You really goofed revealing your actual address in this video, and now I've taken the liberty of ordering a hundred pizzas to 69 Balls Rd.

It's my lifelong dream to find a happily married couple that met over Cybiko. There's gotta be at least one.

The Cybiko really has that early 2000s 'Okay, so it's got to be a shape, but make it weird, and cover it in translucent plastic' look perfectly

"WAP browsers were taking off like a certified freak, seven days a week!" Clint.

The fact that a magazine ad for this thing literally had a speech bubble reading "Make #1 Sexy Chat" will never not be funny.

sometimes i forget how much the early 2000's were still the 90's, truer words have never been spoken

This is amazing, that "who's nearby" thing is almost exactly like the StreetPass thing Nintendo did over a decade later.

I wish I still had mine. Me and a group of friends all got them in middle school and we did indeed use them to play games and chat from separate class rooms before teachers or schools could imagine what “texting” was. The experience was only fun cuz like 8 of us had them so it did make a decent network around the school and at whoever’s house we sat around playing in. I believe we all got that memory add on too so we could actually install a decent number of games. Thanks for the 30 minutes of reminiscing.

3:20 ''Ah that marketing... Sometimes I forget how much the early 2000s were still the 90's...'' instant classic

My jaw still aches from the constant screaming of the late 90's and early 2000's, good times. Great video

22:24 To be fair in 2000 there wasn't a bunch of other signals in the air for the cybiko to compete with, that might be why the range isn't as good as promised

I STILL think this thing has one of the coolest Y2K tech designs around. So charismatic and truly futuristic looking.

Being a dysgraphic (fine motor disability that particularly impedes handwriting) public school student whose family couldn’t afford a laptop until I entered high school, Cybiko and Cybiko Xtreme’s word processing capabilities and ability to export text documents via cable literally carried me through middle school. This thing is absurdly capable for a time period when many people let alone kids didn’t even have candy bar Nokia phones yet, if this thing had gameplay performance on par with the original Game Boy the Cybiko would have been an unstoppable beast, and as it was, it featured predecessor capabilities that predicted modern smartphones. Great to see you cover this thing. Also, the Cybiko Xtreme was the first device I ever used that accepted SD cards, done via an adapter.

Ah yes. "I have a Cybiko and I must scream"

"The early 2000s were still the 90s." That hit me like a rock!! What a realization. 😁😁😁

2:57 I just like that it being green and having "buttons and stuff" is a positive according to this one kid.

You win the internet for taking the time to enter the DN3D theme music into the music app. That's top LGR energy right there.

The 2000s really were the "Before its Time" time of tech. Especially the first half lol.

My middle school wanted to test the viability of using these in the classroom. My class was the one chosen to test it so we all got Cybikos for free from the school! My friends were so jealous. Pretty neat gadget but all it did was mostly distract us from paying attention to the teacher. The chat really was so much better than passing notes! I'm not sure what the range was but there were enough Cybikos to communicate with my classmates in other classrooms occasionally. The games weren't great but the novelty was. I still have my black and yellow model somewhere. Great memories!

"Vinegar, scraping and alcohol" My typical Friday night.

Imagine how excited these Cybikos would be in the Toy Story universe to have other Cybikos in range after 20 years. Like "Yes, we are making a comeback!."

I can't imagine would disappointing it would be to ask your parents for this, get it, and then realize none of your friends got one, and it doesn't actually connect to anything besides other cybikos.

Looks like the software dev(s) really tried to get the most out of the hardware here, which is always nice to see.

I got cybiko in middle school. The only other 2 cybiko's I ever connected to were my 2 friends in school who I convinced to buy one. I think we played games on it at school for like a week before it got boring.

Not gonna lie, the number of fleshed out apps for this thing is actually really impressive from a programming point of view. Even one of these games/apps would take a decent amount of time to program.

I was obsessed with these. I remember they had an online store where you could play games, win points and get prizes, including a new cybiko. I also remember when the store had a bug that allowed you to spend the same points over and over, I got 2 free units this way and gave them to friends. I only ran into another unit once or twice. I was the only one who had this.

Rip Cybiko, the world wasn't ready for how cool you were

I guess in a way the Cybiko lives on, on the show Cyberchase. The sqwak pads that the kids on the show used look a lot like the Cybiko. And Cyberchase is STILL coming out with new episodes, like 20 years after it debuted!

As a European, I never ever even heard about this. It absolutely is a device that could only exist around the 2000s, that's for sure! Everything portable was so whimsical and cumbersome back then. The first rays of the new dawn of technology that lurked around the corner.

28:03 When Clint said "that means I can pay the bills", it set off this Pavlovian response from years of watching KZfaq where I fully expected him to start talking about NordVPN

Just imagine if by some cosmic fluke everyone has one of these today instead of these smartphones.

I remember spending lots of time on the music app, and playing the labyrinth game at school with a friend who had one. It was a terrible experience trying to use the wireless features, and I think we both lost faith in the product after that. However this was the first device I could connect to my PC and manage the files, install updates and new games and such - I'm grateful for that experience since I was a fledgling nerd and needed an outlet for tinkering with things.

So, I usually kinda wanted stuff like this, but was always turned off by the 0% chance that anyone I wanted to communicate with actually had one.

In my period era experience, we had stable chats and games with multiple Cybikos going on at the advertised ranges.

I'm shocked at the smooth scrolling and transitions in the UI and the general level of polish on show, for a thing meant for kids it was pretty seriously done

1:56 I love 90s/early 2000s packaging and ads. Look at closeups of screaming faces. Lol Everything back then had to have an EDGE to it. It had to be IN YO FACE and have attitude! Lmao I miss it.

"OK so we need to stand 6 feet apart" "Oh, for social distancing?" "Social what? No no that's just how far these Cybikos can talk to each other from"

"You type in the type of kid you are and the type of kids you want to meet." Are we sure the FBI didn't create this device? ಠ_ಠ

"Everyone was screaming! All the time!" I can't tell if he's talking about the year 2000 or the year 2021.

Translucent colored plastic is such an underrated material. I love it, whish it was around more these days.

Can you imagine the excitement if Clint and his brother connected with another Cybiko user while walking around Raleigh? That would be like stumbling into the last Blockbuster Video while looking for a movie to watch during a catastrophic internet outage.

I don’t think I ever encountered another cybiko in the wild, despite taking it to a hockey game and other public events. What a weird era

Wow, this is absolutely everything I ever dreamed my TI-84 calculator could do, even in 2015 (we weren’t allowed to bring out anything else during class).

Blast from the past! These had a short run at my school back in around 2004, when a retailer sold them for £5. The got so popular that the teachers ended up buying their own to figure out our names and confiscate them 😂 I remember there was supposed to be a CyWIG device that was supposed to be an optimised internet gateway for Cybiko’s. Looks like it ended up being vapourware, but pictures of it exist on Google.

OMG, I was so much in awe when a second LGR appeared!!! 😱

The early 00's-ness of this product is both nostalgia inducing and existentially terrifying. That "transparent casing" trend died a sudden and hard death, didn't it! xD

I had something like this in the early 2000's called IMfree by motorola. It was a portable AIM device you used around the house. had a usb wireless base unit it would connect to, i would sit on the couch downstairs and chat with my friends. I thought it was the coolest thing at the time I had it.

I had one of the originals when it came out. I was SO excited to get it, it made me feel important lol. Until I realized I was the only kid in town with one, so it was basically a paperweight with batteries. The idea behind it was so cool and the asthetic was perfect for a 12 year old kid in that time. The marketing really did work. They may have been ahead of their time by just a few years with the tech.

Four restored Cybiko's!?! Dude that is going to be one lit party!

Nickelodeon promoted the HELL of this thing in 2000, and even showed it in action in the movie Big Fat Liar. I never knew anyone that owned one, though, and never had any desire to own one. It looked too weird

14:05 "69 Balls Rd." had me laughing It's exactly the kind of thing I would have put in there I mean, look what I chose for my youtube usename back in the 2000s

That ICQ "uh-oh" sent a cold chill down my spine.

I love when you sneak a tech tale in, don't think we didn't notice

17:37 Rare footage of Clint having a good time with his Christmas Clone.

All I can say is I really feel like I remember them connecting with anyone on the bus or classroom easily. Maybe it's just nostalgia but I feel like I got a huge use out of it. Also a huge coincidence that LGR put this up a mere month before I felt like explaining cybiko to a zoomer.

"That's not quite 300 feet." Followed by Clint immediately losing it made me laugh really hard. XD

I really do miss the late 90s-early 00s translucent plastic aesthetic

The range extension thing if there are other Cybiko's nearby sounds like a mesh network. I did not expect a toy, lest of all an early 2000s toy, to have a full-fledged mesh network. That's pretty good.

My brother and I had these as kids. The only thing I remember using them for was chatting with each other at night when we were supposed to be sleeping. (Which was actually exciting at the time!) But most of time we had to hold them up against the wall separating our rooms to get them to communicate with each other. We eventually replaced these with another device called a "Friend Link" IIRC, which was made just for chatting, but even with those, we had issues with them seeing each other through a wall

This is what I imagine “communicators” in any Minecraft fanfiction looks like and I totally love it.

The fact that there is a coffee shop in Raleigh called "Sir Walter Coffee" is absolutely killing me right now.

The radio must die over time because when I had one of these growing up I could connect to people 2-3 houses down the road from me. One kid at the end of the road actually had two of these (he broke the first one) and used that one to provide an internet gateway for everyone else in the neighborhood.

I love your humor and writing. Your videos are always interesting to watch. You deserve a TV show for yourself.

This is the first LGR video I ever watched! And now a year later I have loads of retro stuff of my own and have built 4 different Pentium III machines. Thank you LGR for your awesome content and inspiration.

17:37 Nice to see you and X-mas Clint are having fun together :)

3:11 "Hey dude... It's under a hundred and twenty nine dollars..." *Literal death scream*

My eyes lit up when I saw the thumbnail, I had a blue cybiko and I loved that thing. I could never get it to work where I could find anyone else using it tho so I was frustrated with that but it was still an awesome gift

I really hope early 2000s design comes back. I unironically love it.

That American Psycho reference was nearly the end of me. Couldn't breathe.

I can personally vouch for his account of the screaming people of 2000. Thought they were going to die... then they didn't... so that made them scream more... it was a whole thing and a half you really had to be there

The real Cybiko was the friends we made along the way, but not with the Cybiko because they were never in range.

Holy cow this just unlocked a tonne of memories, I HAD one of these! :O I had completely forgotten gosh what a mind bend...

Man I remember being 13 having the Cybiko, PS2 and 32" CRT TV. I thought I was on top of the world. Good times.

"Owners can put in what kind of kid they are, and what kind of kid they want to meet." Someone please inform Datelines: to catch a predator.

My brother and I got a cybiko each one christmas and I remember it being the most exciting thing ever, just watching your video brings back that feeling, good days!

I had one. But never was able to connect with anyone. I must have been the only one using it. 😄

I had one, I remember my grandma going to Target to get me one cause I wanted one so bad cause I thought it was so awesome. Looking back at it I didn't really do much with it, dunno what happened to mine. Bless my grandma for always trying to make me happy.

The mouth screaming advertising needs to come back, because the 2020s make me constantly want to scream.

Man I remember when everyone was constantly screaming around the time the Cybiko came out. It was really weird when everyone stopped. I blame it on the advent social media; everyone just yells on there now.

You put a lot of work into your videos and it shows. Thank you for the content.

I got one of these during summer vacation. I was sooo excited for school thinking of all the other people who would have one. We'd be able to send secret messages and everything it would be amazing! I was the only one who had one...

My childhood! I worked on software for this device. My first job haha.

I and 4 other people had this at my middle school. I had to get file transfers from my friends for new games because I had an iMac without a serial port. The turn based games were fun! My friend got us all cellular antenna boosters which extended the range dramatically and we were able to chat with each other across the school in different classrooms. I miss my cybiko

The design aesthetics of 90s and early 2000s is oddly fascinating.

This might be the first time multiple Cybikos have communicated with each other since Ashens did it in his review.

Lost my stools at the "and perhaps the condition of your colon" comment 😂

I had one of these in middle school and me and my friends used to use these to chat in class instead of passing notes 😂

“It even has a watermark” i laughed so hard it caught me off guard.

Me and one of my best friends both got one of these for Christmas when we were 14. I remember the signal was terrible, we could barely connect unless we were like the next classroom over... but at the time everyone at school thought they were so cool. Glad to see this video, I had nearly forgotten about these days.

I just love the way stuff from this era looks. I was too young to experience things like this myself, but they still feel like part of my past. It's hard to believe how much time has passed since 2000 in part because of that. I'm quite glad that you're documenting this kind of stuff.

Man, that ICQ sound, just time warped me back 20 years... the nostalgia!

Me and my brother had Cybikos, they were great. Thanks for reminding me about them! I couldn’t find the name in a simple google search.

ICQ noises still bring a flood of nostalgia. Almost more than AIM sounds.

My uncle got me one of those for Christmas when I was in highschool. I used it in school over this clunky portable word processor that my school gave me to take notes on in class because of my dyslexia and dysgraphia. I loved that thing.

LGR, you're always so professional so that 14:03 watermark joke caught me completely off guard

This was a head of its time. They really were on the right track. The device just was a couple years too early for the tech it would have needed.

The shape, the color, the features, the fact that it appears in Big Fat Liar (because of course it does)... It's the most early 2000s techno-gadget that I ever seen. I love it!

I haven't used ICQ in something like 18 years now and I STILL looked at the taskbar when I heard the noise That stuff runs deep!

1:24 actual, genuine, comedic genius.

Nintendo must have drew inspiration from this device or devices like it, particularly with all its proximity features. The original DS’ Pictochat and the later 3DS’ StreetPass comes to mind. Pretty ingenious looking back at it. Kids were still glued to these devices, but because of the short range on them, they still had to get out and meet their friends or hang around other kids to have the most fun with their devices. I guess nowadays you can chat, game, exchange files, collab on projects and video call in crystal clear audio and video with anybody around the world without ever leaving your room. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing depends on your habits I guess haha. We live in truly amazing and equally bizarre times.