Looking at computers in a CompUSA store in 2000
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- Hey, it's the 2000's again!!
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Footage of a CompUSA store in New York City from November 30th.
Shots of different computers and software, people browsing various items and helping customers at the checkout counter.
This video last almost 10 minutes.
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This is nostalgic, depressing, and fascinating…all at the same time. What an odd feeling.
I feel excalty the same. Bought my first Compaq pc in spring of 2000 .Good ol days!
Time is up
I assume depressing because it means we're all getting (way) older :(
Circuit city didn’t make it, not surprised compusa wouldn’t
@utubethumbsup For me it's depressing cause I wouldn't want to use those crappy old computers like I did when I was a little kid.
I remember Comp USA and Circuit City was where you got your computers back then. It's hard to believe both are gone. Back then you thought they would be around forever
Circuit City failed to update their stores and instead wasted money on Divx. The company was doomed at that very point.
@@WeSRT4 Best Buy was much more popular here because circuit city would hassle customers so much since they made commission
@@Haddley333 Best Buy doesn't know their products for the most part.
@@WeSRT4 yeah i know.
In those days when those type of stores were getting very popular. Before this was RadioShack, Sears, Leachmere, Caldor, etc.
back when it was actually exciting to get a computer.
It still is today. But you gotta build one yourself!
It’s exciting to build a computer today with a Nvidia 3060 or higher video card.
I was very excited when I got my last laptop and very excited when I got a desktop before that. It's still as exciting as ever to me.
@mrk107 not everyone wastes their lives playing video games.
There's more to it than that.
@@Jeff-xy7fv Building a computer hasn't been exciting since 2008 for me. They're all so bland now
This was such a fun time to be into PCs. Everything was evolving so rapidly and everything seemed so advanced.
It was. It was the best times of my PC days
Now look at what they have. The store doesn’t even exist anymore.
I miss the lighting, arrangement, and particular smell of these stores. Never get to buy much, but it was always an experience to browse!
yes! Aahh the smells right!? Not too many comment on that. I rmember the smell of the electronics and the packaging lol..
Yes, the smell!!! I was thinking about that while watching this video. So glad I'm not alone.
I worked at this exact store during this time period. This is CompUSA store #707 in New York City, which was located on 57th Street, 1775 Broadway. I recognize quite a few people from this video, brings back a lot of memories from what was definitely a simpler time.
It’s hard to believe it’s been 23 years since 2000
This comment puts the fear of ... Something in me
@@StyleshStormtime
Not really. It's 2023 and the year 2000 was 23 years ago so the math checks out pretty solidly.
Feels like yesterday to me.
@@TheBigBentley911oh be quiet
This one hits harder than the rest for me. I would have been 12, and right in the middle of many years that I would spend glued to the PC. I can just imagine my mom taking me to CompUSA after school to pick up a new game. I can vividly remember all of the 2000s era peripherals, software, PCs, etc. I spent so many hours playing Team Fortress Classic and SWAT 3 this year. I shouldn't have watched this while smoking a bowl, lol.
Congrats on wasting your life on weed and video games bro
Hits that painfully nostalgic heart string. Good times
You got hit by this video? We’re you injured?
My brother was 12 then too and really into computers, and I was 8. We didn't have a whole lot in common or do much together because of our age difference (and I'm a girl too) but we definitely did play computer and video games together and kind of bonded over that! This video definitely brings back fond memories of that time.
I spent a lot of time playing Balders Gate and Falloout 1 and 2 and luna on the PS1. I was ready to die and those games kept me alive.. I was in my early 20s and out on bail accused of horrid crimes and couldn’t leave my parents house. Those games kept me going.. I never did the crimes but had a bad lawyer and ended up just getting a few years probation after.. and 20 odd years later I am still basically homeless and my parents have passed because of it all.. but I still love those games as I sit here in my tent.
I was born in 2000, seeing an era that I was alive but no recollection is wild. Thanks for this.
I was born in the early 90s, and there are things about today that are different than then of course, but going back to 2000 wouldn't be as big of a shock for someone in 2023 as going back to 1977 would for someone from 2000.
@@xpensfanatic2009 Even people like me who remember 2000 would still get a culture shock.
It's been so long that we forget how things were sometimes.
@@xpensfanatic2009 true
@@KaiserMattTygore927 It's turned out in retrospect, that the year 2000 was fairly laid-back for much of the civilised world, and most of 2001 was quite okay. The shock came in 9/11, and so, the people who followed the events from their tv and computer screens, have that innocent 'before' and not-so-innocent 'after' era.
This is like a time capsule into my college years. I remember all these exact computers and designs. Thanks for the memories
That wall of iMacs..🥹🥹🥹🥹
I was looking at all those huge boxes of computers, thinking stores needed so much space and room back then. Yes, now we have online stores, Amazon and such…. But also, just think how our computers with a thousand times the power, memory and function fits in the palm of our hands, 🤯
Ah, the early 2000’s; the golden age of computers and Windows XP.
Tom Sisson
Ikr, it wasn't all about gaming and doing streaming stuff.
@@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000 Streaming _was_ there, and wasn't: RealPlayer was an established streaming program and plugin, and I loved it for streaming music - William Orbit had an Ørbit Ønline website with some of his best tracks so far. RealPlayer also had album listening parties, a proto-Spotify of sorts.
Windows Media Player and plugin had proved itself on September 11, 2001 - MSNBC was the only one to stream reliably on that day.
Yahoo!Launch was the premier music video streaming platform in the early 2000s.
In user-uploaded videos, msn video and TH-cam were the main competitors, and TH-cam prevailed.
msn music was an excellent music subsite and music genre + music artist database with quality content written by people who knew the business.
@@mardus_ee CD burners just came out at that time too, signaling the start of the early days of streaming and music downloading.
The fact that you had the foresight to document all this is not only magnificent, but it also brings back the joys of going to the local Computer Hardware store as a wee lad. My home town had CompUSA which is where I bought my very first PC game: The SIms......thanks for posting Mr Time traveler.
I may have been single digit years old when some of these videos were filmed and I have never been to some of these stores, but man, do some of these take me back. It must be the look of the video and the now dated technology.
Something about people going about a typical day in stores in a time period I'd hardly remember, and to have it all recorded. Neat.
Same I was 4 and barely remember but it’s so nostalgic. I feel like I remember the mid/late 2000’s way more
Im barely old enough to remember this store . My dad was the guy people would take PCs to so he could fix them . I remember tagging along with him to this store and circuit city , as well as radio shack.
Wish I had a time machine to go back. Everything seemed so wholesome back then. I think I saw the hp I had growing up in the background!
so clustered and crowded... i love it
I remember looking at a Gecko walking on a branch screensaver at a computer store in 1998 and was so mesmerized, I said there and then I gotta get myself a computer, I was only able to afford one 4 years later in 2002, but I really felt good after getting it.
My father and I DEFINITELY remember this store.
Very cool! That big marquee? Remember that?
@@vampirerobot Yeah, I sure do.
I LOVED CompUSA. They came to my area after Lechmere went away and I found them quite enjoyable. And or course, an obligatory mention of the IBM 4693/94 register with customized software.
I worked at CompUSA for a year or so in 2000-01, my back hurts thinking about stacking those printers and monitors.
Oh man those were the times. Circuit City was my favorite store and they had tons of computers to try out at the time. They even had bundles too. There was just something special about them haha.
Wow, I worked at a CompUSA in 1999-2000 during the whole Y2K scare. This was like looking at a day in my life 23 years ago.
I would gladly give up my smartphone, 500mbps internet and everything I have to just go back and live in that time again.
Give me back my Pentium 3, my Voodoo 3 card, my 512kbps DSL and some Quake 3 and Tribes, and 17 year old me at the time would gladly stay there forever.
I feel ya bro😢
Which store I worked j. Garden city during same period 98 -2000
Thanks! This is a walk down memory lane. I worked on the front end opening a CompUSA in Knoxville, Tenn and another in Atlanta, Ga. Fun, exciting job!
compUSA! OMG!,!! The memories of going there just to play video games 😂😂😂😂😂
Yes sirrrrr
This is around the time I got my first computer, but mine was from Staples, it was an HP that I used to play rogue spear on the msn gaming zone. I was only 11 at the time. Nostalgia is such a drug… I’m not sure if life will ever feel so promising ever again.
I remember not being able to afford one of these.
Same! $700 back then seemed like lottery money. LOL
I love your channel. It really is a time machine. Thank you so much.
Thanks Matt 😀
@@vampirerobot Still curious how you are travelling.
@@MindsWithoutBorders I wish I was time traveling instead of baking a frozen pizza at 6:00 A.M. ☹
I worked for CompUSA a little over a year in 1997-98. This takes me back, trying to scam customers into buying "TAP", the unnecessary extended warranty, because sales guys got a decent-sized kickback when we sold one.
I worked at Computer City in 1998 and I remember the extended warranty scheme, but I also remember trying to get customer to buy the gold head printer cables because we got a kick back for each one of those we sold. There was no reason for the gold head, although we told the customers it made their printing better.
@@ScottSpotMedia No reason ANY cable should cost $40, as evidenced by all of them being like $10 on Amazon now, but back then all of them did. My 1st or 2nd day, my mgr. told me "The middle of the store is where we make all of the money." Software, cables, etc. - most of the cables had like 400-500% margins, while a computer or laptop had maybe 8%.
Bronze silver gold 2 or 3 year and the printer pack cable and warranty
Did you worked for the news and used these as stock footage? This is great ❤
I"m just glad that at least micro center is around to enjoy a experience going to a computer store that was missing after CompUSA went bankrupt back then.
CompUSA, damn I’m getting old. Where I used to go buy my sims expansion packs as a kid 😂
There was a CompUSA just blocks away from where I used to live and was getting into computers & networking in the late '90's. I probably shopped there at least once a week. LOL
Man this channel is awesome
Look at how comfy, happy, and friendly everyone looks.
And of course a REAL COMPUTER STORE which are basically an endangered species nowadays.
guarantee those printers are better than the ones these days
The software used to interact with them is better now, but the hardware back then was much less plastic.
I remember having ink printers back in those days and I don't remember them forcing you to use their own proprietary cartridges, or forcing you to connect them online and all that stuff modern printers do nowadays. So yeah, I can confirm they were better.
ABSOLUTELY
Fr, mines always breaking! Lol
@AtlanticLove They were definitely plastic and suffered from UV damage that yellowed terribly.
I was 6 and my dad had just bought our second computer, I remember being absolutely mind blown by it…I loved taking it apart and putting it back together, why my dad let me do that I don’t know, but this would have been heaven for me at the time, I was just getting into my love for this increíble era of technology
this is awesome, nothing like the experience of going into CompUSA where they really had everything you needed to build a PC in store. Places like Best Buy just don't compare at all.
I was only around 5 or 6 around this time but I can still remember these types of computers and having to use dial up not knowing what it was at the time
I bought a computer in one of these stores in 2006. They had a lot of video games as well. It was a frequent visit for me. Millennials, and Gen X... we both get an especially weird feeling watching this. It's so impersonal now.
I remember the CompUSA that was across from Easton Town Center in North Columbus OH. back in the day. Used to visit frequently in the mid-late 2000s to look for computer stuff. Still have a few things I bought from that location. So many computer places I could visit back then that simply don't exist anymore.
I got my first PC around 2000. It was a POS. But messing with it so much just to try to make it run better made me understand alot about PCs. Now i build PCs, Every family member who has one ive personally picked out the parts and built them for them.
Daaannng I remember CompUSA, been a minute since I heard that name lol, there was one in LA next to Gardena in Cali that my mom and I would go to often and just immediately sparked my interest into computers, NOW I got my degree in Cyber Security and in a way places like this made me a functioning person in these new technological times.
3:32 i still use the same monitor, soo cool to see it brand new on a shelf
Whew! Computers and laptops back them were so unique, each had quirks another didn't, and there's so much variance! PC towers were also quite unique from each other. Dude I miss this era 😊
Somebody really truly needs to figure out how to time travel.
Thank you so much for these videos. Until somebody DOES figure out how to time travel, these great videos will have to do :)
I got a computer in 1999 with a 6 gb hard drive, thinking it would be enough. I didn't know that would leave me with about 4 gb to use. This was before discovering mp3 downloads through Napster.
Or morpheus , limewire
@@coldarcticoasis Audiogalaxy, Kazaa...
Napster was peak computing. First taste of breaking free of the corporate music prison and that feeling of getting something so cool and so rare . . for free! Watching the progress bars fill up the Napster interface! 89% 90%, 98%!.
Shortly after this that feeling went away, get it all for free and the sense of value drops accordingly, and how much muisc can you even listen to? You start collecting for collecting's sake. But those first weeks on Napster were liberating.
Man, my go to store was Fry's, as I was in AZ. I remember the joy of browsing in person, super excited with different products on display. Especially the gaming section, all the boxes were super cool and exciting. When I reincarnate, I want to be myself again lol.
I'm in Australia and remember these times doing this here looking around tech store's thanks for uploading this great nostalgia
Love the constant alarm.
Those things were really finicky and would go off constantly on the laptops, PDAs and Digital Cameras.
I always look forward to These videos
All those computers would be looted today. Sad how times have changed.
I was born in 90 and this was one of the coolest things looking at computers at the stores
I love this so much. The only thing I could not love was the beeping!!! But what can you do, it's authentic
What I would do to go back to this time. Discovering the internet was magical around this time
CompUSA! Wow this is so nostalgic I miss the good old days going there great times.
Where do you find these amazing slices of history and why don't you have 1M subscribers by now? This is the closest any of us will likely get to having a time machine. Keep up the great work.
This would have been right around the time I bought my first computer as a "real adult"...a Compaq Presario. It had a 10GB hard drive, and I remember thinking that was a *huge* amount of memory for storage!
5:51 I used to think those Macs were so revolutionary, streamlined, and hightech back then. Now they're like a collectors item and many dont even work due components degrading from age inside. I had those exact HP deskjets in the background....they were amazing printers!
i had a website back then in 2003ish. i remember being over a family friends house and showing their son my website. the purple and yellow theme really popped on his imac G3.
Those old all-in-one CRT iMacs seem so primitive now. I have one in perfect working condition. I bought it last year, just for the nostalgia. I turn it on now and again. They seem so quaint and cute and so emblematic of the time. But back then I needed a Sony trinitron 21" CRT and a hulking Windows gaming beast with a high-end video card, probably the Radeon 9700 at this time. I used to laugh at iMacs, as if they were mere toys.
CompUSA was the Toys R Us of home computers at that time. Loved how so much was on display. Nothing like shopping at a store like that compared to viewing products online.
I wish there was footage of the game section. This does bring back great memories of my friends and I riding our bikes to COMPUSA. It was only 2 miles from my house.
I like how different, and cooler looking PCs were back then. I always wanted a top of the line HP, Gateway, eMachines, or Compaq back then. 5:10 One of the worst Windows operating systems ever lol
Most definitely Mark...an embarrassing product!
I remember going with my parents to a local walmart in like 2000 or 2001 and grabbing one of those big beefy navy blue and gray boys with WinME on it. Such weird nostalgia of such a weird transitory time. i was 6 or 7 but those times had such a thick atmosphere that stuck with me. Now we're in like a simulacrum of a simulacrum of a simulation of society, it's weird
I think, imo, 7 was the final good windows edition. Everything after is trying so hard to be cloud based or shove cloud down our throats as well as forced updates.
I bought one of those ME Boxes back in the days.
@@sophist1cated seems so vividly recent.... yet so far
This store was great !! At least we still have micro center !!
"No payments or interest for six months!" LOL I didn't work for CompUSA, but I remember using that as a sales tactic. Trust me, people, you always pay the interest.
Just like most comments, I sure miss this era of computing. I would say mid-90s thru mid-2000s. There was something so exciting about this era. Computers don't feel like computers anymore but oversized smart phones lol
I was 11 in 2000 and only in 5th grade and had big, chunky laptops in school 😂 the desktop computer we had was a Hewlett-Packard 😅 those were the days!
Yes it was that what up man I was 8 in early 2000 good old days
I remember those days. So much stuff packed in one store. But it was all very expensive as you can see in the video. It costs a fortune as technology evolves fast to stay updated in the 90s and 00s.
a unique time to be alive to see pcs go from numbers and pong to what it is now
My fundamental character flaw is that I really don't fully grasp the fact that this was over two decades ago.
How are you time traveling so easy, would love to know...
I miss CompUSA so much, that was one of my favorite stores to go to when I was a kid. when I was growing up I'd often be annoyed having to go to places, especially if I couldn't pick up what I wanted.
But CompUSA was always a treat, got so many gamecube games, PC games and a couple PS2 games up there, and got the PC version of my favorite game of all time "StarCraft" (the first one) up there. (I used to have the N64 version before the console and the games disappeared) so it completed a nostalgic loop for me back then.
All of those old computer cases that littered the computer store I worked at for years stacked in the back room it’s so weird seeing them on sale brand new
Never was much of a Comp USA shopper. They were more Windows oriented and I am a dedicated Macintosh user. They did have a little Apple section way in the back and was fairly nice but then the area became more and more ignored. MicroCenter was the best alternative until the advent of the Apple Store.
This makes me nostalgic, but also, I was there and I wouldn't want to go back now.
Mannnn I love these so much
I remember those white and blue Compaq PCs in the back @ minute 2:00.
My dad got us one of those to replace our worn out PC (which came up with Windows 95 out the box) when I was in middle school.
The front faceplate actually popped open to allow for CD storage. And the monitor came with Jbl speakers mounted as if they were earrings.
Ours had a Pentium 4 CPU as well as 256MB orf RAM, Windows XP, Nvidia graphics and a 40 GB hard drive.
It felt blazing fast back then and got me through middle school and high school
What I wouldn't give to experience this again...if only one more time.
damn I remember going into these stores back in the mid 90s to play some mech warrior and quake lol I remember the bargain bin for games lol
Thanks for the time machine trip!
My first IT job A+ certified pc repair tech right here at compusa. I was so excited to get paid to do something I enjoyed. We were in the back left alone to do our work, every once in a while salesman would ask us questions about computers. Now try finding someone in a retail store who could answer how computers work
I remember reading the system specs and thought that alone was just nostalgia alone.
Ah the good ol Compaq. My first pc.
Everything was cutting edge back then. Nowadays everything feels like minor upgrades
back then everything was next gen. i got by fine for home computing the past 10 years with a $10 Lenovo tower w/ a q6600 cpu
I always wanted one of those colorful iMacs but never got the chance to get one. I wanted the laptop one soooo bad
In school one of my teachers had one, her husband was an IT guy and showed me how to run "ipconfig" in cmd. He wanted me to show him the IP of the computer for something. He helped spark my interest in computers at the early age of 6
ha ha, i worked here during early 90s, selling the first pentiums wearing the geeky red shirts, brings back long days on the sales floor trying to sell brands like packard bell and the comp-usa brand compu-dyne
Before 911, I had an Emachine running Red Alert 2. Was 11 in 2000. This brings back memories of AOL and Ask Jeeves.
We were so optimistic about future technology and all the joys it would bring.
Boy were we wrong.
Even something like Spotify just exemplifies subscriptions and not actually owning anything. Wild to think my emachine couldn't play dvds but my PS2 could.
The green iMac was the first computer I bought with my own money. I bought it after working the year 2000 census.
That was the year I bought my first computer! A tower PC with WinME as the operating system, like shown on display in the video. I still have it and it still runs fine.
I remember this store when I was in high school
Cant forget those big Compaq deskstop computers with the dial up internet. Limewire was also a must. Good times.
My sister and mom bought my first computer from compusa in 2000. A Compaq Presario 5100. AMD Durion with a dedicated Geforce 2 graphics card which I would later upgrade to a Geforce 4400 Ti card! Played counter-strike and battlefield 1942 at max settings!
Look at them laptops. Built like tanks back then.
This used to be such a big deal! haha, now its something most people just quickly do online!
Ah, cathode ray tube monitors. Mine caught fire on me back in 06. I was only a kid, but i believe it was a signaling of technology expeditiously pressing forward.
5:24 Imac g3’s!😍
I remember these clunky windows computers. Nothing but blue screens of death and multiple system crashes. I was 18 then. I also noticed those iMacs; however, I got my first MacBook Pro in 2017.
All those prices, you can pretty much double them today. $1600 for a printer, and people had the money to do that back then. No question people had more disposable income in those days.
Back when we didn’t have any fancy looking gaming PC parts!!!!
In 1999 we all believed we had to buy new computers because of a virus that would get activated 1/1 2000. 😃
We had a Viewsonic monitor with the 3 puffins on it! Early AOL memories lol