In this “CBS Evening News” report from May 22, 1995, a first-time personal computer user was featured to underscore the challenges in adopting the new technology. Former CBS News correspondent Reed Galin reports.
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@CaptainVelveeta Жыл бұрын
Nearly 30 years later the printer is still the most problematic piece of machinery on the planet.
@user-wb7ot7kt3x11 ай бұрын
As a SysAdmin I do hate printers. Sometimes they don't work for no reason at all.
@jroscon300311 ай бұрын
Just Epic i agree
@xiaokhat11 ай бұрын
Printers are the moodiest piece of tech invented. They know the best time when to act up 😂
@jcamargo200511 ай бұрын
The router is second place?
@gt8200-011 ай бұрын
I spent about 20 minutes trying to connect my printer to my PC wirelessly before giving up and going wired USB.
@Haffy4423 жыл бұрын
All of those IT guys who had to deal with 'newbies' every single day are the real legends here.
@MarkT17003 жыл бұрын
Yeah I wouldn't be able to deal with that. I'd die on my first day.
@Commander_HW3 жыл бұрын
That's me, as a real IT guy, all my family members call me for their computer problems. My mom literally txted me and ask me to make a video of how to turn her iPhone off....... she said every time she does it it's always siri.
@NeytAkyide3 жыл бұрын
thanks bro im dying everyday again with Pc Newbies
@Stanley-px3bt3 жыл бұрын
Yes, but have you tried turning it off and back on again?
@PROGRESSGamingOfficial3 жыл бұрын
@@Commander_HW As a previous Android user it also took me a couple of tries to turn an iPhone off. Simply holding the off-button activates Siri instead of turning your device off, not intuitive at all..
@nigefal4 ай бұрын
'Press any key....' 'Where's the any key?'
@janestoodley23004 ай бұрын
😂 😂 😂
@user-misspokenАй бұрын
😅😅😅😅 you win
@John_Lee_29 күн бұрын
and where's my tab?
@angelofdeath27529 күн бұрын
now its nothing but crap made to induce a moral pano
@Jonathan.Gearhart25 күн бұрын
😂😂😂 incredible
@Xeno_of_Luyten6 ай бұрын
the same generation of people are still asking the same newbie questions 30 years later...
@cebruthius3 ай бұрын
That's my mother!
@skunksecond3 ай бұрын
opposite way too, zoomers and late gen z'ers weren't taught basic tech literacy because of phones, tablets, and chromebooks which simplified everything. there are some of us who dont even know how to make folders
@moonlightfitz3 ай бұрын
same with zoomers lol
@TheMexicoBear2 ай бұрын
Especially Zoomers dealing with old tech.
@bonkyo2 ай бұрын
@@skunksecond its funny you mention folders specifically because now i hear knowing HOW to make one on a computer classifies you as a power user nowadays
@Kimchi_Studios3 жыл бұрын
A moment of silence for all the call center employees from the 90's who helped us get to this point.
@mikekatz79803 жыл бұрын
and for all of the Karens they had to battle along the way.
@MrOiram463 жыл бұрын
I bet some of them just got fed up and came up with some ways of making computers easier to use like they are now
@PajamaJazama3 жыл бұрын
@@MrOiram46 theyve become so easy that theyve come full circle and made it harder for more experienced users lol
@Adama.13 жыл бұрын
Rather an applause. Moment of silence suggests they all died, I'm pretty sure most of them are very alive.
@oktogen14763 жыл бұрын
point of censorship and programmers that became nurses? no thanks
@saurabhgi3 жыл бұрын
“4 megabyte memory” ah, the gold standard
@coolak72933 жыл бұрын
This is too much, 640k is enough for everyone...
@baganatube3 жыл бұрын
That is over four freaking MILLION bytes, what kind of application would be able to utilize such amount of memory.
@moneer71393 жыл бұрын
@@Septagrim on my pc, chrome milks my cpu, so i got opera gx its so much better and cooler
@raggedclawstarcraft65623 жыл бұрын
@@coolak7293 Everybody laugh at Bill Gates for saying that (if he even said that), but maybe he was correct at a time of saying this phrase. It's like saying 1 GB of ram is plenty in early 2000s.
@someguywithmtndew56913 жыл бұрын
@@Septagrim lie, oh wait im dumb nvm
@widowmakerx723 күн бұрын
As someone who works in the IT field, a lot of people are still this confused
@jean-lucpicard551013 күн бұрын
Had a potential employer for an IT role on the phone a while back asking if I has basic CCNa qualifications? Such as can I insert a USB? I'm like. "I have a Bachelor's degree in computer maintenance and systems support. I've built pcs since my twenties, installed operating systems, and configuration of cisco routers and switches"
@tauranfoster55644 күн бұрын
They will always be confused.
@obienator23 күн бұрын
Jamie is still fighting that damn printer to this day in 2024
@ntsejfamyaj23 күн бұрын
That's not fair, that's very condescending, and that was uncalled for. Jamie suffers from acute boomeritis, even though she's not really a boomer. While paying for groceries recently at a nearby grocery store, our local CBS station field reporter, Tricia Takanawa, asked if she would pay using cash, credit, or mobile, but Jamie gave a confused look. Instead, she pulled out a check book.
@hmocreations112022 күн бұрын
😂😂😂
@lioninguccisuit18 күн бұрын
I'm born in 97, but still had a PC sience i was quite young 5-6 years old. And i remember specific things of how awful the pc interface was, thanks god i was blessed with windows xp, cause 97 and 00 was extremly awful. I remember when you had to go in Total Comander or what was it called, or when a dude gave to my parent a thing for PC that had like 260 games in, sonic, alex kid, jaz rabit, road rage.. Jesus was so nice, i used to be so happy playing. But having to conect the cables is hard, especialy when you don't know what damange you can bring to a pc, with Usb's now and jacks, is sightly harder to destroy something, but with the cable the lady used you could break the pins, plus what if you connect something wrong and burn the circuits ,etc. Is just the same vibe when you build a PC, and you have to put the CPU into the pc, which mean 1 sightly mistake and avoiding to read where to put the cpu, you'll just easly lose 400-1.000$
@m.ceniza468815 күн бұрын
@@ntsejfamyajyou laugh but printers are one of the Devil’s earthly minions
@backintimealwyn573614 күн бұрын
nah, my mum used to call the computer "he" ,"he's telling me to press a key" , "But what does he want?" , "why is he blocking the srcreeeen, what did you do to him? (I was alway guilty of soing something evil to "him" )", now she's even more addicted to technology than I am, she can't disconnect for half an hour.
@inocente1063 жыл бұрын
Legend has it, she's still trying to plugged it in..
@Notolderthanyou3 жыл бұрын
*plug
@siamfazlul71293 жыл бұрын
and the camera man is still standing there doing nothing about it
@wordsmith4513 жыл бұрын
@@Leshan51 I hate that term. Also, there is a family-friendly form of sex: incest! :)
@erickabundis79523 жыл бұрын
@@Leshan51 “LeTs KeEp ThIs ChAt FaMiLy FrIeNdLy” headass
@youraveragemetalhead2263 жыл бұрын
Legend has it, you're still trying to "learned" english
@dannyzero6923 жыл бұрын
"For many newcomers, PC stands for *Pain* and *Confusion* " I died laughing at that part
@cameroncalzone88603 жыл бұрын
i prefer MAC: masochistic and costly
@chotai3 жыл бұрын
@@cameroncalzone8860 selectively not much expensive. But my budget can only hold pain.
@omairshafiq19983 жыл бұрын
I mean it hasn't changed in that aspect
@dannyzero6923 жыл бұрын
@@omairshafiq1998 not much but yes, my grandpa still hasn't figured out how to use his mouse
@CatololOSU3 жыл бұрын
it stands for : ''aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa''
@Movie_Games7 ай бұрын
It still amazes me today how things just work. I grew up in a world of dial-up, parallel ports, IRQ conflicts, and DOS.
@PhilMoskowitz4 ай бұрын
BIOSes and OSes got a whole lot better.
@jeremycarter26 күн бұрын
Ahhhh…good ole’ IRQ conflicts. That brings back memories! iSCSCI IRQ on Apple was my confusion. Granted I was just 8 or so when I was putting my Mac components together and didn’t really understand what the heck was going on.
@RealMTBAddict26 күн бұрын
Amazes you? We've had 40 years to improve on it. I'm not amazed, I'm satisfied.
@jirikrajnak904725 күн бұрын
they've been running on the same principles for decades. it's the users who have become savvy.
@PistonAvatarGuy24 күн бұрын
I still remember having to move, add, or remove jumpers to make changes to the settings for the CPU, peripheral cards, disk drives, etc. Overclocking a CPU involved physically moving some jumpers on the motherboard. Good times.
@fireraid917320 күн бұрын
Describing computers as pain and confusion has to be the most incredibly well aged quote of the century. I swear to god every time I have a "small" problem there's an iceberg under it the size of long island.
@ThuNguyen-jy2jt16 күн бұрын
i feel you. something randomly breaks and i have to go down a rabbit hole to find a solution, and often to no avail. then it adds up and i have to reset windows entirely. computers should be working for us and not the other way around; i dont need to be a computer scientist just to use it.
@napoleonibonaparte71983 жыл бұрын
This needs a “Where are they now”.
@ambersummer26853 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣👏🏽👏🏽
@thriquinox3 жыл бұрын
dead
@taimoorulhassan14513 жыл бұрын
Yeah
@joie84223 жыл бұрын
Yes 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@leobrun0moura3 жыл бұрын
Dead or more older, indeed
@MikeStavola3 жыл бұрын
Back then, it was a severe mistake to buy a laptop as your first PC.
@Leonard_MT3 жыл бұрын
At least it’s a ThinkPad it has that easy BIOS configuration utility
@coreysuffield3 жыл бұрын
it still nearly is
@DaneH643 жыл бұрын
Exactly
@erickabundis79523 жыл бұрын
@@coreysuffield depends
@erickabundis79523 жыл бұрын
@@justinepaula-robilliard what?
@stick2dapoint885 ай бұрын
Nearly 30yrs later, not much has changed. Gen-Xers and younger grew up with tech, but we still have A LOT of ppl in the workplace that have simply memorized the steps to their job on a computer, and anytime anything happens outside of that sequence, their whole world gets flipped upside-down.
@danyoutube74914 ай бұрын
Operating systems are more complicated than ever, so it would be impossible for most people to be savvy about things that don't apply to their day to day role (not to mention a waste of their time learning things that they almost certainly would never have to know, and a lot of which would be rendered useless by the frequent updates to Windows). What's more Windows and the computer world in general seems to be have been pushing the consumer to be more reliant on Microsoft, Google etc. to let them do everything, control everything. I am less confident and able now than I was when I first got an IBM compatible in the early 2000s (I had owned a couple of Commodore Amiga computers in the 1990s as well as using IBM style PC at school, so was already computer savvy). I used to be comfortable installing mods for games and so forth on my computer, but things like Steam and Windows from 8 onwards took these things out of my hands (Windows 8 even made it hard for me to make changes to files in game folders on my own computer...).
@axeldewater949126 күн бұрын
@@danyoutube7491 Linux would revive those skills for you 😉
@Jonathan.Gearhart25 күн бұрын
Kinda sad that so many redundantly use their phone without knowing or caring about the insane engineering behind it.
@DugrozReports25 күн бұрын
@@danyoutube7491 This 100% Up until 2005 or so I could mod things pretty easily, install my own stuff manually, and it was easy. Now the OS either does it for you or you have to be in IT.
@aev607523 күн бұрын
Sure young people grew up with technology, but they have zero idea how any of it works. It's a struggle for them to get a new social media app running and they don't even know how to work word or excel or any tool for that matter. Staring at a screen != learning about the technology.
@mrsTraveller64Ай бұрын
I can still clearly remember when we got the first computer to my job, I was 37 years old, and a guy came to teach us how to use it. We sat in a circle just staring in disbelief, he picked me first to come and try it. He said put your hand on the mouse and start moving it slowly, I first asked what's a mouse??? After he told me I asked "like how"??? He said oh, you have never used a computer? I said NO I HAVEN'T, WHERE WOULD I HAVE USED ONE??? No one had them at home yet, and I thought I'd never ever learn how to use it..
@DugrozReports25 күн бұрын
How did it work out?
@mrsTraveller6424 күн бұрын
@@DugrozReports well,for me it took a long time to even think I'd be able to learn how to use a computer,it wasn't until I bought one for my home that I really came over beeing so acared to touch it😁 here in our schools the children taught themselves in no-time and then they taught the teachers! I remember seeing on the news how children age 10 sat and gave computer-lessons to their teachers😁
@luivalentino852024 күн бұрын
Didn't your schools have computers? I grew up in the 80s and our schools had them. Radio shack had tons of them too.
@mrsTraveller6424 күн бұрын
@@luivalentino8520I went to school in the 70's so no, we had no computers, I can't remember if there was one in the teachers room, but I don't think there was, there was typing machines and when "word" came(I think it was called that?) I remember it was a big thing; not to have to start from the beginning,just erase that ONE misspelled word and continue!
@xtlm24 күн бұрын
@@DugrozReports some say they never figured it out
@wolfarix3 жыл бұрын
To this day my dad’s mind is still blown over the fact that he needed training software to learn how to control his cursor and I was able to naturally figure it out as a kid.
@Beegeezy1443 жыл бұрын
Have you heard of the hundredth monkey effect? That might explain how you knew, but I'm still wondering how he got the software installed if he didn't know how to use the cursor. 😁
@2nd-place3 жыл бұрын
@@Beegeezy144 back then you installed everything from the command prompt, lol. I’m a web developer and still install everything through a bash/zsh terminal on my Mac ssh’d into a Linux server. You just install from a repo whatever app you need. Tons of open source frameworks to speed development.
@tfat003 жыл бұрын
I remember my parents setting up our first PC and when I tried to help my dad yelled at me so I left. Later my mom told me what I had suggested actually worked when they tried it an hour later 😂
@wolfarix3 жыл бұрын
@@Beegeezy144 I think it was at his work. My guess is his IT department set it up and where training him. By the time we got a home PC he knew how it worked.
@AW-qz4kk3 жыл бұрын
kids learn better
@bottlerocket32183 жыл бұрын
"It's printing way too large and I don't know why" - a problem that still happens in 2021, from personal experience, lol.
@ElonMasks3 жыл бұрын
Lool
@occidere133 жыл бұрын
Same
@MrKPRules3 жыл бұрын
Printers man.
@piedra70403 жыл бұрын
Printers are still trash in 2021
@holocaust_2.03 жыл бұрын
It's cheaper to just buy new printers than it is to buy new ink cartridges.
@davetech12697 ай бұрын
As someone in the IT industry, I can confirm the “pain and confusion” acronym is often accurate still
@ilay_ux15 күн бұрын
the amount of self talking from this lady is amazing, my spirit animal
@MitchellWiggs3 жыл бұрын
the first lady looks like she's just figuring out what electricity is
@jeepsblackpowderandlights43053 жыл бұрын
i dunno how old you are you, im 38 but lemme tell ya when i was 7-14 years old my parents were like this. My dad was a computer scientist working in the army space program office, and military intelligence for 22 years in the army, but his first personal computer he bought himself was a pc in 1994-95 and he didnt know how to use it. He had to take computer classes to learn how to use a personal computer.. he knew electronics and satalites in space but didnt know how the new computers worked. My mom was the same thing, in 96 she had a computer its still in storage btw lol. and i remember her on the phone with tech support for 4 hours one night trying to get it to work. Computers back then were not simple like they are are.. Once you get the cords all plugged in just installing stuff on a pc back then through floppy disks was complicated. Windows 95 was new, DOS was the main thing.. and to install stuff you had to go into dos and type commands everything. Like CD:/INSTALL DOOM. then to load it you needed to type in commands.. and thats just for CD's.. imagine doing this on 10 floppy disks.. The commands for things were complicated for new users... If youre in your 20's or younger you dont know how easy you had things, you put in a CD and things install immediatly you grew up with windows xp .. you just select the hard drive to install it. Now adays for teens they just download things online and install them through steam or what not.. computers now dont even have a dvd or cd drive.
@rumblefish93 жыл бұрын
MITCHELL WIGGS You say that because you've grown up with a PC but for a lot of people back in the day, using a PC was a massive change and a steep learning curve. Put yourself during that time and I'm sure you'd be struggling too. You don't know pain and torture until you've tried learning to work DOS. Back then there wasn't even a user-friendly user interface. That didn't come until Windows 98. It's all much easier now because of usability.
@HandledToaster23 жыл бұрын
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 Thanks for sharing your story, man. I appreciate how things have gotten easier throughout the years.
@mq57313 жыл бұрын
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 I mean...DOS ain’t that hard to use. You just need to know the commands. I can’t imagine someone selling you a program without giving you an instruction manuel...
@wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa203 жыл бұрын
What many people also forget that back then there was no Google and internet was very limited. Now it's so easy when you can google absolutely anything, any technical problem, 1 second of googling and bang, you have an answer.
@VaughnJogVlog7 жыл бұрын
In fairness, there was more tech jargon and programming knowledge needed back then to operate a computer. Now there are less ports, devices are found automatically, apps install quickly, startup time is minimal.
@richardsequeirateixeira3 жыл бұрын
USB changed the game dramatically too. Plug and Play.
@ian_b3 жыл бұрын
@@richardsequeirateixeira So long as you can tell which of the 25 types of USB you have. :D
@camaluck6783 жыл бұрын
my computer has 9 ports being used right now, not including the power cable.
@revengenerd13 жыл бұрын
I find it funny and a little silly how people often think the kids of today are great with tech as show them pre 00's tech not just computers and they get stuck, tell them to do many non plug and play things on a pc and they don't know what to do. All they really know how to do is use apps.
@ohrenaugenkatze_3 жыл бұрын
@@revengenerd1 yep, my grandma thinks im a tech genie cause i changed the aspect ratio on her tv, even though it is just pressing one button ( to be fair, the remote had everything labled in English and she does not speak English)
@Phymaths20 күн бұрын
I chocked on my coffee when I heard "4 megabyte memory." Not that it was unexpected, but it still got me...
@sc24894 күн бұрын
We celebrated when we updated our old Tandy to one whole megabyte back in the day. We were cutting edge! 😅
@highestsettings23 күн бұрын
"This just in, you have to learn new things and you don't instantly know how to use them... More at 11."
@Andy-vt7sl3 жыл бұрын
Having $2,900 in 1995 to spend on a computer is very impressive
@engineerated56273 жыл бұрын
With this much money, she could have bought some shares of growing companies and become a millionaire today.
@gaiusjuliuscaesar92963 жыл бұрын
@@engineerated5627 Invest in IBM or Apple instead
@KH-fv3vq3 жыл бұрын
Some corporate woman
@democracyforone3 жыл бұрын
Bitcoin, no doubt.
@maliniatb3 жыл бұрын
And im wondering what you could've used it for that its with the money at this point. At least as a normal private Person without any interest in technology
@AlexTheGreatish3 жыл бұрын
Imagine having to do tech support without the internet...
@Nicksperiments3 жыл бұрын
And the call gets charged by the minute
@mertkarabay22623 жыл бұрын
I feel the pain
@henrikmonkee3 жыл бұрын
That's why ppl were thougher than todays crystal dolls 😂
@gator_productions3 жыл бұрын
@@Nicksperiments they were 800 numbers so it had no charge
@lancelucid74203 жыл бұрын
😬😬
@cassky37366 ай бұрын
0:12 "for many newcomers, PC stands for... Pain and Confusion". I'm dead.
@corradokid796 ай бұрын
Did Jamie Gold ever get her printer set up?? We need a follow-up.
@NorthOfEarthAlex23 күн бұрын
Found her on LinkedIn. She's a journalist and tech consultant now.
@floopsiebraadsie563821 күн бұрын
But is the printer working? These are the things we need to know
@thorbjrnhedegaard304920 күн бұрын
Yes did she find the printers interface port and connect the cable, this we must know
@holger_p18 күн бұрын
Creating a document first, would have been more conclusive.
@theintrovertedowl3 жыл бұрын
Crazy how I find this funny, but kids in the near future will probably think we are dumb too
@skorpius20293 жыл бұрын
I don't think people were dumb. It was new technology and it wasn't as beginner friendly as it is now. Compare installation of windows XP with windows 10 and it will be a very different experience.
@heramann69163 жыл бұрын
Very wrong, we live in the year of information. Unlike our parents, we will have no problems keeping up with new tecnologies since we have easy access to/information of them.
@Mimi-py8mf3 жыл бұрын
@@heramann6916 yup, exactly
@zarodgaming18443 жыл бұрын
" U mean you can't compute pi in an instant? pffft. Beeetaaa ! " ~ future 4 year old, probably
@tvvoty3 жыл бұрын
idk, people would install Windows 98 in those days, and now most people can't install win 10
@chadwaller81923 жыл бұрын
She spent nearly 5k in 2021 money
@mathiastwp3 жыл бұрын
Big oof, Linus.
@smeezekitty3 жыл бұрын
@TDFPL kek
@jackkraken38883 жыл бұрын
Right? That's what's amazing about technology now. This stuff is far cheaper now than in the past and yet even more powerful and feature rich. It's insane.
@jonny67023 жыл бұрын
@@jackkraken3888 Well, yeah. Computers are tens of thousands of times faster at computing now. It wouldn't make sense if a 5000 investment back then would be multiplied tens of thousands of times linearly with the compute ability. You'd end up spending many many millions of dollars for todays modern high frequency, high IPC, multi-core processors. I think that would be more insane.
@cozy63083 жыл бұрын
@@jackkraken3888 do you really think that an old computer with 4mb of memory is very comparable to a 480gb computer which is very fast?
@numtot217212 күн бұрын
$2,800 in 1995 = almost $6,000 in todays money….for a laptop. Insane how much the price of computers has come down over the year.
@ariefarfiansyah36773 күн бұрын
Same as Vision Pro today
@duckmercy113 күн бұрын
Economies of scale
@jettrink58102 күн бұрын
prices of literally everything else have disproportionately gone up way higher compared the the price decrease of PCs though
@Jolgeable17 сағат бұрын
I don't know what it was like in the US, but in some countries the desktop PC had a price and a laptop was 4 or 5 times more expensive.
@duckmercy1114 сағат бұрын
@@Jolgeable Yeah laptops were crazy expensive here too.
@devourerofsnacks20 күн бұрын
It's still kinda crazy to me that computers and internet were just invented not too long ago. Really shows how young the modern world is
@spring764319 күн бұрын
My thoughts too
@gtablurt57913 жыл бұрын
UPDATE: She's a Hacker now, beware.
@yusha10593 жыл бұрын
oh hi smirk kid
@EmirFaruk3 жыл бұрын
w0w
@maj7463 жыл бұрын
Black hat or white?
@chrisik1003 жыл бұрын
@@maj746 probably red..hat)
@abdulkadirhassan71863 жыл бұрын
hhhhhhhhhhhh
@JelloTalks3 жыл бұрын
The IT department at IBM hated dealing with "newbies" so much, the whole company left the consumer market 😂
@Wapitiii3 жыл бұрын
best comment ever
@JoeMama-le7lw3 жыл бұрын
Underrated comment
@hittingyouoverthehead3 жыл бұрын
Please do standup. You seem to be funnier than most late night tv hosts
@Alpha87133 жыл бұрын
I don't blame them.
@josephozdemir62103 жыл бұрын
IBM now owns lenovo irght?
@arsenblackwell6 ай бұрын
Legend has it that she is still looking to install the printer.
@mastershooter644 ай бұрын
This is crazy! Just 20 years later we have computers everywhere! from our cars to our pockets!
@nbarrager3 жыл бұрын
The only way printers have changed is that they're wireless now
@Ultra2893 жыл бұрын
USB printers are still more common
@CVerse3 жыл бұрын
And yet they still don't wanna work when you need them to, even through USB
@dracodrake29733 жыл бұрын
Wireless printers are useless.
@breadone_3 жыл бұрын
@@dracodrake2973 ⁉️
@abethegamerful3 жыл бұрын
And yet even more annoying to use
@sujitwarrier48573 жыл бұрын
In 1996 I was 8 years old, pcs were just coming into India, only the rich people could afford to own one. My parents sent me to computer classes thinking it was the future. All I learnt were some DOS commands as well as MS paint. Now so many years later I'm an experienced software engineer. Smart move mom and dad. Thank you
@snipamontage62223 жыл бұрын
Damn
@perfectsplit55153 жыл бұрын
4 years of undergraduate mechanical engineering courses at the university - and computer literacy was what I ended up learning - more than anything else. I became my parents' tech support.
@sujitwarrier48573 жыл бұрын
@@perfectsplit5515 it doesn't matter what you do. You always are tech support for your parents.
@KUNALBISWAS-NEWS-TECH-SHORT3 жыл бұрын
Cost us 67k, HCL ..
@sujitwarrier48573 жыл бұрын
@@KUNALBISWAS-NEWS-TECH-SHORT what?
@PolymorphicBytes19 күн бұрын
The sad thing is that some of these same people still cannot use one today. It's 2024 and we still have computer dummies.
@hurricane_valence5 күн бұрын
It's not completely sad. Some of us just weren't raised during the time. Where it wasn't the prominent thing or like me? I didn't have all this crazy tethe logical stuff. You kids have to, day. It's very different. Some of it's really neat and helps out a lot if you know what you're doing but some of us just get really frustrated because we don't know how to use it.
@PolymorphicBytes5 күн бұрын
@@hurricane_valence In 2024, nearly everything is connected. I'm the type of person that if I use something, I learn it. Everything from repairing my car, home, AC, heating, everything. I can understand older people maybe not jumping onto it, but we have young people who cannot use a computer, and that is ill preparedness!
@hurricane_valence5 күн бұрын
I agree, I think everyone should at least try to learn. I'm just speaking more from the perspective struggle. Of using technology as an older person or even as a middle-aged person who didn't grow up with all that stuff, but I do have a lot of modern. Text that I use, but sometimes I forget how to use certain things or when I buy a new thing. I have to learn and it sometimes may be harder for me or less. Interesting to me. Then say a kid would be because it's cool or it's what they grew up knowing. I love that we're able to be more connected now. Life can sometimes be more easier now because of technology. Sometimes it's a little harsir.
@hurricane_valence5 күн бұрын
@@PolymorphicBytes If you don't mind me asking though how old are you?
@PolymorphicBytes5 күн бұрын
@@hurricane_valence 53
@FreshStartApostolicАй бұрын
ISA, PCI, PCIe, parallel ports, ribbon cables, dip switches, IRQ settings, sound card, modem and video card conflicts, configuring the BIOS, IDE...the days of building white boxes! Anyone else remember the "good old days"?
@cinefyl24 күн бұрын
I had a job once where we needed to plug in a dongle to use an application. And, OF COURSE, the dongle would go missing and then we would spend 2 hours trying to find it so "Mike" could create a visual for his 2:30pm presentation. Good times
@FreshStartApostolic24 күн бұрын
@@cinefyl I remember the dongles. Hahahahahahaha
@jw1143223 күн бұрын
lol duuuude... It must have been around 1995 or so. My dad, who was a software developer at the time, had purchased a new computer: a pentium 75! This bad boy had a 4x cd-rom, 8 colossal MB of RAM, and wait for it...a freaking _GIGABYTE_ of hard drive space. I remember inquiring about the video card because the one we used in our family computer was an ISA card (it didn't even have a PCI slot lol, it was a 486 33mhz) and I loved playing Doom in "hi res" mode, but it was so slow and laggy on the family computer, I was curious how the new computer would handle it. My dad told me that the video was on board, so it was basically just as fast as a PCI card and I think it had a 1 MB allocation of video memory. Not only did Doom play faster, it could even handle it in hi res mode without an issue! And it even had sound instead of the PC speaker sound I was accustomed to with the family computer!! The plasma rifle was my favorite sound for a long time. I could go on and on with stories like this lol
@youcanletgox33 жыл бұрын
Crazy how far we’ve come in 26 short years; now, babies know how to navigate through a smartphone better than some adults lol
@notbambang3 жыл бұрын
Today's tech is more easier to use, everything can be done wireless, no need to worries about cables and not matching ports
@mandinikohl25413 жыл бұрын
Yo I swear to god all they do is watch us on our phones & scheme until they're dexterous enough to do it too. Lmao
@PeaceDweller3 жыл бұрын
Ironically, back in the 90s only intelligent people had personal computers/laptops.
@beefnoodles49813 жыл бұрын
Huh??? PC is diffrent from SmartPhone
@youcanletgox33 жыл бұрын
@@beefnoodles4981 I’m speaking about technology in general :P
@tdm44853 жыл бұрын
Jesus, I think even Satan felt sorry for those working first line support in those days.
@ScienceAlliance3 жыл бұрын
true.
@DurkMcGerk3 жыл бұрын
@Golem Goyim I always liked: "there's a loose nut behind the keyboard"
@leogama34223 жыл бұрын
@Golem Goyim ID 10-T?
@ccmireonthebeat44733 жыл бұрын
happy 666 likes
@BeexDubb3 жыл бұрын
People were less entitled and rude back then, so I doubt it’s worse than today.
@an_and85286 ай бұрын
Until now, a significant portion of my life has revolved around computers. However, after watching this old video, I found myself unexpectedly moved, with tears in my eyes. I thoroughly enjoyed reading through all the comments on this video and even the replies to those comments. Everything about this experience brings me a sense of peace, and it feels really gratifying. Thanks to KZfaq for suggesting this video. 🖥📺😌
@swaglife-mi5fh4 ай бұрын
u seriously cried to a video of a woman struggling to set up a computer grow up man
@oddities-whatnot5 күн бұрын
I used to be into all this computer stuff when I was a young man in the 80s. The early days of home PCs was brilliant, really easy to learn.
@swaggy39877 ай бұрын
To be fair, getting a printer to work for someone new to computers is like asking a newborn infant to drive an F1 car
@piotrmazek54021 күн бұрын
Especially back then.
@alsanchez503820 күн бұрын
No
@johnmartinez744020 күн бұрын
In what way?
@mattt18019 күн бұрын
@@johnmartinez7440 Sometimes they just don't wanna. So you restart it and it says, "Good nap. Ok, I'll print."
@ilhamrj259919 күн бұрын
@@piotrmazek540it is even worse now... it is like asking an infant to fly spaceshuttle....😂
@Infarlock3 жыл бұрын
"Did you try turning it off and on again?" - "It's not even plugged in yet" 1995 was hard
@SimonUA3 жыл бұрын
LOL
@pratyushkongalla89283 жыл бұрын
🤣😂🤣
@gladius_arbor3 жыл бұрын
😂 😂
@zorkitipafed46263 жыл бұрын
Still common nowadays. People who work in PC services or internet providers' technical supports can tell you hundreds of stories about dumb clients who can't handle plugs and on/off buttons of their PC.
@hasenel37312 жыл бұрын
you seems like a fella will enjoy some street countdown
@D0NTREPLY3 ай бұрын
''please refer to troubleshooting'' is probably the worst piece of advice ever given in the history of humanity
@aycc-nbh72895 ай бұрын
I think I recall a video somewhere where someone tried to install a version of Debian from 1999 and it was a confusing and painful process that didn’t even get everything needed installed. This is making me even more glad that Kubuntu was able to come along since then.
@guillandanthony7113 жыл бұрын
I had to laugh when he said that "PCs for Dummies" had sold 18 million copies. Some clever people back in the day laughed all the way to the bank.
@diverman10233 жыл бұрын
I mean in 1995 a UI like windows 95 was completely unheard of to the vast majority of people. It's like if you took someone from 1700 and told them to fly a plane
@sivartb72733 жыл бұрын
@@diverman1023 what percent of the human population can fly a plane in 2921?
@IvanPlayStation4LiFe3 жыл бұрын
Those are the best book there's one for everything subject including stocks. Is the best informative book series that why is still selling like hot cakes or drugs.
@sonicSnap3 жыл бұрын
@@sivartb7273 ah yes, 2921
@jaderal3 жыл бұрын
@@diverman1023 In 1995 nobody have windows 95, its not like today that you can download, in that time it was not that quick
@maverixXXV3 жыл бұрын
We evolved from adults struggling to work on their PCs to young teens building high-spec gaming stations at the age of 13
@edga74903 жыл бұрын
Nowadays building a pc is easy as breathe.
@5starwesley3 жыл бұрын
@@edga7490 fax, it really doesnt take computer knowledge to buy it
@AlexIncarnate9113 жыл бұрын
Back when nerds were not some woke wannabes....
@vntamed7003 жыл бұрын
The power of the internet
@itsthem56993 жыл бұрын
Building a PC now is easier than setting up a laptop + printer + custom modem hardware + phone configuration was back then.
@yoteslaya729621 күн бұрын
My grandma used to always call me before she deleted any file on her computer. She was terrified she would break it.
@Brian65873 ай бұрын
Cool flashback! It would be neat to see a follow-up interview with her. The first computer I ever remember interacting with was a Macintosh at my elementary school right around this time in 1995. The first home computer I ever had was a IBM PS/2 Model 25 that my uncle gave me. I learned alot about DOS!
@koya94663 жыл бұрын
"PC stands for 'pain and confusion'" that made me laugh so hard
@Tom-jh3pl3 жыл бұрын
True, wait, where did the and come from???
@rumblefish93 жыл бұрын
Eljay Duldulao Try to work DOS and you'll know "pain and confusion"
@inceptionsd3 жыл бұрын
Still hasnt changed.
@sulaiman97663 жыл бұрын
yeah get a mac
@linussandell8313 жыл бұрын
@@sulaiman9766 Mad and crazy
@ogaduby3 жыл бұрын
I'll never forget the look on my moms face when i told her I've got the reply to an email send to my/our cousin(s) in Canada in the same day (I'm European BTW). Mail even had pictures and it moved across the ocean instantly... It was like sci-fi for her.
@GeoSae3 жыл бұрын
Yup .. I still remember the telegraph's office building in my hometown, It was about the same size as the Postal Service one, they charged you per letter. The closest we had from instant communication was the International and National LADA phone calls from a land line. Calls were terrible quality and extremely expensive! I remember in 1985 after the earthquake in Mexico City, we were unable to communicate to our relatives living there until a few weeks after the event. And I was possible thanks to the "Radiodifusores" People who owned large CB radios with huge antennas on top of their roofs who communicated with other people in other regions as a hobby. (An expensive one!) What is really amazing is that even with all these limitations, we still could fly in about the same amount of time as now, is just that plane tickets were more expensive.
@z1lla43 жыл бұрын
Your comment is causing me pain and confusion
@nmotschidontwannagivemyrea89323 жыл бұрын
It's still like sci-fi to me, and I grew up with it.
@adunce.54223 жыл бұрын
@@toKy0t0 That’s good stuff
@Horologica3 жыл бұрын
But think about this but in terms of instant material teleportation. This was already achieved on the atomic level
@spaghettiman11275 ай бұрын
People not understanding computers back then was understandable. People not understanding computers in this day and age is terrifying.
@JJFlores1975 ай бұрын
Yep. There's still a lot of tech illiteracy. There's a huge difference between being social media savvy and tech savvy.
@devalue706420 күн бұрын
and the tech illiteracy is getting larger with the new generation. a lot of kids have just phone and console. no PC or even laptop
@fishingangler43153 жыл бұрын
Why did she put a giant save button in her computer?
@Gamer-uf1kl3 жыл бұрын
Nice
@leodf13 жыл бұрын
Good one. Didn't get it for a moment.
@DaneH643 жыл бұрын
Lmao 😆
@MicahFleischman3 жыл бұрын
This is gonna anger someone 😂
@GURken3 жыл бұрын
Interesting, in what time this joke won't be a joke anymore?
@justtestingonce3 жыл бұрын
4mb memory, lol
@ua75213 жыл бұрын
Even my phone has more memory
@ua75213 жыл бұрын
I wonder how much storage it had
@greasycheese80953 жыл бұрын
@@ua7521 128 megabytes was the storage of the mac
@LightningShiva13 жыл бұрын
@@ua7521 What a surprise..
@DeerJerky3 жыл бұрын
@@ua7521 no way..more than 4mb of memory?
@Any-TNG8 күн бұрын
legend says she still is struggling with which port to plug the interface cable in.
@OfficialTechMinute3 ай бұрын
$2,832 in 1995 is worth $5,802.97 in 2024, that is wild for a computer.
@superfun5412 күн бұрын
also not true. the kind of computer she was using in this video clip did not exist.
@superfun5412 күн бұрын
unless she got it from time-traveling military aliens.
@mohann22893 күн бұрын
Lol what are you on@@superfun54
@Zanderthegrape3 жыл бұрын
2:37 lol her frustration while the credits were rolling. The editors made it look like a comedy segment like The Office xD
@nobody-tj1mv3 жыл бұрын
* curb your enthusiasm credits *
@laur-unstagenameactuallyca15873 жыл бұрын
loool it does 💀
@Halo56Guy3 жыл бұрын
@@nobody-tj1mv no
@nobody-tj1mv3 жыл бұрын
@@Halo56Guy yes
@user-ex2hj5gw1v3 жыл бұрын
Now we know where The Office took inspiration from
@IkarusKommt3 жыл бұрын
It is probably the first time I've seen a 3.5" floppy being inserted with two hands.
@ScienceAlliance3 жыл бұрын
*crunch that do be interesting doe
@gurgy33 жыл бұрын
Well aren’t you a lucky man
@eightbitoni3 жыл бұрын
i still remember the 8 and 5 inch floppy and was excited for a brief moment when the zip drive was introduced lol
@WarpRulez3 жыл бұрын
Wait 'til you see a boomer use a mouse with two hands.
@mozzjones69433 жыл бұрын
You must have had some real patient girlfriends then
@joshuaarmstrong64685 ай бұрын
Adjusted for inflation, the woman paid $5,706.82 for a PC less powerful than our most basic cell phones.
@faraz16046 ай бұрын
28 years later & it still ain't any easy. ( the more we learn the more complicated it gets every passing year )
@jackkraken38885 ай бұрын
Really? I thought its far easier now. What in particular do you think is hard or harder?
@j.s.34143 жыл бұрын
People forget that user manuals used to be written like Technical Manuals...they were actually fairly confusing and full of jargon. Once manufacturers realized the average user didn't have a CS degree, they began writing tech manuals and explaining specifications for non technically literate people.
@Ascertivus3 жыл бұрын
I think that's good! As much as I'd like to have manuals that are full of jargon and all the technical information that goes along with the device, I think that the switch to a more casually-worded manual was smart since it's more practical for most people. Thank you for sharing that fact!
@shadowxxe3 жыл бұрын
@@Ascertivus I mean there usually are specs listed at the back page or on the back of the box and when you get into enthusiast pc equipment like high end graphics cards or professional-grade motherboards you will find that the manuals aren't really about how to install the the thing but more about how to diagnose error codes and which ports do what
@thisuniquechica3 жыл бұрын
And now they just forgo user manuals altogether 🥺
@Cowboy1Brian3 жыл бұрын
yes, in spanish
@tylerchambers62463 жыл бұрын
That's because the manual was meant to teach you how to actually get the most out of the machine. Nowadays, a user is expected to use their machine the same way everyone else uses it, to accomplish the sake basic tasks, so 'manuals' are really just quick start guides. Which is bad, because how can you get the most out of your machine if you can't mold it around your unique needs and goals?
@doemis85732 жыл бұрын
Was there ever a point in computer history, where printers just worked? 99% percent of the computer related problems in my office and at home are printer problems. That Office Space printer scene felt soooo good!
@zachsmith1731 Жыл бұрын
It's why old job had a ricoh guy on standby at all times
@oaooaoipip2238 Жыл бұрын
@@zachsmith1731 Printers has always been like that. They never seems to evolve. It's like formating a an email. Sure you can use HTML and CSS but if you try to do something fancy like setting an image width it will only work in half of the mail clients.
@MacTTR Жыл бұрын
It's because modern hardware got HARDER to use, because of how wide the range has gotten for drivers. Etc.
@trashyraccoon2615 Жыл бұрын
Usually on Mac. Right now I’ve got a Brother printer and I’m running MacOS Mavericks, works every single time
@MacTTR Жыл бұрын
@@trashyraccoon2615 yes, but the wide majority use windows, Mac is nice, but for certain printers, it's not like " ok it's a pain to get working but I can install drivers!" And then if your not lucky Mac can just not offer drivers... because Apple doesn't like 3rd party stuff... that's what happens when your computer is "virus proof" (not really hating on macs but they do have more flaws then windows compatibility wise...
@CatherineRommel13 күн бұрын
honestly i've had a computer since I was 5 and I still whole heartedly relate to this woman.
@abbieprice343016 күн бұрын
I was 2 years old when this CBS News report aired! Technology has evolved so much since then! And nowadays you can carry the internet in the palm of your hand!
@johnj35773 жыл бұрын
My Dad bought me a PC after much begging when I was about 18, so it was 1990 ish. I'd read PC Magazines for months and we finally bought a Hyundai 386 SX16 costing around £1400. Worked like a charm and I spent hours every day fascinated with what I could get it to do. Two yrs later after joining a company on work experience, I instantly became their IT Manager because my knowledge of PC's was God level compared to the staff already there... Thanks Dad :)
@giovanigeorgis3848 Жыл бұрын
You brought a car?
@Rsconquest Жыл бұрын
@@giovanigeorgis3848 It's actually a pc lmao
@giovanigeorgis3848 Жыл бұрын
@@Rsconquest IK Hyundai is the obscure computer brand also sold by Fry’s Electronics as a last resort to stay in business here in the US and also a car brand.
@johnj3577 Жыл бұрын
@@giovanigeorgis3848 It was nearly as big as a car!
@w4drone720 Жыл бұрын
@@giovanigeorgis3848 rip fry's
@jukio023 жыл бұрын
Man, imagine if you bought Microsoft or Apple stock back then.
@XelaShade3 жыл бұрын
all you needed was few bitcoins from 2006
@range98823 жыл бұрын
If u bought Bitcoins would’ve been worth it 99%
@Shadow779993 жыл бұрын
This was already too late. You shouldve bought in the 80s
@santoryu27533 жыл бұрын
@@XelaShade not 2006 man. you could have bought bitcoins for few dollars in 2011 too.
@XelaShade3 жыл бұрын
@@santoryu2753 not for few cents
@praneshchow6 ай бұрын
After 28 years later I am watching this video. It's really interesting how our technology is developing day by day.
@obiwanfisher5375 ай бұрын
I feel so sorry for her. I don't know why, but if people can't use modern technology like phones or computers and are confused, it just melts my heart and I wanna protect them. I grew up with computer, and these days everyone sort of knows so I have no clue what it must be like not knowing. Personally I feel that if oyu can live without a computer, you're better off.
@Doomclown3 жыл бұрын
Where did they find this lady, I love her. "You'd let me know if I'm about to blow something up?" Also so glad we have USB now.
@TH3mrBROWN3 жыл бұрын
That bit was so good, if only they had access to KZfaq back then. She'd know, from watch countless videos, that the person holding the camera never offers any help but simply records the chaos unfold.
@sprytnychomik3 жыл бұрын
Yes, USB fits nice and tight in the ethernet port, but the printer is still not working.
@DiavalloX3 жыл бұрын
@@sprytnychomik and my HDMI is sitting real nicely in my usb port. Also got a 3.5mm headset plug fit easily in my microusb port
@fredericodietrich52093 жыл бұрын
@@TH3mrBROWN i think she would actually need a computer for youtube in its first years (the first 2 years)
@kathryncarter61433 жыл бұрын
You could have come to my house & seen the exact same thing.
@quidproquo825 жыл бұрын
It was more interesting to learn that the word "newbie" goes back that far
@jericoba4 жыл бұрын
Yep, it’s not an - oldie.
@ha1vorsen3 жыл бұрын
why would it be a new word?
@jgon123 жыл бұрын
Even the dinosaurs used it , it's an old word.
@Anarchist86ed3 жыл бұрын
@@jgon12 Earliest uses probably date to late twentieth century United States Armed Forces jargon.
@marksevastipol19463 жыл бұрын
@@jericoba 😂😂😂
@boijorzee21 күн бұрын
Having worked in a call center for a internet provider in 1999 myself I can guarantee you that back then the people trying to help you often were hardly qualified to do so. I remember my job interview consisted of them basically asking if I new what the internet was and if I was wiling to work on Saturdays. Thank god there were some guys who really knew their stuff because I was just hopeless.
@superfun5412 күн бұрын
what internet provider did you work for in 1999? I ask because in 1999 there was only aol, anything else was just a basic connect to internet explorer with a dial-up modem. I was 16/17 y.o. and not aware of any "call centers" in the u.s. at that time.
@happyfacefries13 күн бұрын
I'm convinced these same people just had outright grudge and never learned how to do anything because of it.
@user029173 жыл бұрын
We all would be in “Pain and Confusion” if we were to wake up in 1995 trying to operate these computers.
@haywoodjblome47683 жыл бұрын
@NuNu there's a big difference between 1995 computers and 1965 computers lol
@Mr.Obongo3 жыл бұрын
Nah, we’ll maybe idk. I first started using computers when I was 6 which was around the same time this video was made so I grew up with a lot of these old computers I find them easier to put together and work compared to what’s available now.
@olehtomilov29093 жыл бұрын
@@Mr.Obongo Agree with you. I was born in '88 and grew up with computers
@neilquechon87163 жыл бұрын
Even if we managed to operate them we would still be in pain and confusion because it would feel to SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW !
@env0x3 жыл бұрын
The worst pain would be having to buy printer ink all the time. And floppy disks. Nowadays it's usb chargers.
@KeshavGupta273 жыл бұрын
what 1995, I still found many people who react just like this girl.
@Jace8883 жыл бұрын
YES! Omg. And the help page is as useless than before.
@AT-cy7im3 жыл бұрын
Yep - to this day is hard for my to convince to my aunt that she can check her post, or pay bill on the pc. no seriously she's looks at me like I'm from another planet.
@rashidhumine3 жыл бұрын
That's a Woman, not a Girl..
@Uria-jz1gu3 жыл бұрын
@@rashidhumine its a grill
@Ace_Tails3 жыл бұрын
@@Uria-jz1gu Its a Gurl
@cheese-bg1xq4 ай бұрын
It's interesting seeing all this as someone who was born with computers. Mad to think there was a time like this! :)
@drewottesen26093 ай бұрын
Same. I'm especially amazed, because I'm in Gen Z and also particularly tech savy (Comp sci major, linux user) so it's interesting to see such a different world
@Kris.G19 күн бұрын
Words can't describe the touch, the smell, the sounds those computers were making. And the brochures and magazines with whole overpriced sets including printers, speakers and CRT monitors. I got my first PC when I was 18. As far as I remember I had a whooping 512MB HDD.... I consider myself lucky to have experienced both worlds in my lifetime.
@skirmantasstankevicius45820 күн бұрын
Printer was like sub-boss level, but to set up internet was boss level, or superboss level to make that freaking Microsoft Outlook work properly and make it stable.
@mdik13663 жыл бұрын
By watching the girl trying to make the PC work. I noticed something that her fashion wear is today fashion trend :D
@pumpernickelplace3 жыл бұрын
totally. funny how on-point she looks for now.
@aidenorpington46373 жыл бұрын
lmaoo
@therealb8883 жыл бұрын
@Trippie Nxouch jealous much? She was actually decent and I'd say attractive in some ways.
@therealb8883 жыл бұрын
@Trippie Nxouch well she did look like a girl in the video tbh. What if she's still in shape & looking good though? ;). I've seen girls my age look more like big mamas than her. Hope you ain't one of em.
@jayg.20663 жыл бұрын
@Trippie Nxouch Stfu
@yeeturmcbeetur81973 жыл бұрын
“PC stands for pain and confusion” Yea. I feel that when I play league solo.
@saadsajidul90013 жыл бұрын
What is league???
@chocho67663 жыл бұрын
@@saadsajidul9001 league of legend obviously
@saadsajidul90013 жыл бұрын
@@chocho6766 i hate game, just an opinion no offense
@chocho67663 жыл бұрын
@@saadsajidul9001 ok , just fyi playing league solo (alone with random people) is very frustrating it feels like so hard and unfair people will just blame each other when they lose , it's just a stress
@saadsajidul90013 жыл бұрын
@@chocho6766 is it toxic??
@DrAero06 ай бұрын
95' is when i was born, and by 2001 I was playing Heroes of Might and Magic with my sisters. I loved computers ever since and I learned basics very early. Can't disagree though, things are much easier now.
@Judith_RemkesАй бұрын
Heroes of Might and Magic is the best game (series) ever!
@sarahfaith6531Күн бұрын
Isn’t crazy how life evolves around the problems we create and the solutions we need to live with them
@carlospwk3 жыл бұрын
A couple of things about this video. Even regular PC computers were relatively complicated by today's standards to install and use. Installing device drivers, getting online, understanding what you were buying etc. all relied on what was printed in the manual, what the salespeople told you at the store and your immediate social circle. You couldn't just Google something or go on KZfaq and look at 10 different videos which explain everything. If you got stuck with something, you remained so until you could find someone to help you with it. Installing new hardware required all kinds of compatibles components and installing drivers by hand. You couldn't just plug something into a USB port (didn't exist) and expect it to start working. And all computer stuff was *expensive*, especially new tech like digital cameras or CD-R drives. Then a year or two later they'd put out something twice as fast and good. It was brutal.
@bigalexg Жыл бұрын
you get it. I think many here who have no compassion for the newbie in the story weren't there and don't realize how much easier things are these days. I was lucky in that I had a friend who held my hand while setting up my first PC. That was the only way to get a frustration free start in those days. I'd like to see young people today install a sound card in a PC from 93 and have to manually set the DMA and the IRQ or set up a LAN in Windows 3.1. Good luck.
@jensenraylight8011 Жыл бұрын
it's only hard, if you expect to learn everything in 1 day. if you just have fun with it, play with it and don't give it too much expectation, you'll be well versed with it within year. there are a lot of amazing thing you can do with it. after all, there are things that only PC/laptop could do, that smartphone, tablet, etc won't be able to do. all the Companies around the world use PC and not Smartphone or tablet for work for a reason
@lashlarue7924 Жыл бұрын
I grew up with computers and disagree; these people are cognitively inferior nincompoops. Computers back in the 80's were simple compared to the stuff we have today.
@kushagrabajpai__ Жыл бұрын
easy to miss the perspective!
@ChandravijayAgrawal Жыл бұрын
this is most sensible of all comments here
@chucksucks86404 жыл бұрын
The biggest improvement in usability came from the fact that drivers were automatically installed and USB cables. Those made things way easier.
@AlfaPro13373 жыл бұрын
Basic drivers if you aren't connected to the internet.
@aaabatteries55763 жыл бұрын
and all the work done on UX
@ShrivledAlienLol3 жыл бұрын
Don’t know what you’re taking about. I had to install my GPU drivers and flash my motherboard BIOS after getting a new CPU.
@jholotanbest26883 жыл бұрын
No just that but decades of RND that haver gone into ease of use.
@doltBmB3 жыл бұрын
@@ShrivledAlienLol You don't have to install your GPU driver, there's always a basic driver available. And most GPU's have automatic updates now.
@user-1wy8wu016 ай бұрын
I wonder how Jamie feels watching this 30 years later....
@OriginalThisAndThat19 күн бұрын
0:12 After this sentence I knew instantly this is going to be golden
@kominion3 жыл бұрын
Poor Jamie, I hope she figured out how computers work and is doing ok today
@brendan88123 жыл бұрын
She is
@the_grass_trainer3 жыл бұрын
@@brendan8812 but how can you be so sure?
@brianarbenz72063 жыл бұрын
@@the_grass_trainer haven't we all figured computers out by now?
@uXses3 жыл бұрын
She's fine. A few years later she became a man and won the world series of poker.
@tsdobbi3 жыл бұрын
@@uXses Her name is Dan Bilzerian.
@godnness3 жыл бұрын
It's hard to believe that I was a child in 90's. Today it seems like it's other dimension.
@kurtishendrix3 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1990 and i can definitely remember being baffled by a computer in 1995, but my mom was even worse lol
@QueenNebulous133 жыл бұрын
i'm a 90's kid too. i miss the time we had mp3 and cd players 😂
@kurtishendrix3 жыл бұрын
@@QueenNebulous13 was just talking to my wife about using Napster and Aimster back in the day, and all the burned cd’s we used to have to carry around 😂
@QueenNebulous133 жыл бұрын
@@kurtishendrix haha yes! good times
@bradmetcalf53333 жыл бұрын
same here. born 1984. These videos dont feel at all like how it felt then
@yourfriend514418 күн бұрын
30 years later. Nothing has changed!
@SupaKoopaTroopa643 жыл бұрын
"By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."
@cdvideodump3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Paul Krugman for your words of wisdom... /s
@yusha10593 жыл бұрын
Certified bruh moment be like
@JohnSmith-ox3gy3 жыл бұрын
Another certified Paul Grugman moment.
@cdvideodump3 жыл бұрын
@@JohnSmith-ox3gy *THIS IS A CERTIFIED KRUG CLASSIC*
@AlexSchwartzATV3 жыл бұрын
@@yusha1059 LOL
@So.cheese3 жыл бұрын
I work as an IT Technician and I feel this to the very core of my soul.
@Duu2 Жыл бұрын
Love you, man. Thanks for helping the people and being so patient. If you need to switch to something else, go for it.
@yashaswikulshreshtha158810 ай бұрын
things have changed lol besides printer. Atleast for my generation we're born into such things so things come easily to us but yes i get ya
@davetech12697 ай бұрын
As another IT tech, I can confirm
@DJordydj6 ай бұрын
Same here XDDDD
@ancientbuilds37646 ай бұрын
Dude... Some old biddy is on her way to you with her jaw set. It's a thankless job.
@dreamEnd5 ай бұрын
Ah I remember my first computer back in 2000. It's crazy how fast we progressed in technology, but now it started to stagnate, at least for the average users.
@37Kilo220 күн бұрын
I'm 42, and grew up with computers in the home. I still know people from my generation just like this, but instead of trying to figure it out, they immediately demand that I do it for them.
@BigTylt3 жыл бұрын
Someone should find her and ask her if she ever found out how to use her ThinkPad.
@mitingtwotch3 жыл бұрын
she wouldnt know how to plug it in
@maddominican8793 жыл бұрын
She die of frustration and anxiety 1 year ago.she was still trying to make the computer work
@saiftama3 жыл бұрын
What if she’s like a twitch streamer and does speed coding for fun. I mean she got into computers before most of us were even walking.
@BenjitheRabbit3 жыл бұрын
She did she has a twitter now and is also working as a writer and editor at inquire first
@Fjalll3 жыл бұрын
She's been on PC for 26 years I'm sure she's a wizard by now
@johnnyfavorite11943 жыл бұрын
I’m still trying to figure out how computer scientists breed squirrels small enough to run on the tiny treadmills that power my phone.
@dnlgbrls3 жыл бұрын
mine appears to have this burning fox powering my browser.
@declansnyder22813 жыл бұрын
gotta give credit where credit is due, its not the computer scientists you have to thank for that, it's the electrical engineers (well, the ARM architecture also helps a little)
@nat01069513 жыл бұрын
the ece engineers. not computer scientist. CS are mainly on softwares. not hardwares
@ucheucheuche4 күн бұрын
It's kinda sad that we don't generally do anything revolutionarily new with computers today. Just more and faster, but still games, entertainment, online surfing, documents. Perhaps there's less headbanging today than then, but when computers mess up, they really let you know about it.
@brianknapp27476 ай бұрын
Ouch. This video is so nostalgic it hurts.
@SpacePoolNoodle3 жыл бұрын
One of the things I fear is that 30 years from now technology will advance further than I can comprehend.
@recanimations15633 жыл бұрын
Same as me, I understand how to do everything correctly and know a lot about computers but in the future...
@spongebobfan783 жыл бұрын
To be fair, if people from 30 years ago see our current technology, it will look as advanced than they can comprehend too. Like the concept of a now-old Nokia phone will already be mind-blowing.
@quinndirks56533 жыл бұрын
The human interfaces should become simpler and easier to use over time. However, sometimes there is a tradeoff in a tool between usability and quality. A really good tool is usable without much knowledge, yet provides the possibility of more advanced features if the user has knowledge of those features. On another note, technology has already advanced further than any one person could understand completely. The technology that enables our network of communication -- landlines, computers, monitors, phones, satellites, rockets to take satellites to orbit, orbital mechanics, chemical and mechanical engineering, math etc. -- is all technology that requires many specialists to put the whole system together. You could comprehend a small portion of it. You could specialize in any one certain aspect of it, but you couldn't comprehend all of it at once. Too many moving parts to keep in your head, and too many things you would need to learn and understand. Thankfully, we're not a species that has to learn all aspects of a complex system in order to operate it; we only need to learn the parts of the system where we operate.
@LeonardoPolichuth3 жыл бұрын
if you really think about it, can you comprehend technology right now, or maybe technology from 20, 30 years ago? Can you understand how you plug a board into a wall plug, electricity goes through, it makes a lot of calculations resulting only 0 or 1, and with that you can connect to the internet, access youtube and read this comment?
@delmanpronto93743 жыл бұрын
the fear is that more and more people will get replaced if we don't consume more and more energy. so long as machines don't become conscious, we will stay relevant and adapt to a different kind of work (which will drive energy consumption up). what comes in the way is climate change --- the mother of all hurdles.
@neoshenlong3 жыл бұрын
This woman is an example of a good costumer, asking what the specifications mean in order to make an informed purchase. Of course nowadays its a lot easier to do your research on the internet before. Edit: Leaving the typo so the comment pointing it out makes sense.
@PkmnGymLeader Жыл бұрын
Nowadays people are like “I like that logo. I should buy it for that reason.” 🙄
@azetaburn4491 Жыл бұрын
@@PkmnGymLeader Showing how well consumer protection act works compare to before.
@justrosy511 ай бұрын
It's her (and my) generation that brought you the Internet. Remember that.
@CMSonYT11 ай бұрын
Majority of sales has been mostly based on brand and price for more than 20 years.
@VVayVVard11 ай бұрын
@@justrosy5 That's an all-encompassing generation then, spanning from the late-19th century to the mid-20th.