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  • How to send an e mail 1980's style. Electronic message writing down the phone line. First shown on Thames TV's computer programme 'Database' in 1984
    07/06/1984
    If you would like to license a clip for your production please e mail archive@fremantle.com
    Quote: VT31003

Комментарии • 26 тыс.

  • @JonnyDewey
    @JonnyDewey 2 года назад +1976

    The fact that he dials up the connection with a rotary phone makes this twice as enjoyable

    • @drmal
      @drmal 2 года назад +52

      I thought for a moment he was going to use an acoustic coupler!

    • @nosaltadded2675
      @nosaltadded2675 2 года назад +18

      @@drmal Oh, that's so 1980!

    • @michaelrayharris
      @michaelrayharris Год назад +43

      And his password of..1234..!

    • @AcCeSsDeNiEd65
      @AcCeSsDeNiEd65 Год назад +29

      0:52 and it's "Extremely simple" too.

    • @Pulsonar
      @Pulsonar Год назад +3

      😂

  • @ChubbyGames
    @ChubbyGames 4 года назад +10599

    Personal Password is 1234

    • @tiaxanderson9725
      @tiaxanderson9725 4 года назад +759

      See, this is why 1234 is a 'bad' password. This is Julian's personal password. Please get your own. ;P

    • @moronsmorons8913
      @moronsmorons8913 4 года назад +225

      @@tiaxanderson9725
      Which would be 5678.

    • @kod593
      @kod593 4 года назад +84

      That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

    • @raps8691
      @raps8691 4 года назад +41

      @@kod593 the password on my parent's luggage is still 0000. once, an idiot tried to open their suitcase (I think so, since the lock was damaged), and they didn't manage to open it.

    • @KnightmareUSA
      @KnightmareUSA 4 года назад +18

      I had to check.. 'Oh no - pwned! This password has been seen 1,296,186 times before'

  • @cherrera4080
    @cherrera4080 5 лет назад +1584

    Laugh all you want, but they were WAY ahead of their time. I didn't send an email until around 1993 and it was only because our professor made us

    • @donreed
      @donreed 5 лет назад +19

      And every single day since then, you have been led by the nose.

    • @Kojak0
      @Kojak0 5 лет назад +29

      C Herrera I don't think I did it until 1994 or 95 when a friend introduced me to hotmail on this new-fangled "internet". But it was good - I got hooked, and is still using both emails and occasionally, internet.

    • @echt114
      @echt114 5 лет назад +33

      Don Reed: Are you an ill-motivated twat?

    • @likkyball8736
      @likkyball8736 5 лет назад +5

      Imma just continue laughing

    • @cwstewartjr1973
      @cwstewartjr1973 5 лет назад +13

      I have still yet to send my first email

  • @grineflip
    @grineflip 10 месяцев назад +295

    That doctor whom she emailed was hailed as the oldest working doctor in Britain and died in 2022, having worked as a forensic expert at the age of 94. What a man!

    • @deeremeyer1749
      @deeremeyer1749 6 месяцев назад

      That's because you "British citizens" believe everything the BBC programs you with.
      Let me guess. That is a "world record" of some type. Right?

    • @thegoodgeneral
      @thegoodgeneral 6 месяцев назад +8

      Yep! Dr Neville Davis!

    • @kakhak
      @kakhak 5 месяцев назад +3

      Yes, we know, a legendary person

    • @newmankidman5763
      @newmankidman5763 19 часов назад

      He was 56 during this email exchange.

  • @emmettlester739
    @emmettlester739 4 года назад +8844

    "Yes, well its very simple really".
    Proceeds to CALL the computer.

    • @weabooslayer7007
      @weabooslayer7007 4 года назад +530

      computer: hello, who's that ?

    • @maxm4696
      @maxm4696 4 года назад +470

      i mean the guys password is 1234 if you noticed

    • @scalp340
      @scalp340 4 года назад +67

      @@maxm4696 What a stupid password. It's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

    • @TheCentaury
      @TheCentaury 4 года назад +132

      @@maxm4696 try to brute force a password with an 8bit computer on a 300 bauds full duplex modem :D

    • @user-lx3oi6xy2e
      @user-lx3oi6xy2e 4 года назад +22

      Love this comment! Cracked me up

  • @paolobrach1987
    @paolobrach1987 3 года назад +5086

    It's actually an extremely simple connection. After only 67 steps you're connected. EZ.

    • @futureforward3153
      @futureforward3153 3 года назад +82

      This is what Crypto is like today.... 2021

    • @avatar2233
      @avatar2233 3 года назад +31

      @@futureforward3153 Nah it's like Crypto was in 2012

    • @futureforward3153
      @futureforward3153 3 года назад +5

      @@avatar2233 yeah u right.

    • @m5a1stuart83
      @m5a1stuart83 3 года назад +3

      @@avatar2233 Crypto in 2009

    • @luckywetland
      @luckywetland 3 года назад +17

      You don’t realize that was 36 years ago??

  • @Movie_Games
    @Movie_Games 4 года назад +7448

    Who cares about the computer, they are having a real time video conferencing call!

    • @maxunbanned
      @maxunbanned 4 года назад +495

      Probably prerecorded.

    • @BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele
      @BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele 4 года назад +424

      @@maxunbanned No... it is a tv connection

    • @SirCommoner
      @SirCommoner 4 года назад +410

      I mean, it wasn't through a computer, real time live TV was actually the first technology used to transmit television _until_ the 50s when they invented videotapes to broadcast prerecorded stuff.

    • @blastitlocal5307
      @blastitlocal5307 4 года назад +83

      @@BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele I would say the same thing, microwave back to the studio. Looks like a 2 camera setup at the remote site. Full ENG truck for sure. The 2-way sound is prob by phone line.

    • @andrejs0tube
      @andrejs0tube 4 года назад +12

      Это монтаж :)

  • @JesusFamiglietti
    @JesusFamiglietti 7 месяцев назад +118

    People have no idea how exciting those times were. Nowadays everything is taken for granted. Those of us who saw the growth of computing and network connections know how important these beginnings were.

    • @LinkRocks
      @LinkRocks 5 месяцев назад

      Stop being dramatic, not everything is taken for granted. You sound like an old man yelling at a cloud.

  • @hutch1197
    @hutch1197 4 года назад +917

    What do you use the technology for?
    1984: To keep household records, process documents, etc.
    2020: To share a picture of my lunch, and argue about politics with strangers.

    • @hutch1197
      @hutch1197 4 года назад +32

      @Christina Reynolds I know. My point is people in 1984 would be appalled at what people in the future do with technology.

    • @Ad-zu8bt
      @Ad-zu8bt 4 года назад +4

      People don't need two huge metal boxes in order to keep household records lmao, people use phones and smart watches for all that stuff nowadays

    • @maurodudley1338
      @maurodudley1338 4 года назад +7

      This is the most underrated comment in this thread.

    • @ansazeem1234
      @ansazeem1234 4 года назад +2

      @@Ad-zu8bt a smartphone us a computer too genius

    • @Ad-zu8bt
      @Ad-zu8bt 4 года назад

      @@ansazeem1234 it seems like you missed my comment's entire point by a mile...

  • @jakebluethunder
    @jakebluethunder 4 года назад +1071

    1984: Looking at the future with excitement
    2020: Looking back at the past with longing

  • @rize8218
    @rize8218 4 года назад +3829

    1980: Personal Password = 1234
    2020: Nothing changed

    • @guicampell
      @guicampell 4 года назад +28

      HHAHHAHAHHA dude i see that !

    • @rize8218
      @rize8218 4 года назад +12

      Down Hill you seem to be very intelligent. I never thought about kinda complicated numbers

    • @rize8218
      @rize8218 4 года назад +8

      @ you are truly a hero! xD

    • @junehoward6668
      @junehoward6668 4 года назад +3

      Made me lol.

    • @junehoward6668
      @junehoward6668 4 года назад

      So true lol.

  • @maxwellvideos1271
    @maxwellvideos1271 Год назад +84

    These RUclips Tutorials are great.
    I wanted to send an important E-Mail today and had to look it up.
    Thank you

  • @chapter4444
    @chapter4444 4 года назад +4648

    I'm surprised it doesn't require an oil change after each email

    • @sagichnicht3577
      @sagichnicht3577 4 года назад +38

      haha : D

    • @pod9363
      @pod9363 4 года назад +41

      I can usually get away with 10 youtube videos before my computer needs one.

    • @ghoch3
      @ghoch3 4 года назад +3

      it doesn´t ? O_O Better bye one fast

    • @theestallion3695
      @theestallion3695 4 года назад +5

      wouldn't that be typewriters?

    • @DRAMMAR05
      @DRAMMAR05 4 года назад +4

      Hahaha

  • @morpheus6749
    @morpheus6749 5 лет назад +4157

    Password: 1234
    I believe we've found patient zero.

    • @hans-jurgenmuller9148
      @hans-jurgenmuller9148 5 лет назад +15

      XD

    • @oozarusama
      @oozarusama 5 лет назад +7

      Not lol must be the number 3 one is the ENIAC password 1234 too

    • @Peter_739
      @Peter_739 5 лет назад +19

      Its not like anyone in the world was interested to access that mans account.

    • @davidbrisbane7206
      @davidbrisbane7206 5 лет назад +5

      😂🤣😂🤣 Gold!

    • @steve00alt70
      @steve00alt70 5 лет назад +12

      @Darius Beaumont its a woman not a child. People were midgets back then

  • @jman30ification
    @jman30ification 4 года назад +1900

    I'm going to type 'Electronically Yours' in all my emails here afterwards.

    • @judyp.
      @judyp. 4 года назад +23

      just had the same thought :D :D :D

    • @AlexParkYT
      @AlexParkYT 4 года назад +26

      That's so cool I might now

    • @Masood1810
      @Masood1810 4 года назад +7

      And if I ever have to live the nightmare to write a letter on paper, what should I write? I don't know how to write letters. 🤪

    • @AlexParkYT
      @AlexParkYT 4 года назад +57

      @@Masood1810 Write "Paperly yours"

    • @preciousemakenemi1477
      @preciousemakenemi1477 4 года назад +3

      lmaoo that is so funny! like what is that???!!

  • @ryansmurda1552
    @ryansmurda1552 Год назад +80

    Ill never forget back in the early 90s the first time I went into an online chatroom how amazed I was. Incredible how fast tech has developed

  • @s0la.scr1ptura
    @s0la.scr1ptura 5 лет назад +4509

    Made perfect sense back then to purchase a $5,000 computer to keep records of what’s been in your freezer.

    • @valkree5081
      @valkree5081 5 лет назад +207

      @@aktuellvideography1508 um i use mine to look at naked ladies actually

    • @mightymightyironhead
      @mightymightyironhead 5 лет назад +355

      These two look like they might have had a few bodies in that freezer.

    • @MelancholyMegan
      @MelancholyMegan 5 лет назад +49

      @@aktuellvideography1508 you deserve an award for that comment XD

    • @1982kinger
      @1982kinger 5 лет назад +71

      It would have been like buying a TV in 1945... you could do it but it didnt make sense

    • @srda1989
      @srda1989 5 лет назад +83

      Aktuell well done mate :) Actually for every new technology early adopters are most important. So thank you people for buying almost useless computers these days. You pushed technology development :)

  • @jayjaypen2
    @jayjaypen2 2 года назад +711

    Incredible that they're able to facetime each other whilst exchanging emails.

    • @GabeHowardd
      @GabeHowardd 2 года назад +62

      "facetime" LMAO

    • @petamerican2588
      @petamerican2588 2 года назад +74

      This was prerecorded footage, it was not a live conversation.

    • @tofu8164
      @tofu8164 Год назад +67

      @@petamerican2588 r/woooooosh

    • @Rosskles
      @Rosskles Год назад +46

      ​@@petamerican2588 Actually, that was done in real time when recorded. It wasn't that difficult to communicate like that. Look what they did for Live Aid.

    • @davidzambrano1121
      @davidzambrano1121 Год назад

      It is not, they are using satellite image for their communication. @@petamerican2588

  • @Spillers72
    @Spillers72 6 лет назад +20911

    Before the wife spoke, I thought that was the guys 12 year old son.

    • @trollop_7
      @trollop_7 6 лет назад +384

      Jay Spillers
      So true.
      The internet has now shown them how to procreate, something that hitherto would not have come to pass.

    • @johnrx9243
      @johnrx9243 6 лет назад +628

      I thought he was the bigger guy’s younger brother.

    • @trollop_7
      @trollop_7 6 лет назад +406

      John H.
      Turns out he was the wife.

    • @jaymcd8577
      @jaymcd8577 6 лет назад +51

      lol

    • @MrStamford78
      @MrStamford78 6 лет назад +70

      I thought exactly the same :Lol:

  • @hiding_my_name
    @hiding_my_name Год назад +20

    Kids these days didn't know how mind blowing this was as a nerdy kid back in the day. Holy cow this was amazing.

  • @Hyp3rborean
    @Hyp3rborean 3 года назад +8923

    1984: What's a modem?
    2021: What's a modem?

    • @tommitchell4570
      @tommitchell4570 3 года назад +483

      I literally cry knowing that 80% of all Millenials have no idea what a modem is

    • @ondrejsedlak4935
      @ondrejsedlak4935 3 года назад +171

      In Australia if you’re on a Coax, Fiber to the curb or node connection, you still need a ‘modem’. That term will not die here anytime soon.

    • @tangerinetech5300
      @tangerinetech5300 3 года назад +136

      @@ondrejsedlak4935 pretty sure you still need a modem of some type everywhere. networking just never became very well known.

    • @ondrejsedlak4935
      @ondrejsedlak4935 3 года назад +36

      @@tangerinetech5300 Yeah you do need a ‘modem’ of sorts for the others (now called an NTU), but it’s usually hidden away during installation so as to make it seem invisible. No need to confuzzle the poor users :)
      Note:
      Fibre to the Node is the only one you still need to buy an actual VDSL modem, while the others are provided after the install (except Fixed wireless and FTTP)
      Coax uses a cable-modem and the Fibre to the curb uses a special short range VDSL modem.
      Yey Australia and its variety of internet technologies.

    • @jsmythib
      @jsmythib 3 года назад +22

      Im pretty sure it says cable modem on the box in 2021. I could be wrong tho :)

  • @Danielv344
    @Danielv344 5 лет назад +2238

    1984: dedicating a whole room to a computer
    2019:sitting on the toilet watching a video about sending emails in 1984 on my phone

  • @Mustafa_XJ
    @Mustafa_XJ 3 года назад +780

    This guy is the most early 1980’s looking guy I have ever seen.

  • @laoch5658
    @laoch5658 Год назад +43

    its amazing nearly 40 years later people still don't understand this

    • @imashadow699
      @imashadow699 4 месяца назад +2

      Nah, I Can Understand It Clearly
      And I'm Still Young

    • @OHHHHUSBANT
      @OHHHHUSBANT Месяц назад +2

      The consequences of cheap internet introduced to 3rd world countries and the iphone

  • @justwilly6778
    @justwilly6778 4 года назад +1398

    Printout reads: "Hello, I am the prince of Nigera and i require your help to transfer money..."

    • @Александр-н9ъ7ы
      @Александр-н9ъ7ы 4 года назад +21

      Ha-ha. Classic.

    • @pakabe8774
      @pakabe8774 4 года назад +26

      I am very intrigiued, please tell me more.

    • @pvshka
      @pvshka 4 года назад +4

      @@pakabe8774 John Warosa 😅

    • @roasta9013
      @roasta9013 4 года назад +5

      Nigeria* don’t disrespect my country lol

    • @RickyReject
      @RickyReject 4 года назад

      Gawd, that is so lol! Already back then...

  • @woochitelj
    @woochitelj 8 лет назад +4538

    This is where it all started!!! I mean, usage of '1234' passwords...

    • @DamienOBrienJ
      @DamienOBrienJ 8 лет назад +50

      +daweedian84 You noticed that too :D
      1234 password ~ Mr Green.

    • @fkmui03
      @fkmui03 8 лет назад +14

      might be 'asdf'

    • @barbsvision
      @barbsvision 8 лет назад +14

      +joe symptons Nope, it's definitely "1234"..

    • @jackburton2086
      @jackburton2086 8 лет назад +92

      +daweedian84
      Only idiot end users used 1234, us experts used qwerty

    • @dreadsire5086
      @dreadsire5086 7 лет назад +24

      Sounds like password and idiot would put on his luggage.

  • @Illinoise888
    @Illinoise888 4 года назад +441

    I'll be ending my emails with "electronically yours" from now on.

    • @alteHbs
      @alteHbs 4 года назад +12

      "Virtually yours" would be also acceptable. Sincerely, ...

    • @juanpablodonoso8277
      @juanpablodonoso8277 4 года назад +7

      How adorable

    • @RaymondHng
      @RaymondHng 4 года назад +3

      @@alteHbs "Digitally yours,..."

    • @alteHbs
      @alteHbs 4 года назад

      @@RaymondHng Nice one

    • @theodddish1846
      @theodddish1846 3 месяца назад +1

      That's gay.

  • @MaestroDraven
    @MaestroDraven Год назад +27

    I'm old enough to remember this. Fascinating to watch something emerge from nothing, become a phenomenon, then a mainstay, and then....we just take it for granted.

  • @sjorshaanen7973
    @sjorshaanen7973 4 года назад +2502

    Rare footage of a printer that actually works

    • @ianhelsbyservices
      @ianhelsbyservices 4 года назад +16

      @@wadi_dog especially if running Windows 10!

    • @TheRisky9
      @TheRisky9 4 года назад +18

      Not only that, it worked on the first try! You are the winner of the internet today.

    • @Mitsurugy37
      @Mitsurugy37 4 года назад +1

      ahhahaha

    • @toxicdino1227
      @toxicdino1227 4 года назад +4

      LMAO

    • @windestruct
      @windestruct 4 года назад +2

      @Shdjdjaskdj Ajdjdjsjdieoq You can find it free by visiting basement\attric

  • @moekancha
    @moekancha 4 года назад +2888

    1984: how to send an email 2020: how to stop receiving an email.

    • @AswangRealStories
      @AswangRealStories 4 года назад +18

      lmao

    • @ulungrinjanidharma8609
      @ulungrinjanidharma8609 4 года назад +6

      Lol

    • @farhs3133
      @farhs3133 4 года назад +33

      Why? Don't you wanna be the new king of Uganda? lol

    • @Dec38105
      @Dec38105 4 года назад +46

      @@farhs3133 Emails are great, I won the Nigerian lottery , only had to send them a mere £1000 to cover some costs

    • @farhs3133
      @farhs3133 4 года назад +7

      @@Dec38105 Dang what a deal, 100% worth it

  • @TheJustJoe
    @TheJustJoe 5 лет назад +2940

    Oh the days when 1234 was a safe password.

    • @allanwallace872
      @allanwallace872 5 лет назад +86

      It wasn't a safe password in 1984.
      www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36306419

    • @skhochay
      @skhochay 5 лет назад +52

      first, you have to get to the password prompt and that was not simple

    • @allanwallace872
      @allanwallace872 5 лет назад +8

      Unless I've been mistaken for several decades "Not simple" is exactly what a "hacker" does?

    • @cholodelrosari0543
      @cholodelrosari0543 5 лет назад +7

      Cristos Blanace
      Hahaha, whenever I heard this, I remember Spaceballs

    • @DankDave211
      @DankDave211 5 лет назад +2

      That my e.b.t. pin code.

  • @chntGomez
    @chntGomez Год назад +175

    "It seems a very simple connection to me"
    Greatest lie ever told in front of an audience

    • @zakelwe
      @zakelwe 8 месяцев назад +3

      "It tells me what I have in the freezer !
      They don't even do that nowadays

    • @turtleanton6539
      @turtleanton6539 8 месяцев назад

      🎉

    • @lordgoofus2364
      @lordgoofus2364 5 месяцев назад +2

      It's very human.

    • @OHHHHUSBANT
      @OHHHHUSBANT 3 месяца назад +3

      Not really, its literally a bunch of baby steps that most people give up immediately because they cant read or do in 5 seconds
      Which is why the internet has sucked for the past 10 years

    • @VicGChad07
      @VicGChad07 12 дней назад

      Simple at the time; complicated nowadays.
      I would rather learn how to do the complicated way than have AI take over.

  • @canadiandeplorable2087
    @canadiandeplorable2087 4 года назад +824

    I was born in 69. My grade 8 teacher told me that by the year 2000 everyone will have a miniature computer in their pocket. I thought that he was insane because computers couldn’t do barely anything in 1987. Now 80% of humans have a actual computer in their pocket!

    • @lukehuang7821
      @lukehuang7821 4 года назад +98

      Have you ever gotten OK boomered?

    • @aniketjaiswal3876
      @aniketjaiswal3876 4 года назад +26

      Welcome to future..!!

    • @Circuitssmith
      @Circuitssmith 4 года назад +21

      Nice.

    • @satellite851
      @satellite851 4 года назад +51

      Luke huang >>> born in 1969 would make them "OK Gen-Xer", DUH! Boomers quit being produced around 63/64! Although you could've been sarcastically joking with the whole silly young person fake idea and false premise that anyone born before 1970 is an automatic 1940's/50's BOOMER lol!

    • @user-zv7yb4yp9g
      @user-zv7yb4yp9g 4 года назад +23

      Mac TonyMicMac
      ok boomer

  • @pedropopelka3166
    @pedropopelka3166 4 года назад +1567

    1984 printer: prints immediately
    2020 printer: *FEED ME MAGENTA*

    • @andikruge5751
      @andikruge5751 4 года назад +21

      made my day :D

    • @encycl07pedia-
      @encycl07pedia- 4 года назад +31

      Dot matrix printers are insanely slow. You might be able to load/fix a magenta cartridge and print out the document on a modern printer before the dot matrix one finished.

    • @wingnutbert9685
      @wingnutbert9685 4 года назад +45

      @@encycl07pedia-: Yes, but that dot matrix is still working........your 2020 printer will be dead in 2 yrs or no longer "supported"...XD XD XD

    • @jeschinstad
      @jeschinstad 4 года назад +7

      @@wingnutbert9685 "No longer supported" is just one aspect of proprietary software systems like Windows. GNU (the OS in systems like ChromeOS and Ubuntu) was actually inspired by the new concept of proprietary printer drivers that would not allow the user to have control. How right they were; there are now printers that were Designed for Windows that can now only be used on non-Windows systems.

    • @encycl07pedia-
      @encycl07pedia- 4 года назад +8

      @@wingnutbert9685 My printer is several years old. As long as you're not buying a printer for $30 they tend to last a while.
      I've NEVER run into a printer that wasn't "supported" anymore. Are you talking about software?
      Care to take another awful assumption?

  • @MortenPeterHaghJensen
    @MortenPeterHaghJensen 5 лет назад +1929

    1984: Presses a button and the printer starts printing immediately
    2019: Printer cartridge not detected

  • @MemphisOFICIAL777
    @MemphisOFICIAL777 22 дня назад +5

    The 80s feels like a world complex, elegant, cool and futuristic.

  • @joshbrown4614
    @joshbrown4614 7 лет назад +595

    "electronically yours" this is how I will now end every email I send

  • @MattDearing
    @MattDearing 8 лет назад +1604

    That was a sick song they played for the credits.

    • @thisisfyne
      @thisisfyne 8 лет назад +38

      New song from Skism I believe

    • @MattDearing
      @MattDearing 8 лет назад +122

      Bobx007 I had to install new subwoofers just to handle all that bass

    • @mcnogard1552
      @mcnogard1552 8 лет назад +31

      I baught a cassette of this music. It's totally narley !!

    • @xXTheoLinuxXx
      @xXTheoLinuxXx 8 лет назад +51

      It's called 1200 baud ;)

    • @LAnonHubbard
      @LAnonHubbard 7 лет назад +87

      Darude - 8bitstorm

  • @FoMiAl
    @FoMiAl 4 года назад +305

    "It's a very simple connection to make!"
    *Connects one cable, switches another cable, turns on the modem, logs in from the computer and dials a number from the telephone*

    • @holonaut
      @holonaut 4 года назад +9

      EXTREMELY simple indeed

    • @memberofthelambily1340
      @memberofthelambily1340 4 года назад +3

      Now we can just ask Siri or Alexa to send one 🙏

    • @tjfSIM
      @tjfSIM 4 года назад +6

      Yes, that is actually quite simple to be honest.

    • @rezadroidjr
      @rezadroidjr 4 года назад

      As simple as it looks😂

    • @tjfSIM
      @tjfSIM 4 года назад +1

      @@rezadroidjr Well people nowadays expect everything to be just 'plug and play' and have no patience with setting anything up. Computing in the early 80s was mostly the reserve of boffins and people with beards and tweed jackets, who liked tinkering with things. At this stage it was just becoming accessible to the home user.

  • @tjmarx
    @tjmarx Год назад +34

    I love that data transmission via audio at the end of the show. 😂😂

  • @flyffs9968
    @flyffs9968 4 года назад +1574

    1984: The amazing communication of electronical mail
    2020: Yo why does his wife look like a 13 year old boy

    • @dracul4u
      @dracul4u 4 года назад +19

      2035: remember when we had a genderless society? Mandela Farms remembers

    • @mrlee27tv17
      @mrlee27tv17 4 года назад +4

      That was i thought before i play the video, lol. shes a girl

    • @Forever_Laura
      @Forever_Laura 4 года назад +6

      It's Pat!

    • @farhanasharmin8997
      @farhanasharmin8997 4 года назад +4

      @@dracul4u Genderless society? What the hell does that mean?? 🧐

    • @cainagnascimento
      @cainagnascimento 4 года назад +8

      IS THAT HIS WIFE? I THOUGH IT WAS HIS SON

  • @Comrade2face
    @Comrade2face 5 лет назад +425

    using a rotary phone to dial in the modem,
    teletext style graphics, i'm in vintage heaven

    • @edpor68
      @edpor68 5 лет назад +5

      Comrade2face me too

    • @joeb.fromsydneyaustralia5313
      @joeb.fromsydneyaustralia5313 5 лет назад +6

      Love the retro!!!

    • @grendelum
      @grendelum 5 лет назад +3

      This killed me because I did the same thing as a kid on my *Commodore 64,* ddialing into various systems... since I was in Manhattan there were no shortage of networks to dial, photocopied ads were plastered everywhere with the numbers on little tags to rip off...

    • @sfappetrupavelandrei
      @sfappetrupavelandrei 5 лет назад +2

      @rj zander Well, in their defense, you couldn't google what to do back then.

    • @caprimann87
      @caprimann87 5 лет назад

      dont forget about the fro and glasses

  • @tweedyburd007
    @tweedyburd007 5 лет назад +5225

    1:19
    "The computer is now asking me to enter my personal password"
    types 1234
    "Which I've now done"

    • @JasonZakrajsek
      @JasonZakrajsek 5 лет назад +138

      Vaxtin I was just about to post the same thing. That cracked me up.

    • @worldofzap
      @worldofzap 5 лет назад +170

      Damn that’s the combination to my luggage.

    • @X-boomer
      @X-boomer 5 лет назад +95

      That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard of in my life! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

    • @tipsysnipers
      @tipsysnipers 5 лет назад +1

      @@X-boomer Dacht dur gassen, guten flahl lolololol

    • @charles-y2z6c
      @charles-y2z6c 5 лет назад +16

      Wow, i thought you were sarcastically joking at first. I went back 2 times to make sure and you are right.

  • @phil2768
    @phil2768 Год назад +13

    I'd love to relive the 70s, 80s and 90s computer revolution, it was so exciting. While todays technology is amazing that has been built off it, living back then with new computer innovations coming literally every year, It was a very unique period in history.

    • @BeckVMH
      @BeckVMH 9 месяцев назад +2

      Yep, I’d go back and invest heavily in Microsoft stock.

  • @briand6343
    @briand6343 4 года назад +681

    In 1984 she was probably the only human to email her doctor...

    • @ataparag232
      @ataparag232 4 года назад +14

      who the fuck does that

    • @jaywunder13242
      @jaywunder13242 4 года назад +19

      I remember being a kid and seeing modems on TV and in this movie Wargames and thinking that was the most amazing thing. Truly cutting edge stuff. No one I knew had one. I wanted one so badly!

    • @mehdisol7094
      @mehdisol7094 4 года назад +5

      @@ataparag232 everyone nowaday. in France we now have a website called doctolib and it is mandatory to subscribe to it to take a appointement to the doctor.

    • @pled8395
      @pled8395 4 года назад

      @@mehdisol7094 In Belgium too, even for dentists, physiotherapists, other specialists... it's called doctoranytime and it's fast and convenient. Click an hour on a day that's suits you and you have an appointment. No need to phone anymore.

    • @TitoCompianni
      @TitoCompianni 4 года назад +5

      @@pled8395 I think you both are talking about a website, not an "e-mail to your doctor"

  • @maxorbit357
    @maxorbit357 7 лет назад +340

    As an IT nerd myself, I can say that this is probably the last time that a computer/software demonstration went perfectly. That just doesn't happen anymore.

    • @guiltygearcore
      @guiltygearcore 7 лет назад +3

      Max Orbit i agree.

    • @richardedwards9389
      @richardedwards9389 7 лет назад +18

      So true. Fuck all works now.....99 layers of abstraction and 500 libraries and plugs-ins to say Hello World.

    • @renatotuveri-ellis2276
      @renatotuveri-ellis2276 7 лет назад

      Lol so true!

    • @lukassembol7542
      @lukassembol7542 7 лет назад +4

      OK then, so fuck all the abstraction layers and compilers, and write your programs in Assembler, if you please... ;-)

    • @topcat6298
      @topcat6298 7 лет назад +3

      Richard Well yeah, that's still easier than writing hello world in an assembly language. Truth is all those libraries and layers of abstraction actually make it viable to program complicated pieces of software.

  • @andreiclaudiu9494
    @andreiclaudiu9494 4 года назад +682

    1984: that’s weird
    2020: that’s weird

    • @Digalog
      @Digalog 4 года назад +6

      Have you tried to turn if off and on yet ?

    • @DannyHsn
      @DannyHsn 4 года назад +2

      In 1984 this was not weird I know

    • @mariocm9503
      @mariocm9503 4 года назад +5

      Nadejdea mea e El in 1984 this was revolutionary new gen shit
      bro and you calling this
      Weird 🥱😒

    • @memberofthelambily1340
      @memberofthelambily1340 4 года назад

      Mario CM it’s really bizarre

    • @OddNoble
      @OddNoble 4 года назад

      lol

  • @yecreeper
    @yecreeper Год назад +58

    I think it's pretty darn cool that they used sound to transmit data, what a crude yet effective way of doing it!

    • @spr00sem00se
      @spr00sem00se Год назад +16

      Youd be suprised what is still being trasnmitted by sound like this. All militaries in the world use radio to trasnmit encoded data.
      Germany transmits weather info via fax everyday to sailors. Old tech is still extremely useful where you dont have fast internet.

    • @44thala49
      @44thala49 Год назад +12

      Isn’t that essentially what speaking does? We’ve been at that for thousands of years.

    • @RaymonDaniel
      @RaymonDaniel Год назад

      MASSIVELY underrated observation @@44thala49

    • @ElSantoLuchador
      @ElSantoLuchador Год назад +3

      @@44thala49 But not as long as the birds. They've been at it for a lot longer.

    • @sarahmoorman6936
      @sarahmoorman6936 Год назад

      so true! lol@@ElSantoLuchador

  • @BryceEdwardBrown
    @BryceEdwardBrown 2 года назад +733

    Thank goodness I found this tutorial, I was so lost up until now

    • @hughanmilborrow4604
      @hughanmilborrow4604 2 года назад

      From Congratulations?

    • @Borderlands808
      @Borderlands808 2 года назад +3

      Lol

    • @DaveGaming99
      @DaveGaming99 2 года назад +4

      underrated comment

    • @brianm2881
      @brianm2881 Год назад +5

      Back in the days when sending an email required a working knowledge of networking protocols and a little light soldering, we needed all the tutorials we could get.

    • @maxborn7400
      @maxborn7400 Год назад +4

      Hello Bryce STOP. Hope you got my Email STOP. The Insurgence has begun STOP. Meet tomorrow STOP.

  • @krakent8791
    @krakent8791 5 лет назад +624

    From now on I'm going to use Electronically yours when sending emails.

    • @mattiemclean9882
      @mattiemclean9882 5 лет назад +72

      ok no need to show off that you have one of these new-fangled computer things!

    • @TheeeDanielR
      @TheeeDanielR 5 лет назад +3

      KRAKEN T lol

    • @copperspartan1643
      @copperspartan1643 5 лет назад +23

      Dear Miss Kraken,
      That is an excellent idea.
      Electronically yours,
      copper_spartan

    • @andrewballetto7641
      @andrewballetto7641 5 лет назад +18

      Dear Mr T Kraken
      Good idea
      Electronic regards
      Andrew

    • @Itsjustmyselfsoitis
      @Itsjustmyselfsoitis 5 лет назад +13

      Anything of yours which is electronic, end your message with "Electronically yours," fuckin do it on everything. RUclips, FB, Twitter, etc.
      Electronically yours,
      Me.

  • @dml3oo0
    @dml3oo0 4 года назад +1281

    "It's extremely simple"
    **starts plugging cables, rotating dial and pushing switches**

    • @tocAgunit
      @tocAgunit 4 года назад +2

      :))

    • @life_seeker6102
      @life_seeker6102 4 года назад +24

      Remember, this was technology in the 1980s, not the 2020s

    • @mfbias4048
      @mfbias4048 4 года назад +21

      ‘Simple’ is relative.

    • @dr.albekhan8640
      @dr.albekhan8640 4 года назад +6

      I wonder how 'simple' they will tell if they see something like apple pair 🤣

    • @keselekbakiak
      @keselekbakiak 4 года назад +21

      Back then computer and internet was complex, so only people with basic technical knowledge can use it. Nowadays it was so easy that people who cant delete app on their phone can connect to internet.

  • @MarkSmithhhh
    @MarkSmithhhh Год назад +16

    I like how email is in quotes, like it's slang for something

  • @daveherres3374
    @daveherres3374 3 года назад +384

    Years ago my dad called me up and asked me to send his sister an e-mail. She was in her eighties and never received one before. I sent it along to my dad. He printed it out, stuck it in an envelope, and mailed it to her. He told me she was very happy :)

    • @MASTEROFEVIL
      @MASTEROFEVIL 3 года назад +6

      How old are you?

    • @daveherres3374
      @daveherres3374 3 года назад +27

      @@MASTEROFEVIL 61.

    • @nutellaunicorn2673
      @nutellaunicorn2673 3 года назад +49

      this is the cutest thing i read today

    • @katsu2014
      @katsu2014 3 года назад +10

      That’s so wholesome aww

    • @nieksalomons
      @nieksalomons 2 года назад +20

      I remember when my grandma got her first wireless phone, she would still sit close to the charger as if there was a wire. She also physically waved when saying goodbye and ending the phone-conversation, very funny. Oh, and she used her dishwasher as cupboard for cookies, washing dishes just in the sink.

  • @colonelleblanc2594
    @colonelleblanc2594 3 года назад +837

    *Kid takes popsicle from freezer*
    “Did you update the household database?”
    “No?”
    “Look, it’s quite simple. You unplug the computer wire and then plug in the modem. Then dial the # on the rotary phone, and wait for dial tone, then you hang up. All you gotta do next is put in the personal password and find the right entry on the micronet. Don’t make me tell you again!!”

    • @jamesmcgrath578
      @jamesmcgrath578 3 года назад +22

      Such an under rated post

    • @snapperjessen
      @snapperjessen 2 года назад +24

      when she done explaining the kid has grown up and moved out

    • @RonJohn63
      @RonJohn63 2 года назад +24

      I think she kept household records on the computer, not in micronet (aka "the cloud").

    • @KashifNawaz85
      @KashifNawaz85 2 года назад +1

      Lol

    • @chazprouk
      @chazprouk 2 года назад +3

      This comment made me cry laughing!

  • @-LSC
    @-LSC 4 года назад +680

    This video totally sounded like a conversation recording for an English lesson

    • @rezadroidjr
      @rezadroidjr 4 года назад +5

      I guess this is what they’re kinda use for it 😂

    • @Resumenesdelcongreso90
      @Resumenesdelcongreso90 4 года назад +7

      ajaja a full. el acento inglés me recuerda a la escuela y las clases en cassette

    • @zavrynah
      @zavrynah 4 года назад +4

      Nahuel Kiuan y la profe de ingles que llevaba su radio 🤣🤣

    • @molin1310
      @molin1310 4 года назад +2

      i thought i was the only one to think that lol.

    • @phaeb
      @phaeb 4 года назад +25

      Listen and complete the dialogue

  • @Saor_Alba
    @Saor_Alba Год назад +91

    I first witnessed Prestel being demonstrated in 1982 at Glasgow University in the then-Maths dept. How it even operated on a 16K ZX Spectrum that had been expanded to 48K still beats me. The software to run it was written by a close friend, who is sadly no longer with us, who went on to have a long successful career in computing. I too went on to have a career in computing which caused me to travel the four corners of the world, I'm now retired and am back in Bonnie Scotland, and done travelling thank goodness.😁

    • @HarshitKumar-bu7oo
      @HarshitKumar-bu7oo Год назад +9

      Hey I want to know more about your job like today software engineer jobs are so boring

    • @deang5622
      @deang5622 9 месяцев назад

      The software running on the computer at home is just a simple client, it is doing little more than taking the bytes of data received from the modem and displaying characters on the screen.
      The processing power to do this is minimal. I know, I have actually written software back in the 1980's to do this.
      Even a ZX80 had enough enough processing power and memory to do it.

    • @deang5622
      @deang5622 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@HarshitKumar-bu7ooThat very much depends on the kind of software you are developing.
      I have done embedded software for electronic products. Far more interesting and more challenging.

    • @angelacooper2661
      @angelacooper2661 6 месяцев назад

      My brother Anthony had a ZX Spectrum during the early 80s and he used to play games on it!

    • @Saor_Alba
      @Saor_Alba 5 месяцев назад

      @@deang5622I realise I should have been more succinct when I said still beats me. I know how it was achieved, my astonishment I was referring to was the skill and speed of the programmer. Alex did not use a Z80 assembler but achieved this feat in raw machine code using data and pokes in Nine Tiles Networks/Sinclair basic.

  • @xCARNAGE_ASADAx
    @xCARNAGE_ASADAx 5 лет назад +565

    - Mum, what's for dinner?
    - I don't know, let me see what do we have in the freezer.
    *Plugs in computer and waits 5 minutes to check the freezer records*

    • @jefferson1962
      @jefferson1962 5 лет назад +5

      LOL

    • @scaleop4
      @scaleop4 5 лет назад +5

      @@jefferson1962 of all the things to use a computer for hahaha

    • @Lostsheepp
      @Lostsheepp 5 лет назад +1

      Lol then the dishwasher was born

    • @socman3988
      @socman3988 5 лет назад

      🤣🤣🤣 lmao you read my mind !!

    • @davidlombard2326
      @davidlombard2326 5 лет назад

      🤣

  • @MidKnightBlue
    @MidKnightBlue 8 лет назад +2077

    Wow! Very helpful! I've been trying to figure this out for 32 years!

  • @someoneelse1441
    @someoneelse1441 5 лет назад +232

    All jokes aside, being ready to learn bleeding edge new technology in your 50's is admirable.

    • @MikeCorsten
      @MikeCorsten 5 лет назад +34

      They were actually only 23, it's how aged everyone looked in the 80s. Just check an episode of Bullseye for further proof. 👍

    • @michaelw4861
      @michaelw4861 5 лет назад +18

      50's! Which video were you watching?!

    • @nagualdesign
      @nagualdesign 5 лет назад +13

      50s?! Should've gone to SpecSavers.

    • @michaelw4861
      @michaelw4861 5 лет назад +3

      @@nagualdesign HAHAHA! Nicely done, sir

    • @SandraLovesSun
      @SandraLovesSun 5 лет назад +1

      Mike Corsten that’s so awesome - I’m so happy I grew up in the 80s

  • @Pulsonar
    @Pulsonar Год назад +7

    These guys enthusiasm for the computer age Brings back fond memories of me and my brother tussling with a new Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer in 1982. Nothing more than glorified keyboard with a processor chip and board buried within. When we learned what the machine was doing it was a great feeling of discovery, like we struck gold😂 40 years later, we now have machines learning how to get rid of us because we’ve run out of luck as we’ve gotten old.

    • @texaswunderkind
      @texaswunderkind Год назад +1

      My older brother got a Commodore VIC-20 with modem at about that time. He managed to download a nudie pic to his dot matrix printer from some BBS. It took eight hours, and was the crappiest image you had ever seen on the ribbon paper. And we thought we were living in a freaking episode of Star Trek or something. Greatest moment of my life.

    • @Pulsonar
      @Pulsonar Год назад

      @@texaswunderkind That was probably the most desperate and primitive porn download event ever 🤣 I remember those satisfying‘eureka’ moments, and our weird ‘shrunken head’ Commodore Pet computer at school. The 5th form GCE O level maths pupils gathered round it like it was God of all Casio calculators waiting for a sign of mathematical divinity 😂 Great machine for playing Space Invaders though, when teacher left us to it at lunchtime 😉

  • @gullscomic
    @gullscomic 3 года назад +2339

    "What do you use the computer for?"
    "Keeping household records such as: what I have in the freezer..."
    That was hilarious.

    • @cnmrb151
      @cnmrb151 3 года назад +65

      I didn't pay attention to this much when she said it on video but reading this literally had me burst laughing. 🤣

    • @davegentry2380
      @davegentry2380 3 года назад +83

      What? No PornHub??

    • @ashtakmetoza5689
      @ashtakmetoza5689 3 года назад +152

      it might be bodies by the look of them

    • @kannabi
      @kannabi 3 года назад +11

      @@ashtakmetoza5689 aye, fred & rose!

    • @chrischavez13
      @chrischavez13 3 года назад +2

      LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @manantank
    @manantank 6 лет назад +338

    i need this much sincerity in the present shows
    no distracting soundtrack
    no flashy animations
    no trying to be funny
    just pure and sincere delivery of information

    • @trollop_7
      @trollop_7 6 лет назад +14

      Stand by for the latest information.

    • @trollop_7
      @trollop_7 6 лет назад

      Any minute now ...

    • @phillipmarnik
      @phillipmarnik 6 лет назад

      @@trollop_7 Has it come through yet?

    • @trollop_7
      @trollop_7 6 лет назад +1

      Standing by ...

    • @trollop_7
      @trollop_7 6 лет назад +10

      I am now waiting for the computer to answer me.

  • @goatwarrior3570
    @goatwarrior3570 5 лет назад +750

    This electronic mumbo jumbo will never take off.

    • @DiscoScottie
      @DiscoScottie 4 года назад +41

      Hang on... I've composed a reply to you, just waiting for the rotary dial to come back around so I can finish calling in on my mo-DEM.

    • @EfrainAceves
      @EfrainAceves 4 года назад

      Si

    • @zaxlorax7605
      @zaxlorax7605 4 года назад +5

      @i_gRape_Babies x The hell is your username

    • @johnnyfrankenstein0123
      @johnnyfrankenstein0123 4 года назад +2

      @@zaxlorax7605 More importantly why is he going around expressing his attraction to small children

    • @johnfoltz8183
      @johnfoltz8183 4 года назад +2

      @@DiscoScottieit was just a flash in the pan fad.

  • @JacobSteinberg75
    @JacobSteinberg75 7 месяцев назад +6

    This is just amazing. I have a feeling this is going to take off in a few years.

  • @kostaftp
    @kostaftp 4 года назад +594

    - "I see you have your computer linked to the telephone line. Can you tell us how you did that?"
    - "Yes. Well, it's very simple really..."
    Proceeds to triangulate the signal between the Voyager 1, the Kennedy Space Center, and the Great Pyramid of Giza.

    • @chrisrhinehart45
      @chrisrhinehart45 4 года назад +6

      Lol got damn

    • @Masood1810
      @Masood1810 4 года назад +15

      I wouldn't have understood how he did that in 1984 nor would did I understand that today, in 2020!

    • @frankienoe4815
      @frankienoe4815 4 года назад +4

      Haha that made me laugh insanely loud probably one of the greatest come inside reading long time

    • @aiosquadron
      @aiosquadron 4 года назад +6

      It's actually simple, and no, I'm not a time traveler. What they are doibg is connecting to the internet, but nowadays it does that automatically and nit through the phone line anymore.

    • @aqualtor9696
      @aqualtor9696 4 года назад +1

      Underrate

  • @johnlabz7529
    @johnlabz7529 3 года назад +575

    Ahhh.. I remember the time when going to an internet cafe just to check my email was as exciting as going to the beach. It was both a thrill and a hoot.

    • @ajarivas72
      @ajarivas72 3 года назад +8

      I remember when I had to TELNET from a web browser when I was in a Windows computer.

    • @Havanacuba1985
      @Havanacuba1985 3 года назад +1

      Yes I think I used lycos

    • @williamdavis4809
      @williamdavis4809 2 года назад +9

      I remember getting jiggy with it

    • @mr.america9806
      @mr.america9806 2 года назад

      That excitment was for checking female's email I guess.

    • @MikaelLevoniemi
      @MikaelLevoniemi 2 года назад +6

      Back in the days when you actually wished for email...

  • @woodlandgoblin2057
    @woodlandgoblin2057 4 года назад +1262

    Husband: Hun what are having for dinner tonight?
    Wife: Hold on, I have to check the computer to see what’s in the freezer.

    • @emidom2004
      @emidom2004 4 года назад +63

      I bet viewers made that same joke back in 84

    • @albinjt
      @albinjt 4 года назад +12

      Glad somebody noticed it !

    • @Schwarzorn
      @Schwarzorn 4 года назад +13

      It’s possible they ownd a large chest freezer (or two) kept in the garage (which might not even be attached to the house).

    • @RealHealthyGuidance
      @RealHealthyGuidance 4 года назад

      @@Schwarzorn neehhh

    • @Schwarzorn
      @Schwarzorn 4 года назад +1

      Alex Norway
      You should invest in some common sense.

  • @tomekgnu
    @tomekgnu Год назад +50

    Those were the times when people appreciated such simple things as sending emails or keeping household records in one place.
    They were simply able to enjoy life. Now, for an unknown reason, we are looking down at them asking "how could they use such primitive ways to connect to the network"? Without that technology we wouldn't have today's technology.

    • @miker252
      @miker252 Год назад +1

      I remember being excited to dial up the library terminal and reserve a book.

    • @Xador85
      @Xador85 2 месяца назад

      Sending emails is not simple. A lot of people need AI to even come up with the content, let alone the wording.
      Generally, using computers is simple now, it hasn't been back then. Computers wouldn't even start anything without an operator with rather deep knowledge. Computing is simple now, and it has only really been since around Windows XP or even later.
      Wanna set up a network connection and insert IP addresses manually? No? Yeah, I though so.

  • @machineofadream
    @machineofadream 5 лет назад +304

    They did a good job filming this to match the film speed to the refresh rate of the monitors so that there's no flicker.

    • @TheUtuber999
      @TheUtuber999 5 лет назад +4

      Just dumb luck, in all probability.

    • @billyjohnmoreno9280
      @billyjohnmoreno9280 5 лет назад +10

      During that time most monitors are CRT

    • @animeepisode9280
      @animeepisode9280 5 лет назад +4

      @Kelly Andrews CRT always had Flickr with 24FPS

    • @Pats-Shed
      @Pats-Shed 5 лет назад +5

      Crt's at that time synchronised using the mains supply frequency, studio cameras used similar method.

    • @GDMHificationranpitc
      @GDMHificationranpitc 5 лет назад +1

      @Kelly Andrews hahahasho wants to see my portfolio on flickr?

  • @geesi9645
    @geesi9645 4 года назад +327

    People in the comments laugh about this now, but this was genuinely impressive stuff for its time and laid the groundwork for the internet we are using right now. I’m actually pretty impressed that this was way back in 1984,

    • @jonathangorelik7849
      @jonathangorelik7849 4 года назад +13

      ok boomer

    • @CamcorderSteve
      @CamcorderSteve 4 года назад +12

      I must be getting old, " way back in 1984," seems only like yesterday to me.

    • @jonathangorelik7849
      @jonathangorelik7849 4 года назад +4

      @Talisman OK Somali pirate

    • @austins.219
      @austins.219 4 года назад +4

      I don't. I think its awesome how way back then this stuff would have been so exciting. Now a days people take for granite technological advancements, as if its so casual and normal. I was born in 90 and didn't hear about the internet until 96 so this impresses me as well.

    • @s.bradley6089
      @s.bradley6089 4 года назад +5

      I remember this kind of tech, it was so cool to be able to do this then!

  • @mattscomp
    @mattscomp 5 лет назад +169

    Few youngsters will appreciate just how revolutionary this all was. Like turning on a light switch. It just works right? Full respect to visionaries and the techs, engineers that made all of these things possible.

    • @Bee_v0mit
      @Bee_v0mit 5 лет назад +23

      No, we appreciate it, what's crazy to us is how far technology has gone in just 30 years. It took us thousands of years to figure out what illness is but it only took 30 to make a desktop computer fit in your pocket. Crazy right!

    • @fremue9312
      @fremue9312 5 лет назад +6

      neon mochi Just imagine what technology we gonna have in 30 years from now...

    • @buddymckay3486
      @buddymckay3486 5 лет назад +3

      @@fremue9312 , Advanced AR glasses with nano nuclear cells powering them. They will have a 7 year lifetime without charging. Or chips in your brain giving you a HUD with information based upon the request you make without saying a word. Can't wait!!!

    • @zecle
      @zecle 5 лет назад +1

      I read your comment and tapped F to pay respect

    • @tonebanderas
      @tonebanderas 5 лет назад +1

      hear, hear!

  • @richie0408
    @richie0408 Год назад +11

    I like how ridiculously enthusiastic they are when they sign off with "BYE, JANE!". It's like they pre-recorded that part for some reason. Totally incongruous with their low-key manner just a few second earlier.

    • @ricardoreporter710
      @ricardoreporter710 Год назад

      I like how ridiculously enthusiastic they are when they sign off with "BYE, JANE!". It's like they pre-recorded that part for some reason. Totally incongruous with their low-key manner just a few second earlier.

    • @CraigMansfield
      @CraigMansfield 10 месяцев назад

      The whole thing's edited together

  • @LowkoTV
    @LowkoTV 8 лет назад +837

    This is adorable really.

    • @p3acefool
      @p3acefool 8 лет назад +6

      +LowkoTV hey lowko! big fan!

    • @hu-ry
      @hu-ry 6 лет назад +1

      LOL Lowko spotted :O

    • @hu-ry
      @hu-ry 6 лет назад

      Hey Lowko, How are you?

    • @aizoxo
      @aizoxo 6 лет назад +3

      ok then

    • @WorldofNightcoreSD
      @WorldofNightcoreSD 6 лет назад +1

      and everyone starts fangirling again

  • @blissettluther
    @blissettluther 5 лет назад +2948

    1984: Password is "1234"
    2019: Password is "1234"

    • @mirzabaig82
      @mirzabaig82 5 лет назад +19

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @jamesmiller2521
      @jamesmiller2521 5 лет назад +59

      Our sophisticated 2019 algorithms will not allow you use such buffoon easy to hack password. It should be something like this: 1234-a

    • @nefariou5
      @nefariou5 5 лет назад +9

      @@jamesmiller2521 I like you mean 1234!

    • @uhyter89
      @uhyter89 5 лет назад +6

      Откуда они узнали мой пароль :)

    • @tonychr.9169
      @tonychr.9169 5 лет назад +1

      You're right!!!!

  • @sstteevveenn77
    @sstteevveenn77 4 года назад +5861

    This quarantine got me watching RANDOM sht

  • @ksaboda
    @ksaboda Год назад +5

    I love this video. They’re in the 21st century while the rest of the world is in 1984.

  • @TwoLeftSh0es
    @TwoLeftSh0es 6 лет назад +569

    M I N D B L O W N
    can't wait for this technology to become mainstream.

    • @daviewz9335
      @daviewz9335 6 лет назад +1

      😁

    • @kurtv7638
      @kurtv7638 6 лет назад

      W

    • @chawlee
      @chawlee 6 лет назад +6

      Oh yes... one of these days.

    • @GD15555
      @GD15555 6 лет назад +9

      edgrrr101 I think you have to wait at least 5 - 10 more years

    • @Commodore4life
      @Commodore4life 6 лет назад +9

      What's next? Will we put a man on the moon, or what?

  • @angel241
    @angel241 5 лет назад +822

    From now on, I'm going to end my email with Electronically yours,

  • @KoalaTContent
    @KoalaTContent 3 года назад +784

    0:52 "It's a very simple connection to make"
    "Extremely simple"
    *Is literally phone calling his computer with a rotor-dial wired home phone*

    • @googlegmail4636
      @googlegmail4636 3 года назад +10

      beeeb, grrrrr, that is the handshake protocol!

    • @madjidhamdini1977
      @madjidhamdini1977 3 года назад +1

      That's right he can used a telephone with keyboard ! after all keyboard or rotor , in 1984 that was a sophisticated technology !
      Dont forget also , that computer had an extrem ridiculous small memory , without a hard drive ! the super expensif computers had a hard drive but in the 80s he had something like 50/60MB !!!

    • @googlegmail4636
      @googlegmail4636 3 года назад +4

      @@madjidhamdini1977 40 Mb HDD was enough back then, not that fancy!

    • @Willybean08
      @Willybean08 3 года назад +5

      Nah for the 1980's it was very simple.

    • @madjidhamdini1977
      @madjidhamdini1977 3 года назад +2

      @@Willybean08 In "Jumpin' Jack Flash" a movie from 1986 you can watch woopie goldberg send somes emails !
      I was 9 ! my first internet surf was after 2000 at 23...
      Also for exemple CD , who had a CD player in 1982/83 ?!? first time i saw a CD was in 1990!
      Today we have a lot of good/suck technology but tomorrow for new generation what they having ? who know...

  • @marlowemarlowe4893
    @marlowemarlowe4893 17 дней назад +1

    Thanks for the help. This was very useful. I'd been struggling to send emails for ages.

  • @carjay7
    @carjay7 3 года назад +1956

    My parents as kids during this time: Well it's fairly simple.
    My Parents now: How do I connect to the WiFi?

    • @legolas7r
      @legolas7r 3 года назад +47

      Hahahaha . Spot ON !!!

    • @ajsea07
      @ajsea07 3 года назад +93

      Nah, this was all nerdy specialized stuff at that time. Most kids weren't learning how to use computers. This was 10-15 years before PC's were common in homes and classrooms and ordinary people didn't realize how much they'd be integrated into our daily lives.

    • @johnabuick
      @johnabuick 3 года назад +16

      @NS 317 They would have been normal.

    • @johnabuick
      @johnabuick 3 года назад +5

      BS. I bet you know shit about networking too. Who do you think invented all this stuff, not you.

    • @tubeview4203
      @tubeview4203 3 года назад +8

      Some say wifi like Y-FY. But some say straight up Wifi like WeeFee.

  • @ironlion45
    @ironlion45 5 лет назад +172

    "My own password" *keys 1 2 3 4 5 on public TV show* "Which I have now done". Oh, those innocent days...

  • @ElAntroDeDager
    @ElAntroDeDager 3 года назад +1067

    Can we take a moment to appreciate this show's ending music?

    • @macafadeal1
      @macafadeal1 3 года назад +64

      Sorcery!!! My old TV and landline turned on because of this "ending music"!!!

    • @WE-WUZZING-KANGS-N-SHEEOYT
      @WE-WUZZING-KANGS-N-SHEEOYT 3 года назад +9

      @@macafadeal1 LMAO

    • @Psychopatz
      @Psychopatz 3 года назад +7

      @@macafadeal1 hahaha you made my day pal

    • @jorge1869
      @jorge1869 3 года назад +23

      "The Purge" alert song 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

    • @pratikb8131
      @pratikb8131 3 года назад +43

      What a soothing outro, loved it!

  • @MatthewChristianMurray
    @MatthewChristianMurray 10 месяцев назад +12

    June 7, 1984? I was born five days after this aired…and my family didn’t have a computer till 1994, or internet till 1996. Early times indeed.

    • @theeggtimertictic1136
      @theeggtimertictic1136 9 месяцев назад +4

      My family didn't have a computer or internet till 2012.

    • @johneli495
      @johneli495 8 месяцев назад +2

      Yes I remember the internet became popular in the mid 90s, probably in part due to AOL

  • @TheDutyPaid
    @TheDutyPaid 7 лет назад +2975

    I can't see this catching on.

    • @fpshooterful
      @fpshooterful 7 лет назад +85

      ya.. EMAIL?.. No way.. that will never catch on.. i am going to stick with advance letter writing.. good ol post office will always be the future!

    • @metralla
      @metralla 7 лет назад +31

      Porn? really?
      *opens private window

    • @poeterritory
      @poeterritory 7 лет назад +38

      It's more a niche market, really. Nice if you can afford it but there are better things to spend your money on, such a good quality Hi-Fi system.

    • @spacemonk4874
      @spacemonk4874 7 лет назад +10

      Its just a hype

    • @nickmagrick7702
      @nickmagrick7702 7 лет назад +16

      it'll never work, even if it does it wont last

  • @TunnixTV
    @TunnixTV 5 лет назад +578

    "What are we having for dinner babe?"
    "Not sure, boot up the computer to check the freezer will you?"

    • @wrek
      @wrek 5 лет назад +12

      I struggled to type this reply I'm laughing so much

    • @missionpupa
      @missionpupa 5 лет назад +2

      @Ken Lompart Godamnit, were gonna have to actually take a look.

    • @MAdDyMatt
      @MAdDyMatt 5 лет назад

      Tunnix_HD Haha 😂

    • @joeyabuki5959
      @joeyabuki5959 5 лет назад +6

      Pretty sure they will die of hunger if the computer stops booting.

    • @fjccommish
      @fjccommish 5 лет назад +4

      That's called a cold boot.

  • @oO_toOomy_Oo
    @oO_toOomy_Oo 5 лет назад +183

    0:18 plug out, plug in, plug in, switch on, open program, remove the handset of the phone, dial a number by rotating....
    "it is very simple connection to make"
    "it is extreemely simple"

    • @Rika914
      @Rika914 5 лет назад +12

      So true... I am always amazed by what people of clearly above average intelligence consider to be simple. It's not rocket science but it sure ain't dead simple either.

    • @ParanormalExplorer
      @ParanormalExplorer 5 лет назад +14

      @@Rika914 It's very easy, just too tedious by stands of modern tech.

    • @Misia23
      @Misia23 5 лет назад +1

      Well, easier than starting your internet-connection under windows-vista. uhh....

    • @Rika914
      @Rika914 5 лет назад +2

      @@ParanormalExplorer That's my point really. While the process is simple most people won't do something that tedious unless they fully understand what is happening. I wouldn't be surprised if more than half of people who go through that whole process he explained know what protocols they are using, what they do, how they are written etc. That stuff is not simple, hence most people never used anything before dial up.

    • @moccalou
      @moccalou 5 лет назад +3

      I was so sure he was going to put the phone receiver into the modem. Some were like that.

  • @MoneySavingVideos
    @MoneySavingVideos Месяц назад

    It is always good to get a refresher course. Thanks!

  • @salvadorhpo2030
    @salvadorhpo2030 4 года назад +1072

    -Looks in the freezer
    -goes to computer
    - writes... buy eggs and milk
    - prints it out and heads to the store.
    - 5k well invested.

    • @monoflea6851
      @monoflea6851 4 года назад +190

      Well, these are the kind of decision making skills you can expect from someone who keeps their eggs and milk in the freezer.

    • @Retromaster364
      @Retromaster364 4 года назад +4

      Or you can just write it down on a piece of paper.

    • @vampirethespiderbatgod9740
      @vampirethespiderbatgod9740 4 года назад +4

      This is basically Microsoft To-do or those similar apps lol.

    • @MrParanoyak
      @MrParanoyak 4 года назад

      @@monoflea6851 ahahah

    • @Excelsoft
      @Excelsoft 4 года назад +2

      These are the applications adoptions that helped reach the moment we're living in, imagine similar crazy scenarios in the future.

  • @davidfox6874
    @davidfox6874 5 лет назад +378

    It's a good job they had a secure password. The last thing you want is the hackers finding out how many boxes of Findus Crispy Pancakes you've got. Can't put a price on security

    • @72boog
      @72boog 5 лет назад +6

      David Fox now I’ve developed a craving for findus crispy pancakes. “Thanks”.....

    • @davidfox6874
      @davidfox6874 5 лет назад +5

      @@72boog No problem. Just make sure you keep a log of everything, and if in doubt, place a call to the main Prestel computer.

    • @bongsilla8109
      @bongsilla8109 5 лет назад +1

      Lol.. stop that!

    • @bongsilla8109
      @bongsilla8109 5 лет назад +1

      @@a2isha yeah i have heard there are already a lot of pansploits out there.

    • @invalidname.pleasetryagain122
      @invalidname.pleasetryagain122 5 лет назад

      That's what she wants you to think she's making records of on her computer

  • @nbvw3
    @nbvw3 4 года назад +1363

    1984 online porn: "I am naked." in Bold sans

    • @christopherdunn317
      @christopherdunn317 4 года назад +38

      I laughed so hard thank you great comment !

    • @ghoch3
      @ghoch3 4 года назад +22

      Easy to mastrubate to.

    • @SeductionUnleashed
      @SeductionUnleashed 4 года назад +7

      Imagine comic Sans lol

    • @sminthian
      @sminthian 4 года назад +33

      And if you want to see a picture, it loads one line at a time, and takes like 5 minutes. You better be really really sure you want to see that picture.

    • @chunkymunkey9182
      @chunkymunkey9182 4 года назад +1

      lol

  • @oliverrojas3185
    @oliverrojas3185 8 месяцев назад

    Thanks, startlingly informative, for those growing up In the eighties,, with little to no concept of technology

  • @edwardk6464
    @edwardk6464 3 года назад +277

    Very insightful of her to talk about how older people will need to learn this technology - and how right she was!

    • @SuperPhexx
      @SuperPhexx 2 года назад +3

      mhm.. and she is now in her seventies!

    • @qwadratix
      @qwadratix 2 года назад +14

      The 'older people' who learned the technology were actually kids then. The older 'older people' from that time are all dead. (And they never learned to use email anyway).

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar 2 года назад

      @@qwadratix and lived perfectly fine lives without this plague of manilulating technology. Why can't you?

    • @davidmurphy563
      @davidmurphy563 2 года назад +2

      What? Eh? Speak up!

    • @joshua7015
      @joshua7015 Год назад +1

      ​@@sg-yq8pmDefinitely not 50s let alone 60s. More like mid 40s, especially since back then people looked quite older than they really were.

  • @DominicGo
    @DominicGo 4 года назад +305

    “Electronically yours” lmao I’m stealing this haha

    • @ricardoreporterkiro7news721
      @ricardoreporterkiro7news721 4 года назад +4

      don’t good electoral I remember jerk right
      noticed aol

    • @undeadknight01
      @undeadknight01 4 года назад +25

      @@ricardoreporterkiro7news721 Did you have a stroke there dude?

    • @YuSengoku
      @YuSengoku 4 года назад

      @@undeadknight01 He's special

    • @deepanjan.sengupta
      @deepanjan.sengupta 3 года назад +1

      Hahaha ! Same thought! Being techie grammatically was cool.

    • @keptins
      @keptins 3 года назад +1

      E.yours

  • @ColonialPuppet
    @ColonialPuppet 4 года назад +1717

    They act like there’s someone off camera holding them at gunpoint😂

  • @kolitmas624
    @kolitmas624 7 часов назад

    So kind people. This program was my one of the best ones.

  • @rustifowler9384
    @rustifowler9384 3 года назад +737

    And who have you been talking to?
    "A young prince from Kenya who wants to send me millions!"

  • @LighthawkZ65
    @LighthawkZ65 5 лет назад +489

    Laugh all what you want... But everything started with something and we have what we have because of them

    • @B8R8
      @B8R8 5 лет назад +18

      True soo true! Everything gets updates eventually to a scary scale like today compared to the past.

    • @dbaggins2667
      @dbaggins2667 5 лет назад +11

      Only ignorant retards would laugh

    • @ritmo1130
      @ritmo1130 5 лет назад +3

      Some people just talk and judge, even if they don't have an idea of what a simple logic gate is.

    • @Hengry-hn7rb
      @Hengry-hn7rb 5 лет назад

      Huachinango Comunista I’m not laughing at their inventions I’m laughing at them 🤓

    • @xanderk84
      @xanderk84 5 лет назад +1

      That is an excellent point Huachinango Comunista, but you do realize that the "them" whose innovations you are grateful for were capitalists. Communism could never have brought us the internet.

  • @JordanICM
    @JordanICM 3 года назад +646

    1984: Expensive computer is used to keep track of whats in the freezer.
    2021: Expensive phone is used to keep track of how long you've been sitting and standing.
    Glad we're still finding essential uses for our personal technological devices. I don't know how we would have kept track of these things before.

  • @InsCoin2Play
    @InsCoin2Play Год назад +2

    What an innovation to drop a data blast at the end!