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Internet Power - A 1995 Video Explaining the Internet

leelefever

By leelefever on March 18, 2008 - 12:27pm

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Via Laughing Squid and Andy Baio at Waxy.org, who is creating digitized version of old VHS tapes.  

This makes me wonder if people, 12 years from now, will look back at our videos and laugh, saying "Hah! Can you imagine?  That's what they thought blogs and RSS were all about! Sheesh!" 

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craigslist

Wow! It's amazing to think how far craigslist has come in the past 12 years. I hardly recognized it. ;) The Common Craft videos on blogs and RSS will probably be dated 12 years from now, but I'm confident the Zombie video will stand the test of time.

Mosaic was developed in

Mosaic was developed in 1933? WOW!

Something's Missing

Funny, there's no mention of PR0N. They sure missed the boat on that one.

Awesome

Why does it remind me of the bit in weird science where they're sitting at the computer making Kelly LeBrock and wearing bras on their heads?

Old Browser

Look at the shot of ESPN ... they didn't even know they were using a browser that was extremely out of date. Hahahah ha ha ha!

14.4

you need a modem with a 14.4 baud rate to experience the rich multimedia the internet has to offer. i love it!

8 megabytes of RAM..ha ha

This video is great! My first computer was a Commodore 64 (1985) and I thought I was computer-savvy because I knew how to get my name to scroll like a marquee across the screen in different colors. We've really come a long way since then in technology terms. 1995 doesn't seem so long ago, until you watch this video. I am looking forward to the future of technology just to see how tiny our computers get. We started out with computers that could fill up a classroom and now we have gadgets like the Palm Treo which are hand held versions of our PCs. It's amazing how things change and how quickly! Thanks for the laugh

Those were the days.

Now that brings back some memories. I remember the day my father came home with a packered bell computer that I thought was the coolest thing in the world. We started a membership with netscape and that is where my love for the interent began. 13 years later and how things have changed. It is going to be insane how much technology is going to be out there in just a few years. I just hope that robots don't start taking over jobs. Christian Financing Life

More than 10 years. Time is

More than 10 years. Time is running fast. I remembered my Amiga 500 :) Thanks for the video.

wait.. what?

Wait... did he say Mosaic browser developed in 1933?? Uhhhh... really?

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