Worldkey: Disney's Fake Internet (1982)
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- What do computers, telephones and EPCOT Center have in common? Apparently a lot more than you might think. So come along, as we take a journey through more than 40 years worth of technology history to try and figure out the park's long-forgotten information system.
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Went through my subscriptions list yesterday for the first time in ages, and said "Wow, 8 months already? Hopefully there's something new in the works."
Didn't know I had these powers, but I'm not complaining. Awesome to have you back.
Thank you for manifesting a new TPSE video.
Learning about the history of transistors and how they played a role in this, along with the laserdiscs is so interesting to me. Thank you, man! I loved this. Excellent job.
Disneyland had something remarkably similar to this in the 2000's. It wasn't connected to the internet (or at least would not access it) but you could communicate with other guests in that big "future" room. The computer stations let you create your own Fireworks show so I of course loaded it up with as much as I possibly could and I think it actually froze and restarted the machine. I remember seeing a windows logo and being SHOCKED! Good times. It looked a lot like 3:33 ! It was a very large warehouse-like room with 2 stories. Even in the 2000's it had a very retro feel but also felt like "Wow! This is gonna be what the future is like!" - I really loved it as a kid.I think it was around the time Windows Vista came out. I saw ASIMO for the first time there too! They had a whole demo, it was really impressive to me as a kid. First time I saw a real robot! He kicked a soccer ball! He walked up stairs! This sounds silly now but it was really impressive.
I remember Worldkey very well! It was a big part of my experience at Epcot when I was there on the third day that Epcott was open - October 3rd 1982. I spent a lot of time playing with it and using it to make a restaurant reservation. At the time it was incredible technology! I was very impressed with it.
It’s almost as if it was an INTRAnet….
The foundations of the current internet have been around since the 70s. Only when HTTP and SSL were developed in the 90s could the internet become useful for wider use.
The moment that saw the word “INTRAnet”…. I was immediately reminded of North Korea
@@TheEndOfTheFrontiers "intranet" is a standard term for private, internal company networks.
when i went to Disney World for the first time as a kid, like in 94 to 96 somewhere in there, there was this kiosk contraption in the middle of Tomorrowland, two of them, each on opposite ends of the area. Kids were crowded around them. I was able to take a peak at what is was and remembered maybe a red public phone looking thing and a pixelated screen with people on it. Walking by the other, had the same. I THINK it was transmitting between the two, but have no idea what it was and never seen anything on it again. The next time I went to WDW a couple years later, there was no sign of them.
I remember using it for dining reservations.
Glad to see you back at it!
Please tell me we will get a communicore and innovations exhibits keep Epcot weird video. I know you went over a few in the robots of Epcot but I believe it deserves it own video
Love your videos! So much research, depth and detail goes into them!!
"COMMUNICOR! Your Close Encounter with the Future!" Shows you how they equated technology with alien invasion.
"General Electric's Carousel of Progress - Six life-like families trace the contributions of electricity to better living." A combination of Mad Men copy and futuristic terror. Someone should make a movie about all this.
So glad you’re back! I’ve been rewatching some of my favorite videos of yours as I’m feeling ill. :’) They’re quite comforting.
I've always felt a fundamental flaw of EPCOT, or any theme parks with future world type attractions, is that it takes a decade between beginning planning and having the exhibits operational. So right there you are already somewhat behind the times. Add to it that theme parks are very resistant to updating an changing existing rides and showcases. So many of these things end up hanging around 20-30 years. Either we've already surpassed the future timeline or the world has changes so much that the futuristic thing you are showing will come to pass in a very different way. I always feel that way about the end of Spaceship Earth.
Yay! Finally a video about this! By the time I got to Epcot for the first time they were gone. I've seen videos of vintage Epcot with this in the background and maybe a sentence, or two explaining what it is, but that's it. I've always wondered how in depth it all was and what the actual functions were.
There we go, that's the good stuff
I do remember seeing those kiosks. I don't think I ever messed with it. Unless there was a terminal in the Communicore, because I do remember messing with something that could show you a page about The Living Seas.
I know it seems silly now. But in 1984? This was cutting edge fantastic to a kid.
New video, heck yea!
5:58 the orb streaking across the screen, UFO or Walt haunting Epcot?
Where the hell have you been? What has it been almost 2 years since you made a new video?
They did have large satellites next to communicore so they used them for something
Honestly did a double take when I saw you had a new video. I was honestly afraid you had gone back into hibernation.
Did you change the channel name?
Screw Defunctland making a video about the Star Wars hotel, His next season should totally be all of the things Epcot was inspired by. Like the Montreal world expo.
Lil harsh there bud
Thank you. I'm so sick of modern Disneyland crap. Would rather watch the historic stuff.
Oh yes! Expo '67. Man and his World. La Ronde. All the pavilions where you had to line up for half an hour.
I don't see how he could say anything about it that Jenny Nickolson's 4 hour video didn't cover.
Documenting contemporary attractions is how we are *able* to look back at the history a decade later. It’s good to have it, but I agree that I’d like more historical coverage
6:09
They had to start somewhere.
Retrofuturism!
Neat 😀
Epoct very fun place when family meet up for lunch ar whatever we wanted to meet up for anything we always tell each other let's meet up at the big golf ball put Epcot looks like a big old golf ball