Before the "Real" Internet: Online was very purposeful

[Falador321]

WORL DOMIRASION

[gcastro44]

ching chang chong!

[TylerKG123]

my left ear enjoyed this very much

[TheAluminiumklorid]

LoL The time where hardware and software where somehow more stable and reliable.

[Success2gether]

When online was cool!



[aliensamuraipirate]

Can a BBS still be accessed now? Just wondering. I'm more interested in earlier internet/computer technology (it also helps me understand how we got to what we have now). I'm not a computer nerd/geek, it's just fun to learn about sometimes.

[Afroxec]

@aliensamuraipirate yes....if u have that old equip and if someone is actually running one

[NyukiTaiyo]

@aliensamuraipirate You can't access them now because they don't exist. If you have the software and hardware, it is possible to make one just for practice. The only thing that is close to BBS are Usenet(NNTP) which are newsgroups. It does almost exactly what BBS do. But newsgroups cost money and they charge a month for access.

[SepherStar]

@aliensamuraipirate A lot can be accessed through telnet. I'm sure you can still dial some up but I wouldn't know of any off hand.

[aliensamuraipirate]

I like when the guy used a hat to push the buttons, that's neat.

[punishedexistence]

If it wasn't for these kind of guys, we wouldn't be watching this here today. I give him the thumbs up, but man he is sooo stereotypical!! Interesting video!

[Enigmatism415]

「你今日有冇買呀」

「冇呀、我都唔知有馬跑。」

「你冇發夢咩」

「冇呀、尋晩睇了戰火屠城」

What on earth is that supposed to mean??

[Enigmatism415]

LOL He's typing in Cantonese...

[veetor4]

wonder what his wife says now.

[CrayonVlogger]

They had no idea.

[Flailwielder]

Gasp!...... 1:27 THIS GUY IS THE ORIGINAL INTERNET HUSBAND! 

[timpriddy73]

I WANT 120 p

[CMSonYT]

WOW THE INTERNET SUCKS TODAY. FUK

[theunifyer]

Thus, the asian stereotype is born...

[MrFoxdizzle]

brasicrry

[IIIIandrew]

what's the internet? It'll probably never catch on.

[jarodm5]

INTERNET



[baarbear]

I remember BBSes. When I bought my modem and hooked it up to my computer, the world was my oyster. Those were good times.

[waffles4everful]

NERD :D

[BigSloppyHoe]

i was born in 1993 so im glad that by the time i was 10 or 11 i didnt have to deal with that shit

[myfordescort]

@BigSloppyHoe

Yeah but ALOT of us did have to deal with that "shit" as you put it, without this so called "shit" you would not have internet like you do today.

[dinnerandashow]

7 white guys bitterly feels a non white male has been given too much exposure and credit.

[shaindaman13]

This is the most Asian guy ever!

[metallavery]

So you've done nothing more with computers?

[TheCrampz]

It's cause he's asian guys that makes it not astounding at all since he was taught by a student, if he taught himself then yeah it would be astonishing.

[IcanTypeStuff]

well atleast my right ear enjoyed this

[ZILOGz80VIDEOS]

that must have cost a lot of money to be the sysop of that many bbs's

[mkp823]

Man, look at how long it takes to load that screen- and it's only text! How did we cope? LOL

[cmsahe]

I asked for an internet conection around 1993 at my school back then, I guess they didn't know what I was taking about, they used huge 8" floppies

[izlude2]

helping disabled workers go back to work..

so this is where google spam was born.

[LorneRossbach]

....NeRd... XD

[mstcrow5429]

Appears to be from 1992 at the earliest, so not pre-internet.

[57rfx]

of course he's asian

[DJVM95]

/b/ ?

[Hunkola]

BBS in the early 90's was a GREAT source of dial-up porn downloads!

[justinmoss101]

I can do all of this on my phone.

[nathanjames098]

i live on fiberobics! 151 mega bytes of internet!!

[MrJavaman5]

The computer screen couldn't display graphics so they only had ascii porn back then. They always used @'s for tits.

[StridingCloud]

@MrJavaman5 what about this ( .Y.)

[phattieg]

@StridingCloud no way dude, make your thingies bigger, like this... ( Θ Y Θ ) LoL, >:-D

[NeoSancomics]

@MrJavaman5 This is early nineties, not late seventies-almost mid eighties.

[PROCOMER84]

How did they watch porn on screens this small?

[ZOMGitsDouchebag]

@PROCOMER84 It had to be midget porn. This would explain the evolution of the internet.

[hamiltonjsh]

i love how im watching something about the "internet" while on the "internet" and then write and read sarcastic comments about the "internet" while on the "internet".......WE NEED TO GO DEEPER!

[lordpatrice]

ahhh BBS was so cool back then, I used to connect to some of them, and my brother was hosting one :P

[alexthehaitian]

Nerds Rules!



[CSterrorist]

Internet didn't always exist!?! The more you know...

[Tilleyass]

How klunky as opposed to todays nice little PC!

[W333dm4n]

now how is that army guy gonna open up the Task Manager? HES DOOMED!

[lordpatrice]

@W333dm4n lol there was no task manager back then ... DOS was text only :)

[sickel101]

My left ear felt left out ;-;

[XboxKittyProductions]

@sickel101

i know. My left ear is pissed off because he feals so "light" and empty. :'(

[Zellyunie]

@XboxKittyProductions In 240p you can hear it.

[profCarlson]

Do I see some RipScript there?

[seibervideo]

@profCarlson Yes! I thought so too!

[lisacd20]

cmon, users.dat, can i take a peek?

[DifferentKev]

0:43 "using his bedroom as a nerd center" that's what I heard...

[thafoofa]

@DifferentKev lol



[mrbigbadonion]

@DifferentKev lmao me too

[WulfyStylez]

240p for stereo sound - upvote so others can know!

[xKanden15x]

@WulfyStylez Thanks!

[iToasterman]

@WulfyStylez Damn

[lolcakes117]

i love the way how all the audio comes out my right speaker.

[ken0176]

OMFG at 0:40 i have an 80386sx gateway2000 that looks almost just like that!!!

But the turbo and reset buttons look the same :D

[Dinglot68]

bet that guy's wife didn't have a problem with him sitting in front of the computer once he started raking in tons of cash.

[Morahman7vnNo2]

Goodnite.

[xXDEICIDE216Xx]

I have to ask. Are you still married?

[Snuffomatica]

Da plane! Da plane!

[hkgoalie91]

This guy needs to feel the touch of a woman



[damoos]

Usenet !!

[NissanDriver15]

Burretin board

[NonSapor]

@NissanDriver15

DALUP! (it's a connection)

[arcticridge]

This is Austin Computers, before they starting fucking people over

[dawnnadir]

Hong Kong!!!

[v9vREBORN]

2036

Stupid ass past people.  Now we have holographic display chips embedded into our brains allowing us to be connected 24/7.

[fennectech]

before the internet when uyou kept the disks

[Liquadia1]

??? GET FUCKED! I done this when i was 11 YRS Of age, and the Government even Recognised me for it and achieved a PLAQ of achievement a reward for my hard earned efforts in providing a service to the community.. Crazy!

[MrMbk89]

@Liquadia1 hey! me too!

[seavoyagerful]

quem ta aqui por causa do gizmodo...

[GUNSWORD2000]

and thanks to this buletin board has bacame image boards and then came 4chan thank you t.k. kan

[EmoPenguinz1234]

@GUNSWORD2000 Ahh yeah... I have no clue what I'd do without 4chan

[vhdtb]

INTERNET

[OnlyFoolsAndHorsesHQ]

CERN - 'European Organization for Nuclear Research' invented the internet. The World Wide Web began as a CERN project named ENQUIRE, initiated by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and Robert Cailliau in 1990.

[unInnocentBystander]

Y U NO HAVE 6 COMPUTER!?

[wizard7132]

Haxor

[nantais1er]

in france we had same thing 10 years before this vid, with the minitel lol

[skylar15123]

Is it my or is the videos sound too dynamic I only hear it at the right.

[ZombieKillzoneOps]

thats why there is only asian poeple in internet cafes

[cbau338]

Bulletin Board System were definitely used for porn, and Barren Realms Elite.

[mittlykkepass]

FAKE. impossible...

[HerrKnitler]

You gotta love nerds. They built the infrastructure for us to trade funny pictures of cats. Thank you nerds!

[MowgliX]

@HerrKnitler Yes, cats, the ARPANET was built for it back in 1969, and other stuff too! :D

[EpicTwistedOne]

@HerrKnitler erm the peoplewho make thoose are nerds to, uh and the people who trade cat pic's the most are nerds.

[stoptotalkingbaby]

@HerrKnitler nerd is not respectful word)

[singletona082]

@HerrKnitler While before my time.

You're Welcome.

[DrBassdrop]

@HerrKnitler

Your welcome :)

[grettagrids]

@HerrKnitler yes thank you nerds... met many fine people online :)

[HyperGolem]

My right ear hurts now...

[Aesoe]

HE IS THE INTERNETS!!!

[KNIFECON]

Did anyone else not understand half of what he said?

[djcrawleravp]

Comunity Online!!... Facebook my ass!

[TheUnknownHarbingers]

Part of the William Hung Fan Club!

[maple1255]

... said his wife does not approve of him spending so much time in front of the computer ....

From Apr 7, 2011 ... Refresh your family relations with the eighth annual spring celebration of Sherborn Unplugged! ... into the trap of spending too much time in front of the PC and TV ~ wickedlocal

Seems some things stay the same !

[MIKON8ERISBACK]

Before the year 1995, the internet was not used for porn, or I Can Has Cheezburger funny cat pictures, or causing other people greif. It was used almost entirely by acedemics, computer programming geeks, government agents, students, and the military to retrieve and share information.

Then, along came the bombardment of AOL CD's, at the time, they were somewhat useful, assuming you didn't come upon problems getting the damn phone number to connect to the network.

[Paperclown]

@MIKON8ERISBACK: you don't know anything. the mid 1984-1989 was still a playground for flamewars and trolling on BBS forums. Watch the free downable movie: BBS: The Documentary. There was plenty of porn then online. Demos with music and scanned images, also turned to ANSI characters that people could print out on tractor fed printers, adult games, sex chat rooms.

You were dead then.. so can't blame the ignorant too much.

[brunster64]

@MIKON8ERISBACK There was plenty of Porn pre 1995 on the internet and before that on BBS - I know as I downloaded much of it. You had to be patient back then as the picture built up line by line, but that was all part of the fun.

[MIKON8ERISBACK]

@brunster64 Was it high res?

[brunster64]

@MIKON8ERISBACK No not by todays standards :)

[amitabho123]

@MIKON8ERISBACK

Actually, the thing about 1990s internet was that it had very little restriction. In reality, not just normal porn, but bestiality, child and yes, bestiality child porn was widespread and publicly traded on BBSes.

I suggest you get out of that nostalgia filter.

[MIKON8ERISBACK]

@amitabho123 My first experience with the internet was in 2003 when practical, and affordable high speed internet was first made available in the Toronto area suburb that I live in. I was 8 years old and was falsely accused of looking at porn by one of my classmates, I was in grade 3.

[a1rh3add]

@MIKON8ERISBACK and back then the mmo you know of today was called a MUD

[gabosaic]

the birth of skynet...

[persevere67]

i tried BBS for a month it cost me a fortune, i was charged by the minute for my connection, this was before Netscape, AOL or anybody, the net was not well known to the general population

[VideoMajestic]

It's a shame that computing life isn't like this anymore.

[Hunkola]

I miss the old days of BBS --- that's when I was 17 and got all my porn from !!

[commandergc]

I remember BBS's used to be a few in my town, all the time spent swapping files and playing MUDS i miss those days ;-)

[bubbleheadft]

We wouldn't be right here right now if it weren't for these dudes!

[D0OMZDAYZ]

can it play minecraft?

[Sean2122dd]

did he say nerve centre or nerd centre? 0:44

[OBSysteme]

I miss the atmosphere that BBS had...

[LoryC3]

Us Nerds will take over the World!

[Furetgarcon]

BBS ahaha awesome Anybody want to speak K-rad?

[Abrahandsome3200]

n_n he's speak funny

[jeffreylynngeorge]

BRILLIANT!!!

Thank U 4 posting this!

[psychoclown420]

infinite respect

[luis3826]

haha the cell phone i had 5 years ago probably has more technology than all those computers put together

[cyberskip57]

@luis3826 ... you wouldn't have had the phone if not for all those older computers. haha.

[ynonn1000]

those peoples dont know what technology exist today if they would they probably will be shocked

[Bugstomper2]

I remember this type of dial up communication. Where if you want to Email someone in Florida, it would take two days to get there. The Email would transfer over time to peoples PCs and finally reach it's destination. Those PCs were owned by enthusiasts, who left them on 24/7 so they could transfer Emails over the phone lines. LOL

[jebug29]

I wonder if the old servers these "websites" were on are still up and accessible through a terminal.

[jigbuilda]

Ahh this takes me back to my commodore amiga days...

[girlstorm09]

i wonder if people were addicted to the BBS like people are addicted to the internet today:P

[kotraquin]

@girlstorm09 i used to talk with local girls all the time and even hook up with a few cuties

[Airborn365]

@girlstorm09 Yes they were, for the same reasons.

[azebuski2]

@girlstorm09 We certainly were addicted. In the late 80s and early 90s I was a teen who spent hours a day on local BBS systems. Even in my small town in Pennsylvania there were a dozen or more BBSs all accessible through a local telephone call. People chatted online, played multiplayer text games, posted our ZIP files of stupid stuff and exchanged messages, sort of like email. Damn I still miss those days.

[TheIntolerantAtheist]

The guy sounds like Potholer54.

[Keeltsies1000]

Bill Gates is proud at him

[hunt2070]

Even back then the wives were bitching at us to get off the computer it's been this long WE AREN'T GETTING OFF!

[StrobeFlux]

This is great oldschool stuff! =D

[lemonlimestiv]

i remember having a modem on an apple IIe and only using it once or twice.

i suck!

[HighTreason610]

Those were the days, I remember one BBS system (Might have been Major BBS) where you could upload a menu to the user content section and have it link to the password file, allowing you to access everything on the BBS.

[ogicabp4u]

I remember downloading lots of commodore 64 games illegally to disk. Now I can download all of them in like 1/100 th of the time it took to download one...hehee!!

[teflontdgr]

0:11 "INTERNET"

[donniedarkodevotte]

Wow. These idiots used to use their hands to type? What dinosaurs! People will be saying this soon and we'll be the outdated idiots they make fun of.

[adric22]

I saw "Major BBS" on the shelf. That was the most awesome BBS system available at the time!

[malcommerriweather]

SIX chatting at the SAME TIME??? OMG...what a world we live in!!!

[TheBlackcats11]

@malcommerriweather now you should try hundreds !

[SeanOBriain]

@malcommerriweather Well, if you were online at the time - most BBS's only had one line, and allowed only one caller at any one time. So 6 lines was pretty impressive.

[Qdude10]

Before 4chan raped childhoods

[sr71ablackbird]

geesh, I still have some PCs like those shown in the video along with the monitors with the monochrome screens. The hard drives were big enough to hold with both hands, yet only had 40 Mb of hard drive space.

[nurb101]

Back when glasses took up half of your damn face

.

First post made: "Hey how do we get porn on this thing??"

[jackedup447]

@nurb101 Yep

[drrydher]

Congratulations & thanks for all your hard work! I hope it paid off for you the way it should have. Thanks for posting.

[mikper7]

Boowatin bod! I rike dat sonofabitch.

[Bradkalproductions]

today people couldent live without the internet!!

[ChChChChancho]

oh yeah?? well i can beat all that!! with a laptop and wi-fi!!

[lolanimations]

0:11 nice home page.  INTERNET.

[Doctorfreek]

you are right "time have not change"

[Baraquiel62]

He said technology were there lol!!! and now this guys seems noobs XD

[hgallegos915]

ooooh head motion computer control.

[darthvaderyoda]

I cant wait for 2036 when people of the "future" look at computer comercials and games from now and laugh and make fun of the simplicity.

[ThaWiseJester]

@darthvaderyoda Yeah I love how people mock it,instead of seeing the small steps that started which lead to what we know now..

[luccaskunk]

@darthvaderyoda I already look at video game commercials from now and laugh at the simplicity. Games used to be so much more sophisticated.

[darthvaderyoda]

@luccaskunk Excuse me, is that a joke?

I can see where you are coming from in terms of genre, every game nowadays is a FPS or a war game. But graphically, we are LIGHTYEARS away from where we used to be.

[luccaskunk]

@darthvaderyoda graphically sure, but the games themselves used to be a lot more sophisticated. If graphics were the only thing that mattered in a video game, I'd go outside where the graphics are indistinguishable from reality.

Since video games have become a multi-billion dollar industry, the publishers have been not wanting to take risks or innovate, so they've reduced everything to simple formulas that appeal to the greatest number of people. They lose sophistication in the process.

[luccaskunk]

@darthvaderyoda Spore is a pretty good example. It was being done in a very sophisticated fashion, the way games used to be. However some time between Beta and when the game went gold, the graphics got cartoony, they swapped out the system where the shape and arrengement of your spores legs was what determined its speed, not the feet you used. They took out the whole dragging your prey away and guarding it from other predators. The fish stage went bye bye. Now we have a childishly simple pos.

[luccaskunk]

@darthvaderyoda Black & White had a full neural network for training your creature. You could teach it to do just about anything that was possible within the confines of the game's physics through reward and punishment because that's what neural networks do.

Black & White 2 had a handful of "do this or don't do this" type sliders that could be adjusted through reward and punishment. It wasn't a neural network at all and no where near as sophisticated as the original Black & White.

[ERTLPFM]

@darthvaderyoda 2036 You guys used WHAT? A keyboard? LOL and what is that other thing? A MOUSE!?? WTF! I just think it, and it does it LOL

[BruiserDrop]

His wife thought things were bad then...but things really went to hell when Starcraft and WOW came out lol.