Early Internet Hacks That Caused a Stir | Nostalgia Nerd
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- The Early Web was a much more twee place than it is today:
So Get Surfshark VPN at Surfshark.deals/NERD, Enter promo code NERD for 83% off and one extra month free! You remember the 1990s? Surely? The early world wide web. The time when the internet was young, fresh and unfettered. When someone with enough hacking acumen could log onto the largest search engine of the time and plaster it with their thoughts and feelings. What a time to be alive. I miss those times, so I thought we could spend a little bit of time exploring some forgotten website h@cks of those early, tentative and security lacking days. Join me, as we explore what happened to sites such as Yahoo.com, JurassicPark, the Spice Girls and many, many more. GOOD TIMES.
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🥶 freezin in my office
@@ADundee I hear you.
He is self-aware!
can you reupload this without that unbearable filter
I love it, I’d devour more if you did them!
Prisoner: what are you in for?
Hacker: blowing a captain crunch whistle into a phone
Prisoner: *scoots away*
@Chris C yessss 😂😂😂
@@judericks3030 At least he didn't litter.
Kinzuko he was just phreaking misunderstood
Prisoner: Have you seen my whistle? Start's whistling Flo Rida...
Hacker: *gulp*
@Double TapTM I dont even remember the context of my joke, the TH-cam video I commented on, or why I used "phreaking", but thank you.
i miss how full of personality everything on the internet used to be, especially the website designs
Websites and even products of the time feel so much more...alive? If that's possible
Websites back then used to be labors of love created by unique people with a genuine passion for their interests. Then social media came along and decided to remove this facet from the modern online experience. It turned the focus away from creativity and information sharing to looking for ways to monetize everything. It led to the homogenization of design solely to appeal to advertisers and the overall tone changing to that of a checkout line tabloid. In plain English: Facebook fucking sucks and poisons everything.
@@rev949 Essentially when the masses finally catch up everything gets boring as hell to appease them.
F X What do you expect? Boringly simplified, overly-accessible and homogenous designs just make more money.
When the internet changed into a shopping mall and google changed from tech company to advertising company, all the interesting web sites got drowned out.
>THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF THE INTERNET STOPS HERE
Yeah, that aged well, didn't it.
I wish. I prefer old web designs.
@@GatorMilk same
Look at how little ads they have! It makes me want to make a Listical of the top 10 ad-less websites and make people reload all 20 of my ads by making people click next. 200 ad views? Yes pls.
@@TheZombieCurryKid There is a good Virgin vs Chad meme about this. The "virgin web 3.0" vs The CHAD "World Wide Web Design."
lol... ".com" literally means "Commercial Website".
When people hacked websites only to look around and left a "I was here" message instead of stealing data.
To be fair, there wasn't much data to steal back then.
Not private date, but government or corporate secrets. And the fact that someone hacking into those sites and being able to prove it would shine bad light onto those organisations.
@@HappyBeezerStudios not quite, thats just a webpage, not a data server.
xkcd.com/932/
I don't even have to click that link to know which xkcd that is.
@@HappyBeezerStudios Just getting in and leaving a "I was here" sign should be enough, no need to steal anyones data and potentially make life hell for someone who could potentially be on the edge of suicide anyway.
University teachers websites still looks like this.
lol they really do. I know one from a physics professor , one of those really big ones, doing frontier science etc . a really nice man who you can write an e-mail and he actually reads it and answers you. And his website looks like it's 1998.
I KNOW!!! It's so annoying lol
Why waste time on presentation when what people really want is the content/info? I prefer a site that load fast and is easy to navigate. Good presentation is nice but secondary and these teachers can use their time for better things.
Yea because our government ACTUALLY connects to our internet HAHAHA fucking morons how do you think high end hackers get recruited? Dummy sites with useless information
@@dr.trichome6419 ehhh what?
I actually like how the CIA website looked more aesthetically pleasing after getting hacked.
It's pre-hacking design looked so basic and boring.
I also like that the best defense the CIA could come up with was apparently just to put up a sign saying "Don't hack we will arrest you."
Holy shit!
it still looks bland at the hacking
Ah, Geocities - the days of perpetual "Under Construction" gifs.
Those were the days......
Everyone could have a web page... that nobody would ever look at. It's like the Facebook of the 90's.
Loved Geocities. Think it was my first little web space back in the late 90's. 🤔
@@BrainScramblies The best version is, of course, the one in Jagged Alliance 2.
In the late 90's, lyrics sites was all the rage. On one of these, a friend of mine registered fake lyrics that I supposedly had made. I figured out that this site was using a top list that used number of page loads of a URL, all I created a small program that would loads that page over and over again, and some weeks later, finally, I was on top! At the time, I beat Celine Dion's "My heart will go on". To this day, "Patrik sjunger visor för mindre barn" can still be found on lyric sites.
that's actually pretty quaint. I looked it up and sure enough, you were telling the truth. I actually found a few lyrics website hosting those so called lyrics.
Not quite sure what the deal with lambs is though.
@@Khosumi It is an old Swedish nursery rhyme by Alice Tegnér.
Fellow svennar unite!!
That's so cool!
@@6ftvnderrr
Theres literally 3 of us on the internet!!
6:48 “Apollo 69”
Glad to see the internet hasn’t changed.
69 OwO
@HappyCamper DS99 -
YES & Futurama referenced to that: th-cam.com/video/bjJjJke45j4/w-d-xo.html ;)
Some things never change ^^
I was once involved in the clean-up after a hack in 91, and it was totally ingenious really.
At a UK government facility someone got the job as a contractor, and while onsite he put a "Pin" through some Coax cable on the 10 base T "Secret" network. Remember those BNC connectors ?. He then would sit outside in a van (classic spy stuff), and sniff all the network traffic with a radio sniffer. Since the Coax being breached meant the traffic could be listened too. After that the MoD and central government moved to fully Fibre for internal LAN's. Fibre to desktop. That cost a fortune back in the early 90's.
That man was 100% dedicated to his craft. Props to him tbh.
How did he get security clearence?
@@highpath4776 it says that he got a job as a contractor.
Coax network cables?! Blimey, that was a while back (I still have two old network cards that have the red/yellow/green LEDs and both coax and ethernet sockets) that came out of two freakin heavy IBMs I got from a skip outside a government training agency office (one of them had a huge 20mb harddrive that had coated glass planterns in it) ...and rather more bizarrely, an 8mm spent pistol shell under the motherboard
We also had auto-playing midi files!
Far, far too many auto-playing midi files...
Now it just autoplays random ads at 900% volume while youre browsing at 2 am
Every now and then you'd get some asshole who decided the banner ad for his porn site needed auto playing audio.
tumblr still lets you do that
Which every free website had those midi files which counted towards their allowed bandwidth usage per day, so websites became unavailable sooner because the idiot had to put a midi file on every fucking patch which took forever to load back on 26.6 K modem.......
Back when Yahoo chat was java you could boot any user out of chat by putting their username in a boot url string and executing it from your own browser....
Back when Javascript was this crappy scripting language that we mostly used to disable "submit" buttons after they were clicked, so you couldn't buy things twice by mistake.
@@jamesgrimwood1285 Yea or disable right click so folks wouldn't steal your pics!
I miss the days of Java script, solely because I knew how to do so many things with java hacks like that.
I also miss working on MSN+ to further customise the program for my friends. I really should get back into the hacking scene.
@@carpediem4887 not that those scripts ever stopped anyone determined enough.
@@carpediem4887 so years ago when I was like 9 or 10 and MatMice was a thing (remember that?) the "cool kid" in our class accused me of stealing a picture from his MatMice homepage and putting it on mine. He told the teacher - who made me remove the photo, even though I had it first on my site - and then made a big deal about the fact that he had disabled right click on his MatMice page solely to stop me from "stealing" his photos during out next computer lesson. Annoyed at being accused of doing something I didn't do and being the precocious little sod that I was, even at that age, I bypassed their right click block and saved all of his photos and then emailed them to his Hotmail account one by one. He was so upset that his mum rang the school to complain about me.
You know that guy learned nothing from anything because his mum always bailed him out of trouble I'm now realising. He was still randomly antagonising me into my teen years.
"Hey mister security expert, if you're so EL8 (Elite), how come you're always getting p0wned by us anklebiters?"
Can't believe they didn't understand elite
to be fair, it reads more like elate (el-eight) than elite. I know i couldn't read it without context,
@@Slash0mega ditto....
I loved the guy "deciphering" 1337speek, I mean I guess people weren't familiar with it back then but it's just funny and I guess this is how we get CSI using it as "secret hacker language".
Obviously they weren't elite.
14:05 Yeah the internet was so "homely" back then that no matter what search term you entered into Yahoo, the first top 10 search results at least would be for porn.
It's not like that isn't accurate. Most of the internet is porn after all
Lmao
Almost as bad now. Search anything and the first 3 results are fkn ads. Also the last 2 are.
You get like 7 results and 5 ads. It's ret ard Ed. (YT has recently blocked that word, shows how shi**y they are)
Boycot Google and anyone else who thinks that kinda sh*t is OK.
@Gernot Schrader That's because it's on purpose... No family-friendly search terms will lead you to porn on Google nowadays, so you have to explicitly search for "naughty" words and phrases in order to reach any pornographic content.
@Gernot Schrader You missed the words "back then", probably referring to the 1990s. Search engines have content filters now.
*We went from animated gif to emoji everywhere.*
Seems like a regression to me.
Don't forget those java script bouncy balls or butterflies that followed your mouse pointer around the page
@@dasy2k1 don't forgot java hack run any infornation on server or pc open websites..
I mean at least they load faster, gifs were a pain.
Ohhhhhhhh man, I remember getting the anarchists cookbook in the early 00s and becoming obsessed with phreaking. I couldn't do it myself by that time because the networks aren't the same anymore but it was absolutely fascinating. Analog hacking lol.
No, I never made a bomb 😆
Even by the early to mid 90's none of it worked, I agree though, it's fascinating.
I have "The Turner Diaries," and "Siege," I am a few steps ahead of you lol
@@GatorMilk You a Neo-Nazi or something?
@@GatorMilk bro are you a neckbeard
Some of the boxes and tricks employed worked out in the smaller towns around America, some even still today.
*Edit* Ahem... So I'm told at least.
The reason the y2k critter did very little was because of a lot of hard work by a lot of people to fix the way their programs dealt with the change from 99 to 00.
It was a huge problem and because of the media focus on it, it helped get people off their arses to bother to fix it.
I wonder why you're downplaying that.
We're actually heading towards the next problem in 2070. When the UNIX time rolls over.
No, 2038 actually.
@Marcel de Jong The Unix problem, which is coming in 2038, not 2070, will probably be solved mostly by production machines moving to 64 bit, and for still-in-use 32 bit machines that can't be retired, software for it being patched, possibly using a date range, dates of 1970 on below 2000 will have 68 years added, the way calendars for 2000 on non-updatable systems were rolled back to 1972, which was also a leap year starting on Saturday. A date range switch would hold for 30 years and by then machines will all be 64-bit or higher, and the problem won't recur for centuries.
Wouldn't be able to watch this in the '90s when all we had was dial-up Internet. It would take all day to watch the video, and even then your parents would get mad at you for tying up the phone line. :D
Even a tiny video, you got up and made a sandwich, got a cup of coffee and then watched the compressed mess in a tiny window. Thats why it was the golden age of Flash cartoons.
@@DanaTheInsane lol. I just had a flahback of trying to download the phantom menace trailer. took me hours.
The days of tile backgrounds and Times New Roman and table layouts, when every website rendered differently on every browser, especially Internet Explorer
True but they are also somewhat inflexible and quite disobedient when I worked with them.
Wait you mean Internet Explorer isn't intentionally set up to render webpages wrong anymore? You know, so people would adjust their pages until it rendered right in IE, making it render wrong in everything else since they weren't intentionally broken in the same specific way IE was.
Hacking has been replaced in recent times by vandalizing websites such as wikipedia and posting things on the walls of strangers who forgot to log out of facebook at the library and calling it hacking.
6:15 I like how the "censored" is removed before the fadeout starts
@@andymerrett hmm look im using "your" instead of u're just testing by the way
The Y2K bug ended up a big nothing because of all the work put into preventing it (Source: People who were employed for those duties, easily spotted at conferences such as DEFCON)
@@tripplefives1402 Actually you'd be surprised how many programs didn't do this to save space in memory. Plus lots of big companies run on very old legacy software. He's right the Y2K problem only didn't have much of an impact as lots of companies spent lots of time and money fixing it.
@@tripplefives1402 I know all that but my point was there would've been quite a massive problem that did need to be solved as imagine all the banks suddenly failing all the stock market programs etc. Lots of the newer software that had been written since you're talking about was still communicating with older legacy software that would've had problems.
@@tripplefives1402 I know all this. I've been coding in C for a long time.... I meant 'newer' in the sense that COBOL is older than C so I'm not sure what you're trying to tell me? Lots of important systems still communicated with older systems running on COBOL and not always correctly... There was a lot of work to do to patch up the Y2K bug.
I know of companies that STILL run software that is not Y2K proof and just pray that they never run into data containing dates before 2000.
Agree, but as nothing happened, the bug was a hoax... That really annoys me...
yes on a rainy Sunday morning aww let the nostalgia begin
Yep, it’s now also raining in hollamd ,as off putting this command.
The reason the Y2K Bug amounted to nothing is because we engineered it out of existence, i do wish people wouldn't just brush it off as if it wasn't actually a credible cause of widespread damage, the reason nothing happened is because we fixed it.
How to hack:
press f12
inspect element
say: "I'm in."
fingerless gloves and sunglasses for advanced users only.
Press Alt + F4
Me: Woah i delete the browser itself... now i am a true hacker :0
...or use Netscape navigator source code editor
My ex father in law was one of the "counter hackers" that brought down "The Legion of Doom"
I had him tell me the story more than a few times. it was awesome
No details?
Yawn...
Paperclown Wtf dude?
You missed when the Hackers film website got hacked :)
Yep and if i remember correct had a redirect to the movie The web. :D
Yes! Can't believe the Jurassic Park thing wasn't a segue into that.
That was funny. Oh the memories...
Wasn't that just a marketing stunt by MGM though.
Does anyone remember that comic strip about hacking websites (I think it may have been XKCD)?
What people think when they hear the CIA website has been hacked -
General public: "oh my god they hacked the CIA website?! That's a huge security risk!"
Computer nerds: "oh someone took down that poster the CIA put up. They should fix that."
I do remember.
But similarly don’t remember where I got it.
If you still need the link, it's XKCD 932 - xkcd.com/932
"The commercialization of the Internet stops here."
'Fraid not, buddy.
These old website designs are pure art to me. Straight to the point, fast loading times, no ads, no pop-ups, no plug-ins, no half a dozen scripting languages under the hood, etc.
I miss websites like this.
11:48
"HACK THE PLANET!
Just watched hackers"
LMAO that's amazing
It isn't a hack, but I do know that Sony had an ftp associated with their domain that wasn't protected and you could go in it and see different prototype software at the time. Yes, security was terrible back then. I found this by accident one day when I was bored. I had discovered a lot of sites had this feature as well. Saw some pretty interesting things. Even my locally owned ISP did, and I was able to see projects that the local newspaper was working on. Good times.
@referral madness yep. i did the same as well, back then a lot of ftp was unsecured and wide open. I found all kinds of interesting stuff but nothing like earth shattering. it was a cool time to be on the net it really was the wild west.
Hoorah! I missed the high quality content this channel provides, keep it up Peter!
Old phreaker here, used to use software called "bluedial" along with an old pc speaker on an extended wire from the motherboard connector... Worked like a charm
WOW! Thanks for the flood of old memories! You truly live up to your channel's namesake!
love these type of docus, very interesting stuff brings back such fun memory's! keep them coming ;)
Fascinating video. There was a time, early one, when storage memory was limited and _hacking_ revolved around making programs as small as possible.
Ah, wardialing, 'hacking' a completely open system on a portable highway message sign. Charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor. The governor of Connecticut was not amused! To this freaking day when someone changes a highway sign all my friends amusingly post it to my page. Gotta love friends. . .
I'm generally interested in how these groups got into the servers some of these pages we're hosted on. I know it wasn't as secure back then from my own experience bypassing different systems. I'd love to see a tutorial mock or literal remake showing how it was done. It would be no security risk to any of the mentioned sites today, would just be interesting to watch.
Ah kevin mitnick...spent few years in jail and has ever since made fortune lecturing in universities
They allowed him to tell the government his secrets in exchange for time served. He lectured in universities for years as part of his community service. He may have done it for a profit after that though.
@@tripplefives1402 I didn't say he didn't spend any time in prison, only that his sentence was reduced in exchange for cooperation with the government and community service giving lectures at universities.
@@tripplefives1402 that's what hackers do ;)
@@tripplefives1402 Stop speaking for other people.
@@tripplefives1402 because nobody ever could have the mental fortitude to undergo such treatment without their mind ailing....
For those playing along at home: el8 is elite or 'leet or 1337 or...
yeet
Do you remember the invention of CSS drop down menus? Now there's a hack that shook the Internet!
The Gibson hack by Crash Override (formally Zero Cool) and Acid Burn to stop the Da Vinci virus is my favorite hack from the 90s
I remember when I was learning HTML and I saved a copy of the Yahoo homepage and edited the names of links to inside jokes among friends then hosted it on a free site. None of the links worked but it was hilarious seeing stuff like "Stepahnie's tit pics leaked" in the news section.
Am I hacker?
No
@@OmegaGamer04 work on ya irony browww
All of this is entertaining, especially the use of the Windows 95 error chime. 😂
To be fair the Y2K bug took a herculean effort to fix and the fear towards it helped spark interest to fix the problem years before the date was to arrive. I think without the fear we would have some serious issues though probably not planes falling from the sky.
For anyone who thinks the Y2K bug was BS, The reason the Y2K bug did very little was the result of programmers being properly forewarned and getting on the ball enough that they fixed the major Y2K bugs in their systems. Many people wrongly assume that because their were no major problems as a result of the Y2K bug on Jan 1, 2000 that it all must of been much ado about nothing but many who hold this view fail to consider that maybe it was just all major Y2K issues being fixed in time that explained why nothing major occurred. Had we had major Y2K bug related issues then that would have meant the all the forewarning went unheeded by some or all programmers of Y2K bug infected software.
Charles Bunnell My thoughts as well. A lot of programmers were pretty busy in the late ‘90
@@tripplefives1402When I talked about systems being fixed I wad only referring the legacy systems using COBOL
(or other legacy programing laungages that still in use in the 90s that used a two digit format for the date), not the more modern 32 bit systems that avoided this issue. Yes, it's true that some may have misunderstood the percentage of key computer systems vulnerable to Y2K but there where still anough legacy systems in place in late 90s in key places to warrant concern as well as rush to fix the problems which they managed to pull off. It's true the potential effects if Y2K was not addressed, itvwould not have been quit as catostroohic and doonsday as the news media made it out to be but I was still a significant concern imo.
The millennium bug did very little because companys spent hundreds of millions of dollars to up date time keeping chips and software before it happened. I spent the first 9mos of my career replacing time keeper chips updating software and checking date rollover in medical equipment.
0:25
Ah! There is where one of the scenes from "Person of Interest" TV series came from!
8:03 Who won the "Free Music for Life"?
.....And how's it working out for them these days I wonder
Pretty shitty rn probably
I love the presentation style and humour. Please do more stuff like this.
I love watching these videos. It makes me think what it would've been like to be around during the early internet days.
Curious where you got these page archives? I checked wayback machine and archive is but they didn't have the pages you had.
Tony Blair still looked the same after the hack. lol
They're bringing back Spitting Image btw. It's long overdue.
OMG really?
Damn, I missed the first one. iPlayer it is, then. lol
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49865406
@@electronash torrents, lol
The trouble with bringing back Spitting Image is, it's now impossible for them to come up with anything that's more ridiculous than events in real life. I think the singularity moment was "The Ed Stone".
@@passthebutterrobot2600 It's basically the same problem The Onion has run into which is why they've seemingly just given up, like they just repost the same article every time there's a mass shooting in the US.
Awesome video with fantastic narration and background music!
Ahhh the good ole days. Thanks for the video memories!
Your mention of horny Rob has just brought back memories of Robbs Celebs.
9:11 "If you're so elite" - fixed. Almost hilarious that the guy could decipher everything but an alternate spelling of 1337.
17:00 Yep that sums up the internet experience for me so far, a whole bunch of things i can't unsee.
I really love these videos, i miss those early interent days sometimes. Only sometimes!
"Hackers" back then were more tech savvy people rather than people who used their skill for bad things.
I remember quite clearly when Code Red made its way into the large lab I was contracting for. Everything was windows based but I was the only one that ran a UNIX derivative for the work I was doing. I'll never forget the blank stares I got when I reported to the IT drones that there was unusual network activity observed by the apache webserver I had running on the unix box. Those were the days. So much fun, so much disruption. In current year its corporate monsters like Google and TH-cam that do all the disruption; and I don't mean in a good way.
Thanks for the video!
Oh, please do look at more top internet hacks of the 90s. :D
"A way of life that's been replaced by social media and shouting into the void."
That's so accurate for today in 2020!
So, no mention of famously stupid passwords such as 'password', or no password at all for a system that's supposed to have one? I know, you were concentrating on the general internet of the 1990s, but I had still expected to hear at least a brief mention of these.
That's because that's still a problem.
I was a moderator on a message board and my password was password. The site owner found out and sent me nasty messages telling me I would be fired. Lmao
Gaben
I abused the frame tag back in my HTML design days 😭
The first hack that made an impact was Robert Morris's Internet worm that attacked university computers in 1988. We had never seen anything like it and revealed a bunch of security holes that no one thought had been worth patching.
I require more of this kinda video from this guy
Ah, the days when ftp logins were easy to guess and the anonymous login was rarely disabled
Free Kevin! lol. I remember a lot of these. I remember Y2K, LoD, MoD, and some others. NASA was always a target. I was a software cracker late '90's. Good times! I read "The Cuckoos Egg" in 1995 when I was an IT student. Am now a Certified Ethical Hacker. Get to do this for a living......
Hello Mr Andersen
I think this needs to be said, Capt‘n Crunch (Draper) used the 2600 tone cause it would drop an active line into a free conversation state after which you could call whomever you like for free. He wasn’t imprisoned for a few free calls though, he and some friends were the first to develop and sell blue boxes. Boxes to enable you to dial in line and send operational signals like hang up and the famous 2600Hz sound. Later more signals were discovered and more funny brown, beige and rainbow boxes were built but the blue box was all you really needed to drop into other people’s conversations and get free calls anywhere in the world. So for his famous face he was arrested as a scare tactic to those who continued what he did.
While nowadays we use complex digital signals with direct authentication, phreaking (as it was called) is still illegal in most countries with the death penalty being the punishment in some arabic countries.
Coming back to this video, my only remark would be that the Y2ak bug did very little because we spent millions on hiring developers to correct the issues in the software that would have sparked issues.
The potential damages were always blown into apocalyptic proportions, but the damage the bug could have caused without the concerted efforts of thousands of developers pulled out of retirement to help combat the bug was still something that was worth combatting.
"Back in the 90's you had to hack a goddamn website" best thing i heard
I really miss it that websites looks like that!
Your choice of songs are impeccable!!!!
This type of hacking really needs to return.
And yes, totally do more of this stuff.
I've still got some Free Kevin bumper stickers.
Oh I remember the day I discovered netscape navigator and I've never used explorer since, although nowadays I use Firefox
Switch to Brave.
I used to use firefox, until I realized that it reacts to lag above a certain level by erasing all your bookmarks and starting fresh (only if you attempt to access the list just as the lag happens of course). See it goes looking for the file and if it doesn't get a response in time (30 sec, maybe 45) it assumes the file isn't there and starts a new one with the same default filename...overwriting the list that is actually there. I decided anything that catastrophically horribly designed shouldn't be trusted even once that one bug was fixed.
Thanks for the video. Would love some more
Regarding the VPN ad, try connecting with VPN to simulate your location elsewhere on the planet, then try to open a location Web site and give access to your location, it will still know where you are regardless of the VPN. Found this yesterday
Some Jifs?.... damn you, you were the chosen one!
G G gif like gift minus the t damnit :)
dfalconerio exactly!
Y2K did very little because people worked hard to eliminate the bug before it became much of an issue. Had nobody done anything, it's extremely likely that several important systems would have been affected.
I came here to say this. I and a lot of my friends spent a **** of a lot of time in the late '90s making sure that nothing bad happened. Oh and the idea that programmers were making a **** load of money was blown out of proportion too. One or two did but they had skills that were in very short supply.
Yes, came here to say this too. Way too many people don’t understand or care that we put in so many hours to make everything work. We don’t need a ‘Nerd’ spreading the lies too!
@@larrydyde5899 I wouldn't say they're "lies", exactly, as they are misunderstandings. Very few people who were in the industry in the 90s are aware of what went into it, they're only aware of the news reports about potential outcomes that didn't end up happening. For whatever reason, there's a pervasive mentality in our society that, if a prediction doesn't come true, then it was obviously wrong. Additionally, follow-up information isn't distributed nearly as well as the predictions leading up to the event so most people are only aware of the predictions. There's also a tendency for technical news to be reported extraordinarily poorly (hence why, for the last three or so decades, pop-science news has reported that scientists have discovered water on Mars for the first time every two years). I was too young to have been in the industry in the 90s, so the only reason I'm aware of what went into the preparations and why nothing much happened is that I was planning on going into IT, knew a few people who already were, and have since spoken to several people who worked on the problem. It most definitely WAS a problem that could have gone a lot worse
StarkRG yeah, I suppose ‘lies’ is very harsh.
Some segments of society are now deliberately using untruths about the millennium bug to discredit any expert opinion.
I’ve had personal experience of this in recent political conversations and it’s getting hard to be tolerant of anyone making these kind of statements.
oh my god, this brings back memories.. fuzzy good memories...
Man, that brings me back. I lived through it all, working in Silicon Valley. Crazy times, but good times...
4:07 you forgot to censor F*YOU there. Still seems didn't affect your monetisation
10:26 i thought that said Epic Egirls 😂
Peter, I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos. They are very well researched and provide good quality content. Sorry I typed some hate-speech about your S3 camera footage last video, it was only in jest.
I like your pronunciation of "Yahew."
I'd definitely be up for more videos like this.
8:35
WTF WAS THAT NOISE ?!!?!!?!
That happens when you refuse the water glass when giving a lecture.
There are still old websites still running to this day.
Mandatory shoutout to the Space Jam one.
@@KrazyKupo "The you got mail" website was finally updated about a year ago after some 18-19 years later. What took them so long?
lol, always have to love that when the editing comes off a couple frames earlier than intended. Made me smile like an idiot though.
"A way of life that's been replaced by social media and shouting into the void"
You tell it like it is
"I spike him!" - Boris (GoldenEye)
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that stock photo for FBI is hilarious "Shhhh dont tell anyone okay?"
The person having trouble decoding leetspeak shows that we as a species have come a long way.
I wonder what due diligence you've done into your VPN provider to ensure they, themselves aren't busily sniffing all your traffic for whatever purpose?
Let's be fair, if you are putting any personal details into a none encrypted page in the first instance, perhaps you should be re-considering the site provider, rather than worrying about in-air capture..
Haha, I remember so many of these....and a billion more that were simple goatse ones....
Awesome video great job!
Not bashing Nostalgia nerd for getting a sponsor, especially since he absolutely did the right thing by putting it at the end with no mention of it at the beginning. However, this is for any of the audience that is actually looking for a VPN, and I feel this is an important thing to make the public aware of: There is no such thing as a truly secure VPN that uses youtube to advertise. If they're willing to get past an adblocker, then they're willing to sell your data, and cannot be trusted. Please, do your research and find a truly good VPN!