Boom, you beat me to it. Imagine a dozen greedy corporations saying 'I want my slice' and the Internet dying a death of a thousand cuts.

Well at least we have KZfaq

Yar har, fiddle-dee-dee, Being a pirate is alright to be! Do what you want cause a pirate is free, You are a pirate!

PLEX servers, amirite!?

Now imagine utorrent and wcostream Discover possibilities instead of sleepwalking into costs

Everything except her embroidered vest.

@@paaao Nah, I know a lot of women who would love that outfit right here and now. It may not be something to wear while making a tech presentation on camera, but it's good for a casual afternoon.

lol im sure what you mean by that. the set is vary 90s and the tech is vary old and outdated. but it is cool to see the beginnings of the main stream of the internet

​@@pleasedontwatchthese9593 I think he means that the presenter isn't saying anything silly like "by the year 2000 you'll be plugging your brain into a virtual reality recreation of Buckingham Palace, where there will be giant buttons to press with commands like 'MAIL' and 'BUY HOTDOG,' and it will be glorious because it's THE FUTURRRRRRRRE."

The set and the lighting looks really nice. They've done a great job filming this.

A better world.

​@@Adam_KazmiI was 12-only feels like yesterday

I was 10 years old going on 11 30 years ago

@@Adam_Kazmihappy 48th birthday

@@RealMTBAddict A lot worse world.

Too much information 😵‍💫

I did a spit-take 🤣

Bravo.

...and that internet-enabled wireless video screen phone downloaded this video at a speed exceeding the UK's combined Internet bandwidth back in the days.

...a wireless phone with a screen that not only allows you to watch videos in the bathroom, but also to play 3d video games with anyone in the world.

You too? What a coincidence, I sent $1,000 off to him for customs duties and should be getting mine pretty soon.

Nah, that nigerian prince thing was a scam; But I discovered that a very wealthy banker had the same surname as mine, and because of some law shenanigans in their country, they could use my help to get those MILLIONS of doolars that were locked in an account... or something like that

@Враги Oh really? But I wasn't joking and now i'm a millionaire because a bank in nigeria needed someone with my surname to access millions of dollars in a locked account. 😂😂😂😂

I got an email another day from some federal agency saying they had confiscated millions from various scams and wanted to give me some of the money. The mental gymnastics for some of these scams is pretty crazy

yeah, I've paid mine as well, but weird as it may seems, my account balance has shrunk and no inheritance has came into so far, shall I go to the embassy to claim my reward???

I've heard everyone also gonna have little phones in their pockets where we can see pictures and videos, even entire movies. that's madness!

Nothing too good to be true ever comes to fruition

never believe anything you see on the internet, this will never happen.

@@andreabruson5558 It is madness! We still had a rotary dial telephone when i was a Senior in High School.

it did not go as expected to say the least

I really miss the 90s.

"I Did Not... Have... Relations... With that Woman... Ms. Lewinsky" - Bill Clinton ( An American Legend )...

‘90s

Did you send a letter to your telephone company to ask for it ?

@@unnamedchannel1237 They say on the website it’s ‘available soon’. It’s been in my street for the last 2 years… just not at the end I live at. Makes it even worse 😆

For fibre to the door yes most of us are. What she's talking about almost certainly was fibre to your local exchange that allowed broadband to become an option over dial up. Honestly this video is one of the most level headed and aged well presentations of the future of the internet from the early 90s

Same.

You have it, you just don't know it. The internet connection you have to your house is on copper, but after only a few hundred meters that likely turns into a fiber optic connection. The reason we can communicate globally in real time and send so much information so quickly is because we do now have those fiber optic super-highways the reporter spoke about.

I did NOT expect her to talk about fibre optic and streaming. Someone from the future was talking to her!

@@RaniaIsAwesome Haha, ikr. She should make a new one and tell us how the AI overlords will destroy humanity. :p

We never 'had to' call it that, she called it the internet too, although that isn't strictly correct as it's the WWW (world wide web), that uses the internet, internet had been around decades before '94. It was amazing to hear her talk about fibre optics etc though, would have meant nothing to me watching back then in my teens.

Actually it is very sad that its not called INFORMATION superhighway. Atm it looks like more like a goo pile.

I honestly personally preferer 'The information super railway'. Much higher capacity. Faster too.

Watching videos might be finished but computers definitely aren't. We still have way more to come, especially in the means of AI and VR.

in 1994 it had came a pretty long way already. more amazing those from 40's to 70's

Who said the product is finished?

Was at a technology fair maybe 25 years ago. Streaming was the hot new thing. Everybody talked about watching the news and movies on computers in a few years time. Retrospectively it's astounding how right they were.

Its far from a finished product, i think in 10years the internet you know today will not be around

Made me nostalgic for the world before the internet.

@@artugert Now that’s a statement!

​@@sfkeepayand one I agree with!

Am a computer texting you Am just testing my program Need oil But I have eco warriors on my back But don't worry am smart Opps my battery low Speak to you soon Your AI computer

I remember downloading a shareware version of Doom directly from Id homepage. I loved it so much that I went to the computer store the next day and bought the game package. Came home and realize I needed an external floppy drive to install the DOS based floppy disks of the game !!!!

"Hack the planet"

One time our modem somehow accidentally dialed the police. My sister and I heard them through the speaker and were afraid we were going to be arrested, lol.

I remember when video phones seemed so amazing. Whether it was through a webcam online or one of those video phones they sold at the time. It seemed so futuristic that you could call someone and see a video of them. Nowadays pretty much anybody can call anyone with a video call and nobody cares. Heck people barely want to even talk on the phone let alone show themselves on video. People would rather text. So it is kind of like the telegraph won in the end! lol

Live TV.

It was almost a single take, it cuts to the screen a few times

Yes! Nowadays every influencer has 7 to 10 cuts in a single short sentence and they think they are on par with - or even better than - traditional journalists and television presenters 🙄

This is what happens when you employ people based on their SKILLS and not their purple hair colour, skin or sexuality attributes. They’re able to do a whole piece without edits lol. That’s kinda what they’re supposed to be able to do, but apparently not in the 2024 world.

No SD cards! Pure old fashioned tape. Got deadlines to meet, so she had to have it RIGHT! LOL

1990 is 30 years away. 1999 is 21 years away.

@@namedrop721 23 years ago*

Now you'll both need to come back every year to edit your comment for accuracy. 😁

Yeah, I'm mentally stuck in 2000 too. Whenever I think about the 80's it's always 20 years ago...

My theory is it's because not a huge amount has changed since the 90's. The 60's, 70's and 80's were so different every decade but ever since the early to mid 90's we sort of reached "peak modern".

prophet from the future giving u a fortaste of whats to come

A decade or so later the typical documentary would be narrated by a dudebro speaking like he's talking to the bartender.

@@pilotcritic oh my god, this is so true it hurts. Why do people with such terrible reading voices go into reading dry scripts?

Because she is an actual electronic engineer.

@@8bitchiptune420 well, i was talking about how well the piece to camera flows, how well paced it is and how good the script is. Not sure those things have too much to do with the presenter's engineering degree.

@@brkatimachor because she wrote it.

That's very similar how I describe my life, and I'm a solid 20 years behind that age group.

I'm 28 and I'm so jealous of you.

in 1994 I was already using Kali to play wc2.exe, I talked with people all the time, usually while casting plague all over their stupid peons, lazy peons

the best years of the internet was the first decade , page uploads were slower than today but all the info was honest and real , even all the dating sites were free and real , real people , no bots , i met so many people in person from dating sites back then because the internet was real , slow but real .

Believe it or not, 1994 wasn’t the Stone Age

The tech already existed back then. The only thing lacking (at least in the UK) was the political will to put it into practice.

9 year old me in '94 still didn't know how the online shopping thing would work exactly. I thought they'd have a bunch of tubes running everywhere, spitting out goods - but no, derp, there's still going to be trucks and vans in the future.

CERN technicians sent an e-mail in 1972, so they had pondered about many usages by 1994.

Selection bias for the most part… programs that completely missed the mark won't be highlighted 30 years later.

How would that be ironic? Define the word ironic please.

Ironic is your birth. It's like how? How can that be!?!? Which is probably what the doctors and your mom said.@@Andosneez

​@@Dan-di9jdHow is that ironic?

The irony of your constant questions.@@Andosneez

@@Andosneez It wouldn't be ironic but it's still an interesting point. The word ironic is outside the mental capacity of a significant amount of the population, don't bully.

And yet, I don't remember there being so many pot holes in 1994

Computer in phone form is still weird… To talk onto a screen and not into little holes is weird..

And what's crazier is that for a most people it's not even primarily a phone. It's just an internet device that can also call people. A lot of people hardly ever use their phones as phones

I have a smart'phone' at home on wifi, and a dumb phone to bring along when I go outside. Very peaceful and cheap! @@mrggy

It's terrible having a phone as a computer and I get anxiety attacks. I want two separate.

They had most of the technology there in it's infancy already so they had a pretty good idea of what was to come.

Since this was published in 1994, the stuff she is talking about already existed. Not everyone knew about or understood it, especially in the UK. But for me, I was in high school and had the internet in the library, and in one of the computer labs. I could already send and receive email, use the Lycos search engine, and read websites, like Jolly Roger's Anarchist Cookbook. It's true I wasn't able to watch any videos, but the internet was clearly going places. It's heartbreaking to remember those days though, back when everything on the internet was free and ads were extremely rare.

@@nyx9875 It was a thing in the UK, I think 1992 was when our first commercial dial up was made available after a 2 year roll out. The UK has been involved in the research and development of packet switching, communication protocols, and internetworking since their origins.. But obviously the US put massive research and resources into what eventually led to the Internet protocol suite. Dial up was expensive and took time to reach across the UK though, So yeah it was far from common for many years. Businesses and business people were the first to have this in their establishments, Then it caught on with average homeowners who heard wanted and had the income, Then as time wen on it became more and more popular and got cheaper and faster and now almost every household and business has broadband or fibre broadband lol

Cause the Brits have always used a higher fps than in the US so it looks smoother and therefore more modern.

It was in 1994 so they are not just speculating on what will come out, the stuff are already out and working, limited only by capacity and speed. It's like reviewing video streaming just as Netflix came out, most houses don't have the internet speed to stream in high quality yet but it was only couple years ahead and youtube and such has been active for years at that point.

You forgot the cat videos and when Austin Powers showed the monkey sniffing his finger.

Lots of Macs, I think. So "Platinum" rather than beige.

Shut up

@@andypughtube Congratulations. You've just won the 'Pedant of the Year' award. 🏆

No, of course not. Plenty of sockets. On the fifteen daisy-chained power strips…

that was shocking , all we knew about back then was DSL to get faster dial up internet and nobody back then even mentioned fiber optics .

shes talking about dark fiber and backbone, not what everyone here thinks

Totally agree!

yeah @ 2:47 "you can send high quality sound and video as well' boy if only she knew of the deluge of porn, conspiracy theorists and scammers that would engulf us ...

@@tma2001 Yeah, really sucks when people go questioning things. Why don't they just do what they are told and conform with the collective?

@@tma2001 and memez!

@@peterbelanger4094 yeah its good to be open minded just not so much that your brain falls out ...

I know, it was really exciting to browse the internet! It gave you goosebumps! I remember that

I got my first Internet connection back then. It was with a dial up modem and because it used SLIP, instead of PPP, I had a static IP address back then. These days, with IPv6, I have a block of 2^72 addresses all to myself.

@ghost mall Yeah, everything has changed so much since then. And that's for me. But when I think of my parents... My mother grew up on a countryside not even having electricity at home until her teen years. Seeing her now doing taxes and buying things online, I wonder, how much has it changed for her!!

@ghost mall I remember those days. Microsoft was slow to get to the Internet because Bill Gates thought proprietary networks were the way to go. Back then, I was running OS/2, Warp 3, which had the full IP stack built in.

@@montecarlostar the feeling of my first remote doom multiplayer match was indescribably magical. direct connection dial up, my friend at his apartment, me at my home, 3 blocks apart. i was giddy for days with the possibilities. it was a feeling that cannot ever be replicated.

What's the website?

@@Scl45689porn hub, this guy created porn hub

Sure it is LOL URL please

​@@MrThe1234guywhat's so unbelievable about his comment to you? Why would he lie about having a 30 year old website still up and running? I found it pretty cool.

It was a tougher world but it was also a realer world. The internet is too much of a crutch for many people, their social lives, love lives and often even language skills and work lives are down the toilet with so many people.

@@RaniaIsAwesome I agree which is why i'm thankful that my teens and 20's years were during pre-internet days which helped us forge relationships with people in the real world through human interaction rather than a computer screen. We were able to cultivate our social and language skills with each other much better than generations who never knew the world before social media....and we were lucky for that! One thing i'm thankful for though is how advanced the internet has become. I'm profoundly hearing impaired and use an app that transcribes speech to text with over 90% accuracy in real time (It's called Live Transcribe if anyone's interested). I use it on my phone wherever I go and it's such a lifesaver for me because I don't have to read lips or write anymore and it breaks down so many communication barriers for me. So when I long to go back to those pre internet days I think how difficult my life would be if I went back there without being able to use my app and shudder at the thought because the internet has become such a necessity for me now.

Christopher i did my re-serach on internet we use/take for granted in 2022 did you interent was alrealy used in 1940"s'-50's almost forgetten till bill gates in-vent windows for interent in 1980:s dial to phone line interent way to slow and 1990's teengers age 13-19 re-vented interent by using private emails and making new fun web pages all become wireless/updated pre payed around arond 1998/99 and the rest is history

@@annapiotrowicz7494 I believe you because i've seen some old b&w movies from the 1940's where you see people talking on car phones and also they talk about "wireless" so I know there was some kind of internet/wireless/modem connections going on even way back then.

It's amazing how people managed to meet up before mobile phones. Like when I arrange to meet my friend in the city, sometimes they're delayed, I get a text and can sort out the logistics from there. Prior to this, I can't imagine if someone gets held up or something happens and you're waiting for 20 minutes... would you stay, or would you go. And then if they show up and you're not there... must have been a logistical nightmare.

No doubt true. We couldn't have imagined in 1994 what we have in 2022. Much of what we have today was only "pretend" in sci-fi movies/shows. However, no one could've predicted in 1994 the social cost of this technology, instant everything, and worst of all social media. I truly believe they thought it would all bring people together. Lest we also forget the addiction to this technology. (smart phones especially)

@@sirsaint88 it did bring us together. We just found out we didn't like each other very much when we got together.

@@godmagnus . He, He. Funny but true😉

@@sirsaint88 Profit profit profit, its good money keeping people their eyes glued to smartphones and social media, addiction is a drug, the difference here is there no chemicals involved, its all digital trickeries to put it stupidly simple.

@@SMGJohn or it's increased our knowledge of countries and people around the globe. Made us realise we're not so different from other people and galvanised social and legal reform in places. Like every technology, it's not the tech it's how you use/interact with it.

FREE WILL , whence is it given, whence does it end? GOD created us 1stly in SPIRIT then formed our flesh in our mothers wombs. Free will starts on the day you born here and ends on the day you depart from here. it is not given nor found earlier, as earlier you didn`t exist. earth is testing ground, as it has became lucifers kingdom. testing ground for us, to show GOD whom amongst us shall be deceived by lucifer. All the answers are pretty clear ones - aren´t these? - MANY are deceived and FEW are not. None of us can`t drag free will beyond humans earthly life, as it is not earlier nor after found nor given. Jeremiah 1:5 KJV Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. FREE WILL is given for the choices which are here on earth to make. Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. Since making choices and being deceived takes place here on earth, free will does not go beyond human earthly lives.

One day.

In the palm of your hand

And it seems road rage is increasing on the information superhighway.

Right? I’m watching while high and was wondering if the writing was actually good or if I’m high? But reading comments like these validated my initial thoughts. This video is so ahead of its time and the script is so good.

Yeah she's a good communicator and did a good job of actually trying to understand it to inform people instead of just relying on sensacionalism, a quality many journalists lack.

Tv in the 90s was peak

Hilarious comment but correct

@@thomasrussell4674 Why is it hilarious?

'Information superhighway' was such a big buzzword back then - used far more than 'internet' as a descriptive term. I'm not sure why it was taken on so readily and then dropped like a stone, but no one says it anymore.

now we "Google" it

@@PotatoPirate123 It's a bit of a mouthful to say over and over again, and tbh sounds like quite dated a dated phrase by today's standards

Why do you hate our livers?

Information superhighway always reminds me of jim Carrey in cable guy 😄

And that due to this she would lose her brain cells (that her kids wouldn’t even develop) and never be able to make such a good TV presentation again. Instead she’d be just switching from one nonsense to the other on her chosen platform increasingly looking and feeling like a zombie. Yeah, that mind would definitely be blown, in every way.

Its only 28 years ago so pretty sure she can reflect back on that herself now.

You know, she's still alive, so you can probably find her email and ask her

Dude the lady is very well alive 🤦‍♂️

You think people alive in 1994 are now dead??

meh , big deal. Back in the '50s they promised by now we would have jet packs, flying cars and teleporting back and forth in space. groceries, ha!

Was your teacher a time traveller from the future?

I mean to be fair Tesco had some form of online shopping available since 1997.

Are you referring to the video? It wasn't 2001, this was from 1994.

When it comes to making money, everything is possible, anything can come true...

I got an email address at uni in 98, but didn't really start using email till 2000! Seems bizarre now

@@OriginalMasters yes Bill Clinton would no longer be interested in replying to her. Not cool.

thanks wikipedia

@@OriginalMasters She looks great for 30? Seriously why are people acting like 30 is old. Most people look their best on that age

She was well known also for her 90’s big hair

And she's probably woke trash.

😂

You know you can switch providers?

Dial up internet was soooo slow it took a couple of minutes just to get on and once you did it could take 30 second to a minute to just load a page. It was painful and not fun to use when it first came out.

@@jayc6159I remember downloading sound clips like 10 seconds of a song over dial-up. It took like 3 hours.

No. You’re lucky to have grown with WiFi!

And getting abuse from them ...shut your pie hole ..Technology is wonderful ain't it.

I love you james keep it up

I was 6 then and the internet ruined my life

Well hello there random stranger!

@@boomerhgt You're the best.

affected

@@davetrousers it had a very large impact indeed. Whether that was a good thing or not is still unknown.

Objectively it has had a terrible effect on humanity.

as someone that was born in 1994, I resent your statement of travelling back "30 years". I think you'll find it's 28 years, actually! ;)

@@horiabodeanu7641 - It has shortened our attention spans. - It has introduced deranging non-stop political radicalisation to the masses. - It has ruined dating and courtship. - It has given authorities immense power to monitor and condition our behaviour. Far from being a source of information, we have now reached a point where you can no longer tell what is even real, be it a video, image or a news report. Nothing on the internet can be trusted and unlike previous methods of propaganda, there is very little effort and zero consequence for simply making up complete lies online. A central site like Wikipedia that 90% of people use as their primary source of facts can be re-written in seconds and is aggressively gatekept by a small elite group of ideologues in California. Similar situation with other hugely influential social media sites. We have a long way to go and perhaps it will turn out to be a boon to humanity, but for the meantime my opinion is that the internet is doing massive damage to our society and our humanity and poses a short term existential threat.

Actual fibre all the way to your home? I wish I could get that here

@paulanderson7796 yep, exactly. It is quite popular and is very cheap, by the way, here in Romania, where I have been living recently. 1Gb per sec is around 8 EUR per month.

Nice blast from the past! Though Social Media, being the qunessential ultimate evil born of the internet revolution over the years world wide. And one which they would have never in their wildest dreams predicted back in 1994 into gaining supremacy in all of this! 🍷

My family was late to get a computer and the internet (fall of 1999). It’s really crazy to think just how far we’ve come! And all at speeds that blow away dial up, in your hand!

Now the question is where does it go from here? AI is the future, and the only question is who's going to control it, because there are literally no limits and there is potentially more danger than good to come out of it

@@gato7908 I think we need to stop where we are. Too many evil SOBs in charge.

Also, your smartphone doesn't even connect via fibre-optic cables, but without any cables at all, and at 10,000 times the speed of Bill Clinton's modem 😃

Before ‘Two girls, one cup’.

@@AtheistOrphan or the "Tadger Badger" not to mention "Henry Mungshaw's 14 apes"

No not innocence like other things it has been abused . Including robbing your bank account

@@spellbound4383 innocence in 1993 is what I meant. There were such high hopes that the “information superhighway” would make the world a better place and in fact it’s not quite worked out that way.

@@richardmattocks Ah yes I see what you mean. Sad isn’t it.

What?? Fiber Optics were used in 1994, not developed 25 years later.

I hope you had stock options!

ours is the last generation to go to school before the world wide web was mainstream. As I age I find it more and more difficult to talk to people at work that can relate to about anything pre internet. It's becoming like I was a cave man and evolved .

Incredible! What do you do now? Im in the digital tech scene in SF now, just started to dive into it, and would’ve loved to witness the transformation of the past 20 years

yeah I remember our school didn't have internet accept maybe one or two computers and we had to go to another location to get on the web. The very next year they put internet in the computer lab. I learned to type on a typewriter.

Too busy eating a currie every night. 😉😉

Sounds like a Chris Morris line

how cringe you have to be to think this is a coool album title, pure cringiness

@@gone-by-the-light your right. It would make a much better name for a bar (pub).

Nice blast from the past! Though Social Media, being the qunessential ultimate evil born of the internet revolution over the years world wide. And one which they would have never in their wildest dreams predicted back in 1994 into gaining supremacy in all of this! 🍷

Hi people from the future reading this from the metaverse :)

@@nitinishere3707even now we know no one is going to call it that 😁

Most professional productions were recorded on reasonably high quality video equipment. Even if their masters are in standard definition, they'll hold up well if the archival footage has been cared for. The reason why most stuff from the 90s and earlier looks like garbage on KZfaq (even if it was originally shot on good equipment) is because you're usually seeing a copy of a copy of a copy that's been degraded and compressed to the moon and back. It also makes a difference if the footage was uploaded during the early years of KZfaq because the compression was pretty severe.

It has Beakman's World vibes

you might want to look up "New York City in 1993 in HD - DTheater DVHS Demo Tape" here on youtube if you think a 30 year old SD video is impressive.

it was most likely recorded to film, then transferred to videotape the tape was most likely betacam, which it, along with other professional formats of the time, hold up great today

First thing I thought was: "damn, must have been so much work to carry around all those CRTs"

I remember being on message boards when I was 14 and feeling like an explorer going out and talking to people on the literal other side of the world

For me it was Red Alert 2 as a little kid. I remember a 0-300ms ping was considered ''very good'' with a little green circle and 300-600ms was ''good'' with a yellow icon, and 600-900ms was ''mehhhh" and red. I remember it was AOL gold we had, I think it was the "fast" 1mb package. WinMX, Kazaa and Limewire days spending hours downloading a song only to find it didn't work or wasn't what you wanted.

I did the exact same thing and year as you, I had the age of empires 2 demo and played with my school friend, I couldn't believe I could play a game without him being in the same room. I also remember my mum asking me when she got back from work why she couldn't get through to me when she called

Red Alert for me, in the early 90's, amazing multiplayer battles, local and on-line (if it does not disconnect) ... that then WAS the future ... Now ancient history ... Now what to watch, on KZfaq's "Super Highway" haha

What's dial up

I always assumed it was named after the river?

we opted for 5g brain microwaver instead..

We’ve got fibre to the premises in New Zealand and it’s glorious. 8 Gbps connections are available now and basic connections are 300 Mbps. Bandwidth I couldn’t dream of when I first went online in 1997.

I've lived in the North in a rural area and I've lived in an average sized town in the EastMidlands in the last few years, and both places have had BT FTTP. Glorious 1gbps is more than I need but bloody lovely when downloading games etc.

Where you live we had fttp for more than 5 years

I miss the ones we took for granted back then, and the less anxious life with longer attention spans, more patience, where instant gratification wasn’t a daily expectation . I often close my eyes when I’m overridden with anxiety today and just time travel using my memory.

you can order one from north korea today 🐱👍🏿

But...how did you post this internet message?!

That's pretty much my generation (40 years old) dooming itself into tech illiteracy *Sad to say but especially the woman

@@markmuller7962 Don't worry, this internet thingy is just a passing fad, I don't think it'll catch on.

@@abagatelle eheh exactly 😆

Can you demand to see what the Veyron can do?

They took care of that ten years ago.

I remember on 31st December 1999 and the Millennium night show on the BBC, where they had what could be the first example of the Millennium Bug. It was a digital watch that was clearly just faulty and showing gibberish on the screen.

And I was born in 1996 and it was magical moment even if I was slow .

That was the year we got the Internet at home and in my school. I remember the teacher was quite excited about this new technology.

@@vmafarah9473I was born in 95

Me and my buddy would go to a skateboarding website and click on a photo and then go make some sandwiches and come back and the photo would be mostly downloaded. I thought that was pure magic.

@@jasondashney you could print master-baiting support if you couldnt master bait directly to the computer screen for some reason like because it's in the living room

This does seem like something he'd rather enjoy!

Exactly what I was thinking.

About half way through i was thinking "... she's doing a Tom Scott".

Tom Scott has said he was heavily inspired by these kinds of older BBC programmes.

I thought of this too

Me too. Had some fun times on BBSes before the web came along.

Was this in Sackville st building?

@@sunnydavies3990 No. It was where we had the Matlab servers, in what was the old Math Tower on Oxford Road

Haha when I was online at home phone calls couldn't come through, so when teaches threatend to call home after I'd been naughty I just stayed online that evening to stop them getting through.

@@jdogg448 That is brilliant!

@@Penfriendrocks There was the other side of it too. You are on the modem and someone picks up the telephone, thus disconnecting the internet connection. "Hey!! I was using the modem!", "Oh, sorry... well... can I use the phone now?" "Grrrrr!!"...[sigh]..."Okay"...[walk away mumbling]...

@@Tom.Livanos I remember it well!

@@Penfriendrocks Y'know what the strange thing is - we were the weirdos. I used to log on to Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs). I had begun by 1987 at the latest. Just logging in, however, made me a weirdo. I continue to be a weirdo now in 2022 but for other reasons. I dunno. Such a world of "sheeple". Anyway, I continue to have a soft spot for communications technology. Otherwise, why even participate? Not sure about others...

Diel up Internet was a pain it was as slow as a snail to load just one page of information & websites where very , very basic buy modern standards. And I remember if websites had pictures they would be painfully slow in fully loading the picture the bigger the picture the slower it load. I could honestly see the Internet had potential but need a lot of work to make it usable on a daily basis. I remember buying things over the internet for the first time they would take an eternity to actually arrive in comparison to the world of today. I remember thinking. broadband was a major set forward & look at what we have now.

I remember using the Library of Congress on the internet to research a project, in 1995. Also used BBSs to chat with locals about Vespas.

​@@alanfox691 56k was fine for browsing the web, even 14.4 wasn't bad for the type of websites they had back then. Faster speed were only really necessary for higher res video and more advanced games

I remember in 1998, watching episodes of South Park in some sort of video format on my computer, in something like 140x108 resolution.

@@Hastur876 DVD was mainstream in 1998 and the resolution was 720 × 480

@@cashbonanza963 Yeah but you didn't download dvds of tv shows the week they came out. Mp4 files were generally low resolution.

It's still mind blowing now, because it's not possible.

That's her: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bellingham

i had it in 1995 so u late

Tony Blair also never used a computer for the entirety of his premiership. He left office in 2007. Different people from a different era. Bill Clinton also never wrote a single e-mail for himself, but that's probably for security reasons - Jimmy Carter had some serious (for the time) computers in the White House all the way back in 1979.

@@halfbakedproductions7887 I believe Carter was looking for a speedier way to contact his local flower shop.