It's 2023 and I'm 41. I still think that 1995 was about 10 years ago. It completely boggles the mind that it was 28 years ago. This is about two years before I got on the internet. My Dad showed me my first webpage, which was Yahoo! I learned how to program HTML on my Windows CE 1.0 PDA using a copy of HTML for dummies. HTML was easy and simple back then. When I watch videos of guys coding sites in CSS I'm in awe. Back in the day, we were lucky that we had bold and italics - let along being able to set a font. It's funny how we all now take things for granted but going back shows us how far we have come.
I don't know man. Html did fuck the internet really really hard. Now it's all about heavy front end and very little data structuring or back end. It isolated us from the back end, from the way things worked. Let me give you an example, in early 90s you could use the internet flawlessly, use ftp to download documents, images, audio, anything you want effortlessly, you download the file you play it, your kernel handles the file but with http and browsers playing media over the internet became a hassle you see, it became a cluster fuck of plugins and different browsers not supporting different formats. HTTP basically told people to run everything on top of the browser, which is still far more inefficient than running things on your kernel. It became all about the looks and the important stuff was just thrown straight out of the window. Server managers had to spend time structuring and documenting the data, now it's all a cluster fuck. Unless you have a front end linking to your data, your data is essentially invisible to the entire world
(2023) Looking at this video and the early days of consumer access to the Internet, it's amazing how fast the technology progressed. Online shopping, accessing business and personal accounts online, bill paying, online banking, streaming videos & television, streaming music services. Our smartphones which are more powerful than the computers in this video fit into our pockets and have access to the Internet. It was indeed a transformative technology that has changed the world.
I started playing with computers around 1969, a little before ARPANET made its first connection (coincidentally, just across town from me). I'm constantly stunned at where we've reached. The 80s were very exciting as there was an explosion of technical creativity. Once PCs got powerful enough, the future was at hand. Enter the 90s, when the Internet was affordably available to the general public, and the Information Age (or more accurately: the Flood of Data Age) began in earnest. The future had arrived -- for good or for ill is still up for debate (the proverbial curse about "living in interesting times" still holds). So much had to happen -- hardware, software, sociological -- and I got to be a part of and witness a lot of it. I hope I live long enough to see how our robot overlords deal with what we leave them.
Summer 1995 is when I got Internet at home. I will say that even then, I never could have imagined a live concert online (oh wait: “on line”) Yeah, I eventually discovered RealPlayer, but that was for premade content when I first used it. From my first experience with Netscape 1.1 (the “Big Blue N” to today, I’ve been amazed at how the Internet has developed.
Back when "surfing on the internet" really was surfing on the internet. 1995, elementary school, we had "internet breaks" at school during lunch where you can surf the net. Lets jut say this was before internet security firewalls and web filtering...
The first time I heard about "electronic mail" was in London in 1993, my first job at a gaming company and remember one of the staff talking about how she could send messages to New York instantly. I didn't really get it until my next job in 1994 which took me to Seattle and another gaming company, I was quickly introduced to the WWW, 486s and all that good stuff.
Man, that is now more than a quarter century ago. 😶I was born in 78, and until the late 90s, time seemed to click a year at a time to me. That is, I really felt every single year. But some point after that, it just started speeding up, and boom, 25 years have gone by just like that.
I was born in 89 and after 25 the years just go by faster and faster, I'm 34 now. It still feels like the 2000's was just a little while ago, but now it's been 16 years since I graduated lol. You'll be 50 before the end of this decade and I'll be 40... Holy crap
The 90s did feel distinct, like each year was it's own era rather than one single decade. New innovations and breakthroughs each and every year, and you could literally feel everything changing as we became more advanced and more connected. It was exciting. Fast forward to today it seems like the 2000s is just one long era. Everyone is already connected to the internet around the world. The advancements made in the 90s have come to fruition and infiltrated our lives, but I don't really feel change year after year as much as I did in the 90s. Just a constant need by society to be outraged by some world event each every year. We are now overwhelmed with information and I feel maybe we are way too connected.
I was 18 years old in 1995. My father told me that the internet was the future. I told him he was crazy and that it was just a fad. I've never questioned his wisdom since.
I was 13! and I knew it was the future! I got my first computer in 94, 486 dx, 33mhz, 512k video card and no soundcard or cd rom drive! but our high school got the internet and I downloaded webpages on floppy disk and reverse engineered them! This was the great age of computing!
@@weaponofmassconstruction1940 Darn right. And now I'm a Software Engineer who's going to be working remotely from home until at least the 4th quarter of 2021. Kinda funny.
Much of this stuff was possible even in the 80s. It just was not as premoninent or widely available due to infrastructure, nor economically affordable to the general public.
Ah, the early years of the Internet. Brings back memories from the first time I surfed around (circa 1997, on a demo kiosk of my local phone company). We didn't have net access at home till 99' (dial-up) and we kept the same service for years (since it was cheaper and we only used e-mail most of the time)
I first got on the internet in 1998. Sure, in the 23 years since then the internet has evolved to have much higher quality content and social media, but how you use it is effectively unchanged. But this internet of 1995, only 3 years prior, is unrecognizable to me. That was an incredibly revolutionary period. I wish I had been more involved then.
My father was a journalist and he had a computer with windows 95 in 96,he had dial-up connection, that s when I first browsed the internet, I was 13 years old...time goes by so fast🙃
I forget who derided AOL as "Internet with training wheels", regarding their "curator" model. Would you believe that, in the mid-to-late '90s, there were actual businesses trying to connect to their legal/financial research services by running the client program on top of their AOL connection? Naturally, it didn't work, and we had to break it to them that AOL was not an Internet connection.
I remember my dad getting a bill for $200 from compuserve in 1989, as I had recently discovered their real time chat groups and didn't realize they charged by the minute! That was the last time I did any online chatting until I discovered IRC on the internet a few years later.
@@floydjohnson7888 I was on CompuServe, which was aimed more at business users, but also consumers. The best thing about AOL ( I remember a derogatory name for the A) was all the free floppies!
I have to object with an introduction to the HTML story, pretending that HTML was not easy. I literally learned how to make web pages in a matter of minutes via notepad back in the day, when a family friend introduced me to the internet. A lot of products were developed by ambitious companies looking to capitalize on people not knowing how to do things, and most of these product were far harder to use then simply learning the fairly few html tags available at the time. I think that those products actually hurt and slowed down web development by creating an industry out of pretending that not everyone could do it, when in fact everyone could do it. Still love the episode though.🙂
And back then you needed to know a clusterfuck of different skills just to operate the computer, get online and publish the actual document, and you had to learn it without youtube, google and the vast free information resources there are available today to learn new things, so I say it's even.
@@mikemayo4812 And mine was AltaVista, and I started working as a young web developer, and it was much harder to find good information in large scale when you wanted to study something, not because of what search engine you used but because that information simply didn't exist on the web in large scale, again, there was no youtube, wikipedia, stackoverflow, reddit or that many other good forums to get the information from, I'm not saying there were none, but it wasn't like it is today, and certainly you didn't had web courses sites like the ones exist today.
@@mikemayo4812 Technically, Yahoo was not a search engine, it was a human-processed listing service that took submitted websites and someone in Yahoo added them to the right categories and ranked them that way. That model quickly began to fall apart as the web exploded since they couldn't keep up. Afterwards, Yahoo adopted a regular bot driven indexing system.
Gawd! It's so weird to see things we now use every day (or no longer really use) that were on so innovative back in 1995. The guy at 13:54 basically describes PayPal.
I remember when I began browsing the Internet in the late 1990s which I liked using search engines such as Alta Vista (which had been virtually replaced by Google around a decade later). The search engines on Alta Vista and later Google would not only post the names of the pages, but also show the URLs (or web addresses).
Research and reference uses. This is excellent. I do miss the previous physica card catalogs at libraries, but the newer computerized catalogs let you know if a book is available or you can put a "hold" on the item.
cheers for putting these episodes up, they're real interesting and its cool to look back. i'm interested to know if your gonna put up more vids, hope you do and i'll be looking out for them. do you like retro video games as well as retro computing? peace.
"Successful homepages can be seen by 20 or 30 thousand people a week".... now if someone says the wrong thing at Walmart the actual event is viewed millions of times in the first day, they are in protective custody within a week...
It ceased to exist 20 years ago, in 2002. Stewart is still alive but no, he's not interested in any revival. When he started Computer Chronicles in the 80s it was already a second career for him after a long established track in journalism and law.
@@oldtwinsna8347 In 2002, I bought my first microcomputer, brand Cybernet, a Windows computer with Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Microsoft Office XP Professional; a Canon color laser printer, and a Canon [flatbed] scanner. Then I began a typewriting service, right in the privacy of my home. I am sorry that The Computer Chronicles came to an end. I am grateful that Stewart is alive and living. Thank you for tapping or typing to me.
4:13 Remember when video over the internet was something special to call attention to? The best reason to watch this old show is talking about mundane things as if they are something incredible. LOL from 2022.
They were dead way before 3g technology rolled out in mass, which in the US was around 2007/2008. Computers were simply cheap enough by then and high speed access was actually cheaper than it is currently in many home markets since price gouging going on with cable companies losing tv subscribers. But smartphones and tablets did bring in larger amounts of the uneducated market to play so that ties in with it too.
They were never popular in north america. They were stupidly overpriced. They wanted your money but didn't want your butt sitting there occupying valuable computer real estate all day. If you had the money to visit an internet cafe regularly you had the money for a home PC and internet connection.
@@Kyntteri Hahaha maybe not that as much - but the simplicity yes. Maybe it made us more patient having to wait than with the instant information overload nowadays, methinks~
@@feywerfolevado6286 I did catch myself being annoyed for having to wait literal minutes for a something like 15GB patch file to download. Kind of funny that I easily remember the time of my life where that would've taken several days and even with way smaller file sizes, the waiting times were comparatively long. Younger generations grew up with fast connection speeds and are the minimum norm for them. Times have changed and will continue to change. But even with all the personal nostalgia, I don't miss it.
so providers like CompuServe back then really didn't want you to see the actual internet, notice she never showed you the actual net. If anyone knows what the hell I'm talking about please comment. It's like Disney not wanting you to know about the pirate Bay.
Big City Greens once mentioned Torrent by name and said you can download anime from it. That was weird. You'd think Disney would have the power to take down such websites like they did with Blip.
At the time, they, Prodigy, AOL, and other such "online services" were more concerned with being destinations ("Air Warrior or MegaWars, anyone?") unto themselves than gateways-"a 'to' rather than a 'through'. The tiny slivers of Internet access they presented were "bonus content". However, by 1995, the dialup ISP was becoming a thing, UUNet, peoplePC, etc. coming up. They were more concerned with connecting their users to content in other parts, rather than generating/curating -"a through, rather than a to"
They didn't have the technical infrastructure for full blown Internet to service their vast subscriber base (the bandwidth would've been far too much) and wanted to keep their brand differentiation. Things hosted on their own LAN made more sense since they could keep it proprietary and linked to their brand for differentiation of product. Unfortunately, this model failed because the Internet as a whole got so big, so quickly, and offered so much more that it was like comparing a singular nice fancy swimming pool vs having access to all the world's beaches anywhere anytime. By the time this was realized, these services could not compete on price to opaque dialup and highspeed providers that had an experience curve to operate efficiently for pure Internet access.
In 1995 if you searched my name, you'd find me and the websites I had published. If you search my name today, you'll have no idea who I am (thankfully).
i was exposed to the WWW at uni, but it was later when I could afford it and a new computer. I used the web showing my brother how and about on Xmas 1998 with Windows 98 on 56K dial up. I paid #230 for a few hours on this xmas day with virgin! I chucked their support soon after!
It's 2023 and I'm 41. I still think that 1995 was about 10 years ago. It completely boggles the mind that it was 28 years ago. This is about two years before I got on the internet. My Dad showed me my first webpage, which was Yahoo! I learned how to program HTML on my Windows CE 1.0 PDA using a copy of HTML for dummies. HTML was easy and simple back then. When I watch videos of guys coding sites in CSS I'm in awe. Back in the day, we were lucky that we had bold and italics - let along being able to set a font. It's funny how we all now take things for granted but going back shows us how far we have come.
I’m the same way, I am 41 this year and I remember dialing into compuserv on a 2400 baud modem in DOS. It’s amazing how far we have come.
Now I guess we understand much better old people talking vividly about the 2nd war like it was yesterday ..
2024, 60.
I don't know man. Html did fuck the internet really really hard. Now it's all about heavy front end and very little data structuring or back end. It isolated us from the back end, from the way things worked. Let me give you an example, in early 90s you could use the internet flawlessly, use ftp to download documents, images, audio, anything you want effortlessly, you download the file you play it, your kernel handles the file but with http and browsers playing media over the internet became a hassle you see, it became a cluster fuck of plugins and different browsers not supporting different formats. HTTP basically told people to run everything on top of the browser, which is still far more inefficient than running things on your kernel. It became all about the looks and the important stuff was just thrown straight out of the window. Server managers had to spend time structuring and documenting the data, now it's all a cluster fuck. Unless you have a front end linking to your data, your data is essentially invisible to the entire world
I am 40 and feel the same. I still remember everything about 1995 and feels like yesterday I was browsing the Internet on AOL.
This internet thing sounds amazing, i should try it out sometime!
"Here's an email I got from Steve Jobs". Dude name droppin.
@ he’s from the NYT, it most likely was!
Yeah guys a show off this was his 5 mins of fame 26 years on no one remembers him lol
I watched Steve Jobs demo the Apple IIe disk drive at Comdex in 1979. The thing I remembered was he had body odor
@@charlesbaldo lol 😂
Stewart was not a fan of Steves he had bad personal experiences with him so seeing this was funny.
(2023) Looking at this video and the early days of consumer access to the Internet, it's amazing how fast the technology progressed. Online shopping, accessing business and personal accounts online, bill paying, online banking, streaming videos & television, streaming music services. Our smartphones which are more powerful than the computers in this video fit into our pockets and have access to the Internet. It was indeed a transformative technology that has changed the world.
I started playing with computers around 1969, a little before ARPANET made its first connection (coincidentally, just across town from me). I'm constantly stunned at where we've reached. The 80s were very exciting as there was an explosion of technical creativity. Once PCs got powerful enough, the future was at hand. Enter the 90s, when the Internet was affordably available to the general public, and the Information Age (or more accurately: the Flood of Data Age) began in earnest. The future had arrived -- for good or for ill is still up for debate (the proverbial curse about "living in interesting times" still holds). So much had to happen -- hardware, software, sociological -- and I got to be a part of and witness a lot of it. I hope I live long enough to see how our robot overlords deal with what we leave them.
1983, TI 99 4A, then Tandy Radio Shack 1000 RLX, and many Apple systems(my fave)!
Summer 1995 is when I got Internet at home. I will say that even then, I never could have imagined a live concert online (oh wait: “on line”) Yeah, I eventually discovered RealPlayer, but that was for premade content when I first used it.
From my first experience with Netscape 1.1 (the “Big Blue N” to today, I’ve been amazed at how the Internet has developed.
Back when "surfing on the internet" really was surfing on the internet. 1995, elementary school, we had "internet breaks" at school during lunch where you can surf the net. Lets jut say this was before internet security firewalls and web filtering...
So you were watching porn in 144p!
Back in the late 90s, I was working at IBM Canada and we didn't have firewalls there. I was just starting to hear about them from a co-worker.
The first time I heard about "electronic mail" was in London in 1993, my first job at a gaming company and remember one of the staff talking about how she could send messages to New York instantly. I didn't really get it until my next job in 1994 which took me to Seattle and another gaming company, I was quickly introduced to the WWW, 486s and all that good stuff.
I love that she picked the worst news group she could
Man, that is now more than a quarter century ago. 😶I was born in 78, and until the late 90s, time seemed to click a year at a time to me. That is, I really felt every single year. But some point after that, it just started speeding up, and boom, 25 years have gone by just like that.
I was born in 89 and after 25 the years just go by faster and faster, I'm 34 now. It still feels like the 2000's was just a little while ago, but now it's been 16 years since I graduated lol. You'll be 50 before the end of this decade and I'll be 40... Holy crap
I was born in 79 and 100% agree with you guys.
The 90s did feel distinct, like each year was it's own era rather than one single decade. New innovations and breakthroughs each and every year, and you could literally feel everything changing as we became more advanced and more connected. It was exciting.
Fast forward to today it seems like the 2000s is just one long era. Everyone is already connected to the internet around the world. The advancements made in the 90s have come to fruition and infiltrated our lives, but I don't really feel change year after year as much as I did in the 90s. Just a constant need by society to be outraged by some world event each every year. We are now overwhelmed with information and I feel maybe we are way too connected.
I was 18 years old in 1995. My father told me that the internet was the future. I told him he was crazy and that it was just a fad. I've never questioned his wisdom since.
I was 13! and I knew it was the future! I got my first computer in 94, 486 dx, 33mhz, 512k video card and no soundcard or cd rom drive! but our high school got the internet and I downloaded webpages on floppy disk and reverse engineered them! This was the great age of computing!
Dad's fad was rad you bad lad.
@@weaponofmassconstruction1940 Darn right. And now I'm a Software Engineer who's going to be working remotely from home until at least the 4th quarter of 2021. Kinda funny.
@@jxchamb
I am a software engineer who has always worked remote, now i wish people had offices to go to. Looks like your 4Q 21 might be right
You thought it was just a fad? 🤣
I still can't get my head round the fact all this stuff was possible just 5 years after the 80s...
It is somehow thanks to what happened in the late 70s and the 80s that all this stuff became possible in the middle 90s.
@@celsovascaothat’s how time works yes
Much of this stuff was possible even in the 80s. It just was not as premoninent or widely available due to infrastructure, nor economically affordable to the general public.
Ah, the early years of the Internet. Brings back memories from the first time I surfed around (circa 1997, on a demo kiosk of my local phone company). We didn't have net access at home till 99' (dial-up) and we kept the same service for years (since it was cheaper and we only used e-mail most of the time)
Being a Auto Tech turned Web Developer at age 26 I would have never thought I would be using the internet to make money.
I first got on the internet in 1998. Sure, in the 23 years since then the internet has evolved to have much higher quality content and social media, but how you use it is effectively unchanged. But this internet of 1995, only 3 years prior, is unrecognizable to me. That was an incredibly revolutionary period. I wish I had been more involved then.
"23 years since then the internet has evolved to have much higher quality content" => Are you sure ?
@@plibani4248 Well do you still need to connect the internet to the landline or do you've problems loading?
@@plibani4248 even RUclips was capped to 240 or 360 in 2006, now you can watch a 4K video at 60 FPS.
I was not expecting that first line. lol
me neither lol. it needed a slight volume warning too.
Another "moderately goofy" intro, like "compact car + compact computer", or a show about Windows starting in front of a very glassy building.
My father was a journalist and he had a computer with windows 95 in 96,he had dial-up connection, that s when I first browsed the internet, I was 13 years old...time goes by so fast🙃
Compuserve and AOL, the Fisher Price of internet service providers.
I forget who derided AOL as "Internet with training wheels", regarding their "curator" model. Would you believe that, in the mid-to-late '90s, there were actual businesses trying to connect to their legal/financial research services by running the client program on top of their AOL connection? Naturally, it didn't work, and we had to break it to them that AOL was not an Internet connection.
Ah, the good aol days.
I remember my dad getting a bill for $200 from compuserve in 1989, as I had recently discovered their real time chat groups and didn't realize they charged by the minute! That was the last time I did any online chatting until I discovered IRC on the internet a few years later.
@@floydjohnson7888 I was on CompuServe, which was aimed more at business users, but also consumers. The best thing about AOL ( I remember a derogatory name for the A) was all the free floppies!
I have to object with an introduction to the HTML story, pretending that HTML was not easy. I literally learned how to make web pages in a matter of minutes via notepad back in the day, when a family friend introduced me to the internet. A lot of products were developed by ambitious companies looking to capitalize on people not knowing how to do things, and most of these product were far harder to use then simply learning the fairly few html tags available at the time. I think that those products actually hurt and slowed down web development by creating an industry out of pretending that not everyone could do it, when in fact everyone could do it. Still love the episode though.🙂
Markoff with a hard flex within the first 10 secs of his interview. Legend.
Html in the 90s was so simple... today you need to know html, css, javascript, node.js and a whole clusterfuck of other complex technologies...
And back then you needed to know a clusterfuck of different skills just to operate the computer, get online and publish the actual document, and you had to learn it without youtube, google and the vast free information resources there are available today to learn new things, so I say it's even.
@@E_y_a_l Google didn't exist yet, but there was Yahoo. That was my search engine in 1995.
@@mikemayo4812 And mine was AltaVista, and I started working as a young web developer, and it was much harder to find good information in large scale when you wanted to study something, not because of what search engine you used but because that information simply didn't exist on the web in large scale, again, there was no youtube, wikipedia, stackoverflow, reddit or that many other good forums to get the information from, I'm not saying there were none, but it wasn't like it is today, and certainly you didn't had web courses sites like the ones exist today.
@@mikemayo4812 Technically, Yahoo was not a search engine, it was a human-processed listing service that took submitted websites and someone in Yahoo added them to the right categories and ranked them that way. That model quickly began to fall apart as the web exploded since they couldn't keep up. Afterwards, Yahoo adopted a regular bot driven indexing system.
You can actually just build a website with HTML and web server only. This is true even today.
Gawd! It's so weird to see things we now use every day (or no longer really use) that were on so innovative back in 1995. The guy at 13:54 basically describes PayPal.
Lorne? Is that you?
He is Satoshi Nakamoto
I first experienced the internet (briefly) around 1995, and was absolutely amazed by it. Still am
1995 was the best year for Computers.
You telling me online pizza orders started in 1995?!
Yeah there's that Sandra Bullock movie from 1995, The Net and she orders a pizza online in it too.
And in 2021, we're ordering groceries and watching television through the internet. Heck, I've been teleworking-as a Web programmer-since 2007
Yep. Wild, isn't it?
@@gocsa Thanks! I Rewatching This Film Again!
Every part of the computer chronicles forward-looking (to the future).
I remember when I began browsing the Internet in the late 1990s which I liked using search engines such as Alta Vista (which had been virtually replaced by Google around a decade later). The search engines on Alta Vista and later Google would not only post the names of the pages, but also show the URLs (or web addresses).
Research and reference uses. This is excellent. I do miss the previous physica card catalogs at libraries, but the newer computerized catalogs let you know if a book is available or you can put a "hold" on the item.
These days, you can also borrow ebooks, without setting foot anywhere near the library. I frequently read them on my Android tablet.
cheers for putting these episodes up, they're real interesting and its cool to look back. i'm interested to know if your gonna put up more vids, hope you do and i'll be looking out for them. do you like retro video games as well as retro computing? peace.
Feels like yesterday to me.
Severe Tire Damage were clearly the Subgenius pioneers of live music streaming.
At the moment (3 January 2021), www.std.org/text/video.html still exists
@@floydjohnson7888 Interesting that their site is still up and still updated periodically.
RIP Classic internet
Now the internet is ruined
When Mark Weiser said it was heaven, sadly that is where he would be in four years of this episode. Died way too young.
Wow! I remember watching this show in the 80s. My how times have changed.
You watched an episode from 1995 in the eighties? Come pick me up in your De Lorean.
@@markchas4554 Lol, he was talking about the SHOW, not the episode. :D
@@blackneos940 No, he meant his age. teeemack is now 110.
"Successful homepages can be seen by 20 or 30 thousand people a week".... now if someone says the wrong thing at Walmart the actual event is viewed millions of times in the first day, they are in protective custody within a week...
Ah ... the time when everybody was making their personal websites ...
The flame wars on newsgroups were even more severe than they are on youtube.
Really?
I wouldn't be surprised.
The only difference is RUclips deletes comments it doesn’t like
Amiga is better than Atari ST!
🤡🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🌚💨🐜🍑
Fastest name drop in history 😂
Man, Stewart Cheifet seems really jacked up on that coffee in the opening segment!
RIP Mark Weiser
Ah yes, the "famous" Pizza Hut homepage: as iconic then as it is today!
I enjoy watching these shows about people using computers, even though I work on one at home. I hope The Computer Chronicles still exists today.
It ceased to exist 20 years ago, in 2002. Stewart is still alive but no, he's not interested in any revival. When he started Computer Chronicles in the 80s it was already a second career for him after a long established track in journalism and law.
@@oldtwinsna8347 In 2002, I bought my first microcomputer, brand Cybernet, a Windows computer with Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Microsoft Office XP Professional; a Canon color laser printer, and a Canon [flatbed] scanner. Then I began a typewriting service, right in the privacy of my home. I am sorry that The Computer Chronicles came to an end. I am grateful that Stewart is alive and living. Thank you for tapping or typing to me.
This Internet thing is a pipe dream - it'll never amount to anything, nerds
I bet "Severe Tire Damage" was happy they kept their day jobs.
3:12
Used 16 MB Ram $375
Used 200MB Hard drive $75
Severe Tire Damage
Things have changed so much since 1995! And, we can reach our legislators faster!
Did anybody ever tell them that they named their band STD? I can Respect that.
She had a Jimmy Buffet newsgroup as one of her favs…❤ RIP Jimmy!
Hmm good old HTML. Simple and beautiful. I miss it
jobb volt az a világ amikor még nem volt internet!O,o
Surfin the net
If you add charts and graphs, you're golden!
Excel!
I like the User Interface of CompuServe!
4:13 Remember when video over the internet was something special to call attention to? The best reason to watch this old show is talking about mundane things as if they are something incredible. LOL from 2022.
New ones, too!
Man just casually says I got an email from Steve Jobs
That’s correct.
Severe Tire Damage 🤣
Hopefully I get to try this internet some day
Lets see what was around at the time. Ebay, PayPal, RSA, Zimmerman encryption, Netscape, etc.. So the seeds were already there.
That's correct!
paypal used to be X.com and they came out in 1999
rip Mark Weiser
I thought you said "Ware," which is nearby! Much less time waiting, now!
9:17 "...and with thousands of newsgroups there's probably something for everyone". Oh you have no idea, lady.
Amazon, eBay and other e-commerce sellers! Radio Shack is back online, great!
"Digital Media Center" I am going to check out it's website!
That’s correct
Computers, Coffee and Cats!
Hey, when it will be availiable in the UK?
This internet thing might catch on.
What killed the cybercafe: widespread home broadband or 3G/ 4G smartphones?
They were dead way before 3g technology rolled out in mass, which in the US was around 2007/2008. Computers were simply cheap enough by then and high speed access was actually cheaper than it is currently in many home markets since price gouging going on with cable companies losing tv subscribers. But smartphones and tablets did bring in larger amounts of the uneducated market to play so that ties in with it too.
They were never popular in north america. They were stupidly overpriced. They wanted your money but didn't want your butt sitting there occupying valuable computer real estate all day. If you had the money to visit an internet cafe regularly you had the money for a home PC and internet connection.
Well they are still famous in other countries.
History of the Internet :)
Hahaha “Severe Tire Damage” - must’ve been fans of Mrs. Doubtfire
Bring back Gopher!
the dialtone is nostalgic, but not really in a good way :')
Severe Tire Damage, anybody else catch the Mrs. Doubtfire reference
That's correct.
Classic
I miss the simplicity of the early internet. Oh, if they only could have seen how it has changed~
The simplicity and dogs*it speeds. Great times.
@@Kyntteri Hahaha maybe not that as much - but the simplicity yes. Maybe it made us more patient having to wait than with the instant information overload nowadays, methinks~
@@feywerfolevado6286 I did catch myself being annoyed for having to wait literal minutes for a something like 15GB patch file to download. Kind of funny that I easily remember the time of my life where that would've taken several days and even with way smaller file sizes, the waiting times were comparatively long. Younger generations grew up with fast connection speeds and are the minimum norm for them. Times have changed and will continue to change.
But even with all the personal nostalgia, I don't miss it.
19:15 Joe Lambert knew what was going to happen "everyone can tell there story, snippet of video and your own page" that is what RUclips has become.
so providers like CompuServe back then really didn't want you to see the actual internet, notice she never showed you the actual net. If anyone knows what the hell I'm talking about please comment. It's like Disney not wanting you to know about the pirate Bay.
Big City Greens once mentioned Torrent by name and said you can download anime from it. That was weird. You'd think Disney would have the power to take down such websites like they did with Blip.
I remember when I broke out from AOL in 1998. It was so exciting!
At the time, they, Prodigy, AOL, and other such "online services" were more concerned with being destinations ("Air Warrior or MegaWars, anyone?") unto themselves than gateways-"a 'to' rather than a 'through'. The tiny slivers of Internet access they presented were "bonus content".
However, by 1995, the dialup ISP was becoming a thing, UUNet, peoplePC, etc. coming up. They were more concerned with connecting their users to content in other parts, rather than generating/curating -"a through, rather than a to"
They didn't have the technical infrastructure for full blown Internet to service their vast subscriber base (the bandwidth would've been far too much) and wanted to keep their brand differentiation. Things hosted on their own LAN made more sense since they could keep it proprietary and linked to their brand for differentiation of product. Unfortunately, this model failed because the Internet as a whole got so big, so quickly, and offered so much more that it was like comparing a singular nice fancy swimming pool vs having access to all the world's beaches anywhere anytime. By the time this was realized, these services could not compete on price to opaque dialup and highspeed providers that had an experience curve to operate efficiently for pure Internet access.
In 1995 if you searched my name, you'd find me and the websites I had published. If you search my name today, you'll have no idea who I am (thankfully).
It is great to see a woman in technology, an advisor!
"We're talking about successful homepages can be seen by 20 to 30,000 people a week!" LOL
4:47 Guy's wearing a Timex Datalink watch haha
i was exposed to the WWW at uni, but it was later when I could afford it and a new computer. I used the web showing my brother how and about on Xmas 1998 with Windows 98 on 56K dial up. I paid #230 for a few hours on this xmas day with virgin! I chucked their support soon after!
The early "Subscribe" buttons!
1:45 an email from Steve Jobs!
Internet
What about Prodigy, AOL and the like?!
1995 - Hyperlinks on the states map
"In New England!"
Now, faster access!
Electronic Mail.... said no one ever
Jordan Peterson is Joe Lambert, check how It is also expressed with great similarity to Jordan (minute 19:16)
Interlibrary loans are excellent!
Severe Tire Damage!
Internet Cafes!
Oh, yes, surfing the net 😏
I wish I could marry that girl; that's correct :)
+Mashruz
Well she's probably old now.
That's correct too...😃😂
Isn't she like 80 by now? 🤔
@@EdwinvandenAkker 80??? that show is 25 years ago, she was on her 20s then, now she's on her 50s, how you got to 80?
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