Amazon in the 90s: “Hi there, we sell books” Amazon in the 2020s: “Hi there. We Own You.”

Seemed like such a hopeful era. Every commercial director seemed to inject hope.

Only 121 views. This is one of most important historical records we have.

Man, commercials back then are SO much better than they are now

I like how most job sites back then had easy or fast job applications when now it's online required and 1 job application takes 30 minutes alone

12:30 giving me a heart attack

Better days back then. Such a wonderful time to be alive. The 90's and 00's we so great.

So scary watching these and seeing how fascinated the world and businesses were about the boom of the Internet. No one could've imagined how the online world would be like today.

i love the time when tv still was fun

"I don't like standing in line for a book for 10 minutes, I just go online and click Order and pay an extra 12 dollars and wait a week or 2 for the same book"

6:35 ... "You can apply for 10 jobs in 10 seconds...." Damn, it's more like 10 hours now, even on fiber

12:30 is quite eerie indeed.🤔

I like how it looks so much happier and simpler back then when it really wasn’t

I miss these days so badly

I never knew Amazon was originally a book-only website.

4:00 A TV commercial for an Internet browser?? I don't think I've ever seen that before or since.

12:30 just gonna leave this here

man i missed so much of this era, i was born in 1999, i wish i could have experience a little bit more of this

Back then you flaunted you were a .Com and tech hip and showing we were entering more into the information age going into this futuristic 2000's. Today it's expected and it's spoiled us..lol

Anyone remember a commercial from around this time where two sisters were sharing a phone line and one sister was just hanging up on her sister's boyfriend. "Hey, was that Matt?" "No."

I love the late 90s and 00s era . . I was born in 2002 so sadly i didnt experience most of it. :(

Who else is looking up these websites? A few of these, like snowball and kosmo I don't even remember existing.

11:59 If Dr. Seuss worked in retail.

Something I realize now is that 90s advertising was more powerfull and energetic than today's

Back when pixelated textures, lack of ambient occlusion, ambient shadows, and low polygon objects in games were considered realistic lol

"Next time you're on the Internet..."

What a lot of web sites, now the internet is only 6 pages KZfaq, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and PH

History repeats itself.

Thanks, exactly what I was searching for

Around this time, they still haven't figured out that people should pay for printouts yet. So you'd have people standing at the printer for ten minutes while they print out 80 pages from Geocities and Tripod sites.

thought that plane was gonna hit that tower lel

why did I just watch 14 minutes worth of commercials?

I still remember that CDNOW commercial 🤣

Damn,, that UPS add is ominous in hindsight...

Same thing we see today with the Cryptocurency Bubble

It should say something about the impact most of these left that I’ve never even heard of most of these.

12:29 Early 2000s right?

I wish I was just a couple years older so I could remember this period better

we officially declare you a digital historian

12:29 I wonder how many millennials just had a knee jerk reaction.

Omg the brief clip of Descent: Freespace in the Dell commercial sent me for a fuckin emotional rollercoaster

Cool collection

Ahhh nostalgia.....I feel old now...

I was born in early 2001. I really wish I was born in the correct time so I could experience all of this in it’ prime.

Something I noticed, these businesses still exist today, just other companies are doing them instead of these ones. Talk about being at the right place at the wrong time.

Soundgarden reference. Awesome

12:30 ...oh...oh... *oh*

Days of Final fantasy 8, dreamcast, pentium 3 and half life

Oracle advert stands out. Amazon and Yahoo biggest websites : biggest companies British Airways and General Motors = how times do change

2:52: the voice of Ed Helms, pre daily show.

Omg it’s Amazon, you can’t escape it.

Holy shit I remember lycos

When Amazon was just selling books.

Oh man... Netscape. Now that brings me back! 🙂

Subbed!

when i go to sleep these are my screensavers

There was so much hope and optimism in the world around this time.....the thing that was supposed to advance us has turned us all against each other....

It's funny how about like 3-5 of them are still a thing

3:38 This is BiS Tier 6 marketing

If only I knew about Amazon in 2001. I was 11 🤦😫😭😭😭

Yahoo the biggest search engine, google wasn't even a thing yet. Seems so strange in retrospect.

IBM was pushing Lotus Notes and Domino, and book-selling Amazon would start crushing it in the future. I don't even think of IBM as a tech company now.

Wow. Just wow.

Now fast forward to 2020 online sales during the "Great Lockdown" saw a major boom. 🌋

I wouldn't mind watching these advirtisment instead of what we have today. So much more effort and creativity.

Man this is weird and I’m soo old.(born in ‘82)

Ohh my Gosh, memories

88 baby lived childhood through thr 90s. Didn't know it was good as it was back then.

I guess I will leave a footnote for those who see, this video only had 5,305 views when i was really interested in this montage. I'm So, so, so sorry for all you those who missed out on this time. It looks bad with dial up, and certain Graphics of Games, but keep in mind back then this was all cutting edge....and new. The Internet truly was exciting, it was like the Wild West of if you believe in yourself, and really dream in this new frontier, that it really mattered and mean't something. I know.... it wasn't 2001 that started it, but not to sound strange, besides the WTC incident, things went on but things did start to change. I think the biggest change is when the mainstream caught on to the internet, but also with the low intelligence and harsh sarcasm of the mainstream, the Internet isn't for Nerds or tech people anymore. It's on a Smartphone, easily accessable by anyone. This time period sure, had it's problems and wasn't perfect, but comparing the late 90's to early 2000's is almost like heaven, way way better than this time period of 2021 looking back at 2020. People, TV Shows, Video Games, Music, Wrestling, etc was more free and not as..... corporate controlled. People were......really free. It felt amazing, intoxicating to be alive and to think it will get better. Then, in 2008 to 2009, something happened in my opinion, like a shift... but taking a Dark turn. Not only the Financial Collapse in the USA, but Music, Movies, TV etc started to decline, and just slowly continued to get worse. I wish I could go back, I really do. The Internet will never be the same, ever ever ever again. And that pains me so much to say it's like losing a Best Friend. The People, Music, Women, TV, Movies, Video Games were amazing for that time of 1995-2006.

Been trying for years to find a commercial from the early 2000's. There was a guy describing a computer to retail employee meant to mock Best Buy sales people, they're getting more excited with each component described, then even share an enthusiastic "NIIIICE!" and a fist bump. Then the employee asks the customer "so, where you gonna get all that?" I've scoured Google and KZfaq, even asked ChatGPT. So I'm going to try asking actual human beings (shocking, I know) Has anyone here ever seen this? It was a commercial for customer computer builds so like Dell or Gateway maybe. This has been bothering me for 20 years.

11:40, if that wasn't foreshadowing

6:34 That clicking tho

Newcom’s ad is ominous.

the idea of a private sound garden used to confuse me as a child

$1,999 in 1999 would be $3,404.25 in 2022.

Crazy thing in 20 years ppl will be watching these on AI robots on their begging stage’ I really think tech background will be key in the future’ Everything will require programmers etc I also think early investors on AI start ups/ stock are going to be the next “Amazon”

Well as a non American now I see how the hype was built that lead to the bubble 😅

who else is going to these websites to see if they still exist?

Surprised Amazon managed to survive when a lot of these sadly went under with the bubble

The one at 1:00 really is pretty damn funny 😄

This is being repeated as we speak with the block chain bubble.. hasn’t popped yet. So one day this comment will look like I’m a genius 😂

When your midroll ads are the whole video.

If I had the option to become younger but forget the PC bonanza of the 90's, I wouldn't do it.

This would be in time capsule in year 2060 are kids think what would internet look back then

im so lucky i got to visit Europe (austria germany itaky uk etc) in 2004 when i was only 16 and got to experience european cable modems that charged you by the kilobyte lol just my exchange familys luck to get the one kid who had an FTP server setup at home to transfer 100mb+ of photos every night lol the guchi store in venice italy or the hotels in switzerland ut was all so fresh and clean and hitech in 2004, was after 911 tho so i bet it was even better back in europe 1999 2000 etc, musta been amazing

Now if only commercials were as eye catching today now for our current stock bubble lol

The 90s? Yeah, I heard something about it

You can buy the domain snowball.com for only $400K.

13:30 Is this an actual cover of the song? If so, I'd be very grateful is someone could tell me by what band

Were there adverts that were talking about how bad the internet is in the 90’s?, like to scare people from going on the internet

Pretty sure CDNOW @ 2:33 is early voiceover work by Ed Helms

I don’t care what anyone says, the internet is just a lil extension of the telephone and not a giant leap like everyone says.

wow all those 23 year old websites look so much nicer and simple today, they peaked. a few could just use better background colors etc but they really looked like a collectioj of nfts lol we should have nfts of old windows 3.1 and mac icons etc

Held my breath at 12:30

Miss the old yahoo camerials

this is similar to whats happening in crypto. lots of them wont make it

13:14 - ironic using Orwellian imagry while saying "You got to be free".

1990s: boring comentary 2000s technology is COOL

12:29 uhhh is this supposed to be some kinda 911 joke

I seriously wonder what it would be like if coronavirus hit in the late 90s. It seems like it was possible even then to work and go to school from home.