"...until she turn it off" still the focus was on practical communication and on humans, imagining nowadays people turning off the wifi seems extrange.
@ian_ford Жыл бұрын
I remember this well. Freshman year in college, seems like yesterday. Long before Short messaging system (SMS/text) came along, this was THE thing to have.
@sstills951 Жыл бұрын
The first two years I went to UMASS Amherst, practically nobody I knew had a cellphone. Changing classes and walking on campus was a somewhat quiet affair. I took a year off to work, and when I went back to campus, suddenly it seemed like everybody had a cell phone and students pulled them out to make a call immediately leaving the buildings. Walking the campus had suddenly become a cacophony of conversations. This was in the early 2000s so some years after this commercial.
@aj5762 Жыл бұрын
Hello fellow Alum!
@NudePostingConspiracyTheories Жыл бұрын
Im 61. I remember the peace
@epilpstd1 Жыл бұрын
90's commercials, movies and TV have a great feel. I dont know why.
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Жыл бұрын
The advertising agencies in New York were experimenting. They even hired people like me to make commercials, a documentary filmmaker! David Hoffman filmmaker
@QarleyQuark Жыл бұрын
Wow! Technology was truly zooming throughout the 90s
@sharondrury5676 Жыл бұрын
Holy cow, David. Congratulations. That description was enlightening. I knew a little about AT&T but I’ve been raising a family and haven’t kept up since I left ma bell in mid 60’s. Thank you. You are a wealth of knowledge and experiences. Much love.
@moonbeanification Жыл бұрын
Oh if we had any idea of the beast we were about to unleash....
@moredistractions Жыл бұрын
I had AT&T wireless in 1996. My plan cost was: $20/month plus $1/every minute used. Inflation in 2023 would almost exactly double those prices. Imagine what your total monthly bill would be if you had to pay $2 for every minute you spent on the phone.
@Pieman2966611 ай бұрын
Pretty much zero since everyone Texts each other instead of actually talking these days :D
@BAD_CONSUMER10 ай бұрын
Nobody spends time on the phone any more. So, pretty low.
@Bennjammin Жыл бұрын
Right, I used to walk around care free no way to contact me. Now I'm tied down to this thing, and I can't turn it off even if I wanted.
@kathleenferguson3296 Жыл бұрын
I lived in Greenwich Village at this time, and we had our share of street crazies having loud conversations with themselves, or the voices in their heads. No matter, we knew them, and looked out for them. Suddenly one day, guys in suits are doing the same. Gesticulating and yelling ( poor reception) and we thought the world went mad! it was only the first cellular phones with ear pieces, and these were business calls. Holy whatever, it seemed like Psychotic Reaction for the whole populace!
@MicahScottPnD Жыл бұрын
That's a fantastic story!
@cheri238 Жыл бұрын
@@MicahScottPnD Lol
@loganstroganoff1284 Жыл бұрын
I still don't use earbuds for phone calls in public for that very reason lol. And I too remember the early days of Bluetooth and thinking ppl were talking to themselves
@Lava_Girl- Жыл бұрын
Ah, yes, I like to think of the pre-wireless era as the good ol' days. Internet really threw us for a loop, however cellular devices...the mini computer you can put in your pocket is what forever changed us for the worse. In my opinion of course.
@Meisha-san Жыл бұрын
The tech didn't change us. Most people aren't self-regulating & disciplined enough to set appropriate boundaries on using the tech. Same with motor vehicles. Why do we experience the carnage we have on our roads? Are we going to blame cars?
@Lava_Girl- Жыл бұрын
@Meisha-san Disagreeing respectively here. I understand what you are saying however without cars there would be no wreck less drivers and therefore no car wrecks. If we got back to basics as a species I believe there would not be even half the issues that plague us today. Sure tech has allowed us to survive longer, keep in touch with each other faster and allowed us to explore like never before. But it has also caused us to destroy our planet faster and actually isolate us from real meaningful relationships and lives. We have an obesity epidemic. Widespread disasters & nuclear threat ever present. Tech has allowed us to now spread into the universe, like an infection threatening other civilizations.
@Meisha-san Жыл бұрын
@@Lava_Girl- I too respectfully understand your good logical argument. To disagree with it would be to ignore our cold, hard reality. I can't help being a wishful thinker, though. It's well within the capacity of our current human society to mature a little more & exercise control over our creations & actions. As a species, we're teetering on the edge of this next collective leap in emotional intelligence. With this perspective, I can't blame inanimate tech for the issues we're facing. We can grow out of this adolescent species stage that has us collectively behaving like viruses & move onto a more mature altruistic phase. That's what's going to turn this same tech into positive tools for positive endeavors. Time's running out fast for us, especially with the likes of autonomous general AI tech on the horizon.
@Lava_Girl-11 ай бұрын
@Meisha-san Well said, my friend. Your positive outlook is contagious. I truly admire you for not giving up on this planet and our future. Some may say that hope is a form of faith, and I strongly believe that to be true. I am glad we had this opportunity to share a little friendly debate. Thankyou ❤️
@drewpall2598 Жыл бұрын
another informative description writes up David, Nice to know what film clips, documentaries and info-ads you worked on as a cameraman and or producer. 😊👍
@franksavage8031 Жыл бұрын
Can't wait!
@lifeofbella9246 Жыл бұрын
Technology! Wow 😮❤
@Bruce_Peters Жыл бұрын
So funny how AT&T was broken up into the Baby Bells, then all those Bells circled around, renaming themselves and coalescing back into AT&T at the end.😅
@goodforyou3000 Жыл бұрын
Same with Standard oil coalescing ExxonMobil.
@bsteven885 Жыл бұрын
Southwestern Bell (based in Texas) was the entity that swallowed up ALL the other baby Bells to become AT&T again.
@eriggle83 Жыл бұрын
Ah, yes....the good ol days of fax machines in fire trucks. I remember it well.
@StarFleet_Tech1701 Жыл бұрын
At&T WIRELESS, Technology which has enslaved us!
@zippoamerika8794 Жыл бұрын
I remember A shoulder pack that was a battery and a hand held phone 😂
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Жыл бұрын
I had one of those. It was so thrilling. David Hoffman filmmaker
@MasteringSilence Жыл бұрын
This is wild, I was born in 1996.
@JB-vk8jk Жыл бұрын
It is likely people do not talk on the mobile device as much now as they did back then. Now it's used for watching utube vids
@2dub2steady Жыл бұрын
Motorola StarTac was the best phone ever made.
@mdouglasinc Жыл бұрын
Do firefighters get a floor-plan on their phone now?
@barpoe Жыл бұрын
I knew one person in 1996 with a cell phone. A friend of a friend. People thought it was so weird and unnecessary that first year 🤣
@TradieTrev Жыл бұрын
AT&T, still to this day is regarded as one of the worst telco providers on planet earth lol
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Жыл бұрын
That is not how the old AT&T was seen by any measure. Including being a great place to work. It used to get high ratings. When it got sold, it got worse by a lot. David Hoffman filmmaker
@michelleelle4622 Жыл бұрын
Flashback! 🤣
@matthewfarmer2520 Жыл бұрын
Good evening David i have DirecTV and the wireless AT&T at home right now so i can use the Internet like im doing now. Good to see you putting up anoth video. I guess your not handling out the Halloween candy 🍬🍭 your wife and your son is doing it. Thanks for sharing this have nice night.🎃📸
@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Жыл бұрын
You are correct as to who is handing out the candy. David Hoffman filmmaker
@thewkovacs316 Жыл бұрын
att introduced wireless decades before it just wasnt very practical
@oldandstillhere Жыл бұрын
I remember.
@jawi499 Жыл бұрын
Has anyone called that number recently??
@AidanTheLoverBoyOhDwyer Жыл бұрын
I don't understand. I've seen people using cellphones in the mid 80s. So, how is this revolutionary or out of this world in 1996 🤔
@danb308 Жыл бұрын
Because the person at the end turned off their phone when they sat down to meet with the person, given phones were an accessory back then. Today, go look in a restaurant and you can even see people on dates staring at each other's phones instead of at each other.
@StarFleet_Tech1701 Жыл бұрын
You saw the gigantic brick bag phones that doctors or lawyers used in the 80’s!
@AidanTheLoverBoyOhDwyer Жыл бұрын
@@StarFleet_Tech1701 Yup. That Danny Glover scene from Lethal Weapon. Some more PORTABLE ones too. Basically, still like dumbbells but in a form of a brick.
@MicahScottPnD Жыл бұрын
Sometimes there's quite a gap between when a technology is available at all and available/affordable for everyone. In the 80s, probably not easy to obtain. This, 1996, probably a major step forward. We're probably seeing this exact thing play out right now with electric vehicles.
@StinkyGringo Жыл бұрын
No average person was walking around with cell phones until the mid 90s. It was too expensive and impractical.