"Colour printers like this aren't that expensive these days". Wait until she buys a set of ink cartridges from a WHSmith, at a motorway service station.
Such a valuable resource for showing how much things have changed. It would be interesting to add up the cost of doing everything on the program, most of which you can do on a cheap phone now. Diskettes ordered with blank signed cheque.
It was that long forgotten era known as the 90s, and my student housemate announced that something called the web was taking off. He took us to the university computing centre for a demo. And we watched in awe as text was downloaded from somewhere far away. "It can download photos too", he said. And then we spent 20 minutes waiting in vain for an image to download. I still wonder what that photo was of.
Always loved the CD in a case system but we never had that. They had one in the college library, Uxbridge college the Hayes site. But never had one at home, ended up with the normal CD drive that had no case.
Crikey looking at that software takes me back to those days - both using it and writing it 😀 Now having slight PTSD about the amount of effort required to get things like drag & drop working properly 😅
My 2008 HP computer, which I still use, came as a multimedia center. Has an analog TV tuner (useless now), AM/FM tuner (still works), composite and S-Video inputs, Firewire, USB 2.0, mic in, 5.1 speakers out, has a DVD drive. No HDMI though. I upgraded Vista/32 to Win7/64 and expanded RAM to 8GB, it still runs strong. Using classic Win95 theme in Win7, feels like 1995. Using Photoshop 6 from 2000, and MS Office 2003. Up-to-date Mozilla browser runs with no issues. Aside of the increased memory capacity and the switch to solid-state storage, little has changed over 30 years.
some people like to drive a 1990s Mercedes Benz, but that doesn't mean little has changed , it just means that some people like classic cars, as you seem to like vintage computers......
@Blackadder75 No, it means it just works and runs both 25-year old software as well as modern one. Well, some modern software needs Win10 at the minimum, but step down a couple of versions, and you can run it on Win7. The only difference is that instead of CIF MJPEG you can edit 8K RAW.
Hmmm, what are the specs of her computer running Windows 3.1 UI? IS it Windows NT3.5? I only remember office PCs barely pulling their limp legs and crunching hard drives.
So painful remembering back to how slow and long winded computers used to be dealing with video and audio, would have blown our minds back in the 90's if we could see what we have now 😊
Haha...look at how all the Internet pages have been preloaded and cached to give the illusion of high speed Internet when you'd be lucky to have a connection faster than a 28.8Kb dial up modem in 1995.
@danielktdoranie lol...BS. No one had a (domestic) internet connection that fast in 1995. No one. Even Universities & Government facilities were slower than that with T1 connections, which was the state of the art and cost many thousands of pounds to install and run. The only places with 1Mbs connections in those days were BT's research labs.
@@Dr.D00p wrong. my university had 10 Mbs in 1994, and that included connections to worker and some student dorms, in 1995 and 1996 this was rolled out to EVERY student dorm, so it was certainly possible to have such a fast speed in 1995. Note this was very rare, my university was one of the first places in the world to develop this, but I am sure some laboratories like you speak of had this even earlier in 1992 or 1993 ... tech is always older than you think
When we first got internet at around 97 here in UK no way were pages and things loading that fast 🤣🤣 ...Some cache and preloaded wizardry happening here 🤣🤣 ...joking aside I love and hate watching old tech programmes as you can see just how fast things have moved since this amazing really.
I used to work for London Borough of Greenwich's computer unit waaay back in the day and it was all pretty simple back then. Tonight I've had to send a verification code sent to my phone from my bank to confirm it's really me on my weekly on-line shopping order and then had to enter another verification code to access my YT channel in case I'm not really "me" either. I appreciate that it's done for safety reasons but it's still damn annoying.
Watching video on a computer online never take off 😂😂 650 mbs of storage on CDROM seems nothing now where your phone can have TBs of memory, but I was a big deal back in the day.
@@TinLeadHammer put them full of pirated games and warez and sell em at the schoolyard for $50.. that is what the nerds did at my highschool... big money
Does that mean most of us are geeks in the currnet world what with computers being part of work and social life now so a good portion of our day is using one, in one form or another
Why blur out the address? If anyone’s that stupid to send in money then that’s their fault. Same people still fall for Nigerian prince emails - and fair play to those scammers parting morons from their cash.
I remember all this confusing crap.. i was working in an office in Australia.. 1993 .. you had to be an actor all the lines... took so long for easy command's... thank god for technology
I went to uni in sept 1994, throughout 1995 they were installing windows 3.1, then windows 95, I did nothing but moan about the interruption, little did I know what historic times I was living through being amongst the first to use windows.
First? Windows 3.1 or 95 didn't just appear. What about those who used many editions of v1, v2, v3 & also multiple versions of DOS. DOS was far, far better than windows. It just didn't look fancy, but it worked well without any bells & whistles. Everything got done without any fuss & without the needless garnish.
@@phoenixxavier9615 You don't seem to have understood, I didn't state it was the first or invented then. I didn't mention anything about dos, the computer labs where shut updating that hideous beast. However, for general public use my statement stands.
@@zaftra I was the one to mention DOS. Keep up! You say you were 'amongst the first to use windows', despite it being released in 1985. Almost a full decade before you were being 'one of the first'. So how were you one of the first to use windows? Please clarify your statement.
@@phoenixxavier9615 Obviously you're a bit slow, you missed the important word 'amongst' - amongst the first to use it. So according to you windows was in general home use in the general populous? Or was it, like with computers in general, very rare? Of course it existed before then otherwise it wouldn't have been called windows 3.1, it would have been called windows 1. However, it wasn't till 95 that windows for the general use started to be popular with consumer, leading to it's 73% of the market share. So my statement still stands. You really wouldn't think you'd need to have to explain for this; but there's always one.
It's not parody because it was life. Let me guess, you're still living at home with your folks because life didn't quite work out after you left your Multimedia Design course at your second rate university?
That choker is quite something! I have a collar that's not much less subtle than this...certainly raises an eyebrow! (That is not to encourage the seedy, thirsty middle-aged men who are commenting here asking who the 'cute redhead' is, though. It's not cool chaps, you can do better).
"Just in case you're completely stupid... don't send any money and don't write to the address."... thanks auntie... lowest common denominator nowadays with the bbc. Believe it or not most people aren't as thick as you might think.
This is all new to me ….. 😂 never knew all this , but I’m 62 so why didn’t I learn this . The only pc I had was a big screen Apple 🍏. In my 40s. Confused the waking in through the stargate . 😂 time traveler 🧳.
Give whoever is doing this channel a raise. ❤❤
Nobody at or associated with the BBC need a raise.
@jonathanlandau-litewski7405 oh my God... get a life.
@@jonathanlandau-litewski7405 yet here you are watching their content
Don't let the BBC management find out about the BBC Archive or they'll shut it down!
@@jonathanlandau-litewski7405Jesus grow up
THIS IS THE BEST PART OF THE BBC. Amazing.
"Colour printers like this aren't that expensive these days". Wait until she buys a set of ink cartridges from a WHSmith, at a motorway service station.
In an airport
I miss that kind of tv programs
Such a valuable resource for showing how much things have changed. It would be interesting to add up the cost of doing everything on the program, most of which you can do on a cheap phone now. Diskettes ordered with blank signed cheque.
00:54 "Hyperlinks can take you to more exciting places" LOL :)
They say most of the internet is "exciting places".
That's one way to phrase it, LOL
looks like my current setup.
😂😂😂😂
Nothing wrong with that
It was that long forgotten era known as the 90s, and my student housemate announced that something called the web was taking off. He took us to the university computing centre for a demo. And we watched in awe as text was downloaded from somewhere far away. "It can download photos too", he said. And then we spent 20 minutes waiting in vain for an image to download. I still wonder what that photo was of.
NO, I'm quite happy with my Betamax library, now up to 11 film cassettes.
🤣 Stored alphabetically in quality plastique leatherette cases
Ooo, get you!
Love these archive videos 👏
Brilliant 😍👍
Would love to see these reporters react to their old technology reviews.
"I'm plugged in live to the Internet . . ." less than 30 years ago and some of the language sounds ancient . . .
We used to say that we were "jacking into the information superhighway" and "assuming our cyberspacial alter ego".
She skipped the 5 minutes of the modem screeching away trying to connect
"...if you've ever used a word processor before, you've already entered hyperspace." 0:14 What, like Star Wars or something?
7:42 anyone else miss those musical printers?
miss the whole multimedia thing from 1995/1996
'Package no longer available:' Oh come on it's only been 29 years. 😄
The beebs become woke, or the uploader.
If their is a definition of woke you definitely missed it @@WhatALoadOfTosca
I miss that Netscape logo
I really wanna try one of those hyperlinks.
17:32 "Two and a half megabytes. That's pretty big" 😆
If you enjoy this, everyone should watch Jim Butterfield Commodore 64 Training Tape, you'll love it.
Webcrawler is actually still a surviving search engine!
15:05: I'm officially adopting the phrase 'Burning a WORM' for writing to a CD-ROM.
Thr 90s really put the hype in hyperlink
Did the BBC keep a recording of the theme tune that plays? Loved it
Oh the nostalgia! I feel calm like the world is all good again. 😃
@16:45 Writable CDs were around £25 each when I started using them in the early '90s.
Christ I remember buying spindles of 50 for less than half of that in the late 2000s.
Everyone loves a good pie chart
I need to get me one of those floppy disks and book some time in the University computer room.
I never knew 1940s hairstyles made a comeback in 1995.
Always loved the CD in a case system but we never had that. They had one in the college library, Uxbridge college the Hayes site. But never had one at home, ended up with the normal CD drive that had no case.
Beautiful journalist.
Sexist comment 👎
wow this sounds amazing, can’t wait till i get my diskettes in the post!!!!
Crikey looking at that software takes me back to those days - both using it and writing it 😀 Now having slight PTSD about the amount of effort required to get things like drag & drop working properly 😅
PTSD, that's a photoshop file, right?
If I'd had to engage with that, as part of the school curriculum, I'd have been bored out of my mind.
2:21 so glad I didn't see this as a child, would've been emotionally scarred for life
wait, they used to put out content aimed at people with an IQ above 80?
Funny how future generations will react to our tutorials and excitements regarding AI tools
I am disappointed that the package is no longer available 29 years later.
My 2008 HP computer, which I still use, came as a multimedia center. Has an analog TV tuner (useless now), AM/FM tuner (still works), composite and S-Video inputs, Firewire, USB 2.0, mic in, 5.1 speakers out, has a DVD drive. No HDMI though. I upgraded Vista/32 to Win7/64 and expanded RAM to 8GB, it still runs strong. Using classic Win95 theme in Win7, feels like 1995. Using Photoshop 6 from 2000, and MS Office 2003. Up-to-date Mozilla browser runs with no issues. Aside of the increased memory capacity and the switch to solid-state storage, little has changed over 30 years.
some people like to drive a 1990s Mercedes Benz, but that doesn't mean little has changed , it just means that some people like classic cars, as you seem to like vintage computers......
@Blackadder75 No, it means it just works and runs both 25-year old software as well as modern one. Well, some modern software needs Win10 at the minimum, but step down a couple of versions, and you can run it on Win7. The only difference is that instead of CIF MJPEG you can edit 8K RAW.
Any psychologists on here want to analyse that self portrait?
2:03 sample from Pink Floyd's "Mother".
Excellent, Oh I remember what the early computers were like, I wish I'd had this demo back then! 😄👍🏻
This is super-advanced compared to the first computer I used, a Commodore PET and BASIC!
The fit goes crazy
We were so optimistic about the internet before enshittification, miss that.
That music reminds me of the PlayStation version of Doom. 2:43
Hmmm, what are the specs of her computer running Windows 3.1 UI? IS it Windows NT3.5? I only remember office PCs barely pulling their limp legs and crunching hard drives.
That hair...
she's fit af .Vanessa Collingridge
Like a rusty Brillo pad. Honestly with a straightener she’d be a stunner.
So painful remembering back to how slow and long winded computers used to be dealing with video and audio, would have blown our minds back in the 90's if we could see what we have now 😊
Other way around. It felt more exciting and surreal.
WOW - the script was SO cheesey!!!
Can't see this gain mass take up any time soon. But at least we'll have the trusty diskette format, faxes and CD ROMs in the future.
Haha...look at how all the Internet pages have been preloaded and cached to give the illusion of high speed Internet when you'd be lucky to have a connection faster than a 28.8Kb dial up modem in 1995.
I had a 1 Mbps down and 512 Kbps up in 1995, Roadrunner cable
@danielktdoranie lol...BS. No one had a (domestic) internet connection that fast in 1995. No one. Even Universities & Government facilities were slower than that with T1 connections, which was the state of the art and cost many thousands of pounds to install and run.
The only places with 1Mbs connections in those days were BT's research labs.
@@Dr.D00p wrong. my university had 10 Mbs in 1994, and that included connections to worker and some student dorms, in 1995 and 1996 this was rolled out to EVERY student dorm, so it was certainly possible to have such a fast speed in 1995. Note this was very rare, my university was one of the first places in the world to develop this, but I am sure some laboratories like you speak of had this even earlier in 1992 or 1993 ... tech is always older than you think
Video gobbles up megabytes like nobody's business, yet in 2024 to download this in VHS quality it's just 42 megabytes, compression is amazing
When we first got internet at around 97 here in UK no way were pages and things loading that fast 🤣🤣 ...Some cache and preloaded wizardry happening here 🤣🤣 ...joking aside I love and hate watching old tech programmes as you can see just how fast things have moved since this amazing really.
Disappointed that a computer video from the 1990’s didn’t mention the phrase “Information Super Highway”.
BAH THIS THING WILL NEVER CATCH ON
Burning the worm didn't really catch on
She doesnt say it took half a year to download stuff when it was connected to the telephone line
05:06 Does that say Psycho Programmer - Miss Collingridge ?
I'm really hoping multimedia and the internet will take off.
16:52 writeable disk's cost here in 1995 was like 20 or 30
Back when IBM and clone computers were expensive. My first computer was an IBM Thinkpad 386SX that I bought secondhand.
I used to work for London Borough of Greenwich's computer unit waaay back in the day and it was all pretty simple back then. Tonight I've had to send a verification code sent to my phone from my bank to confirm it's really me on my weekly on-line shopping order and then had to enter another verification code to access my YT channel in case I'm not really "me" either. I appreciate that it's done for safety reasons but it's still damn annoying.
Back when the BBC made proper programmes
Watching video on a computer online never take off 😂😂
650 mbs of storage on CDROM seems nothing now where your phone can have TBs of memory, but I was a big deal back in the day.
Eudora for email was great!
It’s much, much simpler to use, than to explain…
Muito bom canal 10😊
Please upload Hyperland!
who gets the ad revenue from this channel?
The licence fee payers share it. Look out for your 0.0000068p discount 😉
Philip Schofield.
I think this was tomorrow's world way back then I miss it
Why does she keep going back outside?… AAAAARRGH!…
She's got IBS and the toilet is behind that door
Who's the cute redhead?
Vanessa Collingridge
A professional reporter.
@@futuristica1710 Not mutually exclusive descriptions by any means.
CD Discs £5 each WOW
Cheaper than $25 just a couple of years earlier. They used real gold back then.
Monetary value was different.
£5 was more like £25 back then.
@@TinLeadHammer put them full of pirated games and warez and sell em at the schoolyard for $50.. that is what the nerds did at my highschool... big money
2.5mb so its pretty big 😆😆😆
"and no, it's not mine"
Well... would you like one?
I meant 1983
Does that mean most of us are geeks in the currnet world what with computers being part of work and social life now so a good portion of our day is using one, in one form or another
Just a fad , will never catch on .
Agreed. I give it a year tops.
What was the internet again?
Why blur out the address? If anyone’s that stupid to send in money then that’s their fault. Same people still fall for Nigerian prince emails - and fair play to those scammers parting morons from their cash.
BBC Archive, better than everything they currently broadcast, no woke check boxing content here for now thankfully.
Back when a BBC tech program didn't need someone in a wheelchair...
Chokers were very elegant. It’s a shame they fell out of fashion.
Quaint.
I remember all this confusing crap.. i was working in an office in Australia.. 1993 .. you had to be an actor all the lines... took so long for easy command's... thank god for technology
Extremely good-looking woman, only the multimedia tech has aged, she still looks hot today!
Her hairdo is more 1940s than 1990s.
Stuff of nightmares.
27:57 Is she using OS/2 or ME/2?
Do you think the loo is on the other side of that door and she's got some problems?
1:29 😂
I went to uni in sept 1994, throughout 1995 they were installing windows 3.1, then windows 95, I did nothing but moan about the interruption, little did I know what historic times I was living through being amongst the first to use windows.
First? Windows 3.1 or 95 didn't just appear. What about those who used many editions of v1, v2, v3 & also multiple versions of DOS. DOS was far, far better than windows. It just didn't look fancy, but it worked well without any bells & whistles. Everything got done without any fuss & without the needless garnish.
@@phoenixxavier9615 research universities used Sun workstations (SPARCstations) anyway, they kinda laughed at Windows
@@phoenixxavier9615 You don't seem to have understood, I didn't state it was the first or invented then.
I didn't mention anything about dos, the computer labs where shut updating that hideous beast.
However, for general public use my statement stands.
@@zaftra I was the one to mention DOS. Keep up! You say you were 'amongst the first to use windows', despite it being released in 1985. Almost a full decade before you were being 'one of the first'. So how were you one of the first to use windows? Please clarify your statement.
@@phoenixxavier9615 Obviously you're a bit slow, you missed the important word 'amongst' - amongst the first to use it.
So according to you windows was in general home use in the general populous? Or was it, like with computers in general, very rare?
Of course it existed before then otherwise it wouldn't have been called windows 3.1, it would have been called windows 1.
However, it wasn't till 95 that windows for the general use started to be popular with consumer, leading to it's 73% of the market share.
So my statement still stands.
You really wouldn't think you'd need to have to explain for this; but there's always one.
How is this not parody?!? That baby crying "...and it's not mine!" Hilarious. Send money for a floppy disk to get hyperlinks by return post...insane!
It's not parody because it was life. Let me guess, you're still living at home with your folks because life didn't quite work out after you left your Multimedia Design course at your second rate university?
@@WhatALoadOfTosca Clearly an AI generated reply, and a poor one at that.
She’s proper cute
I hope she did all those takes in one day or she need to have a look at her wardrobe choices. They are a little limited. 😂
That choker is quite something! I have a collar that's not much less subtle than this...certainly raises an eyebrow! (That is not to encourage the seedy, thirsty middle-aged men who are commenting here asking who the 'cute redhead' is, though. It's not cool chaps, you can do better).
Lol
"Just in case you're completely stupid... don't send any money and don't write to the address."... thanks auntie... lowest common denominator nowadays with the bbc. Believe it or not most people aren't as thick as you might think.
Everything now is made for idiots. Back then, we had to work things out.
Is this a female mullet?
Yes, it's a Fullet.
@@M_Bamboozled😂😂
The fullet was trending at no.29 in most common female hairstyles for one week in 1995 but then disappeared without a trace.
This is all new to me ….. 😂 never knew all this , but I’m 62 so why didn’t I learn this . The only pc I had was a big screen Apple 🍏. In my 40s.
Confused the waking in through the stargate . 😂 time traveler 🧳.
Today's acronym that never took off is.. W.O.R.M...