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Go back in time with these NBC News archive clips from 1994 and 1995 when the "World Wide Web" and Internet were mere mysteries. See what Matt Lauer, Katie Couric, Bryant Gumbel, Tom Brokaw, and Bill Gates had to say so many years ago.
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Flashback! The Internet In 1995 | Archives | TODAY

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@mjelves 8 жыл бұрын

"In the year 2000".... Biggest catchphrase of the 90's

@FurbyGender 7 жыл бұрын

Sigurd Mjelve and it was literally a boring year 😂

@retropat3670 6 жыл бұрын

Also Y2K, did they ever make money off peoples fears and ignorance about technology.

@JustinLodes 6 жыл бұрын

lol member Conan O'brien "in the year 2000" 😂

@jmfr030201 6 жыл бұрын

Sigurd Mjelve k

@nadeemshaikh7863 6 жыл бұрын

And, that was Eric Schmidt, future Google CEO

@terran5364 9 жыл бұрын

We're watching this on the internet.

@joeydufrene 6 жыл бұрын

Brendan Feay im reading this in a book

@williammason475 6 жыл бұрын

lol

@louie6452 6 жыл бұрын

Brendan Feay I’m watching this, on my phone

@neetrab 5 жыл бұрын

@@louie6452 which has the internet on it.

@MrJonnyPepper 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe you are

@chris12carp 5 жыл бұрын

Wow that lady had it spot on. "If i subscribe to the internet, I'm afraid I'll spend less time with my family" This is perhaps the most common fault with the internet world we live in.

@sweiland75 5 жыл бұрын

It's only because you WANT to spend less time with your family. You have the option of whether or not to disconnect.

@rogerdebougainville889 5 жыл бұрын

that lady is *Katie Couric*

@Turnoutburndown 4 жыл бұрын

Yes there were many academic studies of the early internet that found the same thing.

@sergeydc 4 жыл бұрын

Ok boomer

@chris12carp 4 жыл бұрын

sweiland75 very true. Most don’t even realise it though and for the kids that’s all they know

@Peter_1986 8 жыл бұрын

"It's very hip to be on the Internet right now." LMAO

@summer20105707 8 жыл бұрын

Big understatement wasn't it?

@BreannaMae 7 жыл бұрын

At the time it really was. I remember those days well.

@Etobeeshawn 7 жыл бұрын

I know eh. But what makes that statement more amusing (for lack of a better word) is its coming from a nerd, in this case Bill Gates lol. Oh, and I say that with respect

@patrickoliver9133 4 жыл бұрын

Now its practically crack cocaine

@NiteDriv3r 4 жыл бұрын

It always is Nxixgxgxexrx!

@linken0879 2 жыл бұрын

Anything that happened in your childhood is nostalgic, anything that happens in your twenties and thirties is “revolutionary” and anything that happens in your fifties and after, is “to much”. Round and round it goes for every single generation

@szhzs6121 2 жыл бұрын

that's pretty grim

@LordHasenpfeffer Жыл бұрын

I'm 56 and for more than the past 20 years - if not 30 - I've never been able to find people my age who really know what they're doing when it comes to IT. It's always, "I don't know nuthin' 'bout no computers." It's disgusting.

@John-ct9zs Жыл бұрын

@@LordHasenpfeffer That's kinda weird considering there were computers in schools in the early-mid 80s...nothing like today, but they were around.

@12345682900 Жыл бұрын

Your words are profound (...and I agree completely) but please correct "to much" to "too much." Thank you.

@q.t.gamingfamily Жыл бұрын

I was married, pregnant with our 5th child, long on my own. I actually REMEMBER this discussion kol

@6piecechickenmcnuggets23 6 жыл бұрын

"What is internet anyway?" - _Everyone_ (1990's)

@KingTamzid123 5 жыл бұрын

1999 My birthday year :3

@LeoRack 4 жыл бұрын

More like 1990-1994(5). In the second half of the 90s, pretty much everyone in the US knew about Internet (at least a little bit :p)

@pika62221 4 жыл бұрын

@@LeoRack majority got online in 1996, so it was booming by the end of the 90's www.pewresearch.org/politics/1996/12/16/online-use/

@fightfannerd2078 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeoRack I didn't know what the internet was untill 1999

@Bailemos888 4 ай бұрын

I love it😂

@walkedale1986 6 жыл бұрын

"it's very... hip ... to be on the internet now" *adjusts nerdiest glasses known to man*

@electrictroy2010 5 жыл бұрын

Watch old 80s and 90s movies..... people wore giant glasses (even the non-nerdy beautiful people) .

@tomascanevaro4292 Жыл бұрын

🤓

@alchemist_one 4 ай бұрын

yeah, but billg could leap over a chair from a standing position... Connie Chan saw it

@colossusforbin5484 2 жыл бұрын

I first got on the internet in 1997. I remember just how slow webpages loaded. I remember thinking one day, going from one webpage to another will be as fast as changing a channel on TV.

@Eric-xh9ee 2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow. My parents isn't get internet until 2006 or so so I grew up without it aside from using it at my high school.

@d.n.3652 Ай бұрын

Ironically now, changing tv channels is now slower than what it used to be

@joshyoon 3 жыл бұрын

"I'm afraid if I subscribe to the internet, I will get hooked and never spend time with my family." WOW. Katic Couric was spot on with this!!! Everybody glued to their phones today.

@radicalstreet7029 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly man. The Internet is an amazing thing, but at the same time it's not. It's addictive and it's literally everywhere..

@agoo7581 Жыл бұрын

Durr phone bad durrr.

@jcmottern Жыл бұрын

Me on the toilet reading this on my phone 🤣

@mzingayemubaya4096 3 жыл бұрын

Well that lady was 100% correct about getting hooked on the internet and not spending time with family

@agoo7581 Жыл бұрын

Of course, for kids in abusive and non-supportive families, the internet provided a support system for them. Also, the internet exposed abusive parents, spouses, and also helped create awareness in domestic violence. Your privilege is showing. Stop it.

@Th3BigBoy Жыл бұрын

@@agoo7581 You sound really angry. I hope you find peace and understand someday that you don't need to fly into a rage so easily because the people you are talking to now aren't the people who hurt you then.

@haroldiscool6410 8 ай бұрын

@@agoo7581bro gotta chill dude. Just cuz ur hurt doesn’t mean everyone else was sometimes it’s just you don’t need to project your own failures onto everyone else to make yourself feel better

@GuanoLad 8 жыл бұрын

Those were the right things to get excited about, and to be concerned about. They anticipated those factors immediately.

@maxfowler8838 8 жыл бұрын

+GuanoLad very true , we need to be as weary of how we have come to use it as much as we embrace the positve side of it.

@bethanyray6421 Жыл бұрын

as someone born in 2002, this is sooo fascinating to me. I want to see these people react to themselves saying this stuff now.

@rvegas81 10 ай бұрын

Too funny! I remember both dates.

@freakyfornash 10 ай бұрын

That's the year I graduated high school too! L.O.L.!

@opiratha 7 ай бұрын

well I wish I could get back and destroy it before it became a trend, you don't understand how life was so much better, families were families, they chatted, friends were friends, man were man.....

@AsoSnT 2 ай бұрын

yeah it must be, just think about me a few years before, no internet, no cellphone. I don't know what's best considering how people are glued to them now.

@TheReviewLabOfficial 9 жыл бұрын

Now, we as a society, cannot live without it. I'm watching this video on my phone connected to the"guess what" internet. Funny how times change.

@utsr07 8 жыл бұрын

+J. LEE TV "Watching something from your phone? How can you watch something from your phone? It only makes phone calls." That's how the year 2000 version of me would've reacted to that statement.

@hakc97again 7 жыл бұрын

Phillip Skiles How would you have perceived the term smartphone?

@Sirenhound 6 жыл бұрын

It must be hard to type your comment using the rotary phone, and how can you see the video? Tell me this future-boy! Who's president in 2018?

@ianh1984 3 жыл бұрын

@@utsr07 "They're always on their phone. When will they ever look up from their phone and acknowledge my existence?!" Huh, how can they always be on their phone and be looking at it at the same time? Video call? Speaker phone?

@zaco21_ 2 жыл бұрын

That’s like how the Television was made, times changed rapidly and a lot of people used it a lot.

@matthewshores999 7 жыл бұрын

"I don't want to have anything to do with the internet..." Yeah, good luck with that.

@cryptoranger9524 3 жыл бұрын

Google says no

@christianpearson7108 3 жыл бұрын

20 years later, i actually understand exactly how she feels

@seradginasuioloer8727 3 жыл бұрын

@@christianpearson7108 ,same Imao

@slowedandreverbed323 3 жыл бұрын

People saying the same thing about crypto today 🤡

@hulkdeisel 2 жыл бұрын

@@slowedandreverbed323 what you know about Bitcoin?

@nathancoflin9295 8 жыл бұрын

That last comment from Bryant Gumbel is a total Larry David thing to say... "At least you have the option of not answering the phone...on the internet you have to hear from people you don't even want to hear from"

@tomascanevaro4292 Жыл бұрын

He predicted Twitter lol

@jordanfabula3137 5 жыл бұрын

People in this video were being so prophetic about the Internet taking over daily life and overloading us with information, now look where we are...

@ZZ-vl5nd 3 жыл бұрын

These boomers are the very same who told us millenials that internet will screw us, but are now deep intro Facebook and conspiracy rabbit holes.

@ianh1984 3 жыл бұрын

@@ZZ-vl5nd It's true. Older relatives who used to look down on me for being on the computer a lot when I was a teen, are the ones who are constantly on their phones and on facebook.

@chamboyette853 2 жыл бұрын

@@ianh1984 Uhhhh, but that doesn't make it wrong or mean they were wrong.

@ianh1984 2 жыл бұрын

@@chamboyette853 Just hypocritical, I guess. People in their 40s and 50s are the most inconsiderate when it comes to using devices when in company. When i meet my friends in their 30s we are in the moment and spend time with each other similar to how we did in high school before a phone was everyones entire life. The young generation don't know of a world without constant instant communication, but they tend to be able to put it down for a little while much better than the generation that spent their formative years analog only. It's just strange to me, Gen X can't take their eyes off their phones for 2 minutes. You know it's not going to disappear forever if you put it down for a couple of hours and spend time with loved ones.

@chamboyette853 2 жыл бұрын

@@ianh1984 You bring up some good points. However there are serious flaws in your logic. 1. You completely ignore the fact that people in their 20s go to the bathroom approximately 1.1612% (I don't remember the digits that follow) more than people in their 40s. And I think you would agree that this is gross. 2. People in their 40s were born closer to the medieval period when the nobles were honorable (and besides people never used their cell phones); and 3. the TV shows in the 1990s were better than they are today which proves that people in their 40s are more cultured. You seem to have trouble thinking logically.

@FelixDance88 4 жыл бұрын

Katie Couric was tapping into something quite profound so early in the internet game.

@seradginasuioloer8727 3 жыл бұрын

Predicted well

@MrHAPPYHAWAIIAN 2 жыл бұрын

Bunch a bs

@koreboredom4302 6 жыл бұрын

Back when "The Internet" was just called "internet".

@YesPlease1 3 жыл бұрын

And then, he made his biggest contribution to Internet. "Add the 'the'. The internet."

@peterholzer4481 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that was weird. I don't recall anyone omitting the article, ever. But then I didn't have access to American TV and had to make do with Usenet, mailing-lists, etc.

@ObiWanBillKenobi 3 жыл бұрын

It was never called "Internet" by anyone I ever heard or knew. It was always called "The Internet." I also get annoyed at people who don't capitalize the "I."

@joed180 3 жыл бұрын

@@ObiWanBillKenobi Thank you.

@r3tr0actiongamer24 3 жыл бұрын

The world wide web lol

@melsop54 5 жыл бұрын

"If I subscribe to the internet, I'm afraid I will not spend more time with my family." Me watching this in 2019: I HAVEN'T SEEN MY FAMILY IN DAYS!"

@RillianGrant 3 жыл бұрын

Then 2020

@MarkSmithhhh 3 жыл бұрын

Lol my family is there too

@ObiWanBillKenobi 3 жыл бұрын

“You haven’t seen anything yet.” -The year 2020

@dinamosflams 3 жыл бұрын

"THANK GOD" -me

@enigmathegrayman2953 5 ай бұрын

Katie Couric doesn’t know how prophetic that statement was 30 years ago when she said that.

@brendas.1374 2 жыл бұрын

The first time I used the internet was back in 1998. It was at the public library and you had to sign up to use it.

@dannycooper1245 4 жыл бұрын

It's crazy that 24 years ago people were asking, "What is this internet thing?" The world has advanced tremendously!

@Heisenberg-cj7zk 3 жыл бұрын

Aliens

@QuantumBraced 4 жыл бұрын

In 1995 my friend's family participated in beta testing of cable internet, they didn't pay much and got 384 kbps down which was insanely fast for the time. Everyone else had 28.8 kbps dial-up or worse, and of course 95% didn't have internet at all. I was in awe when he showed me, he was always online, no need to use the phone line, and web pages loaded instantly.

@SB4F 2 жыл бұрын

What!? I didn't know that existed at the time. I still had a 14.4kb dial up until late 2001. Took between a month to a scorching fast 3 days to download a song.

@yohan1004 Жыл бұрын

By early 90's 128Kbps ISDN modems were availabe to the public to purchase, but expensive. Your friends were lucky. Although in 1995, not much stuff was on Internet anyway. 1996, 1997 MPEG became popular and introduced, that was the time when proper video can downloaded from internet websites.

@brandondetroitfanmichaels4325 Жыл бұрын

@@yohan1004 98- 2003 Was my favorite time to be on the internet. Especially being a teenager! AOL! You've got mail!

@dontgiveupplz 10 ай бұрын

@@brandondetroitfanmichaels4325the best 🥹

@Zoomer30_ 9 ай бұрын

In 2001 Mediacom rolled out cable internet here and it was 😂 1.5 Mbps. In 2004 they doubled it to 3. I now have 100 Mbps.

@McGriddle69 4 жыл бұрын

It’s so crazy how in just a short time how important the Internet has become. It’s essential in today’s world.

@christianpearson7108 3 жыл бұрын

not essential

@nobetawedielikemysanity 3 жыл бұрын

@@christianpearson7108 absolutely essential. Just because you don’t depend on it doesn’t mean other people don’t . I mean just look at content creators.

@christopherlee7334 2 жыл бұрын

@@christianpearson7108 I mean just by disconnecting a few digital wires entire banking industries were practically frozen. A few clicks of a mouse and entire electrical grids go down. A minor computer glitch and supply chains across the world grind to a halt. I'd say that's pretty essential.

@yogeshkumarallum2540 Жыл бұрын

@@christianpearson7108maybe you live under a stone World doesn't

@smitty7326 4 жыл бұрын

I remember going over to a friend's house in 1995 and seeing the internet for the first time. He called me over just to see it. Neither of us had any idea what it really was.

@CaptchaNeon 3 жыл бұрын

LMAO "I don't want to use the internet because I'm afraid I'll be addicted" Well Katie, are you addicted?

@CJK55 9 жыл бұрын

1:01 "...what is internet anyway?" asking those important questions

@DireClown30309 8 жыл бұрын

0:09 Those "few dollars a month" really added up back then!! I remember chatting on AOL for hours, and my parents went nuts when they saw the phone bill! ;-)

@steventopper9310 5 жыл бұрын

We still chat on AOL! It hasn't changed people still use landlines and flip phones from the 90's. We still use the brick phones as well! Their still in style! Anyone else miss the late 90's?.

@christinab.2864 5 жыл бұрын

I bet it was peaceful back than. No spam on landlines, people interdicted myselves online even yicks, flip phone and didn’t have to give the person the other end why they can’t talk to the person next to me and hanged up, kids played outside alone after age 7 in a short yard, you can go on your bus again play outside, school was very safe and realistic and no state tests that your don’t even know the answers, ect. But 9/11 really did change all this.

@santiagosantarge819 3 жыл бұрын

@@steventopper9310 flip phones arent traced huh? I love old technology.

@santiagosantarge819 3 жыл бұрын

@@steventopper9310 im nostalgic too

@KishanMainali 2 жыл бұрын

People found it hard to understand the internet back then, now they are finding it hard to understand crypto/blockchain

@VigilanteVegan 4 жыл бұрын

“ When you get phone calls, you have the option of not answering. With emails you’ll get emails all the time with people you don’t want to hear from.” You have the option of not responding to emails... And it’s easier to ignore an email that it is to ignore phone ringing.

@youbian 3 жыл бұрын

Pre-internet/Cell-phones was the golden age

@lisad7788 6 жыл бұрын

Lol..."hearing from people you don't even want to hear from"...great wisdom from Bryant Gumbel.

@winterlynn9012 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah I cracked up when he said that lol

@PaulXPZ 4 жыл бұрын

So they predicted Twitter

@ObiWanBillKenobi 3 жыл бұрын

Junk Mail: The Next Generation

@ldchappell1 8 жыл бұрын

I couldn't wait to go online in those days. I saved $40 a month in 1994 and 1995 so I could buy a new computer. That was 6 computers ago.

@mrvantagepro 2 жыл бұрын

Just think how hilarious 2021 will look 25 years from now.

@spinningbackkick6021 2 жыл бұрын

Or scary

@jackilynpyzocha662 2 жыл бұрын

I remember these ads, Netscape Navigator, Mosaic. A lot of sleepless nights, beyond cramming in college!

@powder.4030 6 жыл бұрын

" im affraid that if i suscribe to internet i get hooked and never spend time with my family " ??????

@emptyspotlight 6 жыл бұрын

pOWder.40 ironic how that is... Many years ago

@sleepyandhollow. 3 жыл бұрын

26 years later, here I am, on the internet, looking at this "flashback" "archive" footage from a different time...LOL

@zidanjkhan 2 жыл бұрын

1:32 lady couldn't be more accurate

@Khorvalar 3 жыл бұрын

I was born in 1992, interesting time to grow up!

@braupaul 3 жыл бұрын

Constant information...that's why i do my best to stay away from the news on the internet and only check it every 1 to 2 weeks.

@gd01skorpius 6 жыл бұрын

The internet sent me here.

@John-ct9zs 5 ай бұрын

At that time in the 90s, even the late 90s, it was considered hip to be on the internet. But especially around 1993-1997. You were considered cutting edge. It was like owning the latest smart phone today, but several months before it's release...you could brag about how in the know you are to everyone else that still did things the analog way, like using a physical phone book or calling information.

@MrZlep 9 жыл бұрын

The 90's - when the world was a much better place.

@eviola11 9 жыл бұрын

Nonsense

@stephendoyle1323 9 жыл бұрын

I agree! The 90's were a great time to live.

@eviola11 9 жыл бұрын

Nope. Fuck off with this nostalgia / "good ol days" garbage. Every generation does it.

@estew6764 9 жыл бұрын

The 90s were a fun time for me :-) No idea why Eric has to get all pissy. Can't someone just watch a video and make a comment w out such meaness aimed at him?

@MultiBillycarter 9 жыл бұрын

E Stew Actually he's right every generation does this.

@PeepsMichael 4 жыл бұрын

Remember, everyone here, especially you, are very hip because you’re in the internet right now. Now that’s cool.

@i_am_albertovera 2 жыл бұрын

Wao! I clearly remembered this day, I was 17 yo and was so amazed of America Online. September 2021 baby!

@austinwetzell8488 2 жыл бұрын

Katie Couric was rockin’ the Dorothy Hamill hairstyle back in the mid-90’s!

@richardlingo4055 2 жыл бұрын

Whats funny is the internet went public in 1989 but in 1995 people were just becoming aware of its existence

@radic888 Жыл бұрын

Yes, I was using it in 1990, so I can't understand how these presenters were so out of touch.

@t-bo-lesotho Жыл бұрын

It wasn't until the World Wide Web went public in 1993 that it became better known to most people.

@lunixcaptain 11 ай бұрын

"Out of touch" is a tad harsh. Most people didn't have a computer. How or why would you be "in touch" without a natural on-ramp?

@radic888 11 ай бұрын

@@lunixcaptain Actually, computers were quite common in newsrooms and businesses by that time. So, yes, they do appear out of touch.

@atarikidd8979 5 жыл бұрын

I miss those days. Before the media got involved. Before facebook, Google and twitter. Before the day of censorship.

@ToasterAlley 5 жыл бұрын

"i wud get hooked and never spend time with my family" LOL!!!

@SomeOldVideos Жыл бұрын

when Katie Couric said "Internet is..." who else instinctively said "a series of tubes"

@senorswordfish6019 3 жыл бұрын

1990s, the time when they were obssessed with the year 2000s

@seradginasuioloer8727 3 жыл бұрын

And now people are obessed with the 2000s and 90s and 80s!

@seradginasuioloer8727 3 жыл бұрын

@@depression_isnt_real , yes and ni

@philallard986 2 ай бұрын

All the issues these people raised are absolutely true.

@starlingermosen1401 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the internet i can watch this video 26 years later

@electrictroy2010 5 жыл бұрын

I’ve been using the internet since 1988. Of course that was before the WWW arrived so it was just pure text and downloadable programs or photos .

@Tornado1994 5 жыл бұрын

UseNet.

@danielrbsutton 2 жыл бұрын

I remember when Bryant Gumbel was on the Today Show! Such memories!!

@rameezrazaansari4534 2 жыл бұрын

Be it INdia, America or Europe 90s vibe is same everywhere... I seriously want to get back to there and wanted to be there forever....😁

@ChadBest-ug8uo 23 күн бұрын

I was a teacher in the mid-90's. One day our principal called a "special meeting.". She was excited to announce this new thing we would be using called "Email."

@MsBerries25 Жыл бұрын

I was working for a software development company right at the hinge of the dawn of the web. We had to scramble to roll with the software changes into presenting web design versus database design. Most people think the "internet" and the "worldwide web" are one and the same; they are NOT

@ninjapirate123 Жыл бұрын

This feels like yesterday

@flexor212000 9 жыл бұрын

0:50. I just saw Bill Gates in an interview on PBS yesterday. He adjusts his glasses like that the exact same fucking way hahahah!

@beneye1 6 жыл бұрын

plot twist: those were the same exact glasses. He didn't get rich by spending.

@mussman717word 3 жыл бұрын

This is actually prophetic in a way

@neetrab 5 жыл бұрын

1:15 "A lot of people can...I guess they can communicate with nbc writers and writers" - the internet is way bigger than just communicating to NBC lol

@dharkbizkit 3 жыл бұрын

oh the old internet, how much i miss the times, when not everyone, was there, especially not the people, who talked trash about in the 90s and 2000s

@jojojorisjhjosef 6 жыл бұрын

Right here 1:25, the most truthful worry ever.

@emptyspotlight 6 жыл бұрын

Scary....

@Ali08 4 жыл бұрын

She called it! 🤐

@seradginasuioloer8727 3 жыл бұрын

Prophetic

@sapphire48481 6 жыл бұрын

Incredible to watch and witness this happening!!! What have we turned ourselves into?

@LeafInTheWind88 Жыл бұрын

Katie Couric summed it up precisely.

@elissaharbuck2170 2 жыл бұрын

I almost forgot how stupid we were in the nineties

@LR2894h 13 сағат бұрын

These are great clips. Is there a video with more clips like these? I want more! Lol

@Dr2009king 3 жыл бұрын

They didn't realize this video will be on the internet :D

@josearellano203 Жыл бұрын

I was little when this was taking place. It took several minutes to connect to the Internet at first. I am no stranger to the Internet due to being born in 1992. And the Internet has replaced phone books by now for sure. Who would know that just 20 years ago that by now we'd use the Internet on tablets and smartphones as well? Even I didn't imagine it! And the future holds the internet with no mobile device with just using a screen to be on it.

@FurbyGender 7 жыл бұрын

Irrational fears of Americans being introduced to internet 😂. To the woman who says that she has no intentions of getting on the internet, what say ye now? I know damn well you're online! 😂

@milan51259 4 жыл бұрын

I dont know what she would say today, but me like: "Ok boomer!"

@MrANTIeggman 3 жыл бұрын

Bro, she's RIGHT. If the internet has shown us anything, it's the upsides AND the downsides of being plugged in.

@joed180 3 жыл бұрын

You were seriously here calling her irrational? 4 years later and it's worse than ever.

@seradginasuioloer8727 3 жыл бұрын

@@joed180 , agreed Pandemic has eaten us up Imagine if this happened in the 80s or 90s

@labibwajdi3169 5 жыл бұрын

1:25 Fast forward 24 years later...

@michaelmonitor7443 4 жыл бұрын

"What's Blockchain??? Can I send an E-Mail to it?!?"

@pinkcloud8182 4 жыл бұрын

it must have been so weird for people to wrap their heads around the idea of the internet... i was born in the late 90s and i'm kind of shocked just thinking about how much it grew in so little time... how do you even explain the internet to someone??

@John-ct9zs Жыл бұрын

Do you remember before smart phones? It's kinda like that. We knew that computers could network with each other, even in the 80s, and even as a kid I did use the internet in the 80s, there were usenet forums back then. But at the time, I had no idea I was using the internet, this was at a friends house. So when the internet started creeping into the world around 1993, and really took off in 1994, 1995, 1996....well it just astounded people. If you don't have a thing, you don't know what you are missing. And if everyone else doesn't have a thing, then that's normal for the world. There are poor people in Third World countries today that don't have much, and they could explain it to you. Self driving cars are not everywhere right now, but one day they might be. How will you explain to some kid or early 20s young adult the world before self driving cars? When you yourself had to drive your own car? It's like that.

@chrismarinov2007 3 жыл бұрын

Boy did this age terribly.

@kevklatman 6 жыл бұрын

Internet seems cool how do i get one?

@sostdm617 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@stylicho 8 жыл бұрын

I remember back when I first started spending a lot of time on the Internet I was wasting a lot of time in chat rooms lol. I also never was able to foretell the information that the Internet would bring. I never foresaw Wikipedia or how to videos on KZfaq.

@ChadBest-ug8uo 23 күн бұрын

30 years later, I think the internet has caused more harm than good. *Keeps families apart *Forms addictions *Outlet to purchase illegal materials *Cyberattacks *Outlet for fraud *Cyberbullying *Useless advertising the list goes on

@spicysalad4140 3 жыл бұрын

To think that this was happening around the time I was born... Wow!

@Zoomer30 5 жыл бұрын

The absolute tonnage of thing that Bryant Gumbel doesn't get would stun a team of horses.

@dsfddsgh 9 жыл бұрын

The dude from MicroSystems called it back 1995. He was right most every company was on the internet by the year 2000.

@ldchappell1 8 жыл бұрын

+dsfddsgh I think most people knew by late 1993 that everybody would be on the internet within a few years. I first read about it in an April 1993 Time cover story titled "The Information Superhighway" That was the first time I heard about internet commerce, chat-rooms, file sharing, and web browsing.

@Trackers89 8 жыл бұрын

+dsfddsgh That guy (Eric Schmidt) is also now chairman of Google, so that prediction was definitely in his favor.

@drummergirl4239 Жыл бұрын

keep in mind that this is only 28 years ago.

@tfh5575 5 жыл бұрын

we got internet at my house in 2000..and it took over my life

@Bittrio 4 жыл бұрын

I heard of this thing called bitcoin...

@monickalynn4365 6 жыл бұрын

And slow as a turtle back then! This is uncanny-and a great flashback.They were on point for sure.Does Bryant Gumble EVER age?

@rebecca8525 2 ай бұрын

People in 1995: So, what do you think about this internet thing that everyone is talking about? I give it a year or two before people start getting bored with it and it becomes obsolete.

@SpeedosAndTheGun 4 жыл бұрын

I remember when it took about 50 years just to open google lol

@earthrenew 8 жыл бұрын

people talk the same way about bitcoin. Bill Gates loves bitcoin, I bet he would call it very hip too. Geeks always understand these things. That's why you never bet against the geeks. and geeks love bitcoin.

@Alto50 6 жыл бұрын

Great year for bitcoin. Hope you're on the moon my friend.

@AndreasK6rgend 6 жыл бұрын

Bitcoin is worse than Fictional Money controlled by elites .. whats next, skynet? equilibrium...

@ChrisBrunelle 6 жыл бұрын

I don't think it's so much Bitcoin specifically, but the whole block chain idea which has so many applications. Not that I'm going to pretend to understand it thoroughly, but it could literally be the "next big thing" like the internet was back in the mid 90's

@topmiacaremid7583 6 жыл бұрын

You were right!!!

@topmiacaremid7583 6 жыл бұрын

How rich are you now?

@ashishd.chindarkar2602 3 жыл бұрын

This arguments are similar to bitcoin arguments now days 🙄

@AdmiralBison Жыл бұрын

It's obvious many people here only remember their good personal memories of the 90's thinking it was the best, forgetting or ignoring all the bad things. Sure having lived through and experienced the advent of any revolution ought to be cherished and remembered, but outside of nostalgia and novelty no-one today would want to use The Internet as it was back then, let alone be without it.

@shmookins 7 жыл бұрын

Faces on books. Birds chirping and tweeting.

@emptyspotlight 6 жыл бұрын

Shadow Heart spaces that were yours now long abandoned

@_Bat-Man_ 4 жыл бұрын

2:08 that’s why I deactivated my Facebook lol

@akshay-jr1qz 3 жыл бұрын

R u a girl

@mak2488 3 жыл бұрын

Just an observation 🤔 Everyone in this clip is speaking of “the internet” in the same EXACT way that people today are speaking about crypto/Bitcoin/Ethereum. They were taunting it, unsure of it, CEO’s and leaders claimed we would all be exposed to it in a few years while the common man/woman more or less ignored it. If ever you needed a clue as to what’s next, this blast form the recent past is probably it.

@billanthony8230 6 жыл бұрын

“What is internet anyway?” Hahahah

@dividedshark7511 4 жыл бұрын

"What is cryptocurrency anyway?"

@0Akeldama0 4 жыл бұрын

yyyup

@johnbartlett9568 3 жыл бұрын

Covid 19 is a Hoax

@markf6660 3 жыл бұрын

Cryptocurrency is Depressing

@TheSkullArmyMC 9 жыл бұрын

So that's where the commercial comes from!

@bielaggs 6 ай бұрын

that lady was trying to warn us, I swear she is a time traveler

@carravagio16 2 жыл бұрын

The irony of us all watching this clip while mindlessly surfing the web

@chamboyette853 2 жыл бұрын

I am a bit surprised about this. In the spring of 1990 I was introduced to email in my computer class and was aware about the internet. I wrote emails and participated in forums as well. I'm surprised news people weren't aware of this over 4 years after.

@chamboyette853 2 жыл бұрын

@jzhephf hhinkcle But Jo Mama did.

@lunixcaptain 11 ай бұрын

I mean, most people didn't have a computer at the time.

@chamboyette853 11 ай бұрын

@@lunixcaptain By then a lot of people did even if most didn't.