Steampunk Internet

[SpazzyMcGee1337]

Back in my day, when we called the internet a series of tubes WE MEANT IT!

[TheSpudlyjoe]

Hey! You're missing the video!

[DausHerrero]

Bravo! Good show!

[Jenny041085]

love the sound+music

[UFOJockey]

Youtube 1911 stole your idea

[aternovacula]

Dear tiedyedtehuti, I had found your film among a rather absurdly large amount of others, and I do believe this to be one of the most entertaining. I shall wire you a large sum of "internets" , equal to or greater than a value of Nine Thousand, as soon as I return to London. You, my dear sir, deserve it.  Yours, sincerely, In both deed and in spirit, Most humbly, Sir Ater Novacula, of New London

[DestinyCrafter]

Excellent. o_O-b

[aveyowyns]

What if internet existed one-hundred years ago ... you mean a library?

[harpo103]

This is great!

Especially, the Valiant Knight of the Aether.

[BrianaGhostGirl]

I want to learn to play Dragostea Din Tei/Numa Numa on the piano now. This video is full of awesome. XD

[SpazzyMcGee1337]

The Internet... It's more like a series of tubes.

[valgava]

OMG this is so LOL ... Valiant knight ftw XDXD

[KingOfTheBeyond23]

Valiant Night of the Aether.

+5 points for you.

[CNCSpider]

Ghost Ride the Whip... ERRR.... Buggy! Slick... & Numa Numa on PIANO!? I LMAO a lil bit...

[DerOrk]

star wars kid cracked me up

[dgknight303]

NUMA NUMA LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[FvantomX]

I have a few suggestions if you ever make a part 2, Rick Roll, Alex Jones, Porn/shock sites, and screamers, all in a 1900 style haha

[TheMayorOfShitCity]

VALIANT KNIGHT OF THE AETHER!!!

[Steampunkarma]

Lol Star Wars Kid and Numa Numa Guy

[emococonutman]

i do simply agree mr.447GHT

[TheOnlySilverUnicorn]

Simply brilliant!

[LocustaVampa]

Vickies <3

[IAmFurby090]

I just wonder what Youtube Poop would have looked like back then :p I wonder how the heck Steampunk Internet would have worked!

[ownerfate]

is there a way i can find that starwars theme in that style? cause that was awsome playing

[jereamygrayrose]

Bwahahaha!

[ThePivotPivot]

no way!! the internet actually IS a series of tubes! i knew it! woo!

[iamsnail]

This could be still used for mail delivering. I think its cool system. Awesome.

[MrFungus420]

Absolutely brilliant!

[ColonelMarksman]

Steampunk + Youtube = WIN!

[tassefras21]

The tube thing reminded me of monthy python :)

[SuperTemp100wpm]

thats pretty awesome!! especially the numa numa guy! hehehee! YOU SHOULD MAKE MORE!!

[NoOtherNamesWereLeft]

Awesome interpretation of the Darth Vader Theme! xD

This is brilliant.

[magiceggroll]

The internet is a series of tubes.

[bretzhell84]

exelent :D

[KKinsane2009]

@aprox 1:50

O_O

XD

that is all...also this rules.

[447GHT]

my good sir, i do protest! anyalytical engines linked via telegraph are clearly superior to your "series of tubes"

[walter0bz]

LP-ROM drives

[Quaternario]

ajahahahahahahah!XD I love you!XD

[DrSparrowShrike]

AWSOMMEE

[hidnshadows]

wow. I saw this on the Ravenwood festival homepage. We didn't get to go this year because no minors were allowed in the bar. WE did get to eat breakfast/dinner/whatever at 3:00 in denny's with Abney Park!

[DrSparrowShrike]

GASP ENVY GRR ^^

[TOHOFIEND54]

Instafave

[TOHOFIEND54]

Lol starwars kid

[cyctechproductions]

I can image if my grandpa using to have that type if internet back them.

[VonBoche]

Nice done !

[drdred194]

how did u get the music for dragosta den tie it sounds great!

[biowerks]

is the starwars kid using (2) golf clubs fastened together?

[harpo103]

You do have a certain Eric Campbell quality.

[harpo103]

LOL The Stars Wars kid parody is the funniest!

[tiedyedtehuti]

No, it was from some random old B& W western. I found it in the Prelinger Archives. I have no idea what it was from.

[Theriomalstrom]

Is the "Ghost Riding" clip from The Fall?

[Mushroomking1967]

This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen in my life. Two of my favorite things in the whole world, Steampunk and Internet, are combined.

The awesomeness is hurting me.

[tiedyedtehuti]

Thank you! I've got a director's cut in the works, but it is too long, so I have to edit it into two parts. That was delayed by a little unexpected sabbatical in the hospital. Will post it soon as I can.

[xatzis5000]

1:42 is the grandfather of the star wars kid!!!! lol

[Killerclownmeat]

VICTORIAN!!

[SalchichaPolaca]

so thats Vloging in the 1900s XD neat!!

[drdred194]

the numa song on piano sounds good how did you do it?

[CoNiGMa]

LMAO those Numa Numa and Star Wars fan references were epic!

[calebweberlov00]

nice, that was awsom!! lol

[BAlvarius]

Very vaudeville

[thegrowhole]

Oh I do miss being able to hang out any ole time...those days seem like a WHOLE LIFETIME ago... like..a couple maybe hehe...you've got talent, mr!

[AliceKun1988]

oh that was amazing! :D made me lol real hard

[SkullPanda777]

That was epic. Could you make more of this, then put it in a blender so I can inject it directly into my veins? That'd be awesome, thanks. :]

[DrDolansKinetoscope]

A very interesting compilation of moving pictures. I commend you on your work sir. I especially enjoyed the bit about the Vicomograph Company. They do seem a bit out of control lately, hopefully they'll be a bit less controlling over this domain in the future...

Oh dear, I seem to have gone off topic. Anyways, good job.

[feloniusmaximus]

Ridiculous! That was not an Internet, it was just a series of tubes!

Even so, I did 'ehl-oh-ehl' at the Valiant Knight of the Aether.

[TheOnlineCommunity]

felonius, I couldn't tell if you got the series of tubes part from your comment. If you didn't it, it basically comes from this US senator a couple years ago who described the internet as "a series of tubes". Anyway, he was widely ridiculed and the phrase became famous, and this is putting it literally...... get it now.....?

[feloniusmaximus]

Yeah thanks, I'm well versed in internet lore. So I knew about it when I posted, and my post was made with ironic intent.

Thanks anyway.

[tiedyedtehuti]

The Valiant Knight of the Aether seems to be the favorite. My favorite too-- even though I'm letting the world see me at my most rotund dorkiest. I'm working on an expanded Director's Cut of "Steampunk Internet." Coming soon to a tube-enabled kinetoscope near you!

[warhod360]

LOL NUMA

[Domatophobic]

I adore the music!

This was wonderful!

[foxinator0]

you should have done a steampunk rick roll.

[LeixVonStewart]

Ha! Someone should definately do that! Put a top hat on rick astleys head or something!

[tiedyedtehuti]

Funny you should mention that. I'm tinkering together a "Director's Cut" that will be expanded and include a Rick roll. It will also feature LOL Cats, a Fahrenheit 9/11 spoof about the sinking of the Maine and a Dr. Horrible spoof among other things.

[pewmanfustudios]

Very funny, especially the copyright at the end.

[pantirachan]

Very clever. Ten out of ten.

[sidraptor]

LOL!!!!!

[Schmal86]

great music

[TVwriter23]

wow this is so William Gibson

[RaptorFarmer]

Nice plastic table Mr. Steampunk Starwars Kid.

But I like the video.

[loverockit]

Very visionary and humorous, fun to see what internet was like in Ted Stevens' day!

[UssrTV]

When seeing all the tubes I was about to rant this movie, but seriously it shows a lot about how movies was at that time.

[HoshiHikari]

BWAHAHAHAHA! Ahhhh....I love steampunk.

[DYBoulet2]

The reaction at 3:41 really makes me laugh. :-D

[kalatorulstalker]

he he .. viacomograph company ...

yeh that numa-numa sequence was nice

[DollHeadProductions]

hahaha! very creative i loved it! especially the random kittens towards the end ^_^

nice

[ActionCarl]

This is the awesomest thing ever.

[Datan0de]

Nicely done!

[tiedyedtehuti]

Hey kids! I'm in the process of building the director's cut and using some of the suggestions made here in the comments. The widely despised opening "Series of Tubes" scene will be completely re-done. Parodies to include "An Inconvenient Truth," "Fahrenheit 9/11," LOL Cats, "Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog," and more! Thank you all for your input and supportive comments.

[iamtae]

The series of tubes opening is humorous and clever, but I do think it went on far longer than necessary. The rest is wonderful, and I can't wait to see more!

[reanimator4]

Super :)

[snager80]

i love the piano, especially Numa Numa. just when you think you've heard or seen every incarnation of it, it crops up, ONE last time.

[dmspar]

An audacious attempt at hilarity sir, and most well done if i do say so. 5/5

[81Sparhawk]

I can just say one thing to comment this video: LOL!!!!

[umbillicalnoose]

this is funny i luv steam punk

[NoisemakerJones]

Brilliant, brilliant piece, anachronisms aside. :-)

I instinctively clapped during the "veterans for Taft" part, and the Numa Numa was a scream!

Keep up the great work.

[FuzzyDuck]

So it IS a series of tubes!

[FuzzyDuck]

Nicely done!

[AudibleGasp]

This really made me giggle - good show, sir, especially on the piano accompaniment! 5 Stars

[Bourbonillaka]

This is fantastic!

[SteamPoweredGoth]

OH GOD! I need the soundtrack. That Numa Numa remix blew my mind!

[Perktube1]

Hey! Have you ever thought about doing a decopunk version? Sky Captain is decopunk, as is Bioshock, although it's also very dark and dystopian like blade runner and scary like Alien.

[MARDLtransmit]

Wait, decopunk? This is the first time I've heard this phrase, I'd heard people were calling Sky Captain "dieselpunk"... Either way, it's really just pulp.

Oh, great vid here, btw :D

[MARDLtransmit]

Wait, decopunk? This is the first time I've heard this phrase, I'd heard people were calling Sky Captain "dieselpunk"... Either way, it's really just pulp.

Oh, great vid here, btw :D

[GIGeorge23]

wonder if theres a nuvopunk?, i mean there got to be one for every artistic style

[Samoutuomas]

GIGeorge23: Well, there's Cyberpunk. And Neo-Noire (or whatever it was called). Stuff like Blade Runner, William Gibson's Neuromancer, Johnny Mnemonic, and maybe The Matrix.

[Karlfalcon]

Brilliant! *clink*

[MentalHygienist]

Ah, a brilliant take on the YouTube!

[Gendodiamond]

hey any chance of hearing the 1980's gen 1 transformers thems song done the way you did the imperial march and the numa numa??

[galenrandir]

That is f*cking amazing!

[Jayhawke]

ok worth it just for the jedi kid moves! :-P

[lostinthecrypt]

Awesome video!

Please, give link to old-style Imperial March mp3)

[SquirrelGrrlBlue]

I LOVED the "old time" renditions of the Imperial March and Numa Numa! Those had to be my favorite segments of the video. Good job! I hope to see some more videos in this style!

[EliteRanger]

Is there anyway I could download the Victorian piano rendition of the Imperial March?

Great video, btw. :D

[eekeenoink]

Who else saw just how much footage of hot rod exhaust manifolds was in the pipes scene? :D

[tiedyedtehuti]

I liked them because they were curvy! ;) I think those will be edited out in the "Director's Cut." That is the section that everybody agrees is too long.

[eekeenoink]

They are cool, but ya.

[Sorachandler]

i thought it was a bit short myself

[danobaka]

this needs a sequel for serious, with rickroll

also yeah, trim the intro, a minute of pipes is way too much, it's like a quarter of the entire video spent on an instant gag.

i lol'd though, that was superb, all in all.

[lordmonfort]

awesome video..very well thought out...

[xGalacticGeminix]

Great job ^ ^

[ZemplinTemplar]

Superb parody skit ! :-) Long live the steampunk style... ;-)

[coldstar07]

@tiedyedtehuti: yea it is to do with flugtag :D

[coldstar07]

what about te red bull airship race?

[tiedyedtehuti]

That's a reference to the Flugtag thing, right? *Blushing at my own ignorance*

[krougeau]

ROTFLMAO! OMG that was brilliant! Love the Numa Numa & Star Wars Kid parodies!

[partylikeitsnine]

this is great, but cut that weird unnecessary and long pipe intro. you lose most of your audience during this because they don't anticipate whats about to happen and just click out of the video.

[larrydavideo]

Brilliant video, my friend!

[JohnJFentiman]

You could include conspiracy theorists (most assuredly an integral part of any youtube experience). The sinking of the Maine was an inside job, people!

[JohnJFentiman]

You could include conspiracy theorists (most assuredly an integral part of any youtube experience). The sinking of the Maine was an inside job, people!

[tiedyedtehuti]

Outstanding suggestion! (And there are theories that suggest exactly that.)

[auldhat]

Heeeelarious.

[tiedyedtehuti]

I've got a couple of projects ahead of it, but I'm thinking of re-editing and expanding this video. I'll make the opening part with the pipes a bit shorter and I'd like to add the "All Your Base" meme and the "Leave Clara Bow Alone!" idea, both from folks who've posted comments here. Maybe a LOL Cats bit would be funny too. "Invisible Velocipede" maybe? What else should I include?

[larrydavideo]

...would Father Ardent's Unique Throat Confection or some tooth powder react to a sarasparilla elixor as Mentos does to Diet Coke?

[tiedyedtehuti]

Oh... That's good... That's really good!

[Ataru320]

Very interesting...my only complaint: Roosevelt was running for VP in 1900...McKinley was the guy running for president. (unless this was 1908...then I could see Roosevelt/Taft) That and I'd expect "Star Wars Kid" to make more fun of the Lumiere Brothers or Melise than some Lucas guy who wasn't even born yet.

[tiedyedtehuti]

You do understand that this is a comedy not a documentary, right? More Benny Hill than Ken Burns... Sure it is full of anachronisms and historical inaccuracies but I was trying to cast current memes in the FLAVOR of how it might have been. I find it amusing that you are bugged by Roosevelt 1900/1908, but the notion that little reels of film were piped to kinescopes all over the world through a network of pneumatic tubes seems perfectly reasonable.

[Ataru320]

That was funny though. Didn't mean to bug you, I just like trying to make comedy and history reflective.

[tiedyedtehuti]

No, no... You didn't bug me. I'm usually pretty picky about stuff like that. Nothing bugs me more than to be watching a "historical drama" and see some out of place bit of technology or clothing, Zippers in the backs of some of the female costumes in Gladiator, for example. I'll make more allowance for comedies and stuff like that. Perhaps I should have called it "Internet Circa 1900."

[Ataru320]

Yeah that would have worked. More inclusive of stuff like the Taft/Roosevelt joke.

[CrazyDiscotheque]

Oh man, that's great. xD

The Numa Numa song sounds good on piano. Hmm.

[nebutron]

I laughed out loud, even if I'm clueless about some of the references. Very well done! Especially loved the Rough Rider guy.

[Starhawk73]

Yep, the old timey Internet (invented by the time traveling genious Al Gore) was a series of tubes and whistles! LOL

The Star Wars kid as of 1900 AD was hilarious!

[Mantaraykid]

The internet is a series of tubes!

[Coffeeeggsbacon]

BWAHAHAHAHA

this is perfect.

[xDarkxKnightx]

Nice vid :) Great Olden-time simulation.. Complete with that bouncy whatever the heck that stuff was in the Bottom right corner...

[Starhawk73]

Sometimes a short and curly hair would get into the film projector and it's image would end up being projected onto the film screen. That don't happen these days!!!

[xDarkxKnightx]

Ah.. Well you learn something new every day... Even 3 weeks later XD

[tiedyedtehuti]

Short curly hairs in the projector were especially problematic for projectionists in turn-of-the-century nudist colonies.

[dseilhan]

Brilliant. Just brilliant. Also? Nice to see YouTube comments from actual adults. :D

[EmiOfBrie]

Too bad the time frame wasn't 1928....

"LEAVE CLARA BOW ALONE!!!" ;)

[tiedyedtehuti]

"Leave Clara Bow Alone!!!" That's brilliant!

[loperspest]

well if they had expanded the pnumatic message tube systems, who knows what would have happned. of course the main differance between that and the internet is, how would you copy everything? but still very funny. heck I found your parody of the starwars kid more funny then the star wars kid!

[tiedyedtehuti]

I'm glad you liked the Star Wars Kid bit. I really had to swallow my pride to do that part. Knowing that it was taken in the spirit it was intended makes it worthwhile.

[loperspest]

you did a wonderful job. thank you very much, it was definitly worth it. Personially I would feel more 'ulp' about doing the "Numa Numa" guy. Was any of it done with an actual old camera? Or is it all editing?

[tiedyedtehuti]

The "Numa Numa" bit was pretty gay wasn't it? (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) My poor wife just shakes her head when I come up with this stuff. You can imagine her horror to look out the window and see me doing those things in full view of the neighbors.

No vintage camera work involved. All this was videoed with a Kodak CX7530 digital camera, not even a proper video camera. All the effects were done in post production.

[Shufei]

I right fancy this. Ripping film, really.

[devilstar13]

love the music ;D What did you use to put this together?

[RedRabbit1983]

There are too many fucking pipes at the beginning.

[tiedyedtehuti]

Yeah, that seems to be the consensus. I was trying to show how vast the "series of Tubes" was, but I think I could have cut that part by half and it would have been better.

[d00m4n]

great !!!!!!!!1

[tatisimo]

This video is priceless. I've come back to it over and over for about a year now. We need more of these :)

[KarizmaLion]

People like you make the internet worth visiting. Good show [ol' chap]!

[MAliceSweep]

Imperial! Absolutly Imperial!

[DugOLas]

It is not a big truck. It's a series of tubes!

[andbruno]

This is really good.

[nairda55555]

lol, ragtime star wars at 1:44

[nairda55555]

a realy,realy, long time ago in a galaxy far far away. lol

[hpcrewsmith22]

is there any way you can get the entire numa numa song on the piano?

[SunFire1051]

hehehe... that was pretty good

[JovialDNA601]

Wonderful! The best thing I've seen online for weeks. The music is just perfect. Please keep 'em coming!