Exactly. Modern phones, tablets and laptop hybrids (like the MS Surface) are just an evolution of these. The main difference between the early 2000s devices and now though is that these early smartphones/PDA phones and tablets were aimed more at business users than home users
I love the Computer Chronicles. Not only can you watch technology advance and grow, but also see one of the most impressive collection of "comb-overs" on television.
@@loganmacgyver2625 He's referring to Stewart's hairystyle, which is combed over to make it appear he has fuller hair rather than a chunk of baldness. Same goes for a lot of other guests, I suppose.
@@Farquad76.547 lol I had a gen 1 note and everyone used to say I had a laptop as a phone. It's just habit. I grew up on desktops and laptops so it's more a comfort thing.
Not to take anything away from this show, but a lot it was people making sales pitches. Most were still very informative but I'm guessing this is a major factor in how they funded the show.
"A lot of people make fun of the idea. Why do we need to watch videos on our cell phones?" Raise your hand if you're watching this on your smartphone. ;-)
you need the hottest new cell phone the sony cnbz5 and remember playing with your cell phone while your driving can cause and accident so don't DO IT!!!!!
Hate smartphones. Yes I'm being serious. I use my desktop PC exclusively for everything and I don't think that's going to ever change. When I'm not home I have better things to do than waste time on TH-cam.
I worked for Compaq Tech Support back then. I remember when wireless was starting to come out. I remember them talking about watching TV and movies On the Ipaq. It seem like fantasy back then...
@@alexsky88749I don't know. It only takes one major new discovery/advancement to really propel things forward. One such thing that could change the world, in term of technology, overnight would be a leap forward in batteries. Specifically, if we ever find a way to basically instantly charge batteries for mobile devices. A whole new world of possibilities would appear overnight. It would be 1000x greater than what we saw from 1990 to 2023.
Crazy how to see how technology has moved on. Imagine telling these guys we’d be watching them on our phones in 2020 in quality that they couldn’t even get on their TVs in 2001
Man's I'm still thinking 20 years ago was the 80s. Is incredible to see how we take things for granted like wireless communication and cheap internet. What a time to be alive! :)
The show's set hasn't been updated since the early 90s by the looks of it. The combovers and moustaches make it look older than it is. There is TV from '01 that would look a lot more modern. All the tech they're showing is state of the art though lol!
@@tylerchambliss8379 $50 for a 200Mbps connection for me today. Back in 2001 I did have cable broadband speeds but it was like 5Mbps and the cost at that time was about $40/month. With inflation that is $69. So, yes, it is quite cheap today and you get way more bang for buck.
Believe it or not, Lenovo, (The inheritor of the Thinkpad line,) will still put out innovative stuff from time to time, but those particular machines are usually hard to find (and rather expensive.)
I remember when IBM showed a smartphone running Linux, way before Apple or Google, it was the future till they remember they are IBM and blunder it as they did with everything else.
That waa when people started to use cellphones more regularly and this was the future for them. Within 5 or 6 years the iPhone came out and all this was commonplace and much of it before even then
A lot of this tech wasn't really commonplace until 2005-06. This is still an interesting watch, though, as in it's a snapshot in time from when this tech was still in development.
I remember 2002-ish, I finally got some 802.11b wireless going. It was mind-blowing being able to set up my Pentium 2 laptop anywhere in the house and get online!
Who you tellin'? if somebody had told 11 year old me back in 2002 that I would be able to participate in using a touchscreen mobile device when I couldn't even mastered the mouse as a blind person, I would probably request that they be committed.
It's taking me awhile, but I'm slowly working my way through this archive. I didn't use much wireless tech in 2001. I was unaware there were so many options 19 years ago! Thank you for sharing.
I didn't either. We had dial up internet on an old Bush Internet TV box (UK set top box/TV you could browse the net on, kinda like WebTV I guess, very primitive form of Smart TV). It was slow and expensive
The zeroes had the most amazing hardware and form factors. I am astounded by how much respect the host has for his guests and the technology, not something you see often these days!
In the 90s and early 2000s it seemed like every week there was some new innovation being introduced. Companies weren't afraid to come out with new devices that broke the mold of everything that had come before. If I could describe the entire exciting era, it would be: Vibrant.
In 2000, everybody was trying to figure out how to sell tools to business folks, then Steve Job figured out that the real money is selling crack to kids, then Android made the generic drug.
The technology was poor then. Black and white screens, poor contrast, low resolution, poor battery life, poor touch screens, slow processors, low bandwidth. You couldn't do this stuff back then. A lot of the leaps were due to the right technology coming into place. The true touch screen used in the first iPhone was a huge part of its success.
@@gblargg Jobs made an interesting point in an older mid 90s MIT lecture about how he learned from the Mac project that you have to first let technology exist if you're going to try to do something with it. This is as he was being asked by the audience why NeXT (his company then) wasn't making portable computing devices. His response was that chip technology just wasn't invented yet to make that happen in any meaningful way so he wasn't even going to try to enter that with a poor performing product destined to fail. Indeed, he kept his word when he came to Apple later. It wasn't until much later that chip technology got to the point of offering true mobile usability.
@@gblargg very true the infrastructure just wasn't there. But there is more to it. They polished the experience far better than i have ever seen with other devices at the time.
It’s amazing to watch these episodes not only for nostalgia, but also to witness how far we have come in computing technology. Also, it amazes me how much our WiFi routers have changed in terms of design. The one showcased for the home was big, but it looked elegant. No antennas. Compared to the claw design of our WiFi 6 routers today.
It was 2004 and I was on a train with my iBook G4 and was connected via BT with my Sony P800 which was a GPRS (56k) hotspot to the Internet. I felt like I had achieved something. lol
Every few years someone looks back and laughs at whatever devices we had then. Now people mock pagers and lower model iPhones. We will forever be evolving and people will always mock whatever came before but you need to understand that every single technology featured on Computer Chronicles made way for every piece of technology we have today. Now, I may be showing my 90’s kid personality but I loved anything colorful and see through, especially stuff with added in effects like glitter. Even if it had of been complete junk, I would have been the sucker to buy it just for the way it looks. I would love to see cell phones have designs like that today but it’s always just white or black phones with whatever case you end up getting.
And nowadays I’m watching this video on a smartphone, connected to the internet over Wi-Fi, and connected to my headphones over Bluetooth. It’s crazy how nearly everything here is in nearly everyone’s pocket today
They really should have gotten rid of all the unnecessary segments of the show, including the long and annoying intro, sponsors messages and pick of the week. Better get rid of all that junk and squeeze in more information and time so he doesn't have to rush every guest.
I lived through this and had an Ipaq PDA for business in 2002. I honestly had forgotten how far we have come in less than 20 years with our 4G and 5G wireless and fast wi-fi and phones, tablets and so on. No wifi on my Compaq IPaq and file transfer by cradle and cable and infra red to another PDA. The Sony ''a fantastic phone". Well yes I suppose it was. I had a long Nokia with tiny screen at that time and thought it was really 'the future'. Its battery actually lasted two to three days between charges, which is better than most today, but its screen was monochrome. This particular video is indeed an amazing window into a bygone era that showcases the foundation of today's connected world. I love it.
It's amazing how far we've come in technology in under 20 years. Heck in 10 years, 2011. Smartphones with touch screens and high speed internet were main stream. It makes me wonder where we are going to be in 20 years from now. 2040 anyone?
@@alangiles4616 Yep, it was a one-take. No rehearsals, no retakes. Very limited post-production editing to keep the entire show a low cost production. Timing was everything in these instances since it had to fit into a predefined time format.
When you used to watch technology programs back in the 90s, there'd often be products shown touted to be the next big game changer or the next big hit but so many of these products didn't make it to fruition for one reason or another. In this episode, all these technologies came to fruition and are used by millions of people around the world today, it really is quite astounding. Today so many people play videos on their mobile phones, use Wi-Fi to connect portable devices to the Internet, and use Bluetooth to connect loudspeakers, headphones and other accessories to a host device.
I had a Blackberry in high school in 1999 (Father's company was trialing out these devices and they have a surplus at work) - people thought it was pointless having e-mail / text messaging on the go, how times have changed.
Steve Jobs must have watched this like a hundred times. Really, most of the tech showcased became the core of Apple products. It's pretty amazing that the tech shown was able to run so well on 2001 processors.
Apple had already gotten into WiFi at this point. The AirPort Base Station had been out for 20 months by the time this episode aired. They didn’t put Bluetooth in their laptops until 2003 though.
Britney Spears is a legend, not many celebrities can say they were used as an example on Computer Chronicles. I remember seeing Mariah Carey and Toni Braxton listed in Gopher.
I had one. It was a Palm with an integrated modem. Unlike phone OS's of tody, the Palm OS at the time was not integrated to have this kind of communication so it didn't function quite the same way as a modern smartphone does. It had a lot of quirkyness to it. Plus, there was no 3g, only 2g speeds which made the phone get super hot when you had a data connection. But in the end, it did work if you needed data connectivity in a small point and click package.
Why are people such condescending pricks when it comes to old technology? Technology is constantly evolving, so obviously things we take for granted today seemed much more impressive when they were first released. Without old technology, we wouldn't have current technology.
Yep, and kind of humbling to go back and use some of it today, like the Samsung flip phone my office just gave me so they could do away with some of our land line phones in our offices.
FusionC6 I only gave my girlfriend's daughter who is 15 a basic Android Tracfone with just enough minutes and data ever 3 months to make emergency calls if she is with a friend, at school, etc.. and to get home if she gets lost, and her Android tablet only works on WiFi with no mobile data to speak of, and her laptop has been formatted with Chrome OS for security reasons, and far as a younger child I would not give them more then a basic flip phone for again emergencies, and a Chromebook as their computing device. Kids are just to damn spoiled these days. I did not get my first cell phone till I was 24 which was nothing more then a basic Motorola C139 AT&T Go Phone, and I'm now 36 as of this posting, but I will admit I had a Commodore VIC-20 computer when I was about 3 years old, and can rarely remember a time we did not have some kind of computer in my house growing up, but when I turned 16(legal working age in S. Carolina) my parents said if you want a new computer get a job, and work for it, so I did lol!
You are limiting your kids based on your views of technology. I'm only a couple of years older than you at 38 but you gotta understand times change and its not about being spoiled or having the latest toy. This is 2018 and limiting their access isn't teaching them a life lesson but limiting their ability to compete in a world were everybody else uses the latest technology
Yeah and I bet you had to walk through 15 miles of snow to connect to the internet. Technology advances. Kids have more opportunities every year. Get over it you old twat
The show where they introduced Wifi, Bluetooth, laptops without cables - and, oh, a PDA which is also a cellphone... They basically introduced some of the most important technologies for the next 30 years to come - in less than 30 minutes. Bam.
In 2001 I was 13 and all the adults thought the youth went to hell because of South Park. Now I’m 32 and I think the youth have gone to hell because of social media.
I can't see them being called smartphones for much longer as younger people just call them phones. The "smart" element isn't needed as nobody has any use for non-smart phones.
@@purrbox7514 there are still a lot of voip phones in offices that are very different from smart phones. Cisco phones are very popular in workplaces. "phone" is ambiguous if not still suggesting a landline or voip phone.
blackberries where the SHIT back in the day.. i remember sitting in guitar class, in high school like 2004 watching a girl surf the web on her black berry. she was on a news site looking through news articles and it was amazing! lol times change fast, im young imagine another 2o years from now.
4:41 used to have a similar card way back with my toshiba satelite, It was a pain in the ass when you forgot that card on vacations LOL how the time has passed
And at 9:35, I walk in and lay a Samsung smartphone on that table in front of them. Their expression on their faces is like, what is that. Me, oh it's a smartphone, take a look, it surfs the Internet, TH-cam and Facebook, check the weather, take photos, or record videos. Then they say, what's TH-cam and Facebook? I'm like you'll find out in a few more years. 😂 Oh and one more thing you don't need that pen thingy to touch the screen. You just use your fingers to interact with the screen. They're like, Woe, that's cool. 😂
Funny when they're discussing examples of Bluetooth's use cases and neither seems to even imagine wireless headphones, wireless speakers, or wireless mice. I guess that goes to show that technology often gets used in ways even its inventors couldn't foresee.
In the really early 2000s I had a small Motorola flip phone as my cellphone. It was restricted as to what I could text and the screen was too small to watch videos. Now I have an Android smartphone and I can watch TH-cam videos on it.
This is such an important episode. It showcases all of the founding technology for the smartphones and mobile devices we use today.
Yep. iPads & modern tablets, smartphones, even docking accessories, folio cases. You can see their origins here.
Exactly. Modern phones, tablets and laptop hybrids (like the MS Surface) are just an evolution of these. The main difference between the early 2000s devices and now though is that these early smartphones/PDA phones and tablets were aimed more at business users than home users
why do you care though?
@@dairyb0y don't be blind to just apple shite
@@moonjimunji7916 I care.
I love the Computer Chronicles. Not only can you watch technology advance and grow, but also see one of the most impressive collection of "comb-overs" on television.
And the CEO of Seagate that says we will never have anything bigger than a 5 1/4 floppy disk...
LOL!!
what does comb over mean
@@loganmacgyver2625 He's referring to Stewart's hairystyle, which is combed over to make it appear he has fuller hair rather than a chunk of baldness. Same goes for a lot of other guests, I suppose.
@@sternkrieger1950
Stewart is in his 80's now. I saw him a few years back and he still has the comb over
why would anyone want to watch video on their cellphones? this will never catch on!
I used to say just that back in the day.
64K is more than enough for any phone.
For me it never catch on.
@@codebeat4192 Agree. I love watching on either a desktop or laptop. Also pc on a tv I can handle.
@@Farquad76.547 lol I had a gen 1 note and everyone used to say I had a laptop as a phone. It's just habit. I grew up on desktops and laptops so it's more a comfort thing.
I used to watch this show on PBS. So much of what they featured seemed like sci-fi. Now here we are, living the dream.
The host: "Oh my God, this is fascinating!"
Also the host 1 sec later: "Alright, let's move on."
They always tried to shoot scenes in one shot, rather than editing it down to fit the time slot
I have ADHD but this guy even gives me the heebie-jeebies.
“Why do we need to see videos on our cell phone” he asks, while I sit here 21 years later doing precisely that 🤯😂
That's like Blockbuster telling Netflix why do we need streaming?! Lmao.
@steve9473 Mind you they had a similar service on Dish
Cheifet is a such a cool and warm guy.
I especially love when he cut people off that were giving a BS sales pitch
He always has the perfect argument: "We are short on time!" :-)
Not to take anything away from this show, but a lot it was people making sales pitches. Most were still very informative but I'm guessing this is a major factor in how they funded the show.
😅
To be fair, he cut EVERYONE off.
@@halfsourlizard9319 Yeah, one of the annoying things about this programme.
"And the service?"
"The service runs about $35-$45 a month."
"A business tool."
"Yeah very much business."
do not forget Wifi is only for Businessmen and you must wear a suit
In 2001 dollars. That's around $65 now.
@@dmtd2388 I didn't read the fine print, my ISP charged me a $30 fine for not wearing the suit. Was pissed.
@@gblargg Well, my 5G is way faster ... but it's also way more than $65.
My 5g with T-Mobile was about 70 a month per line. So glad I switched to a generic carrier and just got fiber for when I need fast data.
I love the computer chronicles and what they have done. Such a large digital archive of technology dating back to the 80 s.
I love it too. They certainly chronicled!
"A lot of people make fun of the idea. Why do we need to watch videos on our cell phones?" Raise your hand if you're watching this on your smartphone. ;-)
you need the hottest new cell phone the sony cnbz5
and remember playing with your cell phone while your driving can cause and accident so don't DO IT!!!!!
nope, watching this on pc with 48"+ display - still no idea why should I watch video on my iphone except when I am in the restroom on my white throne.
NormanFoxLee im watching this in vr bruh fight me
Hate smartphones. Yes I'm being serious. I use my desktop PC exclusively for everything and I don't think that's going to ever change. When I'm not home I have better things to do than waste time on TH-cam.
only because i dont have a tv
I worked for Compaq Tech Support back then. I remember when wireless was starting to come out. I remember them talking about watching TV and movies On the Ipaq. It seem like fantasy back then...
what I write on here will eventually show up here
What amazes me is how in 20 years we'll look back at technology of today in the same light as we do watching this 2k1 tech.
Why would that be amazing to you if it has already happened? Are you amazed that you are hungry before every meal? 😂
LINEAR technological progression will be less than from the 1990's to to 2023..
@@alexsky88749I don't know. It only takes one major new discovery/advancement to really propel things forward. One such thing that could change the world, in term of technology, overnight would be a leap forward in batteries. Specifically, if we ever find a way to basically instantly charge batteries for mobile devices. A whole new world of possibilities would appear overnight. It would be 1000x greater than what we saw from 1990 to 2023.
Crazy how to see how technology has moved on. Imagine telling these guys we’d be watching them on our phones in 2020 in quality that they couldn’t even get on their TVs in 2001
Jesus, you talk as if it's 150 years ago.
Might as well be
@@prebenjaeger I think you missed the point completely.. we're amazed by the progress in such a *short* amount of time
@@rangegod98 People in 2001 saw the technology progress that was there thru the 80s and 90s, why would they be surprised?
Well, there's an episode of "Triangulation" in which former TechTV personality Leo Laporte interviewed Chiefet.
Man's I'm still thinking 20 years ago was the 80s. Is incredible to see how we take things for granted like wireless communication and cheap internet. What a time to be alive! :)
The show's set hasn't been updated since the early 90s by the looks of it. The combovers and moustaches make it look older than it is. There is TV from '01 that would look a lot more modern. All the tech they're showing is state of the art though lol!
Dude internet is not cheap. I don't know what world you're living in but at least in the US internet isn't cheap.
@@tylerchambliss8379 $50 for a 200Mbps connection for me today. Back in 2001 I did have cable broadband speeds but it was like 5Mbps and the cost at that time was about $40/month. With inflation that is $69. So, yes, it is quite cheap today and you get way more bang for buck.
@@tylerchambliss8379bk in the modem days u paid by minute for 56k
now u can get 300mbs fir $35/mo flat
so its verrrry cheap
I can't believe this show was still running in 2001. Amazing.
That IBM portfolio laptop is pretty cool. I wish more companies still did innovative designs like that.
I want it!!
Believe it or not, Lenovo, (The inheritor of the Thinkpad line,) will still put out innovative stuff from time to time, but those particular machines are usually hard to find (and rather expensive.)
I remember when IBM showed a smartphone running Linux, way before Apple or Google, it was the future till they remember they are IBM and blunder it as they did with everything else.
@@dmora2309 Yeah IBM's always been great at forward thinking technologies, just never at marketing and execution (on the consumer side at least).
10:00 "kids will never get any work done anymore" he he....
And it has dumbed down everyone lol
He was so right!
I graduated from high school in 2002. The wireless technology they are talking about was NOT commonplace and was ground-breaking for middle-Americans.
That waa when people started to use cellphones more regularly and this was the future for them. Within 5 or 6 years the iPhone came out and all this was commonplace and much of it before even then
A lot of this tech wasn't really commonplace until 2005-06. This is still an interesting watch, though, as in it's a snapshot in time from when this tech was still in development.
@@StevenEveral It STILL is in development. It always will be.
I remember 2002-ish, I finally got some 802.11b wireless going. It was mind-blowing being able to set up my Pentium 2 laptop anywhere in the house and get online!
Who you tellin'? if somebody had told 11 year old me back in 2002 that I would be able to participate in using a touchscreen mobile device when I couldn't even mastered the mouse as a blind person, I would probably request that they be committed.
This is great.
Watching this video on my phone with bluetooth headphones on the bus. (2019)
It's taking me awhile, but I'm slowly working my way through this archive. I didn't use much wireless tech in 2001. I was unaware there were so many options 19 years ago! Thank you for sharing.
I didn't either. We had dial up internet on an old Bush Internet TV box (UK set top box/TV you could browse the net on, kinda like WebTV I guess, very primitive form of Smart TV). It was slow and expensive
I know South Park started in the late 90s, but seeing it on here makes it feel a lot older than it already is.
The zeroes had the most amazing hardware and form factors. I am astounded by how much respect the host has for his guests and the technology, not something you see often these days!
chefeit is a cool guy yah- very few shows exist like this today
This is the age where tech companies "really" innovate and technology pushed forward. I love this show.
In the 90s and early 2000s it seemed like every week there was some new innovation being introduced. Companies weren't afraid to come out with new devices that broke the mold of everything that had come before.
If I could describe the entire exciting era, it would be: Vibrant.
Doug Englebart invented all this shit in like 1467.
The technologies were new and everybody was experimenting to figure out the best user experiences.
In 2000, everybody was trying to figure out how to sell tools to business folks, then Steve Job figured out that the real money is selling crack to kids, then Android made the generic drug.
That's one way to put it, absurd but accurate at the same time
The technology was poor then. Black and white screens, poor contrast, low resolution, poor battery life, poor touch screens, slow processors, low bandwidth. You couldn't do this stuff back then. A lot of the leaps were due to the right technology coming into place. The true touch screen used in the first iPhone was a huge part of its success.
@@gblargg Jobs made an interesting point in an older mid 90s MIT lecture about how he learned from the Mac project that you have to first let technology exist if you're going to try to do something with it. This is as he was being asked by the audience why NeXT (his company then) wasn't making portable computing devices. His response was that chip technology just wasn't invented yet to make that happen in any meaningful way so he wasn't even going to try to enter that with a poor performing product destined to fail. Indeed, he kept his word when he came to Apple later. It wasn't until much later that chip technology got to the point of offering true mobile usability.
@@oldtwinsna8347 Apple Newton? Early for its time. (Google stupidly keeps deleting my comments from my other login for some reason)
@@gblargg very true the infrastructure just wasn't there. But there is more to it. They polished the experience far better than i have ever seen with other devices at the time.
It’s amazing to watch these episodes not only for nostalgia, but also to witness how far we have come in computing technology.
Also, it amazes me how much our WiFi routers have changed in terms of design. The one showcased for the home was big, but it looked elegant. No antennas. Compared to the claw design of our WiFi 6 routers today.
That IBM ThinkPad was pretty cool,
I want that!
10:00 "Oh this is terrible....kids will never be able to get any work done with a TV in their pocket"
Stephen knew
It was 2004 and I was on a train with my iBook G4 and was connected via BT with my Sony P800 which was a GPRS (56k) hotspot to the Internet. I felt like I had achieved something. lol
Would of been a matrix moment! lol Those P800 were cool with a stylus and futuristic design!
Damn 1 FPS movie trailers! I want that now!
Every few years someone looks back and laughs at whatever devices we had then. Now people mock pagers and lower model iPhones. We will forever be evolving and people will always mock whatever came before but you need to understand that every single technology featured on Computer Chronicles made way for every piece of technology we have today. Now, I may be showing my 90’s kid personality but I loved anything colorful and see through, especially stuff with added in effects like glitter. Even if it had of been complete junk, I would have been the sucker to buy it just for the way it looks. I would love to see cell phones have designs like that today but it’s always just white or black phones with whatever case you end up getting.
And nowadays I’m watching this video on a smartphone, connected to the internet over Wi-Fi, and connected to my headphones over Bluetooth. It’s crazy how nearly everything here is in nearly everyone’s pocket today
Love this show..wish they would bring it back
You can tell the host is really interested in what the show features and does actual research before the show.
Stewart sure packs a lot of tech in one show.
A little too much, really - he often seems impatient with the guests because he has to race on to the next thing.
@@TheRealLaughingGravy Yes, the hosts always interrupted the guests and pushed the show too hard.
@@TheRealLaughingGravy very much so. should have slowed down a bit. i hate how he rushes everything.
Luckily he is in a good mood in this episode.
They really should have gotten rid of all the unnecessary segments of the show, including the long and annoying intro, sponsors messages and pick of the week. Better get rid of all that junk and squeeze in more information and time so he doesn't have to rush every guest.
They really should've continued this show or at least bring it back, to Chronicle the tech we live with and moved past today.
I lived through this and had an Ipaq PDA for business in 2002. I honestly had forgotten how far we have come in less than 20 years with our 4G and 5G wireless and fast wi-fi and phones, tablets and so on. No wifi on my Compaq IPaq and file transfer by cradle and cable and infra red to another PDA.
The Sony ''a fantastic phone". Well yes I suppose it was. I had a long Nokia with tiny screen at that time and thought it was really 'the future'. Its battery actually lasted two to three days between charges, which is better than most today, but its screen was monochrome.
This particular video is indeed an amazing window into a bygone era that showcases the foundation of today's connected world. I love it.
Here we are 22 years later and billions of people are watching video on their cell phones.
It's amazing how far we've come in technology in under 20 years. Heck in 10 years, 2011. Smartphones with touch screens and high speed internet were main stream.
It makes me wonder where we are going to be in 20 years from now. 2040 anyone?
Things didn't change all that dramatically from 2011 to 2021 though. At least in the computer arena.
I love these videos, they show us how we first develop the technology and then understand the possible implications/use cases for it.
“Why do we need to see videos on our phones?”
-Steve Ballmer liked this comment
Why have all of you skipped the second half of that quote, where he says there are real practical applications?
If anything this was a "and so it begins" episode of the Computer Chronicles.
20 years, Watching this on my small phone over LTE with small bluetooth in ear buds in the middle of a park.
Why not 5g?
@@oldtwinsna8347 Foilheads have burnt the 5G BTS... XD
Love this show, used to watch it way back. Still laugh at how the hosts constantly interrupt the guests, the shows always seem rushed.
Film was expensive. LOL
Probably recorded "as live" for economy, but at least it doesn't appear gimmicky as tech shows do today
Now we have many techtubers who show us the tech without the annoying behavior. That’s one of the biggest changes, besides the tech itself!
@@alangiles4616 Yep, it was a one-take. No rehearsals, no retakes. Very limited post-production editing to keep the entire show a low cost production. Timing was everything in these instances since it had to fit into a predefined time format.
6:35 why isn't this computer still around?
because its too slow to do anything with today
@@Synthematix quote from Steve Jobs launching iPad: These things aren't better at anything
2001: Computer Chronicles enthusiastically demonstrates how awesome the Cybiko is.
2012: Ashens reluctantly demonstrates how horrible the Cybiko was.
When you used to watch technology programs back in the 90s, there'd often be products shown touted to be the next big game changer or the next big hit but so many of these products didn't make it to fruition for one reason or another. In this episode, all these technologies came to fruition and are used by millions of people around the world today, it really is quite astounding. Today so many people play videos on their mobile phones, use Wi-Fi to connect portable devices to the Internet, and use Bluetooth to connect loudspeakers, headphones and other accessories to a host device.
I had a Blackberry in high school in 1999 (Father's company was trialing out these devices and they have a surplus at work) - people thought it was pointless having e-mail / text messaging on the go, how times have changed.
first BlackBerry was the 5810 model which came out in 2002
It was pointless when nobody else can do the same. It would've been pointless to have a phone in 1850 because you couldn't call anyone
Steve Jobs must have watched this like a hundred times. Really, most of the tech showcased became the core of Apple products. It's pretty amazing that the tech shown was able to run so well on 2001 processors.
I saw the first iPhone and iPad watching this show.
@@NightLinks This show was cancelled before those items were even a twinkle in steve's eyes.
Apple had already gotten into WiFi at this point. The AirPort Base Station had been out for 20 months by the time this episode aired. They didn’t put Bluetooth in their laptops until 2003 though.
@mike h Watch the video and you will see them too :D
@@NightLinks th-cam.com/video/r3hTwsvJV_A/w-d-xo.html
Britney Spears is a legend, not many celebrities can say they were used as an example on Computer Chronicles. I remember seeing Mariah Carey and Toni Braxton listed in Gopher.
This guy and this show saw like 40 years of technology improvements. No wonder archive.org had it.
3:43 At 2001 the KYOCERA phone had already icons and a touchscreen!
Yeah that was a standard Palm OS device.
I had one. It was a Palm with an integrated modem. Unlike phone OS's of tody, the Palm OS at the time was not integrated to have this kind of communication so it didn't function quite the same way as a modern smartphone does. It had a lot of quirkyness to it. Plus, there was no 3g, only 2g speeds which made the phone get super hot when you had a data connection. But in the end, it did work if you needed data connectivity in a small point and click package.
Why are people such condescending pricks when it comes to old technology? Technology is constantly evolving, so obviously things we take for granted today seemed much more impressive when they were first released. Without old technology, we wouldn't have current technology.
Yep, and kind of humbling to go back and use some of it today, like the Samsung flip phone my office just gave me so they could do away with some of our land line phones in our offices.
Because they don't know any better, and were born with a fucking tablet in their hands.
FusionC6 I only gave my girlfriend's daughter who is 15 a basic Android Tracfone with just enough minutes and data ever 3 months to make emergency calls if she is with a friend, at school, etc.. and to get home if she gets lost, and her Android tablet only works on WiFi with no mobile data to speak of, and her laptop has been formatted with Chrome OS for security reasons, and far as a younger child I would not give them more then a basic flip phone for again emergencies, and a Chromebook as their computing device. Kids are just to damn spoiled these days. I did not get my first cell phone till I was 24 which was nothing more then a basic Motorola C139 AT&T Go Phone, and I'm now 36 as of this posting, but I will admit I had a Commodore VIC-20 computer when I was about 3 years old, and can rarely remember a time we did not have some kind of computer in my house growing up, but when I turned 16(legal working age in S. Carolina) my parents said if you want a new computer get a job, and work for it, so I did lol!
You are limiting your kids based on your views of technology. I'm only a couple of years older than you at 38 but you gotta understand times change and its not about being spoiled or having the latest toy. This is 2018 and limiting their access isn't teaching them a life lesson but limiting their ability to compete in a world were everybody else uses the latest technology
Yeah and I bet you had to walk through 15 miles of snow to connect to the internet. Technology advances. Kids have more opportunities every year. Get over it you old twat
watching this video on my pc tethered through my cellphones broadband connection...jeez the irony :/
pre-iphone age, people were so innocent
Things we take for granted on a modern smartphone was cutting edge back in 2001.
I remember taking pictures with a floppy digital camera in 2001, I thought it was state of the art.
The Sony Mavica! I had a little HP Photosmart camera at the time that i loved, but the Mavica was convenient.
0:40 Wanna watch videos on your cellphone? Ooo ooo! Yeah I do. I can’t wait to do that!
"its 128k, very good speeds"........LOL love it, the good old days
Those purple radios at the end are the geekiest devices I´ve ever seen!
Ikr?😁😁
That bluetooth headset looks like it would stay in my ear better than most of the ones available today.
1997-2004 was a digital wonderland
04:00 Cellphone combined with a PDA? Nonsense that will never take off..
The show where they introduced Wifi, Bluetooth, laptops without cables - and, oh, a PDA which is also a cellphone... They basically introduced some of the most important technologies for the next 30 years to come - in less than 30 minutes. Bam.
nothing like britneys ooops video in 5 fps on a 5" screen :)
Don’t forget all the MPEG compression artifacts, making it look even worse than it sounds.
7:40 talking about videos on phones as I'm watching on my phone. "What's the point of video over wireless" 😂
Speaking to you from the future.
It's mind blowing to know that the first iPhone was launched just 6 years after this episode aired
When the smartphone was once all these products. Windows XP is not even out yet.
In 2001 I was 13 and all the adults thought the youth went to hell because of South Park. Now I’m 32 and I think the youth have gone to hell because of social media.
"Kids will never get any work done! Like having a tv in your pocket..."
I absolutely love this episode
Did he just say "smart cell phones" ? So this guy basically coined smartphone back in 2001 !
I can't see them being called smartphones for much longer as younger people just call them phones. The "smart" element isn't needed as nobody has any use for non-smart phones.
@@purrbox7514 A lot of people use non-smart phones. CAT sells a lot of durable old style phones for construction workers.
That Kyocera was already branded as _smartphone_
@@purrbox7514 there are still a lot of voip phones in offices that are very different from smart phones. Cisco phones are very popular in workplaces. "phone" is ambiguous if not still suggesting a landline or voip phone.
Wow! This episode predicted the future. Watching from the year 2021.
Using Bluetooth headphones right now
what is that translucent purple computer case at around 8:30!?
*Wow! Summer 2001 looks like it's going to be a great year!*
Yeahhhh….
Does anyone know what type of machine that purple one is in the background at 9:00?
15 years and what a difference...
@@dixztube -.- Blockchains is great and all but then go ahead and add even bigger thing to it... An AI
Hello from the future. It’s even better now!
"Kids will never get any work done anymore" trueeeeee
blackberries where the SHIT back in the day.. i remember sitting in guitar class, in high school like 2004 watching a girl surf the web on her black berry. she was on a news site looking through news articles and it was amazing! lol times change fast, im young imagine another 2o years from now.
I read your comment (and watched this video) on my BlackBerry Key2 LE, and I'm now typing this reply to you on it!
@Andrew Tarrant the shit*
Everything they talked about then are now everybody's way of life. In 2001 it was the glorious future.
4:41 used to have a similar card way back with my toshiba satelite, It was a pain in the ass when you forgot that card on vacations LOL how the time has passed
"Why do we need videos on our cell phone"... that question has yet to be answered fully... 😁
What yes it has tf u talking about
And at 9:35, I walk in and lay a Samsung smartphone on that table in front of them. Their expression on their faces is like, what is that. Me, oh it's a smartphone, take a look, it surfs the Internet, TH-cam and Facebook, check the weather, take photos, or record videos. Then they say, what's TH-cam and Facebook? I'm like you'll find out in a few more years. 😂 Oh and one more thing you don't need that pen thingy to touch the screen. You just use your fingers to interact with the screen. They're like, Woe, that's cool. 😂
8:16 is how the world was thinking about videos before youtube hahahah
There's something ominous about the way they keep saying "they will pay for this".
"Oh yeah, the will pay for it."
i hope they're still making these, fascinating!
They're not. And, they haven't in over 20 years. Also, search engines exist, and you could have answered that for yourself.
>demos wifi
>pulls up already loaded webpage
The man wasn't wrong but that was a weird thing to do.
I was 17 in High School in my Graduating Year when this was aired.
I was on Freshman year
Funny when they're discussing examples of Bluetooth's use cases and neither seems to even imagine wireless headphones, wireless speakers, or wireless mice.
I guess that goes to show that technology often gets used in ways even its inventors couldn't foresee.
They had a wireless headphone type thing towards the end of the video.
4:25: Full 128k... good speed for REAL, REAL browsing ;).
+krecikowi and 1fps for watching videos... it's magic!
+krecikowi Haha yea i was thinking uhmm ok what about 300mbps connection i now have hahaha.
PureOwnag3 It is called marketing. Did you buy you new 1080 GTX? To run 4k in 60fps? You know... we all HAVE to have it!
krecikowi Yea its indeed marketing, even if u look at the price they needed to pay for it at that time, while its worth notthing now.
PureOwnag3 Like all of this high end "stuff" we pay premium and few years later they are "garbage" :(
Is the Stewart cell phone number showed at 19:33 still active?
128K great speed!! ah yes, the good old days...
In the really early 2000s I had a small Motorola flip phone as my cellphone. It was restricted as to what I could text and the screen was too small to watch videos. Now I have an Android smartphone and I can watch TH-cam videos on it.
God bless this channel
The irony is I'm watching this video on my cellphone lol.
Now everyone has Bluetooth but rarely anyone sending files over it.
Bluetooth still sucks
Nice seeing the IBM TransNote making an appearance. It was a failure but a really cool device.
50 years ago - “they will have flying cars in 2001.
Reality - we could watch jerky videos of Brittany spears on our phones.
Yeah but it was a young Brittany Spears, before the plastic, tucks and botox. Plus it gave rise to the twerk for posterity purposes.
how did the song go.... the internet is for................ So yeah
0:41 “Wanna watch videos on your cellphone?”
Me: *watching this video on an iPhone*