I had one of these back in high school. There were about 2,500 students at that school, and to my knowledge, one other kid had one. We messaged each other a couple times when I first got it along the lines of "Hey you have a Cybiko too!" Then we never communicated again. I think that pretty well sums up the Cybiko experience.
Lol, just finished the video and thought I'd point out I had the original Cybiko. I never heard of the Xtreme, but it actually looks pretty awesome. However, I think at that point I had a cell phone.
I had one, I had no actual computer so I begged my parents and got a cybiko for christmas one year. Realized no one else had them and you basically needed a computer with it to do much of anything. Also how fucking weird it had a basic dating app function for a toy marketed to kids.
It's a shame that the device only have ugly beeps as sound, if these devices had a proper sound chip similar to the gameboy and a frontlight for the screen, this device would have been more succesful.
It's not true 3D actually. True 3D is like a polygonal world. What you are seeing here is basically like a game that appears 3D, but is actually sprite based, often in the game industry these are called 2.5D games. The first to achieve this were Japanese games from the 80's. Again, pretty sure this Russian calculator things isn't truly running an actual polygonal 3D environment, which would mean it isn't by definition truly 3D.
Doesn't it give you a deep kind of sadness when you see "no one found, try again later"? It makes me a bit sad. Same as revisiting a chat room that was once bustling just to find it empty, knowing that those people you've encountered in there have grown up, moved on or have even died. You feel alone.
Kinda like if you'd revisit Digital Space Traveller. Or if you used the MSN Revival/Reviver program to bring back MSN to only find people talking back to you from Skype with their MSN profile settings exactly how they left them right before it was taken down.
@@0BRAN0 its so weird to think about how long ashens has been here. when he made this video gangnam style was only 3 months old and noone had ever heard of COVID or any of this madness. i was 6 years old probably picking my nose or something
It'd be interesting if each Cybiko acted as a network node/rebroadcaster for messages. So if you had a dense enough population of Cybikos, you could have a sort of city-scale internet. Sometimes I feel bad that the Internet already exists, because it denies me the chance to invent it.
I got a Cybiko when they were new. The best part about it was they had a contest with that skateboard game. I did well enough to win a PlayStation copy of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2.
Ashens does this stuff all the time and I wish he'd stop. Nothing worse than watching his videos and having rotten food suddenly appear on my plate. TH-camrs shouldn't do sorcery.
If I ever invent time travel, I will go back to when this video was filmed, and lurk outside Ashens' house with a Cybiko, just to freak him out when he scans the area for active Cybiko's and he finds "Hello Stuart."
Toy r Us were selling the Extreme off cheap. I got one with the mp3 player add on. It was cheaper than paying for a mp3 player on its own. The Extreme was a solid little thing. Remember at the time people had personal organizers. It was just like one of those on steroids. I think the company had a dream that schools would be full of kids sending messages to each other.
I have a pair of Xtremes from back in the day and they are definitely cool little devices. Actually used one on the job to do what my smartphone does today. There used to be a big home-brew scene but that died off years ago. There are versions of Asteroids and Defender which are amazing. I keep hoping the hobby community will take notice of these little devices.
Eddard Stark Sorry, I couldn't resist... CatMommy: Dinner time, everyone! Robb: *sigh* Moom, you forgot to put Jon on the mailing list. Again! TheonCockjoy: LMFAO! LadySansa: Shut up Theon, you’re not on the mailing list either. Arya: He doesn’t need to. Robb shares everything with him
inglebritt xD I pictured the messages to be written way before the series when everyone is much younger and Rickon is still a toddler. A peaceful summer in Winterfell.
I had one of these Xtreme units, as did my sister at the time. One thing you could do with them was plug one in to the PC and have it act as an internet gateway for nearby devices. They were also capable of communicating much further than 300M, as long as there were active devices within range along the way (like a daisy chain) so you could talk to someone miles away in theory if everyone in town had one (which they didn't obviously), As usual, around this time was the arrival of Mobile phones and bluetooth (which took off in 2001), The poor thing never stood a chance.
I was given 20 Cybikos in 2001. I gave 18 of the Cybikos to my friends. Although very few of my friends who received a free Cybiko ever used the system, I did have a few friends who played multiplayer wireless games on the Cybiko with me. Cybiko hit their stride after the release of the 1Mb Memory Add-on but they didn't last long after that. The end was near by the time the Cybiko Xtreme was released. I donated all of my Cybikos to Goodwill about 10 years ago but I picked up a few new ones on eBay a few years ago.
I had a cybiko back then...I recall going to a Walmart close to my house and finding 7 other cybiko connections!Once I even asked some random guy a math question!
@@SqualidsargeStudios The Rayman-like character button was a shortcut to a virtual pet game which I've forgotten the name of. The Crosshairs were a shortcut to a very rudimentary FPS called Lost In Labyrinth, these two "titles" were treated as the killer aps of the device early on to the point where they made dedicated shortcut buttons for them.
WTF?!? I don't think I've ever seen proper 3D graphics rendered on a dot matrix monochrome LCD screen before! That's actually crazy fucking impressive...almost reminds me of watching videos on those old piece of shit VideoNow things from a few years back with the built-in black and white LCD screens, except this is awesome and that was shit.
***** My uncle overheated mine during one of his NFL 2K2 binges. I had a spare, but unfortunately I found it dead out of the box years later when I finally got around to it. I'll have to get another Dreamcast eventually.
+Bolverk-GTM The dead out of the box one might not be so dead. Chances are, the contacts between board and PSU need to be just flexed and de-oxidized. Dreamcasts aren't the hardest systems to keep alive really, for decades if need be.
I picture a spy network using them for communication, knowing no one else is going to have one so they can talk securely. Or maybe in a basement room at the NSA they have one of these just in case...
Honestly, one of the most legendary of Ashens' intros. I can't not laugh every time I hear it. "If you hadn't been born yet back in 2000, be sure to stop watching, because I'm going to be saying the word "cunt" later. Only kidding! I wouldn't say anything like that." Also, can't forget classics like: "I knew a man with a funny ball once. He didn't like to talk about it." Or "I'm gonna stick this thing up its bumhole" *electronic fanfare*
Fun fact: The Urban Dictionary page for "bog roll" (a phrase used in this video) spiked in popularity in November 2012, the same month and year this video came out. Coincidence? The real question is, how and why do I know this, considering it's been nearly five years?
I just found three of these whilst digging round my attic, which took me way back to the good old days of translucent electronics and gaping at anything wireless. Splendid review and great humor.
That was a pretty awesome moment when you had both those Cybiko messaging between each other, but a shame that it only seemed to work one-way D: The CyRace 2 game has to be one of the most impressive things I've ever seen running on a 'mobile' based device from back then, very unexpected and a pleasant surprise indeed! :o :)
Dude, I had one of these in middle school and it was freaking awesome. We convinced my spanish teacher that it was a translator and just chatted and played games every class period we could.
I had one of the original Cybikos (it had a vibration motor in it too btw,) I bought it for £15. It was pretty good to use to read books on, I think most of my Sherlock Holmes reading was done on that. You would just press enter and let it scroll for you. For what was available at the time it was definitely worth it.
I actually had an Cybiko Extreme once since about ten years ago too and suprisingly I haven´t seen the usual version unless it was thanks to this video!
Only 6 of us had them in the whole school but by the end of the 2nd week, they had all figured out what we were doing :( You could set one or more up as access points/servers to widen the network (classrooms had thick walls)
Goodness gracious... Here in the United States, we had a couple of knick-knacky devices in the same vein as these. I myself had gotten my hands on a unit back in the early 2000's, and it was supposed to let you text via AOL Instant Messenger (as well as MIRC somehow), use wireless networks, etcetera. It was about $250, but I rarely made large purchases AND the Internet-provider service model in my area had changed from an HOURLY rate over to the "way of the future" MONTHLY rate -and like hell I wasn't going to be online 24/7 after that. So needless to say, I was totally stoked when I got the thing. I wasn't nearly as stoked after going over the manual for the sixth time trying to get the thing to work, and at about the twenty-fifth I was going for my car keys to return the damned thing before the Radio Shack closed. Good times.
Blue cybiko was on wrong channel, it sent to General, which could be picked up by silver with general -Plootool(whatever), but silver sends to General - Plootloot(or whatever it was). You could select right channel from top down menu which says "All". I know it's too late, but anyway =D
I wonder if Random Note Jeff will ever release a follow-up to Songs That are Unlistenable? Guy dropped off the face of the Earth after the first one. I'd love for him to make a triumphant return...
The tech I had in the year 2000, I had a Toshiba laptop, ok it was rather heavy and bulky, but It fit perfectly in my DJ bag I used for Uni, a half decent HP Desktop at my Uni digs, both running Windows 98, a Nokia 7110 Matrix phone, Rio MP3 ( Napster, you know it) and a Palm pilot, the Palm 3. Wow, how upto date was i. I just can't believe this is year 2000 tech Considering that the mobile phone and PDA I had at the time where both functional and surprisingly useful, I actually had the little keyboard for my palm pilot and took down class notes and afterwards while having a coffee i would simply pair it with my phone and Email it to myself, the infrared file transfer was a bit tricky but 9 times out of 10 it worked, if it didn't work, I'd just dig out the laptop and serial cable and transfer the notes that way (I actually preferred the palm-pilot to a laptop while taking notes due to the room I had in the lecture hall, especially if I had my Folder and book where also on the table, the palm was perfect for the tasks I gave it,). I thought it was fantastic tech at the time. This Cybiko looks more like early 90's tech and even then, I would have preferred the original Gameboy.
I do....literally every night. Probably because you can legitimately only watch 7 videos and get through 7 hours even though each standard review on the biggest list I could find is at least 10:00 long.
it would be amazing if the cybiko text thing bounced your signal off of other cybiko's, then it would be like a proper text service as long as you didnt live in a rural area
I can't recall at all, I was young. I'd guess 2000 or 2001, I want to say I got mine Christmas 2000 and tried to message in 2001. It was definitely not the Xtreme, I had the transparent purple one. Sadly the charge port broke clean off one day - had a poorly assembled unit...
I bought my first mobile in late '01, and was by no means an early adopter. So, leaving aside schoolkids, I suspect that by 2000 most people who were interested in messaging already had a gsm phone. But you know, 300 meters is pretty much the whole school, even if in several buildings, so I bet that would have been fun.
Look at the first Cybiko closely; it has a button with the Zodiac killer. It probably will show every letter he sent to the newspapers and that. Also, with the right key combination, it might even finally reveal who was the Zodiac killer...
And my neighbor had one - and we could instant message each other. Useful since at that time the internet was still dial up and so we weren't online ALL the time.
18:59- Wow, the Rebel Alliance must really be cutting their budget if they have to train people to become pilots by making them hold a freaking boat race.
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I had one of these back in high school. There were about 2,500 students at that school, and to my knowledge, one other kid had one. We messaged each other a couple times when I first got it along the lines of "Hey you have a Cybiko too!" Then we never communicated again.
I think that pretty well sums up the Cybiko experience.
Lol, just finished the video and thought I'd point out I had the original Cybiko. I never heard of the Xtreme, but it actually looks pretty awesome. However, I think at that point I had a cell phone.
I made it a fad in our school, about a dozen of us got them, my class only had 90 people in it though.
I had one, I had no actual computer so I begged my parents and got a cybiko for christmas one year. Realized no one else had them and you basically needed a computer with it to do much of anything.
Also how fucking weird it had a basic dating app function for a toy marketed to kids.
that wasn't another student, that was some weirdo outside the school gates lol.
The technology wasnt there yet sadly 😢
I wasn't expecting to see true 3D graphics from this kind of device.
it runs doom
Doom isn’t 3D
@@Skelig well, doom is technically 3D..
Operating word is technically.
It's a shame that the device only have ugly beeps as sound, if these devices had a proper sound chip similar to the gameboy and a frontlight for the screen, this device would have been more succesful.
It's not true 3D actually. True 3D is like a polygonal world.
What you are seeing here is basically like a game that appears 3D, but is actually sprite based, often in the game industry these are called 2.5D games.
The first to achieve this were Japanese games from the 80's.
Again, pretty sure this Russian calculator things isn't truly running an actual polygonal 3D environment, which would mean it isn't by definition truly 3D.
Just think about the fact that somewhere in the world there is a married couple who accidentally met on Cybiko and kicked it off from there.
Impossible. If there is someone who did, I envy them.
that lived 3 streets away but never met before?
You know every person within 3 streets from you? If you live in a densely populated city that would be thousands of people potentially...
lol the dating app happen (spelt differently ) is pretty much like this
Jaezen Harper lol
Doesn't it give you a deep kind of sadness when you see "no one found, try again later"? It makes me a bit sad. Same as revisiting a chat room that was once bustling just to find it empty, knowing that those people you've encountered in there have grown up, moved on or have even died. You feel alone.
That's how I feel about nintendo's picto chat. There's no one and I feel so empty thinking of the good times I had with my friends on it.....😢
Kinda like if you'd revisit Digital Space Traveller.
Or if you used the MSN Revival/Reviver program to bring back MSN to only find people talking back to you from Skype with their MSN profile settings exactly how they left them right before it was taken down.
+Nami Nuitsuki well that was more of a local thing, even back then youd rarely find anyone that wasnt your friend.
its like old games that were once busy but now are empty. I know the feel.
It is depressing, yes!
Hearing "12 years ago" when talking about the year 2000 in 2021 is a trip.
22 years ago my god
@@michaelepica3564 23
it made me feel nauseous
@@growskull it's now 23 years ago LMAO
@@0BRAN0 its so weird to think about how long ashens has been here. when he made this video gangnam style was only 3 months old and noone had ever heard of COVID or any of this madness. i was 6 years old probably picking my nose or something
Who else came here, after LGR made a review and one bloke from the comments mentioned that Ashens made a video nearly ten years ago?
yep, same
It'd be interesting if each Cybiko acted as a network node/rebroadcaster for messages. So if you had a dense enough population of Cybikos, you could have a sort of city-scale internet.
Sometimes I feel bad that the Internet already exists, because it denies me the chance to invent it.
Invent the internet 2
Matt Stevens
Don't call it internet 2 though. Call it.
Supernet.
Oda Swifteye
Cybikonet.
TOASTEngineer
Oh. Actually that one sounds more relevant.
Oda Swifteye
That's why I'm the engineer, and you're the... chess piece?
Men's Room 2, this time it's urinal.
+the ultum zero Then Men's Room 3- bladder problems.
+Max Kitten Then Men's Room 4- in space.
+the ultum zero Men's Room 5 - 0:14 Edition
+the ultum zero Men's Room 6: The Diarrhea Problem
+Iain Cowell Men's Room 7: Hole in the Ground
I got a Cybiko when they were new. The best part about it was they had a contest with that skateboard game. I did well enough to win a PlayStation copy of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2.
talk about SKILL...
*legitmate applause*
Literally the instant Ashens hit enter to send his message, I got an SMS.
Intronaut XD
I like to imagine your disappointment that it was just a hot girl proposing a booty call
Ashens does this stuff all the time and I wish he'd stop. Nothing worse than watching his videos and having rotten food suddenly appear on my plate. TH-camrs shouldn't do sorcery.
Just to think, a Cybiko communicating with a modern smart phone
What kind of people receive SMS these days
If I ever invent time travel, I will go back to when this video was filmed, and lurk outside Ashens' house with a Cybiko, just to freak him out when he scans the area for active Cybiko's and he finds "Hello Stuart."
See a person with real dreams and goals...
That's definitely the best use of a time machine I've ever heard and I am only half joking.
What the hell I just came here from the LGR Cybiko video to find Ashens covered it 8 years ago...
Scrolled down to find a comment like this...thank you good sir.
Toy r Us were selling the Extreme off cheap. I got one with the mp3 player add on. It was cheaper than paying for a mp3 player on its own. The Extreme was a solid little thing. Remember at the time people had personal organizers. It was just like one of those on steroids. I think the company had a dream that schools would be full of kids sending messages to each other.
I have a pair of Xtremes from back in the day and they are definitely cool little devices. Actually used one on the job to do what my smartphone does today.
There used to be a big home-brew scene but that died off years ago. There are versions of Asteroids and Defender which are amazing.
I keep hoping the hobby community will take notice of these little devices.
Do you remember the website they were on? Try using the Internet archive, it might be there.
I hope you don't mean you used it while having sex
@@alistairpage-mcgill2723 sorry, the cybiko stays on during sex
I click this every time it's recommended to me. There's something so weirdly appealing about these devices, I just like looking at them.
I remember when this was the shit, my whole neighbourhood had them... for about two months...
* suddenly flashed with images of the Stark kids sending messages to each other all around Winterfell castle *
Fiorina Artworks haha, you're kinda right. Manchester has much the same character as the north :D
Eddard Stark Sorry, I couldn't resist...
CatMommy: Dinner time, everyone!
Robb: *sigh* Moom, you forgot to put Jon on the mailing list. Again!
TheonCockjoy: LMFAO!
LadySansa: Shut up Theon, you’re not on the mailing list either.
Arya: He doesn’t need to. Robb shares everything with him
Fiorina Artworks And everybody forgets Rickon exists as usual...
HODOR!
inglebritt
xD I pictured the messages to be written way before the series when everyone is much younger and Rickon is still a toddler. A peaceful summer in Winterfell.
I had one of these Xtreme units, as did my sister at the time. One thing you could do with them was plug one in to the PC and have it act as an internet gateway for nearby devices. They were also capable of communicating much further than 300M, as long as there were active devices within range along the way (like a daisy chain) so you could talk to someone miles away in theory if everyone in town had one (which they didn't obviously), As usual, around this time was the arrival of Mobile phones and bluetooth (which took off in 2001), The poor thing never stood a chance.
+Ron Laws Let's revive the cybinko! All we have to do is put one every 300 meters across the globe!
Lol, can you imagine the latency?
Saw LGR and suddenly realised Ashens did it like years ago
i'll take a game system disguised as a calculator
I think you can get some on ebay
You can program some calculators to have games
Photonic Pizza like that pokemon battle simulator
Photonic Pizza yep, Doom as an example
madmax2069 Did you just watch LGR's video?
I was given 20 Cybikos in 2001. I gave 18 of the Cybikos to my friends. Although very few of my friends who received a free Cybiko ever used the system, I did have a few friends who played multiplayer wireless games on the Cybiko with me.
Cybiko hit their stride after the release of the 1Mb Memory Add-on but they didn't last long after that. The end was near by the time the Cybiko Xtreme was released. I donated all of my Cybikos to Goodwill about 10 years ago but I picked up a few new ones on eBay a few years ago.
This sounds like a fucked maths problem.
So what you're saying is that 80% of the world's Cybikos have passed through your hands?
You have no idea how much this excites me, my Dad had one of these when I was a kid and my Brother and I used them as walkie-talkies, oh my God
The music from Cyrace 2 is worth the price of admission alone.
The sound from this thing is a miracle. I'm convinced it's from another universe where our laws of physics don't exist.
It's graceful music comes from the "flatulent music" dimension.
+JLConawayII
I'd say that describes Russia quite well.
+Ruben The Raging Alcoholic
Which is almost definitely going to be in season 3 of Rick & Morty.
AgentTasmania Hopefully
It's clearly from The Darkest Timeline. We all have goatees there.
I had a cybiko back then...I recall going to a Walmart close to my house and finding 7 other cybiko connections!Once I even asked some random guy a math question!
What was the question?
Chatbox 3000 what was the question
I dont even remember but i think it was something like: 4x=7+7
Chatbox 3000 x = 3.5
Do you have it still ?
I love it when I get my hands on an old piece of tat and it does something impressive. That gaming performance was surprisingly great.
Impressive quality for 2012!!!
This is so cool, I would have loved having a device like this when I was a kid.
Is anyone else is seeing the head of Rayman in the up-right corner of the first Cybico ?
ElectronikHeart I do
Yes that was a classic cybiko character who you'd feed and take care of.
Yup, i also see a target.
@@SqualidsargeStudios The Rayman-like character button was a shortcut to a virtual pet game which I've forgotten the name of. The Crosshairs were a shortcut to a very rudimentary FPS called Lost In Labyrinth, these two "titles" were treated as the killer aps of the device early on to the point where they made dedicated shortcut buttons for them.
@@SuperTrainStationH It's Cyblandia
Bloody hell it´s in proper 3D! I was actually quite amazed!
WTF?!? I don't think I've ever seen proper 3D graphics rendered on a dot matrix monochrome LCD screen before! That's actually crazy fucking impressive...almost reminds me of watching videos on those old piece of shit VideoNow things from a few years back with the built-in black and white LCD screens, except this is awesome and that was shit.
+macgeek2004
Strictly speaking, the screen you viewed this on is dot-matrix.
As opposed to POPstation style predrawn-graphics LCD
Interesting I get this recommended after LGR talks about the Cybiko.
My god the late 90's would of been perfected with such a device... It's like a mobile ICQ!
Random Note Jeff Presents "Songs That Are Un-listenable" Vol 3 - 7
...I want a emulated version of that feckin car game...
Back in 2000, I was playing my Dreamcast a lot. I miss that.
Ahhhh 2000 I had a dreamcast but my dad hogged it all the time but I had the Nintendo 64 so that made me happy.
***** My uncle overheated mine during one of his NFL 2K2 binges. I had a spare, but unfortunately I found it dead out of the box years later when I finally got around to it. I'll have to get another Dreamcast eventually.
I was born in 2000
back in 2000 I was an infant... I really wish I could have played dreamcast back then.
+Bolverk-GTM The dead out of the box one might not be so dead. Chances are, the contacts between board and PSU need to be just flexed and de-oxidized. Dreamcasts aren't the hardest systems to keep alive really, for decades if need be.
imagine getting one of these today, and happening on someone else with one. fate brought you two together.
I picture a spy network using them for communication, knowing no one else is going to have one so they can talk securely. Or maybe in a basement room at the NSA they have one of these just in case...
Ah, I remember watching this a while ago, and came back here thanks to LGR's new video.
This message was sent via cybiko Xtreme "eat up martha"
jj coolj you just had to make a simpsons apple newton reference
The Cybiko was produced from 2000 until 2003.
Got my first mobile phone in 1999, lots of people were starting to get them then. The world seemed full of promise. Which didn't last long.
Came here from LGR review !
That Cyrace 2 is pretty impressive O_O
I like how everyone watching this in 2021 is just as surprised as me, at how old this video is, and how long ago 2000 was 😆
I have a son in college who wasn't even around in 2000.
2024 and terrified
I think this was the first video I watched from this channel, about 10 years ago. Today YT put it on my home feed again. What a blast!
Honestly, one of the most legendary of Ashens' intros. I can't not laugh every time I hear it.
"If you hadn't been born yet back in 2000, be sure to stop watching, because I'm going to be saying the word "cunt" later.
Only kidding! I wouldn't say anything like that."
Also, can't forget classics like: "I knew a man with a funny ball once. He didn't like to talk about it."
Or
"I'm gonna stick this thing up its bumhole" *electronic fanfare*
Try playing "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" while communicating through Cybiko devices..
"Men's Room 2" This time it's definitively personal ! xD
12 years later and I'm STILL waiting for the highly anticipated sequel: Men's room 3: The Secret of the next door neighbor.
Men's Room 4: Double Double Toilet Trouble?
Men's Room 5: Jimmy Savile edition
Fun fact: The Urban Dictionary page for "bog roll" (a phrase used in this video) spiked in popularity in November 2012, the same month and year this video came out. Coincidence?
The real question is, how and why do I know this, considering it's been nearly five years?
I just found three of these whilst digging round my attic, which took me way back to the good old days of translucent electronics and gaping at anything wireless.
Splendid review and great humor.
Got this recommended after watching the LGR video lol
On Cyrace 2, you managed to fail getting in to the top ten when there was only 6 other people on the scoreboard. That, sir, is an achievement!
I made it my tradition to watch this video whale eating soup
A whale eating soup? That sounds awesome.
FedorovAvtomat I think he's referring to ashens being a video whale and due to copious amounts of lsd he sees him eating soup
Yup, you got it
didnt ashens drop something he was reviewing into soup before he started the video?
Brandon Boogers Bonzi Buddy????
That was a pretty awesome moment when you had both those Cybiko messaging between each other, but a shame that it only seemed to work one-way D:
The CyRace 2 game has to be one of the most impressive things I've ever seen running on a 'mobile' based device from back then, very unexpected and a pleasant surprise indeed! :o :)
Dude, I had one of these in middle school and it was freaking awesome. We convinced my spanish teacher that it was a translator and just chatted and played games every class period we could.
the music at 8:50 and Stuart's reaction to it always makes me laugh
That "bloody hell" during the racing game was so genuine! Lol!!
Hey that cybiko looks amazing
On behalf of pedants everywhere, I'd like to thank you for your correct pronunciation of the word "xtreme".
In a way, these were ahead of their time. We have all this now in smartphones.
This video was made 6 years 11 months ago. Still a good video.
18:06 "Stop farting music in my general direction" I died.
I had one of the original Cybikos (it had a vibration motor in it too btw,) I bought it for £15.
It was pretty good to use to read books on, I think most of my Sherlock Holmes reading was done on that. You would just press enter and let it scroll for you.
For what was available at the time it was definitely worth it.
Genuine slack-jawed shock at "CyRace 2" :O
There's an application for the Cybiko that allows you to change the contrast and darkness levels of the 4 shaded blacks manually.
The most advanced POPstation
Men's Room 2 This time it's Public.
In the year 2000 mobile phones were a rare thing? Can't imagine that, kinda.
What was I doing in the year 2000? Probably shitting my diapers.
brooklynk335 Hey me too! Ah, to be 30 again :]
williamthebrit I only had to read your comment to know you were the cool guy in highschool.
Akio Furukawa * Secondary school
williamthebrit It's High school if its in the states
brooklynk335 I was a egg in my mothers uterus in 2000.
Not really, but still, I imagine lots are.
I actually had an Cybiko Extreme once since about ten years ago too and suprisingly I haven´t seen the usual version unless it was thanks to this video!
I would've loved to have this in my childhood and not be the only one around with it.
Only 6 of us had them in the whole school but by the end of the 2nd week, they had all figured out what we were doing :(
You could set one or more up as access points/servers to widen the network (classrooms had thick walls)
Goodness gracious... Here in the United States, we had a couple of knick-knacky devices in the same vein as these. I myself had gotten my hands on a unit back in the early 2000's, and it was supposed to let you text via AOL Instant Messenger (as well as MIRC somehow), use wireless networks, etcetera. It was about $250, but I rarely made large purchases AND the Internet-provider service model in my area had changed from an HOURLY rate over to the "way of the future" MONTHLY rate -and like hell I wasn't going to be online 24/7 after that. So needless to say, I was totally stoked when I got the thing. I wasn't nearly as stoked after going over the manual for the sixth time trying to get the thing to work, and at about the twenty-fifth I was going for my car keys to return the damned thing before the Radio Shack closed.
Good times.
Saw this video a year ago, literally just got the Pulp reference in the description.
Blue cybiko was on wrong channel, it sent to General, which could be picked up by silver with general -Plootool(whatever), but silver sends to General - Plootloot(or whatever it was). You could select right channel from top down menu which says "All".
I know it's too late, but anyway =D
Because of this video, I'm buying one on eBay to relive my childhood.
Thanks ashens!
Literally my entire family (except me, because I was a baby) had a Cybiko. I still have my sisters purple/pink one, and my dad's Xtreme
Is it just me, or is there a _Rayman_ button on the top right of the first unit?
RobotwarsKing Came to the comments to post exactly this. :P
+MadManMcGee me too!
Is it just me or does this look like a Squakpad from cyber chase?
na it's just you buddy
it does!!!!
Oh shit here comes the nostalgia bus
OH SHIT GRANDMA LOOK OUT FOR THAT NOSTALGIA BUS!!!
Arty Ivanenko HOP ON THE NOSTALGIA BUS. Beep beep!
I wonder if Random Note Jeff will ever release a follow-up to Songs That are Unlistenable? Guy dropped off the face of the Earth after the first one. I'd love for him to make a triumphant return...
it’s crazy how much better technology has come !
The farty music is pretty much my favorite part of this review.
The tech I had in the year 2000, I had a Toshiba laptop, ok it was rather heavy and bulky, but It fit perfectly in my DJ bag I used for Uni, a half decent HP Desktop at my Uni digs, both running Windows 98, a Nokia 7110 Matrix phone, Rio MP3 ( Napster, you know it) and a Palm pilot, the Palm 3.
Wow, how upto date was i.
I just can't believe this is year 2000 tech Considering that the mobile phone and PDA I had at the time where both functional and surprisingly useful, I actually had the little keyboard for my palm pilot and took down class notes and afterwards while having a coffee i would simply pair it with my phone and Email it to myself, the infrared file transfer was a bit tricky but 9 times out of 10 it worked, if it didn't work, I'd just dig out the laptop and serial cable and transfer the notes that way (I actually preferred the palm-pilot to a laptop while taking notes due to the room I had in the lecture hall, especially if I had my Folder and book where also on the table, the palm was perfect for the tasks I gave it,). I thought it was fantastic tech at the time. This Cybiko looks more like early 90's tech and even then, I would have preferred the original Gameboy.
Anyone else watch ashens videos while going asleep?
I thought i was the only one that did that lol
I do....literally every night. Probably because you can legitimately only watch 7 videos and get through 7 hours even though each standard review on the biggest list I could find is at least 10:00 long.
Love that Pulp Disco 2000 reference in the description
i had one of these back in the day and i adored it. i don't really have any explanation as to why except that i was ten.
it would be amazing if the cybiko text thing bounced your signal off of other cybiko's, then it would be like a proper text service as long as you didnt live in a rural area
***** yeah, i hard about that android app, but i never knew ham users did it
What's the name of that Android app?
Sort of like a meshnet that we have nowadays - tons of them.
I had one, I remember going to the chat app to see if I'd come across anyone. I never did.
I can't recall at all, I was young. I'd guess 2000 or 2001, I want to say I got mine Christmas 2000 and tried to message in 2001. It was definitely not the Xtreme, I had the transparent purple one. Sadly the charge port broke clean off one day - had a poorly assembled unit...
I would use aluminum can to extend range.
But one day you finally got a message. At 3am. In your room, when you're all one. You have just enough time to see what it says. "Goodbye."
James Landrum and now you live a winner's life thanks to that. imagine the world dominated by the cybiko company
“Back in 2000”
Ah, twenty years ago
“Twelve years ago”
Oh fuck, this video is old now
I bought my first mobile in late '01, and was by no means an early adopter. So, leaving aside schoolkids, I suspect that by 2000 most people who were interested in messaging already had a gsm phone. But you know, 300 meters is pretty much the whole school, even if in several buildings, so I bet that would have been fun.
"When MP3 players where exciting!"
I recently dug up my sister's first MP3 player. a 20GB pocket HARD DISK DRIVE.
I was amazed.
8:37 Are we not going to talk about how it's called "Men's Room TWO"?? THIS IMPLIES THERE WAS A MEN'S ROOM ONE.
Let that sink in.
Let that *sink* in...
Congratulations, you made an awful pun without even knowing.
+Matt Rimmer Or maybe he did know.
BeaverInABlender darnit I was gonna day that
ashens, don't kill me if i say this, but i would LOVE to buy this.
stop farting music in my general direction lol
what_is_the_world_now? Your mother was a hampster and your father smelled of elderberries
Lol, I was just coming to this comment as he was saying this
Look at the first Cybiko closely; it has a button with the Zodiac killer. It probably will show every letter he sent to the newspapers and that. Also, with the right key combination, it might even finally reveal who was the Zodiac killer...
And my neighbor had one - and we could instant message each other. Useful since at that time the internet was still dial up and so we weren't online ALL the time.
"They year 2000. 12 years ago" now 21 long years ago hahaha
18:59- Wow, the Rebel Alliance must really be cutting their budget if they have to train people to become pilots by making them hold a freaking boat race.
I'm reaaaally surprised there's proper 3d. Jeez.
I'm watching this in the future and I'm stunned by the racing game.
It's great how timeless his videos are.
Nearly 7 years later this gave me a good laugh, thanks