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Ah yes, the information superhighway!
The future is now everyone. “Clicks on Non Binary 4 way pegging video while twitch is running. Surrounded by funko pops all looking at me, because I can’t climax without the eyes upon me.”
A nice reminder of how incredibly underwhelming the early internet was
Once in high school some dipshit emailed a threat to Bill Clinton and the secret service showed up and questioned him. Odd he wasn’t such a “stars and bars rebel” in the room with them.
Drink every time she says “information superhighway.”
Well it’s 2022 now and it appears a whole lot of us were absolutely *not* prepared for the internet.
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I’m ready to go back to the 90’s.
TIL 80s hair hung around until 1994 in the UK
i am clicking the video but it wont tell me what she is wearing and where to buy it. still not up ti the information superhighway yet.
Ah, the days where a TV host could show her public email address on TV
Not even a single mention of porn. Porn is the reason that the internet progressed as quickly as it did.
I remember an old news segment where the anchors/reporters even said it without the “the.” Like, “Are you ready for Internet? Internet will revolutionize our lives.”
Even back then they knew you needed fiber and still today there are many areas who don’t have it.
>“With the odd stock exchange and shopping center thrown in.”
The exact opposite is the actual reality. Among the ads and other crap, there is the odd nugget of actual useful content thrown in.
Interesting to see the BBC actually criticising a conservative government, like real journalism, instead of the terrified bootlicking they do now
I was not ready for the internet.
We were, indeed, *not* ready.
We were not.
I miss Tomorrows World, such a great program to watch
Clinton sure had girlfriends everywhere.
the 1990s were a glorious time to be in the networking business.
wish i could live it all over again.
Thanks to Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the internet.
No we are/were absolutely not ready. Currently teaching in middle school, these guys brains are BTFOd by the internet. They can’t do math, they cant sit through reading a paragraph, if something is not hyper condensed into an easy to consume package they will not care about it. You cannot teach them, at least traditionally. The issue is that the rest of the world is chugging along relatively fine so while we lower standards and coddle these guys, they are being outpaced in a BIG way.
Don’t even get me started on behavior, even traditionally good kids have no semblance of authority and baseline politeness, they are all chronically online and are not afraid to make it known. It’s a disaster.
The answer, obviously, turned out to be “no.”
She must be rich to have all those mainframes.
As someone born in the 90’s who grew up with the internet, every time I watch one of these older videos where people happily describe all the cool things you can do all I can think is *my god we had no idea the pandora’s box we were opening.*
Turns out that preserving and magnifying every word ever written by the human race wasn’t actually the super positive development we foolishly dreamed it would be.
“…leave it market forces.” I’d vote for him
I was not ready. At all.
I am clearly not ready.
And to think, even today, there are people who still double-click hyperlinks.
I was there, too! https://youtu.be/cQQOundsvww
Very jarring just how many times she says “Information Superhighway”
The information superhighway… speed limit 14.4K baud!
The quality of this video looks remarkable considering it is from 1994.
The promise, unfettered access to everything in entertainment. 2022: Dozens of streaming services.
This almost felt like I was watching a Tom Scott video that happened to be from 30 years ago. His cadence in the way he delivers information feels almost exactly the same as hers!
Kate Bellingham was largely wrong about copper, in the UK xDSL has worked pretty well over most lines and now it’s getting replaced by FTTP and 5G.
1994 was when cable TV was being rolled out by private companies across the UK, I assume that’s why the government didn’t want BT killing off potential competition with an FTTP rollout(which I doubt it would have done because until fairly recently its position was FTTP was too expensive to do nationwide … so it would have preferred to stick with xDSL and G.fast).
And in this video when the host was tricked into thinking the reply she got from the White House was from Bill Clinton rather than just an automatic response was officially the first lie told on the internet.
I’m surprised Amazon Prime TV hasn’t implemented the ability to pause, and purchase clothing or an item on screen. That would actually be kinda cool. Creepy, but cool.
The Internet is a series of tubes