Telecommunications services for the 1990s

[PawpetsWest]

Hey - I worked on this stuff. GPO Research Dept.R13 1969.

[benchaney77]

And we call it... The Internet

[DJGM1974]

The late 1960's GPO predicting average mortgage prices of just over £5000 ... LoL!

[TroyMccluresbreth]

video phone/monophonic synthesizer, and it was all thought of in the 60's

they even had a portable bleep synth :-D

[amojak]

heh they even predicted last mile fixed wireless, funny how the private company the GPO became then shunned such technology.

[ultraman8914]

They predicted Skype!

[AskMrScience]

Thunderbirds are GO!

[Bloodybunny]

That's the most unpleasant dial tone I've ever heard!

[tophyfan]

wow! :D

[djmaxmv]

HI DEF COPY :O  men i just have a 300dpi printer men how

[adlereagle123]

All this came true except things were less bulky and you could carry it in your pocket haha

[r1oot]

prediction of skype in the 1960's :D

[weldon0m]

COMPUTER SES....NARRRR!

[weldon0m]

YOUTUBE BACK IN 1969 THE WORLDS 1ST STAMPING TV SCREEN COMPLETE WITH WOOD VANEER....SWEET..

[jazzer68]

That 'recorder' is just using an old cassette box mounted in the model!

[miderspunky]

quality thespian skills in this.

[jaketurner1990]

Miss Johnson is gorgeous!

[wilkes85]

That all came true!

Also, fuck what we got today, i want what's in the video!

[MrSecretlevel]

Wideband coaxial cable... the phone company invented cable TV.

[RushOrbit]

we got this and more.. except computers dont make boat sounds lol

[wheelieblind]

If you think that's odd, the electric car existed back in 1912 as a race car

[mattfox14]

great acting for the 1990's

[jaysong87]

IF you think about this, it was only a 40 year gap from when they made predictions like that... imagine in another 40 years from now, wonder how things will look like lol.

[Rcrby525]

wow, they were right, we have video communications now, heh, they are called webcams.

[TrandomnesstwO]

Screen capture good good.

[KiranGlitch]

they didnt have much taste for tvs them days

[CorisDavis913]

0:37 don't think seeing her at all would be better.

[16bmidniterfoxo]

@CorisDavis913 LOL

[thebasementmoe]

Well you are going to have to wait!

[arc27]

If pagers were that loud, I think I'd shoot myself.

[benolly22]

Groovy man groovy

[piggybilling]

Great video, Strange but true?

[TheProfitWizard]

Love that "screen capture"!! -LOL

That is scarily accurate though... real or fake?

[feckingbillgates]

That's right! They imagined that very powerful computers would fill whole rooms! But this happened for a good while afterwards, and in mainstream films too (see the first Alien film for example). There just wasn't the notion of miniaturised technology yet - quite amazing really.

[feckingbillgates]

All of this came true except:

"I wish I could see you now." "Well you can't, can you?"

These characters wanted the future to happen WITHIN 1969! How stupid of them!

[david552]

The Endowment policy - a warning from History...

The business man will be able to do all his work from home - but for some reason will still wear a suit whilst doing it...

[pubwebmaster]

This is strange. It's so amateurish and clunky, compared to the British Transport Films of the same period, I'm tempted to think it's a fake! But if it's genuine, it shows how far ahead of the times they were in their aspirations.

[makingmocks]

Was that Tory MP John Redwood on the 'phone?!

[xfactorfan2007]

Wow this is like almost spot on

[MrJeffcool78]

well kinna like skype even in the 60's

[Scotscan]

Very interesting indeed. I would have preffered systems like those; much more querky. The ladies in this film were pretty nice too cracking pins.

Cheers

[orcslayer900]

dude, LOOK at her.... i wouldnt want to see her now D:

[demonzsoul]

Bwahahahha, that's a TV???

[michaelwincott]

That's fantastic. One of the few videos that predict the future that actually came true.

[hannibalPP]

that must be cool. hehehe

[drewthaler]

The gags at the beginning and end are wonderfully prescient. "Wouldn't that be better?" ... hah, not necessarily. :-)

[giantcockroach]

Wow, tremendous foresight there. Amazing how many predictions they got right: - international video calls - pagers - answering machines - facsimiles - online bank statements - online stock prices - online mortgage calculators (!) - working from home

Thankfully the user interface is a bit more friendly than that oddly shaped terminal :)

[dmine45]

Fortunately something called a keyboard and a mouse were invented :)

[dnave21]

yes the terminal is a bit old. Now we can point and click on a pc and use cell phones to check emails.

[lovegungoodfun]

wow I got one of them!!! its a computer cool

[ToolOfTorcher]

Very interesting. And half of those things became a reality much earlier than the 90's, like the answering machine.

[tommyeyester]

so hi teck

lol

[tvwank]

Interesting. I suppose this was based on analogue technology. Though the bandwidth required without compression would have made it very expensive for video.

[dmine45]

It was. It never really took off in the US either, simply because the switching equipment and the transmission equipment for analog were way too expensive to make it work. You did notice how the guy in the beginning did mention the use of coax cable and spurs to serve side streets and large buildings. That part did come true (cable modems anyone?)

[YdOuUmRb]

lol this is pretty funny, not too far off from the future, but the way they made this video seems ridiculous xD

[NeoMikey]

Some of the stuff looks rather dated, but they weren't far off at all! Granted, all this can be (and is) done with the internet now, but aside from some slight differences, they were right on

[vulcan3d]

Awesome! But when exactly did injection-moulded plastic toys become popular in Dollis Hill? :P

[MathieuTwoO]

I love the last scene with the dad rolling his eyes because he is working home... LOL

[stevenpam]

That is frickin' awesome. I wish the interwebs really was just like that today.

[seehispugnosedface]

yeah bullshit this is real

[KeithFK]

Absolutely bloody brilliant. I really enjoyed that, thanks for posting.

[scottishwildcat]

It was looking like quite a reasonable prediction until she photocopied the plans off the screen! Given that documents could already be transmitted electronically by then (albeit not very practically) using forerunners of the fax machine, it's surprising they didn't expect something like that to become more mainstream.