It's actually impressive how much they were able to achieve with such limited computing resources, and how well they integrated all these technologies together: analog video, typeball typewriters, punchcards, magnetic tape, light pens, etc.
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@@davidpar2 They probably used a segment from it. Happens all the time. Sony used some footage from the 20s and claimed copyright on one of my uploads. They refused to budge. Can't do anything about it.
I am literally impressed by the circuit similator and even more after knowing that this was made 56 years ago. The user interface feels very intuitive for something as primitive as what they had.
It just looks intuitive. That's what people in these comments don't understand. Try it for anything other than basic circuits and you'll quickly realise how terrible the UI is...
@@lost4468ytsome parts are definitely intuitive. It's essentislly click and drag at its infancy! There are probably aspects which were only understandable to people trained to used them. Just like most software nowadays.
Of course you are "literally" impressed. If you didn't say "literally", do you actually think the readers wouldn't think you were actually impressed and would doubt it?
It's because of the CG visuals, early computer music, and speech synth isn't it? It's jarring to see a fair amount of technology we use today being very present in 1968... given its' VERY basic presentation... What's stranger is that all the components used in the computers are still manufactured today in one form or another.
@@QuanrumPresenceExcept that they now cannot work without gigahertzes and gigabytes, and their UIs have become horrible landfill of clutter. That was indeed the golden age of computer programming, and sadly that professionality has been long gone.
@@TheSimoc Isn’t it natural for programmers to use more processing power and storage space when the number of transistors that can be packed on a chip has gotten ~two hundred million times larger than it was back in 1968? I’m not sure a UI as simple as the circuit-design program these people are using would be capable facilitating much useful work unless most of it’s functionality was hidden inside a command line interface; Today it looks closer to the sort of UI generally only reserved for simple software toys.
I'm wondering how a lightpen with a single photo cell would work on a vector display without a raster as a positional/timing reference when using it to move objects on the display. Unless there was a very dim solid color raster overlaid with the vector image just for the light pen, or the light pen had more than one photocell inside of it (like an extremely low resolution camera with maybe just 5 pixels arranged in a + pattern) to determine it's position in relation to the graphic on screen (notice how slowly they have to move the pen).
Besides the amazing retro computer graphics and sound, what I really like is when they show the people having normal discussions as part of their jobs. In most industrial movies like this either nobody talks at all except the narrator, or when they do it's incredibly stilted.
I'm actually impressed, that they already had all this over 50 years ago, graphics and sound, smooth animation... These guys had a very good idea of what is going to happen in the future. My mother was born in the early 60's and she would always tell me, how there were no computers back then...
I was born in 1968 so it is a very special year for me. I first used a computer of sorts in 1975 - an HP-65 Programmable Calculator that my dad brought home from work. It had a magnetic card reader built into it. In 1977 I had my own computer, an Ohio Scientific Superboard II and a few years later an Apple ][. It is incredible to me how fast things have progressed in the the space of a lifetime. What a great video, thanks for uploading. Bell Labs was awesome. My cousins worked there. Incredible place!!
Not much has changed since then, asides from the size, complexity, and processing power of systems. And naturally their storage mediums and affordability. Give me my quantum PC already...
01DOGG01 Well, not much changes between the brain of a lizard and our brain, aside from size, complexity and processing power. And we aquired new capabilities in the way of 'just make it bigger'. Like abstraction, language and logic deduction.
The principle is the same today as back then. Processing of information. Input, process, output. A hundred years from now, much will be the same, only more powerful. We will have tiny microchips the size of a mm2, doing calculation at speeds of yottaflops.
1968 : We could pick up a phone and write down a movie in complex limited code and render pictures and music scores. 2019: pick up a waterproof phone with unfathomable processing power and nut to 4k hentai in the shower using 1gb/s internet speed. Yeeeah I'd say we're utilizing our technology to its fullest potential.
@Blind Bob The shear inaccuracy, naivety and elitism displayed in that comment is honestly astounding. You've reached levels of ignorant douchebag I honestly didn't think were possible, it's damn impressive.
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The speaker said that all the sounds accompanying the video were produced by computers. This, I suppose, is not a recent film but something recorded over 50 years ago. At that time, computers were not capable of producing music more complex than what you were presented with. Nonetheless that is absolutely impressive.
The old synthesizers aren't as good as the new ones, but given the knowledge and processing power that we have today, I would have expected the better results from today's synthesizers.
My dad worked as a field technician for Bell from 1969 to 2003. He told me that at its peak, Ma Bell had everything for its enterprises, from the line services to R&D to equipment production and supply, all under the Ma Bell umbrella. He said in the '60s and '70s they heard of amazing tech and programs that Bell Labs produced, and such things as this boggled his and his coworkers minds and amazed them all the same. Now we'd consider it primitive, but back then, this was cutting edge and top of the line. Amazing stuff, great video.
@@alobosk You could word that better as neither Linux nor Android have anything to do with bell other than their operating systems are descended from UNIX.
@@kwisatzhaderach1458 We can easily make a UFO. But is it cost effective and efficient? No. Our planes are still 60s-70s models with a few modifications.
I know a lot of the stuff shown is trivial on hardware currently available to us. But still I'm in awe of the technological advancements shown in this video. Would be amazing to play around with such a system.
I love the dramatic lighting everywhere! You can see where Hollywood got their idea of what computers are like. Unfortunately, their understanding has barely progressed since. This was one of the best videos I ever saw on TH-cam, though! :)
Despite being absurdly informative and curious, it's also very artistic. The light, the music, the narration, they all work together to create a very strong mood. And the fact it uses computer music and computer graphics all the time is just brilliant. This is an amazing video even for today's standards.
This came out in 1968, which was the same year as the groundbreaking “2001 a Space Odyssey“ movie. There definitely are some similarities in lighting etc. If I had to guess I’d say this film borrowed some ideas from 2001 rather than the other way around. Both even had a computer singing “Daisy”, though in this film it really was a computer; in 2001 it was an actor faking a computer voice.
6:35 this dude predicts the flipping future! "sit at a train station and write a movie" and "or use a telephone and write a movie"... both things, of which we are now perfectly capable of doing....
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Quattordici Montenapoleone - it is impressive when you consider not many years earlier their computer was the size of a warehouse and needed a small army of kids to run around replacing blown vacuum tubes...
Interesting how the part about images around 8:00 is talking about how studies of human image perception might lead to highly compressed images - which is exactly what eventually led to the JPEG image format.
Bell labs already knew a lot about information compression. Even back then there was already a lot of compression used for audio calls (mostly analog not digital) and they were already doing a lot of research on video phones, which they knew also would require compression to work over phone lines.
I find it simply staggering that my father used to learn programming with assemblercode saved onto punchcards whilst I started programming c++ saved on harddrives a billion times the capacity. All this just a few decades apart.
... I used to program in FORTRAN IV on punch cards, and years later had many telephone conversations with Bjarne Stroustrup about how C++ should be designed.
What an awesome documentary, it's quite a trip. Things were similar enough that you can relate, yet still so different that it seems like a different planet. The two engineers designing a circuit on what looks like a highly usable touch screen system, in a dark room with gloomy red lighting, wearing suits and ties... Thanks a bunch for uploading, I subscribed to your channel!
Not a problem mate, I love stuff like this. I've had to cut back though due to bogus copyright issues. You know, the CIA built a dragonfly in the 70s. It used a fluidic oscillator as the engine, and gas as the fuel. It was guided by a laser beam and designed to deliver an audio bug to a taret location. It had its limitations though, such as a 100 meter range, and would not work in windy or even breezy conditions. Imagine what they have now! th-cam.com/video/TZ3spmVqnco/w-d-xo.html
@@NimsQuarlo I understand how it works, but question the accuracy of that allegation. I mean... can a voice really vibrate a window that much? Surely it would depend on shape, size, etc... The biggest issue I have is that there are other environmental factors which far overpower the impulses that a human voicebox generates. A car or truck driving past would vibtate the window a lot more than your voice. There's simply too much interference to be able to filter out such a tiny interference. If you can show me evidence, I'll be well impressed. But will probably miss it as I'm being swamped with comments now as the video skyrocketed in popularity overnight.
And less than fifty years later, everyone watches the film in their homes, as a collection of dots on their screen presented by a computer. There's something lovely about that.
What a time to be alive 🤩 Imagine what you could do if this computer would be available to normal citizens. Or even better, if this processing power and programme would be available in a form factor that could fit in a pocket. Just mind-blowing!
I was born in 1968. I was a programmer, web developer and later project manager. Interesting watching where we came from and where we are now. I can't help but think we got off course somewhere along the way.
@@mikeymcmikeface5599 Whaddya mean bah!? It's not like engineering has gotten any easier. People were pushing boundaries then just like people are pushing boundaries now.
While you're right in the fact the term pixel hadn't been coined yet, they wouldn't need to use the word. The displays used on the computer are vector displays which don't use pixels. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_monitor "In a vector display, the image is composed of drawn lines rather than a grid of glowing pixels..."
@@hardwirecars Not exactly. Light guns require CRTs as they simply detect the moment the electron beam hits the photo detector inside the gun. Since the console knew where the beam is at any moment it could deduce where the light gun was pointing at. However CRTs are not vector displays. Old CRTs didn't have pixels though as they were quantized only vertically in lines and horizontally they didn't have any quantization: the horizontal resolution was limited in an analog way by their bandwidth (and that of the input video signal). Later color CRTs started having horizontal 'pixels' due to various grids they needed for the RGB phosphors. Vector displays are a different beast entirely.
The computer folks wanted use a nonstandard term. So instead of a dot matrix, someone came up with the term pixels, which meant picture elements. All this just to be different. very odd.
This is mind blowing...Bell Labs 21 years after they invented the transistor. Staggering. This just illustrates the genius that was at work in the research departments of places like (especially like) Bell Labs. Thank you so much 01DOGG01 (cool name - subscribed)
Heh. YT went ahead and flagged like 100 comments as spam. One of them was yours. I just approved them all. Unfortunately they shut me down and told me that I had to post original content, even though this is in the public domain. They took away my revenue from my own videos, such as my lockpicking one that has millions of views. It really pissed me off.
This was all the rage at the beginning of my work life. I was an engineering technician at RCA labs. Transistors had come yo fruition. I saw LSI-MOS device research at the start.
I started working at RCA labs in the early 80s straight out of college. That place was so cool! All sorts of crazy tech being worked on, some stuff that was a flop like VCD and holographic movie film, but we also developed the precursors to MPEG and DVD.
I did my first 'work experience' from school in the 60s at a computer center that processed wages. The programmers didn't have screens at all. They did however send digital images to each other on the printers. (usually pornographic, one guy got the sack while I was there). Same principal, not fast but the idea was already there.
That's up there with being able to pick up a phone and write a movie. Seems awfully cumbersome, but when you're The Phone Company, everything is seen as a way of extending the scope of your product. It's like when people thought that the ultimate goal of information technology was being able to fax pictures and documents instantly.
He was ahead of his time though....and right....we still haven't completely reached what he has foreseen but we are enough there to know he was right about a lot although his solution to these problems were't the greatest. He was extremely intelligent and could work out with foresight much of what is happening today and will begin to happen in the near future
I had the Bell Labs "He saw the cat" record and "speech synthesizer" kit when I was a child. It contained some of this material. It is amazing how little the context has changed.
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@@mikeymcmikeface5599 or you're free to do other things while connected. I put my major UI and systems in my googles for a reason. You wanna be hands free when on the wing
I saw this in junior high science. “ I like my coffee black”. Early CAD designing a low pass filter. Been in audio ever since for over 50 years. This was my ‘Hello World’!
Looks eerily like data in the episode "Phantasms" where he has a recurring nightmare that a phone is ringing and when he tries to speak, he opens his mouth but only a a strange electronic screech comes out.
This amazing that they were doing this in 1968. BTW I did intern with Bell Labs back in the early 80's what a shame they're not around anymore...one of the greatest companies ever!
it's not how you'd think. i've learned LISP, haskell and COBOL this semester. they are miserably lame compared to higher object oriented languages. the functional languages are just that... no variables just a very complicated twisted sideways inside out ninja recursive function and COBOL is kind of a nice attempt at structure and scripting but it sucks. suggest the possibilities of java or python or C# and they'd cry. they'd think our brains are the size of a walmart compared to them and be scared of our computers, realizing a potential that looks like a galaxy compared to a solar system of a few registers and limited memory.
Thank you so much for this awesome video. I was born in 1966. I was a baby when this was cutting edge. I'm truly amazed by computer technology. It's been my hobby and profession for nearly all of my life. ❤👍 I see the birth of CAD, CGI, synthesized music, etc... I was unaware of what the Boomer generation had! 👍
Oh, man - I remember punch cards, 120-column line printers, vacuum-loading tape drives... I must be OLD...... ...I also remember confidently stating that desktop computers were just toys that wouldn't go anywhere - that the future would be in remote terminals we'd rent to access storage space on massive, centralized mainframes. I'd like to say that I was predicting the Cloud, but I'm afraid not.
I was able to get on the PC bandwagon in the early 80's. Someone brought in an external hard drive slightly larger than a house-brick. We all wondered who could possibly use 20 megs of disk space. 20 megabyte: That's not quite enough space for two photos from my camera.
If it helps any, when I was in college studying computing in the mid-nineties when the internet was just starting to become a thing normal people had heard of, I confidently predicted that it would just be a fad and that after a couple of years, most people would quite happily go on to whatever the next big fad would be and the internet would just go back to being full of computer programmers and academics. I don't make predictions any more.
The mainframes will allways more powerfull, than the device at your hand. Have computing power at your hand will be allways more expensive, then call a mainframe and wait for the result. Nothing much to predict;)
@@goiterlanternbase you know i think you are onto something.. The invention of the internet was really cern intranet spreading.. A network of processors connected to deal with the vast array of raw data... Great heat dispersion.. But the cheapest way to have it grow.. Get the global public to pay for it... So crypto mining is actually what microsoft Has been doing for years having background processes syphon off your performance to web process for firms.. Which is the inverse of this idea... Lets say everyone had Screen they did actions on.. All they want to see is a result.. A super cooled quantum could serve all of those monitors .. Whether hand held or home pc... And it would be like nothing changed you just wouldnt have a radiator at home called a cpu.. The reason they wont do this is the same reason tesla was killed over "free" persay energy. Consumers pay for and offer free bug reports. Instead of allowing people to have a better life on the majority giving earths inherent abilities.. They would rather industry thrive on the majority benevolent people whom there will be someone somewbere who will do a job for free just to be apart of the web and we do.. We buy up old tech whilst tech we should have now is sitting in a warehouse somewhere. They incrementally increase control performance and find new ways to limit perception of what a fast computer is.. Syphon off the rest etc.
I love old tech. GOing back through even the precursors to things from the 60s, even simple electro mechanical arcade games and old slot machines and "vending" machines from over 100 years ago...its so interesting! ^
Can you imagine rocking into one of those labs, whipping out your tablet and generating some AI - pics, music, movies etc.? These folks all helped to make it possible.
They weren’t dummies. They would expect the tech to improve. The main thing I’m curious about is if you asked them to guess how far in the future you came from, would they get close?
@@draketungsten74This film and the “2001” movie both came out in 1968. An IBM computer first sang “Daisy” in 1961 in real life and that was the inspiration for the same song being in “2001”.
6:40 "I want to sit in a railroad station and pick up telephone and write a movie..." This was this guy's hope for computers of the future? That we can write movies... over a phone... at train stations. Brilliant.
And, how many modern movies are currently being written on cell phones, made on laptops and tablets connected to the internet. They described the modern internet, and 3d graphics... in a time when computers where struggling to render pictures, and struggling generate any halfway watchable graphics. And that.. sound synthesis. Eech. It is truly incredible
He wasn't totally wrong. Go to any train station or airport and see how many people are doing work on their laptop computers while sipping coffee waiting for their layover to end. He mentions movies as an example, but being able to work while mobile is what they were really getting at. For a while we had Blackberries and now it's smart phones. Bell Labs was always thinking way ahead.
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." - The editor in charge of business books for Prentice-Hall, 1957
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." - so is Ken Olsen DEC's founder and CEO alleged to say in the 70s. www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/computers-in-the-home
@Mish Elf, that was 1968, it wasn´t that obvious back then, this people made all modern technology possible yet here you are, using all this marvelous developments to show the entire World how moronic you are.
The book was published the same year. Hard to know who influenced who. I tend to believe that Arthur C. Clarke must have seen a demonstration of computers and included the Daisy song in his book.
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I accidentally had auto captions on during playback... It interprets the beeps as speech at the section around 6:10 ... For some reason I found that fascinating. :D
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Some of these user interfaces seem easier to use than the ones we have today. Maybe it's just because there's less to look at, but that click-drag circuit diagram editor seems more usable than some of the ones I've used.
Maybe that we have more components today or that we keep "updating" GUIs for the sake of it or that programs today have more features, useful and less so or a mixture of all.
came here from idkhow! (i dont know how but they found me) after digging through the internet to try and figure out the puzzle for the ARG side, looks like I found a really cool machine instead~ thank you for posting this lovely machine!
It's crazy that in 50 years we went from punch cards and computers that were just glorified calculators to deep learning based self driving cars running on gpu's that have more computing power then every computer combined 50 years ago
our computers are still primitive we just don't realize it, in 50 years our computers will be laughable. Ha Ha they are amazed by self driving cars how charming life was in the early 2000s
did they done a Electronic Spice schematic simulation with Resistors/Diodes/Capacitors... in 1968...back then... AND with touch screen Monitor...? crazy
It's not touch screen, it's light pen :) Amazingly simple thing: it's just a photodiode with a button. But because CRT screens show just one point at time (it travels left to right, from top to bottom), by the time this photodiode got its pulse we know at which part of monitor it was! But yes, result is the same, even more precise actually. There is no way it can be miscalibrated! Really strange this became obsolete at PCs.
@@allmycircuits8850 I made one (lightpen) to use with my Commodore 64 when I was about 15. It was in the era where you could actually do computer stuff AND be active outdoors with football and more😁
@@allmycircuits8850 It is actually touchscreen. The definition of touchscreen is that you can control the computer by touching the screen (doesn't matter if it's a finger or a tool like a photodiode pen). They actually had a god damn touchscreen in '68. I'm fucking impressed.
*Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you. It's called **_Daisy_*
Wasn't a touch screen at all. The "pen" is reading the dots of light on the screen to tell where it's pointing. Same way Duck hunt worked on the original Nintendo
After this we invented a "laser" touch screen which worked by breaking the lasers path to tell where you were touching. Modern touch screens use a capacitive method to translate your touch into electrical energy.
what an absolutely insane documentary, this is just so impressive, i cant wrap my head around the genius needed to spearhead the eras and movements of actually understanding these fundamentals of digital and sound art
These scientists must have dedicated a lot to reach this stage of perfection. I can't imagine someone writing in cursive on a blackboard with such mastery and beauty.
You piqued my curiosity and I actually looked into the system. Added some info tho the video description. It had 200 Kiloflops of power. Think about this: In 1997, Intel's 'ASCI Red' super-computer achieved a peak of 1.3 Teraflops. In 2014, AMD's 'R9 295X2' video-card achieved a peak of 11.6 Teraflops. If you look at images of the thing, it took up an entire office space. In a mere 17 years, a single card in your PC case has 10x the power. Back in the day, arcade gameboards were breaking records: 1981 - Sega 'G80' 1982 - Namco 'Pole Position' 1985 - Sega 'System 16' 1988 - Namco 'System 21' 1989 - Atari 'Hard Drivin'' 1990 - Namco 'System 21' (more cores)
No probs. It blew my mind as well. So far ahead of its time! If only people focused more on developing awesome things, and less on making massive profits and starting wars...
ok let me get this straight this guy here was a start to visual simulators, text to speech and vocaloid stuff, digital animation, 3D renderer, computer generated images, askii art and so much more this is brilliant
It's actually impressive how much they were able to achieve with such limited computing resources, and how well they integrated all these technologies together: analog video, typeball typewriters, punchcards, magnetic tape, light pens, etc.
guys from Bell labs are amongst the most intelligent people alive that are constructively working on new innovations to better the world
Well, at least they did not have to fight against cookie banners.
@@W00PIETrue... Very true.
@@barbadoskado2769that’s ridiculous
It's the power of whole-system thinking. Now we have to deal with other programs making our program worse.
They are wasting their time , computers will never work.
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It's true, never will work. A group of loosers (...)
Same with faster than light travel... god, these scientists eh?
It is ridiculous to see them teaching machine to speak.
@@ultrasparc That was 51 years ago, and for them it was new technology and they were researching computer science
COPYRIGHT DEFEATED
A bogus claim by 'Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne' was defeated last night. The video should now be available everywhere again.
Thanks for preserving this!
I know this was posted 6 years ago. But copyright claims that restrict videos to specific countries are so dumb.
what on earth kind of copyright claim could a European Television association think they had on a film made in Dearborn, Michigan?
Copyright has been twisted into a sick perversion. It's not at all, what it was originally intended to do.
@@davidpar2 They probably used a segment from it. Happens all the time. Sony used some footage from the 20s and claimed copyright on one of my uploads. They refused to budge. Can't do anything about it.
I am literally impressed by the circuit similator and even more after knowing that this was made 56 years ago.
The user interface feels very intuitive for something as primitive as what they had.
Absolutely! 💯
It just looks intuitive. That's what people in these comments don't understand. Try it for anything other than basic circuits and you'll quickly realise how terrible the UI is...
@@lost4468ytsome parts are definitely intuitive. It's essentislly click and drag at its infancy! There are probably aspects which were only understandable to people trained to used them. Just like most software nowadays.
Of course you are "literally" impressed. If you didn't say "literally", do you actually think the readers wouldn't think you were actually impressed and would doubt it?
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Somehow this feels more futuristic than modern technology. Maybe it's the optimism.
Well I thought so too but if we were to go to a mayor tecnology company lab we would be looking at some 10 20 years plus cutting edge technology
Yep, future in the 50s and 60s looked closer than it looks today.
Sometimes it pays to take a step back before you move forward
It's definitely the optimism. Unlike back then we dread the future more often than not.
It's because of the CG visuals, early computer music, and speech synth isn't it? It's jarring to see a fair amount of technology we use today being very present in 1968... given its' VERY basic presentation... What's stranger is that all the components used in the computers are still manufactured today in one form or another.
They made so many random things because everything they did was new and never done before. A golden age of computer programming...
Most of these are actual products now though!!
@@QuanrumPresenceExcept that they now cannot work without gigahertzes and gigabytes, and their UIs have become horrible landfill of clutter.
That was indeed the golden age of computer programming, and sadly that professionality has been long gone.
@@TheSimoc Isn’t it natural for programmers to use more processing power and storage space when the number of transistors that can be packed on a chip has gotten ~two hundred million times larger than it was back in 1968?
I’m not sure a UI as simple as the circuit-design program these people are using would be capable facilitating much useful work unless most of it’s functionality was hidden inside a command line interface; Today it looks closer to the sort of UI generally only reserved for simple software toys.
Just like what we do with AI now
I'm wondering how a lightpen with a single photo cell would work on a vector display without a raster as a positional/timing reference when using it to move objects on the display. Unless there was a very dim solid color raster overlaid with the vector image just for the light pen, or the light pen had more than one photocell inside of it (like an extremely low resolution camera with maybe just 5 pixels arranged in a + pattern) to determine it's position in relation to the graphic on screen (notice how slowly they have to move the pen).
Besides the amazing retro computer graphics and sound, what I really like is when they show the people having normal discussions as part of their jobs. In most industrial movies like this either nobody talks at all except the narrator, or when they do it's incredibly stilted.
Thank God computers were just a fad.
My grandfather still insisted that even in the early 1990s!
Hey you kids, get off of my 16 baud communication trunk!
Yeah, imagine if people were mesmerized by them and stared at screens all day! What kind of life would that be for humans?
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And this was only like 50 years ago, incredible how fast technology progresses.
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I'm actually impressed, that they already had all this over 50 years ago, graphics and sound, smooth animation... These guys had a very good idea of what is going to happen in the future. My mother was born in the early 60's and she would always tell me, how there were no computers back then...
What’s more impressive is that they had planned out the Internet
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I was born in 1968 so it is a very special year for me. I first used a computer of sorts in 1975 - an HP-65 Programmable Calculator that my dad brought home from work. It had a magnetic card reader built into it. In 1977 I had my own computer, an Ohio Scientific Superboard II and a few years later an Apple ][. It is incredible to me how fast things have progressed in the the space of a lifetime. What a great video, thanks for uploading. Bell Labs was awesome. My cousins worked there. Incredible place!!
Hard to believe they had computers like this in 1968
Not much has changed since then, asides from the size, complexity, and processing power of systems. And naturally their storage mediums and affordability.
Give me my quantum PC already...
01DOGG01 Well, not much changes between the brain of a lizard and our brain, aside from size, complexity and processing power. And we aquired new capabilities in the way of 'just make it bigger'. Like abstraction, language and logic deduction.
I what to history museum it'd all about 1968
The principle is the same today as back then. Processing of information. Input, process, output. A hundred years from now, much will be the same, only more powerful. We will have tiny microchips the size of a mm2, doing calculation at speeds of yottaflops.
once the transistor came out... BAM! everything changed...
1968 : We could pick up a phone and write down a movie in complex limited code and render pictures and music scores.
2019: pick up a waterproof phone with unfathomable processing power and nut to 4k hentai in the shower using 1gb/s internet speed.
Yeeeah I'd say we're utilizing our technology to its fullest potential.
The internet is for porn, as they say
Yo what the fuck? (A person from 1968)
Water resistant.
Speak for yourself.
@Blind Bob The shear inaccuracy, naivety and elitism displayed in that comment is honestly astounding. You've reached levels of ignorant douchebag I honestly didn't think were possible, it's damn impressive.
Man, the future will be crazy with such amazing technology. Also, whoever made this "music" deserves all the prizes.
I agree.... I grew hearing that melody and I still feel relaxed heating it up until now
"Hey guys, let's take a break and hop into BF5"
Indeed. Jobs never invented a single thing. His ruthlessness was to simply monetize the inventions of others.
Mikey McMikeFace may be... but applying pre-existing technologies in new context, combinations, forms or uses TOO is an Intelectual Invention! The interactive interface applicated into mobile device was a new concept! As Newton Said: "If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants". All scientific and technologic advances are stacked puzzles and dominoes pieces! Don't forget this fact!!! I'm inventor, composer, singer, musician, physic researcher, 3d designer, poet, novel writer, sculptor, and maybe more... for that reason I understand in first person and defend the work of an inventor and a creative. Please do not criticize without having experience and knowledge on the subject. Thanks!!!
@@mikeymcmikeface5599 And thank goodness that Steve Jobs and his stinky black turtlenecks are gone.
I love how these old films on computer technology always feel the need to make the soundtrack BEEP BOOP BLARPABARP
The speaker said that all the sounds accompanying the video were produced by computers. This, I suppose, is not a recent film but something recorded over 50 years ago. At that time, computers were not capable of producing music more complex than what you were presented with. Nonetheless that is absolutely impressive.
Wow, 1968 had better speech synthesis than on most 2019 TH-cam videos!
-> 14:00 "Haya loya loy each on zeeb lag?"
MEH NO HOY MEE NEY NEYO NOY NEE NOY MEE NEW NEE HOY
Generic comment that isn't even true...
@@Stuit3rb4lJesus that was hard to understand going into it without knowing what the sentence was supposed to be.
The old synthesizers aren't as good as the new ones, but given the knowledge and processing power that we have today, I would have expected the better results from today's synthesizers.
My dad worked as a field technician for Bell from 1969 to 2003. He told me that at its peak, Ma Bell had everything for its enterprises, from the line services to R&D to equipment production and supply, all under the Ma Bell umbrella. He said in the '60s and '70s they heard of amazing tech and programs that Bell Labs produced, and such things as this boggled his and his coworkers minds and amazed them all the same. Now we'd consider it primitive, but back then, this was cutting edge and top of the line. Amazing stuff, great video.
The internet, every smartphone in the world, and Macs run entirely in technology started by Bell Labs (UNIX, Linux, Android, et-all)
@@alobosk You could word that better as neither Linux nor Android have anything to do with bell other than their operating systems are descended from UNIX.
I swear some company must have made a ufo with how advanced they were at the time
@@kwisatzhaderach1458 We can easily make a UFO. But is it cost effective and efficient? No.
Our planes are still 60s-70s models with a few modifications.
Yes, Bell threw almost unlimited resources to projects without regard to feasibility. Plus they added lucrative pay for individuals in such programs.
Can you imagine being alive back then and being blown away by this?
I'm alive now and am still blown away by it.
Yes imagine.
My grandkids would probably say the same us.
I know a lot of the stuff shown is trivial on hardware currently available to us. But still I'm in awe of the technological advancements shown in this video. Would be amazing to play around with such a system.
It's still pretty mind-blowing, but in the inverse parallel way that, instead of being futuristic, it's retrospective.
I love the dramatic lighting everywhere! You can see where Hollywood got their idea of what computers are like. Unfortunately, their understanding has barely progressed since.
This was one of the best videos I ever saw on TH-cam, though! :)
Despite being absurdly informative and curious, it's also very artistic. The light, the music, the narration, they all work together to create a very strong mood. And the fact it uses computer music and computer graphics all the time is just brilliant. This is an amazing video even for today's standards.
This came out in 1968, which was the same year as the groundbreaking “2001 a Space Odyssey“ movie. There definitely are some similarities in lighting etc. If I had to guess I’d say this film borrowed some ideas from 2001 rather than the other way around. Both even had a computer singing “Daisy”, though in this film it really was a computer; in 2001 it was an actor faking a computer voice.
im blown away by the vector graphics thats pretty good for 1968
The vector graphics display is so nice. No jagged diagonal lines, the lines were perfect with basically infinite resolution.
The Vectrex game console used vector graphics.
@@Sashazur Ah, another videogame connoisseur!
Gotta love the Sixties... "It's about computers, so the soundtrack has to be BOOP BEEP BLOOP BLARPABARP" XD
They still do that today in hacking scenes.
It was way more modern than the percussive rattling KLACKA-KLACKA-KLACKA-KLACKA electromechanical computer noises of previous decades.
@@Zwettekop in these days, they start a heavy acid techno song and make the actor write 500 words per minute in a keyboard.
Daisy dadd
3:31
6:35 this dude predicts the flipping future! "sit at a train station and write a movie" and "or use a telephone and write a movie"... both things, of which we are now perfectly capable of doing....
The joke is, most people are busy arguing on Twitter, Facebook, and on TH-cam via devices that have so much more potential. :(
That is amazing, it is by far the most vivid accurate forecast I have ever heard.
Predicting the smartphone!
Genetic technology is where computers were 50 years, so keep your ears peeled.
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That light pen technology eventually led to *Nintendo’s Duck Hunt.*
Surely would have seemed like a work of magic to the primitives in this video.
Holy sh** its the Laughing Man!
LOL "Duck Flunk" yup.
Hermentotip I thought what I’d do was pretend to be one of those deaf-mutes... or should I?
Quattordici Montenapoleone - it is impressive when you consider not many years earlier their computer was the size of a warehouse and needed a small army of kids to run around replacing blown vacuum tubes...
1968: we will have touch screen devices
2019: HA- wait a second, here it is...
2007* lol
@@assassinaria 1965 actually. Although it wasn't patented until 1969
We had touch screens in radar school in the Navy back in the early 80's. We used them to practice troubleshooting radar systems.
They already did in the 1980s!!
Me watching this on a touch-screen device: “indeed”
Interesting how the part about images around 8:00 is talking about how studies of human image perception might lead to highly compressed images - which is exactly what eventually led to the JPEG image format.
Agreed. It was also quite interesting how they were talking about sending 3D images to phones. They were way out there.
...and jpeg is outdated now
@@pykapukaNeed more jpeg
Bell labs already knew a lot about information compression. Even back then there was already a lot of compression used for audio calls (mostly analog not digital) and they were already doing a lot of research on video phones, which they knew also would require compression to work over phone lines.
I find it simply staggering that my father used to learn programming with assemblercode saved onto punchcards whilst I started programming c++ saved on harddrives a billion times the capacity. All this just a few decades apart.
I was stuck in the middle with BASIC, and later FORTRAN.
My mam learned to program on punch cards the same as ur dad and it just seems like such an archaic technology to me
@@carpetsomething My dad also started programming on punch cards, in the 1980s.
... I used to program in FORTRAN IV on punch cards, and years later had many telephone conversations with Bjarne Stroustrup about how C++ should be designed.
@@JiveDadson That's really cool! For some reason, FORTRAN was easy to me, but I could never grasp C++.
What an awesome documentary, it's quite a trip. Things were similar enough that you can relate, yet still so different that it seems like a different planet. The two engineers designing a circuit on what looks like a highly usable touch screen system, in a dark room with gloomy red lighting, wearing suits and ties...
Thanks a bunch for uploading, I subscribed to your channel!
Not a problem mate, I love stuff like this. I've had to cut back though due to bogus copyright issues.
You know, the CIA built a dragonfly in the 70s. It used a fluidic oscillator as the engine, and gas as the fuel. It was guided by a laser beam and designed to deliver an audio bug to a taret location. It had its limitations though, such as a 100 meter range, and would not work in windy or even breezy conditions.
Imagine what they have now!
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It's not a touch screen. They're using a "light pen". An old-fashioned input device that fell out of use in the late 80s to early 90s.
@@NimsQuarlo I understand how it works, but question the accuracy of that allegation.
I mean... can a voice really vibrate a window that much? Surely it would depend on shape, size, etc...
The biggest issue I have is that there are other environmental factors which far overpower the impulses that a human voicebox generates.
A car or truck driving past would vibtate the window a lot more than your voice. There's simply too much interference to be able to filter out such a tiny interference.
If you can show me evidence, I'll be well impressed. But will probably miss it as I'm being swamped with comments now as the video skyrocketed in popularity overnight.
@@01DOGG01Veritasium
made a video on something like this.
th-cam.com/video/eUzB0L0mSCI/w-d-xo.html
And less than fifty years later, everyone watches the film in their homes, as a collection of dots on their screen presented by a computer. There's something lovely about that.
What a time to be alive 🤩
Imagine what you could do if this computer would be available to normal citizens. Or even better, if this processing power and programme would be available in a form factor that could fit in a pocket.
Just mind-blowing!
I was born in 1968. I was a programmer, web developer and later project manager. Interesting watching where we came from and where we are now. I can't help but think we got off course somewhere along the way.
Back when engineers wore suits and suits wore hawaii shirts
StuG III is a sniper schnitzel
Back when engineers actually engineered, and weren't just constructing piles of java.
@@mikeymcmikeface5599 Engineers still engineer, just because the medium has changed for many doesn't mean there's less merit in the field.
@@CockatooDude bah
@@mikeymcmikeface5599 Whaddya mean bah!? It's not like engineering has gotten any easier. People were pushing boundaries then just like people are pushing boundaries now.
At 7:47, it's interesting how they use the term 'countless dots' to make a picture. The term 'pixel' had not come about yet.
While you're right in the fact the term pixel hadn't been coined yet, they wouldn't need to use the word. The displays used on the computer are vector displays which don't use pixels. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_monitor "In a vector display, the image is composed of drawn lines rather than a grid of glowing pixels..."
@@bluskos and that is exactly why you cant use the nintendo light gun on our new tv's the light gun required the vector display to work.
@@hardwirecars Not exactly. Light guns require CRTs as they simply detect the moment the electron beam hits the photo detector inside the gun. Since the console knew where the beam is at any moment it could deduce where the light gun was pointing at. However CRTs are not vector displays. Old CRTs didn't have pixels though as they were quantized only vertically in lines and horizontally they didn't have any quantization: the horizontal resolution was limited in an analog way by their bandwidth (and that of the input video signal). Later color CRTs started having horizontal 'pixels' due to various grids they needed for the RGB phosphors. Vector displays are a different beast entirely.
@@catalinvasile9081 thank you
The computer folks wanted use a nonstandard term. So instead of a dot matrix, someone came up with the term pixels, which meant picture elements. All this just to be different. very odd.
Can't wait to get my hands on one of these babies. NOICE!
What a place Bell labs must have been to work at!
they made a song when they made the transistor th-cam.com/video/8ZGDW-Q2J_A/w-d-xo.html
Yeah, cool tech but I wonder how many got brain aneurysms from working so close to those cathode ray tubes all day
@@Cyba_IT None.
@@Cyba_IT You definitely don't know crt stands for cathode ray tube
@@super---. I literally said cathode ray tube in my comment. WTF are you talking about?
Reminds me of a punchcard test I did 53 years ago, back in 1966 ... Excellent results, still applicable today.
This is mind blowing...Bell Labs 21 years after they invented the transistor. Staggering.
This just illustrates the genius that was at work in the research departments of places like (especially like) Bell Labs.
Thank you so much 01DOGG01 (cool name - subscribed)
Heh. YT went ahead and flagged like 100 comments as spam. One of them was yours. I just approved them all.
Unfortunately they shut me down and told me that I had to post original content, even though this is in the public domain. They took away my revenue from my own videos, such as my lockpicking one that has millions of views. It really pissed me off.
This is mind blowing! God I hope this technology takes off!
This is outstanding, thanks for digging this out to share!
Fascinating to see these guys crunching and plugging number and code piece by piece
This was all the rage at the beginning of my work life. I was an engineering technician at RCA labs. Transistors had come yo fruition. I saw LSI-MOS device research at the start.
I started working at RCA labs in the early 80s straight out of college. That place was so cool! All sorts of crazy tech being worked on, some stuff that was a flop like VCD and holographic movie film, but we also developed the precursors to MPEG and DVD.
"We'll be on the way to sending three dimensional color picture messages over ordinary thelephone lines" Wow!
It's pretty much what the internet is now
Could they have imagined viewing movies in real time over telephone line? I really doubt that.
I did my first 'work experience' from school in the 60s at a computer center that processed wages. The programmers didn't have screens at all. They did however send digital images to each other on the printers. (usually pornographic, one guy got the sack while I was there).
Same principal, not fast but the idea was already there.
gifs
DSL and 3D SRS ...
The ending animation and music felt so wholesome.
are you cry too?
A warm and cozy family of slendermen.
In the future, every typewriter will incorporate computer technology in some way.
um...when were you born? I haven't seen a typewriter except for when I was a kid and there was one in our grandmas study
That's up there with being able to pick up a phone and write a movie. Seems awfully cumbersome, but when you're The Phone Company, everything is seen as a way of extending the scope of your product. It's like when people thought that the ultimate goal of information technology was being able to fax pictures and documents instantly.
Those Space odissey's robotic sound send the chill vibe of fearing the unknown back to my head. Geezes
I am here from 2019. Hang on guys, you are doing a good job.
This is the shit that sent the Unabomber into mind meltdown
He was ahead of his time though....and right....we still haven't completely reached what he has foreseen but we are enough there to know he was right about a lot although his solution to these problems were't the greatest. He was extremely intelligent and could work out with foresight much of what is happening today and will begin to happen in the near future
@@DweeD1516 you should really think about what you say before the FBI arrests you for sympathizing with a terrorist, ok?
@@johnhenrymills4517 No
Imagine all the greybeards holed up in isolated shacks today, hiding from AI.
He was right.
I had the Bell Labs "He saw the cat" record and "speech synthesizer" kit when I was a child. It contained some of this material. It is amazing how little the context has changed.
1969: With the processing power of tomorrow people will be capable of doing things we could never imagined.
2019: GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG!
they weren't lying
1969s people can even imagine, that what with computing power like in 2019, regular people still can do only GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG!
@David Stunning no! You can do better! You can be better! Strive to be more than a just a drone. A little more then you were the day before! You can do it!! You humans have come very far in so little time don't give up now!
I'd like that. Now I don't have to get out of bed to interface with the network. Then I wouldn't even have to move my arms anymore.
@@mikeymcmikeface5599 or you're free to do other things while connected. I put my major UI and systems in my googles for a reason. You wanna be hands free when on the wing
I saw this in junior high science. “ I like my coffee black”. Early CAD designing a low pass filter. Been in audio ever since for over 50 years. This was my ‘Hello World’!
This is a gold mine of samples. I'm gonna be up all night now.
This is beautiful and so well-done. Long live CRT!
11:57 - They even predicted Data from Star Trek.
Wow ! that's HIM !
You fools!! That's LORE!!
That's exactly what I was thinking!!
Looks eerily like data in the episode "Phantasms" where he has a recurring nightmare that a phone is ringing and when he tries to speak, he opens his mouth but only a a strange electronic screech comes out.
This amazing that they were doing this in 1968. BTW I did intern with Bell Labs back in the early 80's what a shame they're not around anymore...one of the greatest companies ever!
3:30 why did old computers make weird sounds when they were calculating something?
sounds like they programmed some simple sine wave audio output codes.
They didn't this was added in post for dramatic effect.
subtitles are incredible. especially while music in background is playing. thank you for movie and subs.
Imagine how they'd react if you gave these lads a modern day computer.
*A foldable cellphone
They'd want to see a flying car.
They wouldn't be able to use it.
it's not how you'd think. i've learned LISP, haskell and COBOL this semester. they are miserably lame compared to higher object oriented languages. the functional languages are just that... no variables just a very complicated twisted sideways inside out ninja recursive function and COBOL is kind of a nice attempt at structure and scripting but it sucks. suggest the possibilities of java or python or C# and they'd cry. they'd think our brains are the size of a walmart compared to them and be scared of our computers, realizing a potential that looks like a galaxy compared to a solar system of a few registers and limited memory.
@@Toleich m'afraid not: they'd learn using it in no time and take it beyond what you and most can grasp!
Back then, casual Friday meant working with your suit jacket unbuttoned.
And an extra martini during lunch!
The Cooley-Tukey algorithm (fast Fourier Transform for machine calculation) had only been published a few years earlier! Amazing! B-)
What was that used for in this video?
Thank you so much for this awesome video. I was born in 1966. I was a baby when this was cutting edge. I'm truly amazed by computer technology. It's been my hobby and profession for nearly all of my life. ❤👍
I see the birth of CAD, CGI, synthesized music, etc... I was unaware of what the Boomer generation had! 👍
Quarantine Makes Me Watch All These Cool Old Videos.
Now we know where Stanley Kubrick got Hal's song from.
10:02 that sounds like bonzi buddy
It has to be!!!
@Strange Faction Lichlider made sounds from a computer drive to sing too.
It started more than 10yrs earlier .
Thought the same thing. Creepy AF
Oh, man - I remember punch cards, 120-column line printers, vacuum-loading tape drives... I must be OLD......
...I also remember confidently stating that desktop computers were just toys that wouldn't go anywhere - that the future would be in remote terminals we'd rent to access storage space on massive, centralized mainframes. I'd like to say that I was predicting the Cloud, but I'm afraid not.
I was able to get on the PC bandwagon in the early 80's. Someone brought in an external hard drive slightly larger than a house-brick. We all wondered who could possibly use 20 megs of disk space.
20 megabyte: That's not quite enough space for two photos from my camera.
Pretty much
If it helps any, when I was in college studying computing in the mid-nineties when the internet was just starting to become a thing normal people had heard of, I confidently predicted that it would just be a fad and that after a couple of years, most people would quite happily go on to whatever the next big fad would be and the internet would just go back to being full of computer programmers and academics.
I don't make predictions any more.
The mainframes will allways more powerfull, than the device at your hand. Have computing power at your hand will be allways more expensive, then call a mainframe and wait for the result. Nothing much to predict;)
@@goiterlanternbase you know i think you are onto something.. The invention of the internet was really cern intranet spreading.. A network of processors connected to deal with the vast array of raw data... Great heat dispersion.. But the cheapest way to have it grow.. Get the global public to pay for it... So crypto mining is actually what microsoft Has been doing for years having background processes syphon off your performance to web process for firms.. Which is the inverse of this idea... Lets say everyone had Screen they did actions on.. All they want to see is a result.. A super cooled quantum could serve all of those monitors .. Whether hand held or home pc... And it would be like nothing changed you just wouldnt have a radiator at home called a cpu.. The reason they wont do this is the same reason tesla was killed over "free" persay energy. Consumers pay for and offer free bug reports. Instead of allowing people to have a better life on the majority giving earths inherent abilities.. They would rather industry thrive on the majority benevolent people whom there will be someone somewbere who will do a job for free just to be apart of the web and we do.. We buy up old tech whilst tech we should have now is sitting in a warehouse somewhere. They incrementally increase control performance and find new ways to limit perception of what a fast computer is.. Syphon off the rest etc.
6:08 "Man and his World/Terre des Hommes" was the theme of the International and Universal Exposition or Expo 67, in Montreal.
la expo co es en mariano roque alonso jajajaja
So much respect for these men and women of the past that pioneered computer science.
I love old tech. GOing back through even the precursors to things from the 60s, even simple electro mechanical arcade games and old slot machines and "vending" machines from over 100 years ago...its so interesting! ^
That mechanical keyboard makes the tactile switches of today sound like rubber domes.
Its attached to a typewriter, that's why its so loud.
The guy making the movie without a mustache looks like he has been on a 5 day cocaine binge.
@@NimsQuarlo this is scary I tought the very same thing
XD
@@NimsQuarlo Bullseye
Who wasn't back then Tom? I know I was.
But hey cocaine isn't all that bad, it took the CIA to really make it bad.
It was 1968.
I was six years old then and I was fascinated by doppler shift , comb effect and reverb .
Can you imagine rocking into one of those labs, whipping out your tablet and generating some AI - pics, music, movies etc.? These folks all helped to make it possible.
They weren’t dummies. They would expect the tech to improve. The main thing I’m curious about is if you asked them to guess how far in the future you came from, would they get close?
2:34 "you want me to move this over there?" my man was done with the yapping😂
10:00 HAL9000 Sings happily. Just wait till 2001.....
I was looking for this comment
Yeah, this was the inspiration for that in the movie.
@@draketungsten74This film and the “2001” movie both came out in 1968. An IBM computer first sang “Daisy” in 1961 in real life and that was the inspiration for the same song being in “2001”.
@@Sashazur Yup. I thought this was referencing that IBM computer and I was thinking 2001 came out in 1969, but thanks for the extra info.
6:40 "I want to sit in a railroad station and pick up telephone and write a movie..." This was this guy's hope for computers of the future? That we can write movies... over a phone... at train stations. Brilliant.
technically he's the unsung dictator of the entire modern world :))
And, how many modern movies are currently being written on cell phones, made on laptops and tablets connected to the internet.
They described the modern internet, and 3d graphics... in a time when computers where struggling to render pictures, and struggling generate any halfway watchable graphics.
And that.. sound synthesis. Eech.
It is truly incredible
He wasn't totally wrong. Go to any train station or airport and see how many people are doing work on their laptop computers while sipping coffee waiting for their layover to end. He mentions movies as an example, but being able to work while mobile is what they were really getting at. For a while we had Blackberries and now it's smart phones. Bell Labs was always thinking way ahead.
But instead we just play candy crush and surf Instagram.
Such a waste.
@@andybaldman Not me brother! Im at a train station right now working on a movie!!!! :)
Just 21 years after the first electronic computer was made, wow
It has advanced beyond 10 fold today
Devin Harris imagine 21 years after the first functional quantum computer goes online
In 1965, the Programa 101, was the first personal electronic computer, made by Olivetti
No that was a already a computer back then and yes it runs on electricity
the cinematography in this is amazing.
14:28 idkhow's ending of do it all the time (animation and music)
OMG! At 6:44 he says "Pick up a telephone and write a movie". He had no idea how true that statement would become.
yea my jaw dropped on that one...
What I think is cool is he was an artist, not an engineer.
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and
talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data
processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice-Hall,
1957
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." - so is Ken Olsen DEC's founder and CEO alleged to say in the 70s. www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/computers-in-the-home
the internet is just a fad that will die off in a few months -my dad 1995 (still love picking on him for that one)
Lmao, "the entire musical score of this film was composed on a computer" - bzzt beep boop, lol no shit
Just listen to the early works of Stockhausen and you'll see how normal the "entire musical score of this film" was.
@Mish Elf, that was 1968, it wasn´t that obvious back then, this people made all modern technology possible yet here you are, using all this marvelous developments to show the entire World how moronic you are.
Electronic music... 1930s... Okay.
That can produce nearly endless variantions of sounds.
lol that part made me laugh too although I know back then a listener would have to be told.
The entire musical score of this film was composed with Mario Paint
I love these guys, they had so 'little' to work with compared to now, and yet are making stuff most of us won't.
That Daisy song at 10:05 sounds like an origin of Daisy song by HAL in Space Odyssey
It is, a variant! 😎
coincidently, 2001 was released the same year!
The book was published the same year. Hard to know who influenced who. I tend to believe that Arthur C. Clarke must have seen a demonstration of computers and included the Daisy song in his book.
@@kurenan4564 seems reasonable
I once read that the IBM singing Daisy Bell influenced the choice to include an homage in 2001.
Nice they got Orson Wells to narrate
I wandered the comment section, endlessly, for days, searching for "Orson Welles". There were times I thought I wouldn't make it. I ran out of food. But then, there you were... 😭
I accidentally had auto captions on during playback... It interprets the beeps as speech at the section around 6:10 ...
For some reason I found that fascinating. :D
WTF, 6:26 "promotion republican" these are subliminal messages from the past!
Pretty good example of how computers have gotten faster, but not necessarily better.
I find it fascinating that so much of the actual speech is terribly translated.
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Fucking creepy.
Some of these user interfaces seem easier to use than the ones we have today. Maybe it's just because there's less to look at, but that click-drag circuit diagram editor seems more usable than some of the ones I've used.
Maybe that we have more components today or that we keep "updating" GUIs for the sake of it or that programs today have more features, useful and less so or a mixture of all.
came here from idkhow! (i dont know how but they found me)
after digging through the internet to try and figure out the puzzle for the ARG side, looks like I found a really cool machine instead~
thank you for posting this lovely machine!
Now I know what it sounds like to be serenaded by Stephen Hawking.
zooblestyx Haha🤣
😂😂😂😂
It's crazy that in 50 years we went from punch cards and computers that were just glorified calculators to deep learning based self driving cars running on gpu's that have more computing power then every computer combined 50 years ago
our computers are still primitive we just don't realize it, in 50 years our computers will be laughable. Ha Ha they are amazed by self driving cars how charming life was in the early 2000s
Our modern computers are basically thousands, even millions of these old computers combined.
BILLY agreed. Just look at how we laugh at the dinosaurs of 10-15 years ago.
Still we don't have flying cars, self tying shoes and self drying jackets
virtualatall we go have self tying shoes Nike makes them
did they done a Electronic Spice schematic simulation with Resistors/Diodes/Capacitors... in 1968...back then... AND with touch screen Monitor...? crazy
Mito Luil yeah I’m blown away...
It's not touch screen, it's light pen :) Amazingly simple thing: it's just a photodiode with a button. But because CRT screens show just one point at time (it travels left to right, from top to bottom), by the time this photodiode got its pulse we know at which part of monitor it was!
But yes, result is the same, even more precise actually. There is no way it can be miscalibrated! Really strange this became obsolete at PCs.
@@allmycircuits8850 I made one (lightpen) to use with my Commodore 64 when I was about 15. It was in the era where you could actually do computer stuff AND be active outdoors with football and more😁
@@allmycircuits8850 It is actually touchscreen. The definition of touchscreen is that you can control the computer by touching the screen (doesn't matter if it's a finger or a tool like a photodiode pen). They actually had a god damn touchscreen in '68. I'm fucking impressed.
Yeah we definitely had enough tech to land on the moon
*Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you. It's called **_Daisy_*
And now we have transistors the size of atoms. Science is truely magnificent!
According to the captions at 3:00 Bell Labs invented hip-hop in 1968
and his answer was "no u"
You look like Jesus
now thats a hip-hop level of mumble!
touch screens in 68, makes ya wonder what tech we have now that we dont know about........
Wasn't a touch screen at all. The "pen" is reading the dots of light on the screen to tell where it's pointing. Same way Duck hunt worked on the original Nintendo
@@Moxxuren i understand that
Oh we are probably 40 years behind.
@@Moxxuren so... a touch screen.
After this we invented a "laser" touch screen which worked by breaking the lasers path to tell where you were touching. Modern touch screens use a capacitive method to translate your touch into electrical energy.
0:45 QR code already existed in the 60's +
Haha...try to scan it with your phone!
@@primovid what dafaq it gave me a $500 amazon gift card
@@primovid It gave me a $200 discount on thailandese girls.
@@-Vitalis- YOU CANNOT JOKE ABOUT WORLD PROBLEMS!!! I usually never talk to people in this way but this is revolting.
@@mz7315 cry baby
what an absolutely insane documentary, this is just so impressive, i cant wrap my head around the genius needed to spearhead the eras and movements of actually understanding these fundamentals of digital and sound art
These scientists must have dedicated a lot to reach this stage of perfection. I can't imagine someone writing in cursive on a blackboard with such mastery and beauty.
Great video ! Thanks a lot for sharing !
but can it run crysis
You piqued my curiosity and I actually looked into the system. Added some info tho the video description. It had 200 Kiloflops of power.
Think about this:
In 1997, Intel's 'ASCI Red' super-computer achieved a peak of 1.3 Teraflops.
In 2014, AMD's 'R9 295X2' video-card achieved a peak of 11.6 Teraflops.
If you look at images of the thing, it took up an entire office space. In a mere 17 years, a single card in your PC case has 10x the power.
Back in the day, arcade gameboards were breaking records:
1981 - Sega 'G80'
1982 - Namco 'Pole Position'
1985 - Sega 'System 16'
1988 - Namco 'System 21'
1989 - Atari 'Hard Drivin''
1990 - Namco 'System 21' (more cores)
Shut up Bieber
On vector graphics screen.
No. It cannot.
It cannot since it does not have enough memory.
No probs. It blew my mind as well. So far ahead of its time!
If only people focused more on developing awesome things, and less on making massive profits and starting wars...
As a graphics programmer and an artist, I loved this.
ok let me get this straight
this guy here was a start to visual simulators, text to speech and vocaloid stuff, digital animation, 3D renderer, computer generated images, askii art and so much more
this is brilliant