The Computer Chronicles - MacWorld San Francisco (1994)

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[@occamsrazor1285]

Oh man. '94. Such a simpler time....

[@wavefront9221]

It’s interesting to see such a wide variety of software companies. The creative industry is pretty much dominated by Autodesk and Adobe now.

[@billn.1318]

@SteelRodent it's called business. There's been previous greedy bastards in history and in ancient past. It's all about making money.

[@straightpipediesel]

@@billn.1318 It's called software, or more generally, intellectual property economics. The fundamental cost of writing software is programmer time. Once you write it, it doesn't matter how many copies you sell, your cost basically doesn't change. If you sell twice as many copies, your profit margin doubles, or you can put in twice as many features. In economic terms, there's no scarcity. So the company that has the largest market share will win and will take over the market. Bill Gates understood this.

[@lumpython5351]

And Adobe CC is the worst of worst software suite I've ever seen, it's like I'm forced to pay for malware on my computer.

[@pinkfloyddwc]

15:38 this dude’s last name is actually Brainerd

[@ferrreira]

Yes and the guy is a living legend, he's the inventor of PageMaker and the person who coined the term "desktop publishing".

[@horrortackleharry]

Back in the 90s, big tech companies seemed obsessed with the idea that 'the internet' is far too big and complicated for ordinary people to understand, so they need pretty pictures to help them navigate round it.....

[@neoasura]

It was complicated for normal people though, that was an era when everything was still tangible and real. We may take it at face value now, but not everyone was sold on "digital" things.

[@andrewchristiansen8311]

Apple does the same garbage now with pictures and tiles. So does windows in Win 10. Stop making computers for non computer people. Its like making a baseball bat for non sports people its fucking dumb

[@floydjohnson7888]

That may have been the selling point for AOL's dialup service:big, colorful images indicating where the client program was in the connection process .

[@Mouzekiller83]

miss those good ol' days. today it's all about RTX,Ryzen etc... back then it was more interesting and chilled.

[@nicklambert2075]

"Just download more RAM!" "Haha nice joke bro" The RAM Doubler: "Did I stutter?"

[@Mouzekiller83]

SoftRAM:"did someone called me?"

[@johntrussell7228]

"Sharp clear graphics" *screen looks like it's coated in jelly*

[@michaeltorres4169]

14:21 looks like a young Ron Perlman.

[@Neodestro]

yep lol he is undercover

[@JasonZakrajsek]

Storyboard Quick is still around today, and is technically $100 cheaper than it was back in ‘94.

[@liquidalloy]

@13:19 now we have this all over FB and SnapChat from teenagers with iPhones and Androids. I love these old videos btw, this is awesome to watch.

[@captainkeyboard1007]

It was great to see that there were some Macintosh clone computers and application programs compatible for both IBM and Macintosh platforms. The Macintosh computer has proven itself to be user-friendly. That is the reason it is suitable for design artists, motion picture and audio artists alike.

[@richfiles]

14:03 is trippy! Getting some serious Junji Ito vibes here... It's the Uzumaki effect! Given the era, I suspect they sliced frames of a video of them rotating to do that. Place the pair on a turntable, record video of it rotating, import the frames, then render the output by offsetting which scanline to start animating the scene at, and stepping the scanline down one with each new frame.

[@nsfmpizza1932]

I was wondering how they did that, because when they turn they show more details of the models that wasn't visible at first

[@richfiles]

@@nsfmpizza1932 Yup, they're just taking a video of them rotating on a turntable, then taking a screenshot of each frame, but for each frame, instead of keeping the whole screen, they only keep one single line, skipping to the next line down on every frame. It's a pretty interesting technique, and shockingly simple, once you know the trick.

[@technole]

This era repeats again in 2020. Mac leaving Intel, going with their own ARM silicon.

[@cgraham6]

Even more ironic, Apple is once again beholden to another company they don't like, NVidia, who now owns ARM Holdings.

[@wyokaiju992]

@@cgraham6 Its almost like that was part of *why* Nvidia bought ARM

[@BlownMacTruck]

@@cgraham6 It's not really the same as the Intel situation however - Apple could never create their own AMD64 instruction-set chips.

[@straightpipediesel]

@@cgraham6 No, ARM was never owned by Nvidia. They tried to buy ARM, and they made an offer, but it never got government approval. You jumped the gun on your comment.

[@cgraham6]

@@straightpipediesel Please excuse me. When I made the comment, the deal had been announced but was admittedly pending approval. No, it didn't happen.

[@MoonsideResident]

This honestly looks more like 1984 than 94, lol. Crazy to think that the first (and arguably heaviest/darkest) Korn album came out the same year this was filmed.

[@KK-eg3em]

@prepareforflight Don't be a dick.

[@erickleefeld4883]

Kind of funny that the first named sponsor of this show was Intel - at the time a major enemy of Apple!

[@oldtwinsna8347]

Until they switched to Intel, and were embarrassed about the whole powerpc processor lineup, pretending it never happened.

[@neilbradley]

Funny story - I was at Comdex in the 90s during the first launch/touting of the PowerPC CPUs. I went in to the IBM booth where they had Mac running Autocad, and next to it, a PC running Autocad on a Pentium system. Both were doing renderings of some model. The PPC version was a lot faster. At the time, I worked for Intel doing BIOS development and this was a system that I knew inside and out. So I rebooted it, went in to BIOS setup, and found they'd disabled the CPU's cache. I reenabled it and restarted the system, and the Pentium was considerably faster than the PPC. Slimy bastards. ;-)

[@albear972]

@@neilbradley It does sound like crappy cheating that apple would do. Or any company for that matter at any trade show.

[@neilbradley]

@@albear972 While true, this was at the IBM booth (not Apple), but point taken. ;-)

[@McVaio]

@@neilbradley Hahaha I love it that you just went ahead and changed the BIOS settings on a tradeshow computer! Disabling the cache does make a CPU considerably slower! But did the Pentium really outrun the PPC though? The PPC was RISC and thus much more efficient internally than the Pentium.

[@ThePandaGuitar]

people from this time look so old for their age

[@CEbding1996]

No they don't look older, they are just more natural looking than the people of today.

[@McVaio]

20 year olds of today look like children

[@NathanChisholm041]

@@McVaio More like soyboys!

[@damainx]

Most will never know just how close Apple to becoming extinct in the late 90's. Wonderful times!

[@NathanChisholm041]

To bad they never died instead of the toxic company they have become!

[@Kg277]

Some of those morph effects are downright grotesque.

[@truecrimepodcasting]

For real but the software was revolutionary. Just six years earlier creating a morph effect for the movie Willow cost well over $200k. When I saw this software back when it came out my mind was blown.

[@randywatson8347]

Funny.. at the same year Unisys had a small formfactor (model CWD4002) 486DX-66s with 16mb ram, floppydrive and 2.5inch hdd. It's almost the same size as a snes!

[@McVaio]

I have a 386 of them in a small form factor! A nifty machine that can be disassembled without a screwdriver.

[@Whiteboytripping]

I mail ordered a rockin’ DX2-66 back in 1993 for less than $1k.

[@lifewater989]

Morph was $200. You can now do it in a free app on your phone.

[@jesicae5975]

4:09 "Hey, we were watching that!"

[@caseycu]

Software used to be expensive af, I mean it still is but some of this is just ridiculous.

[@stapedium]

For mass market applications, apple's walled garden and its clamp down on piracy has improved revenue enough that it mass market software can be cheap. Small market, high end stuff is still expensive AF. Just look at the single seat price for something like solidworks or avid.

[@desther7975]

If you want to write fuck, why don't you just write fuck?

[@caseycu]

@@desther7975 why do I feel like you’re a boomer who’s mad he had to look up what “af” meant? 😂 go back to bed old man.

[@ChristianBurrola]

@@caseycu cut the dude some slack. Anyone who unironically uses AF was probably a baby when this aired on tv.

[@straightpipediesel]

The thing with software is the cost fundamentally doesn't increase, regardless of how many copies you sell. Your main cost is programmer time. Programmer time doesn't change whether you sell 1,000 copies or 10 million. It was all spent before you sold a single copy. If in 1994, 10 million people bought a word processor, and in 2022, 100 million people bought the same thing, the cost per copy goes down by 10x.

[@bkb04g]

Those were the days.....without masks.....

[@AmazingArends]

Ironically, all of this emerging computer technology was expected to help small businesses, while the mask and lockdown hysteria ended up destroying many small businesses. We've moved backwards, not forwards.

[@SpartanGnome]

video feels a lot longer then what it actually is ,or is it just me?

[@HellaMoist1337]

The price is captivating

[@kuntosjedebil]

So what was the root cause for the Motorola to lose it in the cpu department around this time?

[@NathanChisholm041]

You can even add bubbles! Well I'm sold...

[@inwerp]

Morphing software scared shit out of me

[@AmazingArends]

It literally made my flesh crawl...

[@andrewchristiansen8311]

Wow Mac wasn't trash before they moved away from RISC processors. Actually trying to run Microsoft DOS on a entire separate card named Orange PC? Is it weird the Chinese knock off of raspberry Pi is OrangePi? Think that was on purpose?

[@greg6500]

3k for an active matrix color laptop in 94 is pretty good

[@ravetilldawn]

Macintosh TV -- Imagine if they brought that back in 2023 a 85 inch TV with wireless everything with Apple TV Built In

[@alexklein455]

Fractal Design started as a software company? Damn

[@McVaio]

It's a different company.

[@andyrockism]

the CES from back then.

[@theepanvr1404]

Lots of powerful editing software, but next to nothing for game developers. Missed the mark there.

[@cgraham6]

Apple has always looked down on gaming, and developers have always known it. Nobody has ever purchased a Mac for gaming.

[@ShainAndrews]

7:30 Elizabeth Holmes

[@TheDarrenSR]

Ha ha ha Early Apple TV, not the 1st time they tried this

[@RosebudKane41]

3:40 Why is Shelley Duvall there?

[@Gixxer983]

Even in 1994 the man is saying that macintosh "can still be relevant" and admits that the PC is more powerfull. Nothing has changed since then.

[@HellaMoist1337]

It's the age of skrams, beyond the 80s and the age of Daethere.

[@CaptchaNeon]

Build it sells for $5,000????? I don't think they understood affordable software back then.

[@yellowblanka6058]

Apparently you missed the "Aimed at service bureaus and corporate users" part. Corporate software always has been, and still is, relatively expensive, that hasn't changed.

[@neoasura]

@@TG-kt9vg They had to. If they kept overcharging for software, that would just lead to more rampant piracy.

[@telesniper2]

Bring back 68K!!!

[@Fuzy2K]

3:37 -- Anton Chigurh? O_O

[@Mr11ESSE111]

if somebody have back then LCD or Oled 4k or 8k or even only 1080p screen like now it would be sci fi for then ., infact for 2005 too

[@Mr11ESSE111]

@ModernClassicComics no ,or maybe in testing laboratory&factory!!infact nobody dont even imagine that screen could be thin as today ,not even in sci fi space movies

[@dorlaretz5901]

@@Mr11ESSE111 LCD monitors existed in 1994.

[@Mr11ESSE111]

@@dorlaretz5901 not thon ones like today with high resolution especially not for pc or tv!!it start to comes around 2005 but they were expensive

[@dorlaretz5901]

@@Mr11ESSE111 Low resolution yes. But they were avalible for PC.

[@Mr11ESSE111]

@@dorlaretz5901 no they dont!! there was not lcd thin screens all the way up to 2005+

[@CarlsGarage1]

sounds like only Apple survived

[@adslf874yti3q7u4hf83]

A lot of those brands were bought by Adobe. Aldus and Macromedia are probably the two biggest.

[@_chipchip]

"Newton is important too" hmmmm.. was it?

[@_chipchip]

yorcharturo was just a joke mate. Plenty of other touch products were around too, but you're right they all played a part.

[@oldtwinsna8347]

Jobs dumped it when he came onboard. The idea was that he didn't want handhelds out until chip technology improved to be a lot more capable. He wasn't impressed with the Newton simply because the hardware wasn't yet mature enough per Moore's law.

[@KotiChennayya]

Back then apple was colorful ....

[@kingdave31]

20:09 Talk about dongle hell …

[@sirrey0]

shirt collar buttons - 'rife'

[@motoryder650s8]

Who was recommend this video?

[@AlexModeling]

1994 is so exiting!! I guess in 2020 the world will be even more amazing....... (Ironic)

[@sawilliams]

We have Instagram!!! ....🙄

[@AmazingArends]

Ironically, the world in 2020 is far closer to the world apple depicted in their 1984 ad.

[@chloedevereaux1801]

apple has no intentions of leaving current users out in the cold........ 2020 hold my headphone lead

[@BlownMacTruck]

Er, they still don't cut out headphone users - literally every one of their devices COMES with an adapter. Try again.

[@henson2k]

I guess will stick with my MacBookPro

[@cgraham6]

Weird to think that at one time, Pixar was in the consumer software business.

[@directive0]

Pixar even made its own HARDWARE at one time. So rad.

[@lohphat]

"Grandpa, why are the monitors so fat?"

[@michaelsuder3956]

Macintosh TV > Apple TV

[@VAX1970]

Xbox 360 & PS3 used PowerPC based CPU's

[@CommodoreFan64]

@Preston Newcomb No love for the Nintendo GameCube?

[@petestowne]

No love for the Apple/Bandai Pippin?

[@CommodoreFan64]

@@petestowne That thing was 1/2 baked hardware wise, overpriced, and had very little game support.

[@albear972]

9:47 Woo-Hoo! You can run Windows Solitaire at full PC Intel 486 speed. 😂 And 14:36 that old POS Macintosh was choking trying to show moving text on a 200 by 300 PX window. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@NathanChisholm041]

What a power beast! How did they tame all that juice?

[@anwerabdallah569]

ايام جميله

[@Neodestro]

24:30 lol

[@daehawk9585]

Hahahaha Ram Doubler. They should have all gone to jail. Total scam.

[@AmazingArends]

I used it, and it helped you to run more programs at the same time, Handy when the maximum memory in some machines was just 32 MB

[@ArgentinaPrimermundo]

Dont copy that floppy

[@WhitfieldProductionsTV]

the biggest flaw I see with apple right now, is not them moving to arm ,not them trying to dictate what's on a motherboard, but them not having a viable OS for every computer out there. I would rather be using osx, instead of windows, but I'm not throwing 3k at a machine that, I can build for half of that.

[@Gabriel38196]

This video will get reccomended in the future and this comment will pay back in virtual points.

[@avy948]

1

[@blackneos940]

4:37 Bill Gates' twin.....? :O

[@anwerabdallah569]

لكن في صيف ٩٤ بعد الحرب سافرت بريطانيا و كانت من احسن السفرات

[@cascade5682]

Too bad the 601 PPC wasted consumers money and time. Those that stuck with 040 Macs came out ahead until the 603e Quadra.

[@AndrisSkullcandy]

sounds like the lovechild of Todd and Linus

[@anwerabdallah569]

ايام حرب كانت في اليمن. اذكرها كانها اليوم

[@rui2565]

Macs are beautiful, expensive and disposable. Made for those who have money to throw away. No more Apple

[@nnnnnn3647]

You are wrong.

[@madelefant05]

eWorld was terrible.

[@garricksl]

It was a special virtual version of AOL for Mac. I read that it was the dumb business solution. Apple still can't make a good online service. iCloud still has issues.

[@garricksl]

Think eWord like SmartTalk. SmartTalk is T-Moble network but customer service is not T-mobile.

[@bucknutty952]

Lol Africans didn't use computers in the 90s. Too expensive and way too advanced for them. Not a single blackie in this vid

[@AmazingArends]

I saw just one but he was an employee

[@daehawk9585]

I dislike Apple for many reasons. But I was a pure gamer so Apple was a no way Jose for me anyways.

[@user-zc9zt2vl5s]

that guy in the big screen looks iike Klaus Scwabb of WEF