Early Internet Hacks That Caused a Stir

Early Internet Hacks That Caused a Stir | Nostalgia Nerd

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The Early Web was a much more twee place than it is today:
So Get Surfshark VPN at Surfshark.deals/NERD, Enter promo code NERD for 83% off and one extra month free! You remember the 1990s? Surely? The early world wide web. The time when the internet was young, fresh and unfettered. When someone with enough hacking acumen could log onto the largest search engine of the time and plaster it with their thoughts and feelings. What a time to be alive. I miss those times, so I thought we could spend a little bit of time exploring some forgotten website h@cks of those early, tentative and security lacking days. Join me, as we explore what happened to sites such as Yahoo.com, JurassicPark, the Spice Girls and many, many more. GOOD TIMES.
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@Nostalgianerd 4 жыл бұрын

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@ADundee 4 жыл бұрын

🥶 freezin in my office

@Nostalgianerd 4 жыл бұрын

@@ADundee I hear you.

@TerWebz 4 жыл бұрын

He is self-aware!

@fartyperson 4 жыл бұрын

can you reupload this without that unbearable filter

@admiralfrosty3495 4 жыл бұрын

I love it, I’d devour more if you did them!

@francez123456789 4 жыл бұрын

Prisoner: what are you in for? Hacker: blowing a captain crunch whistle into a phone Prisoner: *scoots away*

@judericks3030 4 жыл бұрын

@Chris C yessss 😂😂😂

@etruscanroar2509 4 жыл бұрын

@@judericks3030 At least he didn't litter.

@antipancakes4747 4 жыл бұрын

Kinzuko he was just phreaking misunderstood

@threeMetreJim 4 жыл бұрын

Prisoner: Have you seen my whistle? Start's whistling Flo Rida... Hacker: *gulp*

@antipancakes4747 4 жыл бұрын

@Double TapTM I dont even remember the context of my joke, the KZfaq video I commented on, or why I used "phreaking", but thank you.

@fx7105 4 жыл бұрын

i miss how full of personality everything on the internet used to be, especially the website designs

@thcollegestudent 4 жыл бұрын

Websites and even products of the time feel so much more...alive? If that's possible

@rev949 4 жыл бұрын

Websites back then used to be labors of love created by unique people with a genuine passion for their interests. Then social media came along and decided to remove this facet from the modern online experience. It turned the focus away from creativity and information sharing to looking for ways to monetize everything. It led to the homogenization of design solely to appeal to advertisers and the overall tone changing to that of a checkout line tabloid. In plain English: Facebook fucking sucks and poisons everything.

@UenoLocker54 4 жыл бұрын

@@rev949 Essentially when the masses finally catch up everything gets boring as hell to appease them.

@ActuallyTragic 4 жыл бұрын

F X What do you expect? Boringly simplified, overly-accessible and homogenous designs just make more money.

@moonshinepz 4 жыл бұрын

When the internet changed into a shopping mall and google changed from tech company to advertising company, all the interesting web sites got drowned out.

@sac3528 4 жыл бұрын

>THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF THE INTERNET STOPS HERE Yeah, that aged well, didn't it.

@GatorMilk 4 жыл бұрын

I wish. I prefer old web designs.

@TheZombieCurryKid 4 жыл бұрын

@@GatorMilk same

@cthecheese1620 4 жыл бұрын

Look at how little ads they have! It makes me want to make a Listical of the top 10 ad-less websites and make people reload all 20 of my ads by making people click next. 200 ad views? Yes pls.

@GatorMilk 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheZombieCurryKid There is a good Virgin vs Chad meme about this. The "virgin web 3.0" vs The CHAD "World Wide Web Design."

@josephD32 4 жыл бұрын

lol... ".com" literally means "Commercial Website".

@HappyBeezerStudios 4 жыл бұрын

When people hacked websites only to look around and left a "I was here" message instead of stealing data.

@EdPenwell 4 жыл бұрын

To be fair, there wasn't much data to steal back then.

@HappyBeezerStudios 4 жыл бұрын

Not private date, but government or corporate secrets. And the fact that someone hacking into those sites and being able to prove it would shine bad light onto those organisations.

@Slash0mega 4 жыл бұрын

@@HappyBeezerStudios not quite, thats just a webpage, not a data server. xkcd.com/932/

@jameswalker199 4 жыл бұрын

I don't even have to click that link to know which xkcd that is.

@Puremindgames 4 жыл бұрын

@@HappyBeezerStudios Just getting in and leaving a "I was here" sign should be enough, no need to steal anyones data and potentially make life hell for someone who could potentially be on the edge of suicide anyway.

@keybyss7671 4 жыл бұрын

I actually like how the CIA website looked more aesthetically pleasing after getting hacked. It's pre-hacking design looked so basic and boring.

@hedgehog3180 4 жыл бұрын

I also like that the best defense the CIA could come up with was apparently just to put up a sign saying "Don't hack we will arrest you."

@peachymunmagenta 4 жыл бұрын

Holy shit!

@aljaberhk 4 жыл бұрын

it still looks bland at the hacking

@happycamperds9917 4 жыл бұрын

6:48 “Apollo 69” Glad to see the internet hasn’t changed.

@millionsurpriseeggtoyvideo3709 3 жыл бұрын

69 OwO

@Killerspieler0815 3 жыл бұрын

@HappyCamper DS99 - YES & Futurama referenced to that: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mNB6na2cypqZmmg.html ;) Some things never change ^^

@bobettier 4 жыл бұрын

University teachers websites still looks like this.

@Blackadder75 4 жыл бұрын

lol they really do. I know one from a physics professor , one of those really big ones, doing frontier science etc . a really nice man who you can write an e-mail and he actually reads it and answers you. And his website looks like it's 1998.

@deadchannell424 4 жыл бұрын

I KNOW!!! It's so annoying lol

@jean-pierreboies9749 4 жыл бұрын

Why waste time on presentation when what people really want is the content/info? I prefer a site that load fast and is easy to navigate. Good presentation is nice but secondary and these teachers can use their time for better things.

@dr.trichome6419 4 жыл бұрын

Yea because our government ACTUALLY connects to our internet HAHAHA fucking morons how do you think high end hackers get recruited? Dummy sites with useless information

@phutureproof 4 жыл бұрын

@@dr.trichome6419 ehhh what?

@piratk 4 жыл бұрын

In the late 90's, lyrics sites was all the rage. On one of these, a friend of mine registered fake lyrics that I supposedly had made. I figured out that this site was using a top list that used number of page loads of a URL, all I created a small program that would loads that page over and over again, and some weeks later, finally, I was on top! At the time, I beat Celine Dion's "My heart will go on". To this day, "Patrik sjunger visor för mindre barn" can still be found on lyric sites.

@Khosumi 4 жыл бұрын

that's actually pretty quaint. I looked it up and sure enough, you were telling the truth. I actually found a few lyrics website hosting those so called lyrics. Not quite sure what the deal with lambs is though.

@piratk 4 жыл бұрын

@@Khosumi It is an old Swedish nursery rhyme by Alice Tegnér.

@6ftvnderrr 4 жыл бұрын

Fellow svennar unite!!

@Anophis 4 жыл бұрын

That's so cool!

@CNYKnifeNerd 4 жыл бұрын

@@6ftvnderrr Theres literally 3 of us on the internet!!

@SpiffingNZ 4 жыл бұрын

Ah, Geocities - the days of perpetual "Under Construction" gifs.

@NoFormalTraining 4 жыл бұрын

Those were the days......

@juansolo1617 4 жыл бұрын

Everyone could have a web page... that nobody would ever look at. It's like the Facebook of the 90's.

@TheLexiconDevils 4 жыл бұрын

@TheRetroByte 4 жыл бұрын

Loved Geocities. Think it was my first little web space back in the late 90's. 🤔

@GatorMilk 4 жыл бұрын

@@BrainScramblies The best version is, of course, the one in Jagged Alliance 2.

@Meximagician 4 жыл бұрын

We also had auto-playing midi files! Far, far too many auto-playing midi files...

@queenbiscuit311 4 жыл бұрын

Now it just autoplays random ads at 900% volume while youre browsing at 2 am

@WildBluntHickok 4 жыл бұрын

Every now and then you'd get some asshole who decided the banner ad for his porn site needed auto playing audio.

@abbie_joan 3 жыл бұрын

tumblr still lets you do that

@ablemagawitch 3 жыл бұрын

Which every free website had those midi files which counted towards their allowed bandwidth usage per day, so websites became unavailable sooner because the idiot had to put a midi file on every fucking patch which took forever to load back on 26.6 K modem.......

@dj_paultuk7052 4 жыл бұрын

I was once involved in the clean-up after a hack in 91, and it was totally ingenious really. At a UK government facility someone got the job as a contractor, and while onsite he put a "Pin" through some Coax cable on the 10 base T "Secret" network. Remember those BNC connectors ?. He then would sit outside in a van (classic spy stuff), and sniff all the network traffic with a radio sniffer. Since the Coax being breached meant the traffic could be listened too. After that the MoD and central government moved to fully Fibre for internal LAN's. Fibre to desktop. That cost a fortune back in the early 90's.

@jackedup447 4 жыл бұрын

That man was 100% dedicated to his craft. Props to him tbh.

@highpath4776 3 жыл бұрын

How did he get security clearence?

@bencharles4459 3 жыл бұрын

@@highpath4776 it says that he got a job as a contractor.

@penfold7800 3 жыл бұрын

Coax network cables?! Blimey, that was a while back (I still have two old network cards that have the red/yellow/green LEDs and both coax and ethernet sockets) that came out of two freakin heavy IBMs I got from a skip outside a government training agency office (one of them had a huge 20mb harddrive that had coated glass planterns in it) ...and rather more bizarrely, an 8mm spent pistol shell under the motherboard

@carpediem4887 4 жыл бұрын

Back when Yahoo chat was java you could boot any user out of chat by putting their username in a boot url string and executing it from your own browser....

@jamesgrimwood1285 4 жыл бұрын

Back when Javascript was this crappy scripting language that we mostly used to disable "submit" buttons after they were clicked, so you couldn't buy things twice by mistake.

@carpediem4887 4 жыл бұрын

@@jamesgrimwood1285 Yea or disable right click so folks wouldn't steal your pics!

@medes5597 4 жыл бұрын

I miss the days of Java script, solely because I knew how to do so many things with java hacks like that. I also miss working on MSN+ to further customise the program for my friends. I really should get back into the hacking scene.

@TheErador 4 жыл бұрын

@@carpediem4887 not that those scripts ever stopped anyone determined enough.

@medes5597 4 жыл бұрын

@@carpediem4887 so years ago when I was like 9 or 10 and MatMice was a thing (remember that?) the "cool kid" in our class accused me of stealing a picture from his MatMice homepage and putting it on mine. He told the teacher - who made me remove the photo, even though I had it first on my site - and then made a big deal about the fact that he had disabled right click on his MatMice page solely to stop me from "stealing" his photos during out next computer lesson. Annoyed at being accused of doing something I didn't do and being the precocious little sod that I was, even at that age, I bypassed their right click block and saved all of his photos and then emailed them to his Hotmail account one by one. He was so upset that his mum rang the school to complain about me. You know that guy learned nothing from anything because his mum always bailed him out of trouble I'm now realising. He was still randomly antagonising me into my teen years.

@Jedda73 4 жыл бұрын

14:05 Yeah the internet was so "homely" back then that no matter what search term you entered into Yahoo, the first top 10 search results at least would be for porn.

@GavinKapuscinskiRacing 4 жыл бұрын

It's not like that isn't accurate. Most of the internet is porn after all

@trollsthatlol1 4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@chystal9161 4 жыл бұрын

Almost as bad now. Search anything and the first 3 results are fkn ads. Also the last 2 are. You get like 7 results and 5 ads. It's ret ard Ed. (YT has recently blocked that word, shows how shi**y they are) Boycot Google and anyone else who thinks that kinda sh*t is OK.

@matani2001 4 жыл бұрын

@Gernot Schrader That's because it's on purpose... No family-friendly search terms will lead you to porn on Google nowadays, so you have to explicitly search for "naughty" words and phrases in order to reach any pornographic content.

@buddyclem7328 4 жыл бұрын

@Gernot Schrader You missed the words "back then", probably referring to the 1990s. Search engines have content filters now.

@AndrevusWhitetail 4 жыл бұрын

"Hey mister security expert, if you're so EL8 (Elite), how come you're always getting p0wned by us anklebiters?" Can't believe they didn't understand elite

@Slash0mega 4 жыл бұрын

to be fair, it reads more like elate (el-eight) than elite. I know i couldn't read it without context,

@iwinrar5207 4 жыл бұрын

@@Slash0mega ditto....

@hedgehog3180 4 жыл бұрын

I loved the guy "deciphering" 1337speek, I mean I guess people weren't familiar with it back then but it's just funny and I guess this is how we get CSI using it as "secret hacker language".

@PaulMEdwards 4 жыл бұрын

Obviously they weren't elite.

@NOTLeavingLV 4 жыл бұрын

*We went from animated gif to emoji everywhere.* Seems like a regression to me.

@dasy2k1 4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget those java script bouncy balls or butterflies that followed your mouse pointer around the page

@Ulvis_B 4 жыл бұрын

@@dasy2k1 don't forgot java hack run any infornation on server or pc open websites..

@hedgehog3180 Ай бұрын

I mean at least they load faster, gifs were a pain.

@SpectraPrime 4 жыл бұрын

The reason the Y2K Bug amounted to nothing is because we engineered it out of existence, i do wish people wouldn't just brush it off as if it wasn't actually a credible cause of widespread damage, the reason nothing happened is because we fixed it.

@spartonberry 4 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't be able to watch this in the '90s when all we had was dial-up Internet. It would take all day to watch the video, and even then your parents would get mad at you for tying up the phone line. :D

@DanaTheInsane 4 жыл бұрын

Even a tiny video, you got up and made a sandwich, got a cup of coffee and then watched the compressed mess in a tiny window. Thats why it was the golden age of Flash cartoons.

@desepticon4 3 жыл бұрын

@@DanaTheInsane lol. I just had a flahback of trying to download the phantom menace trailer. took me hours.

@MarceldeJong 4 жыл бұрын

The reason the y2k critter did very little was because of a lot of hard work by a lot of people to fix the way their programs dealt with the change from 99 to 00. It was a huge problem and because of the media focus on it, it helped get people off their arses to bother to fix it. I wonder why you're downplaying that. We're actually heading towards the next problem in 2070. When the UNIX time rolls over.

@DogDogGodFog 4 жыл бұрын

No, 2038 actually.

@Rfc1394 3 жыл бұрын

@Marcel de Jong The Unix problem, which is coming in 2038, not 2070, will probably be solved mostly by production machines moving to 64 bit, and for still-in-use 32 bit machines that can't be retired, software for it being patched, possibly using a date range, dates of 1970 on below 2000 will have 68 years added, the way calendars for 2000 on non-updatable systems were rolled back to 1972, which was also a leap year starting on Saturday. A date range switch would hold for 30 years and by then machines will all be 64-bit or higher, and the problem won't recur for centuries.

@lShishkaBerryl 4 жыл бұрын

Ohhhhhhhh man, I remember getting the anarchists cookbook in the early 00s and becoming obsessed with phreaking. I couldn't do it myself by that time because the networks aren't the same anymore but it was absolutely fascinating. Analog hacking lol. No, I never made a bomb 😆

@BWPT. 4 жыл бұрын

Even by the early to mid 90's none of it worked, I agree though, it's fascinating.

@GatorMilk 4 жыл бұрын

I have "The Turner Diaries," and "Siege," I am a few steps ahead of you lol

@Pacmannion 4 жыл бұрын

@@GatorMilk You a Neo-Nazi or something?

@johnconnah4569 4 жыл бұрын

@@GatorMilk bro are you a neckbeard

@wolvenar 4 жыл бұрын

Some of the boxes and tricks employed worked out in the smaller towns around America, some even still today. *Edit* Ahem... So I'm told at least.

@ash36230 4 жыл бұрын

The days of tile backgrounds and Times New Roman and table layouts, when every website rendered differently on every browser, especially Internet Explorer

@ash36230 4 жыл бұрын

True but they are also somewhat inflexible and quite disobedient when I worked with them.

@WildBluntHickok 4 жыл бұрын

Wait you mean Internet Explorer isn't intentionally set up to render webpages wrong anymore? You know, so people would adjust their pages until it rendered right in IE, making it render wrong in everything else since they weren't intentionally broken in the same specific way IE was.

@Pipkiablo 4 жыл бұрын

Hacking has been replaced in recent times by vandalizing websites such as wikipedia and posting things on the walls of strangers who forgot to log out of facebook at the library and calling it hacking.

@koalitaDormilona 4 жыл бұрын

6:15 I like how the "censored" is removed before the fadeout starts

@aljaberhk 4 жыл бұрын

@@andymerrett hmm look im using "your" instead of u're just testing by the way

@medes5597 4 жыл бұрын

Does anyone remember that comic strip about hacking websites (I think it may have been XKCD)? What people think when they hear the CIA website has been hacked - General public: "oh my god they hacked the CIA website?! That's a huge security risk!" Computer nerds: "oh someone took down that poster the CIA put up. They should fix that."

@s4ndwichMakeR 4 жыл бұрын

I do remember. But similarly don’t remember where I got it.

@voxalice1 3 жыл бұрын

If you still need the link, it's XKCD 932 - xkcd.com/932

@Rockythefishman 4 жыл бұрын

You missed when the Hackers film website got hacked :)

@RDJ134 4 жыл бұрын

Yep and if i remember correct had a redirect to the movie The web. :D

@nickwallette6201 4 жыл бұрын

Yes! Can't believe the Jurassic Park thing wasn't a segue into that.

@TheRetroByte 4 жыл бұрын

That was funny. Oh the memories...

@lmcgregoruk 4 жыл бұрын

Wasn't that just a marketing stunt by MGM though.

@BobTheBuilder294 3 жыл бұрын

How to hack: press f12 inspect element say: "I'm in." fingerless gloves and sunglasses for advanced users only.

@ArufisuIsRuru 3 жыл бұрын

Press Alt + F4 Me: Woah i delete the browser itself... now i am a true hacker :0

@penfold7800 3 жыл бұрын

...or use Netscape navigator source code editor

@Mamiya645 4 жыл бұрын

The Y2K bug ended up a big nothing because of all the work put into preventing it (Source: People who were employed for those duties, easily spotted at conferences such as DEFCON)

@thomaspickin9376 4 жыл бұрын

@@tripplefives1402 Actually you'd be surprised how many programs didn't do this to save space in memory. Plus lots of big companies run on very old legacy software. He's right the Y2K problem only didn't have much of an impact as lots of companies spent lots of time and money fixing it.

@thomaspickin9376 4 жыл бұрын

@@tripplefives1402 I know all that but my point was there would've been quite a massive problem that did need to be solved as imagine all the banks suddenly failing all the stock market programs etc. Lots of the newer software that had been written since you're talking about was still communicating with older legacy software that would've had problems.

@thomaspickin9376 4 жыл бұрын

@@tripplefives1402 I know all this. I've been coding in C for a long time.... I meant 'newer' in the sense that COBOL is older than C so I'm not sure what you're trying to tell me? Lots of important systems still communicated with older systems running on COBOL and not always correctly... There was a lot of work to do to patch up the Y2K bug.

@asz1029 3 жыл бұрын

I know of companies that STILL run software that is not Y2K proof and just pray that they never run into data containing dates before 2000.

@bettinaceciliasilveira5773 3 жыл бұрын

Agree, but as nothing happened, the bug was a hoax... That really annoys me...

@twithnell 4 жыл бұрын

It isn't a hack, but I do know that Sony had an ftp associated with their domain that wasn't protected and you could go in it and see different prototype software at the time. Yes, security was terrible back then. I found this by accident one day when I was bored. I had discovered a lot of sites had this feature as well. Saw some pretty interesting things. Even my locally owned ISP did, and I was able to see projects that the local newspaper was working on. Good times.

@Dratchev241 4 жыл бұрын

@referral madness yep. i did the same as well, back then a lot of ftp was unsecured and wide open. I found all kinds of interesting stuff but nothing like earth shattering. it was a cool time to be on the net it really was the wild west.

@godmagnus 4 жыл бұрын

"The commercialization of the Internet stops here." 'Fraid not, buddy.

@thepopemichael 4 жыл бұрын

My ex father in law was one of the "counter hackers" that brought down "The Legion of Doom" I had him tell me the story more than a few times. it was awesome

@FoundationsSoundLab 4 жыл бұрын

No details? Yawn...

@tinycockjock1967 4 жыл бұрын

Paperclown Wtf dude?

@leeholt30 4 жыл бұрын

yes on a rainy Sunday morning aww let the nostalgia begin

@johneygd 4 жыл бұрын

Yep, it’s now also raining in hollamd ,as off putting this command.

@Xanderfied 4 жыл бұрын

I'm generally interested in how these groups got into the servers some of these pages we're hosted on. I know it wasn't as secure back then from my own experience bypassing different systems. I'd love to see a tutorial mock or literal remake showing how it was done. It would be no security risk to any of the mentioned sites today, would just be interesting to watch.

@World_Theory 4 жыл бұрын

Do you remember the invention of CSS drop down menus? Now there's a hack that shook the Internet!

@kishetes 4 жыл бұрын

Ah kevin mitnick...spent few years in jail and has ever since made fortune lecturing in universities

@rich1051414 4 жыл бұрын

They allowed him to tell the government his secrets in exchange for time served. He lectured in universities for years as part of his community service. He may have done it for a profit after that though.

@rich1051414 4 жыл бұрын

@@tripplefives1402 I didn't say he didn't spend any time in prison, only that his sentence was reduced in exchange for cooperation with the government and community service giving lectures at universities.

@hakology 4 жыл бұрын

@@tripplefives1402 that's what hackers do ;)

@Clay3613 4 жыл бұрын

@@tripplefives1402 Stop speaking for other people.

@DingleFlop 4 жыл бұрын

@@tripplefives1402 because nobody ever could have the mental fortitude to undergo such treatment without their mind ailing....

@crusader2.0_loading89 4 жыл бұрын

Old phreaker here, used to use software called "bluedial" along with an old pc speaker on an extended wire from the motherboard connector... Worked like a charm

@Charlesb88 4 жыл бұрын

For anyone who thinks the Y2K bug was BS, The reason the Y2K bug did very little was the result of programmers being properly forewarned and getting on the ball enough that they fixed the major Y2K bugs in their systems. Many people wrongly assume that because their were no major problems as a result of the Y2K bug on Jan 1, 2000 that it all must of been much ado about nothing but many who hold this view fail to consider that maybe it was just all major Y2K issues being fixed in time that explained why nothing major occurred. Had we had major Y2K bug related issues then that would have meant the all the forewarning went unheeded by some or all programmers of Y2K bug infected software.

@pokemon-unboxing 4 жыл бұрын

Charles Bunnell My thoughts as well. A lot of programmers were pretty busy in the late ‘90

@Charlesb88 4 жыл бұрын

@@tripplefives1402When I talked about systems being fixed I wad only referring the legacy systems using COBOL (or other legacy programing laungages that still in use in the 90s that used a two digit format for the date), not the more modern 32 bit systems that avoided this issue. Yes, it's true that some may have misunderstood the percentage of key computer systems vulnerable to Y2K but there where still anough legacy systems in place in late 90s in key places to warrant concern as well as rush to fix the problems which they managed to pull off. It's true the potential effects if Y2K was not addressed, itvwould not have been quit as catostroohic and doonsday as the news media made it out to be but I was still a significant concern imo.

@stdorn 3 жыл бұрын

The millennium bug did very little because companys spent hundreds of millions of dollars to up date time keeping chips and software before it happened. I spent the first 9mos of my career replacing time keeper chips updating software and checking date rollover in medical equipment.

@jamalcalypse 4 жыл бұрын

11:48 "HACK THE PLANET! Just watched hackers" LMAO that's amazing

@eformance 4 жыл бұрын

For those playing along at home: el8 is elite or 'leet or 1337 or...

@bdnugget 4 жыл бұрын

yeet

@kreaturemind9190 4 жыл бұрын

The Gibson hack by Crash Override (formally Zero Cool) and Acid Burn to stop the Da Vinci virus is my favorite hack from the 90s

@Hawk1966 4 жыл бұрын

Ah, wardialing, 'hacking' a completely open system on a portable highway message sign. Charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor. The governor of Connecticut was not amused! To this freaking day when someone changes a highway sign all my friends amusingly post it to my page. Gotta love friends. . .

@howyoudurrinhunneh 4 жыл бұрын

I remember when I was learning HTML and I saved a copy of the Yahoo homepage and edited the names of links to inside jokes among friends then hosted it on a free site. None of the links worked but it was hilarious seeing stuff like "Stepahnie's tit pics leaked" in the news section. Am I hacker?

@OmegaGamer04 4 жыл бұрын

@milkapeismilky5464 4 жыл бұрын

@@OmegaGamer04 work on ya irony browww

@StereoBucket 4 жыл бұрын

Curious where you got these page archives? I checked wayback machine and archive is but they didn't have the pages you had.

@scottlarson1548 4 жыл бұрын

The first hack that made an impact was Robert Morris's Internet worm that attacked university computers in 1988. We had never seen anything like it and revealed a bunch of security holes that no one thought had been worth patching.

@KowboyUSA 4 жыл бұрын

Fascinating video. There was a time, early one, when storage memory was limited and _hacking_ revolved around making programs as small as possible.

@SuperPhunThyme9 4 жыл бұрын

8:03 Who won the "Free Music for Life"? .....And how's it working out for them these days I wonder

@tl1882 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty shitty rn probably

@petersage5157 3 жыл бұрын

9:11 "If you're so elite" - fixed. Almost hilarious that the guy could decipher everything but an alternate spelling of 1337.

@jackkraken3888 4 жыл бұрын

To be fair the Y2K bug took a herculean effort to fix and the fear towards it helped spark interest to fix the problem years before the date was to arrive. I think without the fear we would have some serious issues though probably not planes falling from the sky.

@theharbingerofconflation 3 жыл бұрын

I think this needs to be said, Capt‘n Crunch (Draper) used the 2600 tone cause it would drop an active line into a free conversation state after which you could call whomever you like for free. He wasn’t imprisoned for a few free calls though, he and some friends were the first to develop and sell blue boxes. Boxes to enable you to dial in line and send operational signals like hang up and the famous 2600Hz sound. Later more signals were discovered and more funny brown, beige and rainbow boxes were built but the blue box was all you really needed to drop into other people’s conversations and get free calls anywhere in the world. So for his famous face he was arrested as a scare tactic to those who continued what he did. While nowadays we use complex digital signals with direct authentication, phreaking (as it was called) is still illegal in most countries with the death penalty being the punishment in some arabic countries.

@Vladimir_Kv 4 жыл бұрын

0:25 Ah! There is where one of the scenes from "Person of Interest" TV series came from!

@SelecaoOfMidas 4 жыл бұрын

All of this is entertaining, especially the use of the Windows 95 error chime. 😂

@MatthewJohnCrittenden 11 ай бұрын

Point of order! The Y2K bug "did little" because shedloads of software engineers around the world worked to analyse and remediate code where necessary. Yes, I was one of them :)

@FlyboyHelosim 4 жыл бұрын

These old website designs are pure art to me. Straight to the point, fast loading times, no ads, no pop-ups, no plug-ins, no half a dozen scripting languages under the hood, etc.

@WickerBasket9 3 жыл бұрын

I miss websites like this.

@electronash 4 жыл бұрын

Tony Blair still looked the same after the hack. lol They're bringing back Spitting Image btw. It's long overdue.

@uK8cvPAq 4 жыл бұрын

OMG really?

@electronash 4 жыл бұрын

Damn, I missed the first one. iPlayer it is, then. lol www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49865406

@iaincowell9747 4 жыл бұрын

@@electronash torrents, lol

@passthebutterrobot2600 4 жыл бұрын

The trouble with bringing back Spitting Image is, it's now impossible for them to come up with anything that's more ridiculous than events in real life. I think the singularity moment was "The Ed Stone".

@hedgehog3180 4 жыл бұрын

@@passthebutterrobot2600 It's basically the same problem The Onion has run into which is why they've seemingly just given up, like they just repost the same article every time there's a mass shooting in the US.

@TheRivieraKid 4 жыл бұрын

Hoorah! I missed the high quality content this channel provides, keep it up Peter!

@edge3220 4 жыл бұрын

WOW! Thanks for the flood of old memories! You truly live up to your channel's namesake!

@culturedivined2949 4 жыл бұрын

love these type of docus, very interesting stuff brings back such fun memory's! keep them coming ;)

@ChannelNEM 4 жыл бұрын

Your mention of horny Rob has just brought back memories of Robbs Celebs.

@Christopher-N 4 жыл бұрын

So, no mention of famously stupid passwords such as 'password', or no password at all for a system that's supposed to have one? I know, you were concentrating on the general internet of the 1990s, but I had still expected to hear at least a brief mention of these.

@hedgehog3180 4 жыл бұрын

That's because that's still a problem.

@sgillman16 4 жыл бұрын

I was a moderator on a message board and my password was password. The site owner found out and sent me nasty messages telling me I would be fired. Lmao

@deathrattle1000 4 жыл бұрын

Gaben

@bbrodriguez420 4 жыл бұрын

17:00 Yep that sums up the internet experience for me so far, a whole bunch of things i can't unsee.

@nofoxtugiv7377 3 жыл бұрын

Coming back to this video, my only remark would be that the Y2ak bug did very little because we spent millions on hiring developers to correct the issues in the software that would have sparked issues. The potential damages were always blown into apocalyptic proportions, but the damage the bug could have caused without the concerted efforts of thousands of developers pulled out of retirement to help combat the bug was still something that was worth combatting.

@russcastella 4 жыл бұрын

I abused the frame tag back in my HTML design days 😭

@dragonick2947 4 жыл бұрын

"Hackers" back then were more tech savvy people rather than people who used their skill for bad things.

@oneminutefixed5003 4 жыл бұрын

Regarding the VPN ad, try connecting with VPN to simulate your location elsewhere on the planet, then try to open a location Web site and give access to your location, it will still know where you are regardless of the VPN. Found this yesterday

@WickerBasket9 3 жыл бұрын

"A way of life that's been replaced by social media and shouting into the void." That's so accurate for today in 2020!

@chrisandersen3213 4 жыл бұрын

Free Kevin! lol. I remember a lot of these. I remember Y2K, LoD, MoD, and some others. NASA was always a target. I was a software cracker late '90's. Good times! I read "The Cuckoos Egg" in 1995 when I was an IT student. Am now a Certified Ethical Hacker. Get to do this for a living......

@dfalconerio 4 жыл бұрын

Hello Mr Andersen

@djmidnightwolf 4 жыл бұрын

Ah, the days when ftp logins were easy to guess and the anonymous login was rarely disabled

@kuruption1983 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome video with fantastic narration and background music!

@AjeetSingh-xq4yb 4 жыл бұрын

I love watching these videos. It makes me think what it would've been like to be around during the early internet days.

@muhdiversity7409 4 жыл бұрын

I remember quite clearly when Code Red made its way into the large lab I was contracting for. Everything was windows based but I was the only one that ran a UNIX derivative for the work I was doing. I'll never forget the blank stares I got when I reported to the IT drones that there was unusual network activity observed by the apache webserver I had running on the unix box. Those were the days. So much fun, so much disruption. In current year its corporate monsters like Google and KZfaq that do all the disruption; and I don't mean in a good way.

@Darxide23 4 жыл бұрын

I've still got some Free Kevin bumper stickers.

@DamnableReverend 3 жыл бұрын

I love the presentation style and humour. Please do more stuff like this.

@rachysnip 4 жыл бұрын

I really love these videos, i miss those early interent days sometimes. Only sometimes!

@fffUUUUUU 4 жыл бұрын

4:07 you forgot to censor F*YOU there. Still seems didn't affect your monetisation

@erdeepresec7033 4 жыл бұрын

"Back in the 90's you had to hack a goddamn website" best thing i heard

@Ruptured_AU 4 жыл бұрын

My favourite hacks were on my friend's computers when had had LAN's. I'd prepare and execute my code on their computer when they went to the bathroom. THings like a program that makes all their windows colours black so they couldn't see anything, a scan disk loop in the old autoexec.bat, replacing dialup internet icons on their desktop with my programs that look the same and make the dial-up noises but then produced errors such as "wankers are not allowed on the internet", or the setting up timed attack that ran thousand of instances of sheep.exe when they were in the middle of a game. Nothing gave me more satisfaction than the confused looks on my friends faces before they realized it was me again.

@DougForce 2 жыл бұрын

Ahhh the good ole days. Thanks for the video memories!

@flexican5399 4 жыл бұрын

8:35 WTF WAS THAT NOISE ?!!?!!?!

@s4ndwichMakeR 4 жыл бұрын

That happens when you refuse the water glass when giving a lecture.

@bigdaddigaming 4 жыл бұрын

Oh I remember the day I discovered netscape navigator and I've never used explorer since, although nowadays I use Firefox

@SlainByTheWire 4 жыл бұрын

Switch to Brave.

@WildBluntHickok 4 жыл бұрын

I used to use firefox, until I realized that it reacts to lag above a certain level by erasing all your bookmarks and starting fresh (only if you attempt to access the list just as the lag happens of course). See it goes looking for the file and if it doesn't get a response in time (30 sec, maybe 45) it assumes the file isn't there and starts a new one with the same default filename...overwriting the list that is actually there. I decided anything that catastrophically horribly designed shouldn't be trusted even once that one bug was fixed.

@torquemada1971 4 жыл бұрын

Met Mr Draper in 1991 at HoHoCon. Didn't remember much about that event, for obvious reasons, but did remember he hated cigarettes and stank really bad.

@torquemada1971 4 жыл бұрын

@referral madness This was a different era, where you could openly smoke anywhere you wanted pretty much. Not sure his specific mental state but he wasn't really all there either.

@shutupandcook99 3 жыл бұрын

Phreaking ! Now that's an episode you should do ! BBS Boards, War Dialers, Building Boxes, Talking about the Greats ! Capt'N Crunch, Jolly Roger, The Traveler, Happy Hippie, King Blotto, P.L.A., Packet Storm, Anti Code, Reading ZiNes ! Ma Bell Monopoly ! Half Area Codes ! Black Listed Numbers ! Stealing Trunks ! WaReZ ! That would be an Episode !

@SolisNotSolis 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder what due diligence you've done into your VPN provider to ensure they, themselves aren't busily sniffing all your traffic for whatever purpose? Let's be fair, if you are putting any personal details into a none encrypted page in the first instance, perhaps you should be re-considering the site provider, rather than worrying about in-air capture..

@drhmufti 4 жыл бұрын

Some Jifs?.... damn you, you were the chosen one!

@dfalconerio 4 жыл бұрын

G G gif like gift minus the t damnit :)

@drhmufti 4 жыл бұрын

dfalconerio exactly!

@kuruption1983 4 жыл бұрын

Your choice of songs are impeccable!!!!

@bioclassic2330 2 жыл бұрын

I require more of this kinda video from this guy

@Litepaw 4 жыл бұрын

10:26 i thought that said Epic Egirls 😂

@Xgamesvidoes 4 жыл бұрын

I really miss it that websites looks like that!

@wolvenar 4 жыл бұрын

FYI,. A LOT of people spent a LOT of time patching critical code so Y2K can be joked about today. So much of my time in the late 90's fixing FORTRAN code at banks. Gave me a hell of a nice looking bank account that year however.

@LucasRazorBlade 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video! Oh, please do look at more top internet hacks of the 90s. :D

@aemerox5773 4 жыл бұрын

There are still old websites still running to this day.

@KrazyKupo 4 жыл бұрын

Mandatory shoutout to the Space Jam one.

@aemerox5773 4 жыл бұрын

@@KrazyKupo "The you got mail" website was finally updated about a year ago after some 18-19 years later. What took them so long?

@damian9303 4 жыл бұрын

So, he got arrested for using a whistle that came with a box of Cap'n Crunch on his phone??

@MrJest2 4 жыл бұрын

Man, that brings me back. I lived through it all, working in Silicon Valley. Crazy times, but good times...

@DaxtonAnderson 4 жыл бұрын

Ayyyyy Shoutout to Sudbury at 15:27 , where I live and was born & raised!

@HarryPalmerOrchestra 4 жыл бұрын

"I spike him!" - Boris (GoldenEye)

@Bigbacon 4 жыл бұрын

hahaha, a US government website being the most secure...

@pengwin_ 4 жыл бұрын

yup...i WONDER WHY $HILLARY HAD A PRIVATE SERVER!!!! HMMMMMMMMM....

@MrGEORGETHOMPS 4 жыл бұрын

Peng Win what

@trollsthatlol1 4 жыл бұрын

@@pengwin_ Someone always gotta bring politics lol

@DOSBrony 4 жыл бұрын

Not bashing Nostalgia nerd for getting a sponsor, especially since he absolutely did the right thing by putting it at the end with no mention of it at the beginning. However, this is for any of the audience that is actually looking for a VPN, and I feel this is an important thing to make the public aware of: There is no such thing as a truly secure VPN that uses youtube to advertise. If they're willing to get past an adblocker, then they're willing to sell your data, and cannot be trusted. Please, do your research and find a truly good VPN!

@elijahbluefish7528 2 жыл бұрын

even though i wasnt around at the time, i wish we could go back to old web design. it had so much personality and cool little easter eggs sometimes too

@StarkRG 4 жыл бұрын

Y2K did very little because people worked hard to eliminate the bug before it became much of an issue. Had nobody done anything, it's extremely likely that several important systems would have been affected.

@David8n 4 жыл бұрын

I came here to say this. I and a lot of my friends spent a **** of a lot of time in the late '90s making sure that nothing bad happened. Oh and the idea that programmers were making a **** load of money was blown out of proportion too. One or two did but they had skills that were in very short supply.

@larrydyde5899 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, came here to say this too. Way too many people don’t understand or care that we put in so many hours to make everything work. We don’t need a ‘Nerd’ spreading the lies too!

@StarkRG 4 жыл бұрын

@@larrydyde5899 I wouldn't say they're "lies", exactly, as they are misunderstandings. Very few people who were in the industry in the 90s are aware of what went into it, they're only aware of the news reports about potential outcomes that didn't end up happening. For whatever reason, there's a pervasive mentality in our society that, if a prediction doesn't come true, then it was obviously wrong. Additionally, follow-up information isn't distributed nearly as well as the predictions leading up to the event so most people are only aware of the predictions. There's also a tendency for technical news to be reported extraordinarily poorly (hence why, for the last three or so decades, pop-science news has reported that scientists have discovered water on Mars for the first time every two years). I was too young to have been in the industry in the 90s, so the only reason I'm aware of what went into the preparations and why nothing much happened is that I was planning on going into IT, knew a few people who already were, and have since spoken to several people who worked on the problem. It most definitely WAS a problem that could have gone a lot worse

@larrydyde5899 4 жыл бұрын

StarkRG yeah, I suppose ‘lies’ is very harsh. Some segments of society are now deliberately using untruths about the millennium bug to discredit any expert opinion. I’ve had personal experience of this in recent political conversations and it’s getting hard to be tolerant of anyone making these kind of statements.