Tomorrow's World: "webpages can load almost instantly" (with ADSL). Web Developers in 201X: "Hold my beer while I add 100 JavaScript frameworks and adverts".

"Do you know what WAP is?" Ohh, I wish I didn't.

Am I the only one who thought the female presenter was a young boy until she spoke?

"Mom and dad you really haven't ever been on the internet before have you?" Its probably best that it stays that way....

7:24 and now WAP has taken on a whole new meaning...

Less than 5 years after this aired KZfaq was born. Mad.

22:19 "It's supposed to be idiot proof, so I brought along my friend John to be my cameraman." I'd taken that as an insult, had I been John

Tomorrow's World was still going in 2000? wow. Shame the BBC axed it, the show would have had it's 50th anniversary in 2015 too :(

Anyone else watching on their phone? Lol

I spend all day talking to my virtual head on my computer screen, trying on different sun glasses etc with the internet radio hi-fi playing in the background. Good ol' boxy grey operating system delivering me new webpages in mere minutes, what more could a guy living in the future ask for?

This internet thing will never take off ;)

by 2000 I'd already downloaded 16 tonnes of porn...

I was 16 years old and a sophomore in high school in 2000. Watching a video from the year 2000 as if it were a video from the 1970's makes me feel very old.

"Who do you think will win the US election?" "I think Al Gore will win"

Oh yea. I'm always checking the weather so I can go sailing.

I remember when I went on the internet for the first time in August 1998 when I was 11. My dad had won a new PC at work in a raffle drawing and it had a built in modem. I remember my dad got AOL going and he showed me around the AOL home page. At first, I didn't understand the significance of what was going on. I then noticed there is a weather link on the AOL homepage and found that I could get weather information from around the world anytime! I just realized that unlike television or books, the internet can bring information to me on demand. I first experienced broadband internet in 2000 when my mom took me to her office after picking me up from school. I had some school projects and my mom told me I could just use her computer to go online. I remembered asking my mom to show me how to dial-up online. She told me I could just open Internet Explorer and enter the web address. I was amazed first that I didn't need to spend minutes to dial up online and hitting busy tones. Then, I was even more amazed that the pages loaded so fast. At home, I would keep magazines next to the PC so I can read them while pages loaded. I asked my mom how the internet connection works at the office and she told me that the company has DSL. From that point on, I wanted broadband internet at home. However, it wasn't until 2002 that cable internet was available in my parent's neighborhood. I asked my parents to sign up and they agreed. They were happy that I no longer tie up the phone line causing them to miss important phone calls and racking up phone bills. I was happy that the internet was always on and fast even though it's very slow by today's standard.

In 2000 I had a 25 Mhz IBM ThinkPad 700-series notebook running Windows 95 with monochrome display (capable of displaying 64 shades of gray!), a Hewlett-Packard desktop with an Intel Pentium 66 Mhz chip running Win98 complete with 5-1/4 and 3-1/2 inch floppy drives, and a Palm III that I could sync with my computer via serial port, thus allowing me to keep a digital schedule, contacts, notes, train schedules, games, and even compose e-mails which could later be sent with a sync operation. Didn't get my first cellphone until 2003.

I was 26 when this episode came out, Imagine going back in time with a handful of our gadgets today to show off to the world! What would you take with you and why?

Anyone else finds it nostalgic to see old monitors with all those cables and ports. Everything is so simple today and I'm not complaining, guess nostalgia makes us miss old crappy things.

I upgraded to cable broadband 18 monrhs after this show, and it was 512Kbits download speed (64KB/s). By 2007 I had bought a Tevion WiFi Internet Radio from Aldi and my broadband was 4Mbit and shortly later 10Mbit/s!! By 2011 it was 50Mb/s and now I am on 200Mb/s since last summer!

That's why Tomorrow's world finished, everything that has been envisaged is available, touch screen displays, smart phones, powerful processors, Wifi, all here. Looking back to 2000 looks so primative, using a pocket PC to play images from a phone - poorly.

I can remember watching this with my dad when I was 12. Was one of his and my favourite shows at the time! Really was a different world back then... Good I feel old!

I'm amazed how good DSL grew in time! blasting us with hundreds of Mb over copper.My line is at least sixty years old and five miles long!

The state of the internet phone😂

' we were hoping to speak to a young man called Mark Zuckerberg but we've been told by his mom and dad that he's busy on his homework project. Seems his project is to do with getting all his friends and family together online in one place. Provisionally Mark has called his project...' Face n' page' We wish Mark luck with his project and who knows...we might hear more of him in the future...' Now to our sports desk...

Ironically, broadband internet and KZfaq is what killed these types of shows.

This is just remarkable in *so* many ways - to think its only fourteen years ago as well, but looking at those tiny, pixellated web videos (that take an age to download) in comparison to the immediate HD we get on youtube feels like we're several hundred years ahead of 2000 already. Plus the exciting idea that phones will be able to play movies and TV shows (back when most people had black and white monophonic Nokias), digital cameras with 8mb storage, and perhaps my favourite bit at 26:41 - a couple booking a holiday to Florence *on the internet* for what is today a stupidly huge amount of money, given you can fly there on Ryanair for about £40 return! I remember having just started secondary school around the time this aired and one of the kids had a WAP phone they were excitedly showing everyone. 7:37 takes me back to the sheer underwhelming disappointment we all felt when we realised how essentially useless it was. Show me an iPhone 6 back in 2000 and I'd have probably fainted in the middle of the playground.

I’m ready to go online for the first time

Kieron's 20 now just let that sink in

Amazing to see the birth of all of this - I got the internet just one year after this was broadcast. And just think - in 20 or 30 years, what we are doing now will look just as old fashioned.

Either that chick is like 4 feet tall or that old man is 8 feet tall

"Bristol Future World" lol... since when has Bristol every been in the future??? 😂😂😂

when 20 years feels like 80.

my phone is more powerful then everry pc in that room lol and more

"Information superhighway", I'm so glad that that phrase went the way of the Dodo.

That bloke looked so happy he found the same surname as his on the Internet. This looks so old yet I was an adult when it came out. I’m old (so is this post)

the faster the Internet became, the more adverts and spam people plastered on their sites.. the end result is it still takes as long to browse the net today as it did then.

when she brought out the ‘internet phone’ made me die bc we all get the internet on our phones these days

Good lord, this is so quaint! Takes me back, I remember watching this and thinking 'oh wow, online gaming!'

If we've moved this far technologically in just 23 years, imagine what we will have in another 23 years time.

I finished Uni in 2000. Forgot that computers were still beige 19 years ago. They yellowed so quickly...

"the screen and the telephone will eventually become one"

They were pretty accurate predicting smartphones

2020 - watching this video on a mobile featuring a video on a mobile about videos on mobiles. 2020 is so meta!

Yikes! The year 2000 doesn't seem that long ago to me, but this tech looks really outdated now. And the pipe dreams of then are reality now. Everyone has the internet today, even old folk who still find the teapot a modern revolution.

"I think Al Gore will win" LOL

Why was the presenter throwin shade the whole damn episode lol. She a savage.

7:50 A Motorola Timeport. He wants to upgrade, preferably to a new face!

I could run faster than the old Dial up , damn ,waiting for the page load was like walking through a path of wet tar

Watch video on your mobile phone!? What like old episodes of Tommorows World? Nah..will never happen. 😂

wow 2.1 megapixels is huge during that time

7:40 load down? or download?

Never seen a dedicated internet radio

master gave Dobby clothes..

So this is basically an old version of the gadget show

lmao those 3d glasses

BRUH the "make a website in 24 hours" section is amazing

broadband on your mobile? we're will it end

internet on a mobile phone? That will never catch on! Whats next? Having films play over the internet on your telly?

Damn 2000. The year I was born. 26:31 he's playing star trek voyager elite force. Holy crap.

Back in the mid 90's I had 12kbps dial up. Crazy

I'm so glad this information super highway didn't take off.

Wow all the things we wanted from 2000 we do have it now, fast internet, fast portible internet, realtime online gaming, live streaming video, and i got to say i really like those pc’s and the interior from that era, and you know what i remember how the dutch goverment showed their plans about amsterdam in 2020, i was like “ oh no i don’t want to think about 2020 i want to think about what’s now” well here we are in 2020, holy fuck!!!

Imagine what the word will look like in 2030 if 2021 has BTC, DeFi and all the crypto developments starting to gain traction. A show like this today could really help people get their head round these things. BBC Click just isn't up to snuff.

How right he was about the future of mobile phones..

Christ I’d forgotten how patronising Tomorrow’s world was when talking about the internet.

I just cant believe how dated this is; fourteen years doesn't seem that long ago to me!

that looks amazing u know especially new laptops

Now yesterday’s world!

2:18 "on an inline game" think he meant in an online game* bless, ha! nerves will do that to you.

Who else is watching this in 2022 and thinking ahhhhh those were the days, the good old days

From my point of view the Internet went from very technical in 1993, then the Web made it a bit easier but you still needed at least two applications to get on the Internet. People went from marveling over the technology to marveling over the Web itself and their connection speed. Gradually PC, Mac, Linux didn't matter everyone just wanted on the Web. Then always-on high speed connections. Then the Web on mobile appeared and now many people seem to only care about the Web on mobile phones so they can watch music and cat videos. I'd be scared to predict what the Internet will be like in ten years in 2027.

ha 330million people online. Boy!

The most Ironic is the "wap" with it's beautiful cloud on a monochromatic 1" screen. 15 years later we have 1080p screen in our pockets with 4G, the full internet, touchscreen and more computing power then those bulky pieces of dump they called a pc. I wonder what we'll have in our pockets in 15 years...

20 years + I'm watching this on WI-FI , and my phone is powerful them those computers back in the late 1990's 2000s

"And if talk of emails, websites, search engines and PornHub sounds like a foreign language to you, don't panic!"

Internet never heard of it! Is it something like ceefax?

Didn't Peter Snow ever look young

17:14 "Who will win the US election?" "I think Al Gore will win." 🤣🤣🤣

This TV over the internet really wont take off.........

We in libya were late like 7 to have our first ADSL line setup and of course i was one of first users of it , it's was 128 Kbps at first lol couple years it jump to 512Kpbs that's was dream for me since I was able to meet KZfaq first time in 2008 (five years late to party )

I was 3 months old when this was released

My joystick blatantly has more flashy buttons, birds dig the flashy buttons.

People need the rember that this was still the early days of the internet where it was populated by early adopters, geeks and nerds (I used to mess about on BBS's in the early 90's.) Only when 'broadband' came along that the internet became 'mainstream' and started being adopted by the masses. And is now dominated by corporate tech monopolies.

Yay we're surfing!

seriously...i thought the internet had taken off by 00...i mean i already had a serious internet porn addiction by then...mmm

When he's asking the old lady about WAP I lost it.

Holy shit. I thought that was some random young boy, not a presenter!

1:50 Cool, VR-ish Gaming, the early days.

10:09 "Oh hi Mark..."

21:37 what is this 'digital camera' you talk of? And what is this 'digital camera' you speak of?!?!

Damn...those were simpler times..wow wish we were back to those ages

Are the Goodmans related to Saul Goodman?

i remember when i thought the 2000's looked futuristic, this makes me feel like i was born in the 70s

"a new technology called broadband" WOW!

Less than 20 years later and we're using things daily that they couldn't even imagine. Where will we be in another 20 years?

and what speed that ADSL of yours is? 4Kb/s? Looks like it.

arrr 128k broadband i remember it well, couldn't afford the 256k lol

"You know what WAP is? " Ask that in this time lmao

If I could go back back to 2000.. I’d be a bazilliomaire