The 1st ever webcam - Connectix Quickcam

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In this episode I take a look at the original Connectix Quickcam connected to a laptop running Windows 95. I also demonstrate how it was possible to get color pictures from a black and white camera.

[@mitchellking2590]

Can we all take a moment to appreciate that he STILL has files from 25+ years ago?! Seeing those pictures is simultaneously the single most nerdy and most wholesome thing I have seen, ever.

[@ppipowerclass]

I thought the same thing.

[@Novusod]

My oldest files only go back about 18 or 19 years. But have nothing from the '90s. It is impressive to keep track of anything digital from the '90s.

[@scottcol23]

I have quite a few pictures going back to 1998 to when I was in high school and we had a SONY Mavica digital camera. I would take it to parties with me and well, pretty much everywhere fun was happening. Since they were digital and basically free to take I have tons of weird photos that would not have existed back then because paper photos cost too much to just take silly phots.... I like to go through those albums. EDIT: you said the same thing literally as I was typing this.. 🤘

[@MetalheadAndNerd]

I can relate. And then there are these people who think cloud backup is a God's gift because everyone looses all of their files every few years.

[@alpacastan7788]

i lost so many photos by not backing up anything. im amazed he had the forsight to do whatever he did to make sure he didn't liae those memories

[@soulcreampoopcontrol]

Oh my god, young 8-bit guy looks like some kind of cyberpunk villain.

[@ZXRulezzz]

He looks a lot like Linus Torvalds to me, especially with glasses on, lol

[@AiOinc1]

He looks like young Egoraptor with a different jacket

[@soulcreampoopcontrol]

All IT guys go bald, my source? I'm an IT guy.

[@ZXRulezzz]

soulcreampoopcontrol What about electronics/software engineers, do they go bald too? :D

[@neehgurg2111]

soulcreampoopcontrol the villian number one

[@JosephByrne]

Even at 0.08 Megapixels the 90s still look great.

[@huseyinuguralacatli5064]

my webcam have a 0.01mp mode and resolution is lower than grandpa webcam

[@MistahHeffo]

There is a video floating around of a camera guy driving around New York in the 90's with this bleeding edge video camera that could do this InSaNe resolution of 1080i It's nuts to see the 90's in HD

[@minekid4624]

@@MistahHeffo what’s It called

[@MistahHeffo]

@@minekid4624 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIWXnXeLYrZ_i7s

[@dorjsuren0214]

okay thats way better than bank cam xD

[@rachie]

This is so wholesome ahhhh

[@swagmankayearIQ]

please read the Bible

[@missimperfectlyfine7]

aaah rachie!!

[@itsyaboiwan6416]

@@swagmankayearIQ ok

[@damorin2154]

@@swagmankayearIQ I'm a muslim

[@swagmankayearIQ]

@@damorin2154 do you follows qurans word on lgbt?

[@urdnal]

The pictures of you and your wife (and cat!) are really heartwarming

[@a-1b-2c-37]

Ok

[@radleyjabilona3806]

NolimoDK lol

[@pierreuntel1970]

and then you realize that cat is long dead

[@radleyjabilona3806]

SandPox 😂😂😂

[@dragonbeast9318]

urdnal nou

[@LGR]

Loved this episode. Having experience and photos from the nineties makes all the difference with a video like this!

[@stonent]

I seem to remember back in the early 1990s at Computer City, seeing some logitech cameras that predated the connectix one. They had a display at the time I believe with one of those logitech cameras and a Deskjet 500 so you could print a small postage stamp sized picture of yourself. The camera I remember was sort of a white slab with rounded edges and used a DIN style connector that strongly resembled the connector they used on their old handheld scanners. Looking up the DJ500, that came out in 1992, so it certainly could predate the connectix one. I had a newer DJ550C that I purchased not long after that.

[@stonent]

Ha! I found it. The Logitech Fotoman! Now lets see if LGR or 8BitGuy finds one :) What an interesting history Connectix had. Parts sold to Logitech, parts told to Microsoft. Might make a good LGR Tech Tale.

[@Paiste402]

LGR! No kidding man your channel got me onto this one, and I thank you for it.

[@humanesque]

Yep, I had a Brooktree BT878 back in 1996 that I had hooked up to a Signature 2000 VHS camcorder. Used to use it to make GIFs for my highschool and pirate movie nights on Netmeeting. Even with that gear, I was a little jealous of the guys with a "tiny" camera like that.

[@Rowsdow3r]

I'm officially demanding an 8bitguy/LGR collab

[@ballersforlife1674]

Seeing windows 95 operating brings tears in my eyes

[@N._99]

If you have an android there's a windows 98 sim you can download :) turns your phone into a legit pc from the late 90s.

[@coffeedvdrw]

@@N._99 I know what you are talking about but there's a better alternative to that, Install Windows 95/98 on a virtual machine

[@N._99]

@@coffeedvdrw goddamn, I haven't screwed with that in a minute. Shit I gotta refresh myself on it..

[@mixazizu]

Starting Progressbar 95...

[@cris8627]

It's funny how the first webcam still has the same resolution as most modern webcams

[@gavinthecrafter]

What kind of trash webcam are you using lol, mine is 0.9 MP which still isn't _good_ , but is way better than 0.08 MP

[@vincentforonda7381]

lmao

[@lesharkoiste]

that's what you get for trying to squeeze a camera in the depth of an LCD screen

[@CocaColaDE]

WOW! The Quality from the Photos aren't too bad!

[@alexanderthomas2660]

Indeed, pretty good for a 320x240 6-bit monochrome camera.

[@Windows98R]

Latif11 honestly, i think it’s better then some modern potatos in terms of sharpness

[@CocaColaDE]

@@Windows98R haha yes xD

[@DarkChasmGamers]

@@Windows98R it's a really controlled environment with a camera on a tripod. That, and the fact that it's got a lot of digital processing involved to combine the images.

[@DarkChasmGamers]

@@Windows98R see 3:30 for how it would actually look if you used it.

[@MaxKoschuh]

the amazing thing is that you still have these old digital pictures, while IRL people loosing their stored pictures like every two years. Tells me something about storage and backup. You did eveything right.

[@MajorMoron]

Redundant backups are key in the digital age. I still have photos from my old ass Razor phone from almost 10 years ago now.

[@Lauren_C]

@@MajorMoron I've my pictures from my old Samsung Gravity and BlackBerry Pearl flip phones as well. Plenty of pictures from my Kyocera Finecam lv3 though, which wallops the phones. I also have pictures from my very first camera which was a happy meal toy which used 110 film. The toy camera was from about 1999-2000-ish and I was 8-9 years old.

[@JuanHerrero]

Anything important i want to keep, I just mail to myself (gmail).

[@danfuerthgillis4483]

Ing. Max Koschuh I used to be in the "scene" back in the early 2000's I have seen CD listings from 1992-2004 that are no longer made and the companies have been sold or gone away. Many of these applications still work even in Windows 10 lol, Kai's Power tools, Macromedia Freehand, Metacreations 3D painter, Metacreations Painter 6, KPT painter 7 ( last version before the Corel Morons took over). All the Softimage versions from the first NT version, all the Discreet 3d max versions , Maya versions, Adobe etc lol. Amazing that Photoshop 5 runs circles around Photoshop cc in terms of speed lol.

[@Sb129]

indeed, I have almost 10,000 pictures from all kinds of digital cameras I have had through the years, from my Palm PDAs to my S7 Edge I have kept them all for the most part (approx 80% of any pictures I've taken digitally I still have)

[@KokoRicky]

That was really sweet seeing you and your wife from back in the day, and ya'll are still together! Cool that you saved that media. Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

[@FlippytheMasterofPie]

Even though I’ve known how three-strip color works for years and years, every time I see it in action it still gives me a kick. It’s like a magic trick!

[@rockymm10]

the moment when you run out of stuff to watch then your favorite KZbinr uploads a video

[@AidanTschantre]

BobbyMart lol yup

[@crustyHO]

Always better content than any of the trash on TV, unless it's like game of thrones or walking dead. I would mention stranger things but that's a netflix kinda thing. I do miss me some How it's made and the original Mcgyver.

[@deelan_]

BobbyMart So true

[@edmundohernandez8464]

damn thats how i feel right now,. I ran out of shit to watch so i was like fuck it time to fap but let me refresh youtube one more time.

[@0mchen221]

Same with me

[@cleitonfelipe2092]

I don't know what shocks me more, the guy having a working 1994 webcam, or he still having the photos taken with it

[@riflemanm16a2]

It is amazing that those files haven't been corrupted or destroyed after all this time. I seem to remember losing everything on the family computer two or three times from hard drive failure in the '90s (somehow a few files have managed to survive, but I don't remember having a backup). Even some school pictures from 2001-2003 are corrupted and can't be opened now :(

[@ToTheGAMES]

Backups.

[@riflemanm16a2]

'90s. Child.

[@biolinkstudios]

No file is ever really corrupted, its just trying to fined how to reorder the 1s and 0s

[@red__guy]

Never doubt a hard copy

[@EduardRitok]

3:22 those pictures are actually great!! especially since they are made back in 94-5 .. and when you have some nice memories captured on them, they do not have to be full color 10mpx ❤️

[@sergiofreitas9368]

The quality of the webcam is better than most of the "alien sighting" videos on YT

[@Michirin9801]

320 x 240 is actually pretty good for a 1994 webcam! Oh and, that trick of taking colour pictures with a black and white camera is actually pretty amazing! I didn't even know that was possible!

[@emko333]

that's what many NASA cameras do they have filter wheel with many different colors to capture different wavelengths this rotates over the sensor then they just combine them in software to get color images. www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16799.html

[@garylcroxford]

Many medical imagining devices use it as well - for surgery, endoscopy etc.

[@TehBurek]

That's essentially how digital color images are taken today, only the filters are pixel-sized and already in-place over the sensor.

[@brys555]

This trick was used by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in 1909-1912, so it's pretty old technique. Search for "russia in color a century ago".

[@John_Ridley]

In fact all image sensors are black and white sensors. They just have R/G/B filters in front of individual pixels instead of the whole sensor at a time.

[@gavin5861]

64 shades of grey sounds like a super nerdy version I would totally read.

[@Operational117]

Momento Mori But that doesn’t fit into a power of two. But I understand where your pun comes from...

[@maximthemagnificent]

"Eight Bits of Grey" would be my preference for such a title these days.

[@brycearchambault6260]

HOLY SHIT GUYS I FOUND HIS FRIEND GAVIN

[@gdisle7691]

Nah it's just the pop up version of the original

[@buildingchannel9314]

Me an intellectual: a stack of gray

[@clintonharvey2384]

The photos of your wife and yourself made me feel so warm, you could tell you were so in love with each other ❤️ Also what crazy memories to have stored away!

[@1981dasimpson]

what amazes me is you still have all the photos back from that era anything i had is long gone

[@SatoshiMatrix1]

The color photo trick is beyond awesome. So nerdy and so amazing. Thanks for sharing this after all these years. It's almost as if you knew in 20 years you'd be doing a video on this webcam!

[@tziuriky86]

So nerdy? That's how the first colour pictures were taken at the begin of the previous century :D

[@SatoshiMatrix1]

It's awesome.

[@genericrandom64]

3:28 *Color video of person carrying black and white camera* ok, fair enough

[@squidiskool]

My video just glitches out

[@kuolettavaVids]

Probably was a VHS recording.

[@puekai]

: he was technically advanced back then.

[@mrkenz7566]

Must be an alien recording#!

[@beamboi2775]

It was a old vhs Camcorder rec

[@alainportant6412]

3:23 This cat looks adorable.

[@twistedmetalyrock200]

i feel sad cause that cat must've been dead a long time ago

[@henrys3138]

@@twistedmetalyrock200 if it was alive even by this video it would be a world record. Cats live a maximum of 25 years. Edit: supposedly one made it to its 30s, but that's not the norm.

[@RoBEEFnik]

yes

[@bitMAN]

Your old pics did it for me man! I have close to two decades of digital pictures stored securely, so pretty much every single picture I took with a digital camera and did not delete immediately, I have it. It always impresses my family and friends when they say "do you remember that time when..." and 90% of the time, I'm able to pull at least one picture of that moment in less than three minutes. Long live digital photography!

[@JoelElRican]

The pics of you and your wife are so wholesome :-D

[@JoelTena]

Years ago I asked a photographer friend of mine what he thought of the proliferation of camera phones. His simple yet profound response: "The picture taken is infinitely better than the picture not taken." Personally, I envy your digital camera photos from 22 years ago...

[@dermetzger]

0:47 - "Easy ball-cleaning design" on that mouse... Man... That is one thing I definitely do NOT miss about the old mouses. Such a massive pain in the ass.

[@philbertchow5425]

I really hate when my balls get dirty.

[@DonZeneli]

@@philbertchow5425 my brain is getting the wrong idea

[@RaveN_EDM]

Mice*

[@RedMango.]

@@RaveN_EDM he meant pc mouses

[@Bandicoot803]

0:30 - They were extremely generous in regards of the lengthy cable they shipped their eyes with! That's at least 5 or 6 foot, I guess!

[@BrienMalone]

Whoaaa blast from the past. I had one of those!! I used it with software called (presciently enough) I-Phone 4 around 1995 that allowed me to video chat with my IRC friends around the world. We used to mute audio to try and get the frame rate above 4 per second. This was all over 28k modems.

[@zzco]

What network(s) did you haunt? :p

[@lemonslice2233]

But with muted audio all you could do was stare at each other's acne.

[@BrienMalone]

... or type... Typing to groups in real time was pretty captivating back then. We'd do it for hours.

[@lemonslice2233]

Brien Malone I meant what you could do with the video feed. Jeez, I'm from your era.

[@SkeleCrafteronYT]

"Even the Gimp will do it" -The8BitGuy 2016

[@txd]

Hahaha I thought this was funny as well :D

[@edmundohernandez8464]

Need to get me a gimp

[@RMJ1984]

I'm totally going down to the local pimp right now to get it done. In Red, Green and Blue.

[@weeknightwarrior]

gimp's sleeping

[@DalekTurtle]

Well, I guess you're gonna have to go wake him up now, won't you?

[@EpicLebaneseNerd]

i remember the first ever web came i ever saw, at a friend's house, i was so impressed that i made a small video as a test , doing funny faces, i didn't know the video was saved, over 20 years later, my friend still makes fun of that video, he still has it and it makes me angry each time he mentions it :P

[@CurtF94]

4:46 that pic looks like it was taken in the 50s

[@Anthony-nj2mz]

I agree

[@kai990]

Except that colors weren't yet discovered in large parts of the world in the 50s

[@morebadgamers3108]

@@kai990 yes that is true it was the late 60s or early 70s

[@igameidoresearchtoo6511]

@@morebadgamers3108 early 60s was when color cams in the usa became known commonly (not yet used by the public however)

[@mariosangourakis2440]

when that almost 25 year old webcam is better than your 350$ computer's camera

[@SoonerStateSirens1]

Quackid Relatable

[@pikgears]

@SpaghattyLS bad internet, bad cameras, etc

[@hackernest4244]

it really is im not joking

[@gothfennec]

how le fuck did i find you here marz

[@daniidelrey]

Better than my 20$, Christmas tablet camera which the tablet is AAAAAAA

[@paulgascoigne5343]

awwww you and your wife looked so sweet

[@ian_b]

I thought that too!

[@justin-3985]

Paul Gascoigne and the Cat?

[@paulgascoigne5343]

The cat would not be impressed with my lack of feline compliments

[@justin-3985]

Typical Nerd xD

[@sheikhabdullah5171]

Paul Gascoigne by the way you are broke and shit

[@BlueXonar]

3:28 proof if ever it were needed that David has always been an amazing geek!

[@OppirompaMiDotCom]

No, it's the merging of BW images taken using physical RGB filters that does it for me. That's hardcore 90's nerdcred! o7

[@sharkmanxbro7082]

Stuff like these videos just make me wounder how different my life is going to be in 20-30 years froms now, and how cool it will be to look back at my old photos that I've taken in 2010's and 20's.

[@Jones12ax7]

In 1996 I got a damaged Cassio QV-11 from my boss for free. It was really expensive at that time. I was luck enough to fix it. Some time after, due to an over-voltage of the DC adapter, it was damaged again, but so that there's no to way to download the pictures using the serial cable. As I had important pictures there, some years later I hooked the composite video output to a TV card and captured a video of the photos slideshow. That's a clever idea to preserve that memories. Nice to see that you still have such old files backed up!

[@LivingWithTheGuzmans]

I had the color one. Thanks for the video.

[@dwyaneingente2899]

Yes

[@balticseaships476]

Yes

[@tanzeemroks9344]

yes

[@TheAsrielDeal]

No

[@DonZeneli]

no

[@nabarunr3]

It was lovely seeing young you and your wife. Actually the first time I saw her smiling in any of your videos!

[@Freddy_grobill]

I had one also.... I loved this episode, not only for the nostalgy but also how you did it. And I forgot the idea with filters... Thanks. You made me happy :-)

[@JonnyInfinite]

you know you're old- school when you call Gimp "The Gimp"

[@zzco]

Hey, don't knock RedHat Linux 6! :p

[@tziuriky86]

Greetings from Slackware Linux 7.0 :P (Sent from my Amiga 1200).

[@zzco]

:P

[@VaughnRhinehart]

JonnyInfinite but it is more correct because it is saying the Gnu Image Manipulation Program so saying the is correct.

[@yasirsaheed]

It's great that you still have those photos, I really regret deleting pics I took in the early 2000's

[@BMD19840]

god, I love to look at old pictures cuz they are so cool. the white and black format made any picture mysterious which I love

[@menthodman6969]

You know, I couldnt give a shit about that camera, but the joy that you had looking at those old photos of you and your wife. That hit me. Now I will forever have this memory of you reliving a memory with a old camera. Thank you. ❤

[@pcsecuritychannel]

Looks like it was made by Aperture Science.

[@salsagal]

r/unexpectedportal

[@bonbon51141]

Mabye it was 😐

[@bluiiCH]

looks like an egg

[@michaelfinlay1412]

you may look at the operational end of the device, unlike the apreture dual portal device. GLaDOS version, you may look at the operational end of the device, but id rather not see your fat face on my cameras. ik glados can be mean in both main games tward chell, but the comedy part of portal 2 is good.

[@michaelfinlay1412]

@@bluiiCH or a camera from portal and portal 2

[@Xerdoz]

Must've been a hit with women because it had 14 more shades of grey than 50.

[@rommix0]

That is such a geeky joke. I love it

[@aidensulkey6678]

lol

[@missingno2401]

64 shades of grey

[@myMotoring]

Only if the women love to be hit

[@CtrlAtlDel]

Rofl

[@DoomFinger511]

Wow, I'll never forget the iconic shape of the sphere camera on the triangle base. Everyone I knew who had a camera had that one. I remember thinking how cool it would be if one day people could have practical video chats online. Also that color filter trick was awesome, I wish I knew about that when my parents had this camera as a kid.

[@TubeDupe]

Your video really conveys your excitement about this rather simple product. Which was at the time, absolutely amazing and stunning. At same time I was set on getting a webcam (they were only around US$200 (inflation adjusted), and I had no idea what to use it for. But now I know the answer: It's for playing around with. It's for building your own smartphone out of a laptop, a headset and a webcam and running around in the garden with it, trailing electrical wires behind you, and probably prompting the neighbors to call the cops on you. Actually, I just bought my first webcam only a month ago. So that was a purchase a quarter of a century in the making.

[@hasrulmuhammad8271]

Mopkwaas, uwcerrtyuwsm.?whup bvhwn.?

[@ryuzakikun96]

It's so awesome that you and your wife were able to hold onto those memories from over 20 years ago. I'm sure filming this was very nostalgic for you.

[@austoful]

the process of using 3 lenses and recombining the film to make a color photo is exactly how technicolor films work.

[@tziuriky86]

Yep! But not only NASA. Plenty of amateur stargazers buy black and white CCD's and take photos with RGB filters (among other types of filters) as this will produce more faithful images. Fact is, that colour sensors have tiny RGB filters applied to each pixel, literally reducing the resolution and the amount of details captured, so using BW and taking each colour and other wavelengths separately is a better technique either for scientific purposes or even just for the sake of obtaining the best looking photos 8-)

[@MarkTinberg]

The Smithsonian had some amazing photos from Imperial Russia where a photographer there named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii had figured out the three-filter trick, a technique which was lost until re-invented in the mid 1900s.

[@SMGJohn]

+Tziu Ricky Not really applicable in these days mate, maybe 5 to 10 years ago but not today as digital cameras have almost twice the dynamic range of analogue film.

[@rorrt]

SMGJohn, The thing about analogue film is you have finesse in the highlights and the shadows. Even with a 5Dmk3 or the D4 or 5. There is still that window of exposure. And then it slams to clipping out white areas and highlights. Which doesn't happen with film, you can push and pull film. You can, as i have overexposed some FP4 film by 7 stops and have it in a state where i can print in the darkroom... Of course i'd preferred it if i overexposed by maybe 2 stops. But that didn't happen. RAW is fantastic, but i've never seen 7 stops over on a bright and sunny day.

[@tziuriky86]

***** It depends.... I think medium and large format film has superior dynamic range to even the best 35mm (full frame) digital SLR. However, in my comment I was talking about something else, that is the capture of each different channel and different wavelenghts of light using BW cooled CCD sensors, that's how pro astronomers capture the most accurate astronomical pictures.

[@dennisolof9994]

Talk about memories. I use to own that Quick Cam and I used it on Win 3.11 computer running Cuseeme software to chat with people. I was connected to the Internet with my modem. That was a long time ago and today most people do not seem to appreciate that most of the technology we use today is not new but only improvements of things we already had from before. Thanks for sharing the cool photos from back in the day.

[@bazurk_dot_com]

This was my first ever webcam. Thank you for the nostalgia.

[@nikkirennardo5100]

“Even the Gimp will do it.” That could be taken very wrong to someone who hasn’t heard of that program

[@clickbait9948]

@XXEcstacy stfu Jk

[@hyperxhosa7283]

Yes

[@xandercreates6766]

Stfu everyone Jk lol

[@Ozymandias1]

Or has watched Pulp Fiction.

[@Psythik]

@Adam Rx Fuck off, Adam, Nikki's comment was hilarious

[@JimGardner]

This is one of the most heartwarming things I've ever seen.

[@GAMERIN-rn6dj]

This man still has files from 25+ years ago Respect.

[@manuperez3345]

i just LOVE IT, all those memories, make me nostalgic

[@MarkyDav]

It's pretty neat you still have those image files.

[@annabeladenney]

The pictures with his wife are so cute 😍😍

[@Dacite6]

and old

[@iwouldliketobelievethattha7561]

@thepostedtoast *staples toast to a tree*

[@jonahwickenden1624]

Meeep

[@salmonsquirethebruhifysold8136]

HOI

[@salmonsquirethebruhifysold8136]

HOI

[@mrfourtysevenman]

This is one of the most interesting videos ive ever seen. I cannot believe as young as i am that i was alive when this stuff was around. Also, I don't even have any of my digital photos I kept from 2009 let alone 1995! Your photos from that time were really cool

[@long_chin_man]

the rgb lense trick is the most diy thing i have ever seen in my entire existence

[@REthe4th]

I find it absolutely adorable that you used this camera to take pictures of you and your wife!

[@EricNear]

Great video. I had the Mac version when I was in high school and have a few photos I took in 1997. I took it with me to college and set up a live cam that was hosted on a very basic web page. Thanks for bringing back some fun memories.

[@quardpd6390]

It makes me so happy to see people making videos about Connectix products because my dad had worked for Connectix until they went out of business in 2003 and helped design the software for the majority of their products such as Ram Doubler and Virtual Game Station! (and also the camera software) And since he had worked for them, we have a fair share of old Connectix products.

[@RobertLeBlancPhoto]

I actually bought the color version of this web cam. I wish I still had it, I'd send it to you.

[@sadface]

I love how you still have the photos from the 90's, over 20 years later! Cute photos of you and your wife.

[@robertbell525]

Love the pics from long ago. The 90s were a wonderful time to watch technology rise. While I genuinely appreciate what we have now, I also appreciate the simpler times of the 80s and 90s

[@TheDOSGamer]

This is so cool. My family was ahead of the times and had a webcam in the 90s. I remember using it all the time despite the terrible quality.

[@HenrikoMagnifico]

Crazy... I'm in my mid twenties and those photos were taken before I was born. But they still look so vivid, like it happened yesterday!

[@michaella4347]

"The Gimp will do it" = most famous line cut from Pulp Fiction

[@Preinstallable]

Michael La Right as he said thwt i scrolled past ur comment

[@bensvedra9616]

Don't forget - "Exercise in futility."

[@n2noodles]

@@Preinstallable same

[@lolgal1996]

thank god for you honestly because i'm bored af at 1:20 am on a school night and ,, a new tech video djdkdh

[@DanteToska]

ddivinezeroo same

[@TheLogax100]

ditto

[@TheModShopCO]

And now all of you are bored af again.

[@safetydoge]

ddivinezeroo ur school must suck I don't have school on Halloween

[@peytonlutz1]

same man

[@MoonLiteNite]

I never knew that my parents webcam was one of the first one ones.... they had that one, but was the colored version.

[@kakashi101able]

Maybe send it to this guy so he can review it?

[@AlanRoe]

Great video! As someone who was quite young but interested in tech in the mid to late 90's these are always refreshing flashbacks.

[@GloKat]

Man, you mentioned Paint Shop Pro, that program takes me WAY back

[@markm0000]

Nero Burn also takes me back. I think the last time I burned a disk was 2008!!

[@TylerSteven9]

WinZip, Corel Word Perfect, WinAmp

[@The8BitGuy]

I STILL use PaintShop Pro 6 for most of the graphics in my youtube videos.

[@markm0000]

Nah it's still good software for basic tasks. You would get the benefit of a better UI and improved effects with GIMP. WinZip has moved onto the superior 7zip. WinAmp is dead, foobar2000 has replaced it and I believe you can get the exact same skin for it.

[@DoctorNemmo]

Oh, that floppy disk inserting sound was so satisfying.

[@jxstixx]

It is often interesting to see what technologies have become the progenitors of modern gadgets. Thanks for the video)

[@WASasquatch]

This video is fascinating. I would never have thought of that method of obtaining colour photos this way. People are brilliant. Also really cool seeing some old pictures of you and your wife.

[@lucetubegplusstillsux2678]

I kinda like the effect of the manual color filtering, I might try that on one of my cameras.

[@zzco]

The color actually looks better when filtered manually like that, IMO.

[@lucetubegplusstillsux2678]

It can sure, I figure some of it can be lost from byte compression.

[@zzco]

Yeah.

[@Niosus]

That's simply due to compression. In a modern color camera, the same happens but on a single pixel level. Each pixel has 3 subpixel with an individual filter in front of them.

[@cpufreak101]

Lucetube GPlusStillSux next time I have a black and white camera I'll have to give it a trial

[@Moon-zo6hu]

You (correctly) qualified this with "affordable and mass market", but I bring to your attention the SGI IndyCam that was included with the Indy workstation introduced in July 1993. It was a pack-in with a 5,000USD professional workstation, but I thought I would mention it for trivia buffs.

[@mapesdhs597]

Two years on from this video I come across it and was just about to post about the IndyCam, decided to read the comments first, saw your post. :D Yes indeed, IndyCam was a year earlier, though as you say, not a consumer product.

[@DJefke001]

Well, The Indy was supposed to be an affordable workstation for the home user. And the price was quite low compared to other UNIX workstations of that era.

[@Zerit0]

And not just that, IndyCam was a color 640x480 cam. Way ahead of its time, as anything from SGI.

[@wifightit]

The photos of you and the Mrs. are precious.

[@funkygenesis]

I cannot fully explain the kind of emotions I was felling while watching this video... But if I were to say it would be a mixture of happiness, envy, adoration among many others. Thank you for making this!

[@asdfasdf4345artsdfg]

I believe that this was the same technique that a photographer used to achieve perfect color photos over 100 years ago.

[@IllidanS4]

Yup, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky.

[@zeddash]

It's amazing how well done it is, I couldn't believe how old the photo I was looking at was

[@Deathly66]

2:53 Still in style

[@thesteaktc]

I remember when my friend got one of these and it was really exciting to be able to capture real world images on your computer.

[@amazingmanish]

I'm a 25 y.o guy. For some reason, I like the era of 70s, 80s & 90s & this video has certainly bring up the memories which i never had. Thanks. :-)

[@BobbyIronsights]

I don't have alot of money to start being a patreon to all the wonderful channels on youtube, but I did subscribe and I am definitely going to hit that like button with every video and see if that helps out YT's algorithm a bit. ...... I like your work. You deserve to be successful. I wish you well.

[@polishboot]

Kids today have no idea what we went through

[@-Vitalis-]

- Dad, Internet is slow as hell. I have to wait two seconds until Google does a search. Is there anything faster? - Son, sit down and let me tell you a story...

[@tor2840]

polishboot and you kids have no idea what kids 200 years *ago* went through. stop living in the past and get it through your head that technology and society progresses, and you weren't the only ones in the history of the world to suffer

[@polishboot]

tor grandma, is that you?

[@tor2840]

polishboot great grandpa, not grandma. your memory seems to be going with your young age

[@-Vitalis-]

tor 200 year kids? Damn, I feel bad for their parents. I thought 18 years living in their parent's house was a nightmare already...

[@D0nCab]

Lol. you and your wife look like you just came from the set of blossom. really interesting video. loving your channel.

[@coriscotupi]

I had one of those back in the day. I loved to point it out the window and make time lapse videos of clouds.

[@alap1983]

You two make such a cute couple. Salute to you and your wife for accommodating and respecting your work which was quite complex, slow and cumbersome in the 1990s.

[@viktormaslennikov03]

Back in 90s 8 bit guy was a "cool" guy XD

[@agustinalejandrogerosa7069]

Виктор Масленников He Still is

[@technologyproductions-ye3px]

Leopold Slikk I know

[@Roshan_420]

he had very nice hair

[@caponeprincess73]

Awww you two look so cute. Thank you for sharing with us!

[@JasonPriesmeyer]

Loved this video-- it was truly like a time capsule from the past!

[@anthonysferruzzi]

Great episode! Another great example of technology that’s been around for such a long time and the younger generation have no idea.

[@imadeyoureadthis1500]

4:56 look how much sour worms are in the packet now they barely have any

[@Tobi_DarkKnight]

Well, the german version of the trolli are still good.

[@XOIIOXOIIO]

Even "the gimp" will do it. The gimp does many things but picture editing isn't one of them.

[@ElNeroDiablo]

I knew he meant "The GNU Image Manipulation Project" (aka: GIMP), but I'll be damned if I didn't get a good laugh out of your comment! XD

[@Ne1s0n64]

Me tomorrow after taking some b&w photos: "bring out the gimp..."

[@scaryKILLERwhoKILLSpeople]

64 shades of grey is what you like

[@whydohandlesexistAAA]

James Roy Are you 12?

[@whydohandlesexistAAA]

James Roy If you are trying to prove that you're an absolute moron who cannot come up with proper arguments, you are doing a really good job.

[@qjshgddfdf4100]

man i loved this episode to bits its so fascinating the fact that you can get colour photos from a black and white camera

[@Goto10Gaming]

Super interesting that the brain was in the connector! Great video, 8bit 👍🏽

[@XNusemX]

Damn you were a stud back then 😂

[@isaacdavis1363]

and now too

[@suprememasteroftheuniverse]

Welcome to the gay sauna.

[@Olav3D]

8-bit Chad!

[@quachyq]

Not going to lie, that 95 keyboard looks really good for only $30? Looks like a steal these days.

[@lemonslice2233]

True, the only sub-100$ keyboard these days that's worth a damn is the Apple wired one.

[@MrPoeGhost]

I know I'm necro'ing the shit out of this thread, I apologize, but... LemonSlice Meanwhile, I'm all here perfectly content with my $20 ASUS keyboard. Hey, if it stays and one piece and gets shit done, yanno?

[@elmoelmerson172]

Poe Ghost Necroposting isn't really a thing on KZbin tho'

[@BilisNegra]

It might LOOK really good, but maybe it wasn't. Those days most keyboards looked pretty much alike, there wasn't much design variety... aesthetically, that is. By looking at that one in the old ad, maybe the good old IBM model M series has sprung to your mind, but I'm pretty sure it is far worse than that.

[@AP-gc5ss]

You still have the pictures you took with this camera, amazing!

[@Ichibuns]

I very distinctly remember my parents having one of these in the 90s. This is straight nostalgia.