Yeah I think videos like this often attract many pessimists who complain about today's tech. It's really mind-blowing how much sophisticated engineering is inside a modern smartphone! I think compared to the meme about the flying car a smartphone is so much cooler.
Agreed. It was quite magical. The home PC evolution along with getting connected to the internet by the masses of society felt very optimistic - almost as if society was on the verge of something pretty amazing.
I grew up throughout the 80’s and 90’s, and I miss these times. It was all so exciting practically on a daily basis. Today, nothing “wows” us anymore. You can’t really get much higher resolution than 8K or 16K TV, and even if you could, the human eye could barely distinguish it from 4K. Cell phones you can go so much with that we don’t even use it all now, and you can communicate with anyone around the world at no extra charge. Things like music and movies are available instantly, from at home to in our pockets on smartphones, and in HD with uncompressed audio. You can order products from companies like Amazon laying in bed off an app on your phone, even speaking in the order if you want, and it could be at your door in 2-3 hours. What else is there? It’s become kind of depressing to me, as a person who grew up constantly being “wowed”. Today nothing seems exciting to me anymore.
There is still much to discover, such as new drugs, cures for diseases that at the moment are impossible to cure, sending probes into space much faster than the current ones, exploring 100% of the oceans (we have only explored 5%), creating efficient and commercial nuclear fusion reactors, clean up pollution in the world. There are many things to discover and invent but all in good time, this is what excites me about the future.
The Apple Vision Pro has wowed me in a way that no tech product ever has. Despite it’s many faults, it still feels like a device that is from 10 years in the future.
This is exactly spot on. I had my Palms, and I would download to it the latest from Engadget and all the tech news sites I could, and read it wherever I wanted. Before that AOL and Compuserve opened up the whole world! It was so exciting! There were many years of thrills. Now it doesn’t even matter what phone or computer you have. They are relatively all the same as far as what you can do. I know there will still be big things and of course it moves forward, but there will probably be nothing exactly like that era of amazement and anticipation again! We were the ones who got to transition from being confined to what was going on locally, to holding the world in the palms of our hands!
Robotics is the answer, robotics will bring the new exciting tech regarding home assistance and improvement of life quality. Too bad it seams so far way for anything useful for the average individual.
@@Puretea4711 half life Alyx, beat saber, boneworks, project cars 2, Assetto Corsa, Bounce, etc. There are a lot more. I agree though that MOST games are trash. There are a ton of gems tho
Exactly. 1964 was a completely different world from 1994. 1994 is very different from 2024, but a lot of the tech we use today was either already being used in its early stages by early adopters or was in development. A lot of the elements for modern portable networked computing with PDA's and palmtops would give way to the modern smartphones we use today. I feel like over the last 30 years, we've done more "refining" in our technology than any actual marvel breakthroughs.
@@Trance88 Yes i definately agree on the refining part, that goes for many things not just electronics but cars, trains or anything really and it was in time also brought out to the masses since as you say parts of it at least existed in some form but maybe in development and early adopters and most hardly had heard about it. Speaking of smartphones, i worked in repairing mobile phones in the 90´s and one of the early smartphones were the Nokia 9000 communicator from 1996 which i saw at the repairshop since we were an authorized repairshop for Nokia.
Mobile phones in the 1980s: Ginormous. Mobile phones in the 1990s: Large. Mobile phones in the 2000s: Nice and small. Mobile phones in the 2010s: Large. Mobile phones in the 2020s: Ginormous.
Everyone mocked me when I had my 6” Lumia in 2014. “I could never carry around a phone that big!” they said. Fast forward to 2020s, everyone has to have the MAXes, the bigger the better lol. And at the moment I have a 12 Mini! 😂
Back then phones where only meant to call people. So having them small was convenient. Now that people can watch movies on their phones they would rather buy a big phone to have a better viewing experience.
I remember being the first person to buy the Samsung galaxy note 1. Everyone was always like " why is your phone so big"? Now almost every phone is bigger
No kidding. Finding a compact smartphone with decent specs is so hard these days. I don't know what I will do once my Samsung Galaxy S10e gets too old to daily drive. It is one of the most compact smartphones with decent specs and even it feels a bit big to me at times. Everything newer is much heavier and chunkier. People will say ohhh but the newer devices have 3+ cameras, 5G cellular, bigger screens, etc. I on the other hand, am more than happy with 4G connectivity, 2 cameras, a headphone jack, microSD card slot and a device that actually fits in my pocket. The specs on my galaxy s10e are incredible. 256GB of storage, 8GB ram, 4k video recording, cpu performance that matches at least an ivy bridge core i5, usb 3.0 type C port with displayport output, and all of that fits in my pocket. What more could I want out of a mobile device?
Mobile phones AREN'T gigantic today. They're optimal-sized. They still fit in your hand, but the screen is big enough that you don't have to magnify everything to see it. Phones at their smallest weren't practical.
I remember all of those 3.5" discs that AOL would send me free, in their sales packets. It was a continual supply of backup discs for me. That's it. Thank you AOL, for a free way to back up my files.
I still have our 1995 Macintosh Performa. The 90s was a fun era in computing. I miss the days when computer games had the really cheesy green screen acting in cutscenes ahahaha!
@@RandomRoulett3 ah yes, thank you, lol. I was taking computer prog. in I think eighth grade and even then it was tough haha. Good year, 94......ah the nostalgia and memories. Thanks again and love the avatar, emojis apply but have to run :) CITB to your beaver? woodchuck lol. :) Peace, haha right, 30. ugh.
I used to go to the Computer shows they had at the Del Mar Fair every year. It was great for picking up parts and picking up tons of demo floppies to try out. That and I was a regular at both Egghead Software and PC Club. I also made sure to pickup Computer Edge magazines whenever a new one was released.
The end of this video is so relevant: "it can be difficult for a non-technical person". This is why today we've worked to make interfacing with devices so simplistic that gen z, a, etc. have taken significant leaps back in terms of technical capability. There was something to be said about having the challenge of navigating a computer and learning how to use it that doesn't exist today.
by watching this video I am not sure if we moved anywhere in last 30 years. yes, everything is faster with nicer graphic, but voice controlled computer was thing, VR was thing. we just have crazy resources to run ton of resources for virtualisation for job that can handle calculator in the past
This was a fun time. Technology was great back then but we still did things outside of it. We still read magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias, dictionaries were still used. As much as I like the smartphone, it changed everything. What's next after the smartphone?
This video is a good example of Moore's law. The number of transistors on a microchip doubles about every two years with a minimal cost increase.. computer technology will get better, smaller, and cheaper.
My mom continued to have a PDA into the 2000s. She was so attached to that device. Everyday going to and from work on the bus she was checking emails, writing notes, reading news, etc. Always with that stylus in her hands.
Only issue with going back to 90s tech, that includes computers and other electronic equipment in the medical science and other similar fields that improve our quality of life and we can’t afford to go back in that regard. HOWEVER, I do miss the days of the Nokia 3300/8200 series phones where the battery lasted for what seemed like forever on standby AND where you could drop those phones from space and they’d still work AND snake/snake II. Those were definitely the days.
As someone born in 01' I kind of wish I could experience old technology first hand, like sure I had a flip phone, and the concept of 3g wasn't quite a thing yet but technology doesn't improve at this rate anymore to go from that first large phone to that small one and look at my current phone that is smaller and infinitely more powerful gives such a weird feeling. I love the way the news reports it and to see how different things are now. It does make me hopeful though. Maybe I will get to experience this level of change. Maybe I'm just not old enough yet, here's to the future!
I was 14 when this report was made, and this plus all the video game mags I read made it seem like the future that everyone predicted for me was coming true. Then I grew up and realized after the weight of the world crushed my spirit that it was all a dystopian nightmare and that we have become shackled to technology, rather than it setting us free. I wanted so hard for computing tech to realize this egalitarian future where there was no poverty or greed or isolation, but there's more of that than there's ever been, 30 years hence.
This is what I love about being my age (Gen X) because we grew up with the tech and we're the only generation that can say that. So we appreciate tech way more than millennials and Gen Z
It's not a fair comparison if all sides didn't experience all aspects. I AM able to understand how much easier homework can be having the internet compared to not having it, but it's not fair to say I appreciate it more than my 14 year old son, because he uses it just as much for things I hardly bother with.
It was a bit different at the time.. PC's and being connected to the World Wide Web was something New, amazing, and even revolutionary to most everyone for the time when News papers, Snail Mail, and LAN Phone lines were about as advance as most common folks were use too.That said, I blame smart-phones for killing the PC revolution and outside of gaming PCs, Home PC's and that excitement of wheat a PC can bring to your home - pretty much died.
CPUs are faster and faster each year which matters to people who need performance. GPUs also have experienced crazy growth in last 5 years and power AI and data centre like stuff. Most of the advancements nowadays are in data centre
Everything that got inside the smartphone was a revolution in itself. They didn't have mp3-players, digital cameras, digital video recorders, flat screen touch displays that can show 4k, the GPS navigation etc. Nothing of this existed in 1994 as a mass consumer product. Besides that we also have all interactive Web pages where you can do stuff and just ism't a static page. Things like ordering online, google maps, wikipedia. Online Streaming of videos, podcasts, The social medias etc. Insane 3D-accelerated games with virtual worlds that looks close to real. Also Self driving cars, 7:2 ATMOS surround audio systems, extremely big flat screen TV:s that displays 4k (or even 8k). The list goes on and on. And I have left out AI which is happening right now and is going to be an even bigger thing!
I love how they used the SGI Onyx for the VR headset... probably because no other computer at the time had powerful enough 3D acceleration, which was obviously required for it.
Being exposed to this new thing called the ‘internet’ was undoubtedly mind-blowing. In ‘95-‘96, I connected to AOL for the first and instantly became addicted. It completely changed the orientation of how we lived life. Record shops slowly faded away, comic shops, lots of brick-and-mortar businesses gone. The entire acceleration of technology since then made life easier (which was great), but also created a culture of overt convenience, and a lot of us became lazy. Creativity music wise isn’t the same. A lot of records that we cherish today wouldn’t have been made during the height of technology and smartphones. I personally the struggle prior to the internet - life was more meaningful, but I can’t deny that ‘good’ came with the internet. For example, the logistics of supply and demand, getting groceries delivered for the disabled, contacting 911 and having the police/emergency locating you via GPS. I’m sure there’s dozens and dozens of pros, but all in all I wish it hadn’t accelerated as fast as it did.
1994 was the future, anno 2024 everything seems to go backwards whether in sociaty,economy or gui on computers etc,,, We are living in an annoying age🥲
The “star sight” thing at 2:30 is a very late feature to be available on the US market. By 1994, all recent TV sets in France and UK incorporated a teletext system, which allowed you to read the TV guide, sports results, some news, lottery results and different features available from each TV channel.
Who remembers going to the college library to do research by microfilm. That information was two years old but that was considered “current” back in the day. How things have changed.
Remember VCR+? You put the code in with the remote and it new when to start recording to tape, so you didn't have to manually figure out when to set the timer for when your show started. Ah Nostalgia.
Wasn't uncommon for such programs to do seemingly pointless things like that. Hell, I remember a Comcast OnDemand original video from around early 2006 talking about the next gen video game consoles(Xbox 360 that was already out, PS3, and Nintendo Revolution) and it started with some guy playing GameCube before he shrugged his shoulders proclaiming "Ah, I lost" and turning to talk to the camera. Except what was playing on the TV was the opening cutscene to Metroid Prime, the one where Samus jumps out of her ship.
this was my first experience with going online. america online in junior high in the LRC in 94/95. the internet was way different back then. good times.
Not the technology maybe but the people and the world was a more exciting place than the times we are living in now.. everything is so boring. the whole world nothing is unique any more.
The hubris in the 90s about technology was some Next Level 1950s stuff. “Sure… you’ve seen cellular phones… but did you ever think phones would get this small?”… obviously Zoolander hadn’t come out yet.
30 years ago... it doesn't seem that long ago I lived through this and was a junior in hs when this happened. My son will see this and think I'm old, but the same will happen when he has kids.
It's amazing because in some ways, the technology has jumped forward by light years since the mid-90s. However, in other ways, the technology didn't advance that quickly.
I was way more materialistic back then than I am today. But I began to experience those feelings of tech-lust again watching this, even though it’s so primitive by today’s standards.
It's interesting to see technology like phones began to replace calendars, planners, notebooks... but nowadays it seems people have hone back to those.
Many decades later we have realised that our grandparents total opposition to all of this was entirely justified, given our current situation - at age 53 now, I remember seeing all of this in my teens in the 80’s amid our grandparents making great efforts to stop and prevent all of this and I recall their warnings and predictions of where it would all lead to, despite the supposed “advantages” of this - our grandparents openly questioned why the only barrier to this was the costs of obtaining the relevant equipment and subscriptions and why there was no legal framework put in place for a licence system based on provable need in a court of law, on a case by case basis, where they were even more opposed to children under 21 being allowed any access to this nor learning anything about this in schools
I miss the '90s. All that stuff: Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, the way computers looked in general and dial-up modems too. I still have a USR Courier 20.16mHz. Today I am ashamed of my master's in CS and want to get rid of it. I can't believe in what the IT world has turned into. Total degradation. These social media and stuff...
Love the aesthetic of old computers
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And 30 years later, I'm watching this clip on my phone. Wow 👌.
Yeah I think videos like this often attract many pessimists who complain about today's tech. It's really mind-blowing how much sophisticated engineering is inside a modern smartphone! I think compared to the meme about the flying car a smartphone is so much cooler.
It's 2044, and I'm viewing this in a virtual reality environment through my contact lenses.
We went from: "Computer, open calculator."
To: "Computer, open calculator. Shut up, Alexa! I'm wasn't talking to you!"
Alexa: "I am sorry. I don't understand what you mean by: I wasn't talking to you."
I thought I was the only one who yells at Alexa and google, LOL. They are nosey!! LOL.
Haha🤣
And Alexa said "I am sorry Dave. I am afraid I cant do that"
@@cthrekgoru then it gets unplugged from the wall
Here's the thing, it felt amazing back then.
Agreed. It was quite magical. The home PC evolution along with getting connected to the internet by the masses of society felt very optimistic - almost as if society was on the verge of something pretty amazing.
Right,I was thinking the same thing, we thought sophistication level in which technology became then was enough,boy were we wrong😊,fascinating stuff😊.
Its still amazing. Cameras optics on smartphones are incredible. I can turn lights on in my house, open my electric gate, from anywhere in the world!!
@@S7EVE_P right just because they are ancient and nostalgic..
@@gamereactz Happens to everyone. One day, maybe, we will all be ancient and nostalgic.
I grew up throughout the 80’s and 90’s, and I miss these times. It was all so exciting practically on a daily basis. Today, nothing “wows” us anymore. You can’t really get much higher resolution than 8K or 16K TV, and even if you could, the human eye could barely distinguish it from 4K. Cell phones you can go so much with that we don’t even use it all now, and you can communicate with anyone around the world at no extra charge. Things like music and movies are available instantly, from at home to in our pockets on smartphones, and in HD with uncompressed audio. You can order products from companies like Amazon laying in bed off an app on your phone, even speaking in the order if you want, and it could be at your door in 2-3 hours. What else is there? It’s become kind of depressing to me, as a person who grew up constantly being “wowed”. Today nothing seems exciting to me anymore.
There is still much to discover, such as new drugs, cures for diseases that at the moment are impossible to cure, sending probes into space much faster than the current ones, exploring 100% of the oceans (we have only explored 5%), creating efficient and commercial nuclear fusion reactors, clean up pollution in the world. There are many things to discover and invent but all in good time, this is what excites me about the future.
The Apple Vision Pro has wowed me in a way that no tech product ever has. Despite it’s many faults, it still feels like a device that is from 10 years in the future.
This is exactly spot on. I had my Palms, and I would download to it the latest from Engadget and all the tech news sites I could, and read it wherever I wanted. Before that AOL and Compuserve opened up the whole world! It was so exciting! There were many years of thrills. Now it doesn’t even matter what phone or computer you have. They are relatively all the same as far as what you can do. I know there will still be big things and of course it moves forward, but there will probably be nothing exactly like that era of amazement and anticipation again! We were the ones who got to transition from being confined to what was going on locally, to holding the world in the palms of our hands!
Video games got better but music went to crap :(
Robotics is the answer, robotics will bring the new exciting tech regarding home assistance and improvement of life quality. Too bad it seams so far way for anything useful for the average individual.
30 years later, and VR still hasn't caught on.
What do you mean, there are millions of Quests out there.
@@StatusQuo209 maybe, but there is only trash software and some mid games for it.....
@@Puretea4711 half life Alyx, beat saber, boneworks, project cars 2, Assetto Corsa, Bounce, etc. There are a lot more. I agree though that MOST games are trash. There are a ton of gems tho
For you, it's definitely the future. Spatial computing is 2 steps away from your grumpy ass yelling at it because you don't get it.
those are pc games not quest. pc is too expensive for the average person
As old as these items seem today 30 years after they are still very modern compared to how things were when i grew up in the 70´s.
Exactly. 1964 was a completely different world from 1994. 1994 is very different from 2024, but a lot of the tech we use today was either already being used in its early stages by early adopters or was in development. A lot of the elements for modern portable networked computing with PDA's and palmtops would give way to the modern smartphones we use today. I feel like over the last 30 years, we've done more "refining" in our technology than any actual marvel breakthroughs.
@@Trance88 Yes i definately agree on the refining part, that goes for many things not just electronics but cars, trains or anything really and it was in time also brought out to the masses since as you say parts of it at least existed in some form but maybe in development and early adopters and most hardly had heard about it. Speaking of smartphones, i worked in repairing mobile phones in the 90´s and one of the early smartphones were the Nokia 9000 communicator from 1996 which i saw at the repairshop since we were an authorized repairshop for Nokia.
1994 was not that long ago, for people like me. It feels like yesterday cause I experienced all these tech.
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Mobile phones in the 1980s: Ginormous.
Mobile phones in the 1990s: Large.
Mobile phones in the 2000s: Nice and small.
Mobile phones in the 2010s: Large.
Mobile phones in the 2020s: Ginormous.
Everyone mocked me when I had my 6” Lumia in 2014. “I could never carry around a phone that big!” they said.
Fast forward to 2020s, everyone has to have the MAXes, the bigger the better lol. And at the moment I have a 12 Mini! 😂
Back then phones where only meant to call people. So having them small was convenient. Now that people can watch movies on their phones they would rather buy a big phone to have a better viewing experience.
I remember being the first person to buy the Samsung galaxy note 1. Everyone was always like " why is your phone so big"? Now almost every phone is bigger
No kidding. Finding a compact smartphone with decent specs is so hard these days. I don't know what I will do once my Samsung Galaxy S10e gets too old to daily drive. It is one of the most compact smartphones with decent specs and even it feels a bit big to me at times. Everything newer is much heavier and chunkier. People will say ohhh but the newer devices have 3+ cameras, 5G cellular, bigger screens, etc. I on the other hand, am more than happy with 4G connectivity, 2 cameras, a headphone jack, microSD card slot and a device that actually fits in my pocket. The specs on my galaxy s10e are incredible. 256GB of storage, 8GB ram, 4k video recording, cpu performance that matches at least an ivy bridge core i5, usb 3.0 type C port with displayport output, and all of that fits in my pocket. What more could I want out of a mobile device?
Mobile phones AREN'T gigantic today. They're optimal-sized.
They still fit in your hand, but the screen is big enough that you don't have to magnify everything to see it.
Phones at their smallest weren't practical.
They were very optimistic about the future at that time, for them we should already be using flying cars...
You are correct.
Best regard: one of those people.
The underestimated how maladapted non-White are, and how committed Jews are to diversifying any White majority country.
I remember all of those 3.5" discs that AOL would send me free, in their sales packets. It was a continual supply of backup discs for me. That's it.
Thank you AOL, for a free way to back up my files.
I remember the aol floppy discs I think it was aol floppy disca
the foundation for our future was set in the 90's
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@@fakereality96 haha
Technology has come a long way. Now we scroll through social media while sitting on the toilet. 😎
People shit on both toilet and twitter simultaneously nowadays
Now we can brainwash millions of people and get them to vote for us because we tweet lies from our golden toilet!
That's gross who would do that?
Probably the best place for anti-social media
*"Shitting on the toilet."*
I still have our 1995 Macintosh Performa. The 90s was a fun era in computing. I miss the days when computer games had the really cheesy green screen acting in cutscenes ahahaha!
1996-2003
Those were the magic years.
I remember this stuff like it was yesterday. Good times. If I could go back, I wouldn't hesitate.
I would follow you.
RIP to the man who adopted the Apple Newton.
Eat up Martha!
Thanks. 😊
I did buy it second hand though.
iPhone grandaddy is Apple Newton
I like this part of TH-cam - the nostalgia wing.
Agree.😊
and now we can come together, here, and TALK about it 20 years on. A world we could NOT have seen coming.
you mean 30
@@RandomRoulett3 ah yes, thank you, lol. I was taking computer prog. in I think eighth grade and even then it was tough haha. Good year, 94......ah the nostalgia and memories. Thanks again and love the avatar, emojis apply but have to run :) CITB to your beaver? woodchuck lol. :) Peace, haha right, 30. ugh.
30 years and I definitely saw this coming.
I changed my ringer to the 56k dialup sound 😁
It's really throws people off.
I used to go to the Computer shows they had at the Del Mar Fair every year. It was great for picking up parts and picking up tons of demo floppies to try out. That and I was a regular at both Egghead Software and PC Club. I also made sure to pickup Computer Edge magazines whenever a new one was released.
The end of this video is so relevant: "it can be difficult for a non-technical person".
This is why today we've worked to make interfacing with devices so simplistic that gen z, a, etc. have taken significant leaps back in terms of technical capability.
There was something to be said about having the challenge of navigating a computer and learning how to use it that doesn't exist today.
damn i miss the 90's
by watching this video I am not sure if we moved anywhere in last 30 years. yes, everything is faster with nicer graphic, but voice controlled computer was thing, VR was thing. we just have crazy resources to run ton of resources for virtualisation for job that can handle calculator in the past
The internet just has better ways of distracting us these days!!
This was a fun time. Technology was great back then but we still did things outside of it. We still read magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias, dictionaries were still used. As much as I like the smartphone, it changed everything. What's next after the smartphone?
In 1994 the world already had Doom II. The peak of civilization was reached.
I don't believe some of this technology will ever be released at least not for a long time
“It will be available sometime in the fall of 1995” then its never released
id love to go back in time with a laptop made today with like a 4090 or smth in it would be so funny to see peoples reactions
This video is a good example of Moore's law. The number of transistors on a microchip doubles about every two years with a minimal cost increase.. computer technology will get better, smaller, and cheaper.
just like ur mom
My mom continued to have a PDA into the 2000s. She was so attached to that device. Everyday going to and from work on the bus she was checking emails, writing notes, reading news, etc. Always with that stylus in her hands.
This is fantastic. A moment in that time. Thanks for the upload! 🎉
New technology in 1994: a VR Headset
New technology in 2024: a VR Headset
I want to go back to the 90s technology.
Hell no
I think something went horribly wrong after around the mid 2010's
@@dollarstorememesThat Horrible wrong thing is the Computer in your Hand. Which makes you ALWAYS Online.
Nah I don't miss the dial up days. Besides if you were to go back you would still have to come forward because time stops for no one.
Only issue with going back to 90s tech, that includes computers and other electronic equipment in the medical science and other similar fields that improve our quality of life and we can’t afford to go back in that regard. HOWEVER, I do miss the days of the Nokia 3300/8200 series phones where the battery lasted for what seemed like forever on standby AND where you could drop those phones from space and they’d still work AND snake/snake II. Those were definitely the days.
As someone born in 01' I kind of wish I could experience old technology first hand, like sure I had a flip phone, and the concept of 3g wasn't quite a thing yet but technology doesn't improve at this rate anymore to go from that first large phone to that small one and look at my current phone that is smaller and infinitely more powerful gives such a weird feeling. I love the way the news reports it and to see how different things are now. It does make me hopeful though. Maybe I will get to experience this level of change. Maybe I'm just not old enough yet, here's to the future!
I was 14 when this report was made, and this plus all the video game mags I read made it seem like the future that everyone predicted for me was coming true. Then I grew up and realized after the weight of the world crushed my spirit that it was all a dystopian nightmare and that we have become shackled to technology, rather than it setting us free. I wanted so hard for computing tech to realize this egalitarian future where there was no poverty or greed or isolation, but there's more of that than there's ever been, 30 years hence.
Loving this vintage/throwback 90s content. Subscribed.
I miss the 90s.
It is amazing how technology has changed and what is making a comeback! Records are making a BIG comeback!
And all of that stuff is now done on a cell phone.
The dial-up sound. I do not miss that.
Doubt many do considering the low quality internet that followed afterwards
My cat loved it.
30 years since then, humankind has made phenomenal growth in the IT industry! 😇😇😇😇
1:38 An eerie simulated preview of the horror of watching landscape video in portrait mode, still decades to come.
Now we got Netflix, Smart TV's, iPhones Spotify, AI... Dang! What's next?
what's next is AI and it's already unfolding! It's just in the dial-up phase.
@@liamjames-hendriks4895far less of a pain to use though (at times
1994: CDs are replacing records
2024: Records still exist
Records are a very small niche market
@@fivehundrediq5212less niche than CDs these days!
Its ironic that LP Records are still available but not CDs and same goes to Cassettes V/A.
@@fivehundrediq5212 Vinyl outsold CDs the last 2 years.
@@fivehundrediq5212 Records are going mainstream. Gen Z say they've had enough of the digital world and they're going analogue!
This is what I love about being my age (Gen X) because we grew up with the tech and we're the only generation that can say that.
So we appreciate tech way more than millennials and Gen Z
It's not a fair comparison if all sides didn't experience all aspects. I AM able to understand how much easier homework can be having the internet compared to not having it, but it's not fair to say I appreciate it more than my 14 year old son, because he uses it just as much for things I hardly bother with.
Aside from smartphones, technology now just seems faster and sleeker, but doesn't seem like much revolutionary changes?
It was a bit different at the time.. PC's and being connected to the World Wide Web was something New, amazing, and even revolutionary to most everyone for the time when News papers, Snail Mail, and LAN Phone lines were about as advance as most common folks were use too.That said, I blame smart-phones for killing the PC revolution and outside of gaming PCs, Home PC's and that excitement of wheat a PC can bring to your home - pretty much died.
CPUs are faster and faster each year which matters to people who need performance. GPUs also have experienced crazy growth in last 5 years and power AI and data centre like stuff. Most of the advancements nowadays are in data centre
Everything that got inside the smartphone was a revolution in itself. They didn't have mp3-players, digital cameras, digital video recorders, flat screen touch displays that can show 4k, the GPS navigation etc. Nothing of this existed in 1994 as a mass consumer product.
Besides that we also have all interactive Web pages where you can do stuff and just ism't a static page. Things like ordering online, google maps, wikipedia. Online Streaming of videos, podcasts, The social medias etc. Insane 3D-accelerated games with virtual worlds that looks close to real.
Also Self driving cars, 7:2 ATMOS surround audio systems, extremely big flat screen TV:s that displays 4k (or even 8k).
The list goes on and on. And I have left out AI which is happening right now and is going to be an even bigger thing!
I love how they used the SGI Onyx for the VR headset... probably because no other computer at the time had powerful enough 3D acceleration, which was obviously required for it.
The quality of the recording is fantastic, great blast from the past.
So much has changed. Yet so much is still the same. "Hey Siri, what time is it?" "HEY SIRI!" "DAMN YOU SIRI, YOU PIECE OF CRAP!"
"I can show you more results on your iPhone"
Fuck off, Siri! I only asked what *date* it is!
This is some high tech here! Hal Clement miss U buddy.
Being exposed to this new thing called the ‘internet’ was undoubtedly mind-blowing. In ‘95-‘96, I connected to AOL for the first and instantly became addicted. It completely changed the orientation of how we lived life. Record shops slowly faded away, comic shops, lots of brick-and-mortar businesses gone. The entire acceleration of technology since then made life easier (which was great), but also created a culture of overt convenience, and a lot of us became lazy. Creativity music wise isn’t the same. A lot of records that we cherish today wouldn’t have been made during the height of technology and smartphones. I personally the struggle prior to the internet - life was more meaningful, but I can’t deny that ‘good’ came with the internet. For example, the logistics of supply and demand, getting groceries delivered for the disabled, contacting 911 and having the police/emergency locating you via GPS. I’m sure there’s dozens and dozens of pros, but all in all I wish it hadn’t accelerated as fast as it did.
Just imagine if they could see the tech we're using just to watch a video about their tech back then lol
1994 was the future, anno 2024 everything seems to go backwards whether in sociaty,economy or gui on computers etc,,,
We are living in an annoying age🥲
what about the flying cars ?
Wow!! I can't wait!!
The days before people were addicted to social media....
The “star sight” thing at 2:30 is a very late feature to be available on the US market.
By 1994, all recent TV sets in France and UK incorporated a teletext system, which allowed you to read the TV guide, sports results, some news, lottery results and different features available from each TV channel.
The Apple Newton. The only person to ever own one, was Nelson Muntz, who promptly threw it at Millhouse's head.
Casey Ryback also had one.
Eat up Martha
Who remembers going to the college library to do research by microfilm. That information was two years old but that was considered “current” back in the day. How things have changed.
We really COULD live our lives without leaving the house if we wanted to today. I appreciate that about technology.
Amazing tech from the last decade of the 20th Century. 1994 was also the year that Amazon started.
I've been working in IT, since 1995. I never , ever programmed a VCR.
Remember VCR+? You put the code in with the remote and it new when to start recording to tape, so you didn't have to manually figure out when to set the timer for when your show started. Ah Nostalgia.
“Will it go get coffee or pick up lunch for you?” I bet he never thought it would EVER actually do just that
"It recognizes your handwriting!"
No it doesn't.
Star Wars 2:20
Had the wrong music.
This is a snippet from ESB, but the music is from ROTJ.
Wasn't uncommon for such programs to do seemingly pointless things like that. Hell, I remember a Comcast OnDemand original video from around early 2006 talking about the next gen video game consoles(Xbox 360 that was already out, PS3, and Nintendo Revolution) and it started with some guy playing GameCube before he shrugged his shoulders proclaiming "Ah, I lost" and turning to talk to the camera. Except what was playing on the TV was the opening cutscene to Metroid Prime, the one where Samus jumps out of her ship.
the LATEST cutting-edge tech right here for 2024.
Now every single device described in this video, can be done from one device in the palm of your hand...and about 50 other things.
"Will it go get coffee or pick up lunch for you?"
A simple joke predicted the future so well.
Thanks I almost forgot about teletext ever existing.
this was my first experience with going online. america online in junior high in the LRC in 94/95. the internet was way different back then. good times.
Wow, Mr. Mobile was covering tech back in '94...
This was the peak of human civilization... now everything is crap.
You guys would not want to have to go back to this trust me
Why
Not the technology maybe but the people and the world was a more exciting place than the times we are living in now.. everything is so boring. the whole world nothing is unique any more.
"Overwhelmed by technology?" You haven't see nothing yet!!
The hubris in the 90s about technology was some Next Level 1950s stuff. “Sure… you’ve seen cellular phones… but did you ever think phones would get this small?”… obviously Zoolander hadn’t come out yet.
Playing a movie clip at that time was a big deal, as computers weren't able to play full movies yet, maybe a year later with the release of Win 95.
30 years ago... it doesn't seem that long ago I lived through this and was a junior in hs when this happened. My son will see this and think I'm old, but the same will happen when he has kids.
4 times a day he gets update .. wow !!
This is like a look back in time!! Some prediction have come true and others seem rather quaint now ...
I am a 90s kid and watching 30 second of video clip on a computer felt like future high tech to me.
0:16 is still today's VR experience. The look on that guy's face says everything.
Прошло тридцать (!) лет, а виртуальная реальность всё ещё не стала такой, какой мы её представляли.
Where can I watch more stuff like this?
it took me18days and 6hrs to download green days dookie
Worth it
The mouth breather 👄 with the VR headset was great.
Bring us all back. I bought my wife a Sony PDF for $1;100 from Fashion Valley.
Wow ☺️ nice flashback
That’s amazing where do I pick up one of those PDAs?
Who’d’ve ever thought that the vinyl record would make a comeback, and it would be the CD that went out of fashion?
Can't believe the palmTop flopped ....
It's amazing because in some ways, the technology has jumped forward by light years since the mid-90s. However, in other ways, the technology didn't advance that quickly.
The news back then seemed more informative, engaging, and personable
I was way more materialistic back then than I am today. But I began to experience those feelings of tech-lust again watching this, even though it’s so primitive by today’s standards.
the whooooshing noise 😂
It's interesting to see technology like phones began to replace calendars, planners, notebooks... but nowadays it seems people have hone back to those.
Wow just amazing how technology has evolved and the internet I remember was expensive as hell to have.
That VR looks better then Meta today
Many decades later we have realised that our grandparents total opposition to all of this was entirely justified, given our current situation - at age 53 now, I remember seeing all of this in my teens in the 80’s amid our grandparents making great efforts to stop and prevent all of this and I recall their warnings and predictions of where it would all lead to, despite the supposed “advantages” of this - our grandparents openly questioned why the only barrier to this was the costs of obtaining the relevant equipment and subscriptions and why there was no legal framework put in place for a licence system based on provable need in a court of law, on a case by case basis, where they were even more opposed to children under 21 being allowed any access to this nor learning anything about this in schools
✨️Amazing✨️
High level and impressive art direction 1:38
I miss the '90s. All that stuff: Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, the way computers looked in general and dial-up modems too. I still have a USR Courier 20.16mHz.
Today I am ashamed of my master's in CS and want to get rid of it. I can't believe in what the IT world has turned into. Total degradation. These social media and stuff...