The Computer Chronicles - Computer Buyer's Guide (2000)

[@saik0pod]

i feel so old.

[@jacobbaranowski]

me too

[@danielcubillos1325]

we are all a bunch of old turds. relax

[@qbertguy]

I was about to be a freshman in High school. Technology was so exciting at the time. So much new stuff was coming. We had about a month's worth of food and water stored in case the of the Y2K bug.

[@Mashruz]

I know right?😂😂 it was like the end of the world or something similar. 😂

[@goransvraka3171]

Yes then Apple came along and ruined everything!

[@Mashruz]

@Edgar Grefve cuz most of us were not connected to the internet back then. Internet was still a mistry😂

[@raven4k998]

and then the new year came and we were like sweet the world didn't end they stopped it yay🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@neverwin2518]

We really had a lot of cool gizmos back then.

[@scottydont264]

And goodies and babies!

[@Kennephone]

And now all we get is the same phones every year with slightly faster processors.

[@thejosephchrist]

You can feel that presenters spirit die when the computer said "amputee".

[@sandwichbreath0]

🤣😂

[@mazireth]

I got excited when they showed off the PS2 in this episode despite owning and regularly playing one over the last 22 years. It took me back. Something about seeing people witnessing something I've already experienced for the first time is satisfying, like young Streamers discovering old Nintendo, Sega, Sony games, etc. It somewhat validates that some of the games I used to enjoy were actually good.

[@wallacelang1374]

This episode of The Computer Chronicles had some really nice tech toys and gadgets that I would like to have either bought and/or received as gifts.

[@selezneo]

The episodes in 2000 and further are very fast and selling. Too much like a TV-store for me. Money, money, money. But still tha's cool to watch them to overview the progress line of digital tech in time. Thank you, Stewart! You are The Timeless!

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

I'm going down to get an internet appliance right now !

[@AronBezzina]

Its funny how today everything on the Sony table is now all in one device, a smart phone. PDA, e-Mail, MP3 Player, phone headset (Bluetooth or speaker phone), digital camera, Digital Video Camcorder, mobile phone, GPS, Video player and game console !! its crazy that it took less then 10 years for all of this to become one device.

[@nnnnnn3647]

Even... bug detector, but from government/

[@Moon___man]

$999 "Not bad for a 3megapixel camera"

[@tonytsang1998]

6:58 hello amputee Computer XXD

[@deltakid0]

A handwriting device that actually works!!!

[@therealbluedragon]

16:30 A cell phone AND an mp3 player!?

[@gameshowguy2000]

Most cellphones nowadays contain an MP3 player. (Just like they contain digital cameras, so we don't have to buy them separately)

[@therealbluedragon]

John Lee Humor fail. :(

[@gameshowguy2000]

Ivan And for that, here's you a *block* and a bar of soap in your mouth, a la Ralphie from "A Christmas Story". I do *NOT* tolerate the F-bomb from anyone, anywhere, anytime.

[@FeedEgg]

FUCK

[@gameshowguy2000]

And for that, here's you a block and a bar of soap in your mouth, a la Ralphie from "A Christmas Story". I do NOT tolerate the F-bomb from anyone, anywhere, anytime.

[@Finallybianca]

Graduated high school May of 1999 damn I feel like ancient

[@HoneyChonker]

Microsoft Encarta. Whoa there's a name i haven't heard in a while

[@vh9network]

LOL that HP PC shown at 8:50 is chasing the innovations the iMac started in 1998.

[@hiredgun7186]

Ibo is wandering around pissing on things

[@helldad4689]

It is insane to watch this show go from featuring barely functional junk where every bit of memory had to be accounted for to 3D graphics, broadband, multi-gigabyte portable devices, digital cameras, and touch screen PDAs (however primitive they might look today). I hope the Library of Congress has archives of all this stuff.

[@2fast4uspartan]

This all takes me back to 1st grade. Ps2, MP3 players, etc

[@curious5661]

Cheifet has an epic combover,

[@quadgon]

@@peterjszerszen So he was 25 in that picture? It's like he turned 35 when he was 20 years old and then stopped aging for 30 years.

[@vipergts109]

I really want to carry my huge MP3 player in my stylish Fanny pack

[@djstacktrace]

Hello Amputee! 😭

[@nigeemac999]

999 "well thats not bad for a 3mb camera" lol

[@carlybishop6160]

It is so funny to hear them talking about a 3MP camera. It has been years since even front cameras on phones were that low.

[@raven4k998]

do you struggle with belly fat?

[@mutalix]

@@raven4k998 belly fat struggles with me

[@raven4k998]

@@mutalix oh I think you struggle with belly fat not the other way around🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@transposestudios]

I haven't heard the name Eudora in yeeaaarrssss. Forgot all about it lol

[@johnnylongfeather3086]

Remember the “new email” sound?

[@oldtwinsna8347]

I remember it mostly being branded as a Qualcomm product. Little would I know how the company turned into the giant ARM chip maker that powers smart phones today.

[@tdrewman]

My father had the windup radio, the hurricane knocked out the power in 2005 for 4 days, went to use it, next thing I see is the windup radio in the trash.16 years later and the tech looks so prehistoric and from the dark ages. What will the next 16 years bring...

[@gregorymalchuk272]

Why did it end up in the trash?

[@Miguel-ng5wm]

I've found some of these in the swap market lying on the floor. $1.

[@Mashruz]

😅😅

[@bizzzzzzle]

I had a handspring visor, but had testing probe attachments for it.

[@johneygd]

That sony robot is a must have and the funniest part of the show,haha lol.

[@raven4k998]

she stole your robot go stop her and get it back lol

[@rogueamp]

18:53 some of the most fly shades i've ever seen

[@aviduser1961]

I think my iPhone XS does everything that every product demo'd here did. Except Aibo.

[@jeroenleeuwerke6585]

A specwise comparable android phone would. Your (and my) iPhone does only what apple thinks we should do with it.

[@TheJ602]

I had that Nike MP3 player. It was my first one. No longer needed those bulky disc man.

[@peterp2626]

If this was on in 2019 every speaker would just talk about a different iPhone app.

[@Mashruz]

Technology has lost its spark of the yesteryear.

[@desther7975]

@Alonso Reyes But AR and VR are not so practical or in demand among the general public, are they? VR makes people sick and requires a lot of space to be used practically indoors, and AR is most useful to companies that need to provide information and resources to employees doing specialized tasks, such as designing hardware. People aren't clamoring for AR or VR the way they used to clamor for the functionality of PDAs and MP3 players.

[@geemailMossman]

"US999 for a 3mp camera not too bad" lol

[@thriftjunkgaming1670]

A Cell phone AND an MP3 player? PFFFT it'll never take off

[@arifinbali3757]

0:36 max biaggi on a video game. It is crazy rossi is still in motogp after 20 years.

[@jefferee2002]

Hey Stewart thanks for allowing people to barely get a word in edgewise.

[@florijankordic440]

´´It's $450, that's pretty expensive.” Today we pay $1500 for flagship devices. The Compaq IPAQ was my dream device at that time.

[@vipergts109]

See it’s always been hard to get a next gen console, he had to kill someone to get a ps2

[@sternkrieger1950]

"hello amputee computer" 😆

[@KabelkowyJoe]

12:00 6GB hard drive! Before iPod???? But the size?

[@KabelkowyJoe]

21:00 Another 6GB MP3 :) - when i was in school people used to make MP3 using AVR 8bit microcontroler, to control IDE, and few kB of SDRAM or DRAM and use MP3 decoder to play data. But 3.5' IDE drives. Almost made one of these. And i read about 1.8' drive in newspaper. I dont know when iPod was presented, if wasnt already available for certain Steve Jobs was watching this program.

[@ivanjankov1682]

So many products were replaced by smartphone.

[@BmwAlfa123]

Take a shot every time he interrupts someone, and you will be drunk in 30 seconds. Noticed this in every video. Its as if he wants to show the audience he knows the products before they can answer thr question.

[@randipoling635]

There was an interview with him and Leo Laporte. He DIDNT want to interrupt and rush them, but having 28ish minutes to cram everything, he had to keep everything rolling.

[@kcsnipes]

10:53 that’s buddy who played the punisher and Shane? From walking dead 😅

[@Transit_Biker]

What model HP desktop was that??? They never actually said it!

[@vh9network]

Built-in Ethernet.

[@GouFPS]

I would have been in the 5th or 6th grade depending on when this aired, I really miss clear colored plastics...

[@Maskddingo]

What innovation would that be? Using translucent plastic?

[@Daehawk]

What space movie is that on the portable?

[@KaurTube]

Lost in Space. That was one of the movies most commonly packed in with DVD players around 99-2000

[@o_da_dread]

The rushed interviews give me anxiety you watch. He cuts them off constantly. Speeds them through explanations, Over talks. And I love get second of it.

[@bhollingsworth]

“Gizmo” everything was a Gizmo

[@christineayres5339]

I remember having something called an MP4 player back in 2005 i could watch movies on a tiny 3 inch 480p display the problem was it took literally hours to transfer video to it lol thank God for youtube and Smartphones, much better

[@michaelmcconnell7302]

I vant believe a robit dog from the 90s didnt take off

[@chickenwings6172]

lol it was funny af when they were trying to explains the PS2.

[@iRepairElectronics]

the 3com internet appliance...Looks like something that you should pee into the top of it. probably most usefull that way

[@brianr987]

Where is the iPod?

[@JasonZakrajsek]

Those came out in 2001

[@vipergts109]

It’s a cellphone......AND and MP3 player!!!

[@jcp012000]

Why does she refer to everything as a gizmo? Stop it!! Stop it right now!!!!

[@Jeroenske]

Back at home at night in bed. Honey... can i play with your gizmo ?

[@jeroenleeuwerke6585]

A middle aged guy in the year 2000 that tries to do a tech show. Prolly a matter of what he thought 'the kids say'.

[@Dan-gy3cu]

Thinking the same thing. Gizmo is something you say when you don't know what it is.

[@JaredConnell]

@@Jeroenske "I have a headache tonight, just pull out that gizmo in the drawer"

[@JonnyInfinite]

128 kb mp3 'near CD quality' 🙉

[@deltakid0]

I think that's Spotify quality, it's not that bad, I am from the cassette era so anything that sounds better than that is an upgrade.

[@JonnyInfinite]

@@deltakid0 depends what quality you have it on and if you're a paid member. Lowest option is 24 kbps

[@jacobbaranowski]

oh wow I had that camra canon pawershot...7:46 2.1 megapicels lol hahaha that was my first camera

[@jacobbaranowski]

ow wow a smart phone and tutch screen in 2000 I mised that 4:05

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

They MADE STUFF BETTER , STILL GOT THE aUDREY'S AND ONE OF THOSE sONY pda'S :) QC

[@jacobbaranowski]

oh yeah PS2 befor lonch

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

Magic Gate fail...then Rootkits !

[@WhatALoadOfTosca]

Diamond Mako... Psion Revo

[@KabelkowyJoe]

22:00 Your governmen!? And 2023 every single Android phone is doing this! Every single Alexa, Siri etc

[@KabelkowyJoe]

And people love their government even if forces them to get booster oh how time has changed..

[@nnnnnn3647]

All this devices are now in smartphone. Even... bug detector, but from government/

[@LionheartNh]

Opps...everyone has started saying cool every five minutes...guess saying awesome follows soon in the new millennium along with dude and some other annoying, if they get repeated to much, words. However Mr Cheifet can get away with it cos he actually is...arggh I hate typing this overused word...cool.

[@jacobbaranowski]

samsung PBA, phone MP3 and web in 2000 17:13

[@jeroenleeuwerke6585]

This bloke has obvio never played a motogp game before.

[@elcarmi]

6:56 The iPad

[@JeremyPeeples]

One thing I've noticed with the host is that he's ALWAYS TALKING OVER EVERYONE. yeesh

[@dave4shmups]

What was that PS2 motorcycle game they were playing?

[@mutalix]

Jersey devil

[@WhatALoadOfTosca]

I love this show, but Stewart is so irritating that he never let's people actually speak!

[@allentoyokawa9068]

Can't. on a time and budget limit

[@jakesawatzky9646]

hi

[@msconfig9786]

God damm he kept cutting her off 😂

[@KurisuYamato]

hello amputee computer

[@Maskddingo]

OOOO PS2 plays DVDs! Dreamcast had better graphics by a good margin. It's a shame that people fall for the gimmicks that barely work (ps2 dvd). I was one of them. My ps2 is gathering dust. Still use my dreamcast.

[@yellowblanka6058]

Not really, they were very close on polygon throughput (realtime, not theoretical max), and the PS2 had twice the RAM, a faster CPU etc. - it was by far the weakest of its generation (the PS2), but it still edged out the Dreamcast on a graphical level.

[@saitzo2325]

"near cd quality music" lol

[@TheWvJACK]

He interrupts every single time i wish he would shut up

[@MrBronsonNY]

Mr. Cheifet, would you like to intruduce the product? No? then shut the hell up and let me talk.

[@Thaumazo]

Its rogueamp! Hey rogueamp! love your virus videos lol

[@SchweinchenHorst]

Thank you apple for the iPhone

[@WhatALoadOfTosca]

Baby...

[@dylanrobinson417]

The show went downhill after Gary Kildall's death

[@LangleyNA]

I do not feel so. Besides, this is and always had been Stewart Cheifet's interest, the "Computer Chronicles." It began and ended with Stewart. :)

[@infinitecanadian]

I got a Playstation 2 for free as a hand-me-down. Also got an XBOX 360, an NES, and a Super Nintendo. Pays to have a dad with a girl friend whose sons like video games.

[@ikramramli6410]

hello amputee.. XD

[@mrrafalb1776]

Compaq iPad? 🤨

[@JasonZakrajsek]

I have that keyboard!!! lol

[@pattontheapplegamer5437]

800mhz very powerful lol talk about throw back

[@RWL2012]

Well it still is compared to my 333MHz system :-P (In case you hadn't worked it out, it's not my main computer)

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

Ibo pooped in the corner.

[@vc8484]

Gizmo😂

[@chris929rr7]

I cant believe how much that idiotic presenter talks over his guests. Also he comes across as totally clueless with tech. Gary Kildall was much better and I think the guests had a lot more respect for him.

[@DataWaveTaGo]

Hmmmmmmmm...whole lotta junk.

[@Maskddingo]

And still not much evolution even in 2013!!!

[@arnaudmeert1527]

Still not that much happening in 2017...

[@CopyCopyOriginal]

this interviewer is so irritating. he constantly interrupts EVERYONE. it's like, as soon as they say anything he's not interested in, NEXT. BAI.

[@oldtwins]

It's been said millions of times but I'll say it again : Stewart wasn't interested in the sales pitches of these marketing people looking to enhance their paycheck; he only wanted to know the bottom line of what the product could do, not in how it would revolutionize your life or how it would save you thousands of dollar in enhanced productivity. The show was also taped as a one-off, meaning no retakes and very limited post-production editing.

[@eightbit1975]

It was called getting as much as you can into a 30 minute program.

[@andrewbevan4662]

It's his show...

[@coletaylor5690]

STOP INTERRUPTING HER

[@0pposable]

Any single girls watching

[@erikt211]

What’s a girl?

[@coolrash]

@@erikt211 XD