The Internet - Circa 1969

[wing2912]

Husband pays the bills at his console...somethings never change

[OolTube02]

Well, at least the envisioned monitors appear to be flatscreens...

[djbat3]

I love how the man while reviewing the "wife's" purchases looks like he's stressing his ass off at all the charges she's racked up on her "console".

[captainbackflash]

And where is the console for porn?

[upyr1]

I'd like to see the rest of this- this is one of the few world of tomorrow filmsthat didn't have me either laughing or crying.

[773SleepyHollow]

I've seen the full video of this, and it doesn't get EVERYTHING right... for example, it predicts that Spotify won't come to the States until 2012, not 2011.

[N31373]

Actually, the hula hoop dates back to the '50s. We got indoor toilets, electricity and a 2-party phone line (instead of 8 party) in 1950. Our number changed from 9611F212 to 1207J. By 1969, I was learning a programming language called "CREATE" via teletype terminal linked to a mainframe in Ohio. Time flies when you are having fun. BTW: don't forget the computer that beat IBM and Apple senseless: the Commodore Amiga. There was also GEM a system that pretty much whipped Windows v1 thru v3

[Orlabobz]

It's scary how accurate it is..... for once a future prediction that was carried out!

[MowgliX]

Everything was invented, conceptually, in the 1960s. The personal computer revolution of the late 1970s and early 1980s with the Apple II and the IBM PC, and later the Xerox Alto, the Apple Macintosh and, years later, Windows, were a few steps in the right direction, but only a phase in the development. There's the genesis of the next thing in the iPad, but who knows where we will be in another ten years?

[spomom2]

AMEN

[SNESosT]

0:46 husband like, "fuck tht shit"

[aei05h1]

Wow, they got it a bit wrong here. Where was the ads when the wife started shopping.

[myndwork]

and the two other monitors are for dad's porn.

[newrad8791]

"what the wife selects on her console will be paid for by the husband..."

[WC3POchannel10A]

@newrad8791 And he gets angry about it, "You've been shopping on GroovyBay again haven't you?!"

[dslgunner1977]

What's funny is that, at the time, people considered this to be absolutely amazing and technology.

Only the people who were financially well-off could even afford this 'incredible, modern' technology, unlike today, where it is automatically assumed that EVERYONE has a computer and internet, or at least easy access to a computer and internet.

Just imagine where we will be in another forty years!

[newrad8791]

@dslgunner1977 "Only the people who were financially well-off could even afford this 'incredible, modern' technology"

what? they didn't have the internet in 1969...

[dslgunner1977]

@newrad8791 I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. When I was talking about the "amazing, modern technology", I was talking about the technology in this video, which allowed people to make purchases by computer - THAT was the technology to which I was referring...and at that time, it certainly was quite amazing and modern.

I was just making the point that very few people THEN, had that technology, while today, virtually everyone has internet, which is far more advanced.

[cescobar1]

:046 "What did that bitch buy now"

[dslgunner1977]

@cescobar1 XD hahaha..He sure did have that angered, "Damn, there she goes blowing all of my hard-earned money" look on his face.

[amorasaki]

damn that baller multitasking in 1969 with 3 screens

[Abrahandsome3200]

Can i play in xbox live?

[TheOneToxic]

its scary to see how well they acctually predicted it :P

Except for the bit where the man pays the bills, its usually the wife getting pissed at t he husband for buying useless crap XD

[jason24568]

1. A slideshow of some products (eBay)

2. The first videophone (webcam)

3. A three computers and the email is to write it down with your stylus than typing.

[Adrast]

I wish I had three displays. Our present/future sucks.

[borgduck]

Oh no! Some idiot has travelled back in time to 1969 (probably to get stoned at Woodstock) & changed history!!

[badtown88]

Father is gonna beat the shit out of mother.

[DigitalCyborgman]

This is why today, America is lazy, fat and angry....

[robertschelly]

Hmmmm might be a prank.

[robertschelly]

I think this is fake.

[robertschelly]

What's misleading? It's a very prescient projection if you ask me.

What I think you mean is, people were not doing that in 1969. Indeed they were not. We still bought from department store catalogs by mail!

This is a remarkable artifact.

[giantbluemarlin]

Kids, this is deeply misleading. They hadn't even invented the hula-hoop yet and home computers were decades away. We played in the street throwing darts at concrete to make sparks and only the rich had a working bicycle and they were crap. Half the people still had outside toilets for heaven's sake! It was completely normal to smoke and be apallingly racist. But adults could do simple math.

Ha ha. And just like today, they always tried not to mention the PRICE of the goods! That old chestnut.

[PirateOfTheInternet]

@giantbluemarlin Um, it's a prediction?

[giantbluemarlin]

@PirateOfTheInternet

Um. I predict you will get the point one day.

Like that I read the com "FLATSCREEN IN 1969??????" below...

And it was a joke anyway.

But someone (like mr flatscreen) watching this might think that this shiznit occurred soon after the prediction was made. Esp as it's mainly in the present tense.

I predict you will come back with something but I won't respond. Tomorrows world will see you staring at this page wondering how you missed the point and if I read your com.

[pansy765]

@giantbluemarlin Not sure how old you were, but I remember hearing about such things, we were not rich, rode our bicycles, and I also had a hula hoop in 1969! We most certainly had indoor BR as did my grandparents! These things were like sci-fi movies for us!

[773SleepyHollow]

@giantbluemarlin I just wanted to reassure you that at least some of us realize you're joking.

[StoneColdKrishna]

@giantbluemarlin Just because you couldn't take a course in electronics and engineering doesn't mean everybody else couldn't in the 60's. Stop painting the picture in your head that America as a whole was one big dumb redneck family like yours in the 60's pushing hoops down a hill with a stick.

[hushok]

I only have one question...

What is she doing outside of the kitchen...

nom nom nom

[syncmaster710n14]

And the husband pays for it. Sounds about right.

[starstarstar42]

1:54 In the Future, the back of our computers will have RCA stereo plugs.

[ggTerror]

FLATSCREEN IN 1969??????

[zonemad96]

@ggTerror no its a digital electronic multi techno color picture producing thin wonder frame it can produce color at 4350 mfgs well thats what they would have probably called it back then

[1stclickisthehardest]

everyone has a swimming pool lol

[CanalTrucho]

they forgot about the father will be watching porn on his console

[livordie4eelam]

i personaly think they must have had this technology back in time...but didnt want to release for another 30 years.so accurate prediction is unbelivable..

[uniflare]

OMG if only modern circuits backed up

[MyYTFaves]

An accurate prediction. A good example of what happens when imaginative individuals apply recent new technologies practically to everyday life.

AT&T had a device in prototype in the early 60s called 'Picturephone" which was basically the video part of this. The Dataphone (aka Modem) was also around in the early 60s. Though the modem made it's way into businesses, the picturephone pretty much flopped.

The basic concepts of the internet have been 'one day we all will' concepts for some time.

[darkcrimson23]

I love how the husband is shaking his head at his wife's purchases...makes me think:

"...and the middle console will be used for emotional abuse and angry dinners."

[sideim]

@darkcrimson23 lol Yes, however it should gone into detail like the wife can watch juniors browsing habits and where he goes on The Internet..haha

[scientiavictoria]

Lucky us to be able to communicate via nervous system interconnections nowadays, oh and please why use screens when you can bypass the eye with hooks straight into the cybtech4000 brain-upgrade visual cortex.

[marzbite]

this is ridiculous, this is never gonna happen

[fliegeroh]

Mom was at work too.  I don't think they thought that was gonna happen.

[AnthonyJamesLane]

this ... never gon'na happen!

[ma049]

This is amazing. Such an accurate prediction of internet banking, buying on-line and home computers.

Most people thought it was going to be about flying cars and holidays at the Moon Hilton.

[SHOBOOTY]

Does anyone have the rest of this film?

It shows a flat screen tv and a car with a built in NAV. system.

I remember seeing this in grade school.

[Trance88]

Some of the ideas from this video are unbelievably accurate to what has actually happened with computer networking technology, it's just the idea of how they carry out the tasks that are dated. The tasks are conducted in a more analogous or more physical manner as in knob tuned devices and physically connecting with a department store with cameras or sending hand written electronic mail.

[MuzzikLvr]

The dude at 0:45 - is that Wink Martindale?

[MEXICANJOKER45]

they would never imagine we wolud be watching them on youtube

[dslgunner1977]

@MEXICANJOKER45 What is this "YouTube" that you speak of?

[supressorgrid]

@dslgunner1977 The youtube was an itegral part of the dynamic reflexor circuit which would produce nand particles to attenuate excess and particles creating the and/or nand/nor intermixer.

[MightySaturn5]

that stuff is awesome!....I can't wait for the future.

Who knows what inventions await us -as I close my eyes my mind wonders into the funtastic fantastic future!...reduced calorie soda...cable television with 25 channels...men on the moon....scantily clad promiscuous females...games that appear on your television...hand sized units that "calculate and display" math equations ........and of course the most popular prediction -ending the cold war with Don Knotts and his 3 foot long shlong.

[pbanta62]

1:34 "...instant written communication to individuals anywhere in the world..." E-MAIL!

[montsrubi]

he looks worried

[matelotgeek]

where's the fucking kb ?

[nightflyer28]

0:45 - if the guy's that worried about the clothes the wife is buying, he probably shouldn't have bought that big computer system....

Nice, though - pretty prophetic, given the tech of the time.