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As an amateur cybersecurity expert, I can attest that most of these are the result of design before security. Sadly, most of these vulnerabilities still exist, they're just a bit more complex to accomplish. The internet was (like most things in life) just a haphazard abomination (que full metal alchemist dog+daughter meme) primarily stitched together as new technology and possibilities because available. Not one soul alive or dead would have been content with the security posture of the interconnected global network, and if they'd known what the future held they would have been far more vigilant. Brilliant minds like the RSA trio saw the need for our security to develop in parallel with capability, but as a whole people just wanted to make scifi a reality, and did the best they could from the perspective they had (nearsighted as some of that perspective often was).
Arrg we will always be pirate. Says every Milennial 17:30 actually that was not illegal to hack insecure systems when we where kids Simon. The laws needed to be introduced. O think germany only passed the law 2001 or so
Putting this here so you might actually see it - all of the search domains turned to shit because they're all "integrating AI for better search results." Yeah, we can see how that works.
@lauren9667. In 1998, at the age of 34, I left my truck driving profession, and went to university to study infotech. I ended up in computer security, got a full time job at the uni in my 2nd year of study, and ran a business building security hardened computers. The business started because I was scanning known hack software ports and found a lot of hacked computers, usually women in their 30s. It ended up being one guy who was pretending to be computer savvy and was installing hacking software via emailed executables to these women. Eight years later, I burned out and went back to driving trucks. However, I still try to stay up to date with computer security, etc. I still use a torrent program to get my movies and music rather than subscriber services.
Simon: records a Vessi ad Vessi: "great, love it. One thing. Stop calling it witchcraft, Simon, it's technology. Specifically dynatech" Simon (pitchfork in hand): "WITCHCRAFT!"
@@jeremymcdonald7974I always wonder how those sponsor agreements are set up. I’m assuming they pay to be featured on X number of videos and have to renew.
We were out of the town limits, in farm country, and there was no cable. We were the first family in _miles_ to get a satellite dish. That was a real wild west. You could watch literally _anything_ with no subscription required. I watched shows from France while my brother was permanently engaged with the Playboy channel. Those were the days.
Yeah, we had that cowboy cable when I was a little kid: ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, and PBS. My father moved to a house with a C-band satellite when I was in high school, but by then, they'd started charging for some of the stations.
Thank you so much for saying specifically that you’ll never have that therapy company for a sponsor - it’s gotten to the point where I check every video’s sponsor before I even put it in my queue, and I will *never* watch a video sponsored by them. I’m very glad that I can now I can just go ahead and watch your videos without that precaution - truly, truly, thank you. Also, hi Sam!
One of my favourite old school gags at work was net send in Windows XP. I used to make some very inappropriate pop up dialogues appear on coworkers' PCs, and they had no choice but to click 'OK'!
I liked messing around with Netbus on Windows 98. I installed it on my college teacher's computer, made the CD-ROM open during a powerpoint presentation, and popped up a message saying, "Feed me."
@@chitlitlah Hahaha, sorry, I just need to tell you that your comment and the picture it painted in my mind made me laugh so loud that my neighbour started to pound on my wall. THANK YOU! I really, really needed one of those laughs!
Oh yes, I had bo2k on the whole school connected via our classroom for fun, when the school started hosting their own email and web on a nt4 I set up dial in so I could mess with 4000 students from the comfort of my room. It also spread to all the youth centers, that had Webcams. A few libraries. Good times. All through that little school server.
LOL me and a few high school friends had the school's admin password so using the net command he shut down *every* networked school computer in the whole country including the servers. His parents had to hire a lawyer to keep him from being expelled for a year.
I've never used nor plan to use Spotify. Like Dave, I largely listen to a set range of music at a time, so, with the number of times I actually add new music a year, I save money by buying it. That and listening to random tracks on YT. Still, stuff I like I have on cloud.
Man, the Getright download manager was worth its wait in gold by allowing multiple simultaneous download streams for the same file and allowing pausing and resuming in case of interruption. It really unlocked my ability to download large files back in the 90’s.
Thanks for the nostalgia trip! Back in the day we discovered a cctv cam in Yokohama, Japan. This particular camera had an interface that would let you pan the camera around, zoom in or out and basic things like that. But you could only control the thing for maybe a minute or two. Then someone else could have a go at it. One time my dad and I got on the thing together from our respective computers, taking turns at working the camera. We don't know if anyone noticed the camera being manipulated into wild gyrations by a couple of people in the US who were having too much fun. P.S. I'm 66 so am a demographic outlier but have long enjoyed Simon's presentations on all the channels. Now if he'd just show a picture of his mum we'd get a real life view, rather than a painting of Whistler's Mother! :)
What a blast from the past! Excellent work, team. I was a teen in the early 2000s and honestly, my favourite thing to do after school was chat on MSN or AIM or those chat rooms, and--this is the key part--use those text fader programs to make your sentences go through with gradient colours. It felt like the coolest thing that had ever been invented 😅
I actually started with 9600 modems and can still remember when high speed was introduced to my area. It was only available select towns and cities and each location had a limited allocation of modems. Once all equipment was installed in a customer home they couldn’t add more users so to get the high speed internet service you needed someone else to give up their connection. Ironically the monthly cost was the same as the unlimited dial up service. They actually had fibre optic telephone service in the 80s and yet they ended up insolvent and are now a Bell owned company.
I got a job in publishing in 2000. Even though I was in my 40's, my background was in local Government Admin, so I'd had excellent training in using the Internet. There were 30 employees and only one computer was connected to the Internet. I was the only one who knew how to send emails. Every morning, I printed off all emails, walked round the building to hand deliver them. Before lunch, I collected up the replies and then sent them out!
When I was a kid, we had dial-up internet, and when we turned the computer on, we had to leave it for 20 minutes otherwise it wouldn't be ready and would just freeze and crash. Everything, apart from the constant bombardment of ads, is better now than it was then.
Simon, Lars Ulrich is an avant Jazz drummer. His most celebrated, though challenging, piece and the one you should start your Lars journey with is St Anger.
Yeah, back in the day there were so many Nigerian princes who needed you to help them get their money somehow and you would be rewarded and now I don’t get that email anymore thank God, but between that and the chain emails this is really bringing me back!
The biggest reason people may, or may not, allegedly, "pirate" streaming services is because the experience is usually better than the actual paid service, so I've heard. Region locks, continuous buffering, sh*t quality video in general. Why would people continue to pay if they can get their favorite movies and TV shows in 4k, with no buffering, and watch them anywhere they want FOR FREE. Using music as an example that has gone full circle, people downloaded the sh*t out of songs until the music streaming services came up with something that actually works well and now you rarely hear anything about "pirated" music anymore. Listeners are happy with the quality and selection. Artists get paid. The providers get their cut. Everyone wins! Until the video streaming services can do the same, they will continue to have "piracy" issues, allegedly, in my opinion. Moving on.................
I was on holiday in Gran Canaria with my folks in the late 90s and managed to get on MSN with my mate from Scotland, who was on the West Coast of the US, and another mate, who worked for a Japanese manufacturer, who happened to be out there training folk. We thought that was amazing at the time. We're all Scots.
My first home computer was a comador vic 20 with a tape drive . It was in 1985 86. My sisters and I asked for an apple, but my Dad was a single parent of 3, so we got the cheapest . It was just a keyboard you plugged into the TV. I spent 3 hours typing in code to make a stick figure doing jumping Jakes it was great
Thanks for another great episode Simon. Vessi, if you’re paying attention to these comments, make your shoes in larger sizes. Would love try them but alas size 14 don’t quite cut it.
So many memories. There is still a huge amount of stuff out there on default passwords. The thing where it was a cradle you put the phone in was called an acoustic coupler.
I remember the early days of the internet, and the domain site debate. I was a technician for an electronics manufacturing company in the late 90s and I was looking up a datasheet for a Motorola processor. When I tried to go to, what I would presume would be their web site, I got a NSFW web site instead. After losing a court battle claiming they should have rights to the ownership of that domain, Motorola had to pay millions to get it.
2:10 - Mid roll ads 3:25 - Back to the video 5:50 - Chapter 1 - Free music was easy to obtain 10:35 - Chapter 2 - Spoof emails 13:50 - Chapter 3 - Surveillance cameras 19:00 - Chapter 4 - Nudging people to the point of insanity ! 21:35 - Chapter 5 - Browsing ad free 23:25 - Chapter 6 - Making a killing on domain sales
Back in the pre-2000 golden wild west age of the internet you could get an Arcade Machine Emulator and play every coin-op arcade game ever made for free!
A T1 line in college, a Network team that knew less than we did, and ICQ was amazing. Definitely never used that speed and access for less than approved reasons. Those network usage agreements were VERY closely obeyed. Definitely.
I just ordered some Vessi's the other day. I might have waited for this video to use the link, but I was watching a DTU video at the time and used that link instead. The sizing information is a little confusing. If I followed their measuring instructions I got size 10 (US), but then it said to order your regular shoe size, which for me is 10.5 or 11, depending on the shoe. Since they don't have half sizes, I ordered the 11s. At least they offer free returns if they don't fit. I'm getting them just in time for the California rainy season, so they had BETTER keep my feet dry!
You can still view cameras, even private cameras. Many open ports on a router to "call home". One thing ISP's used to do, they used to cache all users data and leave it open to view. You didn't know what files belonged to which user, but you could browse all kind of things. Windows 95/98 enabled file sharing by default. All you needed was an IP address and you could browse another persons computer and they wouldn't even know.
In the late 90s, early 2000s, I was into computer security. I found dozens of computers via scanning ports that were infected with remote control hacking software. You could watch what the remote user was doing, and take control of their computer. I ended up fixing all of the computers and started a business building internet hardened computers.
in the mid 2000s I... knew a guy that, was using that software to proxy off other people's computers to get around the limitations of sites that only allowed 1 download every x hours. it was handy for them when they were building their library of burned Dreamcast games
I'm apparently 15 years out of the demo, remember getting my first 900 baud modem (like the one he was talking about where you had to put the phone on it), and love my Vessies and Sheath underwear. I buy too many things because Simon tells me to.
I remember the security camera thing. It still worked till pretty recently. Watching hundreds of unsecured cameras and videos of other people doing it made me keep my security cams off the internet. Only local access.
I’ve had my pair of vessis for 3 years now. When it rains it’s a god send and when it’s like wet out amazing. I get to stand on then and of lakes and have water slash my shoes and I get to act gangster and not have to deal with wet shoes
I used to have my mate stream cable TV to me over netmeeting. I don't recall it being particularly hard to get working - but that might be due to us being young and having basically infinite time to sink into things like that.
Internal modems made that noise too. I actually preferred an external modem and kept using one all the way up until I could finally get DSL, because it didn't take up an expansion slot that way. Since speed was limited anyway -- in the US, your 56k modem could never actually hit 56k no matter how good your lines were, due to FCC regulations -- there was no advantage to a direct connection to the computer's bus, and I might as well use a serial line.
45 here. When I was a teenager, I used netmeeting to text chat with people around the world - Midwest to Egypt seemed so amazing at the time. Creeped my parents out that I could be speaking with a total stranger halfway around the globe, of course!
I actually used the text feature in Win95 between Louisiana and California, but we were both on T1 lines through out colleges, I can't imagine video in that system going well.
Back in the day (20 years ago) all the clients to an ISP in the city were in the same LAN network and you could see and share any file with everyone on the network (which was everyone in the city on the same ISP)
Before external modems, we used audio couplers. Literally a box that you shoved a handset from your landline into and had a microphone on one side and a speaker on the other. I used this to dial up the mainframe at Lockhead on my teletype machine (pre PC tech that printed everything on reems of paper). Could play some pretty sweet games back then, that would be considered too primitive for even a phone game now.
Nothing like picking up the phone handset to call your friend and being greeted by static and boings and beeps. Usually followed quite quickly by an angry tryrade from my brother, whose connection I had accidentally destroyed. Fun times.
I got that early MSN thing to work. "I" here meaning my father. He was a computer person and I remember once he set it up so he could do a voice call from work when I was home! It was terribly exciting for preteen me. I reckon it was a hassle as it happened once and the call was basically "hi look how cool this is ok bye". The effect was ruined when he immediately called the house phone once I got off the Internet....
When baltimore City was building their new baseball stadium, they were calling it "Camden Yards/Stadium" in all the press releases, because that was the locale in which it was to be built. Without securing the domain name, or even copyrighting it. Some guy not only bought the domain name but started selling t-shirts. Instead of making him a nice offer, they tried to sue him, & *then* undercut him with what he was asking them for. SO now its official name is "Oriole Park at Camden Yards" & everyone still calls it "Camden Yards."
My argument for downloading music is that it is the only reasonable way to find really obscure music. Some TH-cam channels like terminal passage do a really good job bringing this obscure stuff into light though. Audio quality is not that hreat on yt videos though. Many Japanese lps can only be bought from Japan, and i have come across some albums that i haven't even found on discogs, Mysterious flying orchestra wasn't there last time i checked. A lot of people also don't have money for lp players. I believe in the freedom of art, at least for the most part.
I’m old enough to remember acoustic dial up modems where you put the phone handset into a gadget with two rubbery cups. They were terrible. You had to tiptoe around because if it heard anything besides the computer twittering it would drop out. This was the eighties. We had no idea what was coming.
You can easily browse IP cameras and there are some CCTV cameras online too. Also, if you're getting malware along with music from file sharing sites, you're stupid if you don't immediately delete it. Do not double click stuff, turn file extensions visible, all that. If it doesn't look like a music file, it probably isn't.
I used to send a file around at school that would make peoples disc tray open and close until you ended the process in the task manager. It was incredibly easy to get people to click it, "Look at this: funnyvideo.exe" and that was it 😂 Hopefully taught a few people to not trust random files.
10:34 My favorite spoof email was one I received around 1992... it was offering to sell Stinger missiles (by the dozen) and cocaine (by the pound), which I found hilarious because you'd have to be high on several pounds of coke to consider buying a dozen Stinger missiles from some random email 🤣
@@marcbeebee6969 Yeah, I jumped on the technology train pretty fast once I saw what it could do! I ran a dialup BBS back in the late 80's and early 90's, but as soon as the world wide web started to make traction I realized that my BBS days were gonna be over pretty quick hehe!
I vaguely remember MSN messenger. Growing up, it was something I used on a regular basis, but "nudging" was one of the most annoying features ever thought up.
I vaguely remember a time when your speed depended on the capabilities of your modem, more than the actual line. I also vaguely remember speed being measured in a unit I never understood called Baud. At some point, there were websites that allowed you to access CCTV cameras in lots of places around the world, and now I'm wondering if they were just aggregating feeds from hacked cameras. Domain name squatting was a big deal. People would speculatively buy large numbers of domains they thought someone might want one day, hoping they could force someone to pay them to relinquish it later. If there are laws against it now, that's why. Someone should tell Simon that Spotify doesn't pay artists either.
My older brother friend who lived with us for years would so often use the phone to kick me off line. He'd just pick it up and dial when I was on to mess with me. Was so annoying. Especially as my computer wasn't good, so I couldn't always know if it had been him, or just my computer kicking me off.
The first modem I bought was 1.2 kbaud. no, not 12 kbaud. Before DSL was a thing, I had a separate phone line for my modem. It was about $33 per month.
Spotify having the moral high ground compared to Napster for artist payment is kind of insane. Spotify is paying £8 a month to a dude in a suit to steal the music for you then giving the rest to Taylor Swift, even if you don’t like her music.
Ah, the good old times of making lan with a friend. After carrying 20kg machine over, you'd start testing out pairs of network cards to find a pair that a) works with the machines, aka have disk with drivers that also work and b) can see each others over the coax cable. First week of summer break was devoted to getting lan working - rest of the break to play the 2~3 games that actually had any kind of multiplayer component. And times of the modem were wild; I still remember getting my parents angry by using modem over night to chat with friends. Soon after they decided that maybe the isdn is cheaper.
Witchcraft shoes, writers in Prince of Persia basements, babies in cages; Simon flies ever closer to the sun while simultaneously sinking lower and lower into nightmarish lore
I'm old but I seem to remember having to pay for Napster for my kids to download music to their mp3 players. I remember buying the cards with the Napster logo on it. I'm guessing maybe there was a paid version but you could also pirate it? 🤷 I do remember the very illegal Limewire, where people actually started getting in trouble from using. Then they made tangerine or orange wire.
Not every song is available on services like Spotify. Also, downloading your songs (I am glad I can buy them digitally these days) lets you listen to them someplace where you don't have a signal.
Oh and I’m with Dave on missing the GLORY days of Napster… literally you had EVERY version wether it be live or whatever compression quality you desired so you could actually find BETTER quality versions and I mean I learned SO MUCH being able to download idk 50 albums or more a day lol (we had a whole set up dedicated just to downloading music all day) then exploring any whimsy musically you had… instantly… and Spotify BARELY pays artists… I definitely WENT to more concerts etc BECAUSE of Napster… I could rant all day about it 😂😂😂
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As an amateur cybersecurity expert, I can attest that most of these are the result of design before security. Sadly, most of these vulnerabilities still exist, they're just a bit more complex to accomplish.
The internet was (like most things in life) just a haphazard abomination (que full metal alchemist dog+daughter meme) primarily stitched together as new technology and possibilities because available. Not one soul alive or dead would have been content with the security posture of the interconnected global network, and if they'd known what the future held they would have been far more vigilant.
Brilliant minds like the RSA trio saw the need for our security to develop in parallel with capability, but as a whole people just wanted to make scifi a reality, and did the best they could from the perspective they had (nearsighted as some of that perspective often was).
Arrg we will always be pirate.
Says every Milennial
17:30 actually that was not illegal to hack insecure systems when we where kids Simon.
The laws needed to be introduced. O think germany only passed the law 2001 or so
boomer
Putting this here so you might actually see it - all of the search domains turned to shit because they're all "integrating AI for better search results." Yeah, we can see how that works.
Shipping to the UK yet?
What I like about this channel is that the presenter, author, and editor are equally likely to prompt me to hit the "like" button
What I like is that I can tell who is the editor before the end credits, I was so happy to see Sam is back!
Only channel I click like before watching
And don't forget the subliminal advertising they put in prompting you to like and subscribe.
Welcome to the Simon-Verse
*smash the like button
"Occasional Facts With Tangent Boi" is my favorite show. 😂
Finding Brain Blaze after discovering the Simonverse through Warographics has been such a trip
I’m 64 and I love this channel. I’ll take that to mean I’m young at heart.🙂
Same. 😜
I'm 60 and totally agree!!
me too.
I’m 55 just a baby 👶
@lauren9667. In 1998, at the age of 34, I left my truck driving profession, and went to university to study infotech. I ended up in computer security, got a full time job at the uni in my 2nd year of study, and ran a business building security hardened computers. The business started because I was scanning known hack software ports and found a lot of hacked computers, usually women in their 30s. It ended up being one guy who was pretending to be computer savvy and was installing hacking software via emailed executables to these women. Eight years later, I burned out and went back to driving trucks.
However, I still try to stay up to date with computer security, etc. I still use a torrent program to get my movies and music rather than subscriber services.
Simon: records a Vessi ad
Vessi: "great, love it. One thing. Stop calling it witchcraft, Simon, it's technology. Specifically dynatech"
Simon (pitchfork in hand): "WITCHCRAFT!"
I do wonder whatever happened to the AG1 ad-reads tbh. I got AG1 cause of Simon's mentioning them haha
@@jeremymcdonald7974- do you like AG1?
@@middleneckfarms it's solid. I like it
@@jeremymcdonald7974I always wonder how those sponsor agreements are set up. I’m assuming they pay to be featured on X number of videos and have to renew.
@SEAZNDragon I think that's correct, I don't remember which but pretty sure Simon explained it on one of the brain blaze episodes during a tangent
I'm 47 and not in the demographic but this is my favorite channel
I'm 62 - & *female*. I'm WAY out there!!
46 just behind you duss and my fav too 😊
40 here so out of the demographic and iirc, a smidge older than Simon.
52 year old female here, also not in the demographic.
Im 33, but in germany. People say we dont get comedy
We were out of the town limits, in farm country, and there was no cable. We were the first family in _miles_ to get a satellite dish. That was a real wild west. You could watch literally _anything_ with no subscription required. I watched shows from France while my brother was permanently engaged with the Playboy channel. Those were the days.
😂 ja ja only your brother
Yeah, we had that cowboy cable when I was a little kid: ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, and PBS. My father moved to a house with a C-band satellite when I was in high school, but by then, they'd started charging for some of the stations.
I'm one of the odd ones. I'm 68 and female. Enjoy almost all of Simon's channels.
same!
38 and female, and not in the US! I wonder what my viewing stats do to his demographics.
Same!
"Who the fuck is Lars Ulrich?"
If only we could all share in that bliss...
Thank you so much for saying specifically that you’ll never have that therapy company for a sponsor - it’s gotten to the point where I check every video’s sponsor before I even put it in my queue, and I will *never* watch a video sponsored by them.
I’m very glad that I can now I can just go ahead and watch your videos without that precaution - truly, truly, thank you.
Also, hi Sam!
One of my favourite old school gags at work was net send in Windows XP. I used to make some very inappropriate pop up dialogues appear on coworkers' PCs, and they had no choice but to click 'OK'!
I liked messing around with Netbus on Windows 98. I installed it on my college teacher's computer, made the CD-ROM open during a powerpoint presentation, and popped up a message saying, "Feed me."
@@chitlitlah Hahaha, sorry, I just need to tell you that your comment and the picture it painted in my mind made me laugh so loud that my neighbour started to pound on my wall. THANK YOU! I really, really needed one of those laughs!
Oh yes, I had bo2k on the whole school connected via our classroom for fun, when the school started hosting their own email and web on a nt4 I set up dial in so I could mess with 4000 students from the comfort of my room. It also spread to all the youth centers, that had Webcams. A few libraries. Good times. All through that little school server.
LOL me and a few high school friends had the school's admin password so using the net command he shut down *every* networked school computer in the whole country including the servers. His parents had to hire a lawyer to keep him from being expelled for a year.
I've never used nor plan to use Spotify. Like Dave, I largely listen to a set range of music at a time, so, with the number of times I actually add new music a year, I save money by buying it. That and listening to random tracks on YT. Still, stuff I like I have on cloud.
19:34 Chefs kiss, Editor! Well done! 😂😂😂😂
I agree! Beautiful!
thank you
Man, the Getright download manager was worth its wait in gold by allowing multiple simultaneous download streams for the same file and allowing pausing and resuming in case of interruption. It really unlocked my ability to download large files back in the 90’s.
Thanks for the nostalgia trip! Back in the day we discovered a cctv cam in Yokohama, Japan. This particular camera had an interface that would let you pan the camera around, zoom in or out and basic things like that. But you could only control the thing for maybe a minute or two. Then someone else could have a go at it. One time my dad and I got on the thing together from our respective computers, taking turns at working the camera. We don't know if anyone noticed the camera being manipulated into wild gyrations by a couple of people in the US who were having too much fun. P.S. I'm 66 so am a demographic outlier but have long enjoyed Simon's presentations on all the channels. Now if he'd just show a picture of his mum we'd get a real life view, rather than a painting of Whistler's Mother! :)
What a blast from the past! Excellent work, team.
I was a teen in the early 2000s and honestly, my favourite thing to do after school was chat on MSN or AIM or those chat rooms, and--this is the key part--use those text fader programs to make your sentences go through with gradient colours. It felt like the coolest thing that had ever been invented 😅
56.6K Internet? I'm so old, I remember 14.4K. Blazing!
I actually started with 9600 modems and can still remember when high speed was introduced to my area. It was only available select towns and cities and each location had a limited allocation of modems. Once all equipment was installed in a customer home they couldn’t add more users so to get the high speed internet service you needed someone else to give up their connection. Ironically the monthly cost was the same as the unlimited dial up service. They actually had fibre optic telephone service in the 80s and yet they ended up insolvent and are now a Bell owned company.
Hahaha, I remember when the internet was the nosey women that lived down the street and would gossip about everyone and everything.
@@lukemacdonald1161 I'll take your 9600 and raise you (lower you?) 5600. When we went to 9600, that was like light speed.
One word; Kazaa...
57 yrs. old
Hell, I started working on computers when they still used cassettes for data storage...
Dear Editor....Great job!!!!!! Legend
I got a job in publishing in 2000. Even though I was in my 40's, my background was in local Government Admin, so I'd had excellent training in using the Internet. There were 30 employees and only one computer was connected to the Internet. I was the only one who knew how to send emails. Every morning, I printed off all emails, walked round the building to hand deliver them. Before lunch, I collected up the replies and then sent them out!
“Who is lars ulrich” ahhh, Simon. So refreshing
When I was a kid, we had dial-up internet, and when we turned the computer on, we had to leave it for 20 minutes otherwise it wouldn't be ready and would just freeze and crash. Everything, apart from the constant bombardment of ads, is better now than it was then.
Yep. Flip that switch on then go get a snack, pee, walk the dog, change into your pajamas… because you’ve got time 😂
I miss MSN, had loads of fun conversations with people all around the world, we should start a campaign to bring MSN back
I love how this is nearly half an hour of Dave reliving his good old trolling days!
Simon, Lars Ulrich is an avant Jazz drummer. His most celebrated, though challenging, piece and the one you should start your Lars journey with is St Anger.
That comment is pure evil.
a lot of the internet was ad free in the beginning because Internet Service Providers (ISPs) would charge a fee to get on the service.
Baby Cage lol. That's what I called my first son's crib when I was 22.
Yeah, back in the day there were so many Nigerian princes who needed you to help them get their money somehow and you would be rewarded and now I don’t get that email anymore thank God, but between that and the chain emails this is really bringing me back!
Aye, 419 year old families apparently 😆
As I understand it, all the Nigerian Princes found work for a while calling everyone about their cars extended warranty.
That’s why the teens in the US used AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM, worldwide messages and eventually video, fairly quickly like a regular phone call
So am i trying desperately trying to hang on to my youth by being here, orrrr im just still this fucking cool at 52. The 2nd 😏😏😏
You might have to get older, but you never need to grow up lol
@applegal3058 Oh, I do not feel old. In my mind, I can still walk like a bad ass. I would break a hip if I tried, but in my mind, I am. 🤣🤣🤣
52? You're still a kid in my 65 year old mind. LOL!! AM I RIGHT PETER!!!!
OG
I am also 52 😊
Im 50 currently and enjoy your channels.
The biggest reason people may, or may not, allegedly, "pirate" streaming services is because the experience is usually better than the actual paid service, so I've heard. Region locks, continuous buffering, sh*t quality video in general. Why would people continue to pay if they can get their favorite movies and TV shows in 4k, with no buffering, and watch them anywhere they want FOR FREE. Using music as an example that has gone full circle, people downloaded the sh*t out of songs until the music streaming services came up with something that actually works well and now you rarely hear anything about "pirated" music anymore. Listeners are happy with the quality and selection. Artists get paid. The providers get their cut. Everyone wins! Until the video streaming services can do the same, they will continue to have "piracy" issues, allegedly, in my opinion. Moving on.................
I still run cracked Spotify apk😅😅😅
Sometimes an original version of something has been totally wiped out except for the pirates out there having an old copy.
Brilliant Sam
thank you Brad
I was on holiday in Gran Canaria with my folks in the late 90s and managed to get on MSN with my mate from Scotland, who was on the West Coast of the US, and another mate, who worked for a Japanese manufacturer, who happened to be out there training folk. We thought that was amazing at the time. We're all Scots.
I agree with you Dave. But it's hard to argue with that accent.
My first home computer was a comador vic 20 with a tape drive . It was in 1985 86. My sisters and I asked for an apple, but my Dad was a single parent of 3, so we got the cheapest . It was just a keyboard you plugged into the TV. I spent 3 hours typing in code to make a stick figure doing jumping Jakes it was great
Thanks for another great episode Simon. Vessi, if you’re paying attention to these comments, make your shoes in larger sizes. Would love try them but alas size 14 don’t quite cut it.
56 and loving the Simon-verse
So many memories.
There is still a huge amount of stuff out there on default passwords.
The thing where it was a cradle you put the phone in was called an acoustic coupler.
Nice to see some of the BB classic memes return!
I'm 52 and a huge fan of all of your channels....
I remember the early days of the internet, and the domain site debate. I was a technician for an electronics manufacturing company in the late 90s and I was looking up a datasheet for a Motorola processor. When I tried to go to, what I would presume would be their web site, I got a NSFW web site instead. After losing a court battle claiming they should have rights to the ownership of that domain, Motorola had to pay millions to get it.
44 M. Fort Lauderdale FL. Trying my best to be on the next Florida Man Friday. Love all your channels fact boi. Hey to everyone in the basement.
2:10 - Mid roll ads
3:25 - Back to the video
5:50 - Chapter 1 - Free music was easy to obtain
10:35 - Chapter 2 - Spoof emails
13:50 - Chapter 3 - Surveillance cameras
19:00 - Chapter 4 - Nudging people to the point of insanity !
21:35 - Chapter 5 - Browsing ad free
23:25 - Chapter 6 - Making a killing on domain sales
I'm 51 and watch many of your channels
Back in the pre-2000 golden wild west age of the internet you could get an Arcade Machine Emulator and play every coin-op arcade game ever made for free!
A T1 line in college, a Network team that knew less than we did, and ICQ was amazing. Definitely never used that speed and access for less than approved reasons. Those network usage agreements were VERY closely obeyed. Definitely.
Boo-yah! Another ICQ-er!
6:37 That is some glorious editing.
I just ordered some Vessi's the other day. I might have waited for this video to use the link, but I was watching a DTU video at the time and used that link instead. The sizing information is a little confusing. If I followed their measuring instructions I got size 10 (US), but then it said to order your regular shoe size, which for me is 10.5 or 11, depending on the shoe. Since they don't have half sizes, I ordered the 11s.
At least they offer free returns if they don't fit.
I'm getting them just in time for the California rainy season, so they had BETTER keep my feet dry!
You can still view cameras, even private cameras. Many open ports on a router to "call home".
One thing ISP's used to do, they used to cache all users data and leave it open to view. You didn't know what files belonged to which user, but you could browse all kind of things.
Windows 95/98 enabled file sharing by default. All you needed was an IP address and you could browse another persons computer and they wouldn't even know.
In the late 90s, early 2000s, I was into computer security. I found dozens of computers via scanning ports that were infected with remote control hacking software. You could watch what the remote user was doing, and take control of their computer. I ended up fixing all of the computers and started a business building internet hardened computers.
in the mid 2000s I... knew a guy that, was using that software to proxy off other people's computers to get around the limitations of sites that only allowed 1 download every x hours. it was handy for them when they were building their library of burned Dreamcast games
Never expected the 90s to feel so defined and of it's time.
Being born in 1990, it felt like that was how it had always been. It was just now.
42 here. Pretty sure I just follow any channel with Simon. Good stuff as always
out of your demographic by more than 20 years, still one of my fav channels
I'm apparently 15 years out of the demo, remember getting my first 900 baud modem (like the one he was talking about where you had to put the phone on it), and love my Vessies and Sheath underwear. I buy too many things because Simon tells me to.
I remember the security camera thing. It still worked till pretty recently. Watching hundreds of unsecured cameras and videos of other people doing it made me keep my security cams off the internet. Only local access.
I must be your oldest fan cause I’m 70
You should get a t shirt. Unfortunately we are to late for the og shirts
I’ve had my pair of vessis for 3 years now. When it rains it’s a god send and when it’s like wet out amazing. I get to stand on then and of lakes and have water slash my shoes and I get to act gangster and not have to deal with wet shoes
I used to have my mate stream cable TV to me over netmeeting. I don't recall it being particularly hard to get working - but that might be due to us being young and having basically infinite time to sink into things like that.
Internal modems made that noise too. I actually preferred an external modem and kept using one all the way up until I could finally get DSL, because it didn't take up an expansion slot that way. Since speed was limited anyway -- in the US, your 56k modem could never actually hit 56k no matter how good your lines were, due to FCC regulations -- there was no advantage to a direct connection to the computer's bus, and I might as well use a serial line.
45 here. When I was a teenager, I used netmeeting to text chat with people around the world - Midwest to Egypt seemed so amazing at the time.
Creeped my parents out that I could be speaking with a total stranger halfway around the globe, of course!
I actually used the text feature in Win95 between Louisiana and California, but we were both on T1 lines through out colleges, I can't imagine video in that system going well.
That Thomas the Tank Engine drop clip gets me everytime🤣🚂😹. Thank you!
At 64, I am way outside the "average" demographic.
Insert obligatory above average joke here.
Back in the day (20 years ago) all the clients to an ISP in the city were in the same LAN network and you could see and share any file with everyone on the network (which was everyone in the city on the same ISP)
I love the incoming tangent train, that is so good
ooh! betterhelp jab! Nice Dave!
Before external modems, we used audio couplers. Literally a box that you shoved a handset from your landline into and had a microphone on one side and a speaker on the other. I used this to dial up the mainframe at Lockhead on my teletype machine (pre PC tech that printed everything on reems of paper).
Could play some pretty sweet games back then, that would be considered too primitive for even a phone game now.
Right. And instead of edible paper, we ate real paper!
Was one of them called 'Global Thermonuclear War'?
@@simonmeadows7961 Yes. But it was only a name to make it attractive to potential buyers.
Nothing like picking up the phone handset to call your friend and being greeted by static and boings and beeps. Usually followed quite quickly by an angry tryrade from my brother, whose connection I had accidentally destroyed. Fun times.
I would love to watch that livestream you mentioned, except it's likely happening at 3am my time. Sad I live on the wrong side of the planet for it!
I know these videos are like grandpa telling stories of the w.. But I really like them, please make more of the good old time videos...
I got that early MSN thing to work. "I" here meaning my father. He was a computer person and I remember once he set it up so he could do a voice call from work when I was home! It was terribly exciting for preteen me. I reckon it was a hassle as it happened once and the call was basically "hi look how cool this is ok bye". The effect was ruined when he immediately called the house phone once I got off the Internet....
When baltimore City was building their new baseball stadium, they were calling it "Camden Yards/Stadium" in all the press releases, because that was the locale in which it was to be built. Without securing the domain name, or even copyrighting it. Some guy not only bought the domain name but started selling t-shirts. Instead of making him a nice offer, they tried to sue him, & *then* undercut him with what he was asking them for. SO now its official name is "Oriole Park at Camden Yards" & everyone still calls it "Camden Yards."
im 15 but still really like the channel
My argument for downloading music is that it is the only reasonable way to find really obscure music. Some TH-cam channels like terminal passage do a really good job bringing this obscure stuff into light though. Audio quality is not that hreat on yt videos though. Many Japanese lps can only be bought from Japan, and i have come across some albums that i haven't even found on discogs, Mysterious flying orchestra wasn't there last time i checked. A lot of people also don't have money for lp players. I believe in the freedom of art, at least for the most part.
I have found that Deezer is propably the best streaming service for obscure music at cd quality.
yes im 43 and when i was about 22-23 years old i used it to access someone elses screen to help them set up a game
I’m old enough to remember acoustic dial up modems where you put the phone handset into a gadget with two rubbery cups. They were terrible. You had to tiptoe around because if it heard anything besides the computer twittering it would drop out. This was the eighties. We had no idea what was coming.
simon cages babies 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 way too funny .tears in my eyes from laughing ...do you remember google video .. wild wild west time 🥳
Well I am 43 and... wait for it... A Woman!! Definitely not the demographic but I've been here from the beginning! ❤❤❤🎉
As a fan of Sousveillance, lack of access to camera systems bothers me.
How are we meant to watch the watchers, if they don't give us access?
I love that this came out the same day that Simon totally fucked up a live stream
You can easily browse IP cameras and there are some CCTV cameras online too. Also, if you're getting malware along with music from file sharing sites, you're stupid if you don't immediately delete it. Do not double click stuff, turn file extensions visible, all that. If it doesn't look like a music file, it probably isn't.
I used to send a file around at school that would make peoples disc tray open and close until you ended the process in the task manager. It was incredibly easy to get people to click it, "Look at this: funnyvideo.exe" and that was it 😂 Hopefully taught a few people to not trust random files.
10:34 My favorite spoof email was one I received around 1992... it was offering to sell Stinger missiles (by the dozen) and cocaine (by the pound), which I found hilarious because you'd have to be high on several pounds of coke to consider buying a dozen Stinger missiles from some random email 🤣
😂 well right after the UdSSR collapsed.
Wow I was born 91.
You was early on the web. We only had internet in our house around 1998
@@marcbeebee6969 Yeah, I jumped on the technology train pretty fast once I saw what it could do! I ran a dialup BBS back in the late 80's and early 90's, but as soon as the world wide web started to make traction I realized that my BBS days were gonna be over pretty quick hehe!
Facebook messenger also at one time had the nudge feature
I vaguely remember MSN messenger. Growing up, it was something I used on a regular basis, but "nudging" was one of the most annoying features ever thought up.
I vaguely remember a time when your speed depended on the capabilities of your modem, more than the actual line. I also vaguely remember speed being measured in a unit I never understood called Baud.
At some point, there were websites that allowed you to access CCTV cameras in lots of places around the world, and now I'm wondering if they were just aggregating feeds from hacked cameras.
Domain name squatting was a big deal. People would speculatively buy large numbers of domains they thought someone might want one day, hoping they could force someone to pay them to relinquish it later. If there are laws against it now, that's why.
Someone should tell Simon that Spotify doesn't pay artists either.
My older brother friend who lived with us for years would so often use the phone to kick me off line. He'd just pick it up and dial when I was on to mess with me. Was so annoying. Especially as my computer wasn't good, so I couldn't always know if it had been him, or just my computer kicking me off.
The first modem I bought was 1.2 kbaud. no, not 12 kbaud. Before DSL was a thing, I had a separate phone line for my modem. It was about $33 per month.
My go-to was Bearshare.
Spotify having the moral high ground compared to Napster for artist payment is kind of insane. Spotify is paying £8 a month to a dude in a suit to steal the music for you then giving the rest to Taylor Swift, even if you don’t like her music.
Ah, the good old times of making lan with a friend. After carrying 20kg machine over, you'd start testing out pairs of network cards to find a pair that a) works with the machines, aka have disk with drivers that also work and b) can see each others over the coax cable. First week of summer break was devoted to getting lan working - rest of the break to play the 2~3 games that actually had any kind of multiplayer component.
And times of the modem were wild; I still remember getting my parents angry by using modem over night to chat with friends. Soon after they decided that maybe the isdn is cheaper.
I’m 53. lol. I’m surrounded by kids 😂
Age 35. I guess I'm just in! I basically watch Simon on at least one of his MANY channels every night before I go to sleep.
Simon's messing with candy floss machines meanwhile in the States we have easily bypassed highway matrix boards
Witchcraft shoes, writers in Prince of Persia basements, babies in cages; Simon flies ever closer to the sun while simultaneously sinking lower and lower into nightmarish lore
the modem sound is spot on! 😂😂😂
I'm old but I seem to remember having to pay for Napster for my kids to download music to their mp3 players. I remember buying the cards with the Napster logo on it. I'm guessing maybe there was a paid version but you could also pirate it? 🤷 I do remember the very illegal Limewire, where people actually started getting in trouble from using. Then they made tangerine or orange wire.
Not every song is available on services like Spotify. Also, downloading your songs (I am glad I can buy them digitally these days) lets you listen to them someplace where you don't have a signal.
There’s many excellent small bands where they don’t use any streaming service so your options are live performances and buying their album.
@darkstarr984 For those of us who live in small rural areas, those bands aren't an option unless they're local.
Oh and I’m with Dave on missing the GLORY days of Napster… literally you had EVERY version wether it be live or whatever compression quality you desired so you could actually find BETTER quality versions and I mean I learned SO MUCH being able to download idk 50 albums or more a day lol (we had a whole set up dedicated just to downloading music all day) then exploring any whimsy musically you had… instantly… and Spotify BARELY pays artists… I definitely WENT to more concerts etc BECAUSE of Napster… I could rant all day about it 😂😂😂