Say what you will about Google+, but it was way ahead of the curve when it came to naming conventions. They paved the way for Disney+, Discovery+, Paramount+, Apple TV+, ESPN+, BET+, AMC+ and surely more in the future. To think we ever lived in a time when a service ever just had a name without indicating that it provided more than just what the name implied. Thanks, Google.
In 2012 or so one of my friends dads got into the beta for google glass. It was pretty cool at the time for us 12-13 year olds, but very quickly we figured out that the voice recognition wasn't advanced enough to tell the person wearing the headset apart from someone who was standing next to them. So whenever one of my friends was wearing it any one of us could shout "OK GLASS LOOK UP NAKED MARIO!" and it would just display what google images found for naked Mario. I had a lot of fun memories with it but it was definitely a little too big of an idea for the time.
So it could easily have been subtitle glasses that were being mentioned for cinemas around that time. Well poo, we lost some accessibility and I've been convinced I dreamt these up.
Stadia was so poorly marketed that almost all of my friends and I thought it was a cloud gaming CONSOLE not a subscription service. Truly a lesson in poor marketing and how it can easily kill a good idea.
It was also marketed to people who already owned a console or pc. Obviously I’m not gonna forget about my $400 machine that I know I can trust to buy a subscription that may or may not survive and still have to buy the games anyway. Should’ve waited a year to release alongside the 9th gen. It still would’ve lost, but at least the people who didn’t own a console would’ve had an attractive product compared to the $500 machines.
No they wanted you to think it was a console because what it actually was was worse: a shitty controller. The controller was the console so if the controller was lost, broken, or heck got fucking drift you lost access to the entire library because you cant use any other controller. It was a shitty idea that was DOA
I had a friend who, upon graduating high school in 2010, worked as an early developer for Google Glass. His project was so cool. He described it as an aid for people with hearing disability that would detect loud noises (fire alarms, glass breaking, dog barking, etc) and send a notification to the glasses. They also worked on a live transcription feature so that a person with a hearing disability could see what someone was saying more clearly and easily.
Yessss! Honestly it had such accessibility promise! I still think about how cool it would be to have glasses that could give me love subtitles for conversations
@@ItsActuallyKate There's better applications for that. What outlook gives is a somewhat easy way to get business email management, the user experience is trash by modern standards but it's easy and seems "trustworthy" so it's popular.
@@LordDaveTheKindagreed lmao. I work with Fortune 500 companies that have outlook as their main email service. It’s very common. In fact, not having outlook would be an odd look in my industry.
The concept of Google answers is insane. At that time, doing online payments was a massive undertaking. I remember ordering things online and then adding the order the number to the description on the bank transfer to be able to pay for the item, and then it took 2 days for the payment to be processed.
Lol I ordered something online just a few days ago that I also had to pay through bank transfer. For small businesses who don't want to raise their prices just to accommodate PayPal / Credit card company fees, it's still a good option I suppose
A couple years ago, I bought a Stadia controller and Chromecast ultra for 5 dollars from a Google store promotion. I played with it for about a month, and forgot about it because my apartment's wifi was trash Years later I realize that I never cancelled my subscription and had been paying Google for like 3 years for stadia despite not playing it. I'm pretty sure I was the core audience at that point
I had stadia and used it frequently enough while the servers were up and the GPU shortage was going crazy. It's how I played elder scrolls online for a while, and it worked reasonably well. It's also fittingly how I experienced spiritfarer, and when it was being shut down I played spiritfarer to see it off. Less like an emotional goodbye, more like going to the funeral of a childhood friend who you haven't seen on decades
@amandak.4246 I once forgot I was paying yearly amazon prime subscriptions. Easy to forget, unless you check your bank statements regularly. Which I don't. Fortunately I'm a bit tech savy and set up everything so I get notifications depending on payment types, but your average user might not even have their bank app installed. If you haven't used the services you subscribed for, you can generally ask for a refund. I did for amazon and they payed back straight away.
I worked at the Apple Store when Google Glasses came out and I remember a guy who bought them literally came into the store to hang out and stood around waiting for people to ask him about them.
@@freshmozzarello It still exists, it’s just called Google Chat now. Looks and works a bit differently, but my contacts and everything are still there, both in the app and in Gmail itself.
I used to do comic book TH-cam videos like 12 years ago and some others like myself would all Collab on Skype. Then everyone switched to Google+ and Hangouts. I am somewhat technologically challenged and couldn't get into it so I quit it all. Thankfully I made real friends and blossomed in my personal life. Some of those I talked to did the same, or still make videos, or have either committed suicide or are so cringe and undiagnosed in several mental illnesses that nobody talks to them anymore
Google video is how I watched Final Fantasy Advent Children for the first time, and I was able to download it and put it on my iPod video! Great memories.
I'll never forgive Google for giving up on Google Glass. I still dream of the day that I'll be able to scroll through sick memes while pretending to have meaningful conversations with my stupid idiot friends and loved ones.
This, Google Glass was indeed ahead of it's time. I think we'll see a re-release of something, I like how discrete it was all things considered compared to the AR headsets these days. Also, I feel a lot of people find the camera thing a lot less weird nowadays as well, as we've all had phones for the longest times, and people have gotten used to it much more. Using a google glass for live translations, or to be able to search things/read instructions for things without having a full fledged ar headset seems so cool. I feel Google wouldn't release it under the Glass moniker though, as the 2014 glass was a financial and social failure.
Dude it is so vindicating seeing someone in their 20s ranting about the current state of online gaming and the push to make physical copies obsolete. It's all unnecessary bullshit stemming entirely from corporate greed. Someone needs to do a video on the 2008 EA SecuRom scandal. I was pissed as it was happening and I predicted where things were headed right there.
I didn't like the disappearance of physical copies at first. But after 9-ish years of having a next gen catalog hundreds of games big, that takes up ZERO space in my apartment, I'm not going back.
Selling digital copies of games is a huge market and it's incredibly convenient for consumers. If they didn't sell so well, companies wouldn't do it. What I personally don't like about online games is that eventually they will shut down the servers, making the games unplayable. Online multiplayer games are also highly marketable, so in the end, it's all really down to the consumer.
@@NShomebase Until in 20 years and you want to play that one game, and the server no longer exists. My Atari 2600 is going to still be playing games long after I am dead.
@@thejunkman Well it's been almost 10, and so far there hasn't been any problems. In another 20 I expect emulation technology to have advanced far enough to cover the 3 or 4 games I still like that haven't been remade for the third time.
@@NShomebase You are right, it is going to be very game dependent on what will and won't work in the future. And if communities develop patches to "shut off" the phoning home aspect in some of these games.
Man, it hurts every time I hear how much some people struggled with Stadia. Sure, it wasn't perfect, but I have about 300Mb internet and it worked great for me. It was easy to take between houses when visiting family (who had worse internet and it was still fine) and take between the couch and desktop. The marketing really let it down. You could play all of your games from a browser window anywhere (with a good internet connection). That's so freaking cool. A little ahead of its time, I think, and having to buy a copy of the game that you can only ever stream kind of sucks, but Google actually made two huge pro-consumer moves when shutting down by refunding ALL Stadia hardware and store purchases AND making the controllers upgradable to be generic bluetooth controllers so they weren't garbage. I got three free bluetooth controllers and chromecasts out of that deal lol
My friend and I used to have a back and forth while playing games where one of us would get upset and exclaime "This game is google plus!" To which it was customary to reply in deadpan "Your mom is google plus." This tradition literally outlived the platform.
i know there are a ton of other services and products that you didn't get to mention but the one that really irked me was the terrible way google music was killed off and replaced with youtube music, just so they could transition to a streaming service instead of being able to own your own music library
Yeah! I bought a whole bunch of songs on Google Play Music, and there was nothing wrong with the service. I just had my songs whenever I wanted them with no ads. Then, out of nowhere, Google notified me it was shutting down, but that I could transfer and keep my songs when I switched to TH-cam Music. Of course, that was a lie. All of my songs were gone immediately. Still pissed about that.
@@Piperitumnot really, the problems were just different at the time. Runescape runs smooth but also it's at 1 game update every 0.6 seconds, hardly the same as 4k streaming
Google+ was my home when I was a lonely kid growing up with no friends, since I was able to find people who had my same interests and have an escape from my shitty homelife. (Of course I used it to role play warrior cats as a 4th grader, but it was the best time of my life). I would sell my soul to have Google+ back
I really liked Google+ too, but I was a twenty something and not a 4th grade Warrior Cats RPer when it came out. Although, thinking back, it was the perfect platform for you crazy kids and your crazy role play games. ☺️
Made so many good friends on g+. Some I still talk to because we keep finding ourselves again having same interests even if things drift. I miss it. I genuinely miss the customization features with collections I had so much fun finding matching pictures that looked good with my icon and header. Even with all of the shitty rps.
Google Glasses are actually really popular with visually impaired people. There's this startup that developed software for it, allowing people to video call some trusted contact if they got lost. The contact would see what the glasses recorded and navigate them back to familiar surroundings. I think they also added a feature for text-to-speech as seen by the glasses
The most tragic Google product death was Google Play Music. It had the best UI I've seen, it let me play my download playlist without being spammed with offers and shit, it was super useful and easy to use. And they decided to "replace" it with TH-cam Music. What a piss poor replacement. Maybe it's better now, but there's no way I'm ever going to let TH-cam spam my music app with shit I played on their video app and then try to hide my downloads or limit how many downloaded songs I have. I hate it.
EXACTLY. Like, sometimes I like a music video because it's catchy, and then sometimes I like it because it's absolutely atrocious and I'm going to torture my friends with it. I don't wanna be listening to my liked playlist and suddenly have 'Good Lookin' by Dixon Dallas pop up.
100% AGREED!! i was one of those kids who would download music from youtube url to mp3 websites because there were some songs that weren’t on streaming services (plus i didn’t know that streaming music was a thing in general) so it proved extremely useful to appease my want for nerdy music. when i saw that it was shut down i was so sad that all my memories and precious hours of downloading were gone :[
@@weepwoop11 I cried when they finally deleted 860+ songs I worked so hard to obtain over my entire high school career. I passed them over to a USB, because my laptop ran out of memory (I use a potato), but that USB drive got lost somehow and I never found it again.
When I was a kid, maybe around 2009, I would mess around with iGoogle a lot. It’s pretty much a Google Search homepage but below, you can add a bunch of widgets like weather, news, gmail, etc. There were other cool widgets too like a piano and a pair of eyes that follows your cursor
I really liked Google Wave when it first came out. It essentially helped develop the tech that is now Google Docs where multiple people could edit a doc at the same time.
I never really used Google+, but I remember when there was this weird guy at my online highschool who would ask girls for their email addresses to chat with them because he was trying to be a "player"/"ladies man". He was able to chat with my friend (who HADN'T given him her email) only because he was able to find her profile on Google+ and was really creeped out by it
Google Reader was the best possible QRT engine in the late blog/RSS feed era. You could friend people and communities could start comment threads in OPs share and there was absolutely no algorithm influencing how we shared blog posts or commented. It was glorious. I miss the shit out of the decentralized web/blog/RSS era.
everybody on it actually using it like a social media was under 16 so you can imagine that it was THE most toxic place on the web. tumblr doesn't even come close, a blue check twitter would be crying in 3 seconds flat.
That’s what I love about podcasts, they’re one of the few things that are still mostly decentralized and non-algorithm based. It’s also why I absolutely refuse to use Spotify or some other app/service for podcasts or listening to exclusive podcasts on said services/app.
when I was in middle school my mom was invited to try test out the beta builds of the glasses and I remember my sister and I coming up with a sharing calendar; we both really wanted to play with it and she forgot about it. Biggest disappointment of my life
Google+ was truly my social media app of choice. I got it in like 2015 when finally got my own phone and email address. I was hooked. I remember being in the Steven Universe, Hamilton, Undertale, My Little Pony and other general groups abd overall just having a blast lmao. It was my Tumblr and it even introduced me to stuck like Tumblr and Ao3. I remember having google hangout friends and everything. It wasnt my introduction to fandoms (that was youtubes job) but it definitely introduced me to actually interacting with fandoms Truly a gateway.
I use all of these nostalgic sound effects on my devices (they're actually from my ancient time), so your videos keep making me check my phone/email/Discord and getting really confused
I was legit thinking yesterday about how Google Glass falls under the contemporary huge cultural phenomenons that don’t get mentioned ever today, like Game of Thrones
I actually enjoyed Google+ I followed a lot of interesting communities there, The reason it failed was because they tried to force people to join in order to leave TH-cam comments and everyone hated it 😂
So I think the biggest reason Google+ failed is because they rolled out accounts so slowly. They were hyping it up, getting people to post a bunch, but very few of my friends could even sign up (the waiting list took forever) so it was kinda dead in the water. It could have been a lot more successful if they opened it up to anyone at launch.
@@tylerwhite1322yup. This. Half of my friend group got invites to Google plus, while half were left out. It caused a lot of drama with people being left out.
I had google+ and many accounts for it. That app was my shit and I had an unhealthy obsession to it. It worked for me but had a lot of porn and weird people on it. It was a very toxic social media app at least the parts I was on where toxic.
There will never be a time when cloud gaming will be an acceptable alternative. Network development moves slower than hardware development because networking is just the act of connecting multiple pieces of hardware through *really* long cables. As soon as the cables improve, the devices they connect see the same improvements through advances in micro-engineering. The internet is inherently inefficient, which is why we only use it to do things that are impossible through local devices. We would never try to replace the computing load a local device is doing just fine by offloading it to a network device, because that would be stupid and much more expensive. How long is it going to take people to figure this out?
God I miss G+ It was my first social media account, I got all my irl friends onto it. I did lots of roleplay and joined lots of fandom communities through it. It was my place away from facebook/my family from the online space and I love it despite all the red flags G+ had :3
Circles were basically just a way to sort your connections and filter who can see what. At the time, other social medias like facebook all friends would see the same stuff, so they wanted to capitalize on making categories within friends. but then everyone did that and it didn't matter.
Facebook did have friend lists at the time, they were just not as user friendly as Google+ Circles were. When posting on Google+, the circles were part of the posting screen while Facebook requires you to select Custom and type in the friend list to limit a post to a friend list One of the Facebook developers said on Tweeter at the time that circles was just friend lists and even made a web app that let you organize your Facebook friends in Friend Lists the same the Google+ circle management by dragging people's names into circles. I think that Facebook developer didn't realize that, it wasn't the ability to sort friends into groups that was the great thing about circles, it was how well integrated into the service the concept of circles were. Since then, Facebook's UI has changed many times and has made using Friend Lists even less of a priority now then it was then.
@@jdunn0I found circles so user friendly, and the ability to share circles meant you could build a community really easily. It made Google plus my favorite social network. I also think it made it so much easier to actually see your friends posts instead of having so much other stuff algorithmically pushed at you. The indie ttrpg community was thriving on Google plus and it hasn't been the same since it died. Weird to me that gabi found circles confusing.
Google+ was actually my primary social media during it's uh... "heyday" for lack of a better term, and I made some online friends there that I still follow on other sites to this day. I can say that we were upset at the news they were shutting it down but seriously not surprised and personally I was already half off the site anyway by that point.
When you voiced your gripes about Diablo I felt VINDICATED. Holy smokes I thought I was the only one who had the same thoughts and everyone else just thought it was normal. Why is Blizzard acting like we are still in the Ot’s.
If Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 have taught me anything, it’s that modern Blizzard only cares about what the shareholders want, and hope that that aligns with what the fans want as well. That’s how we get amazing things like “OW2 requiring a phone number to play” and “Diablo 4 always online after Diablo 3’s disastrous launch from the same issue”
@@MajinBoowomp 100% agree. Especially with the Overwatch 2 situation. What an absolute dumpster fire. Ugh. So much potential just to sell out and not give a shit about your consumers. Capitalism strikes again.
One more quick note about stadia. If you used the Chromecast ultra on a decent wired internet connection it was VERY smooth and worked great. The thing that actually killed Stadia was the lack of games. Ubisoft was the only AAA dev working on games for it and Google shuttered their first party studio before even giving it a chance. Most of the games were old ports that everyone already owned and mobile games that already ran find on phones and even apple tv. So it was really more about marketing and enticing real devs to release games on the platform. Cyberpunk 2077 for instance, was the only version of the game besides PC that didn't suck at launch.
About Google+ I'm from 2005, but as a little internet goblin/internet historian. Mainly for the Netherlands, but also in the English-speaking world, I come across Google+ in the most random places. The thing is, most people who actually used it, used as a sort of forum, or as a sort of Whatsapp. I remember it kinda looking like an extension of Gmail when they kept shoving it up my throat in 2015. I remember it was mostly in Gmail like "hey, wanna continue this conversation in Google+" type of stuff. So if they meant it as a sort of Instagram they failed. The only people I found actually used it, used it as a forum.
My cousin helped work on Google Glass and I remember when he pitched the concept to the family and at least originally it was supposed to be operated based off of where you looked so like if you looked up and to the right it would capture a picture or something and it seemed like you would just get a shit ton of unwanted photos taking space. but cool how it worked with prescription lenses
I find it baffling that companies (including Blizzard of all people) have issues with running online games when back in the 00's I could spend a whole day playing WoW with only a few hiccups along the way!
i clicked on your video hoping that you would mention google lively! it lives fondly in my memory but feels like a fever dream. the comparison to the metaverse is spot on too… when i first saw it i was like wait, didn’t google do this already like 20 years go? lol
all i have to say is that im a brazilian and i miss orkut. search and find out about the social media before google+ and before facebook's growth. the best social media that somehow only got popular in brazil??? rest in peace, goat.
I was pleased to see Google refund all stadia game purchases. They also have a way to convert the wonderful stadia controller to a Bluetooth controller
I distinctly remember them launching an advertisement for Google+ that was once on TH-cam, and it was so wildly overconfident. It literally said things like "Google+ WILL replace Facebook, it's inevitable". Seeing that level of cockiness amount to nothing was quite enjoyable.
We say privacy but don’t realize privacy no longer doesn’t exist. We complain about cameras but don’t realize there’s cameras on every single building we’re being recorded 24/7!
2014 doesn’t stick out in my mind ever. But is most definitely the year I met the people I still talk to now. So you unlocked alot of my sophomore year of high school when you brought up that Malaysia plane.
My previous doctor used google glass. He would dictate his notes to someone in a third world country who would transcribe them, and he would see their transcription on his google glass to make sure that they were accurate.
I’ll add one product that not a whole lot of people know about but hurt me the most: Songza. Songza was bought by Google in 2014 and before that, it was a one of a kind, playlist heavy music radio that specialized in Concierge services. It was awesome not having to think too much and have a playlist made by actual people to fit the mood. Sadly, it turned into Google Play Music and we all know how that turned out…
One of the things that I think we all have in common is that we used to type "google" in the search bar while already being on Google's main page when we were young. My grandma is still doing it to this day.
at 9:00 "homunculus glasses" = "Popularized in sixteenth-century alchemy and nineteenth-century fiction, it has historically referred to the creation of a miniature, fully formed human. The concept has roots in preformationism as well as earlier folklore and alchemic traditions."
Does anyone remember a virtual pet feature on Google+? I have a vague memory of being very upset when my sister chose a spider as her pet for some reason
I remember seeing that one firefighter used google glass to essentially have a minimap of house layouts and stuff. I dont remember how well it worked or anything beyond that but it was an interesting idea
that’s interesting, i do wonder though how useful that would be in practice? how would you get your hands on a certain house’s blueprints in the time it takes to leave the fire department and drive there?
Yeah, Google Lively was the one on this list that really made me sad. Second Life didn't run well on my PC at the time, so at the time Lively was actually pretty awesome. And the completely bonkers mismatch visually was genuinely charming tbh! It woulda been cool to see it continue & get refined over time, but oh well.
As someone who has bing installed on their computer permanently and has tried to switch to chrome multiple times. I can confirm that Bing is the worst search engine on the internet.
my job makes us use Edge as our browser, and I use Opera GX at home, so I'm used to just typing things into the address bar to google shit. I cannot express the rage I feel when I type something into the address bar at work, hit enter, and BING search results come up. omfg. bane of my existence
omg agreed on single player console games. i bought rainbox six siege for xbox series x and it was the same thing, i could only play the tutorials offline. so annoying. when i have a console i want to be able to quietly hunker down when internet is not working (earthquake/tsunami/wildfire/tornado/blizzard), charge my batteries with solar if electricity is down, and stay out of the way of first responders for a few days while the mess blows over. at least i have my space jam dvd
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I’m honestly surprised Google Fiber actually went into full production after it was introduced in one of Google’s April Fools’ Day jokes (serious, look up the video, it still exists and is a “fiber supplement” joke). It may not be as widespread or adopted as they might’ve initially hoped-mostly because of how much it costs to build out fiber connections, but they’d done a decent job of expanding their network in major cities in a way that they’ve become one of the medium-sized telecom providers. I think they really introduced people to the idea of [optic-]fiber internet and led to the market to overall start accepting as an alternative to traditional cable or satellite internet, and that was a benefit for society, even if they didn’t totally capture the market like they’d hoped.
Atrioc has mentioned that when he was at Twitch it felt more like people advanced by producing ideas than producing functional, successful items. The people that got “google lens” popular in the company probably got promotions, despite the cost.
It's worth noting that whenever you look at statistics for how most sales are seemingly shifting to digital, they always lump things like dlcs, subscriptions, and season passes with game sales to boost the number
ah google+, tried to force name changes on us. I just waited them out, they insisted frequently but never forced it. Not being able to comment was nowhere near the restriction they seemed to think it was. from what I remember of google video it was just unremarkable, youtube just had more personality.
Stadia was amazing and refunded every single game purchase after they ended. They unlocked their controllers to be used as generic bluetooth controllers. At least they ended it smoothly.
My school descended into chaos when they announced iGoogle would be shutting down. We had figured out you could use the TH-cam widget to access YT even though it was otherwise blocked.
I have a love hate relationship with Google. I think they do know how to do a lot of things well, they have some great products, and they seem to have at least a little more respect for their users than other big tech companies like apple and meta, but they've still got a lot of bad practices, and all the failed products do make them seem tone deaf at times. I still respect that they try to branch out so much though, and tbh some of these dead products still seem like cool ideas that could work in the future with more development.
brand new viewer, just gotta say love the set, a streamer i watch has a sleeping glaceon plush so seeing other sleeping pokemon around youtube is fun for me to see cause it gives my little brain a activity to do while browsing youtube. so far i got 2 the streamer's and yours. anyway got my first minuete comment out of the way gonna finish this video that i clicked on because it gave me dopeamine
Google Glass were goofy and barely functioned, but i still wish we could have a proper AR experience. Imagine all the extra interactivity you can have with the world around you, like maybe you can scan a QR code on a restaurant's table and it immediately sends the menu onto your glasses, or maybe looking at a painting at a museum and the glasses give you access to the information about it, and it could even be used for military purposes to show a soldier's heartrate, their stock of supplies and ammunition and even a satellite view of the area around them. IDK maybe it's just cause i like sci-fi and cyberpunk aesthetics but i am fascinated by alternate reality technology and i feel like it's due time we implement it more concretely.
13:20 I feel lucky to have lived through that brief moment in time when games were made to be fun, not manipulative. I just wish I had taken my piracy more seriously. Some of those games I'll probably never play again.
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Gabi, really needed to speak, have a minute?
Gabi you're such a chad
Gabi i love that tshirt! My fave beatles song! Epic.! I want one!
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startpage instead of google
odysee instead of youtube
nanazip instead of winrar
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Say what you will about Google+, but it was way ahead of the curve when it came to naming conventions. They paved the way for Disney+, Discovery+, Paramount+, Apple TV+, ESPN+, BET+, AMC+ and surely more in the future. To think we ever lived in a time when a service ever just had a name without indicating that it provided more than just what the name implied. Thanks, Google.
lmao 😭😭
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Gabi+ is certainly on the horizon.
It was doubleplusgood.
It’s time for google++
In 2012 or so one of my friends dads got into the beta for google glass. It was pretty cool at the time for us 12-13 year olds, but very quickly we figured out that the voice recognition wasn't advanced enough to tell the person wearing the headset apart from someone who was standing next to them. So whenever one of my friends was wearing it any one of us could shout "OK GLASS LOOK UP NAKED MARIO!" and it would just display what google images found for naked Mario. I had a lot of fun memories with it but it was definitely a little too big of an idea for the time.
God that's so pure
i remember seeing memes about that possibility when it first came out. i never saw one in person though, lol
So it could easily have been subtitle glasses that were being mentioned for cinemas around that time.
Well poo, we lost some accessibility and I've been convinced I dreamt these up.
How many dads does your friend have?!
@@moquilla1At least two
Stadia was so poorly marketed that almost all of my friends and I thought it was a cloud gaming CONSOLE not a subscription service. Truly a lesson in poor marketing and how it can easily kill a good idea.
It was also marketed to people who already owned a console or pc. Obviously I’m not gonna forget about my $400 machine that I know I can trust to buy a subscription that may or may not survive and still have to buy the games anyway. Should’ve waited a year to release alongside the 9th gen. It still would’ve lost, but at least the people who didn’t own a console would’ve had an attractive product compared to the $500 machines.
No they wanted you to think it was a console because what it actually was was worse: a shitty controller. The controller was the console so if the controller was lost, broken, or heck got fucking drift you lost access to the entire library because you cant use any other controller. It was a shitty idea that was DOA
Like how many people thought that the Wii u was just an add on for the Wii
An that's a fact. Google failure has become other products (such as Microsoft Xbox Game Pass or Nvidia GeForce Now) success
.....well I just learned something about stadia that I didn't know
I had a friend who, upon graduating high school in 2010, worked as an early developer for Google Glass. His project was so cool. He described it as an aid for people with hearing disability that would detect loud noises (fire alarms, glass breaking, dog barking, etc) and send a notification to the glasses. They also worked on a live transcription feature so that a person with a hearing disability could see what someone was saying more clearly and easily.
Yessss! Honestly it had such accessibility promise! I still think about how cool it would be to have glasses that could give me love subtitles for conversations
omg IRL subtitles!! i am not deaf but would have loved that! (though i'd be unable to afford it)
Outlook really has a niche with organizations, universities, and workplace use.
Yeah, having the ability to look up someone from your org if you forgot to get their email is really useful actually
Was looking for this comment. Who uses Outlook? Like... You mean... 99.99% of companies?
@@ItsActuallyKate There's better applications for that. What outlook gives is a somewhat easy way to get business email management, the user experience is trash by modern standards but it's easy and seems "trustworthy" so it's popular.
Yeah and it's awful 🤣🤣
@@LordDaveTheKindagreed lmao. I work with Fortune 500 companies that have outlook as their main email service. It’s very common. In fact, not having outlook would be an odd look in my industry.
The concept of Google answers is insane. At that time, doing online payments was a massive undertaking. I remember ordering things online and then adding the order the number to the description on the bank transfer to be able to pay for the item, and then it took 2 days for the payment to be processed.
Lol I ordered something online just a few days ago that I also had to pay through bank transfer. For small businesses who don't want to raise their prices just to accommodate PayPal / Credit card company fees, it's still a good option I suppose
A couple years ago, I bought a Stadia controller and Chromecast ultra for 5 dollars from a Google store promotion. I played with it for about a month, and forgot about it because my apartment's wifi was trash
Years later I realize that I never cancelled my subscription and had been paying Google for like 3 years for stadia despite not playing it. I'm pretty sure I was the core audience at that point
You could probably have demanded a refund.
Congratulations, you perfectly discovered the point of subscription services. XD
I had stadia and used it frequently enough while the servers were up and the GPU shortage was going crazy. It's how I played elder scrolls online for a while, and it worked reasonably well. It's also fittingly how I experienced spiritfarer, and when it was being shut down I played spiritfarer to see it off. Less like an emotional goodbye, more like going to the funeral of a childhood friend who you haven't seen on decades
@amandak.4246 I once forgot I was paying yearly amazon prime subscriptions.
Easy to forget, unless you check your bank statements regularly. Which I don't.
Fortunately I'm a bit tech savy and set up everything so I get notifications depending on payment types, but your average user might not even have their bank app installed.
If you haven't used the services you subscribed for, you can generally ask for a refund. I did for amazon and they payed back straight away.
@@chaotickreg7024No, not for that long. Maybe for the last month but they wouldn’t refund you all of that.
I worked at the Apple Store when Google Glasses came out and I remember a guy who bought them literally came into the store to hang out and stood around waiting for people to ask him about them.
Ah, the glasshole phenomenon. They are coming back with Raybans and other AR products
Bet the Google glasses will be worth a fortune in the future!
He definitely has a Cybertruck now
I used to have Google plus on my laptop and it was so bad but I miss all of it. the creepy dms, the minion memes, the fake science pages. everything
I think Google plus was actually what led me to Wattpad in middle school. Also, ugh the Dan and Phil rp on there was insane 😬
I miss Google hangouts
They got all of that on Facebook
@@freshmozzarello
It still exists, it’s just called Google Chat now. Looks and works a bit differently, but my contacts and everything are still there, both in the app and in Gmail itself.
I used to do comic book TH-cam videos like 12 years ago and some others like myself would all Collab on Skype. Then everyone switched to Google+ and Hangouts. I am somewhat technologically challenged and couldn't get into it so I quit it all. Thankfully I made real friends and blossomed in my personal life. Some of those I talked to did the same, or still make videos, or have either committed suicide or are so cringe and undiagnosed in several mental illnesses that nobody talks to them anymore
Google video is how I watched Final Fantasy Advent Children for the first time, and I was able to download it and put it on my iPod video! Great memories.
Google Video was so good for anime piracy
Damn, I miss when Google's experiments were ill-fated MMOs and not terrifying AI models that the creators left in fear of their potential power...
The little cartoon Gabi was adorable I hope we see more of her
I'll never forgive Google for giving up on Google Glass. I still dream of the day that I'll be able to scroll through sick memes while pretending to have meaningful conversations with my stupid idiot friends and loved ones.
TBF they did keep it going until earlier this year, sadly only in enterprise modes.
we’ll definitely see a return of AR/VR headsets from google, especially with that fat goggle Apple just released.
This, Google Glass was indeed ahead of it's time. I think we'll see a re-release of something, I like how discrete it was all things considered compared to the AR headsets these days.
Also, I feel a lot of people find the camera thing a lot less weird nowadays as well, as we've all had phones for the longest times, and people have gotten used to it much more. Using a google glass for live translations, or to be able to search things/read instructions for things without having a full fledged ar headset seems so cool.
I feel Google wouldn't release it under the Glass moniker though, as the 2014 glass was a financial and social failure.
Google didn’t give up on google glass, it was under legal trouble because of such a product
For me, it's Wave. I will never forgive them for abandoning Google Wave.
Honestly you brining up ebola hit me with the weirdest sense of nostalgia I've ever had. 2014 was 9 years ago holy shit
Dude it is so vindicating seeing someone in their 20s ranting about the current state of online gaming and the push to make physical copies obsolete. It's all unnecessary bullshit stemming entirely from corporate greed.
Someone needs to do a video on the 2008 EA SecuRom scandal. I was pissed as it was happening and I predicted where things were headed right there.
I didn't like the disappearance of physical copies at first. But after 9-ish years of having a next gen catalog hundreds of games big, that takes up ZERO space in my apartment, I'm not going back.
Selling digital copies of games is a huge market and it's incredibly convenient for consumers. If they didn't sell so well, companies wouldn't do it. What I personally don't like about online games is that eventually they will shut down the servers, making the games unplayable. Online multiplayer games are also highly marketable, so in the end, it's all really down to the consumer.
@@NShomebase Until in 20 years and you want to play that one game, and the server no longer exists. My Atari 2600 is going to still be playing games long after I am dead.
@@thejunkman Well it's been almost 10, and so far there hasn't been any problems. In another 20 I expect emulation technology to have advanced far enough to cover the 3 or 4 games I still like that haven't been remade for the third time.
@@NShomebase You are right, it is going to be very game dependent on what will and won't work in the future. And if communities develop patches to "shut off" the phoning home aspect in some of these games.
Man, it hurts every time I hear how much some people struggled with Stadia. Sure, it wasn't perfect, but I have about 300Mb internet and it worked great for me. It was easy to take between houses when visiting family (who had worse internet and it was still fine) and take between the couch and desktop. The marketing really let it down. You could play all of your games from a browser window anywhere (with a good internet connection). That's so freaking cool. A little ahead of its time, I think, and having to buy a copy of the game that you can only ever stream kind of sucks, but Google actually made two huge pro-consumer moves when shutting down by refunding ALL Stadia hardware and store purchases AND making the controllers upgradable to be generic bluetooth controllers so they weren't garbage. I got three free bluetooth controllers and chromecasts out of that deal lol
My friend and I used to have a back and forth while playing games where one of us would get upset and exclaime
"This game is google plus!"
To which it was customary to reply in deadpan
"Your mom is google plus."
This tradition literally outlived the platform.
Cringe
@@b__c7538 Your mom is cringe
@@b__c7538 _you’re_ cringe
(Joke)
i know there are a ton of other services and products that you didn't get to mention but the one that really irked me was the terrible way google music was killed off and replaced with youtube music, just so they could transition to a streaming service instead of being able to own your own music library
For real, I payed money for all of those songs and now I don’t even have them.
Yeah! I bought a whole bunch of songs on Google Play Music, and there was nothing wrong with the service. I just had my songs whenever I wanted them with no ads. Then, out of nowhere, Google notified me it was shutting down, but that I could transfer and keep my songs when I switched to TH-cam Music. Of course, that was a lie. All of my songs were gone immediately. Still pissed about that.
"If Runscape and Maple Story could do this 20 years ago, i think they can figure it out."
PREACH GIRL!!!
Omg your name I can't 😂
@@Piperitumnot really, the problems were just different at the time. Runescape runs smooth but also it's at 1 game update every 0.6 seconds, hardly the same as 4k streaming
I remember when Google's motto was "Don't be evil"
I remember, it was said as a joke. They've always been evil.
don't! be evil!
Google+ was my home when I was a lonely kid growing up with no friends, since I was able to find people who had my same interests and have an escape from my shitty homelife. (Of course I used it to role play warrior cats as a 4th grader, but it was the best time of my life). I would sell my soul to have Google+ back
oh my god same
Same 😔 role playing sailor moon, Naruto, and sonic was my online awakening. I had such a cool group of friends
I really liked Google+ too, but I was a twenty something and not a 4th grade Warrior Cats RPer when it came out. Although, thinking back, it was the perfect platform for you crazy kids and your crazy role play games. ☺️
I miss google + every day
Made so many good friends on g+. Some I still talk to because we keep finding ourselves again having same interests even if things drift. I miss it. I genuinely miss the customization features with collections I had so much fun finding matching pictures that looked good with my icon and header. Even with all of the shitty rps.
Google Glasses are actually really popular with visually impaired people. There's this startup that developed software for it, allowing people to video call some trusted contact if they got lost. The contact would see what the glasses recorded and navigate them back to familiar surroundings. I think they also added a feature for text-to-speech as seen by the glasses
There are smartphone apps now that do the same thing.
The most tragic Google product death was Google Play Music. It had the best UI I've seen, it let me play my download playlist without being spammed with offers and shit, it was super useful and easy to use. And they decided to "replace" it with TH-cam Music. What a piss poor replacement. Maybe it's better now, but there's no way I'm ever going to let TH-cam spam my music app with shit I played on their video app and then try to hide my downloads or limit how many downloaded songs I have. I hate it.
EXACTLY. Like, sometimes I like a music video because it's catchy, and then sometimes I like it because it's absolutely atrocious and I'm going to torture my friends with it. I don't wanna be listening to my liked playlist and suddenly have 'Good Lookin' by Dixon Dallas pop up.
100% AGREED!! i was one of those kids who would download music from youtube url to mp3 websites because there were some songs that weren’t on streaming services (plus i didn’t know that streaming music was a thing in general) so it proved extremely useful to appease my want for nerdy music. when i saw that it was shut down i was so sad that all my memories and precious hours of downloading were gone :[
@@weepwoop11 I cried when they finally deleted 860+ songs I worked so hard to obtain over my entire high school career. I passed them over to a USB, because my laptop ran out of memory (I use a potato), but that USB drive got lost somehow and I never found it again.
I'm really enjoying youtube music
Convert to mp3. Just like back in the day
When I was a kid, maybe around 2009, I would mess around with iGoogle a lot. It’s pretty much a Google Search homepage but below, you can add a bunch of widgets like weather, news, gmail, etc. There were other cool widgets too like a piano and a pair of eyes that follows your cursor
I really liked Google Wave when it first came out. It essentially helped develop the tech that is now Google Docs where multiple people could edit a doc at the same time.
Yeah, I remember google wave being described of a logical evolution of e-Mails and the future of collaborative work!
Google Wave was way ahead of its time. Now Microsoft has basically done the same thing with Teams
Google was cool. When they weren't evil. I was a WebCrawler and Lycos user before Google. The appeal of Google was the simplistic use.
@@LordDaveTheKind When they first started rolling out Teams at work, my first thought was "A corporate version of Google Wave!"
@@TheGadgetPanda I'm not surprised at all. At the beginning it wasn't that great, but now it has lots of integrated functionalities.
I love the use of squidward walking noises for things like the wink and air quotes
OH MY GOD the use of Soothouse made me so happy gabi
eddy, ted, gunnar, andy, AND gabi uploading all on the same day??? we are so lucky.
don't forget chad chad too!! she uploaded like an hour ago 👍🏾
And Chad Chad!
OMG yt notifs didn't tell me 😭😭 guess i know what im watching next
And chad chad and nick (i think) and dev
Nvm dev abd nick were at like 8 pm yesterday
go bless
I never really used Google+, but I remember when there was this weird guy at my online highschool who would ask girls for their email addresses to chat with them because he was trying to be a "player"/"ladies man". He was able to chat with my friend (who HADN'T given him her email) only because he was able to find her profile on Google+ and was really creeped out by it
Google Reader was the best possible QRT engine in the late blog/RSS feed era. You could friend people and communities could start comment threads in OPs share and there was absolutely no algorithm influencing how we shared blog posts or commented. It was glorious. I miss the shit out of the decentralized web/blog/RSS era.
Yes! I will literally never forgive them for discontinuing Google Reader. Currently trying to claw back some of that RSS goodness via feedly
everybody on it actually using it like a social media was under 16 so you can imagine that it was THE most toxic place on the web. tumblr doesn't even come close, a blue check twitter would be crying in 3 seconds flat.
That’s what I love about podcasts, they’re one of the few things that are still mostly decentralized and non-algorithm based. It’s also why I absolutely refuse to use Spotify or some other app/service for podcasts or listening to exclusive podcasts on said services/app.
I miss Reader. Haven't found a decent replacement.
@@lVlegabytewhat do you use to listen? /gen
11:20 I love the animated Gabi on screen alongside other data / talking points! Not sure if it's new but it's the first time I noticed.
when I was in middle school my mom was invited to try test out the beta builds of the glasses and I remember my sister and I coming up with a sharing calendar; we both really wanted to play with it and she forgot about it. Biggest disappointment of my life
beta to what?
@@thisname5ucks you could sign up for a chance to test the device early on
Sounds like a chill life.
@@quintessences what device?
@@thisname5ucks google glass.
Google+ was truly my social media app of choice. I got it in like 2015 when finally got my own phone and email address. I was hooked. I remember being in the Steven Universe, Hamilton, Undertale, My Little Pony and other general groups abd overall just having a blast lmao. It was my Tumblr and it even introduced me to stuck like Tumblr and Ao3. I remember having google hangout friends and everything. It wasnt my introduction to fandoms (that was youtubes job) but it definitely introduced me to actually interacting with fandoms
Truly a gateway.
I joined around 2015-16 and it was also my introduction to fandom. I'm still a bit nostalgic for it tbh. Now I'm a tumblrina.
@@avastoyboxandarcade same even down to Tumblr. Lowkey wish I backed up my G+ account
I use all of these nostalgic sound effects on my devices (they're actually from my ancient time), so your videos keep making me check my phone/email/Discord and getting really confused
I was legit thinking yesterday about how Google Glass falls under the contemporary huge cultural phenomenons that don’t get mentioned ever today, like Game of Thrones
I actually enjoyed Google+ I followed a lot of interesting communities there, The reason it failed was because they tried to force people to join in order to leave TH-cam comments and everyone hated it 😂
So I think the biggest reason Google+ failed is because they rolled out accounts so slowly. They were hyping it up, getting people to post a bunch, but very few of my friends could even sign up (the waiting list took forever) so it was kinda dead in the water. It could have been a lot more successful if they opened it up to anyone at launch.
@@tylerwhite1322yup. This. Half of my friend group got invites to Google plus, while half were left out. It caused a lot of drama with people being left out.
I had google+ and many accounts for it. That app was my shit and I had an unhealthy obsession to it. It worked for me but had a lot of porn and weird people on it. It was a very toxic social media app at least the parts I was on where toxic.
Yep, pretty stupid of them. It was probably the first community based app that I actually liked.
There will never be a time when cloud gaming will be an acceptable alternative. Network development moves slower than hardware development because networking is just the act of connecting multiple pieces of hardware through *really* long cables. As soon as the cables improve, the devices they connect see the same improvements through advances in micro-engineering. The internet is inherently inefficient, which is why we only use it to do things that are impossible through local devices. We would never try to replace the computing load a local device is doing just fine by offloading it to a network device, because that would be stupid and much more expensive. How long is it going to take people to figure this out?
The Google glasses were actually pretty cool, I got a pair secondhand and I felt like a crappier version of Neo from The Matrix.
I get cookie from Ned’s declassified vibes lol
God I miss G+
It was my first social media account, I got all my irl friends onto it. I did lots of roleplay and joined lots of fandom communities through it. It was my place away from facebook/my family from the online space and I love it despite all the red flags G+ had :3
Circles were basically just a way to sort your connections and filter who can see what. At the time, other social medias like facebook all friends would see the same stuff, so they wanted to capitalize on making categories within friends. but then everyone did that and it didn't matter.
Facebook did have friend lists at the time, they were just not as user friendly as Google+ Circles were.
When posting on Google+, the circles were part of the posting screen while Facebook requires you to select Custom and type in the friend list to limit a post to a friend list
One of the Facebook developers said on Tweeter at the time that circles was just friend lists and even made a web app that let you organize your Facebook friends in Friend Lists the same the Google+ circle management by dragging people's names into circles.
I think that Facebook developer didn't realize that, it wasn't the ability to sort friends into groups that was the great thing about circles, it was how well integrated into the service the concept of circles were.
Since then, Facebook's UI has changed many times and has made using Friend Lists even less of a priority now then it was then.
@@jdunn0I found circles so user friendly, and the ability to share circles meant you could build a community really easily. It made Google plus my favorite social network. I also think it made it so much easier to actually see your friends posts instead of having so much other stuff algorithmically pushed at you. The indie ttrpg community was thriving on Google plus and it hasn't been the same since it died. Weird to me that gabi found circles confusing.
Didn’t they just recently add it to Twitter?
@@solgaleo3533 i haven't used twitter for years and i remember them having 'lists'
Google+ was actually my primary social media during it's uh... "heyday" for lack of a better term, and I made some online friends there that I still follow on other sites to this day. I can say that we were upset at the news they were shutting it down but seriously not surprised and personally I was already half off the site anyway by that point.
Same but my friends and I died off by now
When you voiced your gripes about Diablo I felt VINDICATED. Holy smokes I thought I was the only one who had the same thoughts and everyone else just thought it was normal. Why is Blizzard acting like we are still in the Ot’s.
If Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 have taught me anything, it’s that modern Blizzard only cares about what the shareholders want, and hope that that aligns with what the fans want as well. That’s how we get amazing things like “OW2 requiring a phone number to play” and “Diablo 4 always online after Diablo 3’s disastrous launch from the same issue”
@@MajinBoowomp 100% agree. Especially with the Overwatch 2 situation. What an absolute dumpster fire. Ugh. So much potential just to sell out and not give a shit about your consumers. Capitalism strikes again.
Are you trying to spell aughts?
@@leahdavis9434 correct this is called being ✨ l a z y✨. Lol
I knew it was gonna be trash after the Dumbsterfire called "Diablo Immoral" ... i would only play D4 if someone would gift me that game
One more quick note about stadia. If you used the Chromecast ultra on a decent wired internet connection it was VERY smooth and worked great. The thing that actually killed Stadia was the lack of games. Ubisoft was the only AAA dev working on games for it and Google shuttered their first party studio before even giving it a chance. Most of the games were old ports that everyone already owned and mobile games that already ran find on phones and even apple tv. So it was really more about marketing and enticing real devs to release games on the platform. Cyberpunk 2077 for instance, was the only version of the game besides PC that didn't suck at launch.
My best friend and I were 100% convinced French dressing was Franch when we were about 5-6.
About Google+
I'm from 2005, but as a little internet goblin/internet historian. Mainly for the Netherlands, but also in the English-speaking world, I come across Google+ in the most random places.
The thing is, most people who actually used it, used as a sort of forum, or as a sort of Whatsapp. I remember it kinda looking like an extension of Gmail when they kept shoving it up my throat in 2015. I remember it was mostly in Gmail like "hey, wanna continue this conversation in Google+" type of stuff.
So if they meant it as a sort of Instagram they failed. The only people I found actually used it, used it as a forum.
google+ was my first introduction to narcissism and I was never the same
Same
My cousin helped work on Google Glass and I remember when he pitched the concept to the family and at least originally it was supposed to be operated based off of where you looked so like if you looked up and to the right it would capture a picture or something and it seemed like you would just get a shit ton of unwanted photos taking space. but cool how it worked with prescription lenses
I find it baffling that companies (including Blizzard of all people) have issues with running online games when back in the 00's I could spend a whole day playing WoW with only a few hiccups along the way!
i clicked on your video hoping that you would mention google lively! it lives fondly in my memory but feels like a fever dream. the comparison to the metaverse is spot on too… when i first saw it i was like wait, didn’t google do this already like 20 years go? lol
all i have to say is that im a brazilian and i miss orkut. search and find out about the social media before google+ and before facebook's growth. the best social media that somehow only got popular in brazil??? rest in peace, goat.
I was pleased to see Google refund all stadia game purchases. They also have a way to convert the wonderful stadia controller to a Bluetooth controller
I distinctly remember them launching an advertisement for Google+ that was once on TH-cam, and it was so wildly overconfident. It literally said things like "Google+ WILL replace Facebook, it's inevitable". Seeing that level of cockiness amount to nothing was quite enjoyable.
We say privacy but don’t realize privacy no longer doesn’t exist. We complain about cameras but don’t realize there’s cameras on every single building we’re being recorded 24/7!
Only in cities, you're fine if you live in the sticks XD like literally the middle of nowhere.
"privacy no longer doesn't exist"
2014 doesn’t stick out in my mind ever. But is most definitely the year I met the people I still talk to now. So you unlocked alot of my sophomore year of high school when you brought up that Malaysia plane.
Google thing i miss is google music. I had SO MANY songs and then they deleted it and lost all of them 😢 i miss it still to this day lol
My cat was very intrigued by the moving drawing of you (at around 11 minutes). He was very invested, and I just couldn't click away, had to re watch
I used to love google+ hangouts. In ~2011. I had a whole group of like 10 friends who used to hangout on there, pretty much almost daily. 😢 rip
My previous doctor used google glass. He would dictate his notes to someone in a third world country who would transcribe them, and he would see their transcription on his google glass to make sure that they were accurate.
"someone in a third world country" is exactly the kind of vaguely othering phrase we hear all the time in the service industry
That had to be a hipaa violation 💀
Very confusing. How did that work
One of the things google glass was used for was in manufacturing so you can see the bluprint of what ever it is you're working on at all time
I’ll add one product that not a whole lot of people know about but hurt me the most: Songza. Songza was bought by Google in 2014 and before that, it was a one of a kind, playlist heavy music radio that specialized in Concierge services. It was awesome not having to think too much and have a playlist made by actual people to fit the mood. Sadly, it turned into Google Play Music and we all know how that turned out…
yesterday i was on spotify and saw a category that reads: "pov: euphoria is your favourite series"
THEY KNOW.
One of the things that I think we all have in common is that we used to type "google" in the search bar while already being on Google's main page when we were young.
My grandma is still doing it to this day.
I still do that..
at 9:00 "homunculus glasses" = "Popularized in sixteenth-century alchemy and nineteenth-century fiction, it has historically referred to the creation of a miniature, fully formed human. The concept has roots in preformationism as well as earlier folklore and alchemic traditions."
Does anyone remember a virtual pet feature on Google+? I have a vague memory of being very upset when my sister chose a spider as her pet for some reason
I know igoogle had that type of feature
I remember virtual pets on iGoogle, but dunno about Google+
I remember seeing that one firefighter used google glass to essentially have a minimap of house layouts and stuff. I dont remember how well it worked or anything beyond that but it was an interesting idea
that’s interesting, i do wonder though how useful that would be in practice? how would you get your hands on a certain house’s blueprints in the time it takes to leave the fire department and drive there?
@@MyChannel773 iirc firefighters in some places have blueprints of houses just so they know what theyre getting into. Thats about all i can tell you
Google Buzz was a really short lived thing before Google+ where they tried to make Gmail into a social media hub.
Buzz was the shit when I was in 5th-6th grade, it was a version of Facebook/Twitter my mom didn’t know about lol
@@tannert.2296 I was around the same age. It was a really easy way to talk to all the kids from school. It also had no ads unlike Facebook.
Yeah, Google Lively was the one on this list that really made me sad. Second Life didn't run well on my PC at the time, so at the time Lively was actually pretty awesome. And the completely bonkers mismatch visually was genuinely charming tbh! It woulda been cool to see it continue & get refined over time, but oh well.
As someone who has bing installed on their computer permanently and has tried to switch to chrome multiple times. I can confirm that Bing is the worst search engine on the internet.
my job makes us use Edge as our browser, and I use Opera GX at home, so I'm used to just typing things into the address bar to google shit. I cannot express the rage I feel when I type something into the address bar at work, hit enter, and BING search results come up. omfg. bane of my existence
wait but 10k active users in 2008 is really good tbh, can’t imagine many games at all had that player base back then
Damn, that 3 second Soothouse clip brought back some memories. Miss that crew
At 0:47 but love seeing og people. Wish new and clueless people wasnt a problem.
omg agreed on single player console games. i bought rainbox six siege for xbox series x and it was the same thing, i could only play the tutorials offline. so annoying. when i have a console i want to be able to quietly hunker down when internet is not working (earthquake/tsunami/wildfire/tornado/blizzard), charge my batteries with solar if electricity is down, and stay out of the way of first responders for a few days while the mess blows over. at least i have my space jam dvd
This video was recommended, and you earned another subscriber, Its so rare this days to find fun youtuber who don't make stupid faces on thumbnail or have clickbait titles. Thank you :)
Google + was my main social media since it came out and I was there till the very end. Miss it dearly
Google Video was my gateway drug, nearly 20 years later and I’m still injecting videos directly into my veins
Google+ was the very 1st social media i ever used and i have never heard of the other thing at all untill now.
I’m honestly surprised Google Fiber actually went into full production after it was introduced in one of Google’s April Fools’ Day jokes (serious, look up the video, it still exists and is a “fiber supplement” joke). It may not be as widespread or adopted as they might’ve initially hoped-mostly because of how much it costs to build out fiber connections, but they’d done a decent job of expanding their network in major cities in a way that they’ve become one of the medium-sized telecom providers.
I think they really introduced people to the idea of [optic-]fiber internet and led to the market to overall start accepting as an alternative to traditional cable or satellite internet, and that was a benefit for society, even if they didn’t totally capture the market like they’d hoped.
Google Keep is excellent. Oh and Google Drive/Suite (their version of Office).
looking at the old google UI feels like a fever dream
gabi’s pngtuber debut. We are here for history, y’all. lol
I miss Google+ so much, it was one of the peaks of my middle school and early high school years, may it rest in peace...
Atrioc has mentioned that when he was at Twitch it felt more like people advanced by producing ideas than producing functional, successful items. The people that got “google lens” popular in the company probably got promotions, despite the cost.
It's worth noting that whenever you look at statistics for how most sales are seemingly shifting to digital, they always lump things like dlcs, subscriptions, and season passes with game sales to boost the number
I didn’t know Google Glass even released. I thought they just straight up killed the project before it launched
Google Reader (2005-2013) is the product i miss the most and is the betrayal that made me incapable of trusting ever again.
Google's amount of failures makes me think my luck in the dating game isn't that bad after all
I was getting shown a video conferencing system at work and this video played through the speakers on accident for a hot minute :,) love u
ah google+, tried to force name changes on us. I just waited them out, they insisted frequently but never forced it. Not being able to comment was nowhere near the restriction they seemed to think it was. from what I remember of google video it was just unremarkable, youtube just had more personality.
5:48 Americas funniest home videos blows my mind now because it’s literally youtube videos and allot of them are like from 10 years ago 😂
I miss Jeeves. Hope he's doing okay.
I would say you should ask him, but alas 😔
He's just retired :)
After 19 years and 300,000km the CVT in my Prius is still working perfectly
I'm still severely bitter about them shutting down music and forcing everyone to use/pay for youtube music
Stadia was amazing and refunded every single game purchase after they ended. They unlocked their controllers to be used as generic bluetooth controllers. At least they ended it smoothly.
My school descended into chaos when they announced iGoogle would be shutting down. We had figured out you could use the TH-cam widget to access YT even though it was otherwise blocked.
I have a love hate relationship with Google. I think they do know how to do a lot of things well, they have some great products, and they seem to have at least a little more respect for their users than other big tech companies like apple and meta, but they've still got a lot of bad practices, and all the failed products do make them seem tone deaf at times. I still respect that they try to branch out so much though, and tbh some of these dead products still seem like cool ideas that could work in the future with more development.
brand new viewer, just gotta say love the set, a streamer i watch has a sleeping glaceon plush so seeing other sleeping pokemon around youtube is fun for me to see cause it gives my little brain a activity to do while browsing youtube. so far i got 2 the streamer's and yours. anyway got my first minuete comment out of the way gonna finish this video that i clicked on because it gave me dopeamine
3:23 brazil mentioned
i genuinely miss google+ though. being an undertale fan on 2016 and being on it was a unique experience.
Google Glass were goofy and barely functioned, but i still wish we could have a proper AR experience. Imagine all the extra interactivity you can have with the world around you, like maybe you can scan a QR code on a restaurant's table and it immediately sends the menu onto your glasses, or maybe looking at a painting at a museum and the glasses give you access to the information about it, and it could even be used for military purposes to show a soldier's heartrate, their stock of supplies and ammunition and even a satellite view of the area around them. IDK maybe it's just cause i like sci-fi and cyberpunk aesthetics but i am fascinated by alternate reality technology and i feel like it's due time we implement it more concretely.
The Ray Ban Meta glasses are the modern equivalent of Google glass, at least for the photo side of it. They look a lot better.
13:20 I feel lucky to have lived through that brief moment in time when games were made to be fun, not manipulative. I just wish I had taken my piracy more seriously. Some of those games I'll probably never play again.
r/roms megathread :D
There’s Roms for mostly everything lol