Internet Shopping In 1998

B-roll footage of how and where to shop in 1998 on the Internet. Amazon and other sites included.
UPDATE: I had the wrong year here... this is from 1998 not 1999.

[@BluetheFortune2006]

This is what i really want to see, Internet Archive screws things up sometimes whenever they have a picture being lost or some pages that they cannot access.

[@volactic5240]

It's like internet version of British museum

[@lisaruhmann8342]

Dang! that’s fast internet for 1998. must have been a 56k modem.

[@vgamonitor]

actually it's a T1 connection

[@spouros2614]

I always wanted to see for my self what was using the internet like back in the 90s and thank god i found this video its a real time capsule

[@Cheezburgercatz]

These videos make so much more sense in the context of their application like news b roll or other static shots for productions. It's funny, though, because since I first held a video camera I always recorded things like this bc I knew they would be time capsules. Thank you for your uploads!

[@DisappointedSon0813]

I'd give anything to go back to this kind of internet.

[@paulcantshutup]

4:06 sweet jesus, infoseek, how I have missed you and did not even know

[@MarkMeadows90]

I miss that style of internet and the simply made web pages back then. That was pretty fast internet back in those days. Probably broadband? I'm guessing they were already visited sites stored in cookies and the sites loaded faster. I did notice a few hiccups in between loading pages. Well, web pages were made a lot simpler back then, especially for people who still had dial up. We didn't get high speed internet up until late 2002. Guess we got it later than people that lived in urban populated areas. We lived in the countryside.

[@vampirerobot]

I miss that to Mark.

[@mabelmartian]

Back the it was just getting started and slow! Those dial up sounds from AOL frightened me!

[@Frankieefootballmundial]

Me too when the dial up went off you hear this cringy sounds and then you hear some operator

[@DubBeats]

Dial up internet was arrogant as fuck lol…

[@mikemyers5057]

Was only 7months old at the time ⏲️

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

Kind of ironic seeing an early video of someone shopping TRU online given that the company's relatively small online presence is one reason given for the company's bankruptcy.

[@brandonauschwitz8204]

Or how Amazon is at the beginning of the video and it contributed to the downfall of some of these other sites

[@Jewlorad]

Windows xp was my child hood lol when u type cheat code in GTA 4 3:32😂😂

[@itsshowtime7629]

A great blast from the past, a relic.

[@mr.goodboi2780]

This is honestly so cool as a behind the scenes thing. The way it's being directed by the woman in the beginning on the Amazon site while the cameraman gets the footage is interesting. Never thought how much planning would go into something as simple as B-roll.

[@vampirerobot]

A lot of planning and getting that perfect shot to fit the story.

[@brandongaming1049]

wow man!

[@emajansen]

I'm french and in 1998 we couldn't do shopping on the web compared to the US. It seems slow and basic but this is convenient. I wish we had that in France.

[@richmeier]

Very aggressive typing

[@atcornfield]

dang thats fast internet. cant see why school internet cant do the same.

[@mjb6991]

Hopefully protoweb can restore these sites

[@KabelkowyJoe]

Allegro - created almost same time, give it a try much better than Amazon and eBay combined ;>

[@KabelkowyJoe]

The only problem is - it's located in Poland...

[@cookiesoftware925]

It looks like the dark web lol