Old Laptops on the Internet

[@chadough_7014]

i think the most impressive thing about this is the home made dialup

[@dantheman3850]

I don't think he/she ever thanked you.

[@Tamay.]

H

[@Sheikh_Speare]

@@realvivifromloona neat 😀

[@nikhilkhannaMBA]

that dialing sound is legendary

[@HarmonicaMustang]

The nostalgia.

[@carlosformozinho]

DJ Shuffle teh fuckin old days

[@duszeksmsaczek6394]

nikhil khanna 5600 BC

[@Shouko]

nikhil khanna I

[@Voice_9_Heart85]

The Legendary Dial Up '95

[@PhoenixWrong_]

Awesome ring button

[@iheartdaftpunk]

Agreed

[@ibizenco]

Ahh, good ole MS-DOS. And an age without Internet. WordPerfect 5.1. Deluxe Paint, dBase III+ CrazySue. The nostalgia! Where did the times go? :)

[@creativecards5911]

Jon Doe solitaire

[@GameMaker3_5]

And the likes of the 3d gaming scene...

[@25Newengland]

I remember it used to take me like an hour to download one pornographic pic off the internet, times have changed

[@Formedmiller02]

Lol

[@juniorfio1196]

NOW YOU CAN LOOK AT ALL THE PORN WITH AMAZING 50MBGPS SPEEDS!!!

[@MrSergione1978]

+junior fio Who needs to look a real porn... that's NERD PORN!!!

[@Georgey0121]

VAPING RAGE QUITTER Wat a legend

[@ArenSkreigh]

The classical music over the dial up sound really adds to the experience

[@exessivemite9478]

over 2 million people still use dialup

[@prismickyubey1185]

Berkay Tumal GPRS is worse than Dial Up Cx

As long as you don't use Vodafone.

[@PaulHojda]

More like over 2 million people still have a dial-up subscription (mostly old people though, who either don't even know they're paying for dial-up, or think they need to pay for dial-up in order to get broadband). There's not that many people who actively use dial-up anymore.

[@krimson6605]

poor, unfortunate souls

[@chiveswinston9109]

my dad's one of them. that stingy bastard.

[@RickAintStoned]

1:25. hearing that noise. The nostalgia overload. Thank you.

[@fibersilkington]

Dial Up sounds are amazing.

[@iheartdaftpunk]

Yup

[@ahah1785]

oh my god the effort you had to make to get this working is completly insane...not all things were better in the past.

[@speuce]

Still faster than a google chrome book

[@foiledits]

spence but theyre not that slow?

[@jagjyot4828]

LOL true

[@lmulligan6969]

And spy a lot less on you, also

[@cooldbz12mach1padilla]

That dial tone brought back memories , Leaving a song to download in the morning and coming back from school hoping the connection didn't get disconnected and that it was done.

[@fynnkarn-wadden234]

That Can Still Happen... I Was Trying To Download Ubuntu 16.10 Over night and the connection was interupted

[@Special1313K]

oh my god thank you for covering the zenith this computer means a lot to me. i still have his dead wreck somewhere arround. i forgot how funny was the floppy disk reader with his clipping system , it was quite unusual way to insert floppy"s for this time. the first machine that i used to talk with , play with , understand for numerous hours , without this computer, i'd could not understand a quarter of our reality by now. i'm in my 30's , some people say computers is an escape , but for some people it's anchor in understanding the true meaning of reality . Thanks for the nostalgia

[@tmdrake]

Very nice....lol...now grampa can get internet again!

[@iheartdaftpunk]

XD 131st like

[@jckiessoup94]

i miss the 'talking' sound :D scares me as a child :D

[@lekoolaidmaster8641]

my sister said it always made her jump(I was born in 2003 so I only hear that sound on fax machines)

[@SoberHighDrunk]

Le Koolaid Master ur too yung gtfo the internet

[@jasperrojas1999]

+Ryan W No he's not

[@michaelparker2449]

I sometimes miss that screeching from dial-up and old computers.

[@sfenwick76]

Love it!!! Takes me back. I need to keep this link handy to show my daughter when she is older.

[@cameraman655]

Man, that " modem talking" brings back so many memories....

[@davidshulzy]

That 1995 computer has a really weird mousepad. If it even is a mousepad.

[@davidshulzy]

***** Ah, okay.

[@Birbb47]

+Nam Phuong actually a trackpoint

[@Birbb47]

***** en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchpad en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick

[@Koledzy108]

Please can you make video about making own dial up server ?

[@LolMaNiAc93]

Definitly need that, i have my Toshiba Satellite 110CS, Ready for some nice old Modem coms.

[@vorlitra6879]

that would be cool

[@itepk0522]

Yes!

[@terrandroid]

wow that was really cool to see, my first laptop was the first one you used in the video. I didn't know it was still possible to hook it up to the internet, well not really an easy way to do anyway. you are a pretty good whizkid man! thanks for showing!

[@SabrinaKLucas]

love the nostalgia. especially that camera. using one from the same year is a great idea

[@afb9999]

wow 10gb in 95 was out of this world

[@niniliumify]

Classically Wonderful. Been there, lived that!

[@earrychen297]

I like this modem's voice, It reminds me of my childhood

[@berzamosk]

what a nice ride to the past. Cool vintage hardware. Thanks for sharing!!!

[@poggy205]

0:06 I literally thought that laptop has 8GB ram but instead it was 8MB 😂

[@kjallen2610]

Hoang Hai Gamer! XD same

[@bsod6765]

RIP!

[@Erryjet]

Hoang Hai Gamer! same xD

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

Hoang Hai Gamer! 8GB is good even today, but 8MB you can't even run Windows on now...

[@dr0psyndrome145]

Hoang Hai Gamer! damn 😂😂😂

[@gabeulrickson2496]

ah yes the lovely legendary dial up sound

[@Triple6Jose6]

I always had good memories of dial up internet. Thank god we have high speed internet now.

[@xenyx3170]

Seeing this really makes you appreciate the technology we have today....

[@user-ww4dj5si4l]

that thing is better then my pc

[@19nims]

Just imagine trying to download something over dial-up, I'd take forever!

[@TheRedCap]

Michael Keller when I upgraded Ubuntu from 16.04 to 16.10, it said: estimated time: Dial-Up: 1 day, 12 hours. 1 MBit Broadband: 1 day 1 hour

[@19nims]

wow

[@TheRedCap]

Michael Keller just gives a perspective on how slow dial up is. I dialed up Juno and I kid you not, it took 3 minutes to load google...

[@19nims]

THEREDCAP wow, just trying to watch a KZbin must take forever to load

[@TheRedCap]

Michael Keller also, fun fact, if you have an android phone, you can use it as a modem via USB (at least, you can on LG. I have yet to test that on other devices)

[@TheCoder1]

Damn those were the days. I miss them a lot... :(

[@kimeojin1234]

You should rename the video to "connecting old laptops to the internet". I didn't know what you were doing until you explained in the vid. This is actually very interesting.

[@RezaQin]

Brings back memories of going online when I was a kid.

[@RavenFlight413]

I love seeing these old things kicked back to life, I like allot of old things being brought back into action, There's something special about that old massive copper 14kb disk platter with pong on it being played over an old CRT screen with the green-only colour being turned on again, Or that old ww1 triplane revving up its engines to take to the skies once more, Something about the old being brought back to life is just so satisfying for me. :)

[@pvh_facp4001yt]

Remember the times where you snuck onto the internet from your parents but then got yelled at for making the phone bill high. That was me most of my life. Lol

[@mauronavarro3209]

the song is A-W-E-S-O-M-E for this video

[@potatolord8847]

HOW IN THE HELL DID YOU GET YOUR HANDS IN A ZENITH DATA SYSTEMS ZWL-181-93 HOW IN THE FUCKING HELL

[@alnwlsn]

Potato Lord I bought if for $4 (yes, really) at a ham fest.

[@potatolord8847]

+alnwlsn WHERE DO YOU LIVE I NEED TO GET ONE OF THESE

[@KittyCSGO]

alnwlsn were did u find the one running windows 95 I'm in search for one

[@alnwlsn]

blue green gamer That one came from another ham fest. I actually got two similar models and took parts from each. It's a rare occurrence, but they do show up from time to time. Other than that, I'd check eBay for a Toshiba like mine or maybe a Compaq.

[@potatolord8847]

+MUFFET TALE fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck.

[@JopeSane]

Those floppy drives on the Zenith are fucking glorious. They look so neat.

[@Trusteft]

Thanks for the video, very cool. I have to admit the first time I went online was just some time in the early 90s. A friend had a hmm, not sure what it was, but it had a 286 inside. We were teens so the first thing we tried to do is...find nude pictures. Painful slow, pages were loading without any pictures/colors etc and only if you chose a specific picture to load, it would download it. Still, better than nothing lol.

[@HackettLai]

That dialing sound bring me back to my childhood

[@One_KHRN]

Watching this with my $3600 Alienware 17 GTX 1080....but I love those old laptop's mechanical keyboard ! It's being years I didn't try mechanical keyboard computer....I really want it !

[@AlanMedina314]

I hated the speed but loved the ritual.

[@darioperezdario2638]

Toshiba notebook a wonder that CDT 410. I love computers with Windows 95. I became interested in computers, reading information in books and magazines on Windows 95, around 1,997. It brings back some very fond memories. Thanks for film and put this video.

[@JustAGuy85]

I remember back in 1996 or 1997 when we got internet at the house, it was on an IBM Aptiva running Windows 95, a Pentium 100mhz, 8MB RAM, and a 1GB HDD. Pretty top of the line when it was new in 1994 or early 1995. For some reason, I think we got it in '94, but hey, I was a kid. It had a 28.8k modem. Wow... was that thing slow on the internet. I would literally get a webpage loading, and then leave it for 30 minutes to load it. Come back, click the next link, and leave for another 30 minutes. BUT, by 1997, webpages had a lot more graphics and computers had a lot more power lol. In those years, whatever computer you bought was way behind the newest computers in 6 months.

[@theultijim]

1:26 ah that old sound

[@simopollanen5143]

This is mindblowing. Very nice job. Could you elaborate a bit more on how you set up the server for the laptops? I have one P2 beast with a 2,5gb hdd and the original win95 install disks waiting for action. Although I would need to try and get a hold of a modem that fits it :D

[@martybadboy]

I remember one day about 1997 when I walked into a construction trailer and a contractor plugged his laptop into a cell phone. Email on the site. Mind frickin blown!

[@vvasd0]

Hmm, i hope ill get atleast 30 fps in csgo on this laptop

[@creativecards5911]

EliosGaming old as hell.

[@malvage0]

18GB Maybe CS 1.5/1.6

[@Glock-dm5wt]

Lol how about CSNO

[@fimbles1015]

You tube recommends me an awesome video 3 years later.. Cheers you tube..

[@vanleeuwenhoek]

"You are on the Internet. A cookie is following you."

[@chrisc.1668]

Ridulous, awesome, unbelievable!! So cool! Thanks, that was entertaining as hell! LOL

[@K3NnY_G]

I'm just checking out this video, already having a laugh at you going through the dial-up server setup set to the ragtime music. Ohh, that ring button. Fuckin' classy, fellah. xD Awesome video man.

[@MrCommodorebob]

This is very cool and would give use to a lot of modems that are just sitting around. Could you make a video on the simulated phone line setup so because the sources are a bit confusing to me. And I know of others who have problems with the phone line setup.

[@alnwlsn]

MrCommodorebob One day I hope to make a new video showing details of the phone line setup, since the one I have showed in this video isn't really the right way to do it and probably shouldn't have worked. I bet that it's the reason that my higher speed modems never connected at high speed. I've since found a much simpler (and better performing) way of making the phone line, all you need is a battery, resistor and a phone cord. It is very crude and simplistic, but it does work. The hard part is generating the ringing signals. You can look at my write up at alnwlsn.f3w.net/phone/index.html.

[@alnwlsn]

+alnwlsn f3w.net just stopped doing DDNS. Oh well, time to get a new one. alnwlsn.ax.lt/phone

[@BeefyTremendous]

This is freaking awesome.

[@TheDafting]

Its cool that old PCs can still (sorta) connect to Internet

[@RedStoneCraftGG]

1:26 what sound effect name...?

[@woodss82]

I use to have these old laptops like about 16 to 17 years ago, and it was a great net surfer back in the day, getting dial up to work was a terrible chore to do, drop outs too half way downloading a file, which took ages, its great that we have ADSL or VDSL these days.

[@TheeRatMousey]

Is it just me or did anyone else laugh a little when hearing that special dial up sound? Just hearing the background music and the EEE EERRR EEE EERRRR got me hard.

[@jacobreveles7222]

I remember the dial-up sound, but I never remembered it being THAT loud. XD

[@cranboard]

how do u have the patience to do that

[@daSEGAfanatic]

When under the influence of "Because I can" you'll have enough patience to do any pointless task. The payoff of "Because I could" is almost always worth it. almost.

[@ElementofKindness]

Cranboard You think that's slow? You should have been around during the Commodore 64 tape ROM days. That was excruciating even back then!!!

[@luish.p4474]

Good memories :')

[@jesussaves9469]

I would love to do this, but it is so over my head. I would need someone taking me step by step.

[@reversEngiener]

"Since nobody does dial up anymore, I had to make my own service provider." I'd like to try this sometime. Is there a guide for this online somewhere?

[@itepk0522]

In the description, you will find every info

[@i3j4rn38]

Me trying to watch porn at 3am The internet thing be like 1:26 Dad Walks in with belt in his hands

[@LadislavAlexa]

It's - just - AWESOME! :)

[@Hackatnight]

Wow not bad for a 27 year old piece of technology! Very cool.

[@RWBHere]

Technology moves on very quickly. My first 'broadband' connection was with a similar laptop to that first Toshiba. It was happy at the network top speed of 640kbps. Prior to that, I used a 56k modem. Nowadays, I complain if my cable speed drops below 300 megabits/s!

[@alfiewoolard2598]

Can I have the title for the music please? Loved the video, though. Got a Hi-Grade laptop to dial up AOL and Compuserv. AOL said that the phone number was unrecognised and Compuserv arrived at a help desk person asking about my query...

[@alnwlsn]

+Chem_Boffin_6589 The music is called "the brighton beach rag."

[@alfiewoolard2598]

Just typed it in to youtube, but I have found nothing! Where did you get it from?

[@20035079]

+alnwlsn Where did you get it from?

[@alnwlsn]

Someone gave me an midi file a few years ago. I can't find that midi anymore on google, only the sheet music, so here it is: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3760379/The_Brighton_Beach_Rag_1912.mid If it was truly published in 1912 it has long been in the public domain.

[@20035079]

alnwlsn Thank you!

[@thedebug3866]

I have a toshiba satellite 435cds that I planned to do something similar with, but the thing died on me. Death by the infamous "Internal power supply failure" where the machine won't accept AC power and only run off of a charged battery. Those old Zenith portables are very cool, too. I've been trying to source one for cheap for awhile.

[@alnwlsn]

+VintagePC's alike In fact the toshiba from this video died less than 6 months afterwards form something similar. I guess it's a good thing I did it when I did. The zenith still runs fine (apart from a flakey b: drive).

[@thedebug3866]

Yeah, that sucks. It was a great running machine, too. Battery still ran like when it was new, at least 2 hours. Original toshiba battery. I really like those old zenith laptops, the display was a unique idea, sort of like how a Timex Indiglo watch works. People on ebay conspire to think that these are antiques that are worth a lot.

[@Pulverrostmannen]

I got a Toshiba Tectra 530CDt that still runs fine :) it was my first laptop and I got it used from a relative at that time, it happens I still boot that baby up for the nostalgia some times and it still works like a charm except the battery is more the less dead by now

[@jakemcgregor8117]

In a case like this, would it be possible to just hotwire the battery terminals with the correct voltage?

[@daviddanser7801]

Great video. Where does the background music come from?

[@jesussaves9469]

Thankfully I still have analog phone service, so I can do all this without any hassle, but it would be cool to do what this guy is doing in the video.

[@rodethicong]

web browsing in the 1980s laptop is somewhat oddly satisfying

[@justinlyons8676]

While you're doing the dial-up thing I heard a piano sound in the background music

[@captainkarenobvious3087]

Scary story, I was on dialup until 2012 because I live out in the middle of nowhere and high speed wasn't in my area. A housing development went in nearby and brought high speed within reach.

[@d0fabur5st82]

i always wanted to see what the internet looked like in the past.

[@aymeebrisbane9539]

This is so impressive!!

[@michaeledwards3112]

you know when your old is when you used said " dial up" and thought nothing more of it out in nowhere land like I did. You was lucky have it..

[@Youngnathaniel449]

its crazy how you got a laptop from 1987 to get internet

[@Sanemikufan]

this is weird but my elementary school in 2016 actually also had a dial up connection, it would appear in the dial up and VPN section in the network connections, but i could never actually get it to connect

[@Icybubba]

Holy crap a 30 year old laptop XD We used to have dial-up for a little while when I was a kid then we got broadband, back then we used to play City of Heroes, it took 5 hours-1 day to download, so that is why we got it on a disc form back then

[@mimi2]

how to make own dial up place thing at home? i want to try dial up without paying as well!

[@PhirePhlame]

"Since nobody does dial-up anymore..." Well, several providers do, though they aren't mainstream. NetZero and Juno (remember them?) still have their dial-up servers in action, for instance.

[@gracekingdom949]

Somehow i need that kind of "old school" technology!

[@theizekgamerandbob6438]

dial up modems sound nostalgic

[@IDontKnow-pf6en]

i used to hate when youd dial up, and it would like start to lag and take forever, so youd spend the whole time like staring at it, praying, moving your hands as if to magically make it work, and then bam---that connection failure tone. rinse and repeat until you connected, only to be promptly interrupted by someone answering an incoming phone call.

[@smokymcbongwater1321]

my dad gave me an old laptop Toshiba like that played on it all the time it was actually cool

[@xstanley]

Why this vid hasn't got viral yet?

[@amritzansara]

What's the name of the piano music that's playing in the background?

[@dcw515]

Amritz Ansara it's Slipknot

[@amritzansara]

Ha, I found it to be the Brighton Beach Rag. I could put a MIDI file up soon

[@Kardor]

@@amritzansara You are fucking kidding me. Send this fucking midi here now and don't say any more!

[@FatalTaco]

You know, it's still appaling that before cable and fibre we had to use the internet using literal sounds over the phone. Or something along the lines of that

[@Nico93]

can i make a dial in server with windows 98?

[@Icybubba]

you can do it with windows 7 XD

[@Nico93]

you do know that windows 7 aint so backwards compatibel as windows 98 is?

[@Icybubba]

I know but it is still compatible with dial-up, heck I think you can even do it with 10

[@Nico93]

But for program safety its most likely a windows 98 machine, since it can run program's like lotus 1 2 3.

[@thegr8rambino]

god it really makes u appreciate how far internet has evolved lol

[@MrNayru]

It performs better than a modern PC without Internet

[@slavvodkaman9359]

legend dialing connection sound

[@TheUnderMasked]

I like the fact that in the 2bd on for every app there is a floppy

[@wuznab5109]

I wonder how heavy that computer is.

[@joshuajonathanhood1227]

That’s awesome I want to try that where did you get info on how to do that I’m going to try it today

[@sicksonezer0]

I had a zenith laptop from back in the day, the one you have looks like alienware compared to the one I had. Awesome video, thanks for sharing.

[@martijnvanzanen4075]

I have a question: Do you have a tip or hint for my old 80486 laptop. It works fine but the floppy drive is broken. Is there a way to use the seriel or printer ports to download data from my main pc or an external drive /cd-rom to that laptop? It has DOS 5.0 and win 3.11 on it as an OS. It would be awesome if you know how. It also has drivers for a modem ( I think 14.4 kb) but ofcourse I dont have that modem anymore. But perhaps find a modem that will work on those drivers in DOS and use that to download some data into it? I would love a feedback of some 1. Laptop in question is the Toshiba t1950. Ps: Sorry for my lack in English.