage with your wearable computer in order of tediousness from least to worst;
1. You appear to be using either windows 95 or windows 98 or windows ME operating system (OS) wherein the OS cannot recognize storage devices over a certain size, if you are lucky you may be able to access part of the storage on a 32GB or maybe 128GB USB stick depending on the OS.
2. You may need to first download the applicable drivers onto your computer. Windows at the time did not have default plug-and-play technology integrated everywhere like today and so every peripheral device you bought usually came with a disc that needed to be installed or would take a minute to install itself when plugged in.
3. Your USB storage device needs to be formatted with FAT32 or an older file organization system in order to be recognized by that version of windows but USB storage these days are formatted as NTFS or sometimes PAL if you're shopping internationally, your USB storage can be reformatted into FAT32 on almost any computer with DOS (all windows systems are built on DOS) and the FAT32 formatted storage will be accessible to almost any working OS with a working USB slot.
Formatting a storage device destroys its "file allocation table" (table of contents) telling the storage that it is now empty and can freely overwrite existing data, this means you will lose all files upon starting the process of formatting unless you have the means to recover deleted information eg disc doctor.
side notes about other topics in your video:
Someone once brought a palm pilot to a high school I went to and everyone was as unimpressed by it as with the rich kids blackberry, really the discman got more attention.
I recommend sega game gear for old tech gaming, got one for my birthday when I was young, it was far superior to the gameboy and had a backlit color LCD screen almost a decade before nintendo rolled out the gameboy color, only problem is it wants 6 AAs to run off cord but did the gameboy even come with a cord or did you have to buy it separately?
I live relatively close to Sudbury and my old black/white TV can pick up a few channels with a car antennae attached (used to get five channels on it 15 years ago).
Well, it's official. I'm obsolete. I'm col k every educated. Retired RN . I've hung blood transfusions and done peritoneal dialysis. But I didn't understand a WORD!!! You might as well be talking Arabic to me😮😮😮
NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THE GAME GEAR.
I had one growing up too, i had to spend most times playing it sitting on the ground next to an outlet but it was so fucking worth it, the quality of the screen was unmatched at the time and it had great games, my fave handheld console of the 90's honestly.
If you check out the wii cracking scene, they can be super helpful for formatting usbs to fat32 and being able to have them accessible by old systems! They have forums that explain it so simply my grandma could do it
"NTFS or PAL" I think you're confusing "NTSC and PAL" , anyway wrong standards, those are for TV broadcasting.
Disks are usually formatted in exFAT nowadays for portable disks, or not at all for non-portable. Only ass backwards manufacturers format in NTFS or if the disk comes from the era where FAT32 was hitting its limits of storage and no replacement filesystem was obvious.
This is so wonderful, thanks for sharing
I gotta say I'm a fan of the amount of use he gets out of the "EEEWWWW" sounds from the Bratz show 😂😂
"Omg Danny Drew and Kurtis posted on the same day!!!"
My brother in christ the Opera sponsorship was due today.
Counting them, I've seen 4 Opera gx sponsored videos today sjdjdjs
@@skeletonizer9529 so have I!
opera is a super not very secure or private browser
@ville__ looked at your channel, and I'm surprised you live your life just trying to rage bait. Is it fun to get reactions, or are you just not getting respect in real life?
They all had one😭😭
PDAs like the Palm you had were designed to let you do stuff on them during the day, then sync it all to your computer when you got home so the memory loss wasn't a huge issue. You'd have a dock and when the device gets plugged in everything is synced automatically.
"You know what... I'm okay. I'm too old for all that stuff anyway. I'm just happy I was able to be a wearable computer for just one more day." Enough to make a grown man cry...
Why did it literally make me tear up lol
That's one small edge for man
my dad uses a My Lil Reminder when he's building something-- extremely useful for saying a precise measurement for cutting etc so you dont second guess yourself between the time it takes to measure and prepare to cut it. he clips it to his shoulder and doesnt have to stop to write anything down, much quicker. not the intended purpose but it's like the only thing it's perfect for
What do you mean not intended purpose? It’s being used as a reminder and its name is my lil reminder?
@@passivelyobsessive5460 how much does this mean to you.
@@passivelyobsessive5460 I love how you're genuinely disturbed by this comment. Definitely justified though.
@@passivelyobsessive5460 are you okay
Lil reminder is easily the most practical product and something potentially useful today for any situation where you want to recall info without unlocking your phone, swiping to the notes app, and visually reading it.
1 hour 6 minutes and 7 seconds of Kurtis seems like what my un-planned schedule for the day said
same
I love how they made a small handheld reminder device, went through the whole process of developing, testing and distributing it, and at no point in this entire process went "Oh wait, couldn't you just buy a small pad of paper for like 3 bucks instead?"
I feel like that basically sums of most of these 'cool' products from years back. People overcomplicating simple technology because it sounds futuristic. Explains why Back to the Future 2 feels so comedic in its depiction of 2015.
that "reminder device" looks like a yakbak and sounds just as bad but doesn't even come with a fart button, I hope it didn't cost him much...
I think it's because in the 80s and 90s the idea was to make technological answers to everyday mundane tasks, like what AI should be used for
I was gonna say "what if you had no hands" but then how would you press the buttons
But it can be used as a recorder for music or voices if you maybe heard something cool in a bar and wanted to prolong the memory. I think it’s kinda cute
If you didn’t live trough this time you can’t imagine how fun it was to easily record and playback your own voice. I doubt many people actually used it to record reminders
kurtis you've outdone yourself with this one, really. what an amazing video. i seriously had tears in my eyes at some point. i love your videos so much, thank you for existing
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I'll be honest, I was expecting the bit from Spy Kids 2 here.
"How long have we been falling?"
"I don't know, my watch doesn't tell time!"
Were you considering a lie?
ME TOO OMG IM GLAD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE
The "paralyzed by popups" cop segment is actually an ability in the game Shadowrun. It's exactly that: you hack the tech in your opponent and dump a bunch of popups directly into their eyes, it's like a cyberpunk smoke bomb.
"Compact" and "portable" used to mean something different. I own an Underwood typewriter, which was considered one of the first portable typewriters, and it weighs a little under 20 pounds.
The original gameboy "pocket" because yes if your jean's ass pocket was big enough it could technically fit, barely, uncomfortably, and you couldn't sit down.
@ville__imagine the only way your able to get subs is by scaring kids 💀 yikes
the tone control found on many pieces of audio equipment and here the bone fone is controlling what we call a "low pass filter". it essentially just rolls off the high frequencies above the cutoff a given amount per octave; with the tone knob controlling the cutoff frequency :)
The guy chewing on the mailbox has to be the most "Family guy" cutaway I've ever seen.
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Gen Z videos are peak comedy
As far as old technology, I have a 1972 Magnavox Odyssey. It is the first home video game console, predating the Atari. It has 6 game cartridges simply named "1-6," and it uses overlays that stick to the TV screen to make up for its complete lack of graphics. It is magnificent.
I remember studying this in my college course and being amazed by it. old tech has charm that seems to have been lost.
That’s cool af
Dude you were glowing in this. Especially the last 20 mins. With you and Jacob, it was so heartwarming and made me feel like a kid again with y’all
This audio recording had me haullering at my Grammophone
I LOVED this video. I’m super sentimental and love retro tech, so I really vibed with the closing thoughts at the end. You gave all those old pieces of tech one last ride of someone genuinely being excited to use them!
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Same! It gave me a little sense of appreciation for life and the dorky things we enjoy as humans.
i remember the my little reminder commercial so well bc i told my parents they needed it and they said “no we don’t that why we have you” so it became my mission to be the best reminder of all time 😭 like i would study the grocery list on the fridge and the throw it away so my mom would ask me what we needed
oh noooo...
Lmaoooo that's so cute! So sweet
loved this video!! i can’t stop thinking about the guy who had the video phone to talk to his parents while in law school, like that is just so sweet!! it was so kind of him to include a little note, i love people sometimes
I had a Palm Pilot at my job at a recycling centre circa 2004-2006.. LOVED that thing. First off, it lived in a dock, so I never had to switch out batteries. Second-IT HAD GAMES ON IT. 10/10 I always wanted a Gameboy and that fulfilled my deep seated NEED for handheld video games, lol. Lastly, the calculator function made my life so much easier!! It was definitely a smart phone before there were smart phones. ♥️
12:38 not sure if anyone mentioned it, but picturephones/videophones were (and to my knowledge still are) super helpful for people who use ASL or other sign languages! I’m from a part of the US that’s considered a “deaf city,” and tons of colleges and other places around use have a separate number for a videophone!
That's super cool! I'm from near Rochester, but I've never actually seen one of these... My ASL professor is an older lady and I'm sure she'd get a kick out of me asking about it.
@@hanthonyc that’s the nearest city to my hometown, too! You should totally ask her!
Let’s be real, no technology-vintage _or_ modern-will _EVER_ be able to fix Kelly’s monstrosity of a face in the old Barbie movies😭
Ahhhh yes😂
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Its been two years. Yet we still haven’t heal from that face.
@ville__But what if I want my heart to stop beating?
okay but that's genuinely good art. Like the idea of taking a 25 year old wearable computer, drawing something and throwing an (almost) haiku on it and then signing prints is something I'm super into
I absolutely agree. Although it’s funny the last line of the haiku was 6 syllables instead of the the 5 haha
@@arisully28 Tired can be interpreted as either 1 or 2 syllables, so technically his haiku can be interpreted as proper.
Ngl, this is by far my favour video you've done. Those goofball ass dong jokes really did teleport me back to being a kid, selling printed sheets of nokia key sequences for ringtones and drawing dong on every school surface. I miss laughing with a bro when even the dumbest stuff is hilarious. The more friends you hung out with the faster your IQ drops, and you know what... you don't care, because when its funny to say dong, nothing in life can go wrong.
The disappointed sigh and regret in his eyes after the elevator joke took me TF OUT😭
I've been refurbishing my mum's old 80s Sony walkman and got to see her face light up like a kid on Christmas when I got her old Chris De Burgh cassette working again. Retro tech just has so much joy and personality attached to it, so I would LOVE to see another video like this from you!!!
Kurtis gushing about how much he loves Jacob was the best part of this video omg
Kiwi is a very good boy putting up wirh being awoken from a wonderful nap only to pose for pics taken by a creepy Casio watch.
“Milk, juice, butter and eggs” has played in a consonant loop in my mind for 20 years
"Oh no...where did I park..."
It used to be a family joke that we would just say those items in the same tone as the ad
Well at least it's not a vowel loop
@@bananawitchcraftfr that would be dangerous
@@grimm3995so dangerous
I see Opera had a every specific deadline lmao
I loved my palm pilot! It actually changed my handwriting.You had to be really careful that your battery didn't die, because you would lose all your data so it came with a cable so that you could link it to your computer and download everything. Mine was rechargable, but again you had to watch it or you would lose everything,
Yes I still remember how to draw letters from when I had a Palm Pilot haha
@ville__ oh my god that's so scary! Shut up you witch
Mine had a internal battery just to retain memory during battery swaps.
@@WillACarpenter yeah the internal batteries are at the end of their lives now. The reason Curtis' pilot would reset after restart.
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The cop pop-up adds are great especially the one about planting evidence and the one about everyone laughing at bicycle cops.
You comment about you & Jacob "missing" out on a childhood together but feeling 10 years old while playing with the stuff literally almost made me cry lol "we were girls together" type
As someone who has struggled with severe short term memory problems (doing much better now), I can guarantee I would completely forget I'd made a reminder and would record over it. I learned to carry around a little notebook and pen, some things don't need to be tech haha
The reminder always seemed oddly marketed since they were just showing things a notepad could do instead of finding good use cases for recording audio
@@charlesnathansmithin every way it was less useful than a simple notepad, because you could only remind urself of one thing.
only thing i imagine the audio could be useful for would be if you had an idea for a song or something and didn’t want to forget
I was thinking that while Kurtis showed the commercial like....bro just use a note pad ?? At most I can see this being useful for visually impaired people but I'm SURE they have better recorders already
@@4my009 mini tape recorders already existed. These were completely pointless even then. They're on par with custom recorded birthday cards
With the Palm Pilot, you're expected to constantly sync it with a desktop. It doesn't matter if it factory resets when you swap out the batteries because everything is actually on the desktop. Don't store anything vital in it without syncing.
The dangling dongle on the Xybernaut is a nice touch, tho.
This makes way more sense, thank you
Do those not have a little cell battery just for when you need to change the other batteries?
That cowboy table is scary as hell. Imagine shining a light on that during midnight
36:27 me with social anxiety practicing my simple order before forgetting where I am when it comes time to speak
same 😭🤣
17:14 I don’t think I’ve ever heard a product say “sure the price is a little steep” in the marketing
I think that might be a review, not an ad
As an old man I can tell you that the Palm was created to sync via cradle to your computer because we didn't have laptops. The Palm did eventually get a "jetpack" which added a cell service but it was too late and Blackberry took the entire market.
people need to talk about the “ads” in 19:25 because they’re absolutely genius i love u mayor
Bro, for the next one you MUST obtain a Password Journal, a Furby, and a Poo-Chi robot dog.
NOT THE PASSWORD JOURNAL 😭😭
I actually still have all three of those things! Just...packed away somewhere. What a blast from the past.
50:00 this part is so cool. I love when inside jokes go that far back
As an electrical engineer when you said “I’m going to use a technology I know will work. The handheld TV.” I was like that will not work
23:58 Some types of data storage need a very low but constant flow of electricity to keep the data. What companies would often do was put a button battery into the device to keep that data storage fed when there's no other source. If that's the case, that battery might have gone dry by now.
I'm a gen 1 pokemon player, I know the pain.
i feel like a house tour of kurtis' place would be sick, just from the little bits in this video it looks incredibly cool
COWBOY TABLE
His wife Jenna’s instagram has a lot of pics of their house
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fr those pink and white statues when he was messing with the wearable computer were so cute. his wife has done a wonderful job decorating
That part with the xybernaut computer gave me major nostalgia. Up at 3am, dying of laughter at a sleepover, playing pictochat on our DS's.
@28:24 i like how he just says the side of the road as if thats not where all mailboxes are by default
I'm obsessed with as seen on tv stuff. Plzzzz do the video still