Google TV Beta - The Elaborate Hoax That Fooled Thousands

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In 2007, Google secretly entered the beta development stages of a revolutionary on-demand TV service that completely changed the industry. At least, that's what people initially thought. Because the entire thing turned out to be an elaborate hoax. Today's video takes you back to the 2000s and explores one of the earliest prank channels on KZfaq: Infinite Solutions.
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@MichaelMJD 3 жыл бұрын

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@Tamay. 3 жыл бұрын

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@kennethjones561 3 жыл бұрын

I love you

@batorerdyniev9805 3 жыл бұрын

@oldrobloxforlife 3 жыл бұрын

ps1

@etz80808yy 3 жыл бұрын

Yay michael's getting paid!!!!♡♡♡

@UnderSquare 3 жыл бұрын

Around 2008 my friend's father had a cellphone wrapped in Ethernet cable on his desk. It always stood out as odd to me but after all these years, mystery solved.

@maggiethegamer1271 3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha

@michaeljones5681 3 жыл бұрын

What? Please explain

@UnderSquare 3 жыл бұрын

@@michaeljones5681 around 2008 my friends father had an older flip phone phone wrapped tightly in Ethernet cable sitting right behind his keyboard, almost exactly like it was casually sitting there in the Google TV follow-up video. It was there for at least a year, maybe even longer. He was computer illiterate so it's very very possible he came across these videos and believed it. Where else could he have gotten the idea? It's beautiful... Lol and I just loooove how I've lived in the dark all these years. When I saw him wrapping the phone up it shot back in my head and I died laughing. GOT'EM!

@michaeljones5681 3 жыл бұрын

@@UnderSquare oh no. Such boomer lol

@WhitekidCvsual 3 жыл бұрын

@@UnderSquare that’s fuckin’ amazing haha, all the power to him 🙏🏻

@Thekinggamelon 3 жыл бұрын

If Infinte Solutions were still around before 2019, imagine making a hoax about a video gaming stream service made by Google, they'll probably pick a better name than Stadia.

@moelester7527 3 жыл бұрын

Google gaming.

@LastofAvari 3 жыл бұрын

How about Google Play+ ;)

@DrewWalton 3 жыл бұрын

@@LastofAvari oh Lord that's a frightening thought 🤣

@re57k 3 жыл бұрын

google playz

@boalbads 3 жыл бұрын

"Google Games PRO BETA" xd

@Nachy 3 жыл бұрын

Remember watching Infinite Solutions and believing everything on their channel at the time. Kept trying to do this "easter egg" on Gmail at the time. Mark and his crew with their humor and production values were ahead of their time lol

@bucklinspring 3 жыл бұрын

Me too!!! Haha

@cleanycloth 3 жыл бұрын

As a kid I got fooled by the "wrap an Ethernet cable round your phone to get Internet" hahaha, I genuinely believed it even after I didn't get anything out of it!

@otherssingpuree1779 3 жыл бұрын

I was fooled by hidden minesweeper mode.

@TheGodlyDekaFumoLucy Жыл бұрын

MARISA KIRISAME

@TheGodlyDekaFumoLucy Жыл бұрын

LOVE SIGN MASTER SPAAAAAAARRRRKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@TheDeadAlewives 2 жыл бұрын

Despite the fact that this was a joke, the idea was actually pretty damn innovative for 2007 and pretty much predicted how many of us use on demand streaming services today. I wouldn't be surprised if a tech company saw this and thought "Wait...they might be on to something.."

@TheSonicsean 5 ай бұрын

Oddly enough Hulu started doing something similar to that, later in 2007. IIRC the free account only had like the last 30 days of a show, but you could watch it on your computer, in 2007.

@katrinabryce 4 ай бұрын

Hulu was founded at around the same time, and they were initially ad-supported free to view.

@rogehmarbi 3 жыл бұрын

Petition to make "Numberless Fixes with Michael MJD" a real thing

@BladeTheGabite 3 жыл бұрын

I need help on downloading more RAM

@cedrichoweg5790 3 жыл бұрын

Signed

@realswaglord 3 жыл бұрын

make it the sponsor segway

@absolutewisp 3 жыл бұрын

It should be an April Fools series

@linuxameteur 3 жыл бұрын

signing

@wadmodderschalton5763 3 жыл бұрын

This was the "Faked Anti-Piracy Screen" trend of the 2000s. (1:43)

@lucianothewindowsfan 3 жыл бұрын

It was also the SiIvaGunner of tutorials.

@PainweedingPills 3 жыл бұрын

Now these "Anti Piracy Screen" videos became really bland due to the kids trying to fit in trying to be "hip n kewl". True Story. Just like the "Kill Screen" videos too.

@reillymcwriting 3 жыл бұрын

@@PainweedingPills the ones that are good are normal anti piracy screens, not “uh oh Mario is a serial killer and he’s after you now!” Ones, except for Mario Party DS.

@NatetheNintendofan 3 жыл бұрын

@@reillymcwriting I pirate and I get none of those screens so it's fall Grandma personal Pirates 3DS games and Wii games themselves please don't tell the police I'm only 13

@noobethgamingtonthethird 3 жыл бұрын

@@reillymcwriting mario 64 beta anti piracy screen : exists kids : i can milk you

@bumblebeegamerreal 3 жыл бұрын

*Infinite Solutions: Satirical Videos with professionalism* *Clickbaiters: Fake Engagement, Oversaturated expressions and unprofessional bait and switch tactic*

@eemeli7093 3 жыл бұрын

Pog face everywhere

@rylamistrandall6517 2 жыл бұрын

The infuriating thing is, both has an equal chance to attaining success. Its already clear from that point onwards, why people do the things that they do.

@ReinKayomi Жыл бұрын

@@eemeli7093"Will shock you!" everywhere

@Nabeelco 3 жыл бұрын

Good old Fatal Farm. They made some really funny videos. A lot of people forget that around that time, there were many TV shows like Computer Chronicles, Dotto's Data Cafe, and others that released TV shows or segments in this format. Part of what made this series so believable was that it mimicked that since forgotten format very well.

@lenadams854 3 жыл бұрын

Fatal Farm is like the days slenderman, where stories of him were treated as real but were made up.

@imaginekudryavka9485 2 жыл бұрын

I had never heard of this channel but I love it in a way that is hard to explain. It's like troll royalty. Getting people to do something dumb but harmless, possibly never realising it was a joke. The cleverness, the acting, _even_ the small number of videos elevates the experience. Not all kings wear crowns.

@imaginekudryavka9485 2 жыл бұрын

25:05 Oh man, I LOVE the fact that he has a phone wrapped in an Ethernet cable in front of his keyboard here, both working as an Easter egg as well as "proof" of their legitimacy. EDIT// Well Michael just referenced it

@BilisNegra 3 жыл бұрын

It must be admitted: Despite some giveaways, this hoax was really well done... And even amused the people that wrote that official statement at Google! Wonder if that spirit still exists in the company or they would send a nice little cease and desist letter to the video creators instead...

@raiisleep 7 ай бұрын

They changed it from "Don't be evil" to "Do the right thing".

@thedave1771 6 ай бұрын

@@raiisleep now “fuck it, we’ll take the cash”

@encycl07pedia- Жыл бұрын

Now Google officially does pranks by shutting down your favorite Google services! It's so funny that only the people at Google are laughing!

@agisuru 2 жыл бұрын

Actually, as a paleontology student, I can tell you the "tiny dinosaur" thing isn't actually that far from true. Not that there are tiny dinosaurs, just that there are certain species so ubiquitous in the fossil record that paleontologists tend to not bother to analyze the fossils of them bc there's nothing more we can learn from them at this time.

@Falcodrin 2 жыл бұрын

There's a reason you can buy ammonite and trilobite fossils on the side of the road literally anywhere.

@thag_simmons 2 жыл бұрын

what? of course there are tiny dinosaurs. haven't you ever heard of the bee hummingbird? their nests are small enough to fit in a thimble - if that's not tiny, then I'm not sure what *is.*

@paulh2981 2 жыл бұрын

@@thag_simmons Birds are descendants of dinosaurs, not actual dinosaurs. All birds have wings for example, even flightless ones. Most dinosaurs didn't have wings. There are other differences. Birds are warm-blooded, dinosaurs are thought to have been somewhere between warm blooded and cold blooded. Also, there's flight. Almost all species of birds can fly, almost all species of dinosaur couldn't.

@ashleybyrd2015 Жыл бұрын

I'm going to take this as proof that there are tiny dinosaurs and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

@Mario87456 7 ай бұрын

@@paulh2981That is a lie they are just very distinct ancestors.

@markusTegelane 3 жыл бұрын

I did not know the same guys were behind Lasagna Cat. Lasagna Cat sometimes puts a lot of effort into their videos, so it sort of makes sense they made some effort to make these tutorials look real.

@weberman173 3 жыл бұрын

i mean, lasaga cat didnt put a lot of effort into praising gafield comic strips they put a LOT of effort into praising ONE specific Comict strip, but in such a way that it was very easy to deduct as satire or ironic. the rest of the Videos(minus the few OBVIOUS outliers) are just.... acting a Garfield strip in real life, show the OG strip. and them something weird.

@matcha6710 3 жыл бұрын

@@weberman173 eventually leading up to onscreen childbirth lol

@weberman173 3 жыл бұрын

@@matcha6710 that was part of the "obvious outliers"

@matcha6710 3 жыл бұрын

@@weberman173 I was just clarifying for people so they don't get bombarded with a Catholic schoolgirl's genitals like I did lol

@HellScream107 3 жыл бұрын

I work in IT and linked the “How to Increase Your Wi-Fi Signal” video by Infinite Solutions in my email signature as a joke. Folks would email me back all the time saying how it did not work for them or somehow they thought it was helping their signal. My manager finally made me remove it. You'd be shocked how many of my non-networking co-workers thought it was legit.

@HellScream107 3 жыл бұрын

@Bold One lol a suspension? Calm down Karen.

@presidentofchina1496 3 жыл бұрын

@Bold One Jokes bad we get it, now go away

@uK8cvPAq 3 жыл бұрын

Common sense goes out the window with non-tech people asking tech questions, they will hang off your every word because they think its all black magic and just want it to work.

@uK8cvPAq 3 жыл бұрын

@Bold One It was different in the 90's and early 2000's.

@jessestewart5109 2 жыл бұрын

Of course non-tech-savvy people would think it's real...

@David-fm6go 3 жыл бұрын

XP backgrounds, IE, late 2000s my god where did the last 14 years go.

@louistournas120 3 жыл бұрын

Where has my country gone? It was right here just a second ago.

@DeisFortuna 3 жыл бұрын

The past...

@NohusBluxome 2 жыл бұрын

@@lol-ih1tl It was also a wine field at the time of the photo, but was cleared between replanting.

@zmansadventures 2 жыл бұрын

The last 14 years felt slow though. Maybe because I was born 14 years ago...

@David-fm6go 2 жыл бұрын

@@zmansadventures As you get older your perspective changes and once a given year is a smaller percentage of your lifespan to the current point, it begins to fly by you.

@endruv_2287 3 жыл бұрын

"So what did this guy get up to?" "Lasagna Cat" oh

@trsmith2442 8 ай бұрын

This guy wasn't a hoaxer, he was a futurist.

@ThioJoe 2 жыл бұрын

A truly legendary channel

@key-chain 2 жыл бұрын

Hey it’s the whisk guy

@pipodrankje 2 жыл бұрын

I agree ✔️

@Oscar4u69 2 жыл бұрын

I need faster internet for free 😩😩😩 plz maek moerr tuts

@CleverClick 2 жыл бұрын

@JohnDoe-sw2nc 2 жыл бұрын

Could you create an updated verson of your ram doubling guide for windows 11?

@kbhasi 3 жыл бұрын

(18:50) Yeah, I think they edited that "Welcome to Gmail" e-mail. (32:50) I find it amusing how you portrayed the roommate as a MSN Messenger contact.

@Alexander-nd5de 3 жыл бұрын

Its always fun to hear a company like Microsoft go like: "wtf - how are we gonna deal with this very convenient way to watch shows"

@abdelnajjar8191 2 жыл бұрын

You say it was obvious anyone wouldn't fall for this guy's trolling. But I was a dumb 10 year old with my very first PC and little parental guidance. I actually tried the 'recharge batteries' one.

@Rajorsi 3 жыл бұрын

Well, Thio Joe started his KZfaq career just like this.

@elephystry 3 жыл бұрын

Also Household Hacker (RIP)

@twlentwo 3 жыл бұрын

wait, you mean i cant play ps4 games on xbox 360?

@MRF2492 3 жыл бұрын

He got me good with how to play xbox game on pc lmao

@wizdude 3 жыл бұрын

Every time I watch a current Thio Joe video today I still think about his original fake videos. His presentation style is identical and while his current content is very good I still can’t shake those feelings from years ago. It’s weird.

@twlentwo 3 жыл бұрын

@@wizdude same

@TheWaveBloke 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, I genuinely remember this being real. I never signed up because it was "US only". That's literally the only reason I didn't look into it more deeply at the time.

@aerodynamix1507 3 жыл бұрын

I wrap ethernet cables and tape my phones to salad bowls all the time! What do you mean it doesn't work?

@K1ngwing 3 жыл бұрын

My grandfather used to that and I wondered why. Now I know

@Orel_levi 3 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure I did the wifi solution 14 years ago when I was 14. I'm laughing to myself now

@amethystdene 3 жыл бұрын

k u are a grandpa

@lotus_flower2001 2 жыл бұрын

@@amethystdene roblox profile pic? You are under 13, Go to youtube kids.

@amethystdene 2 жыл бұрын

@@lotus_flower2001 look at my vids first this pic was roblox cuz idk what to put also too lazy to change descprtion and this is out of the topic

@--..__ 2 жыл бұрын

@@amethystdene OK zoomer

@DanielC_YT Жыл бұрын

Small correction - they uploaded fourteen videos to the channel, not thirteen. The fourteenth was a ten-second video with just their logo, which was deleted several months later.

@lerkscore 3 жыл бұрын

GoogleTV is KZfaq. And sadly, its getting more like TV every day.

@braelinmichelus 3 жыл бұрын

It's funny to think that 10 years I escaped network television to the land of KZfaq, where I could watch _what_ I wanted _when_ I wanted... for _FREE_ without non-stop _ADS_. I enjoyed it because it felt like real-life; free from the professionalism of network television. And now... KZfaq is pretty much the same thing network television was back then... only worse. It's not just KZfaq either... it's the entire world of the internet in general. Back in the early 2000s, everyone used the internet for fun; as a cool hangout space to share memes and laugh about popular things with like-minded people... free from the corporate landscape of the real world. Ever since the 2010s, companies started seeing the internet as a serious way to market their products, push their services, and even to directly make money from it themselves. The internet's not fun anymore, it's not free from corpocracy... the world of the internet is no longer a safe haven from the real world.

@GumSkyloard 3 жыл бұрын

@@braelinmichelus The internet became too corporate and too "mature".

@aetimes2 3 жыл бұрын

@@braelinmichelus the only case of that I see is the occasional sponsor you can fast forward through. i don't see your point...

@negirno 3 жыл бұрын

@@braelinmichelus I don't agree. I still find many good videos on KZfaq, such as this one. As for the "internet was better in the early 2000s" it's just nostalgia goggles. Current teenagers will be nostalgic about this era of Internet.

@mr.whimsic6902 3 жыл бұрын

@@braelinmichelus your comment gave me the feels..

@olliecraft 3 жыл бұрын

I think the biggest giveaway with the video response proof was that the camera image quality was identical to infinite solutions themselves, not many random people had good digital camcorders in 2007 and practically no one knew how to transfer Mini or HDV tapes, FF is a production company so they had the money for good cameras and it's clear both videos were shot on a high end DV camcorder, maybe even the same camera was used for both.

@hazygonuttz 2 жыл бұрын

infinite solutions radiates the same vibe as that one british tv show "look around you" there's occasional gags that make it obvious that it's a joke, while there's also small little details that help make the joke even funnier.

@YourLocalGP 6 ай бұрын

I agree! Great show that

@22b_gc8 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting to see how the name got recycled into one of the real products by Google😂 Edit: the video production was top notch, Michael. Never felt i was watching a boring documentary.

@TheGodlyDekaFumoLucy Жыл бұрын

fujiwara no mokou lel

@22b_gc8 Жыл бұрын

@@TheGodlyDekaFumoLucy uh...😳

@sfdntk 6 ай бұрын

I mean, it wasn't exactly a super obscure name, it's literally the number one most obvious choice for a TV-related Google product.

@SavvySage 2 жыл бұрын

1:43 Don't tell me I didn't notice that rickroll in the fake GoogleTV article, lol Good one, MJD

@MichaelMJD 2 жыл бұрын

I think you’re the first one to catch that, good eye!

@poisonempress 2 жыл бұрын

Video Responses were so useful, back in 2009 I was part of a YT community and the VR option made it so much fun so easy to engage with each other.

@kawaiilotus 6 ай бұрын

yeah they should really bring it back.

@izzyhope58 3 жыл бұрын

Infinite Solutions NEEEEEEEDS to make a comeback. That would be the combact of the century

@BinglesP Жыл бұрын

“Mark Ericsson” is probably one of the most believable fake-American(maybe even fake-white in general) names I’ve heard be the name of a parody character

@tombrady1434 2 жыл бұрын

26:48: "ooh, Fatal Farm, so that's the Lasagna Cat guys! No wonder it seemed well made and funny!" 10 seconds later: Jon appears on screen :D

@SlyHikari03 3 жыл бұрын

Infinite solutions kinda feels like Tim and Eric sketches and “The Onion” Also, kinda reminds me of the old “VHS hack” clip from early KZfaq days. Ps. I miss video responses. Love your editing during the audio only “interview” segments.

@lenadams854 3 жыл бұрын

It's like Something Awful with College Humor in it.

@kaitlyn__L 2 жыл бұрын

Video responses!

@stproducciones9140 2 жыл бұрын

Jon from Lasagnacat popping in to validate the hoax is one hell of a twist

@Fuzy2K 2 жыл бұрын

I love when continuity errors are pointed out in videos. Something about the "Look when x happens... Did you see that?" makes me feel warm inside. I don't know, maybe I'm just weird

@seththebeatmxchine Жыл бұрын

I think that panning down shot of him typing the password on the keyboard was actually really more to capture the cell phone with the cord wrapped around it

@WillOnSomething 3 жыл бұрын

I remember being a naive 8 year old thinking these videos were legitimate. I spent hours trying to get an invite. There was even another guy on KZfaq who claimed he got an invite. Even at 8 years old I was suspicious about the “wrap an Ethernet cable around your phone to get extended wifi” trick, tried several variations with no success, trying to get our home wifi signal 250 miles away at our vacation house in New Hampshire. I even replaced the phone with a Linksys USB wifi adapter, with no success obviously

@rando843 2 жыл бұрын

Unrelated but damn that made me remember USB Wifi adapters existed My mom had one and I remember dropping it which I can't remember if it actually damaged it but I remember being scared to death of that

@adampope5107 7 ай бұрын

@@rando843they still exist. I bought one a few months ago for a desktop that I couldn't run a cable to. I didn't feel like opening up the case and installing a card because they work just as well as PCI cards.

@FubarMike 3 жыл бұрын

This is the sort of shit that keeps IT help desk services in business. I legit had a lady wrap her laptops power cord around her wifi router for "wireless power" and she wondered why her laptop still lost power. The thing is her router was also in a completely different room. With a straight face she walked me through what she learned. " Oh all you have to do is wrap your power cord around your wifi router and then just connect to the wifi connection on the computer and presto wireless power!". She felt so stupid after I told her she basically took tech advice from a meme channel.

@picklr3893 3 жыл бұрын

That must have taken so much effort for a joke I respect that

@vanhetgoor 3 жыл бұрын

I own a book called: Visiting New York on $10 a day. I even thought about it to try it. Sightseeing on a bus, visit the horse-track, maybe win a few bucks. Maybe some thing have changed since it was printed, I must ask the New York Tourism Board for a list of the changes that were made after 1949.

@Blubatt 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, really well edited. You've stepped up your game on this one. Whoever the original creators are, they did a great job creating the idea that modern streaming services are built on.

@scotty2tone Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure they’re associated with Fatal Farm l

@ilektrokioydio 11 ай бұрын

MJD makes some freaking great documentaries. I mean, by far the best one was the Bliss on 2022 New Year's Eve, but still, the depth he goes into and explains every single thing is amazing. Also, who else here is having an old mjd videos marathon? Lol, I have been watching his old videos for about 4 hours now.

@bluemetal04606 3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully we'll see some WebTV content in the future. That was my first experience with the internet.

@MrVuckFiacom 3 жыл бұрын

The dial up loading screen and music was amazing!

@Nadia1989 3 жыл бұрын

Check The Oddity Archive

@OliveMule 2 жыл бұрын

@@Nadia1989 thanks

@MattGreencompguy5 2 жыл бұрын

Love this style of video! Great work Michael, keep it up!!

@MichaelMJD 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Matt!

@TimVels 3 жыл бұрын

It's like I watched a modern "Forensic Files" or "New Detectives" episode on Google TV! 😂

@conath 3 жыл бұрын

Applause for the well researched video and a hat tip at those end credits. Nice work, Michael!

@MichaelMJD 3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate it! Thanks so much!

@akkorosie 2 жыл бұрын

i just screamed “THEY MADE LASAGNA CAT???”

@pompshuffle562 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh I was completely fooled by this channel as a kid especially by the battery one.

@w0rldw1dew3b 3 жыл бұрын

a video about infinite solutions? this has made my day, one of my favorite channels on the site and it's honestly a tragedy that it didn't live on.

@parkerblackforces 2 жыл бұрын

Infinite Solutions need to come back, they were a genius at fooling people

@Tvsnumber1fan 10 ай бұрын

Boy, I remember KZfaq during this era. Back then you had a 10 minute video length limit and one of KZfaq’s main uses at that particular time was to embed videos on other websites. That’s why you see the videos URL and embed links on the right side of the video. This is unlike today where the vast majority of people watch the vast majority of KZfaq videos on KZfaq it’s self, whether it’s on the app or the website. Plus, a very large amount of videos were not original, long form content but uploads of old copyrighted material. The clips would be of such things as old sporting events from old VHS recordings, unofficial uploads of music videos from old VHS recordings and news coverage from old VHS recordings. This was before companies like Viacom (now Paramount Global) started really cracking down on the practice. There are still a very large amount of old television video footage today, but a very large amount of videos are now long form, original content. Heck you couldn’t even upload videos in HD, let alone in 4k UHD. As the video mentioned a very large number of videos were uploaded in only 240p. Today it’s very unlikely that a channel would upload their videos with a max resolution of 240p. The vast majority of videos are either uploaded in 480p, HD, and a number of videos are even uploaded in 2160p. So yeah I can not believe how much KZfaq has changed since it’s early days.

@Tom3kkk 11 ай бұрын

Holy shit the moment I saw the "I got google tv on my 114th try" guy I thought 'wow he looks like the lasagna cat jon actor', imagine my face when you revealed it was not only the same guy, but also the co-founder AND that both infinite solutions and lasagna cat were made by the same company

@theyiannosgames5596 3 жыл бұрын

2007: How to sign up to Google TV Beta 2021: GOOGLE'S HIDDEN MEDIA STREAMING SERVICE!!!???

@justananimefan1570 3 жыл бұрын

“Michael MJD Presents……2007” Thank you for the year 2007 Michael

@cdm966 9 ай бұрын

The very second I heard "Fatal Farm" leave your mouth, it suddenly all made sense. These guys have been going all out for shits and giggles on youtube for so long, and the humor totally lines up with their other stuff.

@sterilepancake 2 жыл бұрын

The sponsor part was great. Someone who knows how to have fun with their sponsorships. I enjoy this content a lot

@MichaelMJD 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad to hear that!

@abdelali9279 10 ай бұрын

22:58 not the ethernet cable wrapped around the cellphone, that level of ingenuity and dedication are incredible!

@nobody-tj1mv 3 жыл бұрын

That was such a fun video to watch. Time flew by. Honestly this was one of the funniest stories I've heard, and see that Fatal Frame was behind it made me so happy I clicked on the video. haha Good job, mate.

@MichaelMJD 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it! : )

@colincraigo5793 2 жыл бұрын

@23:24 Notice how he has a cellphone wrapped in an ethernet cord. He is really dedicated to the bit. 😂 That was completely different video too. Its almost like he was setting up a universe.

@JasperFoxo Жыл бұрын

1 year later and this is still one of the best videos on the channel, please make more videos like this

@shanetonkin2850 8 ай бұрын

23:20 - that mobile phone wrapped in an Ethernet cord just tucked in behind the keyboard killed me.

@iloveplasticbottles 2 жыл бұрын

Considering how popular TV streaming services are now, I think this wouldve taken off.

@supersophisticated9943 2 жыл бұрын

i feel like your channel is another example of one that was notably small for a long time, and is just suddenly blowing up i've been here since more near the beginning because i'm just obsessed with floppies specifically and also old computing stuff, so i've noticed a lot of changes here

@phreapersoonlijk 3 жыл бұрын

Very well done !! Congratulations on an exceptionally well researched and produced mini documentary ! Did you do this one alone??

@TravisNewton1 3 жыл бұрын

Oh man! You overlooked my favorite prank! In the "How to Prepare for Daylight Saving Time" video, the "Windows Server" is a freaking paper shredder! It's so hilarious!

@LuxxyOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

as soon as i heard fatalfarm being mentioned the word *garfield* just sprung to mind

@Moliminous 2 жыл бұрын

Man... makes me feel old that there are kids watching who fell for the intro. Because they were born after or during 2007

@Oscar4u69 2 жыл бұрын

omfg 2007 was 14... 14!!!!!! years ago omg. I was thinking, nah, just like 6 or 7 years... man, how TF I didn't notice the passage of time 😰

@tildejustin 2 жыл бұрын

What's so important about 2007?

@thermometerman1824 2 жыл бұрын

i was born in 2007 and i knew that was fake, hopefully most people know its fake too

@amoliski 2 жыл бұрын

@@thermometerman1824 The internet was a different place back then.

@thermometerman1824 2 жыл бұрын

@@amoliski yeah it was, who knows, maybe i wouldve fallen for it back then

@zzcolby27 3 жыл бұрын

The fake Google TV service reminds me of the real TurboNick service from around the same time.

@lenandov 2 жыл бұрын

Rumor has it, that to this day if you visit a small net cafe on the south side of Rickmsanshire a girl can be found sitting by herself in a booth in the back logging into and out of the same website over and over again.

@alexanderpedersen1401 2 жыл бұрын

I remember this and still go back from time to time. The level of detail is astonishing, at least for the time. Like how in the update video they actually use havve a cellphone wrapped in an ethernet cable laying next to the monitor. Truly a gem in YT history.

@emmittmorgans8076 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know how I have been unaware of Infinite Solutions up until now; as someone somewhat tech savvy and as a fan of "Look Around You" this seems right up my alley!

@emobassist 3 жыл бұрын

I remember an video of Mark at a convention by a fan recording or something and he was like still trying to get Google TV keep trying. Lol what a beast

@aciddrive Жыл бұрын

27:42 realizing that i am technically in the Infinite Solutions universe because i called some random number and said something in morse code is definitely a way to kick my weekend off ngl.

@yamigekusu 2 жыл бұрын

Oh man, 2006 era KZfaq. I joined during that time, and what a glorious time it was

@deathdogg0 3 жыл бұрын

So good! I like learning about the wild west of the internet. I didn't have a computer at that time, and what little I did do on the internet was mostly limited to email and online TV. Thank you for this

@coolfred9083 3 жыл бұрын

Loved the editing on this video! Really interesting topic too.

@alicesmith255 2 жыл бұрын

Okay but what I’m hearing is that the google TV beta possibly exists in the same universe as 07/27/1978, I feel like that shouldn’t be glossed over.

@citrusjuicebox 8 ай бұрын

This was such a wild throwback. Completely forgot about all the fun I had watching their videos back then!

@Blackmuhahah 2 жыл бұрын

Oh man... good times. I remember watching them and how funny their always straight explanations without breaking character were... What I can not remember is how I found out they were a hoax... Maybe it was the ethernet cable video because it was so over the top or someone told me, but all i remember now is watching them and just finding it utterly hilarious

@lucal6166 3 жыл бұрын

the quality of your videos still keeps on getting better, I think this one is one of the best I have ever watched from your channel, very well scripted and put together and very enjoyable to watch

@kimgkomg 6 ай бұрын

I love the phone still wrapped in ethernet cable in the google tv update video. Huge commitment to the bit

@aviralpanda5014 Жыл бұрын

I love how at 24:57 you see the cell phone just roped up in Ethernet wire to “boost your internet “

@nicodatechboi 2 жыл бұрын

This is one of the most well edited videos I’ve ever seen

@MichaelMJD 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

@nicodatechboi 2 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelMJD your welcome

@JoeContext 2 жыл бұрын

I'm honestly disappointed that their defense wasn't full of "Try these for yourself to see I'm not lying!" tricks that seemed plausible but didn't work but had an excuse for not working like the whole "log out and log in again until it shows up" trick or something, that would have been hilarious

@zachsteiner 3 жыл бұрын

Man this really takes me back. Infinite solutions fooled me so many times as a kid. The videos were so well done! Lmao

@vogonp4287 Жыл бұрын

It's weird how well the video aged. Google TV is kind of real now.

@Jakewfx 3 жыл бұрын

Do thio Joe! I used to fall for his "play xbox one games on 360" videos when I was 6. He'd go over how the "internals of the ui" were the same and you could easily bypass them by solving a quick math problem and I would be asking my parents to solve the square root of a triangle 😂

@andresbravo2003 3 жыл бұрын

Glad this was before Google TV became standard on new Chromecast with Google TV…

@JasperFoxo 2 жыл бұрын

i just love the picture of the installing office 97using floppy disks in the background

@DmitriLeon2000 Жыл бұрын

I think "How to Unlock a Hidden Minesweeper Mode" is the REAL first episode of Infinite Solutions. because it starts with "Hello, I'm Mark Erickson and welcome to my tech tutorial series Infinite Solutions" (notice the "welcome" and not "welcome back").

@lyktotallyobscure 3 жыл бұрын

I loved Infinite Solutions! Their rug repair video was my favorite to share.

@fdert 3 жыл бұрын

This was one of your higher quality videos, I really enjoyed it

@MichaelMJD 3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it! Thank you!

@cakedon 3 жыл бұрын

WOW Michael.. I take a not even a month break from your content and you do THIS?! This is amazing editing man!

@MichaelMJD 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate it!

@KlausKlass 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine if you made up the entire “Infinite Solutions” channel and all these videos just to make this video

@WedgeStratos 3 жыл бұрын

Seeing that FF in "Mark's" XP profile told me everything I needed to know. Time to watch Lasagna Cat.

@randomcontent2089wastaken 3 жыл бұрын

There are 2 people who are great: Michael MJD and How-to basic.

@TheiTunesFanboy 2 жыл бұрын

Prehistoric people actually used fire to keep their food fresh for slightly longer, so the produce tutorial may work, but won’t be as good as refrigerating produce.