I think I remember the very first time I ever "googled" anything was back in highschool when I was doing a senior project back in the fall of 2001. Since then, technology has come a long way, now it seems like google already knows what you want to find long before you finish typing it in.
The WebTV had been built by a third-party company that was bought out by Microsoft. It came w/ an awkward remote, but there was an optional wireless keyboard available. Back in the day, my dad had one connected to his 19" channel-clunker "portable" set (his became a "WebTV by Microsoft" only after a firmware upgrade). His particular unit also had a PS/2 jack on it for a standard keyboard.
I know it's almost 4 years since this video was posted, but I saw one of these in a thrift store for $13 and almost picked it up for nostalgia and a learning tool for my daughter in regards to hardware. I didn't because I wasn't sure if it worked still (probably not) and if it did, what was going to fail soon, like bulging/leaking capacitors. It's labeled as having a pentium 4.
I will add it had different rear I/O on it. I might still get it if it's still there. It's possible someone gutted it and put something else in there. Now I'm curious.
you know, I have been watching your vids for years. don't make many comments, but this has got to be one of your most interesting informative vids you have ever done. history lesson. got my first micro computer, zx81, I am that old, learnt to write code. wrote games for my then small boy, he was 40 last week. did not get in to internet till 2003/4 windows xp. I must have watched all your vids including your scooter vids. sorry for rambling on. merry Christmas for next month.
Heh, my grandpa was a network administrator for the state house and they used a Phillips webtv as an email client. All it had was a keyboard. Several years ago, he gave the thing to me with all the documents. Id use it but MSN TV has been discontinued.
back in the late 90s, the only place i used the internet was at my dads office, our computer at home was antiqued for the internet (a 486 machine running 3.1, while it was probably possible to use the internet on it, it wasnt worth upgarding it), we later got a machine that could use the internet, my friends family had cable internet, in 1997, i was envious even though my parents could afford it, they didnt want to pay for it, it was pretty expensive, internet rates are a ripoff in canada today, and was worse back then
Sadly we still sell stuff like this, dell has a laptop for 200 bucks, and have desktop we sell for 200 bucks as well, they dont even need a fan and the heatsink. I state there bad because we have 5 year old core 2 duos that benchmark higher then the 2014 celeron, idk why intel even puts out such cheap chips, and not even for tablets there desktop/laptop processors.
Well, it's a tad unfair to expect a bottom-end CPU to demolish an older high-ish end CPU, particularly if the bottom-end CPU is clocked low, and the C2D is clocked high. Not everyone needs a powerful CPU; some people want lightweight and low-power laptops, and that one would suit them fine.
Inspiron 15, dell sells it for 249 we sell it for 199, ASUS K30AM-J-US001S $239 on b&h but we have it for 199 as well but either way i know im little bit of a poweruser, but just web surfing one tab no flash or anything task manager saying chrome using %70 percent cpu, and with flash it can get laggy little. Not so much low power its over half are the customers are sending back to asia or middle east to sell at a higher cost or to give to a family member, well i guess slow computer better then no computer.
FrostyExchange It shouldn't be running THAT badly on Google Chrome; heck, even an old P4 system, which one of those would outclass, would be able to better that. I am surprised to see that the 1.3 GHz Pentium 967 chip in the laptop I use for lectures actually has a slightly higher benchmarking score, but there's not that much in it, and my system certainly doesn't tank like that with Chrome. I don't need a more powerful laptop because my desktop does that for me.
Likely a Bay Trail Celeron,together with those atoms and some Pentiums. Haswell Celerons will not be as painfully slow,even if it is a celeron U which is like ~1GHz.
the first internet ready machine I had was a 486/dx2 66 mhz system running windows 95 with about 16mb of ram and a us robotics 14.4 external modem. It really is laughable considering what I have now, but I did log a bit of hours with that machine. As for the hard drive, any IDE drive of that vintage should work. just got to watch the jumper settings on those sometimes
Through component and RGB hookups some of the SD-TV internet boxes didn't look so bad in europe, europe had a 720x576 TV resolution though, only a few hairs away from 800x600
i had one of these, I put a pentium 3 in it at 800MHz, It clocked it at 600, I played american McGees alice and quake 3 on it, I wish i can find another one, would make a slick mini ITX sleeper build, I loved how quiet it was, the heatsink it came with would prolly work fine with a few modifications, PSU should do just fine, but id prolly replace it. oh yeah, i stuck 384mb of RAM in it. and yoop, it came with a monitor and a mouse and keyboard with USB ports in it, the intel 82810 GPU driver update, if dell still has it added another 8mb of shared video memory
I actually came across an e1 at a flea market, it was in working condition and booted windows 98, but it didn't have a price tag on it and they couldn't sell it to me because of that. My first reaction to it though was "ooh, an iMac G3! Oh, wait..." 😆
Well, assuming that "curriculum" is used in the nominative case, then I believe that "curricula" would be the correct pluralization of this Latin word; the endings are as follows: Sing. Nom: -um, -i, -o, -um, -o; Plural Nom. *-a*, -orum, -is, -a, -is. However, "curriculi" is also shown because the second declension can technically start with '-um' OR '-us'. Hmm... so the English dictionary says "curricula." Okay--what I had originally stated. As an interesting fact, about 60% of English vocabulary is derived from Latin.
This reminds me an awful lot of the mini-iTX AMD E-series based computers so popular in computer-illiterate households today. I'm not ragging on either mini-iTX or the AMD E-series, but mini-iTX was not meant to be a full-size desktop replacement and the E-series was never meant to be the muscle behind one's only computer, unless their needs were incredibly basic. Seriously, I've seen these chugging to decode a 360p MP4 or run the Aero desktop.
+girlstorm09 Yes indeed; they also had "sub notebooks" which were very basic laptops with few features. They were very popular among businessmen. They were used for some light work on the go, and when they were back home (or at the office) they would transfer the work onto their primary computer.
that is similar in design to my Compaq Ipaq desktop. Mr Ipaq is a pentium 3 and runs xp.I don't remember how much ram or the hard drive size but when I last turned it on 3 years ago it ran fine. It runs a bit warm because the power supply fan cools everything but it is still pretty fast for what it is.
Throw some more memory in it, put a better CPU in, replace that modem with a WIFI adapter, and you have a decent Windows XP machine! Try running Doom 95 on it now!
I'll happily take that of your hands, I might just have the perfect hard drive to replace the one that failed, the best part is that it's 2gb larger than that one that's inside. I'd load Windows 2000 on it though.
"Can you imagine typing an email on a 480i Television screen?" Actually, yes. I've done some experimenting with Playstation 2 Linux homebrew and actually used Firefox on yahoo.com on a Playstation 2. It wasn't TOO bad, but it wasn't exactly user-friendly either.
+brick brainiac Not movies. DVDs had just been invented at the time this came out. Everybody was still renting movies on tapes, and Windows 98 had no native support to play DVDs. That optical drive is a CD drive, and its primary purpose would have been to install software. Apparently this computer came with a printer, so you'd install the drivers and software that way. You could also have used it to play music files from audio CDs assuming that you had a media player installed.
I absolutely despise what the WWW has become... Can we just go back to simple web pages? I don't need absurd Flash animations and other eye-candy---just let me browse the web without having to use tons of my CPU. A person could browse the web just fine on an iMac G3, back in 1998... but no, it now takes all of its strength (in fact, it takes my PowerMac G5's utter strength) to load a web pages. Ridiculous.
maccollectorZ (Commenting Account) Flash ads are a disease as too many of them can even bring recent machines to their knees. I find Adblock plus helps a lot.
Membrane556 If you are using Firefox, try Bluhell Firewall. If you're using Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc., try uBlock. Both are nice, light-weight alternatives to Adblock. Adblock even slows down recent machines.
Yesterday i found our first PC , well i turned it on and Windows Me Loading screen appered then it said Country.sys is missing Then a BSOD showed up it said Windows Protection Error System Halted !! what does THAT MEAN ( i really really really need to turn it on well it has some pictures of me when i was 5 months old plz Help
Hey dude, I can help you here. If you can remove the hard drive and put that hard drive in a HDD Enclosure (IDE OR SCSI most likely, idk if it's 2.5 in or 3.5 in) and connect the hdd onto a computer that works fine. You can get all ur photos and documents off that. Please do reply :)
Typical Seagate reliability, I'll stick to my Western DIgital drives. Any Seagate drive I've had never lasted more than 6 months, the WD in my 13 year old Dell Dimension 2400 is still running smooth.
My Seagate ST-251MLC2 has one bad sector after over 20 years in use. My WD200 and WD1200 had both failed less than 2 years after purchase. Different people have different reliability, especially since none of my IBM DeskStar have ever failed.
Crede Add a WD800 to my mix of dead Western Digital drives, even though it wasn't a boot drive, it halted startup due to failure. Replaced it with a 24 year old 273MB Maxtor hard disk... system works fine now.
I can tell by the case this was not a production model of the WebPC. It might be a tad buggier than the production models. However, yes, the device was crap and was the beginning of the downfall of Dell. That entire division got laid off!
I enjoy our videos this one was good. I was there at the beginning with email and ftp that was it unless you included lynx. The first browser I used was Netscape one of the first versions.
lol that thing for $999 included the system, a 15"" CRT, an HP printer and a years worth of internet service.
I think I remember the very first time I ever "googled" anything was back in highschool when I was doing a senior project back in the fall of 2001. Since then, technology has come a long way, now it seems like google already knows what you want to find long before you finish typing it in.
Putting a raspberry pi in this thing would actually be an upgrade.
Rpi2. That's supports win10
+Alex Rahali not the real windows 10 through
+Alex Rahali Windows 10 is complete and utter garbage.
I didn't know Dell made coffie pots!
It looks like a coffee maker.
Yes
The WebTV had been built by a third-party company that was bought out by Microsoft. It came w/ an awkward remote, but there was an optional wireless keyboard available. Back in the day, my dad had one connected to his 19" channel-clunker "portable" set (his became a "WebTV by Microsoft" only after a firmware upgrade). His particular unit also had a PS/2 jack on it for a standard keyboard.
I think it is safe to say this is the late 90's version of the modern cloud computers. Funny how the same ideas keep coming back to market.
WaybackTECH
Chromebooks are pretty much the same concept in laptop form.
Membrane556
yep
I`ve been using the internet since 2nd Grade Maybe around 2000 I think, And might had been late 1999
looks like an oversized coffee maker
I know it's almost 4 years since this video was posted, but I saw one of these in a thrift store for $13 and almost picked it up for nostalgia and a learning tool for my daughter in regards to hardware. I didn't because I wasn't sure if it worked still (probably not) and if it did, what was going to fail soon, like bulging/leaking capacitors. It's labeled as having a pentium 4.
I will add it had different rear I/O on it. I might still get it if it's still there. It's possible someone gutted it and put something else in there. Now I'm curious.
how often do her some one talk about webtv I still remember webtv and it was so cool to me the good old msn days
you know, I have been watching your vids for years. don't make many comments, but this has got to be one of your most interesting informative vids you have ever done. history lesson. got my first micro computer, zx81, I am that old, learnt to write code. wrote games for my then small boy, he was 40 last week. did not get in to internet till 2003/4 windows xp. I must have watched all your vids including your scooter vids. sorry for rambling on. merry Christmas for next month.
One of the funniest PCs ever made.
That looks like a coffee grinder.
more like the first sodastream
needs a mini itx atom board
Heh, my grandpa was a network administrator for the state house and they used a Phillips webtv as an email client. All it had was a keyboard. Several years ago, he gave the thing to me with all the documents. Id use it but MSN TV has been discontinued.
back in the late 90s, the only place i used the internet was at my dads office, our computer at home was antiqued for the internet (a 486 machine running 3.1, while it was probably possible to use the internet on it, it wasnt worth upgarding it), we later got a machine that could use the internet, my friends family had cable internet, in 1997, i was envious even though my parents could afford it, they didnt want to pay for it, it was pretty expensive, internet rates are a ripoff in canada today, and was worse back then
Sadly we still sell stuff like this, dell has a laptop for 200 bucks, and have desktop we sell for 200 bucks as well, they dont even need a fan and the heatsink. I state there bad because we have 5 year old core 2 duos that benchmark higher then the 2014 celeron, idk why intel even puts out such cheap chips, and not even for tablets there desktop/laptop processors.
what model is this?
Well, it's a tad unfair to expect a bottom-end CPU to demolish an older high-ish end CPU, particularly if the bottom-end CPU is clocked low, and the C2D is clocked high. Not everyone needs a powerful CPU; some people want lightweight and low-power laptops, and that one would suit them fine.
Inspiron 15, dell sells it for 249 we sell it for 199, ASUS K30AM-J-US001S $239 on b&h but we have it for 199 as well but either way i know im little bit of a poweruser, but just web surfing one tab no flash or anything task manager saying chrome using %70 percent cpu, and with flash it can get laggy little. Not so much low power its over half are the customers are sending back to asia or middle east to sell at a higher cost or to give to a family member, well i guess slow computer better then no computer.
FrostyExchange It shouldn't be running THAT badly on Google Chrome; heck, even an old P4 system, which one of those would outclass, would be able to better that. I am surprised to see that the 1.3 GHz Pentium 967 chip in the laptop I use for lectures actually has a slightly higher benchmarking score, but there's not that much in it, and my system certainly doesn't tank like that with Chrome. I don't need a more powerful laptop because my desktop does that for me.
Likely a Bay Trail Celeron,together with those atoms and some Pentiums.
Haswell Celerons will not be as painfully slow,even if it is a celeron U which is like ~1GHz.
My Mac Mini cost $700, is about ¼ the size, and was intended to (and is definitely capable of) be a complete desktop. Its funny how things change.
Looking at the thumbnail, I at first thought, he is making a 23minute long video about a coffee machine :D
Lol
Ive never seen one of those before. The color and design looks similar to the early-mid 2000's Dell optiplex machines.
You need to inbox that Mail Station
did you check if the data cable was actually plugged in
the first internet ready machine I had was a 486/dx2 66 mhz system running windows 95 with about 16mb of ram and a us robotics 14.4 external modem. It really is laughable considering what I have now, but I did log a bit of hours with that machine. As for the hard drive, any IDE drive of that vintage should work. just got to watch the jumper settings on those sometimes
The Internet and The World Wide Web are not the same.
Curricula is the plural form of curriculum.
Just looked up the WebTV, did you know it Microsoft just recently terminated the service after the Xbox One came out in 2013?
there is a thrift store here that has one of those MailStations....I thought about getting it just for nostalgia and it was only like $2.88......
Through component and RGB hookups some of the SD-TV internet boxes didn't look so bad in europe, europe had a 720x576 TV resolution though, only a few hairs away from 800x600
i had one of these, I put a pentium 3 in it at 800MHz, It clocked it at 600, I played american McGees alice and quake 3 on it, I wish i can find another one, would make a slick mini ITX sleeper build, I loved how quiet it was, the heatsink it came with would prolly work fine with a few modifications, PSU should do just fine, but id prolly replace it. oh yeah, i stuck 384mb of RAM in it. and yoop, it came with a monitor and a mouse and keyboard with USB ports in it, the intel 82810 GPU driver update, if dell still has it added another 8mb of shared video memory
I had a Web TV. It wasn't bad if you weren't already used to something better, which I wasn't. I was just happy to have internet access.
oh yes, I have never seen or heard of one of those mini towers in this vid ether
I actually came across an e1 at a flea market, it was in working condition and booted windows 98, but it didn't have a price tag on it and they couldn't sell it to me because of that.
My first reaction to it though was "ooh, an iMac G3! Oh, wait..." 😆
at 11:55 , you can see usb ports on the computer.
just pointing that out
Well, assuming that "curriculum" is used in the nominative case, then I believe that "curricula" would be the correct pluralization of this Latin word; the endings are as follows: Sing. Nom: -um, -i, -o, -um, -o; Plural Nom. *-a*, -orum, -is, -a, -is.
However, "curriculi" is also shown because the second declension can technically start with '-um' OR '-us'. Hmm... so the English dictionary says "curricula." Okay--what I had originally stated. As an interesting fact, about 60% of English vocabulary is derived from Latin.
This could make a really small win95/dos computer and great video.
This reminds me an awful lot of the mini-iTX AMD E-series based computers so popular in computer-illiterate households today.
I'm not ragging on either mini-iTX or the AMD E-series, but mini-iTX was not meant to be a full-size desktop replacement and the E-series was never meant to be the muscle behind one's only computer, unless their needs were incredibly basic. Seriously, I've seen these chugging to decode a 360p MP4 or run the Aero desktop.
Jacob Turner
Recent E-series Bobcat based or newer can play HD video just fine with the right drivers but they don't play recent games very well.
+Jacob Turner Agreed, I had a laptop with an E-series processor and it struggled to play TH-cam.
i had a e1 back then
it was painful
so its pretty much the 90s version of one of those nettop computers. Interesting i didnt know they had those type of computers back then.
+girlstorm09 Yes indeed; they also had "sub notebooks" which were very basic laptops with few features. They were very popular among businessmen. They were used for some light work on the go, and when they were back home (or at the office) they would transfer the work onto their primary computer.
does anyone else think this thing looks like a coffee maker?
+Brock Williams at closer look, yes
+ToyFoxy1987 haha
that is similar in design to my Compaq Ipaq desktop. Mr Ipaq is a pentium 3 and runs xp.I don't remember how much ram or the hard drive size but when I last turned it on 3 years ago it ran fine. It runs a bit warm because the power supply fan cools everything but it is still pretty fast for what it is.
"sucker"=too much eevblog lol
Throw some more memory in it, put a better CPU in, replace that modem with a WIFI adapter, and you have a decent Windows XP machine!
Try running Doom 95 on it now!
*****
I've got a Pentium MMX 233MHz running Windows XP with decent performance.
AIO inc. As in the first Pentium? On XP???
AIO inc. what about a q6600 with 16 gig and a gtx 1080ti XLR8
Swap the mini pci modem out for a wireless or a Ethernet one. toss free NAS on there with a usb drive and have a nice little NAS.
I'll happily take that of your hands, I might just have the perfect hard drive to replace the one that failed, the best part is that it's 2gb larger than that one that's inside. I'd load Windows 2000 on it though.
My First internet PC was a Custom Intel celeron 400 MHZ over Clock to 500 MHZ 32MB of RAM and 4GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive it ran Windows 98 SE.
Did you check to see if maybe the connector to the HDD got knocked loose? Or try disconnecting it and plugging it back in?
"Can you imagine typing an email on a 480i Television screen?"
Actually, yes. I've done some experimenting with Playstation 2 Linux homebrew and actually used Firefox on yahoo.com on a Playstation 2. It wasn't TOO bad, but it wasn't exactly user-friendly either.
Its soooooooooo adorable, I just need to have one
New Bishop video? Yus.
Surprise surprise, i open the disc drive and it jas a game called red alert
If you have any server hardware, I'd love to seem some videos about it.
Not even on-board Ethernet? What the ?
Too early for that.
Too early for that.
What were you going to say at the end? The video got cut off at the end. As for the Dell WebPC, is it even possible to get a replacement hard drive?
good computer.
i have a gateway and i love it
hell yess a new video. Always having something interesting to show me.
WHY DOES THIS HAVE AN OPTICAL DRIVE? MOVIES?
+brick brainiac Not movies. DVDs had just been invented at the time this came out. Everybody was still renting movies on tapes, and Windows 98 had no native support to play DVDs. That optical drive is a CD drive, and its primary purpose would have been to install software. Apparently this computer came with a printer, so you'd install the drivers and software that way. You could also have used it to play music files from audio CDs assuming that you had a media player installed.
lol. Not sure what BIOS key it is so push all of them. I like it.
Lol I have a web tv in my closet still, they did suck it did not have a mouse or pointer on the keyboard, only arrow keys
What model Compaq monitor is that?
I have one, i found your video trying to figir out how to open it XD so i can clean out the dust, mine works :p
I absolutely despise what the WWW has become... Can we just go back to simple web pages? I don't need absurd Flash animations and other eye-candy---just let me browse the web without having to use tons of my CPU. A person could browse the web just fine on an iMac G3, back in 1998... but no, it now takes all of its strength (in fact, it takes my PowerMac G5's utter strength) to load a web pages. Ridiculous.
maccollectorZ (Commenting Account)
Flash ads are a disease as too many of them can even bring recent machines to their knees.
I find Adblock plus helps a lot.
Membrane556 If you are using Firefox, try Bluhell Firewall. If you're using Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc., try uBlock. Both are nice, light-weight alternatives to Adblock. Adblock even slows down recent machines.
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Yesterday i found our first PC , well i turned it on and Windows Me Loading screen appered then it said Country.sys is missing Then a BSOD showed up it said Windows Protection Error System Halted !! what does THAT MEAN ( i really really really need to turn it on well it has some pictures of me when i was 5 months old plz Help
Hey dude, I can help you here.
If you can remove the hard drive and put that hard drive in a HDD Enclosure (IDE OR SCSI most likely, idk if it's 2.5 in or 3.5 in) and connect the hdd onto a computer that works fine. You can get all ur photos and documents off that.
Please do reply :)
Alex Rahali THats what i did Thank you very much! Sub +1
Your welcome!
Upgrade it a bit, load Linux on that son of a bitch, and you got a fairly decent computer for browsing the Internet.
Typical Seagate reliability, I'll stick to my Western DIgital drives. Any Seagate drive I've had never lasted more than 6 months, the WD in my 13 year old Dell Dimension 2400 is still running smooth.
My Seagate ST-251MLC2 has one bad sector after over 20 years in use.
My WD200 and WD1200 had both failed less than 2 years after purchase.
Different people have different reliability, especially since none of my IBM DeskStar have ever failed.
Crede
Add a WD800 to my mix of dead Western Digital drives, even though it wasn't a boot drive, it halted startup due to failure. Replaced it with a 24 year old 273MB Maxtor hard disk... system works fine now.
I can tell by the case this was not a production model of the WebPC. It might be a tad buggier than the production models. However, yes, the device was crap and was the beginning of the downfall of Dell. That entire division got laid off!
***** He did -_-
I had a webtv, i thought it was great when i was 4, xD
i had werb tv it was kinda cool but it was kinda sluggish LOL
This is actually the first website: info.cern.ch there's some cool history on there too.
I enjoy our videos this one was good. I was there at the beginning with email and ftp that was it unless you included lynx. The first browser I used was Netscape one of the first versions.
ew. dells.