THE INTERNET on May 25th, 1995

[@otho03]

I love how they kept all of the load times in there.

[@JordanManfrey]

it's because a bunch of it is a giant damn GIF , because it's 1995 and you couldn't lay things out for crap

[@mikethewolfboyo]

5:43 you can hear him laugh at how slow it is

[@rudeboyrg]

@@mikethewolfboyo He was laughing at how incredibly fast it was. In 1995, we were amazed at this speed.

[@Sammyplays50]

No he is sniffing

[@ziomekzmiasta9292]

​@@rudeboyrgstill quicker than going to library and searching in books

[@BLUEJAYMusic1994]

Seeing that “Where Do You Want to Go Today?” banner upon startup is such a beautiful sight to see. I adore that slogan.

[@MondySpartan]

The birth of a legendary browser. Thank you for your service, Internet Explorer.

[@realslimsh8y]

i remember when people hated internet epxlorer for being slow... now people are using it as an object for shilling out of pure nostalgia

[@MondySpartan]

@@realslimsh8y I used IE6 all the way until I moved to Windows 7 in 2010, and it has never slowed down on me. Then again, I was still quite young.

[@HarrowwInk]

legendary in the sense it was dogshit and proprietary as shit (and was also baked into windows at one point, you couldn't remove it even if you tried) i'll never miss internet explorer, it'll forever go down in history to me as the absolute worst browser ever

[@vertz1515]

4:17 I like how you can faintly hear his Modem making a dial connection.

[@raiden72]

And you can also faintly hear the fans of the computer which have been filtered out with noise reduction.

[@aayanbaig4775]

Hhahah.

[@lindhartsen]

Wild to be reminded just how slow the internet was back when.

[@devanshouse5027]

It was only like 10 kb/s at that time... lol

[@kreuner11]

It's just a slow now due to bloated websites taking 3 seconds to respond to a button press

[@chobson8602]

oh my the nostalgia feels, take me back!

[@parkmallbaby]

I like the gray background. Doesn't tax the eyes. This is when the internet was "quiet" and the only buzzing places were chatrooms and forums.

[@researchingsomething]

damn this was before any website have some ads on it

[@blaketindle4703]

Wow it was so slow! Still it must have been mind-blowing back in 1995!

[@bchristian85]

Was slow but people didn't realize how slow. We were still a few years away from cable modem and DSL connections becoming widely available.

[@mdo7]

Want to remind you this was 12 years before the first Iphone (2007) came out. So yeah, the internet was not as fast back then like compared to today. Also, there was no such thing as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, etc... Also, there was another internet browser that came out a year before Internet Explorer, ever heard of Netscape Navigator? Netscape was the main big name browser before Internet Explorer dominated the browser market (and this was before we have Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, etc...). Oh, and speaking of Netscape, pieces of Netscape Navigator would evolve and piece of technologies from Netscape would later be used for Mozilla Firefox.

[@TheRandomGuy570]

I love how he's literally giggling at how slow the network speeds are.

[@bchristian85]

Before we realized how slow dial-up was. Back then it was a big deal just to be connected.

[@simarriott524]

I’m getting all nostalgic at those slow loading times. Ah simpler times.

[@SuperBoomshack]

Thanks for this, I am now ready to start using the World Wide Web😂

[@supergeek0177]

The sound of that keyboard typing away in search really took me back to the mid 90s

[@mgrogian]

As someone born post-Y2k, the original Microsoft Network software has always seemed so mysterious to me. I didn't even know before this that you could use it PPP/TCPIP style like that. From what I've seen from the video clips I can find, how closely integrated it looks with WinExplorer is just fascinating. Really wish someone could dissect this and reanimate parts of it like the Escargot project.

[@pheller10]

There are a few people working on this, but it is an effort that will take quite some time.

[@nirv]

I have VHS video of working on my Geocities page in February 1997, not from a computer, but a Sega Saturn NetLink. It's not quite this quality, but I did upload it! I miss those days even if they were slow.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

This was him showing how offline browsing and browser caching worked :) I may have watched the whole of the Traincast series last week while at work. Had it on in the background.

[@Evelyn_2289]

-"She doesn't answer me, is probably with other boy" -My wi-fi:

[@treasuretrails]

Hard to believe only 20 years later windows 10 came out and shocked the world!

[@marcozg77]

1995 I was starting my apprenticeship as a computer worker (there is no simple translation from german to english for this profession, though) in a small software development company. Being 18 years old, I had never seen internet or other online services. The company only had one modem (a 28.8 KB modem) and it was in the office of my boss. You had to have a good reason for it to use. Online time was very expensive back then, like 5 or 10 USD per hour. We had a CompuServe account, so you paid CS per minute plus phone line per minute. CS did not use Internet Explorer (company had not migrated to Win95 in summer '95...) but NSCA mosaic which worked on Win 3.1. Some PC magazines had CD ROMs with offline web pages on them so people could see how the web looked like. It was a very different time.

[@Sagadali523]

I'm a teenager and I have never seen such a wonderful 90s internet. I'm quite sure Wayback Machine has archived some of these websites and I'm glad I enjoyed exploring the 90s stuff than what the kids do nowadays.

[@SilvercattoOsom]

Oh my god, it's like I'm really going through a time machine back into the 1990's. Siiiiiiick.

[@sbkpilot1]

Loading is like watching paint dry

[@songholee]

We remember Netscape Navigator..

[@FuzzTunes]

This is the last time that the Dallas cowboys were relevant.

[@jfeast5469]

Back then www meant wait, wait, wait.😄

[@SkiNet201]

I don't know why Microsoft discarded the Welcome to Internet Explorer homepage, it really looked nice and it was quite an useful tool

[@Erix442]

Probably because everyone already knows how to use the Internet.

[@SkiNet201]

@@Erix442 Are you 12 or something?

[@Erix442]

@@SkiNet201 I'm 24.

[@SkiNet201]

@@Erix442 The internet was a novelty back in 1995

[@Erix442]

@@SkiNet201 I know but I meant 2022

[@aayanbaig4775]

Internet explorer. You were a legend. I honestly remember using you a lot on an HP Probook that I still have. Running Windows XP for ages and continuing on, with no issues (beside the occasional hinge detatching but that's fine! least it's functional!) Thank you.

[@DonKramer]

IE was not dominant in mid 1995, Netscape and to a significance extent Mosaic was. Only when IE 3 was released was it basically on-par with Netscape in rendering and functionally. Remember the whole Java Apps vs. ActiveX debates?

[@DanielC_YT]

"World Wide Web page"?

[@blaketindle4703]

4:33 Ah the nostalgia of that sound lol

[@jaysizzleyt5766]

I love that you can hear the dude start laughing because of how slow it's going

[@Originolley]

Ahhh, the slow load times

[@macroblockingone]

I was there trying to open yahoo chat in 1995 and it took 15 mins just to get connect to chat page

[@marcusandcharlotte2025]

I miss the 90s i was born january 15,1995

[@onlineisnotfun]

i was born 23rd march 1995 but i don't remember lot of the 90s, early-2000s are as early as i can recall :(

[@MarkTaylorsVersion-ro3us]

2:03 very slow the internet old days

[@ddljunkygames7654]

7:53 Was this the standard font on the header of the savas as dialog? 😂 Or why did he choose such a horrible font

[@rohankumardas55]

on the very first day of Internet ♥

[@ZefTillDeath8878]

We had infinite patience for loading times back then, especially when it loaded naked ladies on the screen.

[@joeaverage3444]

I imagine this looks like the Stone Age to kids today. But that's how it all started for our generation almost 30 years ago.

[@omvito8126]

Aku merindukan masa-masa ketika untuk membuka 1 jpg harus loading beberapa menit 😅

[@erikals]

feel old yet .... ?

[@breidyelnitido4618]

Así se pone los datos de tres días de claro cuando lo uso una hora

[@mjb6991]

Internet Explorer was just called "The Internet" on the desktop lol.

[@ziomekzmiasta9292]

It was creating associations. Even after 2010 older users identified internet with IE.

[@itsshowtime7629]

This is a extremely valious video.

[@prararapgomabcdefgh]

Je plaisantais Robert (veste en jean)

[@OWD-vk1cy]

honestly nothing to do at that time, no community(maybe newsboard or some shit),no browser game, ..etc