you know what would be funny? if someone were to somehow someday harness the power of this thing called the "internet" to then share this video with others who would mock us for how little we understand about this "internet". that could never happen...right?
@Doowoo I'd be interested in knowing that, too. Actually, the _Demolition Man_ folks have admitted there never was any explanation. Great running joke, though.
I remember my paw first mentioning the networking and communication through computers... oh how I wanted the internet. Didn't get it til I was 17, my parents seemd so slow on the uptake. That was 1997
life was so much better back than.it was the days that society didnot have to depend on a computer. good and every kind of music was played on the radio.good tv shows were played only on tv.pictures were shown at home and socializing was direct or through by phone. and even education was taught through paper and pencil. and even back than we weren't so dependent on technology like we are now. just tell me what happens if one day we don't have a computer in front of us.
I've heard of the internet in 1996, I was in middle school. Back then, the internet didn't have a firewall to block inappropriate sites. So kids my age were forbidden to use it on school property. I didn't actually use it until 1999 at my aunts house.
Now it's overrun with attention whores and it's not the same anymore. It used to be peaceful. Now there is such a bad stigma attached to it. They should only let people over the age of 21 to use it. It will cut out a lot of the nonsense.
@expised97 that's ironic considering you used the Internet to post that message. I hope 97 doesn't correspond to your year of birth or you shouldn't be talking about the 80s :p
"They used the internet when the phone lines were down"
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I don't think so sister! Back in 94 the only way to connect was by Dialup modem, so if the phones were out so too was your internet connection. (Of course there were some hardlines, but those were almost-all restricted to military soldiers and college professors.) No emailing for the average person
@CobainsRemains The "Drunk Tank" is a podcast by Rooster Teeth Productions, and during the podcast, they mention things that they've seen on the internet. The editor then posts links to whatever article, or Youtube video, that they talked about. Then, everyone who gets to the videos through the "link dump" comments "DRUNK TANK!" on the video, it's an ongoing meme that tends to annoy everyone who has no idea what they are talking about.
@CobainsRemains It is a podcast on the Rooster Teeth website where the viewers take enjoyment in spamming the comments writing "DRUNK TANK". I came here from drunk tank, but i am not one of those people.
do you people realize that NOBODY knew what the internet was in 1994, and most of you couldn't explain what "the internet" is today without Googling "What is the internet?"
@mcoates04 What is the difference between googling what is the internet, asking a friend, or reading it in a book. How does googling it change anything?
@ehhblinkin Not sure what you and the rest are talking about, but in 1994 I had already been "online" for half a decade!
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I bought my first modem in 1988 and logged-in forums, chat rooms, and downloaded music and games. You can still find some of my public posts on Googlenews. It was during this time shorthand like LOL, L8r, BRB, IMHO, etc were invented
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Remember - The Internet was invented in 1983, and its predecessor was the ARPAnet developed during the 70s. It's pretty old technology
i think the funniest part about this is that the people commenting on this are like "WOW i knew the internet since i was 10!" and other bullshit. how many of you actually know how the internet works? most likely...a small percentage. dont think youre all high and mighty cause you use something that was just starting to become significant in the 90's. they dont know how it works and decades later still most people dont know how it works. dont think your special.
@Southfield1000 The idea of the internet has been around since the 50's--it just wasnt' called the "Internet", it was referred to as a "network". Just look up "Arpanet". Arpanet was launched in 1969.
Good point but really? What is Internet? That's funny. I got here from the drunk tank podcast made by roosterteeth. Anyway thanks for thinking instead of just saying 'hehe what a dumb-butt hehehe'
I remember seeing my first cordless phone, first fax machine, first PC and Mac, first car phone (a bag phone), first smart phone, first iPod, etc. I remember getting on the Internet for the first time and what a rush it was.
Unlike so many arrogant young fools posting here, I never rolled my eyes at people who weren't as familiar. And I have the common sense to realize all of these marvels were created by people smarter than me, not by teenagers.
Same here. I remember being baffled by the whole internet thing when it was new. I used to get confused between AOL and the World Wide Web. I thought AOL was an internet onto itself.
Yeah,kids today were weened on it and are very ignorant to the fact that there was life and new technologies emerging way before they were born.
I first came around computers playing games around 1999 (nfs,golf,etc). Then it was only in year 2001 that I came across internet with my big bro teaching me the stuff coz we always visit the big city to spend our vacation time together with my sis's. We live at a town at that time where there's still no internet ..........
PS: chatrooms are already popular at college in 1995.
Circa 1994, the Internet as we kind of currently define it played second fiddle to online services such as CompuServe, AOL and, to a lesser extent, multimedia technology in the form of interactive CD-ROMs.
There are a lot of ppl making criticizing their lack of knowlege.To all the teens who wish to make disparaging comments. There are many of us (25 and older) who can vividly remember a world before ppl tweeted, texted, skyped, and googled. These things have only recently become a part of everyday life.
I remember in elementary school, teachers used to constantly tell us that computers were gonna take over in the new millenium. I'll be damned if they weren't telling the truth!
@tincredible I remember in elementary school, teachers used to constantly tell us that computers were gonna take over in the new millenium. I'll be damned if they weren't telling the truth!
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I had a HS teacher in 90-91 who made a 10 min speech one day about what the internet (or "web") was going to be in the coming years. He sounded like a prophet. I don't think it became known to everyone and his grandma until about 96, perhaps. 96 was the earliest that I ever "web surfed", dude.
The problem is not that gumbel is ignorant of the internet, the problem is his projected arrogance. I was 10 when this was made and had already been using the internet for a year. He acted like anything he didnt already know about couldnt be important, and it wasnt deserving of more than 10 seconds of his attention.
@gbiota1 It's his age. He's in his 60's. It's a WHOLE different generation. They just can't connect the dots. Not saying it's a bad thing by any means.He was around before TV's were the norm, Cars were fairly new, and color tv was still 15 years off. My gosh people were watching bw tv's in the 70's still! Cable tv?? Didn't exist until the 80's. Give the guy a break.
See I liked this. Its before the internet was truely global, before nearly every house had a computer. If you look its before "@" was as it looks today. I would like to see more stuff like this and hear them talk about an up and coming this called 'internet'
@Patefaction Actually, there has been a massive pile of "DRUNK TANK comments submitted, but since I really don't want the substantive comments buried under an endless number of such exclamations, you, Petefaction, can be the representative "Drunk Tank" comment author. Congratulations. But there's no prize.
@moctuzuma Perhaps so. But hundreds of DRUNK TANK comments at the top would drive the substantive comments down out of view. Too bad there's no alternative way for viewers to sort them.
Yep... I remember the world wide web... that thing we used to call the internet.... yep...
the dot com & the dot schlams...yeah... what a shame.... it went out like 8 track players, record vinyl lps, cassette decks tapes, vcrs.... yep, I remember the the internet.... emails...@
I was only 4 back then. I think i first started using the internet around 1997/1998, and it was AOL. I actually don't ever remember having someone explain to me what the internet was. I just remember using it like an extension to the rest of me. I'm 21 now :)
No, no you don't need a phone line for internet... 4G Wireless Anywhere stick, the 1994 model, right? Or just tether to your analog Motorola grey brick phone.
They didn't even have the encoded @ sign! From 1995 and on, the internet was becoming a BIG thing, however high-speed, broadband internet wasn't available in my neighborhood of Mississauga (near Toronto) until around 2002 or 2003. Some communities, particularly in large cities, had high-speed 10MBPS internet as early as 1995.
LOL. the internet sucked in 1994, take the cheapest website you can find today, X's it by 50 and you will get the internet in 1994 (crap X 50= websites in 1994)
When the internet first started Webpages were basically colorful word documents.
It evolved into something great but if someone would have asked you to put money into a website site you would have laughed at them.
P.S. you could only find a website if you knew the exact web address, they didn't have good search engines back then.
anyone catch how funny the ending was? if you were connecting to the internet with something other than a phone in 1994 i'd really like to know what you were using
@FormerlyKnownAsShun They did have free internet. It was called NetZero. Also, if you had AOL, and you were cancelling your subscription, you could milk a couple of months of free internet from them.
From Gumbel saying "56 past" at the very beginning, it looks like the segment that the network provides but is not seen on most stations because they air their own local news/weather break. Some small-market stations or others without local news/weather breaks would have aired this--but that is not many.
This is so funny from a nostalgic point of view, but to be honest many people didn't know about the internet in 1994 so there is no shame on that. It would be like trying to make fun of a 1974 recording of reporters asking what's a mobile phone.
feel sorry for the guy who got fired for posting this - this is like watching the 3 stooges - Katie should have a good laugh and not take herself so seriously - and she should not be part of a guy losing his job - geez ...
This loaded very slow for me, I think the tubes are clogged. Can't wait for the ping pong like balls with the powerball numbers on them to come thru and unclog the tubes. When is the next drawing?
Why would NBC fire the guy who found and leaked this video? If anything they should of just showed it on the current today show and laughed about it. The fact that Bryant Gumbel through a fit about this being leak is just stupid. Bryant gumbel is a cry baby.
Just shows he wants it to make it look like hes perfect. It was 1994 its ok if you didn't know what the internet was
@TheGreatBean0 I haven't seen reports of Gumbel being upset (but if you know of such references, please share them). The leaker apparently (at least according to NBC) had a history of such actions, and they claim his firing was not based on this incident alone.
@TheGreatBean0 exactly man, couldnt have said it better, the guy who found it should be rewarded with at least a pat on the back or sumin. but these media elitist take themselves too seriously, and cant even find humor in such a funny thing. most people didnt know what internet was back then, why are they so fuggin insecure with themselves. but overall, it shows how fast time flies eh?
Ooohhh Allison got burned
itsameray 5 months ago 12
INTERNET
whotaughtyou 5 months ago 3
who cares about a bunch of cavemen who died millions of years ago
QuestenEnjoysLife 5 months ago 13
what is the exact day of this?
nintendogmaster 5 months ago
you know what would be funny? if someone were to somehow someday harness the power of this thing called the "internet" to then share this video with others who would mock us for how little we understand about this "internet". that could never happen...right?
hamiltonjsh 5 months ago 19
@hamiltonjsh
You know what isn't funny. You or someone like you posting this exact comment on every old video talking about the internet.
lordtalon69 5 months ago 4
"What is the Internet anyway?"
"That's something that people will use to watch you in 15 years and laugh their asses of because you asked!" :)
enthusy 6 months ago 19
the internet is a series of tubes, obviously.
AustralianPyro 6 months ago 3
NEXT: How to use the three shells
Doowoo 6 months ago 57
@Doowoo I'd be interested in knowing that, too. Actually, the _Demolition Man_ folks have admitted there never was any explanation. Great running joke, though.
VortexTech 6 months ago 6
@Doowoo
I was so not expecting this comment. Top notch sir top notch! ;b
lordtalon69 5 months ago
Haha funny vid... but seriously what is the internet?
thesir27 6 months ago
Idiot, The World Wide Web was launched 4 years prior to this
WillReddish 6 months ago
I remember my paw first mentioning the networking and communication through computers... oh how I wanted the internet. Didn't get it til I was 17, my parents seemd so slow on the uptake. That was 1997
faithm 6 months ago
winning the internetz was impossible for most back then...they did not know how it was won
thadea 6 months ago
0:37 That @ symbol looks different.
SAIL4323 6 months ago
You've got FAIL!
BinarySoul42 6 months ago
life was so much better back than.it was the days that society didnot have to depend on a computer. good and every kind of music was played on the radio.good tv shows were played only on tv.pictures were shown at home and socializing was direct or through by phone. and even education was taught through paper and pencil. and even back than we weren't so dependent on technology like we are now. just tell me what happens if one day we don't have a computer in front of us.
lalis2011 6 months ago 4
"You don't need a phone line to operate internet?"
LOL
TheKaelkinator 6 months ago
I wish we were still like this.... instead of being 'on' it all the time.... it was a simpler time
mandolaman12 7 months ago
lolololololol
TryHardProductions1 7 months ago
I've heard of the internet in 1996, I was in middle school. Back then, the internet didn't have a firewall to block inappropriate sites. So kids my age were forbidden to use it on school property. I didn't actually use it until 1999 at my aunts house.
Now it's overrun with attention whores and it's not the same anymore. It used to be peaceful. Now there is such a bad stigma attached to it. They should only let people over the age of 21 to use it. It will cut out a lot of the nonsense.
StanHowser 7 months ago
@expised97 that's ironic considering you used the Internet to post that message. I hope 97 doesn't correspond to your year of birth or you shouldn't be talking about the 80s :p
MrRonGuitar 7 months ago
Congratulations, you won!
TCfoxs 7 months ago
@exposed97 this is so not true. trolling was there at the beginning
the past wasn't better, you just prefer to think about the good things
shiva1055 7 months ago
@exposed97 I agree, and families were closer together. People went out and mingled w friends too.
djkissbird 7 months ago
SERIES OF TUBES
ljthompson87 7 months ago
You've got mail
JR1070 7 months ago
n00bs...
Negativity13 7 months ago 89
the internet is my life.. I love it!
TheAngryAmericanwon 7 months ago 3
maybe an odd question.. but 1994, is that "included" in the Early 90s era?
hulkhogantupaclover 7 months ago
@hulkhogantupaclover Yes, anything after 1995 is late 90's.
Chinchilla2 6 months ago
dang how old are you katie??? sheesh
msdtg24 7 months ago
"They used the internet when the phone lines were down"
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I don't think so sister! Back in 94 the only way to connect was by Dialup modem, so if the phones were out so too was your internet connection. (Of course there were some hardlines, but those were almost-all restricted to military soldiers and college professors.) No emailing for the average person
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electrictroy2010 7 months ago 6
Only nerds use the internet...
shrapnelkiller 8 months ago
@shrapnelkiller your on it bitch lol, oh and you mean geeks n00b
TheTechBite 6 months ago
I love how they put "internet address" instead of email address. That is not a url...
KindaSlimShady 8 months ago
International Network !!!
motownharry 8 months ago
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whotaughtyou 8 months ago
Wow. How far we have come!
powellpicc1985 8 months ago 70
What are drunk tank comments? What does it mean to be drunk tanked. This term is new to me and I don't see much about it on google?
CobainsRemains 8 months ago
@CobainsRemains The "Drunk Tank" is a podcast by Rooster Teeth Productions, and during the podcast, they mention things that they've seen on the internet. The editor then posts links to whatever article, or Youtube video, that they talked about. Then, everyone who gets to the videos through the "link dump" comments "DRUNK TANK!" on the video, it's an ongoing meme that tends to annoy everyone who has no idea what they are talking about.
Andrew00851916 8 months ago
@CobainsRemains It is an "internet" (what ever that is) podcast. roosterteeth(.)com/podcast/
goinbonkers202 8 months ago
@CobainsRemains It is a podcast on the Rooster Teeth website where the viewers take enjoyment in spamming the comments writing "DRUNK TANK". I came here from drunk tank, but i am not one of those people.
ps3man1998 8 months ago
Internet is just some nerd creep bullshit.. normal people never gonna use it haha
TheQneb 8 months ago 8
im actually gonna search that site
Bardock772 8 months ago
Internet=Life
ryanmshepard92 8 months ago 3
do you people realize that NOBODY knew what the internet was in 1994, and most of you couldn't explain what "the internet" is today without Googling "What is the internet?"
mcoates04 8 months ago
@mcoates04 What is the difference between googling what is the internet, asking a friend, or reading it in a book. How does googling it change anything?
LaxRatBra 8 months ago
What do you say? I don't have any negative comments. All I can say is WOW. We actually listened to these people. WOW They went to college. WOW.
jaconguy 8 months ago
@jaconguy you didn't learn about the internet in 1994... Remember, it is a, historically speaking, new concept.
ehhblinkin 8 months ago
@ehhblinkin Not sure what you and the rest are talking about, but in 1994 I had already been "online" for half a decade!
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I bought my first modem in 1988 and logged-in forums, chat rooms, and downloaded music and games. You can still find some of my public posts on Googlenews. It was during this time shorthand like LOL, L8r, BRB, IMHO, etc were invented
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Remember - The Internet was invented in 1983, and its predecessor was the ARPAnet developed during the 70s. It's pretty old technology
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electrictroy2010 7 months ago 5
Hey I work in tech and in 1994 I thought the Internet was AOL
AlisoViejoMan 8 months ago
The internet is a series of tubes...
LaurelVentura 8 months ago 3
God, Gumble is such a dipstick.
alpur214 8 months ago
too bad the guy was too narrow minded lol
StridingCloud 9 months ago
The Internet is an electrical typewriter that also works as a text-to-speech phone. There, that's the "Internet for 90's old timers" in a nutshell.
MMAmachinhead92 9 months ago
That's funny, I had the same conversation yesterday.
healthhavencom 9 months ago
Anyone gonna email that email? See if you get a response? :P
MrPacMan36 9 months ago
"It-it-- it's a series of tubes!"
Weapon01 9 months ago
Internet is a series of tubes
Celticgammer 9 months ago
Is 1994 early 90's ?
hulkhogantupaclover 9 months ago
@hulkhogantupaclover ....Did you just ask that question?
Rizrsniper 9 months ago
Bryant Gumbel: What is internet anyway?
Contemporary Teenager: Let my google that on my iPad for you...
BG: *head explodes*
assramistan 9 months ago 3
@assramistan my? e isn't even close to Y on the keyboard wtf
eatmyfun 8 months ago
i think the funniest part about this is that the people commenting on this are like "WOW i knew the internet since i was 10!" and other bullshit. how many of you actually know how the internet works? most likely...a small percentage. dont think youre all high and mighty cause you use something that was just starting to become significant in the 90's. they dont know how it works and decades later still most people dont know how it works. dont think your special.
cheetah219 9 months ago
1:20 You don't need a phone line to operate internet. Apparently not.
follownicholas 9 months ago 3
@follownicholas lmao you did then
nick888ph 9 months ago
@Southfield1000 The idea of the internet has been around since the 50's--it just wasnt' called the "Internet", it was referred to as a "network". Just look up "Arpanet". Arpanet was launched in 1969.
xFallenAnjelx 9 months ago
Good point but really? What is Internet? That's funny. I got here from the drunk tank podcast made by roosterteeth. Anyway thanks for thinking instead of just saying 'hehe what a dumb-butt hehehe'
(to the guy under me)
DILLSN0OB 9 months ago
I had conversations like this.
I remember seeing my first cordless phone, first fax machine, first PC and Mac, first car phone (a bag phone), first smart phone, first iPod, etc. I remember getting on the Internet for the first time and what a rush it was.
Unlike so many arrogant young fools posting here, I never rolled my eyes at people who weren't as familiar. And I have the common sense to realize all of these marvels were created by people smarter than me, not by teenagers.
TurnFourAction 9 months ago 3
@TurnFourAction
Same here. I remember being baffled by the whole internet thing when it was new. I used to get confused between AOL and the World Wide Web. I thought AOL was an internet onto itself.
Yeah,kids today were weened on it and are very ignorant to the fact that there was life and new technologies emerging way before they were born.
thefilmbug 9 months ago
I first came around computers playing games around 1999 (nfs,golf,etc). Then it was only in year 2001 that I came across internet with my big bro teaching me the stuff coz we always visit the big city to spend our vacation time together with my sis's. We live at a town at that time where there's still no internet ..........
PS: chatrooms are already popular at college in 1995.
Billabongs122988 10 months ago
Circa 1994, the Internet as we kind of currently define it played second fiddle to online services such as CompuServe, AOL and, to a lesser extent, multimedia technology in the form of interactive CD-ROMs.
NitekMuscle 10 months ago
There are a lot of ppl making criticizing their lack of knowlege.To all the teens who wish to make disparaging comments. There are many of us (25 and older) who can vividly remember a world before ppl tweeted, texted, skyped, and googled. These things have only recently become a part of everyday life.
I remember in elementary school, teachers used to constantly tell us that computers were gonna take over in the new millenium. I'll be damned if they weren't telling the truth!
tincredible 10 months ago
@tincredible I remember in elementary school, teachers used to constantly tell us that computers were gonna take over in the new millenium. I'll be damned if they weren't telling the truth!
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I had a HS teacher in 90-91 who made a 10 min speech one day about what the internet (or "web") was going to be in the coming years. He sounded like a prophet. I don't think it became known to everyone and his grandma until about 96, perhaps. 96 was the earliest that I ever "web surfed", dude.
nonplayerzealot4 9 months ago
this is funny!
silverjonas7 10 months ago
I like REAL discussion like this instead of the swarmy exchange of scripted, banal lines we see on TV.
smellincoffee 10 months ago
retards. i knew what an internet was at 5 years old
Alyzabeth1990 10 months ago
@Alyzabeth1990 An internet? I guess you is smarter than us.
TurnFourAction 9 months ago
@Alyzabeth1990 when this was filmed the internet was just gaining it's popularity
keiwansaunt 9 months ago
The problem is not that gumbel is ignorant of the internet, the problem is his projected arrogance. I was 10 when this was made and had already been using the internet for a year. He acted like anything he didnt already know about couldnt be important, and it wasnt deserving of more than 10 seconds of his attention.
gbiota1 10 months ago
@gbiota1 It's his age. He's in his 60's. It's a WHOLE different generation. They just can't connect the dots. Not saying it's a bad thing by any means.He was around before TV's were the norm, Cars were fairly new, and color tv was still 15 years off. My gosh people were watching bw tv's in the 70's still! Cable tv?? Didn't exist until the 80's. Give the guy a break.
xFallenAnjelx 9 months ago
WHAT IS TEH INTRANETS?
Edwardsjm 10 months ago 3
BUT WHAT IS THE INTERNET!?!??
DonkeyManda432 10 months ago
@DonkeyManda432 it is a giant sentient electrical being that is going take over the world in 2017
tallguy111 10 months ago 2
i here theres some internet out californee way
TheWoozybear 10 months ago
Amazing the children today don't know a world without the net.
rubberneck39 10 months ago 7
@rubberneck39 i'm one of them!
keiwansaunt 9 months ago
water, fire air and dirt, f*cking internets, how do they work?
hectorlima 10 months ago
@hectorlima what about magnets?
benjtoa 10 months ago
Gee, whats internet?
xtranormal23 10 months ago
I always wanted to learn about the @ internet. For now I'll stay with YouTube.
biggestdigger 11 months ago
I dont get it, whats internet?
jordy45678 11 months ago
Different generation, relatively new phenomenon. Not that hard to understand why Bryant Gumbel was lost.
DeutscheBagge 11 months ago
So 5 people still don't know what the internet is?
Fmaack 11 months ago 4
@Fmaack It's not a big truck! It's a series of tubes!
Pete2Pete375 10 months ago
"What is the internet?
What am the sky?
How does eat food?"
garfield749 11 months ago 7
1000 like :D
MrMitchIt 11 months ago
"The @ sounded so stupid when I said it"..... I wonder what they say abouy "@" now! lol
nintendogmaster 11 months ago
hahaha, lmao , 'What is internet?' dude, obvii much?
sydrox9599 11 months ago 2
Damn, Elizabeth Vargas was HOT!
jth213 11 months ago
what am internet
MegaSeahawks12 11 months ago
The internet, according to Webster's Made-Up Dictionary, is defined as a SERIES OF TUBES.
acpdenver 11 months ago
OMGLAWL.
What is internet?
xxkrismagus777xx 11 months ago
u can see the makeup!
a635823 11 months ago
See I liked this. Its before the internet was truely global, before nearly every house had a computer. If you look its before "@" was as it looks today. I would like to see more stuff like this and hear them talk about an up and coming this called 'internet'
ZergofImportance 11 months ago
Wow, not a single DRUNK TANK!
Patefaction 11 months ago 158
@Patefaction Actually, there has been a massive pile of "DRUNK TANK comments submitted, but since I really don't want the substantive comments buried under an endless number of such exclamations, you, Petefaction, can be the representative "Drunk Tank" comment author. Congratulations. But there's no prize.
VortexTech 11 months ago 37
@VortexTech Aww, but having a load of Drunk Tank comments is like a badge of honour. Almost on par with Teh Flood!!!
moctuzuma 11 months ago 14
@moctuzuma Perhaps so. But hundreds of DRUNK TANK comments at the top would drive the substantive comments down out of view. Too bad there's no alternative way for viewers to sort them.
VortexTech 11 months ago 6
@VortexTech
I was drunk tanked a few months ago on my video. lol.
I got a funny comment "inebriated war-machine"
MrPacMan36 9 months ago
@VortexTech That sir, is the correct response.
Well done... There would be a prize, but unfortunately I don't understand how to send one over internet.
What is it anyway?
enisylo 6 months ago
wow so awesome, I want to see more of these vids where people don't know what the internet is.
daggereye89 11 months ago
Yep... I remember the world wide web... that thing we used to call the internet.... yep...
the dot com & the dot schlams...yeah... what a shame.... it went out like 8 track players, record vinyl lps, cassette decks tapes, vcrs.... yep, I remember the the internet.... emails...@
Nakenchee1 11 months ago
Didn't one "need a phone line to operate internet" at that time?
ttremper 11 months ago
Love it. So funny.
MelindaAugustina 11 months ago
Hi #UN#
very Nice Channel & Videos, Keep up the great Work.
Thanks,
Samantha
Privilegeserver 11 months ago
when's the next episode of gumbel 2 gumbel beach justice?
JawlessClown 11 months ago
Most of us didn't understand what the internet was back then. No reason to feel ashamed about it, Bryant, FFS!
MsLalawilks 11 months ago
@MsLalawilks
I was only 4 back then. I think i first started using the internet around 1997/1998, and it was AOL. I actually don't ever remember having someone explain to me what the internet was. I just remember using it like an extension to the rest of me. I'm 21 now :)
Superflykid2008 11 months ago
Thank you for explaining. This has been confusing me for some time.
MsLalawilks 11 months ago
No, no you don't need a phone line for internet... 4G Wireless Anywhere stick, the 1994 model, right? Or just tether to your analog Motorola grey brick phone.
shmackahippie 11 months ago
The internet has gotten much bigger since 1994, but unfortunately Katie Couric hasn't gotten any smarter.
sonamara997 11 months ago
They didn't even have the encoded @ sign! From 1995 and on, the internet was becoming a BIG thing, however high-speed, broadband internet wasn't available in my neighborhood of Mississauga (near Toronto) until around 2002 or 2003. Some communities, particularly in large cities, had high-speed 10MBPS internet as early as 1995.
MIKON8ERISBACK 11 months ago
@ has nothing to do with the internet
kzdavis1000 11 months ago
LOL. the internet sucked in 1994, take the cheapest website you can find today, X's it by 50 and you will get the internet in 1994 (crap X 50= websites in 1994)
When the internet first started Webpages were basically colorful word documents.
It evolved into something great but if someone would have asked you to put money into a website site you would have laughed at them.
P.S. you could only find a website if you knew the exact web address, they didn't have good search engines back then.
bekindtoyurbuds 11 months ago
internet??? what is this internet you are talking about? and what is this @ thing? its all the work of the DEVIL!!!!! BEGONE SATAN!!!!!!
bluizzo 11 months ago 5
do you write to it, like mail?
bass777chick 11 months ago
the internet being big is an understatement
IVIrIVIajic11 11 months ago
Hilarious.
obiwankendrobi 11 months ago
4 people don't know what the internet is.
zackmac9115007 11 months ago
anyone catch how funny the ending was? if you were connecting to the internet with something other than a phone in 1994 i'd really like to know what you were using
rhinonose 1 year ago 9
@rhinonose Black magic. That's still how it works.
shmackahippie 11 months ago
OMG
This should be in a museum for the internet generation.
inquiry10 1 year ago 5
The 90s were a different time.
macro2sancro 1 year ago
back in 1989 i used to get lots of AOL free-trial cds why didnt htey have free internet?
FormerlyKnownAsShun 1 year ago
@FormerlyKnownAsShun lol wut? im sure you didnt get Cds and if you dont know why there was no free internet you FAIL
thadea 11 months ago
@FormerlyKnownAsShun They did have free internet. It was called NetZero. Also, if you had AOL, and you were cancelling your subscription, you could milk a couple of months of free internet from them.
SquirrelXing 11 months ago
Thats seriously hilarious
juicyi3ig 1 year ago
Seems retarded when you watch it right now.
But you have to consider it was in 1994...
why the fuck would you fire him? retards...
AzngameFreak03 1 year ago 2
@AzngameFreak03 because he knew and wanted the thumbs up on youtube...>:)
thadea 11 months ago
From Gumbel saying "56 past" at the very beginning, it looks like the segment that the network provides but is not seen on most stations because they air their own local news/weather break. Some small-market stations or others without local news/weather breaks would have aired this--but that is not many.
wjdonovan 1 year ago
This is kind of funny.
Deadmansparty2002 1 year ago
How times have change!
rocketgirl616 1 year ago
whoa!!!!!
imagine that... D:
there was a time when internet was new and strange!!!
this was just a few weeks before i was born xP
HelloChello33 1 year ago
This is so funny from a nostalgic point of view, but to be honest many people didn't know about the internet in 1994 so there is no shame on that. It would be like trying to make fun of a 1974 recording of reporters asking what's a mobile phone.
kirk85kirk 1 year ago 3
Unfortunately, no one can be told what The Internet is. You have to see it for yourself.
Zorgdos 1 year ago
feel sorry for the guy who got fired for posting this - this is like watching the 3 stooges - Katie should have a good laugh and not take herself so seriously - and she should not be part of a guy losing his job - geez ...
blueinfinite 1 year ago
This internet thing will never catch on
rbell101190 1 year ago 243
@rbell101190 They said that about TV, the beatles and video games.
kr1spness 10 months ago
@rbell101190 Neither will pockets... Silly things... Pockets.
MrApplseed 9 months ago
Oh the past. How we do enjoy laughing at you from the future.
cooleronaunicorn 1 year ago 7
THIS IS FRIKKEN HILARIOUS
hannbaby 1 year ago
i googled the internet and found this.
mongomoves 1 year ago
This loaded very slow for me, I think the tubes are clogged. Can't wait for the ping pong like balls with the powerball numbers on them to come thru and unclog the tubes. When is the next drawing?
nowhres 1 year ago
WOW! LOOK HOW FAR TECHNOLOGY HAS COMEH
7mikasa 1 year ago
its funny cuz were 17 years in the future and i feel super smart
superstan26 1 year ago 2
Bless that nerd off camera who spoke up to explain the whole deal.
Drewster100 1 year ago 2
All the guy needed to say was "it's a series of tubes".
OrestesValentine 1 year ago
lol
iAmMcdizzle09 1 year ago
Why would NBC fire the guy who found and leaked this video? If anything they should of just showed it on the current today show and laughed about it. The fact that Bryant Gumbel through a fit about this being leak is just stupid. Bryant gumbel is a cry baby.
Just shows he wants it to make it look like hes perfect. It was 1994 its ok if you didn't know what the internet was
TheGreatBean0 1 year ago 53
@TheGreatBean0 I haven't seen reports of Gumbel being upset (but if you know of such references, please share them). The leaker apparently (at least according to NBC) had a history of such actions, and they claim his firing was not based on this incident alone.
VortexTech 1 year ago 8
@TheGreatBean0 exactly man, couldnt have said it better, the guy who found it should be rewarded with at least a pat on the back or sumin. but these media elitist take themselves too seriously, and cant even find humor in such a funny thing. most people didnt know what internet was back then, why are they so fuggin insecure with themselves. but overall, it shows how fast time flies eh?
SelfAware1 1 year ago
@TheGreatBean0 : Because it NBC. Apparently appropriate decisions aren't their ball of wick. They standard reaction is over reaction.
squidb8 11 months ago
isn't that cool to see how far technology has come? its so cool
theGreenPrincess16 1 year ago
The internet is a series of tubes.
bitchiknowyouloveme 1 year ago
@bitchiknowyouloveme It's NOT a big TRUCK!!!
MerchManDan 1 year ago
I still wear a t-shirt that I bought in 1994 @ a concert! Man does time fly..........
wyldemw 1 year ago 2
guy got the sack for leaking this clip
shakemahead 1 year ago
@shakemahead And leaking other things in the past, apparently.
VortexTech 1 year ago