That's how I remember it. Like the others were saying, this was fast-paced. The guests were informed of this. The general "Thank you" was enough, move on, before the time expires. It was only a half-hour show & once a week. No general public Internet as prevalent as we know it today. I miss the early 1990's, which was the height of this show. Once the episode ended, I would immediately change channel & watch NBA Inside Stuff, with Ahmad Rashad. :)
Yes my son ? ahh the 90's... indeed, well If you want to go back then so be it... I'll make it so, just before the moment of your passing... I'll be there to guide you, then off you go... have fun... oh and there is no such thing as death life is but a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves... ttfn xx
@@millermonsterair you're right, it's much better to pay $500 for some piece of shit that will make it 6 months if you're lucky you stupid f*ck*ng zoomer
@@millermonsterair if you payed 2500$ for a printer you got 2500$ worth of a printer. ultra fuckign amazing relyable, low printing costs, functional, sturdy as a tank. you never needed a second one even in heavy duty use. in our shop we had one running like 8 hours a day almsot constantly, for years, it was a small one or 2 casettet feeded laserprinter. it was ment for light use like you know maybe 50 pages a day. we sent easily 2k if not even more a day. that thing lasted longer than the company, at least 5 years in duty.
***** I agree, But I imagine it got hard to get material after the Manufacturer Explosion in the late 90s.... and by the mid 2000s there was so much out there by so many names you could lose yourself in the info.. Still this show really is informative about how computers have grown.
TH-cam is full of people that review products..that's basically it..i think you have the bug nostalgia:))..i think now there is no need for that..information is available everywhere,internet hasn't changed that much..so need shows like that,everything you "catch on the go"back then was new tech that people "didn't know what to do with it"
Michael Delgado Steward cheifet even said that he was tired of 20 years of show every week plis there were other reasons.he said someone said when computers became like fridges the won't be a need for show like this,I agree
Current reviewers do a great job as they focus on one product for a long period of time with a narrowly focused type of area they only review on. So much better than a 2 minute snippet of a product done by the marketing manager. I think if Cheifet was to come back on youtube his focus would be on interviewing high-level officials at top companies and research labs to see what kind of trends are going on. CC was a little like that in the early stages where they got actual engineers and scientists on the show rather than marketing people.
The concepts and ideas of the 90s had to wait for the chip fabrication and communication tech of the 2000s to come into being. Almost everything we use today is a 1980s or 90s idea.
@@mulletman1705 TH-cam wasn't the first video hosting/sharing platform ... In fact it wasn't even within 5 years of the first. You can absolutely bet cryptography was waiting DECADES for faster computer hardware.
This is when I used to look at a computer and learned something, now instead my computer watches me and learns all about me. No wonder we want to go back in time.
It's really fun to watch stories from this era of computing because you see the building blocks technicians and enthusiasts were starting to build. Things that we still use today like MPEG.
This makes modern technology very understandable by showing us the old school building blocks. It must have confused some people watching it in '95 though, as they were no doubt confused by how computers worked in general.
@@aniym21000 uh, just because the technology wasn’t as developed doesn’t mean people weren’t as skilled. People probably knew more about how computers worked because you had to to keep them running. Today it’s just running apps with no knowledge needed of how it works. Not saying that’s a bad thing. Things should work so well they’re black boxes for consumers.
It's interesting to see the foundations of smart TVs being discussed regarding MPEG compression, setup boxes and the battle between TV and computer digital broadcasts. Even now in Australia this battle is ongoing between free-to-air, Foxtel and Netflix. Some things never change.
I love how at 11:13 that Reboot is playing as their demo. I loved that cgi cartoon back in the day. I still wonder what happened to Win6. And the beginning of online ads..geez.
6Mb per MINUTE????? im SO happy we progressed passed those days and i really dont miss it at all. yeah, its neat to look back and remember how exciting it all was back then as it was happening, but i am SO happy that weve gotten better at our tech.
So interesting to watch this in retrospect. Most of this “interaction” found it’s home on our smart phones and tablets, not the TV. They probably didn’t imagine a phone becoming the center of almost all daily digital activity.
Even if somebody did envision it, it was not going to happen anytime soon and didn't. It took like 15+ years. "Smart TVs", on the other hand, were supposedly just around the corner. It didn't quite work out, but could have, I guess.
alot of the ideas they shared did in fact come into play, Interactive guides, live weather and Video on demand was around in the early 2000's. its not quite the "Smart" TV's we have today, but pretty close to what i experienced in my child hood with digital cable set top boxes. This was a huge leap for that era.
Weird, the German TV show "WDR Computer Club" had a similar system to download further information onto your computer starting from the 1980s. In fact there was a commercial service based on the same technology that was already discontinued by 1995 when the station airing it switched on teletext.
That's 100 kb/s pretty impressive for the 90's. Just like 100 mb/s was impressive during the 2000's. And 100gb/s is impressive now in the 10's. Can't wait to see 100 tb/s in the 20's.
I think we were still transitioning to cds then, 4MB is a bit back then lol. I had office pro on over 60 floppies. Talk about worrying over media going bad lol.
For 1995, the speeds discussed in the video were fast, especially when the signal had to travel primarily through copper wires as opposed to fiber optics. It's called "baby steps." The speeds we enjoy in our broadband today didn't just come out of nowhere but were the product of technological evolution over time. It had to start somewhere, sometime ago. 25 years later, unwise people will make the same kind of snarky comments about 50 Mbps speeds being "blazing fast" without realizing that their fast speeds were only possible from that said evolution.
+Watcher3223 Those speeds were insanely fast back then! Most people were on 56K modems at best.. well in fact most people had no internet access at all!
***** And, though some people may have had 56k modems, they didn't always connect at 56k speeds; the speed you really got was dependent on the line quality between yourself and wherever you dialed to.
Damn right!. The information these shows offered always had you glued to the screen and interested in watching the entire thing from beginning to end. The producers of this show and the developers that created these technologies, computers, peripherals, programs and games really knew how to attract their audience.
Our home was one of the first 1000 to get hooked up to the internet via a kabel modem. Which was hilarious as you'd almost killed sites if you ended up downloading from them. In fact the only site that worked at full speed at the time was Tucows (who remembers that one?). A whopping 10Mbit/s download speed in 1999... a huge improvement over the 56K internet connection before.
My high school had speeds like that back in 1999. I was blissfully unaware of just how painfully slow a 56k modem would be in two years when finally having an internet connection at home. I still recall 768k dsl being fast enough in 2003.
10 Mbps in 1999.. on par with ADSL download speeds in 2007. But the highest speeds were a premium back then. It was not long until the price of broadband ADSL internet plummeted that more people migrated from 56k to ADSL.. And by 2006-2007 ADSL itself began to face another new competitor: internet via fiber.
@@HBC101TVStudios Yup, and now I have 1Gbps up and down via fiber with 0ms jitter and 14ms ping on speedtest. Fastest on offer at the moment in the Netherlands.
I watched some episode the other day, and Intel "Absolutely" guy really cracked me up. Now after few more I see this is a defining thing in this show, hah. :D
Basically a Smart TV is in essence a TV with a computer board in place of the traditional TV tuner, but it is used for acquiring data programs and digital features in faster signal transmission.
Backthen, telephone lines were used for internet,but since 1995, also tv antennas are used for internet, eventrough antennas were only designed for 1 traffic signal,but by coding those back signals from your pc into high freqs, it does NOT interrupt or distorb the low freqs of signals,so low and high freq signals can travel across eachother on just 1 wire. Eventrough before 1995 antennas were digitaly only used for video text or downloading content on seganet.
A computer show on convergence and no: Flat screens, Roku Boxes, Fire Sticks, Android TV Boxes, Chrome Cast. Just very immature set top boxes and none of it yet even running any video over IP yet. Back in the day I used to buy an unlocked box that was compatible with my cable company and I used to watch everything their wire had on it. Now everything is locked down with IP and most all cable companies don't use analog video over the coaxial cable. A couple of months ago I called AT&T and canceled my Internet and TV. They turned off the Internet right away but I plugged their cable box into my new WOW router and it still served up all the stations that I subscribed to. I don't even have cable any more. We are totally converged now... They didn't yet have home brewed DVR's back then. Hell most people were just getting 10mb cable service.
You know how to tell if a device is "smart"? It knows who bought it and doesn't spy on you because it knows it's gonna end up on the trash pile if it does.
Talking about cable modem... im sittin here on fiber connection like dude i remember when we first got cable *broadband* isdn... dial up and dsl... it sure has evolved ;)
I had a PCI tuner card in 1998. At first it felt like an amazing novelty but I almost never used the thing, except for descrambling some channels but the quality wasn't really all that great anyway.
Used mine all the time. This was before dedicated set-top digital recording boxes were on the market so it was pretty innovative and amazing stuff to be able to record over the air broadcasts directly to digital format for later viewing.
He said megabytes, so it's 48 megabits per minute, that's 800 kilo bits / 100 kilo Bytes per second, this is extremely fast for 1995 where you were happy if you got 2-3.5KB per second.
Look how long it took to get HEVC H265, mainly waiting for GPU power to catch up on regular systems and wider adoption of 4k / UHD displays. Plus, we can even use our 4k UHD televisions as computer monitors now
@@BlownMacTruck well I use my 43" LG to keep stocks and cryptocurrency charts up as I trade. Extremely helpful to have all the info I need to make good decisions on trades. Plus, it's not like it sits 3 inches from my face, I have it on a rolling stand about 3 feet away so it doesn't use up my desk space. There are other uses too, like maybe graphic designers or animators have similar setups with large TV displays
@@FortyTwoAnswerToEverything That's not your primary screen. No one uses a 4k TV as a primary laptop or desktop monitor because it's *extremely* uncomfortable.
@@BlownMacTruck I use it A LOT, 50/50 with my laptop screen. It is a totally subjective matter on how it affects each person and how or where they place it. There's no right or wrong about it.
@@FortyTwoAnswerToEverything It’s still not your primary display, because no one with any sense would use something like that for that purpose, and is exactly my point.
Too bad their own executives dismissed the idea and called out supporters of such things as trolls with no business sense. Else, they could have dominated the industry in the years to come.
Funny how the lady said people are arguing over weather the pc or the tv should be the device to use. I've been using my pc on my tv since 2002. I got that first video card and never looked back. I remember it taking a month to download a movie, I'm guessing maybe through napster
24:24 $2,500usd for a printer. guys, think about that for a sec. i can literally go to my local walmart and pick up a printer/scanner/copier for about $25 if i wanted to. my, how we have advanced in technology since those days. i for one, dont miss it at all.
nope thats a business model of a printer. what do you think they cost today? printerttech is pretty much the same today as it was, just some added network features
@@woswasdenni1914 you completely missed my entire point. good job letting what i said go completely over your head.... also, yes, i can go get a business printer for about $50usd at the local walmart that would be reliable. now, if i spent $250usd, i could get a printer than i dont even need to ever buy ink carts for. ever. i just buy the bottles and refill it. but you know, keep on pretending this is the 90's....
@@millermonsterair your 250 dollar printer will last perhaps.I've 2000 pages before the nozzles get clogged and or it breaks down and catches fire. Yes cost ratio has come a long way, however there is a reason why there are 30 50 and 200 dollar printers. They are disposable.
Computing back in the day was not a very fun hobby unless you had money to drop. I still was using floppy only until early 90s since hard drives were out of the question for the commoner in the 1980s, even though the technology and products had been around for quite some time before then.
I'm still waiting for this actually. I've got plenty of TVs including a 4K OLED, not a single one that does anything like this. Modern smart TVs run apps on the client end, they don't fetch any interesting content from a server. This is more of a thin client, and to be honest, much more interesting.
4:00 Such a neat idea! I think it would be exciting to use that type of a system even today. Twitch does a similar during with Counter-Strike tournaments. Random viewers get tournament specific loot boxes. It would be lovely to get an episode-specific digital swag bag while watching the tv show.
We had 6 PC's in just one class in my school and that was back in 93. I believe that their PC was the only one hooked up to broadband though. That in itself would leave everyone speechless due to the speed. It used to take f-ing ages to load a page via regular modem back then so this was wizardry.
9:46 "Catagories"? Shouldn't it be "categories"? Other than that interesting that they were thinking about this already back then and how everything is basically real now.
He doesn't interrupts, he explains to the viewers what they just said in simple terms, remember that back then most people wasn't too familiar with computers to a point that even using a mouse and double-clicking was a challenge to some of them, even the "nerdy" target audience of this show wasn't familiar with all of the terms in all of the subjects they cover so it was needed to clarify things for the viewer.
He talked about that in an interview. He emphasized being concise and to the point. He wouldn't allow people to engage in extended sales pitches. That wasn't the goal of the program.
What is so wild is that they never realize about our world with COVID. They would think it was Alien planet and impossible. At this time they did believe in flying drones, cars, auto cars, etc
funny that, I was browsing Wal-Mart's laptop section the other day on their website, I went waaaaay back into like the 10th-20th page range and they had a used ThinkPad on sale there xD on the Wal-Mart website of all places!
Love how the host dumps the guests immediately after the job is done😂😁
😂😂
They had a limited budget and wanted to do everything in one take to save money and studio time and costs.
That's how I remember it. Like the others were saying, this was fast-paced. The guests were informed of this. The general "Thank you" was enough, move on, before the time expires. It was only a half-hour show & once a week. No general public Internet as prevalent as we know it today. I miss the early 1990's, which was the height of this show. Once the episode ended, I would immediately change channel & watch NBA Inside Stuff, with Ahmad Rashad. :)
Or maybe they edited the show to take irrelevant things like guest courtesy out of the run time to fit more content into the air time.
He's a pro. Manages the time and keeps everyone on topic.
And 25 years later I'm watching this on a smart tv. 😮
Lol I had that same thought
Are you downloading data at 6MB per minute?
25 years later , it won't be.
maybe 5.
Smart is such a volatile term.
I'm watching it in vr... takes me an hour to type but hey progress!! Love my Quest 2.
That's great, smart TV's suck ass.
All the people on this show are so laid back, relaxed and cool. I like that, they really do a good job at presenting their product.
Everyone was like that.
It was typical. It was also very rehearsed.
God I miss the 90's
Yes my son ? ahh the 90's... indeed, well If you want to go back then so be it... I'll make it so, just before the moment of your passing... I'll be there to guide you, then off you go... have fun... oh and there is no such thing as death life is but a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves... ttfn xx
That's because of memberberries and because now, you are an old fuck.
yeah, it was great to pay $2,500 for a printer, wasnt it? or, tell me how awesome it was to be flying around the interwebs at a BLAZING fast 56k.....
@@millermonsterair you're right, it's much better to pay $500 for some piece of shit that will make it 6 months if you're lucky you stupid f*ck*ng zoomer
@@millermonsterair if you payed 2500$ for a printer you got 2500$ worth of a printer.
ultra fuckign amazing relyable, low printing costs, functional, sturdy as a tank. you never needed a second one even in heavy duty use.
in our shop we had one running like 8 hours a day almsot constantly, for years, it was a small one or 2 casettet feeded laserprinter. it was ment for light use like you know maybe 50 pages a day. we sent easily 2k if not even more a day.
that thing lasted longer than the company, at least 5 years in duty.
wish they still had this show
***** I agree, But I imagine it got hard to get material after the Manufacturer Explosion in the late 90s.... and by the mid 2000s there was so much out there by so many names you could lose yourself in the info..
Still this show really is informative about how computers have grown.
all the episodes are free to watch on the internet achieve site
TH-cam is full of people that review products..that's basically it..i think you have the bug nostalgia:))..i think now there is no need for that..information is available everywhere,internet hasn't changed that much..so need shows like that,everything you "catch on the go"back then was new tech that people "didn't know what to do with it"
Michael Delgado Steward cheifet even said that he was tired of 20 years of show every week plis there were other reasons.he said someone said when computers became like fridges the won't be a need for show like this,I agree
Current reviewers do a great job as they focus on one product for a long period of time with a narrowly focused type of area they only review on. So much better than a 2 minute snippet of a product done by the marketing manager. I think if Cheifet was to come back on youtube his focus would be on interviewing high-level officials at top companies and research labs to see what kind of trends are going on. CC was a little like that in the early stages where they got actual engineers and scientists on the show rather than marketing people.
The concepts and ideas of the 90s had to wait for the chip fabrication and communication tech of the 2000s to come into being. Almost everything we use today is a 1980s or 90s idea.
Bitcoin ?
TH-cam?
Fentenol?
Heh...around 2012, I plugged a webcam and HDMI TV into a computer - concept art from the 1987 "Max Headroom", except that it actually works.
@@mulletman1705 Fentanyl was invented in 1959.
@@mulletman1705 TH-cam wasn't the first video hosting/sharing platform ... In fact it wasn't even within 5 years of the first.
You can absolutely bet cryptography was waiting DECADES for faster computer hardware.
@@straightpipediesel So not 1980s or 90s...
This is when I used to look at a computer and learned something, now instead my computer watches me and learns all about me. No wonder we want to go back in time.
Your smart television as well if you have one.
Aint that the truff
Install a Linux distro and you'll learn plenty still
What sort of device did you watch this episode on?
@@Thaumazosome of us actually have to use our computers, not play around like it's 1995?
It's really fun to watch stories from this era of computing because you see the building blocks technicians and enthusiasts were starting to build. Things that we still use today like MPEG.
This makes modern technology very understandable by showing us the old school building blocks. It must have confused some people watching it in '95 though, as they were no doubt confused by how computers worked in general.
@@aniym21000 95 was not 82, people already had the web.. cell phones were starting to become common, laptops cheap.. your like a decade off pal
@@aniym21000 uh, just because the technology wasn’t as developed doesn’t mean people weren’t as skilled. People probably knew more about how computers worked because you had to to keep them running. Today it’s just running apps with no knowledge needed of how it works. Not saying that’s a bad thing. Things should work so well they’re black boxes for consumers.
It's interesting to see the foundations of smart TVs being discussed regarding MPEG compression, setup boxes and the battle between TV and computer digital broadcasts. Even now in Australia this battle is ongoing between free-to-air, Foxtel and Netflix. Some things never change.
I love how at 11:13 that Reboot is playing as their demo. I loved that cgi cartoon back in the day. I still wonder what happened to Win6. And the beginning of online ads..geez.
Yeah Reboot was a fun show.
I'm still waiting for Windows '96
Only 76 years to go. I'm looking forward to Windows 69.
@@peterjszerszen I'm pretty sure we'll be using Doors by then.
People would love to step up from Windows 10 to '96 for sure.
@@peterjszerszen right? I heard that OS sucks.
Thats just windows 10, version 8.
This was the best show ever and I only learned about it a few years ago. I binge watched this twice already. Maybe it is time for a 3rd time?
Ah the 90s, when everyone dressed like Dr. Grant from Jurassic park. 8:24
Lol hahha
4:47 Download 4 megabytes in 15 seconds in 1995?! *Wow!* 🤯😵 That’s 2.133 _Megabaud_ !
6Mb per MINUTE?????
im SO happy we progressed passed those days and i really dont miss it at all. yeah, its neat to look back and remember how exciting it all was back then as it was happening, but i am SO happy that weve gotten better at our tech.
So interesting to watch this in retrospect. Most of this “interaction” found it’s home on our smart phones and tablets, not the TV. They probably didn’t imagine a phone becoming the center of almost all daily digital activity.
Even if somebody did envision it, it was not going to happen anytime soon and didn't. It took like 15+ years. "Smart TVs", on the other hand, were supposedly just around the corner. It didn't quite work out, but could have, I guess.
alot of the ideas they shared did in fact come into play, Interactive guides, live weather and Video on demand was around in the early 2000's. its not quite the "Smart" TV's we have today, but pretty close to what i experienced in my child hood with digital cable set top boxes. This was a huge leap for that era.
1995:
2020: Who on earth can imagine video being streamed over a connection that has a maximum data rate of 56 kbps?
that was fast back then I was stuck at 14.4
1:20 "Don't Copy That Floppy!"
We finally received new workstations without a floppy drive in them this year.
My floppy don't copy
What’s a floppy?
jbreakstone not at all
Don't copy that NAS server.
I can’t wait to download files from cyber sites.
Weird, the German TV show "WDR Computer Club" had a similar system to download further information onto your computer starting from the 1980s. In fact there was a commercial service based on the same technology that was already discontinued by 1995 when the station airing it switched on teletext.
Sitting here drinking some brews and watching this old schools chit.
Wow Audio and Video in sync. I am sold.
Back in the day, we watched smart shows on dumb TVs, nowadays we watch dumb shows on smart TVs...
Quite true!
@@richards1708 huh, how do you figure? Game of Thrones and Netflixs Dark are unmatched by anything ever done in Hollywoods past
6 MB per minute?! WOWW!
+Fuchernaut Even in 2005 that was wow for me....
Ikrrr!! :D 32 a second here now x'D
2005 in rural Nebraska on dial-up? 48kbps. Rocking that shit...
Those are some incredible speeds. A whole mp3 file downloaded in less than a minute. wooow :)))))))
That's 100 kb/s pretty impressive for the 90's.
Just like 100 mb/s was impressive during the 2000's.
And 100gb/s is impressive now in the 10's.
Can't wait to see 100 tb/s in the 20's.
I think we were still transitioning to cds then, 4MB is a bit back then lol. I had office pro on over 60 floppies. Talk about worrying over media going bad lol.
Yeah, 60 disk and only one needed to mess up. I had software that would format a 1.44 into a 1.66. I thought it was so awesome.
For 1995, the speeds discussed in the video were fast, especially when the signal had to travel primarily through copper wires as opposed to fiber optics.
It's called "baby steps." The speeds we enjoy in our broadband today didn't just come out of nowhere but were the product of technological evolution over time. It had to start somewhere, sometime ago.
25 years later, unwise people will make the same kind of snarky comments about 50 Mbps speeds being "blazing fast" without realizing that their fast speeds were only possible from that said evolution.
+Watcher3223 it's amazing how easily we take things for granted, also troublesome how it's never really enough.
Why are you so offended?
+Christian B
o_O
+Watcher3223 Those speeds were insanely fast back then! Most people were on 56K modems at best.. well in fact most people had no internet access at all!
***** And, though some people may have had 56k modems, they didn't always connect at 56k speeds; the speed you really got was dependent on the line quality between yourself and wherever you dialed to.
"don't copy that floppy" :D
When computing used to be exciting and stimulating. Even simple games were highly entertaining 👍
Damn right!.
The information these shows offered always had you glued to the screen and interested in watching the entire thing from beginning to end.
The producers of this show and the developers that created these technologies, computers, peripherals, programs and games really knew how to attract their audience.
To be honest, these speeds are still what we're getting in Australia.
5:17 is that a precursors of person to person file sharing we have today? Only reason asking is that it seems like it me.
At 10:50 what Netflix in 1995 would look like. "Like blockbuster coming in on the phone line."
What’s blockbuster?
12:03 - That girl has some serious cheek-bones :)
+MegaBojan1993 Michael Jackson style!
KozenaDrzka I was wondering who was she reminding me of :)
MegaBojan1993
She looks like a female David Bowie
Yeah, she reminds me of him too :)
Good god it warms my heart seeing 90s people being excited AF about completely useless 90s tech
The bleepie bloops were more exciting back then.
Our home was one of the first 1000 to get hooked up to the internet via a kabel modem. Which was hilarious as you'd almost killed sites if you ended up downloading from them. In fact the only site that worked at full speed at the time was Tucows (who remembers that one?). A whopping 10Mbit/s download speed in 1999... a huge improvement over the 56K internet connection before.
My high school had speeds like that back in 1999. I was blissfully unaware of just how painfully slow a 56k modem would be in two years when finally having an internet connection at home. I still recall 768k dsl being fast enough in 2003.
10 Mbps in 1999.. on par with ADSL download speeds in 2007. But the highest speeds were a premium back then. It was not long until the price of broadband ADSL internet plummeted that more people migrated from 56k to ADSL.. And by 2006-2007 ADSL itself began to face another new competitor: internet via fiber.
@@HBC101TVStudios Yup, and now I have 1Gbps up and down via fiber with 0ms jitter and 14ms ping on speedtest. Fastest on offer at the moment in the Netherlands.
At 12:40 *Basically a Smart Cable Box*
WOW!!!! Another Head Exploder!!!!!
12:12 she threw shade at David 😃😂😂😂
Over The Air (OTA) interactive TV with ATSC 3.0, 25 years later! The new new digital format through your TV antenna.
"How would you like to download files at 6 MB per minute?"
I would very much not like to do that.
"Blockbuster coming in on a phone line"......that right there are words that for sure date themselves and kids today will never know such a thing.
The concept of Smart TV existed way back then?
that's correct. absolutely.
- every computer chronicles show ever
I watched some episode the other day, and Intel "Absolutely" guy really cracked me up. Now after few more I see this is a defining thing in this show, hah. :D
A year after this my hometown got fiber optic cable internet as it was a test site for Time Warner.
Me Watching this: I do feel like I’ve gone back in time 😁
Basically a Smart TV is in essence a TV with a computer board in place of the traditional TV tuner, but it is used for acquiring data programs and digital features in faster signal transmission.
It's slower tho, for turning on the screen and channel surfing cable it's slower so far as I can tell. 😡🏄♂️💻
5:28 “It was almost a 4 megabyte file”
“Wow!” 😂😂😂
Your connection bounced back more then that in the time it took you to post this comment.
"that was almost a 4Mb file" wow, lol 😎
Backthen, telephone lines were used for internet,but since 1995, also tv antennas are used for internet, eventrough antennas were only designed for 1 traffic signal,but by coding those back signals from your pc into high freqs, it does NOT interrupt or distorb the low freqs of signals,so low and high freq signals can travel across eachother on just 1 wire.
Eventrough before 1995 antennas were digitaly only used for video text or downloading content on seganet.
A computer show on convergence and no: Flat screens, Roku Boxes, Fire Sticks, Android TV Boxes, Chrome Cast. Just very immature set top boxes and none of it yet even running any video over IP yet. Back in the day I used to buy an unlocked box that was compatible with my cable company and I used to watch everything their wire had on it. Now everything is locked down with IP and most all cable companies don't use analog video over the coaxial cable. A couple of months ago I called AT&T and canceled my Internet and TV. They turned off the Internet right away but I plugged their cable box into my new WOW router and it still served up all the stations that I subscribed to. I don't even have cable any more. We are totally converged now... They didn't yet have home brewed DVR's back then. Hell most people were just getting 10mb cable service.
on a less critical note , this tech probably paved the way for cable boxes and satellite tv with interactive GUIs.
23:22 And now we can Skype on smart phones that fit in our pockets with far better quality.
No. You can skype from a watch phone now and also wear a VR goggle if you so choose. Even better lol
@@michaeld4090 and a week later I am streaming holograms from my smart watch
Is this streaming video thing ever going to take off? (sarcasm)
19:50...no KVM switches yet?
marketing was so different in the 80s and 90s compared to today
"Now I'm going to load up my favorite cartoon"
>loads up my favorite cartoon
I remember when 56k was fast, only people in Canada in 97 had cable modems, we didn't in my area in the US.
I remember my 14.4k modem...and remembering how excited I was to upgrade to 56k!!!
Today the average mb/s is 720-1500. Back then 6mb/s was groundbreaking. Amazing how time has moved on!
Who the hell is getting 1500mb/s internet speeds?
I'm still using 6mb/s.
13:00 i like how she ignored the price part of the question
Whoa, he sent that 4MB file just like that and now he can play with it..
🤯
You know how to tell if a device is "smart"? It knows who bought it and doesn't spy on you because it knows it's gonna end up on the trash pile if it does.
Talking about cable modem... im sittin here on fiber connection like dude i remember when we first got cable *broadband* isdn... dial up and dsl... it sure has evolved ;)
Was it possible to sent data together with a VHS signal? That kindda hard to believe!
16:55 "you can't add more pixels to the screen" 🙄
best show ever
22:33 Windows 96 lol
Probably ended up being Windows 95 R2.
That was a decent upgrade before 98 appeared
I had a PCI tuner card in 1998. At first it felt like an amazing novelty but I almost never used the thing, except for descrambling some channels but the quality wasn't really all that great anyway.
Used mine all the time. This was before dedicated set-top digital recording boxes were on the market so it was pretty innovative and amazing stuff to be able to record over the air broadcasts directly to digital format for later viewing.
6mb/minute is something I never thought I'd hear
He said megabytes, so it's 48 megabits per minute, that's 800 kilo bits / 100 kilo Bytes per second, this is extremely fast for 1995 where you were happy if you got 2-3.5KB per second.
Look how long it took to get HEVC H265, mainly waiting for GPU power to catch up on regular systems and wider adoption of 4k / UHD displays. Plus, we can even use our 4k UHD televisions as computer monitors now
Who the hell uses their living room-type display as a computer monitor? That’s an ergonomic nightmare.
@@BlownMacTruck well I use my 43" LG to keep stocks and cryptocurrency charts up as I trade. Extremely helpful to have all the info I need to make good decisions on trades. Plus, it's not like it sits 3 inches from my face, I have it on a rolling stand about 3 feet away so it doesn't use up my desk space. There are other uses too, like maybe graphic designers or animators have similar setups with large TV
displays
@@FortyTwoAnswerToEverything That's not your primary screen. No one uses a 4k TV as a primary laptop or desktop monitor because it's *extremely* uncomfortable.
@@BlownMacTruck I use it A LOT, 50/50 with my laptop screen. It is a totally subjective matter on how it affects each person and how or where they place it. There's no right or wrong about it.
@@FortyTwoAnswerToEverything It’s still not your primary display, because no one with any sense would use something like that for that purpose, and is exactly my point.
@17:14 A class of 35 kids!?! I guess we have improved over the years.
www.powertv.com it just a blank site, never saw something like that! Who still hosts a blank site under that handle?
the graphics are superb
that looks like a "dumb tv" compared to my linux based single bard computer im streaming this on in 2023
24:08 scanner printer combo $2500 😮
"Wanna download data at 6MB PER MINUTE"
Ahh why did that physically hurt to hear?!
6MB per minute was pretty amazing for its time. most people didn't even have internet access
why is the volume on all these CC episodes so low?
I loved Windows 96. 🥰
Casey is quite the hottie
12:04
brown bag special
Yeah hot for an alien.
I thought it was a witch...
OK Casey, nice try.
The irony of describing online video as ‘blockbuster over the wire’
Too bad their own executives dismissed the idea and called out supporters of such things as trolls with no business sense. Else, they could have dominated the industry in the years to come.
Oooh, netscape 3.x running on CDE, nice!
I wanna go back in time
Funny how the lady said people are arguing over weather the pc or the tv should be the device to use. I've been using my pc on my tv since 2002. I got that first video card and never looked back. I remember it taking a month to download a movie, I'm guessing maybe through napster
The Computer Chronicles: making 1995 look like 1985. Welcome!
Wow that's cool one day you can pay for software and have it delivered to you via the the television.
24:24 $2,500usd for a printer. guys, think about that for a sec. i can literally go to my local walmart and pick up a printer/scanner/copier for about $25 if i wanted to. my, how we have advanced in technology since those days. i for one, dont miss it at all.
nope thats a business model of a printer. what do you think they cost today?
printerttech is pretty much the same today as it was, just some added network features
@@woswasdenni1914 you completely missed my entire point.
good job letting what i said go completely over your head.... also, yes, i can go get a business printer for about $50usd at the local walmart that would be reliable. now, if i spent $250usd, i could get a printer than i dont even need to ever buy ink carts for. ever. i just buy the bottles and refill it. but you know, keep on pretending this is the 90's....
@@millermonsterair your 250 dollar printer will last perhaps.I've 2000 pages before the nozzles get clogged and or it breaks down and catches fire. Yes cost ratio has come a long way, however there is a reason why there are 30 50 and 200 dollar printers. They are disposable.
@@millermonsterair I bet you would buy a "business printer off of wish if you could "
Computing back in the day was not a very fun hobby unless you had money to drop. I still was using floppy only until early 90s since hard drives were out of the question for the commoner in the 1980s, even though the technology and products had been around for quite some time before then.
THEY PREDICTED THE FUCKING FUTURE
Predicted? They fucking BUILT it!
I'm still waiting for this actually. I've got plenty of TVs including a 4K OLED, not a single one that does anything like this.
Modern smart TVs run apps on the client end, they don't fetch any interesting content from a server. This is more of a thin client, and to be honest, much more interesting.
4:00 Such a neat idea! I think it would be exciting to use that type of a system even today. Twitch does a similar during with Counter-Strike tournaments. Random viewers get tournament specific loot boxes. It would be lovely to get an episode-specific digital swag bag while watching the tv show.
Don’t go to the url at the intro of this episode.
35 kids, one computer.
We had 6 PC's in just one class in my school and that was back in 93.
I believe that their PC was the only one hooked up to broadband though. That in itself would leave everyone speechless due to the speed. It used to take f-ing ages to load a page via regular modem back then so this was wizardry.
Holy shit they showed Reboot
I can't wait for my interactive TV and 500 channels.
9:46 "Catagories"? Shouldn't it be "categories"? Other than that interesting that they were thinking about this already back then and how everything is basically real now.
Love this show, but man Stewart interrupts everyone!
He doesn't interrupts, he explains to the viewers what they just said in simple terms, remember that back then most people wasn't too familiar with computers to a point that even using a mouse and double-clicking was a challenge to some of them, even the "nerdy" target audience of this show wasn't familiar with all of the terms in all of the subjects they cover so it was needed to clarify things for the viewer.
He totally interrupts, because the show is clearly rushed to cram as much into a 30 minute slot!
They did well despite that!
@no name he did a great job, someones gotta do it, especially since they are very limited time and often have other people to interview
He talked about that in an interview. He emphasized being concise and to the point. He wouldn't allow people to engage in extended sales pitches. That wasn't the goal of the program.
Man 2020 would blow these people’s minds
Most of them are probably still alive , eh ?
listen to how new the mpeg decoding is while i watch mpeg4 movies :)
What is so wild is that they never realize about our world with COVID. They would think it was Alien planet and impossible. At this time they did believe in flying drones, cars, auto cars, etc
nah
This guy Arthur Oduna is a great speaker and presenter, a rarity on this program lol
23:32 25 years later and the ThinkPad looks the same.
funny that, I was browsing Wal-Mart's laptop section the other day on their website, I went waaaaay back into like the 10th-20th page range and they had a used ThinkPad on sale there xD on the Wal-Mart website of all places!
I got one of the first cable modems in my region in '97. The emphasis was still on DVDs, premiered the year before. . . .
5:32 "4MB file Wow!" had me loling.
19.55...... do you not have a KVM switch?????????
Damn Dragon Lair is like 40 year old Arcade game. You can still buy it in the apple app store..