Back in the 90s, you could go into a Borders book store and, if you were so inclined, buy a big book that had nothing but URLs and descriptions in it. For real.
Shinjiro Aragaki search engines were really bad before google especially towards the late 90s when website growth was increasing so much, lots of site spamming was going on that hindered what you were trying to find.
I am SO grateful for this show, which literally chronicled the advent of computing while it happened. I had no idea this show even existed until15 years after it ended. Now I'm literally watching them all and re-living some somderful memories, as I grew up during this era.
@Michael Earls we also still use the internet (obviously) but I think he means this is all old news not that we don't use any of the technology or protocols mentioned
There's talk of bringing this show back, but I'd be afraid that the experts Cheifet brings on to walk us through this stuff will be perfectly-presented twentysomethings. I don't want that. I want the weirdy beards. The middle-aged man with the walrus moustache, the grad student in beard and much too large cardigan, guy who looks like Charles Manson's younger brother, homely woman with coke bottle spectacles, and humourless Asian businessman. I want a cadre of socially-awkward, aesthetically-challenged computer geeks, to make the audience of the show feel like maybe, just maybe, everything's gonna be alright.
This is GOLD! We can't go back in time and see what people's reactions were to receiving telegraph messages for the first time but we can watch people exploring the Internet in its infancy. So great!
I remember calling in via a slow baud modem and logging in to a bulletin board. I was very intrigued. Then not much later in university in 1994 on a UNIX system seeing the first Netscape webbrowser I was blown away. Though loading the frontpage of let's say an Australian newspaper took forever, I was always the last one to leave the computer room when it closed in the afternoon.
Notice they didn't right out denounce Russia in this episode. This show is obviously a Russian puppet. This show was part of their plan of getting Trump elected in 2016 and will be used as support about how Russia groomed the American public to vote for Trump in 2020, and Tulsi Gabbard in 2024.
@@joepike1972 This is a rather random video to make comments mocking liberals on. Besides, they could just retort that Yeltsin was in power 1993, and that he was the "good" Russian leader (Putin being the "bad" Russian leader.)
I love 5:45 and on when the dude describes a website, before the word was invented or at least popularly used. "It's a point-and-click hypertext interface...a window..."
that's for my dad what the internet is now but since facebook we can drag or right click with the mouse and how about middle click? that was never too widely used tho I bought a new mouse in 1998 for doing that i thought it was cool the first couple times lol. Anywey nice comment baby bird... you seem to have a nice intelligent background I'd wire you to my desktop
@@Luke5100I worked in tech in Silicon Valley starting in 1989. I first heard of the "world wide web" in 1996. I suspect the WWW was not as well-known as you might have thought.
This was a really good consistence and compact show for tech geeks and business owners... and had Gary Kildall a intelligent man of integrity and a TRUE innovator as one of its host. RIP
Also, this show is good for computer buffs and technology fans, like me. I do not get along so well without my microcomputer, which is my powerful typewriter. That is why I call it my "keyboard."
Wow. I have been a software engineer for over 37 years and of course, have watched all of the "interweb" happen, but I had no idea this show even existed! What a gem it was!
My father was into computers from the amateur flip-switch days, and I ended up programming for the DoD. I watched this show from the very beginning! It's a gas to go back in time to watch. I remember the first time I saw the WWW ... even on a T1 line, most servers were so slow that it seemed like dialup.
Wow. 14:01 is essentially an early version of Skype. 17:08 is essentially what we would call a podcast today. It's really crazy looking at the stuff we take for granted today as new and mysterious things back then.
Nah, a podcast also needs a way to subscribe to a bunch of different feeds (via the RSS protocol) that will download a show automatically when it is available. You will have to fastforward to about 2003 for this. What is shown in the clip is just regular streaming where you have to go online and start/stop or download a file manually. And switch to another site for another show and manually do the same there....
From 1995 to early 2000 everything seemed to advance at such a fast rate. The power of computers not to mention the rapid rise of the internet. The biggest thing I remember from this era was realvideo and mp3 compression, that really revolutionsed what you could do online especially as all of us were still on dialup. We used to watch full screen video on a 56k dial up modem.
@@ens8502When CompUSA, Circuit City and Good Guys were still around, selling overpriced PCs. I remember buying our first family computer at one of those locations for approx $2200. That got you a 166MHz of Pentium processing, or for an additional $700 you upgrade to the "ultra fast" 200MHz lol
@@BarryHolsinger In recent years smartphones have become powerful enough to brute force pretty much any basic task that the average person will use it for. I still use a 3 and a half year old Samsung S20+ 5G. I see no reason to upgrade as it runs everything I need it for at buttery smooth 120hz. The same can be said about the average laptop from the mid 2010s still being powerful enough for the average user.
to be fair, a lot of TV news even at the time was also shallow and unreliable. This was a half-hour TV show, publicly funded on PBS. Public services like NPR and PBS still make pretty high-quality in-depth content, although in recent years they have sadly been gutted from their former glory by more conservative policies.
@@tommyeastwood4393 Well nobody semi-intelligent anyway. Same exact reason why you needed to be intelligent to use the internet in the early to mid 90's.
This content is absolutely fascinating and mind-blowing. I first started using the internet back in 1994 when I connected to a chat forum in the US from my home in the UK. It was amazing to be able to text live with someone so far away, but it cost my family a lot in phone bills and I got into trouble with my parents. Even today, I am still amazed by the ability to share information so easily and quickly. It excites me that others can read my typing instantly.
Man, i remember being a kid in the mid 90s and my dad bought our first family computer. It was a Macintosh performa with something like a 33mhz processor and 100mb hard drive. It also came with a 14.4k external dial up modem. This was my first time ever seeing the internet and my mind was absolutely blown. Later he upgraded to a 56k modem and my mind was blown again. Now I take my 400meg internet and 4.9ghz core I7 workstation for granted. My how times have changed. Cheers from Brandon Mississippi!
@Nob the Knave Ummm, no. The internet is THE global interconnection of ALL networks, lol. Now, how exactly, can you have more than one of something that already addresses everything??? Also, it's kinda CORRECT to apply an article to denote a noun, so that makes it not a really a preference, now doesn't it? Seriously, change your name to Noob the Knave, for accuracy purposes, mmm'k?
@@231mac You are wrong. The world wide web came in '95 this is before that. There were many internets. There was picospan since the 80's and compuserve since the 70's, but no www or HTML
@@hyzercreek Yeah, that's a big nope. The WorldWideWeb (WWW) was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and he wrote the first web browser in 1990. The internet is just that; THE internet. It is the amalgamation of ALL networks. It can't be individualized. You might as well try to individualize open space, lol. Honestly, the concept is so simple that it's embarrassing that one can't comprehend it. The second the first two networks became connected, THE internet was born. Pretty simple...
Watching this made me feel nostalgic for the early internet. Gopher was the first program that I used to access the web back in 1993. I still remember the first time that I saw the web browser Mosaic, demonstrated to me by a a colleague at the university that I worked at. It was all so amazing at the time.
+Jack Toff Dude, that's hella-cool, but don't forget to double your hard-drive with Stacker (but not before adjusting your drive's interleave ratio to 1:1).
Sweet! I just bought another 440MB Maxtor hard drive for my machine and a buddy of mine that works at Iomega says they will soon be coming out with a floppy drive that is going to a have 100MB floppy, revolutionary!
Wow, the reporting of the computer Chronicles was ahead of the curve. They definitely had inside sources and connections from Industry. I thought the term "surfing the net" wasn't coined till around maybe 95'ish. 1993? Wow!
You mean Porn? Yes they always are looking for porn, and of course, the solutions to their homework, it is a real thing don't look it up, I sweat that is totally what they are doing.
This is such a good episode. Historical. Important to know where this all comes from. In 1993, I was 13 years old, and into all of this. I recognized a lot of what is shown. Thank you.
I got my first email address at university in 1997, it was a very exciting feeling knowing that anyone around the world can send me a message and I would receive it immediately! In 1998 I subscribed to the internet for the first time. I took my PC to a shop which installed Netscape 3 and told me how to sign in, but I returned home still feeling confused and not knowing how this internet really works. That same year I created my first personal website and published it on Angelfire then went to a Computer Expo and browsed my website from there.
Damn, NCSA Mosaic get's only a tiny portion of the show and all the command line browsing the majority. Most of the command line stuff died away and Mosaic lived on in the form of modern web browsers....
RdVortex I still use command line for most of things. The thing is these days command line interfaces are used only by professionals; masses moved to facebook
For those of you who don't think that 1993 was a long time ago: Bill Clinton references, Star Trek original series references, and a phone number you can dial to get help with going online (not to mention no actual web address for the show).
I still remember the very first time I ever used the Internet. Was the last week of school in the summer of 1997. Myself and the rest of the nerds in my school were tasked with building a website for the school, which we managed in about two days. The rest of the time was spent messing around on chatrooms and playing quake. Those were the days!
QuantumBraced well you couldn't, far from everyone had acces to internet way back then. in fact you still cant! we take internet for granted but acces to internet is matter of clas and where you happen to be borned.. sad fact that not everyone in the world are born with the same chans.
Where have you been? Cell phone have exploded in the third world because they didn't have land line infrastructure. The third world has a huge advantage because they skipped the lind line phase.
The younger generation don't understand that if you weren't an engineering/IT student, educator or researcher, you didn't have Internet access prior to public commercialization, period. The best that you got was a Compuserve subscription that charged $20/hour to do anything meaningful. That QUICKLY added up and made one nervous just using it because of the tolling bill. That was a lot of money back then if you adjust for inflation especially.
15 years old at this time, from Denmark. It would take around two years before I first heard the term "internet" in '95 . And four additional years before trying it myself. Man... most us simply had no idea what was about to happen. And it still took close to ten years from my first encounter before SoMe kicked in for real. So strange to think back on.
lol such pricks people are. This wasn't on youtube where he had all the time to do what he wanted. He was on a time limit to fit in as much as he could in as little time given for each segment.
Back then as a kid, the concept of the internet itself was cool enough. Though I think if someone from the future told me about fibre and wi-fi, my head would have exploded like that dude from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Within the context of communication? No. My grandad owned a small boat-hire stall, and he used glass fibre to repair the boats. No-one would have put two and two together.
Henry Jones Jr. They already used glass fiber for backbones and transoceanic connections. One of the first glass fiber connection in the Federal Republic of Germany was between the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin if I'm not mistaking. The use of glass fiber connection began long ago.
Henry Jones Jr. By the way, I saw on an old documentary about the wall before the wall fell. There were workers who dug canals for a wire for telecomunication and television. When the workers spoke about its capacity for phone calls and TV-channels. And those capacities they spoke of are in a spectrum copperwire is incapable of. And here I even found that they worked on the fiber wire before the fall of the wall. www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13501023.html They called it Die Wunder-Leitung.
I remember in early days of "Internet". Internet cafe's everywhere, it seemed like it was really going to catch on! You hardly ever see an "internet cafe" these days. Shame, it seemed like "Internet" had a lot of potential.
I remember seeing this show when it aired. It literally changed my life. And then many years later I found myself podcasting, not unlike what that Malamud guy was doing.
20:50 The WELL with the topic about the child with leukemia - far from the point of this video, but the few responses shown to the post really warm the heart. “Philcat, we’re here and we’re listening. We share your hope and your pain. Hang on.”
At the time when this episode of The Computer Chronicles - The Internet aired on TV, I didn't have much awareness of how the internet would become something essential in today's world. I myself wouldn't know how to live without the internet, as I use it for various things, from work to paying bills, streaming services, and much more. It's remarkable how the internet has become an integral part of my daily routine.
A real nostalgia trip, they only just briefly touched on Mosaic, which was an early browser (the web part of the modern internet), the rest was all older attempts like gopher and BBS. One of the things you tend to forget is just how well everyone dressed. If this were today half the guys would be in stained T-shirts which they grudgingly put on five minutes before the interview. And yes, Howard's shirt at 19:01 was magnificent, but the thing that drew my eye was the power supply in the background-- it looks just like the one I had which my monitor sat on for my 486SX 25 MHz which had 4 MiB RAM if I recall correctly. Great setup: you could switch on the power to your printer, your speakers, your monitor, and your desktop all from one place. Also, this video is 30 years old from this comment.
30 years later, I am watching this wirelessly on my smartphone as I drink my morning coffee. It is amazing how far we have come, and exciting to imagine the future.
My 3 of my nieces, and my nephew know all too well what dialup is, and my oldest niece is now 21 with a baby boy of 1 year old, and they know because up till mid 08 all our area in S.C. could get was either dial-up 56K, or very expensive Sat. Internet. However when my great nephew comes of age in a few years, I'll thankfully as a retro PC gamer will be able to show him my retro Pentium 4 DOS/Win 98SE/XP SP3 build, that has a 56K modem installed, and connect to one of the last dial-up services, but it will be over MagicJack VOIP.
In 1995 I told a friend of mine «You wait and see, in the future we'll all watch porn on our computers connected to the Internet"... He laughed his head off and said.. «Yeah, there's never going to be that much bandwidth for good looking movies online.»
I remember 2show.exe on a 386 and passing floppies around which we got from cousins and older brothers. Some stuff was just weird... Alladin (Disney) porn in EGA/MCGA graphics (maybe it was 16 color VGA?) ? Yep, it existed back in 1995.
More about how it would play as being instrumental in everyday tasks for every person on earth, even in impoverished countries. Back then it was seen as mostly something for businesses or nerdy folks to use.
I started going on this part of the internet right after my BBS at the time enabled some kind of side-deal for access. it was suprisingly useful, even at the very early stage. it was quite a revelation after the very spartan ascii bits you'd see on the old BBS. it was very very clear that it was the way things were going to be at the time, even for myself as a 13 year old.
I remember all the gopher, veronica, command lines etc.....I was hooked before 1993. Everyone I knew was not interested in the net and now everyone takes it for granted.
The Internet was the best thing that ever happened since business productivity. Very often, I spend lots of time on the Internet than producing office documents at home.
17:05 Does anyone know if the Geek of the Week "podcast" still exists anywhere? I've googled around and can't find any of the old recordings of it. I really hope those still exist. It'd be super neat to give those a listen. edit - I have found them. town.hall.org/radio/Geek/
Wow this is awesome. I was only 2 years old when this aired, crazy how much tech has changed in such a short period of time! I started using AOL in 1998 at 7 btw haha 21 years online...
Even though I lived through all of this, it's fun to go back and look at various topics, knowing how things eventually developed over the intervening 30 years. Back then, all of this was so "gee whiz, think of what we might be able to do with this." G good history lesson, and valuable info for those interested in computer technology that are too young to have lived through it all.
That first time as a kid, when you heard that modem bleep and bloop, and that connection established, you had the world at your fingertips...And most people you knew didn't even have a computer yet! Good times...
I so remember having a 286, with a whole entire meg of mem. LOL I upgraded to 4 megs for my 486 DX and probably could have made a down payment on a car. Unfortunately, I was alone among my friends. But that helped open up what we now have today. Love seeing these episodes, they were so informative at the time.
If I’d known about this show and had access to it during the original run, I’m sure I would have been a big fan. This is a great record of computer workings of the day, especially since a professional television show was really the only good way at the time of videoing how to use the hardware and networks of the time.
1993: I want you to log onto the internet and while you're doing that, we're gonna run over to NASA... 2020: I want you to log onto the internet and- "Done"
23:15 "You can't trust everyone you meet in a virtual community until you meet them and get to know them offline." Too bad the world didn't heed Howard Reingold's wisdom
We decided to reverse it. Don't trust someone until you see their online persona. Also never meet someone in real life. I wish I could see where we go 100 years from now....assuming we're still around as a species
Because of this episode I got one of my IBM PC/XTs internet-connected. I've got Trumpet News Reader (usenet) running and, especially cool - PC Gopher III to use gopher. Works great and lots of great content still being maintained! I can also telnet into BBSes in glorious CGA color ansi..
Wow. Those dialup noises in the background brings me back. My first internet connection was dialup 33.6k. Had windows 3.1 then upgraded to Windows 95 as we were recommended it as it was a better OS for the internet.
I enjoyed watching this show even though I couldn't afford a PC until March 1999 and I do remember this episode. I really wanted a PC in 1996 because of the Internet craze but they were too expensive back then like $2,000 to $3,000 USD or more.
It was a joke. All of it. My comment, the one above it, it's called sarcasm. Nobody tell you that it was sarcasm... But you didn't get it, and went off, so I told you. I know about Apple and Steve Jobs and Wozniak, it was a joke.
I recall that era with the phone line modems being used from the homes. For the people that had deep pockets, a local telecom company that was up-to-date, and living in a neighborhood that had modern telecommunications infrastructure, having an ISDN line connected to the home was considered very extravagant as way to go to link up to the internet.
14:10 I don't know what's up with the huge spike of replays here but it is cool to see someone using A/UX, possibly the most forgotten successful Unix of all time. I remember about 20 years ago getting an old IIcx and successfully loading A/UX on to it just to check it out. I had never heard of it before I got the IIcx. When I started looking through archives (to get stuff like the GNU utils, gcc, etc) I couldn't believe how popular it was in the mid 90s at one point, then just vanished when Apple gave up on it. Apple was full of bad decisions back then.
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1993: Now on Computer Chronicles let's explore "the Internet. .."
2020: Now on the Internet let's explore The Computer Chronicles...😀
Almost 30 years later, we've finally come full circle!
lol perfect
Underrated comment , note don’t fiddle with the floppy
@Reee Flex What a great statement. We’ve really come full circle.
Underrated comment. 👍
1993: how to get on the internet.
2020: how to get off the internet.
Lol
2000: how to get off, on the internet
@@crocodile2006 I'm glad I wasn't the only one to think this.
Waiting for: How to get on, off the Internet.
@@ErikRoberts1981 you are not alone, dude
Back in the 90s, you could go into a Borders book store and, if you were so inclined, buy a big book that had nothing but URLs and descriptions in it. For real.
We have handy pocket version from 2001 :)
Pete Brown I remember that or a similar product back then being known as the "yellow pages" of the internet for URLs
Pete Brown so that's how people found websites before google.
i get it now
Shinjiro Aragaki search engines were really bad before google especially towards the late 90s when website growth was increasing so much, lots of site spamming was going on that hindered what you were trying to find.
oldtwins
oh jeez that sounds like hell on earth
Reasons it will never catch on:
- Costs too much on the phone bill.
- Blocks the telephone line while in use.
- Too difficult to use for non-experts.
That are good arguments. I think I will just delete the internet
@Pete Coventry Yes, I spend a lot of my time making silly comments on the internet, then coming back years later and seeing people's reactions.
@@ylette
@@ylette The best ones are if people get all worked up by one of my comments from over 10 years ago :D
@@ylette me too, fuck you
I am SO grateful for this show, which literally chronicled the advent of computing while it happened. I had no idea this show even existed until15 years after it ended. Now I'm literally watching them all and re-living some somderful memories, as I grew up during this era.
Good for you, bud. Must've been good times. Compared to now. HAHAHA
only discovered that such a show existed this Month August 2024
“So you can actually buy something on internet “ ... ahh the innocence ..
speaking of innocence... 23:15 remember kids, to be safe on the net you should meet them offline face-to-face so you can see if you can trust them
underrated comment
I'm so excited by everything on this show even though it's all obsolete lol
@Michael Earls we also still use the internet (obviously) but I think he means this is all old news not that we don't use any of the technology or protocols mentioned
That laptop with a built in bubble jet printer sounds legit...
I agree
22:25 Twitter, Facebook, and Google are the new Orwellian enemies of the masses, allowing us to talk about only what they want us to talk about.
Me too. Specially when they use the console to access the Internet
There's talk of bringing this show back, but I'd be afraid that the experts Cheifet brings on to walk us through this stuff will be perfectly-presented twentysomethings. I don't want that. I want the weirdy beards. The middle-aged man with the walrus moustache, the grad student in beard and much too large cardigan, guy who looks like Charles Manson's younger brother, homely woman with coke bottle spectacles, and humourless Asian businessman.
I want a cadre of socially-awkward, aesthetically-challenged computer geeks, to make the audience of the show feel like maybe, just maybe, everything's gonna be alright.
hahaha! So true.
What a wonderful comment, I agree!
Those twenty year olds fit that description
@deckard163 generally disenfranchisment.
@deckard163 how is it bizarre when aesthetically challenged is put on trial.
God I love this episode..the enthusiasm..the vision..its all there. Like watching the future unfold backwards.🤣
It's so charmingly primitive, but they're all so excited about it!
Very well put, it is amazing how some of those things took ages to become popular, but were already there long ago.
It like knowing your team won but still watch the game
@@Nightweaver1 About a other internet than we know...
What went wrong!
This is GOLD! We can't go back in time and see what people's reactions were to receiving telegraph messages for the first time but we can watch people exploring the Internet in its infancy. So great!
I remember calling in via a slow baud modem and logging in to a bulletin board. I was very intrigued. Then not much later in university in 1994 on a UNIX system seeing the first Netscape webbrowser I was blown away. Though loading the frontpage of let's say an Australian newspaper took forever, I was always the last one to leave the computer room when it closed in the afternoon.
Remember seeing this and thinking, HOW COOL !!! Now I am watching videos that are in better quality than the show was ever broadcasted.
absolutley crazy, they have this proto-podcast internet radio show in this episode. it's so wierd think about this all being more than 25 years old.
You should check out 'the mother of all demos' if you really want to blow your mind.
Deadheads that is one hell of a demo. At the same time it’s a bit eerie.
I'm gonna order a VHS copy of this program for $32.50.
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You can probably get it on punch cards if you like 🤣
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Ah the 90s were the wild west of the Internet. Amazing time.
Early 2000s too. Now 99% of the sites visited daily are run by a handful of companies and people. Such a shame..
Notice they didn't right out denounce Russia in this episode. This show is obviously a Russian puppet.
This show was part of their plan of getting Trump elected in 2016 and will be used as support about how Russia groomed the American public to vote for Trump in 2020, and Tulsi Gabbard in 2024.
@@joepike1972 This is a rather random video to make comments mocking liberals on. Besides, they could just retort that Yeltsin was in power 1993, and that he was the "good" Russian leader (Putin being the "bad" Russian leader.)
@@IsmailofeRegime This is the coolest shit I've seen in a while.
Yep
I love 5:45 and on when the dude describes a website, before the word was invented or at least popularly used. "It's a point-and-click hypertext interface...a window..."
Net surfing for cool stuff...
6:08 Kids those days 😆
that's for my dad what the internet is now but since facebook we can drag or right click with the mouse and how about middle click? that was never too widely used tho I bought a new mouse in 1998 for doing that i thought it was cool the first couple times lol. Anywey nice comment baby bird... you seem to have a nice intelligent background I'd wire you to my desktop
@@Luke5100I worked in tech in Silicon Valley starting in 1989. I first heard of the "world wide web" in 1996. I suspect the WWW was not as well-known as you might have thought.
I remember using Mosaic. And registering URLs with AltaVista.
This was a really good consistence and compact show for tech geeks and business owners... and had Gary Kildall a intelligent man of integrity and a TRUE innovator as one of its host. RIP
Also, this show is good for computer buffs and technology fans, like me. I do not get along so well without my microcomputer, which is my powerful typewriter. That is why I call it my "keyboard."
Wow. I have been a software engineer for over 37 years and of course, have watched all of the "interweb" happen, but I had no idea this show even existed! What a gem it was!
same here. software developer for 27 years and first got online in 1994-1995. i never knew this show existed. it’s fascinating to watch it now..
My father was into computers from the amateur flip-switch days, and I ended up programming for the DoD. I watched this show from the very beginning! It's a gas to go back in time to watch. I remember the first time I saw the WWW ... even on a T1 line, most servers were so slow that it seemed like dialup.
I love the way he just describes podcasts a decade before they came out!
Wow. 14:01 is essentially an early version of Skype. 17:08 is essentially what we would call a podcast today. It's really crazy looking at the stuff we take for granted today as new and mysterious things back then.
skype is dead ;)
@@mirek190 7 years ago it wasn't
Nah, a podcast also needs a way to subscribe to a bunch of different feeds (via the RSS protocol) that will download a show automatically when it is available. You will have to fastforward to about 2003 for this. What is shown in the clip is just regular streaming where you have to go online and start/stop or download a file manually. And switch to another site for another show and manually do the same there....
Pretty wild to think of the massive fortunes those companies made off something so primitive.
36 million daily users daily in early 2023. But Microsoft is pushing more for Teams now.@@mirek190
From 1995 to early 2000 everything seemed to advance at such a fast rate. The power of computers not to mention the rapid rise of the internet. The biggest thing I remember from this era was realvideo and mp3 compression, that really revolutionsed what you could do online especially as all of us were still on dialup. We used to watch full screen video on a 56k dial up modem.
Yeah i remember, you bought a computer and within a year-two it was outdated
@@ens8502When CompUSA, Circuit City and Good Guys were still around, selling overpriced PCs. I remember buying our first family computer at one of those locations for approx $2200. That got you a 166MHz of Pentium processing, or for an additional $700 you upgrade to the "ultra fast" 200MHz lol
@@ens8502Yeah, I remember, you bought a cell phone and within a year or two it was outdated 😅
@@BarryHolsinger In recent years smartphones have become powerful enough to brute force pretty much any basic task that the average person will use it for. I still use a 3 and a half year old Samsung S20+ 5G. I see no reason to upgrade as it runs everything I need it for at buttery smooth 120hz. The same can be said about the average laptop from the mid 2010s still being powerful enough for the average user.
@@RyviusRan S20+ 5G users unite. Sammie made it a little too good.
"Net Surf" That's what all the kids say!
Today's youth have no idea why it's called Safari
(surfing safari, song by the Beach Boys)
Abcde ohhhhh hahaha I never put 2 and 2 together, and I was on the internet in ‘93!
Only the cool kids though.
That was amazing!
The level of depth and research this show displays is mindblowing. Any 'news' today just seems to be a headline followed by opinions.
Nobody reads more than the headline and comments.
You must be talking about Fox News.
to be fair, a lot of TV news even at the time was also shallow and unreliable. This was a half-hour TV show, publicly funded on PBS. Public services like NPR and PBS still make pretty high-quality in-depth content, although in recent years they have sadly been gutted from their former glory by more conservative policies.
I watch Al Jazeera. They have local correspondents all over the world.
@@tommyeastwood4393 Well nobody semi-intelligent anyway.
Same exact reason why you needed to be intelligent to use the internet in the early to mid 90's.
Miss the times when I could hear my own thoughts, not being overwhelmed by information from every direction.
"Don't copy that floppy" . Priceless, lot of memories.
"...what we call "Net Surf", looking for cool stuff. That's what the kids say their doing. That's the whole mentality of this"
Nailed it!
This content is absolutely fascinating and mind-blowing. I first started using the internet back in 1994 when I connected to a chat forum in the US from my home in the UK. It was amazing to be able to text live with someone so far away, but it cost my family a lot in phone bills and I got into trouble with my parents. Even today, I am still amazed by the ability to share information so easily and quickly. It excites me that others can read my typing instantly.
I'm so happy to have found this video. I enjoyed every single second of it.
Man, i remember being a kid in the mid 90s and my dad bought our first family computer. It was a Macintosh performa with something like a 33mhz processor and 100mb hard drive. It also came with a 14.4k external dial up modem. This was my first time ever seeing the internet and my mind was absolutely blown. Later he upgraded to a 56k modem and my mind was blown again. Now I take my 400meg internet and 4.9ghz core I7 workstation for granted. My how times have changed. Cheers from Brandon Mississippi!
I love how he does 'exit' in Telnet instead of 'quit' - I always make the same mistake... :D
The innocence/nostalgia of these videos is level 5000
This aged very well. Thanks for this nostalgia trip.
If you could access pornographic material on the internet it might catch on.
Someone should get on that so it doesn't wither away and die before getting a foothold.
Chaturbate but it's 5fps
ANd 'illegal' music (MP3's) :D
You mean adult videos and you don’t need a closet and curtain in a adult bookstore?
@@Agent77X Just imagine; it'll probably be the downfall of humanity but what a downfall!
haha I love how he switches between saying "internet" and "THE internet". "lets find out more about internet" hahaha.
@Nob the Knave Ummm, no. The internet is THE global interconnection of ALL networks, lol. Now, how exactly, can you have more than one of something that already addresses everything??? Also, it's kinda CORRECT to apply an article to denote a noun, so that makes it not a really a preference, now doesn't it? Seriously, change your name to Noob the Knave, for accuracy purposes, mmm'k?
@Nob the Knave To which subject are you addressing? Sorry, but your question is very vague.
@@231mac Quit being such a quarrelsome ass; it's carcinogenic.
@@231mac You are wrong. The world wide web came in '95 this is before that. There were many internets. There was picospan since the 80's and compuserve since the 70's, but no www or HTML
@@hyzercreek Yeah, that's a big nope. The WorldWideWeb (WWW) was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and he wrote the first web browser in 1990. The internet is just that; THE internet. It is the amalgamation of ALL networks. It can't be individualized. You might as well try to individualize open space, lol. Honestly, the concept is so simple that it's embarrassing that one can't comprehend it. The second the first two networks became connected, THE internet was born. Pretty simple...
Watching this made me feel nostalgic for the early internet. Gopher was the first program that I used to access the web back in 1993. I still remember the first time that I saw the web browser Mosaic, demonstrated to me by a a colleague at the university that I worked at. It was all so amazing at the time.
I just upgraded my 486 dx2/66 to 16mb ram and got a 33.6 modem. This things gonna fly on the internet!
+Jack Toff Dude, that's hella-cool, but don't forget to double your hard-drive with Stacker (but not before adjusting your drive's interleave ratio to 1:1).
I remember when I upgraded my 486dx2 to 8 megs. At the time it was $50 for 1MB Ram. Needed 8 to run Duke3D. Best $200 I ever spent.
Dude, there's this "Pentium" thing coming soon, they say it's going to get crazy fast. Future, here I come!
Sweet! I just bought another 440MB Maxtor hard drive for my machine and a buddy of mine that works at Iomega says they will soon be coming out with a floppy drive that is going to a have 100MB floppy, revolutionary!
@@Thx1138sober 440MB, that's basically unlimited. I can store all the games I have on it! Going to be blazing with my Pentium MMX!
Wow, the reporting of the computer Chronicles was ahead of the curve. They definitely had inside sources and connections from Industry. I thought the term "surfing the net" wasn't coined till around maybe 95'ish. 1993? Wow!
"Net Surf" "Looking for cool stuff" that's what they kids say they're doing.
You mean Porn? Yes they always are looking for porn, and of course, the solutions to their homework, it is a real thing don't look it up, I sweat that is totally what they are doing.
This is such a good episode. Historical. Important to know where this all comes from. In 1993, I was 13 years old, and into all of this. I recognized a lot of what is shown. Thank you.
This video would have been a lot more informative if it explained how to share photos of cats.
thirdimpact lol
UUEncode/UUDecode.
I got my first email address at university in 1997, it was a very exciting feeling knowing that anyone around the world can send me a message and I would receive it immediately!
In 1998 I subscribed to the internet for the first time. I took my PC to a shop which installed Netscape 3 and told me how to sign in, but I returned home still feeling confused and not knowing how this internet really works. That same year I created my first personal website and published it on Angelfire then went to a Computer Expo and browsed my website from there.
Damn, NCSA Mosaic get's only a tiny portion of the show and all the command line browsing the majority. Most of the command line stuff died away and Mosaic lived on in the form of modern web browsers....
RdVortex I still use command line for most of things. The thing is these days command line interfaces are used only by professionals; masses moved to facebook
Command line or terminal did not "die away". A large number of machines on the internet are accessed by terminals. Ever heard of SSH?
@@spearPYN Exactly. The common person thinks the internet is posting on Facebook and Twitter or watching TH-cam. Little do they know.
@@infiltr80r Wrong. Little you know. Get outside your small horizon, there's much more than IT know how in the world.
@@Kansoganix we are talking about computer networks, what are you talking about.
For those of you who don't think that 1993 was a long time ago: Bill Clinton references, Star Trek original series references, and a phone number you can dial to get help with going online (not to mention no actual web address for the show).
I still remember the very first time I ever used the Internet. Was the last week of school in the summer of 1997. Myself and the rest of the nerds in my school were tasked with building a website for the school, which we managed in about two days. The rest of the time was spent messing around on chatrooms and playing quake. Those were the days!
Quake was big back then and duke nukem
Pretty cool can't wait for it to be available in my area.
You should call the internet help line 1800 444 4345 and ask when it's available.
I got it in 1994. It was really mind-blowing that I could just communicate with anyone in the world instantly for no extra cost.
QuantumBraced well you couldn't, far from everyone had acces to internet way back then. in fact you still cant! we take internet for granted but acces to internet is matter of clas and where you happen to be borned.. sad fact that not everyone in the world are born with the same chans.
Where have you been? Cell phone have exploded in the third world because they didn't have land line infrastructure. The third world has a huge advantage because they skipped the lind line phase.
The younger generation don't understand that if you weren't an engineering/IT student, educator or researcher, you didn't have Internet access prior to public commercialization, period. The best that you got was a Compuserve subscription that charged $20/hour to do anything meaningful. That QUICKLY added up and made one nervous just using it because of the tolling bill. That was a lot of money back then if you adjust for inflation especially.
Wow! NO extra cost? At all?
@@oldtwinsna8347 what do you mean? I was 10 years old in 1995, and the internet was really picking up back then especially with AOL.
"The Internet? It will never catch on. Nobody will want to sit at their computer and read stuff!" (said my roommate to me in 1995)
Cool, a hypertext interface, I want to learn about this new thing and explore the cyber space. Maybe partake in some packet video.
15 years old at this time, from Denmark. It would take around two years before I first heard the term "internet" in '95 . And four additional years before trying it myself. Man... most us simply had no idea what was about to happen. And it still took close to ten years from my first encounter before SoMe kicked in for real. So strange to think back on.
wow these 2 frames per second videos are amazing, it’s like we are living in the future! what will they think of next? cars that run on batteries?
For only $10 per hour!
I can't believe this was made during my lifetime.
Yes. I was 29. Didn't discover ftp until 1994.
Why is Stewart always in such a hurry? I've never seen a TV host constantly be in such a time crunch in every. single. episode.
Prolly tryna get home and snap open his beer
He honestly seems rude to every guest on the show!
The drugs were wearing off, had to get to the bathroom for another bump. Us computer types enjoy our powdered chemicals.
Ha, I spent a lot of time partying at an MIT frat and those kids... they studied hard as fuck and partied even harder.
lol such pricks people are.
This wasn't on youtube where he had all the time to do what he wanted. He was on a time limit to fit in as much as he could in as little time given for each segment.
Back then as a kid, the concept of the internet itself was cool enough. Though I think if someone from the future told me about fibre and wi-fi, my head would have exploded like that dude from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Back then you didn't hear about glass fiber wire?
Within the context of communication? No. My grandad owned a small boat-hire stall, and he used glass fibre to repair the boats. No-one would have put two and two together.
Henry Jones Jr.
They already used glass fiber for backbones and transoceanic connections. One of the first glass fiber connection in the Federal Republic of Germany was between the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin if I'm not mistaking. The use of glass fiber connection began long ago.
volarecantare I understand that. My original comment was referring to being a child, when I did not know about the origins of fibre.
Henry Jones Jr.
By the way, I saw on an old documentary about the wall before the wall fell. There were workers who dug canals for a wire for telecomunication and television. When the workers spoke about its capacity for phone calls and TV-channels. And those capacities they spoke of are in a spectrum copperwire is incapable of.
And here I even found that they worked on the fiber wire before the fall of the wall. www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13501023.html
They called it Die Wunder-Leitung.
I remember in early days of "Internet". Internet cafe's everywhere, it seemed like it was really going to catch on! You hardly ever see an "internet cafe" these days. Shame, it seemed like "Internet" had a lot of potential.
😅😅😅
😂😂the PCOs died too. Nobody seemed to be bothered
Corporations and governments ruined it
They are quite popular in some countries actually!
Haven't seen one since the end of the 90s and I've traveled a lot.
I remember seeing this show when it aired. It literally changed my life. And then many years later I found myself podcasting, not unlike what that Malamud guy was doing.
20:50 The WELL with the topic about the child with leukemia - far from the point of this video, but the few responses shown to the post really warm the heart.
“Philcat, we’re here and we’re listening. We share your hope and your pain. Hang on.”
At the time when this episode of The Computer Chronicles - The Internet aired on TV, I didn't have much awareness of how the internet would become something essential in today's world. I myself wouldn't know how to live without the internet, as I use it for various things, from work to paying bills, streaming services, and much more. It's remarkable how the internet has become an integral part of my daily routine.
It's amazing that the technology we take for granted today was not available back in the day or was a luxury commodity
A real nostalgia trip, they only just briefly touched on Mosaic, which was an early browser (the web part of the modern internet), the rest was all older attempts like gopher and BBS. One of the things you tend to forget is just how well everyone dressed. If this were today half the guys would be in stained T-shirts which they grudgingly put on five minutes before the interview. And yes, Howard's shirt at 19:01 was magnificent, but the thing that drew my eye was the power supply in the background-- it looks just like the one I had which my monitor sat on for my 486SX 25 MHz which had 4 MiB RAM if I recall correctly. Great setup: you could switch on the power to your printer, your speakers, your monitor, and your desktop all from one place. Also, this video is 30 years old from this comment.
"How do I get into internet?"
Well my good sir, it's a good thing that you asked because SUPRISINGLY!, you are in the internet right now! :D
You have a built in modem sir just use it
You need the Web Browser 2.0 disc ;D
Open up Netscape Navigator and search WebCrawler for “porn”. Bam! Now you’re king of Internet!
I love going to “Bar.” I usually order “Sandwich” with “Drink.” -MST3K
30 years later, I am watching this wirelessly on my smartphone as I drink my morning coffee. It is amazing how far we have come, and exciting to imagine the future.
My granddaughter just asked me, "what is dialup grandpa?"
My 3 of my nieces, and my nephew know all too well what dialup is, and my oldest niece is now 21 with a baby boy of 1 year old, and they know because up till mid 08 all our area in S.C. could get was either dial-up 56K, or very expensive Sat. Internet. However when my great nephew comes of age in a few years, I'll thankfully as a retro PC gamer will be able to show him my retro Pentium 4 DOS/Win 98SE/XP SP3 build, that has a 56K modem installed, and connect to one of the last dial-up services, but it will be over MagicJack VOIP.
Dialup grandpa? Never heard of that service..
@@Amalekites Clown 😉😉😉👍
Man. Can't wait to try out this internet.
Nothing like watching those progressive jpgs loading over 30sec.
lol this was back when the whole culture of connecting to the internet was so you could download things to help you connect to the internet.
2 frames per second internet porn...those times must have been tough...
In 1995 I told a friend of mine «You wait and see, in the future we'll all watch porn on our computers connected to the Internet"... He laughed his head off and said.. «Yeah, there's never going to be that much bandwidth for good looking movies online.»
@@JPX64Channel Sorry I only speak English.
I remember 2show.exe on a 386 and passing floppies around which we got from cousins and older brothers. Some stuff was just weird... Alladin (Disney) porn in EGA/MCGA graphics (maybe it was 16 color VGA?) ? Yep, it existed back in 1995.
The porn was self-blurring back in the day.... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
oh they were son, they were
This sounds interesting! I can't wait to try internet for myself!
18:40 "we also want the individuals of the world publish themselves"
I think we found the suspect.
The internet will never catch on...
Its obvious fail
Mitsuru Kirijo for reals
Shinjiro Aragaki Aragaki Yes!
They have the Internet on computers now?
That's what Gates said.
When he brings up that finger thing and displays the billboard 100. Nirvana's HSB was in the charts at the time! too cool.
It's nice seeing the internet in it's infancy. These people had NO clue how huge the internet would get.
I used things like, "gopher" " finger" and all that nice stuff that was only text based.
More about how it would play as being instrumental in everyday tasks for every person on earth, even in impoverished countries. Back then it was seen as mostly something for businesses or nerdy folks to use.
I started going on this part of the internet right after my BBS at the time enabled some kind of side-deal for access. it was suprisingly useful, even at the very early stage. it was quite a revelation after the very spartan ascii bits you'd see on the old BBS. it was very very clear that it was the way things were going to be at the time, even for myself as a 13 year old.
I remember all the gopher, veronica, command lines etc.....I was hooked before 1993. Everyone I knew was not interested in the net and now everyone takes it for granted.
"and now everyone takes it for granted." because most people are idiots.
The Internet was the best thing that ever happened since business productivity. Very often, I spend lots of time on the Internet than producing office documents at home.
17:05
Does anyone know if the Geek of the Week "podcast" still exists anywhere?
I've googled around and can't find any of the old recordings of it.
I really hope those still exist. It'd be super neat to give those a listen.
edit - I have found them.
town.hall.org/radio/Geek/
WOW! You're a legend for this, I didn't even think to search for these for some reason. CRAZY! The first one is almost 31 years old! WTF!
Wow this is awesome. I was only 2 years old when this aired, crazy how much tech has changed in such a short period of time! I started using AOL in 1998 at 7 btw haha 21 years online...
"You can even upload baby pics for the Well community"
That shit unfortunately went south.
Even though I lived through all of this, it's fun to go back and look at various topics, knowing how things eventually developed over the intervening 30 years. Back then, all of this was so "gee whiz, think of what we might be able to do with this." G good history lesson, and valuable info for those interested in computer technology that are too young to have lived through it all.
22:56 - they anticipate stalkers, trolls, doxxers, scammers, predators and other creeps online.
In 1993 i was in love with my unconnected A1200. Man i still love the Amiga 1200. Great times,great games, great memories.
that guy at about 17:20 did Podcasting in 1993!
Visionary!
Even today I still have a huge fondness for the Bulletin Board Service.
That classic dialup sound!
*I am going to order a videocassette immediately!*
That first time as a kid, when you heard that modem bleep and bloop, and that connection established, you had the world at your fingertips...And most people you knew didn't even have a computer yet! Good times...
I so remember having a 286, with a whole entire meg of mem.
LOL
I upgraded to 4 megs for my 486 DX and probably could have made a down payment on a car.
Unfortunately, I was alone among my friends.
But that helped open up what we now have today.
Love seeing these episodes, they were so informative at the time.
If I’d known about this show and had access to it during the original run, I’m sure I would have been a big fan. This is a great record of computer workings of the day, especially since a professional television show was really the only good way at the time of videoing how to use the hardware and networks of the time.
1993: I want you to log onto the internet and while you're doing that, we're gonna run over to NASA...
2020: I want you to log onto the internet and-
"Done"
This show set me on my career path in IT as a young 14 year old.
“The global village has arrived, and it’s mainstreet is Internet” 😂
It's crazy to think our cellphones today are more powerful than the computers in this episode
They often are more powerful than the supercomputers of the time...
My calculator is more powerful than the computers in this episode.
23:15 "You can't trust everyone you meet in a virtual community until you meet them and get to know them offline."
Too bad the world didn't heed Howard Reingold's wisdom
We decided to reverse it.
Don't trust someone until you see their online persona. Also never meet someone in real life.
I wish I could see where we go 100 years from now....assuming we're still around as a species
@@Patrick_TremblayAI will pleasure your wife
I started using the Internet in 1993 and started a computer training/repair business in 1996 that did well for 20 yrs.
Classic mistake! Password1 hahahahaha
Wow brings back memory. I was working on a BBN project back then.
Ah, remember those days when you didn't have area codes needed for dialing.
Because of this episode I got one of my IBM PC/XTs internet-connected. I've got Trumpet News Reader (usenet) running and, especially cool - PC Gopher III to use gopher. Works great and lots of great content still being maintained! I can also telnet into BBSes in glorious CGA color ansi..
Wow. Those dialup noises in the background brings me back. My first internet connection was dialup 33.6k. Had windows 3.1 then upgraded to Windows 95 as we were recommended it as it was a better OS for the internet.
yeh i know i was about 10 years old back then
I enjoyed watching this show even though I couldn't afford a PC until March 1999 and I do remember this episode. I really wanted a PC in 1996 because of the Internet craze but they were too expensive back then like $2,000 to $3,000 USD or more.
So did this 'Internet' take off?
No. Crashed and burned, just like Apple after they fired Steve Jobs.
I hear some people spend entire days surfing this net. Bunch of loonies if you ask me
***** *cough* Nobody tell him
It was a joke. All of it. My comment, the one above it, it's called sarcasm. Nobody tell you that it was sarcasm... But you didn't get it, and went off, so I told you.
I know about Apple and Steve Jobs and Wozniak, it was a joke.
Derek Pockrandt
I know I feel you. I'm sorry your joke cost you a couple of essays for your troubles
I recall that era with the phone line modems being used from the homes.
For the people that had deep pockets, a local telecom company that was up-to-date, and living in a neighborhood that had modern telecommunications infrastructure, having an ISDN line connected to the home was considered very extravagant as way to go to link up to the internet.
14:10 I don't know what's up with the huge spike of replays here but it is cool to see someone using A/UX, possibly the most forgotten successful Unix of all time.
I remember about 20 years ago getting an old IIcx and successfully loading A/UX on to it just to check it out. I had never heard of it before I got the IIcx. When I started looking through archives (to get stuff like the GNU utils, gcc, etc) I couldn't believe how popular it was in the mid 90s at one point, then just vanished when Apple gave up on it.
Apple was full of bad decisions back then.
I remember watching this way back when. I think it was on PBS, from Plattsburgh.Great show then and today.