Fancy new cell phones might allow users to access the Internet, 2000

The telecommunications industry is betting billions of dollars that people are ready to start surfing the internet on their phones. Soon Canadians might be able to pay their cable television bill on their own mobile phones.
David Ticoll, an author and consultant, believed that the rolling out of wireless access would help the internet achieve its full potential as the year 2000 heads to a close.
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[@Eagle7433]

I don't think this will ever take off. Invest in newspapers instead.

[@MrRaulstrnad]

no youre wrong if you want to invest there only one thing thats going to take off-FAX machines!

[@Eagle7433]

@@MrRaulstrnad I'd love to invest in fax machines...but too much of my money is tied up in typewriters.

[@mattshields674]

Then only 7 years later the iPhone came out, crazy.

[@OmegaWolf747]

I remember the first time I saw a Net enabled phone: Circa 2002, a coworker told me his phone could access the Web. I flat out challenged him on it, because of course I knew you could only access Web from a computer. He whipped out his phone, typed in the URL, and loaded ABC News website. My jaw dropped.

[@DannyGoldingTV]

Sheesh

[@pokejammerz]

my first experience was 2006 when freshman in high school. Friend showed me his razor phone and logged in MySpace on his phone

[@cameronlovesevolve]

Me at 13 years old showing kids on my bus how my Motorola could go online to check the weather or chat on MSN messenger. It was such a cool time in tech!

[@checkoutmyyoutubepage]

@@pokejammerz I had the same experience with a SideKick logging into MySpace. I was blown away.

[@bhe8336]

It took like 10 minutes to load a 30 second video on youtube. If you could even connect to youtube and search something LOL

[@stuartspence9921]

I love this archived stuff.

[@rocsto]

Yes is awesome

[@Commander_HW]

I know right? Their makeup and clothes look so dated.

[@chico_off_a_bean552]

Watching them makes me feel like a fortune teller or something 😂

[@pimpboy1019]

It’s amazing how quickly technology has evolved

[@MoneyHungryPig]

imagine lockdowns in this era.

[@treasuretrails]

People went mad with fear over a new virus, but once everyone realized its mild for the majority of us nobody would ever lockdown over that madness again in the 2023+ future.

[@SmeddyTooBestChannel]

society would've probably actually collapsed

[@manishpandor2041]

Imagine going into past and showing off your smartphone casually 🤣

[@packerman7410]

People would think it’ll be alienware

[@professional.commentator]

They would think you got it from an alien planet. 😅

[@MRzoom20100]

Would be crazy 🤪 what phone u showing it

[@Cjaiceman]

And here I am, 23 years later, watching this ON my internet connected cell phone, lol.

[@mostlypeacefulmisterputin]

*I remember in 2007 being very angered at the idea of spending $350 on a phone, and adamant that I never would...17 years later and I now own about $8k in obsolete/broken iPhones and have probably lost another $3k*

[@timafiggy]

Wow and watching on my Motorola

[@mostlypeacefulmisterputin]

@@timafiggy *So am I, and it sucks! LMAO, I'm no Apple fanboy but I have yet to find an Android that compares as far as functionality, reliability, and ease of use. I have a 128gb 6S plus and it still outperforms any Android I've used*

[@MRzoom20100]

350$ with a phone 😮 bro now phones are 1000$ if you are with internet plan

[@Gabriel1o1]

So why do i feel like i have less free time now than i did before

[@JohnSagin-SimViDeLucis579]

Because someone weaseled their way into soaking it all up.

[@mr.sausage7716]

Because you're more convenient for people now

[@not2tees]

That portable window into the world we all wanted has a hitch - it's 2-way.

[@bhe8336]

Being constantly plugged in has its downside.

[@brucescargill1567]

I guess the lower prices never came to Canada

[@MrRaulstrnad]

ha ha ha

[@thephoenixhasflown]

So I'm currently on the internet on my cell phone right now watching this

[@darramlogan7126]

Then the IPhone came out in '07

[@cameronlovesevolve]

I was 12 in 2002 when i got my first phone - WAP browsing is where i cut my teeth on the internet. Living in a rural area without dedicated internet access through computer, my cell phone was the savior! I could use MSN messenger while i sat on the beach in 2003! It was incredible!

[@timafiggy]

I was in the Army in 02 and deployed in 03 .yikes

[@cameronlovesevolve]

what a time to be alive@@timafiggy

[@JenXOfficialEDM]

I remember when WAP stood for Wireless Application Protocol :D

[@cams.3287]

Lool the pixels on that webcam

[@professional.commentator]

I almost forgot how technologically primitive the early 2000s were.

[@didid3ksa]

Not really

[@ch36799]

For me they were very modern. It could stop at this moment. In my opinion i dont need Smartphones, HD Television etc.

[@gooddayhuman]

* Hold up, he implies that in the future cable bills would be $23 * did anyone catch that?

[@hackmiester1337]

That would be nice.

[@thetraveler9]

I swear my older brother looked up info about the bulls/Utah game 6 in 1998. Forget what type of phone he had then but he was able to load ESPN on it

[@nabesterangel5029]

Motorola

[@mesicek7]

And it was called - WAP

[@GrimmTV_]

Crazy how this is normal now...

[@hugoboss5895]

I very rarely talk on my phone anymore. It’s all about the net.

[@TobyDeshane]

Excellent video quality!

[@dububro]

1:56 he summed up why the internet was better before smartphones

[@damedash4207]

This made my day lol God if only I could have invested back in highschool of be frekn loaded . I had a bulky Ericson mobile phone with a green screen and it was really expensive back then and that's when txt messaging was only a few years old lol. We were amazed at the technology at the time

[@letzgrow6153]

Good ol Sony Ericsson I had the same green phone funny 🤣 now

[@xk4l1br3]

haha lower prices... ya, we didnt get that in Canada.

[@RetroFan]

This is never going to take off.

[@mostlypeacefulmisterputin]

@1:25 *"The available balance on your card is $2500"...that is the equivalent of $62k today under Bidenomics!*

[@Livikyu]

Ah I remember the first time I accessed the internet on my phone. it was completely accidental, nothing happened and it totally wiped my credit. Good times.

[@Msfili]

I had a cellphone back in 1995 in grade 9 just me and some other girl …

[@DaniSmith_95]

Please, phones that can access the internet??, who needs a phone when you have a laptop, it'll never take off!!

[@nabesterangel5029]

Yep, no one will want that.

[@HouseOfFunQM]

Ahahahaha remember when they thought there would be enough bank staff to actually VIDEO CALL anyone who wanted to know their balance? Instead of just...... sending it through some magic text-markup format?

[@troymartin4260]

Psh yeah right! Like anyone would ever wanna use the internet on such a small screen!

[@TheTuareg]

they had noooo idea where it is all leading to.

[@as2s3hf7gff]

How was cyber security back then????

[@dububro]

Only $23 to the cable company??

[@shrekgaming6593]

Will it be successful tho ?

[@DannyCosmos]

internet in phones? nah it will never be a thing

[@millennial_fairy]

and the rest was history, folks !!!

[@austinl5158]

The internet and especially smart phones that use the internet are just a fad.

[@darkalligator]

No way,

[@alexandergreene6986]

LOL, man could you imagine walking into this suit's office and showing off the latest I iPhone, lol. Man, these guys would be stumbling around like chimps in a candy shop, lol Okay let's start the bidding off at say, fifty billion?

[@condor666]

Cuando Motorola era una empresa Norte Americana no la habían comprado los chinos...

[@incognito5109]

I was five then, first time I saw one I wanted to know what every button did.

[@patrickflask5469]

this looks 🔥🔥

[@load7791]

As a 2001 kid, I wish this hadn't happened so soon.

[@mostlypeacefulmisterputin]

*As someone whose teenage years were all spent in the 1990s, I can assure you that you wish this didn't happen at all!*

[@raunak3005]

I am accessing internet everyday on my phone. 😂😂

[@roachtoasties]

This whole mobile internet and cellphone thing is only a fad. It will never happen. We'll be back to sending smoke signals for long distance communications by 2024. One thing I am interested in, is how is his cable bill only $23, and in Canadian Dollars? (1:30) That needs to be your next news story. Your viewers will be thankful for life.

[@Sam-K]

Zuckerberg: Write it down!

[@redikaak9986]

2000.. thinkpad T20

[@fenyx2558]

Here before it blew up.

[@ramonalves9331]

Bom Dia!

[@not2tees]

This is a KZbin CBC video . . . but . . . COMMENTS are being allowed ???

[@kerinholmstrom250]

I'm 64 & I've been using my phone like a couple mputer for a long time now.

[@hotdesertroks889]

That's neat to hear. Hoping that we can both stay contemporary in these everchanging times!

[@guilhermehiroshi6569]

Hi Anne with An

[@MRzoom20100]

I think in 30 years when I grow up we won’t used news papers every thing be digital buy 2040 I be 38 in 2040 buy now- now I am 21 years old in 2024

[@Pravin_Yeshua_BTC]

Bitcoin is really reminding me of the internet. I was 15 when I started using AOL back in 1997 to chat: A/S/L 🤣 Now bitcoin is 15 years old and me explaining it to my peers feels exactly how it was back then. Only this time they will HFSP because they didn’t listen. ⚡️

[@JoeDirtisawsome]

it's just a fad.

[@SNFDNSD]

it's a stupid idea

[@JohnSagin-SimViDeLucis579]

Hello from reddit!

[@danielrnjom458]

who cares how many used cellphones back then, its the fact he start-pause the video of her talking with spacebar its hillarious we should have known back then 😂😂😂😂 God bless you all ♥

[@TisTheDamnStickSeason]

Pssh it'll never take off

[@mikesmith6469]

Do you remember the days when news was just there to be informative and wasn't peppered with a political agenda?

[@phillipgonzalez9776]

@@JoshFitzgerel "news"

[@JoeDirtisawsome]

no. There was always political stuff in the news, you just didnt realize it before.

[@yumallah]

@@JoeDirtisawsome Exactly.

[@rikiishitoru8885]

Actually, the agendas were always there. But now that we have a more diverse range of news channels, we are easily able to notice the agendas of each channel

[@anotheryoutubeaccount5259]

@@JoshFitzgerel basic cnn watcher

[@frankesposito2182]

Never happen

[@dudabarbosa5542]

reneww anne with an e

[@themoviejunkiesite1315]

Why is this video even here