1990s McDonald's Didn't Know What the Internet Was (My Very Own Company)

[@matthewclark8229]

Who do we contact to become an employee of Big Wangers?

[@FactFiend]

You're not Big Wangers Inc material. Sorry, mate.

[@TheCalciumGamer]

So what constitutes Big Wangers material? Because I really want to put that on my CV.

[@TheColonialGamer131]

Can I send you my CV for Big Wangers INC

[@Omnion91]

sounds like the name is compensating for something :P

[@lukesinclair4101]

Fact Fiend - With Karl Smallwood What material would be necessary?

[@JordanFromTheFort]

So when I was 4 and my grandfather was showing me around an Atari Computer, introducing me to the internet, and teaching me MS-DOS, (in 1994) I knew more about tech than a fortune 500 company? God I love the world we live in.

[@CasparSG]

MS-DOS hasn't got anything to do with the internet, though. Pretty sure McDonald's were using a lot of computers and other tech for their company back then, one spokesperson just hadn't heard about this relatively new mass-telecommunication option. You might have known more about tech then that single person, and you certainly knew more about the internet than the representatives of the company.

[@trueriver1950]

@@CasparSG Yes and no. I don't think you would have known more about tech than the MS spokesperson, there would have been lots of IT stuff the spokesperson knew that you didn't. It's just that you certainly did know more about the internet than them. When a field is starting up it's easy to know more in that field than the long term experts working in a related but slightly different field

[@TheWanderingLPer]

Do we have to address you as Karl Smallwood, CEO now?

[@FactFiend]

Yes. That or sir.

[@DarkDavid005]

Only if you say CEO of BIG WANGERS INC. Anyone can be a CEO, not anyone can be a CEO of BIG WANGERS INC.

[@josephhuston4186]

@@FactFiend yes sir Mr president sir

[@davidboden5486]

just wanted to put it out there that bigwangers.sexy is available - also, since when was .sexy a top level domain ?

[@SanzuRiver]

一寸、お金がない！

[@possiblyapeanut]

So you know how KZbinrs give their fanbases silly names? We can all be Employees of BIG WANGERS INC.

[@adolfocoy7516]

Yes; someone should give you a medal

[@williamcannon8380]

More like customers of big wangers

[@possiblyapeanut]

I don't know, everyone here seems to want to have this company on their CV

[@JustCozItsMe]

Hed have to pay us, its cool, I just want an added vid to the weekly sched. 4 a week, 4 a week, 4 a week, dont cross the picket line till we get our demands met. lol

[@AAAKISSON]

or we could just call ourselves the Big Wangers.

[@Nikitolaz096]

I want to work for BIG WANGERS INC. Just to have big wangers in my resume XD

[@enoughofyourkoicarp]

If I want to see big wangers on my resume I just look at the bit that lists former employers.

[@A11L1V3ESL0ST]

@@chanceDdog2009 the CEO is literally Smallwood

[@dude2345672]

+Chance Whistler Join the church of Areaology, Karl says they can help you with that.

[@catgirlgrunge]

SAME

[@TennelleFlowers]

Speaking of Domain Names, the company my partner used to work for is an Amish Printing Catalog called People's Exchange (which already sounds like some weird human trafficking thing, but I guess naive country bumpkins thought it sound nice and communal). When they bought their domain name, they were really afraid they were going to have to buy the domain peoplesexchange and people would misread it as "People Sex Change" so instead they bought the domain peoples(dot)exchange.

[@c0wgirlcoding]

Omg I love your channel!! Hiiiiii

[@monkeysue61]

that was a nice save actually lol

[@kauske]

"Kidsexchange" has about the same issue of unfortunate name, and they didn't have the foresight to put decent spacing in their name and logo. A little planning and an employee with a dirty mind to point that stuff out can go a long way to preventing being the butt of such jokes.

[@brittnay279]

Omfg, that's hilarious

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

When some amish printing company knows more about the internet than McDonalds :D

[@outtagoodnamesdangit]

Imagine being the rival company to Big Wangers Inc. "I just saw the quarterly report: we're really getting pounded by Big Wangers!"

[@outtagoodnamesdangit]

"On the corporate sea, it's not the size of the boat, it's the motion of the ocean!"

[@FreeStuffPlease]

The shareholders will be voting today on the approval of the Big Wangers and the Pink Coochie merger.

[@KevynKross]

"... Had McDonald's by the balls." "... by the McNuggets."

[@eddielund1767]

We should all strive to be like Quittner.

[@badatnamesrea5217]

Gloria Vicis you're right

[@Flatcetera]

“This is the sound of our childhood” more like the sound of disappointment for the next 20 minutes and that only if one of your parents didn’t decide to pick up the phone

[@arinodonichi7928]

omg your green tatoo is messing with the green screen!! THIS IS THE BEST!! (this is why I love this channel. how friggin' chill and laid back it is)

[@arinodonichi7928]

@@qwertyTRiG that's a kinda creepy thing to dream about *shudders*

[@MichelleC50]

Weird. It's like the universe waited until I was free for this video to appear on my feed. Thank you unknown technical issues. Wait does this mean Brad has to put VFX editor for Big Wangers, INC on his resume?

[@williamhart6733]

I sure hope so.

[@Teodora_mng]

Karl said he's the sole employee so I don't think so

[@Psychlist1972]

"Old man" lol I used the Internet in college, before it was open to the public. And it was text-only. Get the hell off my lawn. :)

[@michaelmartin9022]

When I went to secondary school in 1995 they had Acorn terminals connecting to just one server (which probably had significantly less power than one of those "easy mobiles" for eldsters), by the time I was halfway through they had ONE computer with the internet, closest to the desk in the library, which you could reserve for 10-minute blocks, and had to fill in a form for. Most of the 10 minutes was spent trying to connect, I don't think it even had a 56k. By the time I left in 2000 every computer in the school was connected to something fast (for the time, probably equivalent to pretty standard modern broadband... shared by about 50 computers!), and a trivially easy to disable filter. The progress is pretty amazing, to look back on.

[@trueriver1950]

This is the point. At the time the personal computer industry thought that networking was for big (mainframe) computers: they did not see it becoming relevant to their market. That was before internet service providers were at all common or well known. In fact most home computer owners would not have known in the early days either. They played games, did spreadsheets for their business. Video was rudimentary (like the stick men in this video) and CD audio did not yet exist, let alone multimedia

[@megamix5403]

Ok boomer

[@Solrex_the_Sun_King]

I like your beard. Is that you?

[@The_Horse-leafs_Cabbage]

So technically, I've been alive slightly longer than the time McD has owned their own domain name (I be born in 1994)

[@MrDainemudda]

I am older than my own country and most of my student''s home countries... that makes for a pretty neat argument ;)

[@k.k.poptart7469]

@@MrDainemuddaWhat country are you from?

[@MrDainemudda]

Germany...

[@k.k.poptart7469]

Paul Power I just looked it up, and wow, i did not know Germany was founded (or reunified as it said) in 1990. (Lol, can't believe I didn't know that)

[@MrDainemudda]

@@k.k.poptart7469 depending how you count Germany, was founded seven times in the last 200 years

[@simplesimonspeaks1115]

Anytime i need a good laugh i watch this channel. Thanks guys

[@ianh1984]

Not surprising. I didn't know what the internet was until the second half of the 90s. I didn't have regular access to it until the summer of 1999 when I was almost 15 years old. Wow... a lot of youngsters on the internet these days.

[@Dylan-zo6zo]

This guy sounds so amazing it has to be made up. He’s harlarious and isn’t greedy (even generous). In modern times you can’t find people like him lying around

[@Cryten1974]

Ahh the dial up noise, formerly known as loading a game on my Spectrum for 45 minutes only for it to fail at the last 2nd and I have to rewind the tape and start again.....

[@JamesWilliams-kt5qr]

The disc was AOL which was a joke even at the time.

[@AntneeUK]

"to older viewers, this is our childhood" Well now I feel far too old to be watching these videos 😁

[@AntneeUK]

@Sigma Nayo OK, now I feel less old 😂

[@alphateilchen_]

I kept hearing “Madonna Holes.”

[@rtpmatt]

The internet became publicly available in 1993. It was perfectly reasonable for someone to ask "What is the internet?" in 1994.

[@Nordern]

We got Fiber in 1995 as an experiment, it wasn't used until the mid 2000 because nobody could comprehend why you would need the speed & capacity, everyone just stuck to copper lines instead

[@KatieLeesMusic]

I'm honestly so surprised you dont have more subscribers! Only found you a couple of weeks ago, but you are already one of my favourite channels

[@TorreFernand]

I remember 1994, people were talking about this for about two months. It re-emerged in the papers when McDonald's started printing the URL on their ads, but this time the conversation only lasted two weeks

[@IDoABitOfTrollin]

The little AOL dial up running guy is stamped into my brain to this day

[@CodedBlue]

The picture at 9:24 killed me!!! It was all so formal and the it was just like BIG WANGERS INC!!😂😂😂😂

[@phonicEDDIE1234]

That dial up noise brought back so many memories

[@anttibjorklund1869]

"Sincerely, Karl Smallwood..." I love how politely you ended that mail XD

[@czarpeppers6250]

I'm so glad when my family got the internet for the first time back in 1998 it was broadband. But at the same time I feel like I missed out on the experience of the legendary dial up.

[@augustinf]

In 1994 i still hadn't tried the internet. I got it in 1995 at home and none of my friends had such thing. People probably really started talking about it around 1993.. at least in europe.

[@coreyhall5065]

Man that dial up noise always scared/creeped me out as a kid... But it let me play runescape and neopets so it was a worthy trade

[@TheSchmuck2]

To be fair, the difference in awareness of the internet between 1994 and 1997 is astronomical. Even I didn't know what the internet was until 1995.

[@UrobourosZero]

I sometimes play the full dial up louding sounds purely for nostalgia sake, it really takes me back.

[@199022009]

I screamed at the screen when you played the dial up sound.

[@wolffgang101]

I was real young when the whole dial up for the Internet. I can remember my parents starting it up.

[@alittlefishy1]

Back again still listening to you at work 👌🏽 love the video.

[@Invisiblekatana]

Xian’s xiao was a heck of a throwback, loved that stuff.

[@app6072]

I can't stop watching your videos since last week. Awesome channel man

[@Super650adventures]

The Dial up noise brings me so much joy

[@mcshadow5000]

That last bit might be my favorite of all the last bits of every upload I've seen so far

[@elifite5633]

I’ve been binging fact fiend for 2 straight hours

[@flynnsarcadia9291]

On the topic of dodgy marketing slogans. Does anyone remember the cringy burger King advert for King Kong in 2005... Kong my whopper!! And even better for their milkshake... Go large, suck it and see! 😂

[@jameshartwell1429]

That is some James Bond of Internet Trolling right there.

[@FoxerTails]

Absolutely amazing stuff. Both the actual topic and the side story!

[@Tasoq]

There's something nostalgic about that dial-up noise

[@hans-ann]

Ahh that dial up noise brings back all that frustration of my childhood

[@ebonimccain6988]

I've binge watch your videos so I know you weren't joking. This just sounds so much like you. You're my second favorite British KZbinr.

[@hybridvigga]

You can't just say that without telling us who the first one is.

[@ebonimccain6988]

@@hybridvigga I was waiting for someone to care. Its The Dom

[@Nobody-vr5nl]

The domain double troll. I love it.

[@GoldenXBoots]

I love how the ad I had before this vid was a burger king ad 😂

[@FreezeDriedGirolles]

Smart move registering the company under the accountants' address. xD

[@serpent77]

Gotta love getting a McDonald's unskippable commercial before this video....

[@Anonymous9572]

Favorite KZbinr. This dude feeds me with useless information that I enjoy to hear 😂

[@timmyman1997]

That fucking dial up sound will tick with me forever

[@Octopig44]

This appeared in my recommended list TWICE

[@savagemcflurry9082]

"Had Ronald by the McBalls" - missed opportunity hahaha

[@Luingus]

Dial up is his childhood. The old windows startup noise is mine.

[@____________838]

Child.

[@kauske]

Dialup was my childhood and teenage years... The cable in my area was too shitty for cable internet even when it was common and I had to suffer through dial-up even longer.

[@epicspacedorito4916]

my grandmother used dial up until 2014, and only got a smart phone/ touch screen phone in 2016 lol. old people be cray

[@undead9999]

2:44 My childhood

[@ethanch3011]

Ah dial-up. Your doing homework, phone rings, Computer: Ding dong, your homework is gone.

[@kintler11]

Everyone knows what the "internet noise" is as it was a meme.

[@kintler11]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/naSxkoVse7eohZI&ab_channel=willterminus this has 8,3 million views.

[@ChristineSimsOfficial]

Just coz you know it, doesn’t mean you lived it. Unless you were around, that meme means nothing. You don’t know the pain of hearing that noise when you wanted to get on the internet. Sometimes it would just keep going if it took forever to load. If you were on the other end and wanted to use the phone, it was what you heard on your phone until the internet was disconnected. It was the fight of every household since their wasn’t cellphones and home phones were still primary number. That noise is forever ingrained in the brains of people who lived it. Just hearing it on a meme is nothing.lol.

[@michaelmartin9022]

That's not even the full internet noise. There would be an audible click as the modem connected, then the sound of the number being dialled, THEN the internet sound, followed by an agonising silence as it attempted to "connect to remote computer". Another click meant it had failed. Luckily I'd set up Windows 98 to highlight the "most important" button, those being "cancel" and "connect" in Windows 98, so I could just hit enter twice (with increasing force). Windows XP decided to make "close" instead of "connect" the most important button, so I had to consciously move the mouse and click the right buttons.

[@mauriciomeireles1210]

i love that his tatoo now screws with the green screen... It's just perfect

[@LloydLynx]

My family was using dial up until about 2010, we then went with out internet for a few years before signing up for some low income comcast deal. We now have 5mbps down 1mbps up, in a suburb area.

[@OfficeSupplyRobot]

I'm definitely among your older viewers. The dialup sound reminds me of my teen years, and plenty of struggles with downloading and watching videos.

[@5roundsrapid263]

The same thing happened to MTV. One of their former VJ’s bought the domain first, so they had to buy it from him.

[@Ply447]

This video brought back alot of early internet memories for me.

[@derekmeyers10]

I replayed that dial-up sound back like 10 times just to remind me of the good old days

[@drewtombs9020]

I like it how Karl’s tattoo on his left wrist is ‘green screen’ green and sometimes gets captured

[@David_636]

I am 19, so I am part of the generation that grew up with the internet and smartphones. However many people my age know exactly what dial up internet is, what it sounded like and how it worked. Because older people are constantly explaining what it was with the expectation that we wouldn't understand.

[@fre9205]

The dial-up sound is the sound I overlay mentally whenever somebody's brain short-circuits It's part of my childhood but in a different way

[@elizam9652]

I had one of the old block computers when I was 11 years old and I was born in 2000, so yeah! I feel really old- now...

[@Kriae]

Imagine telling 1994 people that one day people will order food directly from the company's website from anywhere they want

[@jeremylawrence6041]

I just had a conversation at lunch with a young coworker about the old days of the internet, the dial up tone it's, speeds and He said he wouldn't have bothered using it if it was that much trouble

[@NathanaelDuke]

The dial-up loony-toons sound made my nostalgia the big nostalgia.

[@mustachio2]

i was born in 2003 but even still i remember that noise and dial up SOO much because of the fact that where i live im so out in the damn country side (which i forking hate) that dial up is legit all we could get

[@ChristineSimsOfficial]

Nate. My dream of a youtube channel is dead 2003 was still pretty much the same internet wise. Not just country folk.lol. Maybe they had something better, but people still mostly had that dial up. Probably the end year. I frankly don’t remember when we got rid of dial up, it was around so long! Haha

[@mustachio2]

I know i was more talking about what i remember vividly from my household '02-'09 we had dial up that i remember im just saying hat as i wad growing up all we had was dial up and lot because of the countryside i mean all we could get untill '09 was hughes and fuck that because of the fact that hughes is SO bad but as a internet and as a company

[@ianonline]

KZbin recommended this video to me and I just looked you up on Companies House and found just two weeks ago that Big Wangers Limited was formed. Their aim is to sell gizmos, gadgets, (and wangers I guess!) in retail stores.

[@r.alexandercorbitt1554]

2:40 so that's what that sound is. We've all heard it at some point, but not all of us know what it is, it would seem

[@aeryagaserghwhe5yagd]

Ah 56k modem tone! Brings back some memories.

[@JoeyWood82]

oh man... dial up noises... takes me back.

[@RowenStipe]

Had to turn up that dial-up noise and slip into ear splitting nostalgia.

[@sabaideebee]

whoa, haha, wasn't expecting that Xiao Xiao reference.

[@XiuHang]

This guy is the ultimate version of chaotic good.

[@powergannon]

I didn’t have the internet until ‘98 so I can understand, but it’s still funny to think about such a huge company not jumping on it from the start

[@gangazumba3333]

"2:18"🤣🤙🏿🤙🏿 Xiao Xiao! Loved these!

[@lelandunruh7896]

I am just old enough to remember when the "Information Superhighway" was what got us all excited for the future.

[@spaggle9911]

What a legend, and yes I too am from the great year of 94. I remember getting the AOL CD and having to install it to use the Internet after switching the phone cable with the Internet cable for the modem. Also remember joana lumleys voice saying I had email.

[@xRAINxOFxBLOODx]

I have been binging your videos for a while... My reccomended is still filled with your videos... that I haven't seen yet. There was only one that I'd watched but I hadn't actually paid attention to... HOW DOES IT KNOW?

[@thefanification]

that double uuuhhhhhh was perfect XD

[@Questypants]

Best part about the name Big Wangers LTD is that the sole proprietor is named *SmallWood*

[@harukasatou1359]

I remember the modem noise. The AOL person, the 5, 10, 15 minute wait times to load one page.

[@stevenboykin116]

The Dial up noise is my ringtone.

[@emoAnarchist]

my entire family didn't get the internet until after dial up.

[@bedwablackburn]

(hears dialup noise) *shudders* I remember that.

[@artemiswolf4508]

KZbin has released Fact fiend

[@UrbanOutlawsSk8Co]

That tattoo color is the best. I hope Karl does a whole green sleeve

[@beezertwelvewashingbeard8703]

That was the age of prank calls, so burger King probably thought it was just another prank call.

[@thetiniestpirate]

That dial up tone and the two Windows tunes (you know which ones) are permanently burned into my ear holes.

[@michaelkeogh7722]

I have seen the video where you talk about people making jokes about your name, so I hope you take this in good spirits. Does naming your company “Big Wangers Inc” count as Nominative determinism? Love the channel. I’m looking forward to the next video.

[@rheeceturner2416]

I was in public and I fucking lost it when I heard about your company.

[@sophiea2640]

Quittner seems like a cool guy.