Amen. We have the Wayback Machine, but it can only do so much for us with just how much content there was back then. Sadly we can't use it to play old flash games from our childhood that no longer exist today, and even some old websites just don't load. If only someone could bring back such a thing...
There's a whole community dedicated to preserving old flash games and I love them for it. They managed to save a favourite of mine, Candystand's "Mini Golf Classics"! I played the CremeSavers Mini Golf game so much on the old Shockwave website, I was so happy to see someone preserved it. I see games as little pieces of art, and although most games will probably be preserved forever through Steam downloads and abandonware archives, I feel like flash and other web games don't have that kind of guarantee, and it makes me sad to think that some have been lost to time and more will be in the future. I have been thinking of starting a TH-cam series playing through as many as I can so I can do my part to preserve them if they ever disappear one day.
There's a certain irony that people are asking what Teri is doing now under a video titled How To Find ANYTHING On The Internet. Did Teri teach you people nothing? Did she die in vain? (She's living in Minnesota and does voiceover work).
Really? Because she sounded like a Text To Speech to me. In fact, free nuance's Zoe Conversational TTS sounds better than her. Teri made the web sound like a really boring place...
I still remember downloading and storing a couple porn clips on a floppy disk to hide them from my mum and brother. Had to transfer them back to the computer to watch them after discovering the transfer rate was a bit slow. Awesome memories lol
Oh, the feels! I played "Where In The World" so often I never had to touch the world almanac, and I usually knew who I was chasing before I had enough to go to Interpol for a warrant. Good times... **sigh**
@@dashcamandy2242the old PC games were always too hard and confusing for me. I do have "Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego)" for the NES and it irritates me how there's no end to the game. You just catch her and then it gives you another mission like nothing happened. I know that's a trope with the Carmen games, but it's still a letdown.
I don't know which is more surprising; the fact that Clint didn't know about the alt+arrowkey command for going back and forth in the browser history, or that a company actually made this product and NO ONE involved, not the writer, proofreader, voice actress, director, programmers or apparently any sort of QA person, realized that they mixed up their left from their right.
Ethan Ansell was there in the 90s, it definitely wasn't. Remember IE 3.0 introducing them in '97. Don't remember if Netscape had them before that; wasn't really using keyboard shortcuts in the mid 90s.
Haha this is brilliant. Reminds me of the old Internet Directory books back in the 90s. Talking with my friend being all like, "Where should we go!?!? Dude, let's go to Coca Cola's website! Awesome! Ok, what next!?" *awkward silence. then disconnected. proceeds to dial-up to local BBS to play LORD.* - This was way more interactive though. Lots of cool nostalgia in those sites. Ok, time for some searching on my favorite "portal".
I wasn't around for the era of BBS, but this comment _did_ bring to mind how like, InvasionFree or something forums of a certain era had this random Flash game arcade feature that forums could enable without really ... adding much. Like, it was just a center of Flash games that the admins added onto and they were usually stock ones from the forum software. I remember several forums I was on having it, and it was just kinda there.
God, I miss the Web 1.0 days. Seems like the internet back then was just so much more..hopeful and fun. Everyone was on a level playing field with their own person websites, etc. Nowadays, 90% of the people just browse the same big 5 websites now.
In a few more years, most people still alive won't even know what the "Web" is or what that Chrome/Safari icon does and only access the Internet through those five sites' dedicated apps.
@Joshua Manning Web 2.0 started after 2001 so the "dude" is right. This *was* Web 1.0 (but only in retrospect of course). In 1992 the web was just barely opened up for the public. Dial up was common up until the late 90's (even early 2000's for quite some people).
7:51 "WWF unveils new Pro Football League" A CD teaching you the internet having a video with a headline about the XFL is seriously the most 2000-2001 thing I've ever seen in my life. Lol
Oh wait there's windows 10 and 2000 already, I was thought 7 was the newest,but from what I heard, 7 is the most stable one till version 95 so yeah I might out win 2000 into virtual box and see if it is worth to upgrade
+Paul Gascoigne: "Wow. Did I see something about Windows 2000? I'm only on Windows 10... That's like one thousand nine hundred and ninety more than me!" ==Actually, Windows 2000 came out before Windows 10. Ever since Windows 95, Microsoft was naming their OS after the year it was released, so you had: Win 95 OSR1, Win 95 OSR2, Win 98, Win 98 Second Edition, Win ME and Win ME was the last in the line of the Win 95 line. Win 2000 followed Win NT 4.0. So, Microsoft stopped with naming their OS after the year. Then you had Win XP, Win Vista. Win XP was I think Win 6.1 and Vista was Win 6.2. Microsoft stopped with that naming convention and returned to versions. Win 7, Win 8 and 8.1 and 10.
Backspace used to also work, but lately they've been disabling that by default so that you don't accidentally go back when you were trying to delete text you were typing in.
I was going to ask if you're joking, but with the number of comments saying this is news to them, I assume there are genuinely people who like keyboard shortcuts, but still don't know about this. Okay, other useful shortcuts: - Ctrl + PgUp/PgDn will cycle through browser tabs. - Ctrl + 1, 2, etc. will take you straight to a tab (9 will take you to the last tab) - Ctrl + F5 forces a refresh of the page and doesn't use cached data - Alt + Home takes you to your home page - Ctrl + T opens a new tab - Ctrl + W closes a tab (Ctrl + Shift + W closes all tabs) - Ctrl + shift + T re-opens the most recently closed tab And some mouse shortcuts for good measure: - Middle-click a link to open it in a new tab. - Middle-click on a tab to close it. - Shift + left-click a link to open it in a new window.
February 3rd, 2000! The height of the bubble! Look at Yahoo's stock at 8:13 - $360! It split 2-1 on Valentine's Day and finished the year with about $30.
All the footage from the internet was captured on my birthday! February 3, 2000. It's pretty cool (and trippy) seeing AOL headlines from the day you were born. Lol only on LGR.
Well aren't you precious? Come here you little ragamuffin, you've got something behind your ear. Oh! Look at that! A quarter! You need to clean better back there, kiddo. In the mean time go use that quarter to buy yourself a can of soda, maybe one of those Mountain Dews I keep hearing about.
LGR, I watch any of your videos when I feel really terrible. Even when it seems like all the joy has gone from the world, your kind attitude makes me feel a little better.
You may be interested that all those headlines about a "jet crash" are alluding to Alaska Airlines Flight 261; in this flight the jet entered a dive, and in an attempt to correct it the pilots inverted the aircraft, a scenario that the film "Flight" took inspiration from. Unfortunately, though, the real-life accident saw the deaths of all those aboard, versus the 6 that died in the film.
261 was never going to recover. A flight critical part of the vertical stabilizer failed in-flight (this failure is also what caused the dive). This was because the airline management extended the regular maintenance of that part beyond what the manufacturer recommended as that TOTAL LIFESPAN of the part.
Yep, I'm actually fairly surprised that we haven't had more accidents relating to the jackscrew, especially when you take into account the circumstances surrounding Flight 261.
Yeah, I couldn't help but notice that. Like, I get that Terri may have been under a bit of time pressure to get those screen recordings and she probably couldn't afford to just wait for a slow news day... but I would've still tried to pick a day that wasn't _within a week_ of Alaska 261 or anything else like it.
Didn't realize quick start icons went back that far. Damn, it's weird watching Win98 and the early internet in live form again. Great vid as always, LGR!
I remember a Reddit story I read of an older man who stumbled into a Best Buy and asked "Where do you keep your disks of Internet?" "Huh?" "The disks of Internet. What aisle?" "Uhhh... Aisle seven..?" Can't remember the story completely, just remember the content
@@aidancommenting it went like "where are your internet disks????" and this dude went like oh you want to look for the aol stuff at aisle something??? "no, i just want the internet." thats not how it works and then the older man just got angry i think
It's sort of like a time capsule seeing all those websites and how they looked in 2000. I also didn't know about Alt+Arrow Key combination as well! Also, I caught my eye on the news of the Alaska Airlines plane crash (which crashed on my 3rd birthday, January 31, 2000). It was apparently some improper maintenance that caused the plane to crash.
Yep, I think I still have one somewhere. It was labeled "Internet Führerschein" or something like that (which translates to Internet driver's license or operator's license) and was handed out by my school.
I used PCs for the first time when i moved to Germany in 1997/98 when i was 8/9. I went from crushing poverty in Russia to living the high life with tech everywhere. It was if i arrived on a different planet.
That's interesting. Can you tell us a bit about your experience, what were your expectations, what did your parents tell you beforehand and which differences did you notice first?
lol, it has some weird shit on iot as well. Apparently, the acronym of the day is NALOPKT, which means "Not A Lot Of People Know That." Kinda fitting actually, considering I've never one heard/seen that used before... ;)
Oh my god... "squirt the bird -- Slang for the act of transmitting a signal up to a satellite. For example, 'Crew and talent are ready...what time do we squirt the bird?'" That's.... not what I thought that would mean XD
My parents own a thrift store, and I think we had this *exact* CD come through. and you are right it came in a big box with a few books one of which was like bigger than a Bible. I remember reading through it a little bit and it being full of hilarious stuff.
altavista ftw -- best autocomplete prank in the myspace era was to get to someone's computer and get meatspin in their history so that when they unknowingly hit 'm' and return there was a nice surprise.
This is something pretty interesting because of the nature in which it was preserved. Archived websites are interesting enough as it is, but there is something about seeing all of these old sites preserved in video that makes it much more interesting. You're not just looking at a time capsule, you're looking at the web frozen in time. These are videos that were recorded when these sites were new, and though the originals now only exist in archives, this feels like looking at the originals thru a portal in time, actually being able to see through the exact eyes of someone who was there more than 18 years ago. Thanks for the video, Clint, this was a real interesting find :)
An interesting thing to note about late 90s/early 2000s Internet: Yahoo and MSN didn't always have the most up to date news stories on their websites. You legitimately had to go to the source, be it CNN, or BBC, or CBS news, or whatever.
This totally takes me back, love this guys channel Who remembers ....? "get off the internet I want to use the phone" 😆 Napster/ Imesh where it took 1 hour to download an album and You had to virus scan your pc after to rid of it all manner of Trojans ICQ AND MSN messenger, sitting offline till someone you actually wanted to talk to appeared And a 30 second load time on pages with flash content
I used to go on the Cartoon Network website back when it just started using the new flash player back when it was called I think Realplayer or maybe itwas called something else. Waiting 15 minutes for a game to load.
+Siobhan A I remember the fights I had about hogging the phone line back in 1995, in particular with my mother. That prompted me to get my own in 1996 - I was 32 and was gainfully employed, so I knew I could >:) +Lewis Zerlewski I spent 3 days and nights downloading the Windows 98 ISO (via Usenet) back in May 1998, probably the only time I dared myself to do that with my 56k V.90 external modem.
I actually lol'd so much at this! Love your content LGR, such good geekery humour. Also ya - Alta vista was the absolutely shiz niz, especially when you used logical operators. Another good one was chacha where you entered in a question of what you wanted to find and you were connected to a personal search assistant. Made my course work so much easier :)
I just started watching your channel a week ago and I've already watched dozens of videos. Quickly turning into one of my favourites, glad there are so many videos to catch up on.
"I used to put these on my own website and they went nowhere but I just liked having them on there because I thought that they were cool" ARE YOU ME?!?!?!
Due to the fact that the Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash kept coming up on this thing, I paused your video to go find out what happened back then. So tragic. Anyway, thanks for the Blast From the Past here LGR. Great video!
Alt+ArrowKey is classic, like, it's a must-know for people! Also, I gotta say that the late 90s-early 2000s Website Wall-Of-Texts are fun to see, only to say "yeah, that's an early 2000s website right there!".
"Picked 'em up from the printers yesterday." "Good colouring." "That's bone. And the lettering is something called Silian Grail." "Look at that subtle colouring. The tasteful thickness." "Oh my God. It even has a watermark."
When Chrome removed the backspace functionality I quickly learned to use alt+arrow keys. Works great for me and my big hands, because you can't use left alt (Alt Gr), but everyone else I know hates it.
That was both hilarious and fascinating. I think the most surprisings aspects of it for me were: (1) It's pretty clear that they recorded this on someone's REAL workstation rather than a clean install, and (2) Despite sounding like a ridiculously useless product, it was very professional, and, from what we saw, actually quite pleasant to watch. Remembering how much more difficult "the Web" was to use back then (I graduated high school in 2000), I can easily see a lot of people, especially non-techies, learning a lot from this at the time. At least they had Google by then. Having first used "web portal" search functions around 1995 or so, I can soundly say that all "web search" was garbage before Google. Switching to Google when it came out was like a breath of fresh air. Such a simple site, you didn't have to wait for your (dial-up) connection to load all the categories, headlines, stock tickers, and other junk when you KNEW you wanted to search for something. And, when you did search, it actually managed to find what you were looking for in some of the early pages of results! No more finding the One Thing You Wanted on the fourteenth page of Yahoo / Hotbot / Altavista / whatever results!
This came out when I was 2-3 month old. I have literally grown up along side the internet. I guess I already knew, but things like this really makes me think about that.
I've known about alt+left/right for a long time... but she said it in REVERSE! Left is forward? What is this madness? Was Netscape like this or was it a mistake in the script?
This brought back so many memories for me. I was a junior in high school in 2000, so this is stuff I saw daily back then. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Displaying a video on a computer screen drawn on your computer screen: cutting edge UI design in the year 2000. Edit: So out of curiosity I Googled Fred Lane, the NFL player that random headline mentions, and apparently he was shot and killed by his wife in July 2000, which has to have been just months after this software came out, if he wasn't already dead by the time it was released. So that was kind of depressing.
We had one of these at the school were i worked at the time. It was a little different because de cdrom was filled with 'websites'. If you opened one you could click on hyperlinks and the cdrom would load that page as if you were browsing. This was all in a time when internet was by telephone lines and rather expensive and inconvenient. Well, it gave students an idea of what is was like to surf the internet. This video brought back some nice memories! Thank you for that Clint!
Obviously we have more advanced hardware and software 19 years later, but there's just something about the classic stuff that really does make you nostalgic and wish you could go back to those days. Back when multimedia and the Internet were so new and awe-inspiring. It seemed everything you did on a computer was so fun. Oh, how I miss that...
The Internet Archive that Clint mentions in this video has it backed up from the year 2000 onwards, although there's no guarantee that your page has also been copied (the chances are high though): web.archive.org/web/20001001000000*/tripod.lycos.com
5:23 Holy Shit! It Works! Except they got it backwards it's ALT + Left Arrow to go back and ALT + Right Arrow to go forward! It works in Edge and Firefox! Very useful!
I wish there was an AOL archive that includes the AOL downloadable MSDOS and Windows 3.11 games. Those were some of my earliest memories on my IBM Aptiva back in 1996 :)
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This is interesting just for the video footage of early internet pages alone. What a neat little time capsule.
Imagine what kind of capture rig they needed . . .
+inertia
You should see CNET's old stuff. Incredibly high res. Can't remember how they recorded it.
Amen. We have the Wayback Machine, but it can only do so much for us with just how much content there was back then. Sadly we can't use it to play old flash games from our childhood that no longer exist today, and even some old websites just don't load. If only someone could bring back such a thing...
There's a whole community dedicated to preserving old flash games and I love them for it. They managed to save a favourite of mine, Candystand's "Mini Golf Classics"! I played the CremeSavers Mini Golf game so much on the old Shockwave website, I was so happy to see someone preserved it.
I see games as little pieces of art, and although most games will probably be preserved forever through Steam downloads and abandonware archives, I feel like flash and other web games don't have that kind of guarantee, and it makes me sad to think that some have been lost to time and more will be in the future. I have been thinking of starting a TH-cam series playing through as many as I can so I can do my part to preserve them if they ever disappear one day.
Squiggs 【Glitches - ROM Hacks - Speedruns】 we're already missing some of Nintendos old flash games
Teri Parker Brown is still doing VO work for corporate stuff! She found her niche and made it work for 20 years! Very cool.
She still got those giant shoulder pads?
I'm glad I wasn't the only one to search her name after the video
Always the fun stuff to find out when watching goofy little things like this.
I wonder if she is still hot?
That's a real person and not a badly drawn cartoon figure ? Seriously ?
It's February 3, 2000?! There's still time to warn them! *Shrek* *is* *about* *to* *come* *out!*
Moving Parts Gaming SomeBODY ONCE TOLD ME THE WORLD IS GONNA ROLL ME
HEY NOW
GET OUT OF MY SWAMP
but why Shrek is goo... *remembers Shrek is love, Shrek is life is a thing
oh no
*Smash Mouth plays over the horizon*
There's a certain irony that people are asking what Teri is doing now under a video titled How To Find ANYTHING On The Internet. Did Teri teach you people nothing? Did she die in vain? (She's living in Minnesota and does voiceover work).
Teri Parker?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 true!
Really? Because she sounded like a Text To Speech to me. In fact, free nuance's Zoe Conversational TTS sounds better than her. Teri made the web sound like a really boring place...
@@Yntec back then, it really was
@@testshietchannel it really wasn't, you just had to know where to look
I met my wife in Yahoo groups. We will be married 18 years in January.
Steve Gilbert wow, what a great story :)
I hope it wasn't in the fight room?
Cool! Congratulations! 💖
tf
Great!
I was just as surprised about the alt+ left right thing. I've been using a pc since the 80's....
I lost my place in the video because I instinctively tried it as soon as it was mentioned. Still works!
it works on chorme
How do people not know this? I do it all the time!
My mind is blown at how quickly I can navigate backwards and forwards now...best thing since sliced bread? I dare say it could be!
Works in windows explorer and Linux too
Clint sounds like a kid in the 90's who just discovered porn on the web.
"There's porn on the Internet?" - Eminem, after being told about it.
Wasn't he "Slim Shady" back then? Maybe after discovering porn he changed his name because he couldn't "stand up" if you catch my drift.
@@gravijta936
Oh, he didn't discover porn. He had a ridiculously large porn collection. He simply didn't know about free porn.
Umm probably they don't know pron on mid 90's
I still remember downloading and storing a couple porn clips on a floppy disk to hide them from my mum and brother. Had to transfer them back to the computer to watch them after discovering the transfer rate was a bit slow. Awesome memories lol
That interface. I feel like Terry might start giving clues to find Carmen Sandiego.
Oh, the feels! I played "Where In The World" so often I never had to touch the world almanac, and I usually knew who I was chasing before I had enough to go to Interpol for a warrant. Good times... **sigh**
@@dashcamandy2242the old PC games were always too hard and confusing for me. I do have "Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego)" for the NES and it irritates me how there's no end to the game. You just catch her and then it gives you another mission like nothing happened. I know that's a trope with the Carmen games, but it's still a letdown.
I don't know which is more surprising; the fact that Clint didn't know about the alt+arrowkey command for going back and forth in the browser history, or that a company actually made this product and NO ONE involved, not the writer, proofreader, voice actress, director, programmers or apparently any sort of QA person, realized that they mixed up their left from their right.
Was wondering if anyone else caught that. I use the Alt+arrow keys a lot...
I used to use backspace for back, until Chrome disabled the shortcut. Now I use alt+left.
@@WetDogSquad true story, my new mouse (few weeks old) has those buttons, and I keep hitting "back" by accident >:(
Makes you wish that was in a better spot hmm?
Ethan Ansell was there in the 90s, it definitely wasn't. Remember IE 3.0 introducing them in '97. Don't remember if Netscape had them before that; wasn't really using keyboard shortcuts in the mid 90s.
I didn't even mind pages taking forever to load on Netscape as a kid, because I always liked watching the little loading GIF play in the top right.
Not every repeating video is a .gif file
Yeah, well, back then we were used to slow loading times. If you were to use 1998 internet today, you'd probably lose your mind with how slow it is.
Oh yeah, that epic little icon that signals that something awesome is happening
Haha this is brilliant. Reminds me of the old Internet Directory books back in the 90s. Talking with my friend being all like, "Where should we go!?!? Dude, let's go to Coca Cola's website! Awesome! Ok, what next!?" *awkward silence. then disconnected. proceeds to dial-up to local BBS to play LORD.* - This was way more interactive though. Lots of cool nostalgia in those sites. Ok, time for some searching on my favorite "portal".
FUCKING LORD , Brings back so many memories , also loved the newer version of LotGD
I wasn't around for the era of BBS, but this comment _did_ bring to mind how like, InvasionFree or something forums of a certain era had this random Flash game arcade feature that forums could enable without really ... adding much. Like, it was just a center of Flash games that the admins added onto and they were usually stock ones from the forum software. I remember several forums I was on having it, and it was just kinda there.
Fancy a game? www.nuklearlord.com ... little promo for my good friends over there
People walked...without a computer...in their face.
God, I miss the Web 1.0 days. Seems like the internet back then was just so much more..hopeful and fun. Everyone was on a level playing field with their own person websites, etc. Nowadays, 90% of the people just browse the same big 5 websites now.
In a few more years, most people still alive won't even know what the "Web" is or what that Chrome/Safari icon does and only access the Internet through those five sites' dedicated apps.
despite being bigger than ever the internet has never felt smaller
I spy bad predictions and normies
100% True.
@Joshua Manning Web 2.0 started after 2001 so the "dude" is right. This *was* Web 1.0 (but only in retrospect of course). In 1992 the web was just barely opened up for the public. Dial up was common up until the late 90's (even early 2000's for quite some people).
Bonzi Buddy was bad, but it had nothing on *WeatherBug...* 🐞
*YESSSSSSSSSSSSS*
That appeared on my laptop one time and it took *FOREVER* to try and get it off, I still don’t know what put it there in the first place
Ah, Weatherbug, haven't heard that name in years...
*has PTSD flashback*
Kentucky Ranger omg that damn weather bug was SO hard to get rid of! 🤦🏽♀️ 😂
I remember paying a relative a visit like 15 years ago, and they had that on their PC.
2000: How to find anything on the Internet
2019: How to find anything in real life
2020 I can't find tp online or in person
2020: How to find any god dang toilet paper.
2020: how to find outside
2020: How to survive the coronavirus
How to find meaning in life
7:51 "WWF unveils new Pro Football League"
A CD teaching you the internet having a video with a headline about the XFL is seriously the most 2000-2001 thing I've ever seen in my life. Lol
2020
XFL: We're baaaaack :D
Coronavirus: Not anymore ;)
XFL: Not anymore :(
Wow. Did I see something about Windows 2000? I'm only on Windows 10... That's like one thousand nine hundred and ninety more than me!
It's been on the beta state for decades and heard that it is UNSTABLE so maybe in couple of thousand years we get a version that works.
i found this funny lol
Oh wait there's windows 10 and 2000 already, I was thought 7 was the newest,but from what I heard, 7 is the most stable one till version 95 so yeah I might out win 2000 into virtual box and see if it is worth to upgrade
+Paul Gascoigne:
"Wow. Did I see something about Windows 2000? I'm only on Windows 10... That's like one thousand nine hundred and ninety more than me!"
==Actually, Windows 2000 came out before Windows 10.
Ever since Windows 95, Microsoft was naming their OS after the year it was released, so you had:
Win 95 OSR1, Win 95 OSR2, Win 98, Win 98 Second Edition, Win ME and Win ME was the last in the line of the Win 95 line.
Win 2000 followed Win NT 4.0.
So, Microsoft stopped with naming their OS after the year.
Then you had Win XP, Win Vista.
Win XP was I think Win 6.1 and Vista was Win 6.2.
Microsoft stopped with that naming convention and returned to versions.
Win 7, Win 8 and 8.1 and 10.
@@louistournas120 *Lies*
Hooooly crap, alt - left and alt - right still work on Firefox. I never even knew about those.
chrome too just tried
Backspace used to also work, but lately they've been disabling that by default so that you don't accidentally go back when you were trying to delete text you were typing in.
Worked on edge too hahah. Learned something.
I was going to ask if you're joking, but with the number of comments saying this is news to them, I assume there are genuinely people who like keyboard shortcuts, but still don't know about this.
Okay, other useful shortcuts:
- Ctrl + PgUp/PgDn will cycle through browser tabs.
- Ctrl + 1, 2, etc. will take you straight to a tab (9 will take you to the last tab)
- Ctrl + F5 forces a refresh of the page and doesn't use cached data
- Alt + Home takes you to your home page
- Ctrl + T opens a new tab
- Ctrl + W closes a tab (Ctrl + Shift + W closes all tabs)
- Ctrl + shift + T re-opens the most recently closed tab
And some mouse shortcuts for good measure:
- Middle-click a link to open it in a new tab.
- Middle-click on a tab to close it.
- Shift + left-click a link to open it in a new window.
Also works on various file managers on Linux.
The mention of privacy concerns was really interesting and forward thinking for a video series made in early 2000. Wasn't expecting that.
February 3rd, 2000! The height of the bubble! Look at Yahoo's stock at 8:13 - $360! It split 2-1 on Valentine's Day and finished the year with about $30.
I ACTUALLY LEARNED SOMETHING from this! Alt + left or right arrow keys to back or forward on web browsers. Awesome!
All the footage from the internet was captured on my birthday! February 3, 2000. It's pretty cool (and trippy) seeing AOL headlines from the day you were born. Lol only on LGR.
Yeah same. Weird seeing a video that's exactly as old as I am.
Damn kids. Get off my digital lawn.
Well aren't you precious? Come here you little ragamuffin, you've got something behind your ear. Oh! Look at that! A quarter! You need to clean better back there, kiddo. In the mean time go use that quarter to buy yourself a can of soda, maybe one of those Mountain Dews I keep hearing about.
Microfiche at the library. You could views oodles of them.
I've never felt older than seeing someone say their birthday was in the year 2000, and I'm only 23.
LGR, I watch any of your videos when I feel really terrible. Even when it seems like all the joy has gone from the world, your kind attitude makes me feel a little better.
You may be interested that all those headlines about a "jet crash" are alluding to Alaska Airlines Flight 261; in this flight the jet entered a dive, and in an attempt to correct it the pilots inverted the aircraft, a scenario that the film "Flight" took inspiration from. Unfortunately, though, the real-life accident saw the deaths of all those aboard, versus the 6 that died in the film.
261 was never going to recover. A flight critical part of the vertical stabilizer failed in-flight (this failure is also what caused the dive). This was because the airline management extended the regular maintenance of that part beyond what the manufacturer recommended as that TOTAL LIFESPAN of the part.
Yep, I'm actually fairly surprised that we haven't had more accidents relating to the jackscrew, especially when you take into account the circumstances surrounding Flight 261.
Yeah, I couldn't help but notice that. Like, I get that Terri may have been under a bit of time pressure to get those screen recordings and she probably couldn't afford to just wait for a slow news day... but I would've still tried to pick a day that wasn't _within a week_ of Alaska 261 or anything else like it.
Didn't realize quick start icons went back that far. Damn, it's weird watching Win98 and the early internet in live form again. Great vid as always, LGR!
Yea, when I was little I thought the internet was a CD.
I don't know why I laughed at your comment.
Dang reminds me of that Tim and Eric sketch.
I remember a Reddit story I read of an older man who stumbled into a Best Buy and asked
"Where do you keep your disks of Internet?"
"Huh?"
"The disks of Internet. What aisle?"
"Uhhh... Aisle seven..?"
Can't remember the story completely, just remember the content
The internette from Cinco technologies. Fresh new way to check out sites, buy clothing and surf music. And it's all located on this tiny CD-ROM.
@@aidancommenting it went like
"where are your internet disks????"
and this dude went like
oh you want to look for the aol stuff at aisle something???
"no, i just want the internet."
thats not how it works
and then the older man just got angry i think
Where is the ANY Key?
r/wooosh
Somewhere between A n' Y key. Idk
+Retro Game Players I’ll just take a Tab.
@@mariannmariann2052 haha you serious??? Hope not
I'm not entirely sure, since it has a graphic instead of letters, but I think the 'ANY' key is between the 'Ctrl' and 'Alt' keys.
It's sort of like a time capsule seeing all those websites and how they looked in 2000. I also didn't know about Alt+Arrow Key combination as well! Also, I caught my eye on the news of the Alaska Airlines plane crash (which crashed on my 3rd birthday, January 31, 2000). It was apparently some improper maintenance that caused the plane to crash.
We had discs like this too here in Germany and the content of the video was literally my late 90s childhood of exploring Netscape for the first time.
Where do I get that CD?
Yep, I think I still have one somewhere. It was labeled "Internet Führerschein" or something like that (which translates to Internet driver's license or operator's license) and was handed out by my school.
I used PCs for the first time when i moved to Germany in 1997/98 when i was 8/9. I went from crushing poverty in Russia to living the high life with tech everywhere. It was if i arrived on a different planet.
That's interesting. Can you tell us a bit about your experience, what were your expectations, what did your parents tell you beforehand and which differences did you notice first?
I want it
AOL forever.
Holy shit, PUR? Didn't expect to see you in the comments of an LGR vid.
You've got mail
AOL shut down in 15 December 2017
7:35
“My God, we’re in an endless loop of garbage!”
Yup. Yup. Yes we are.
More appropriate for this year, actually
"This is pretty much just watching videos."
As we watch a video on the internet about you watching videos about the internet.
"Endless loop of garbage" So funny and so right
Endless Trash.mov
Woah netlingo.com still exists and it seems to be still updated regularly
lol, it has some weird shit on iot as well. Apparently, the acronym of the day is NALOPKT, which means "Not A Lot Of People Know That." Kinda fitting actually, considering I've never one heard/seen that used before... ;)
I expected memes on netlingo, like LGR said. Eh, still not disappointed.
Oh my god...
"squirt the bird -- Slang for the act of transmitting a signal up to a satellite. For example, 'Crew and talent are ready...what time do we squirt the bird?'"
That's.... not what I thought that would mean XD
@@Fuzy2K you would think it would mean to unleash hell on Twitter.
Their most popular word is "2moro", which is short for tomorrow.
I've literally never seen anyone type like that to be honest.
I like that she mixed up left and right when talking about keyboard shortcuts.
My parents own a thrift store, and I think we had this *exact* CD come through.
and you are right it came in a big box with a few books one of which was like bigger than a Bible.
I remember reading through it a little bit and it being full of hilarious stuff.
altavista ftw -- best autocomplete prank in the myspace era was to get to someone's computer and get meatspin in their history so that when they unknowingly hit 'm' and return there was a nice surprise.
I love these videos where you can answer back to a video, it feels like you're channelling Mystery Science Theatre 3000.
Silent002 "Hi Terry."
Alt Right takes us backwards? CONSPIRACY CONFIRMED!
Reality confirmed.
Well played.
LMAO
It's funny since she got it backwards. Alt + right goes forward.
Oh, Terri. You had YES idea back in 2000 how integrated into everyone's life the internet would become.
Whaa-a-at?!! Netlingo.com is still an active site!
And.... Still the same logo! :-)
Still no css lol
All of its "interesting sites" are scams :(
This is something pretty interesting because of the nature in which it was preserved. Archived websites are interesting enough as it is, but there is something about seeing all of these old sites preserved in video that makes it much more interesting. You're not just looking at a time capsule, you're looking at the web frozen in time. These are videos that were recorded when these sites were new, and though the originals now only exist in archives, this feels like looking at the originals thru a portal in time, actually being able to see through the exact eyes of someone who was there more than 18 years ago.
Thanks for the video, Clint, this was a real interesting find :)
The Alaska Airlines story was from January 31, 2000, 3 days before this was recorded.
An interesting thing to note about late 90s/early 2000s Internet: Yahoo and MSN didn't always have the most up to date news stories on their websites. You legitimately had to go to the source, be it CNN, or BBC, or CBS news, or whatever.
This totally takes me back, love this guys channel
Who remembers ....?
"get off the internet I want to use the phone" 😆
Napster/ Imesh where it took 1 hour to download an album and You had to virus scan your pc after to rid of it all manner of Trojans
ICQ AND MSN messenger, sitting offline till someone you actually wanted to talk to appeared
And a 30 second load time on pages with flash content
uh oh!
I used to go on the Cartoon Network website back when it just started using the new flash player back when it was called I think Realplayer or maybe itwas called something else. Waiting 15 minutes for a game to load.
just one hour to download an album? I remember spending 6 nights on my 28.8k modem downloading the StarCraft ISO, that's dedication!
+Siobhan A I remember the fights I had about hogging the phone line back in 1995, in particular with my mother. That prompted me to get my own in 1996 - I was 32 and was gainfully employed, so I knew I could >:)
+Lewis Zerlewski I spent 3 days and nights downloading the Windows 98 ISO (via Usenet) back in May 1998, probably the only time I dared myself to do that with my 56k V.90 external modem.
@@somecoder3054 15 minutes that makes loading Commodore games seem fast 😁
Teri was foreshadowing online company data breaches back in the year 2000. We didn’t listen!
Data breaches on the Internet were happening way before that time.
Does anyone remember the day when you could actually find something that you wanted on the internet. Now days it's a endless cycle of paid sites.
CD Snider Ah yes, give me HotBot back I say!
if you knew how the internet worked, you would be still able to find almost anything for free
Wow February 2000! This is four months before I got crippling depression that is still with me to this day!!!!
lol the DOW Jones was in the 11,000's back then...
Net bubble part I. We are in part II now.
I actually lol'd so much at this! Love your content LGR, such good geekery humour.
Also ya - Alta vista was the absolutely shiz niz, especially when you used logical operators. Another good one was chacha where you entered in a question of what you wanted to find and you were connected to a personal search assistant. Made my course work so much easier :)
LGR has NSA grade tools!
I just started watching your channel a week ago and I've already watched dozens of videos. Quickly turning into one of my favourites, glad there are so many videos to catch up on.
"Callwave" sounds like some kind of super-niche music genre that mashes up old answering machine messages and automated systems with lo-fi electro.
"I used to put these on my own website and they went nowhere but I just liked having them on there because I thought that they were cool" ARE YOU ME?!?!?!
i remember this. it was aimed at older people who dont know how to use a computer or how to get online and how to work it.
how to work it...... yes.... how to work it.... I learned.... how to work it... online........ o yeah
If you want more info on the American Psycho nc-17 battle watch the documentary called "This Film is Not Yet Rated"
Hey Paul....
Alt+left&right FTW. That was really useful.
Those commands were instructed incorrectly to boot.
5:24 ohhh lol nice
I got used to the mouse side buttons, but this is also new information.
Thank you, 2000's Internet Guide!
Man, these sort of... hrm, internet time capsules of sorts are mesmerizing. I could see an LGR - 'Member the Internet series being successful. Haha!
This almost feels like a history video for me because I didn’t start using the internet until like 2007.
Better interface than most of these "new designs" changes for most sites in the last few years tbh...
Man, just seeing that AOL browser gives me the warm fuzzies with all the bright colors and how inviting everything looked.
So, show of hands. Who all tried Alt-Left and Alt-Right themselves as soon as it was brought up in the video?
I would if I wasn't watching this video on my phone in bed...
"Let's get some value!" *Ad plays*
The ad finished for me, and LGR says "....whatever THAT means." Couldn't have been more appropriate to the ad.
I think Google had that old logo for quite a while...into the 2010s I believe.
Funny enough, Google went to shit about the time they swapped out the old logo for the souless, bland, and modern one.
@@comicsans1689 Very true that's why I've been using DuckDuckGo for 2 years.
We’ll teach you how to use a web browser to browse the web, use a word processor to process words, and use excel to, well to excel!
I'll use PowerPoint to Point out how Powerful that joke was! :-)
Due to the fact that the Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash kept coming up on this thing, I paused your video to go find out what happened back then. So tragic. Anyway, thanks for the Blast From the Past here LGR. Great video!
Alt+ArrowKey is classic, like, it's a must-know for people!
Also, I gotta say that the late 90s-early 2000s Website Wall-Of-Texts are fun to see, only to say "yeah, that's an early 2000s website right there!".
"Picked 'em up from the printers yesterday."
"Good colouring."
"That's bone. And the lettering is something called Silian Grail."
"Look at that subtle colouring. The tasteful thickness."
"Oh my God. It even has a watermark."
When Chrome removed the backspace functionality I quickly learned to use alt+arrow keys. Works great for me and my big hands, because you can't use left alt (Alt Gr), but everyone else I know hates it.
Yeah I installed an extension to let me keep using backspace
7:50 Prior to Google and Altavista, I was using WebCrawler...
That was both hilarious and fascinating. I think the most surprisings aspects of it for me were: (1) It's pretty clear that they recorded this on someone's REAL workstation rather than a clean install, and (2) Despite sounding like a ridiculously useless product, it was very professional, and, from what we saw, actually quite pleasant to watch. Remembering how much more difficult "the Web" was to use back then (I graduated high school in 2000), I can easily see a lot of people, especially non-techies, learning a lot from this at the time.
At least they had Google by then. Having first used "web portal" search functions around 1995 or so, I can soundly say that all "web search" was garbage before Google. Switching to Google when it came out was like a breath of fresh air. Such a simple site, you didn't have to wait for your (dial-up) connection to load all the categories, headlines, stock tickers, and other junk when you KNEW you wanted to search for something. And, when you did search, it actually managed to find what you were looking for in some of the early pages of results! No more finding the One Thing You Wanted on the fourteenth page of Yahoo / Hotbot / Altavista / whatever results!
This came out when I was 2-3 month old. I have literally grown up along side the internet. I guess I already knew, but things like this really makes me think about that.
COMPUTER: "How to find ANYTHING on the Internet"
Okay, then, find civility, respect, and manners within community forums.
COMPUTER:
Spelling is dead also...
There's r/wholesomememes on Reddit
Easy. Go to multitool.org. Those are some of the friendliest, most level headed, great people you'll find on the web.
Zulkhan
>linking to Reddit
Disgusting
There was a whole lot more civility, respect, and manners in the forums in 2000. lol
I've known about alt+left/right for a long time... but she said it in REVERSE! Left is forward? What is this madness? Was Netscape like this or was it a mistake in the script?
"How to find ANYTHING on the internet" immediately makes me think of the dark web / Silk Road lol.
Well not everything...binoculars for birdwatching? Yeah right lol BirdHub.
This is just gold. I love the retrospect. "endless loop of garbage." Love it.
"What is she looking at? What is this? 3D minigolf...? Dude, I have this disc". This is the most LGR thing I've ever heard.
This reminds me of the youtube video - 1994: "Today Show": "What is the Internet, Anyway?"
7:51 "WWF Unveils New Pro Football League"
The link has been clicked. Teri confirmed XFL fan.
avi is Video for Windows, Microsoft’s QuickTime competitor.
This brought back so many memories for me. I was a junior in high school in 2000, so this is stuff I saw daily back then. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
alt+left/right is actually working in Chrome! Thanks for new knowledge, Terry!
I miss the old times.
Alt+[←] and Alt+[→] totally work in my modern Chrome.
I learned today.
Yea been around for ever, I first used that back in win98 when my mouse wouldn't work too well.
She messed it up, though. She said it's right arrow for back, left arrow for forward.
Displaying a video on a computer screen drawn on your computer screen: cutting edge UI design in the year 2000.
Edit: So out of curiosity I Googled Fred Lane, the NFL player that random headline mentions, and apparently he was shot and killed by his wife in July 2000, which has to have been just months after this software came out, if he wasn't already dead by the time it was released. So that was kind of depressing.
We had one of these at the school were i worked at the time. It was a little different because de cdrom was filled with 'websites'. If you opened one you could click on hyperlinks and the cdrom would load that page as if you were browsing. This was all in a time when internet was by telephone lines and rather expensive and inconvenient. Well, it gave students an idea of what is was like to surf the internet. This video brought back some nice memories! Thank you for that Clint!
Nice throwback. I was already telnetting into bbs' since the early 90s and remember when the GUI net started to take off. Thanks for the ride LGR :)
5:22 Was I only one who paused the video to test that alt+left/right thing?
Yes you were, I checked.
Oh, Terri. You had NO idea back in 2000 how integrated into everyone's life the internet would become.
Or you reside in an area that hasn't gotten with the times
"How to find anything on the internet"
How could have imagined that 18 years later people would be searching for bowsette XD
Man, we all learnt from LGR today.
The actual surprise in your voice is amazing!
"Alaskan air plane turned updide down"
Yep that was alaskan air flight 261, crashed on 31st of january 2000
Humnmmmmm that Netscape splash screen got me right in the feels. Have not seen that, nor thought of it since childhood! Thanks for the video!
Exactly like I experienced in my Pentium MMX166
Can wait for you to get 1Mil!
Another great episode. I knew we were in for a treat when you found it in that thrifts episode.
Obviously we have more advanced hardware and software 19 years later, but there's just something about the classic stuff that really does make you nostalgic and wish you could go back to those days. Back when multimedia and the Internet were so new and awe-inspiring. It seemed everything you did on a computer was so fun. Oh, how I miss that...
Can I find my '98 tripod webpage?
OMG, I remember having a Tripod site lol I don't even know if it's still floatin' around out there; can't remember the URL..
The Internet Archive that Clint mentions in this video has it backed up from the year 2000 onwards, although there's no guarantee that your page has also been copied (the chances are high though):
web.archive.org/web/20001001000000*/tripod.lycos.com
5:23 Holy Shit! It Works! Except they got it backwards it's ALT + Left Arrow to go back and ALT + Right Arrow to go forward! It works in Edge and Firefox! Very useful!
Try alt+f4
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Can't find this video. Pls advise.
Turn off trun on
Sensi Bleb alt f4
Or delete your system 32
call your system administrator
download more memory
I wish there was an AOL archive that includes the AOL downloadable MSDOS and Windows 3.11 games. Those were some of my earliest memories on my IBM Aptiva back in 1996 :)
This brings back so many memories :) Love this stuff, hope it's preserved forever :)