I love how he gets mad at the computer like there isn’t a giant magnet 8 inches away destroying it

imagine if someone ordered that magnet, and it was in the same delivery truck as someone else’s computer

4:23, well technically it is a screensaver: Screensavers were originally designed to prevent burn in on crt displays, caused by images being displayed in the same place for too long. A magnet twisting the image like that would certainly save your screen... from burn in.

The magnet and the CRT is probably the most realistic physical/visual demonstration of the earths magnetic field I’ve ever seen. When you had it on the glass and it was displaying that “dead-zone” surrounded by the ‘infinity’ pattern? You were effectively displaying exactly what the earths field does, but with man-made electrons instead of solar wind electrons. I thought that was pretty cool 👍

How open up a portal: 1x CRT monitor 1x powerful magnet ...

Now go outside your neighbors house and stand outside their window and distort their television.

"And i realised the computer was dying in front of me" i felt that

3:00 i would have loved to see this with actual imagery on the tv, so we could easier see the distortion, rather than just a random white noise.

Purposefully destroys computer "Oh, the poor thing..."

I remember in kindergarten someone ruined the teachers computer with a magnet

This is gonna be one of those videos that will always be a classic and a good watch at any time

6:24 all humans have done this at any point of their lives

"meets" Computer screen : Hey whats up! :) Magnet : Lemme just absorb your soul real quick

imagine going into your room with one of these, dropping it, and it rolls over to your 5000 dollar computer

With the computer, its easy to see what happened. It's an old COMPAQ, and so it has an HDD. An HDD stores data on magnetic tape platters. Passing a ludicrously strong magnet over it destroyed the magnetic tape, and thus any data that was on it. If you had been using a modern solid state drive, it probably would have been fine, other than some temporary disruption (like the CMOS errors you were getting with that computer that went away after you removed the magnet).

I find it cool how when the magnet was placed on the TV screen, it replicated a smaller model of Earth and how it's magnetic field look like; Starting off at both poles and making a little 'force field' of sorts around the magnet. 👍

when the 6" magnet was right up against the tv, did anyone else think it looked like the event horizon around a black hole?

The computer is probably fine, but you definitely killed the HDD.

See you guys again when this gets recommended again in a few years

I can't believe monitors used to be that thicc just a few years ago. Now we have monitors slimmer than that keyboard.

Imagine carrying this thing around at your schools computer lab.

It's a Compaq. It's just behaving as it usually does.

0:20 Reminds me of my old computer. Man, the hours I put into playing that Pinball game Edit: 1:54 Reminds me of my early 2000's Daewoo Bkx TV. I named it Ol' Boxie Unfortunatly Ol' Boxie got replaced by new flaty And my 40 or 50 year old Bunk Bed got replaved by my new bed. I named my old bunk bed, The Bunker.

if anyone wants to know why the magnet killed the comopputer then heres the reason: computers (especially older ones) save data on an HDD (commonly referred to as a hard drive) which use magnetic fields to store data. once the magnet was placed on the computer, the hdd began losing its memory, however, the computer could still run vital programs on RAM which uses electric charges to store data and so the magnet did not instantly wipe it. eventually, the electronics could not function properly due to the magnets influence on the current and so the mouses signals were not able to be received by the computer. eventually, after a vital program was attempted to be run, the computer realised it could not be found and with nothing else to do it gave a warning and shut down. unfortunately, the warning algorithm was stored inside the hdd (which had been wiped by the magnet) resulting in yet another failure to function, so the computer shut down completely - this is where it lost all hope... since the hdd was wiped out, there was no system to reboot on and because the computer shut down the RAM was wiped leaving no system left to even attempt continue running. the loading sequence is stored in the ROM fortunately, so the computer could load back up (since like the RAM, ROM is not affected by magnetic infkuence of this calibre), however, with no system to load up there was nothing else it could do other than complain. luckily, as long as the magnets still work in the hdd, after formatting it, you should be able to save an operating system onto it again and the computer should work fine (granted that the magnet wasnt moved around on the computer too much to generate a current and break the motherboard). so yeah, this is what happened to the computer and why it happened :)

KZfaq I've already watched this video like 83 times over the past 4 years please stop recommending it to me

The title of this video should be “How to clean erase a hard drive physically” xd

3:00 nether portal in minecraft

6:48 "Mamaaaaa!!!, I just killed a man..."

I don't know why I expected something like explotions and things flying all through the room

PC: Monitor, I don't feel so good Monitor: _i s m e l l c o l o r s_

2:43 the screen: *ight, imma head out*

3:15 - Done. Black hole in tv now show. This magnet very powerful.

I feel like the computer needs a funeral. It was kind of sad :(

This guys voice is soothing and eerie at the same time.

We meet again, Brainiac. This is recommended to me every few months (or years?) along with some weird videos like imagining the 10th dimension and how to turn a sphere inside out haha

This guy: * forgets he has a big magnet in his hand and goes to the kitchen for a coffee * The kitchen knives and forks: *It's showtime*

it's frickin 1am I should be sleeping. but no I'm watching a video about magnet's

2 years ago... why is this recommended to me?

It’s 4:19 A.M. and I just watched a washing machine kill itself and now I’m here Ps it’s also a school night so yikes D:

It's interesting watching this after such a long time. I remember watching this when I barely knew any English and this channel only had about a dozen videos. Now, after almost a decade, I can still hear the way I heard the video back then, just that now I can understand whatever you said like 9 years ago

6:25 when he beat on the mouse. i felt that ✊😔

Go to the smartphone store with this magnet in your pocket xD

0:49 "Yeah, i'm just playing my iPAQ on my magnet."

The video that introduced me to your channel 4 years ago

3:26 This is how you stop horror movie creatures from crawling out your TV.

Computer doesn't work *SLAM MOUSE ON DESK

Magnet: *gets close* Static on TV screen: "Aight, imma head out"

Thank you KZfaq recommendations I never knew I needed this

Interesting... where can I but this monster pc? I want to play gta and battlefield on it on a solid 2fps.

You should do the video except with modern tech like a flat screen tv (even though nothing may happen)

Bet you gotta be careful carrying that magnet around, imagine walking into your kitchen with the knife draw open.

Cool how you could mess with the screen shape with the magnet. I never knew that a Magnet would effect that!

It's a Compaq. It was already broken when you got it

2:41 so whenever someone refuses to turn off the tv, you can just push their show away with a magnet. Brilliant! 3:36 "I have your show on my magnet!"

Your videos are really entertaining! :D

Deal of the day: $10000 computer for $5000 only. But comes with a free neodymium magnet.

This is making me remember the time i was 7 and thought hmm what would happen if i put building magnets on my old tv. Three things happened that day 1 got yelled at by parents 2 saw an awesome light show 3 had to go with my parents to explain to the cashier why me and my parents were up at 1am buying a tv and nothing else.

Very cool! Didn’t know you’d be able to see a magnet’s magnetic field on a screen!

Once the speedrunning community sees this, we’re gonna see some weird any% runs

Even though what happened was pretty much exactly what I expected, this as satisfying to watch :).

3:10 Wow!! Another way to check magnetic field lines🙂

Cool vid. now try throw the magnet into monitor and see what will happen.

I like the magnetic fields interaction with the static.

Crazy how dangerous the big one is to handle

Plot twist:the magnets are lonely and wanted a new friend

The computer: "How dare you?"

7:44 Brainiac75: maybe it would help if remove the magnet, if I can. Magnet: ur weak tho. Wood: hey fella y dont just pick me up,

Funny how the TV goes "nope im outta here" when a magnet comes near it

If you look at 6:56 very closely, there was a blue screen of death with stop code "Unknown Hard Error" (pretty sure of that after looking at it multiple times) which I found interesting that it just displayed it for a split second. It was very quick you need to put it at 0.25 speed.

6:26 Life hack: you can make the computer go faster by clicking more and harder with the mouse

When some weird ghost woman starts crawling out of your TV so you pull out the neodymium magnet

7:55 I can feel it 😱

2:15 the way he "dances" the magnet closer to the tv just made my day

R.I.P COMPUTER 2014-2014

Love that magnetic field line show on that old TV screen.

Quite a nostalgic show with the TV...

Nuke meets computer next pls

The mailman is going to hate you for buying that on ebay.

I love this guys accent. I’ve never heard anything else like it! Great video mate

Me: sees title My brain: *oh no....*

6:00 Stop, Dave... I'm afraid... Please stop, Dave... My mind is growing empty... I can feel it... I can... feel it... I'm... afraid...

this video will always go down in history as a youtube classic it interests me every time i get reccomended it every couple years.

So that's how did they do the tv scene on "The Ring", very nice

I remember watching this video when i was like 12, I'm 19 now and i didn't know this video was from you, a channel i watch all the time now!

3:05 If i had this, I will play with it for MONTHS, AND I STILL won't get bored

8:51 best pc gaming setup for battlefield 1 2016

I did this with my family's old computer monitor back when I was 6 or 7 years old. I only held the magnet near the monitor as opposed to the computer itself, and it left a weird purple patch on the screen that never went away. The monitor worked fine but there was still that purple "stain" on the screen.

Magnet: Gets close to TV TV Screen: Ight Imma head out.

the magnet is me and the tv are my life's goals

Computer screen: suhhh dude Magnet: Hippity Hoppity you light is now my property

6:25 me when my computer freezes

wow this so old,but i rly enjoy it

2:43 Hello Darkness my old friend.

6:25 when your program freezes *Smashes the mouse*

Idk why but it makes me nostalgic so hard

I've never heard of an ipac before this and now I want one

When I was a kid, my friend's dad let us play Mechwarrior on his home PC. One day, we found that if you pressed a magnet up to the monitor's screen, the colors went all crazy! I wasn't invited back for months.

Remember computers, don't do magnets.

I really love your voice, it's so satysfing 😀

2:44 Magnet: *Gets near television* TV Static: *Ight imma head out*