The Old Internet

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90’s phrases (0:46)
www.inthe90s.com/generated/ter...
First Web Page (1:09)
line-mode.cern.ch/www/hypertex...
Dial-up Internet (1:31)
56k-emulator.co.uk
Web Crawler (2:14)
www.webcrawler.com
Geocity Simulator (2:20)
www.wonder-tonic.com/geocities...
Wayback Machine (2:36)
web.archive.org
First KZbin Video (3:22)
• Me at the zoo
Dr. Fun (3:51)
www.ibiblio.org/Dave/archive.html
Space Jam (4:06)
www.warnerbros.com/archive/sp...
Zorotl (4:30)
zorotl.com/
Fogcam (5:26)
www.fogcam.org/
**CREDITS**
Hosted by
Jake Roper
Written and Edited by
Jack Merline
VFX by
Eric Langlay
( / ericlanglay )
Music by Jake Chudnow
( / jakechudnow )
**VSAUCE LINKS**
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[@dingsauce]

Hey guys! How's the future?

[@StoopVital]

DONG Good because we have load of Micheal memes.

[@Indivinity]

DONG sad and lonely

[@blakemclellan5119]

DONG hey it’s pretty good

[@beenathomas9153]

Pretty neat

[@obattlefail]

dunno

[@ssjduelistDD]

'Mum can I use the internet?' 'No, I'm expecting a phone call.'

[@TheSwordofra]

lol... *sigh* good times

[@NoriMori1992]

Just a couple years ago I went to an ice cream shop, and I tried to use the debit machine, and it didn't work because an employee was using the store phone. That shop was literally using dial-up in 2017.

[@sebastianelytron8450]

Ah, the good old days. _"Does this computer come with internet?"_

[@MauroTamm]

Or "Can you put internet on my CD?"

"How do you download browser"

[@MusicIan423]

I worked at a best buy... people still ask that. As young as around mid-30s.

[@billybobjoe198]

5 years ago I had been using the internet daily for over 10 years. When I was 12 the internet had already been a huge part of my life for 3 years. Making games, sharing them, talking online, sharing art, even online games. I don't get how people can still be under the rock about the internet.

[@billybobjoe198]

Argentina explains it. I really do miss the internet of old.

[@PranayPathole]

2000: Don't get in car with strangers. Don't meet random people from Internet. 2018: Uber

[@slovakthrowback3738]

lol

[@seaocrusader3553]

Haha Made my day

[@KXQ]

MEME STEALER

[@shmookins]

I never understood the cars with strangers joke. a few stand ups even do it. Isn't that how cabs always worked? And if you do it online, you see the drivers name, pic and a form of ID number. So it's actually safer than hauling a random yellow car. Or am I missing something?

[@Dr.Quarex]

Shadow Heart sort of. Specifically everywhere you looked (more in the 1990s than 2000 honestly) you would find advice telling you to never give out any personal information over The Computer. Everyone used aliases and pretty much acted in spaces predominantly marked by anonymity until corporations started taking over. I still remember how weird it felt the first time I ordered something from Amazon in 2000 and was like "I bet my credit card will be stolen now, but at least I will have that book next week."

[@garydose129]

5:38 everyone knows the horror of answering the phone while someone was connected to dialup and having digital satan screech incantations into your ear

[@sexytiger63]

God, I love being hip and in the swing of things.

[@BluntforceJ]

Word to your mother!

[@ChadMojito]

it's pretty rad

[@acetate909]

No Kirk, you just love God.

[@JohnDee33]

I'm hungry

[@Treebender117]

im hungry

[@TheTastyDuck]

Only watch this in 144p for pure authenticity!

[@ACDBunnie]

Thanks for the suggestion

[@AmberAmber]

TheTastyDuck Or if you're currently in a rural area with slow service!!

[@Admiral_Jezza]

Elektric Skeptic Johaniskraut Bernstein Or'Cheard If your internet can't handle anything above 114p for real, rural or not, then you must live in Botswana or something.

[@minde95s]

It would be better if they actually encode into 4:3 screen, now it just black bars. Yes I have 4:3 screen

[@AmberAmber]

Jezza Botswana is the captain of industry compared to farmland, Canada.

[@jasongooden917]

I used the internet before they made browsers. We had to type numbers to download stuff or play Doom online.

[@wanderingrandomer]

That dial-up sound is pretty nostalgic, actually. I remember only being able to go on the internet after 6pm and on weekends because that's when it was free.

[@CinecomCrew]

* phone rings * .. picks up charger with v-mount batteries 😆

[@FULLofJOHN]

and a flash haha

[@IndieSamurai101]

Cinecom.net hey Jordi!

[@heyjustj]

Haha and that flash phone. Always fun to see some of my favorite channels comment on my other favorite channels. Glad to know we’re all in good company 👍🏽

[@mindnova7850]

What does that even mean?

[@thelastcube.]

Aye Jordy

[@JohnyK07]

You even brought back the old outro! Well done, sir! ^ ^

[@nevarema]

1995 with a MacBook Pro

[@KevinIsNice6984]

impossible

[@Apostate_ofmind]

THE OLD OUTRO

[@Tsuki04wolf]

tbh i honestly forgot about it! was so nice to see

[@Vejitatheouji]

Took me a second to realize it myself.

[@endless013]

that outro is pure asmr

[@Dsyelxia]

Best outro TBH. I miss those days of the Vsauce channels

[@FantasyCouch]

What happened to the original vsauce channel?

[@1g.]

That old Vsauce outro.

[@endless013]

pure asmr

[@Amine-tu5sj]

put 3d glasses on..its cool i promise

[@ricardoalves9605]

Really? No one will comment on how youtube was meant to be a dating site?

[@branimirgacina4]

Ricardo alves ikr, the future could have been so much different if it stayed a dating site

[@xistenze8537]

I thought it launched IN 2008!

[@shogun2215]

4:3 Ratio. *DEAR GOD*

[@Angel_Underscore]

Shogun I heard they have internets for cellphones!

[@GeneralSorrow]

Shogun: It just depends on what you are used to.

[@blackham7]

Shogun what's wrong with 4:3 I actually quite like it

[@lagduck2209]

Also that's funny how we now have 18:9 and 21:9 screens, not just 2:1 or 7:3.

[@shogun2215]

blackham7 It's been a looong time since I've seen anything in 4:3.

[@CST4R1]

I was born in 1991, yet the most nostalgic thing in this video was the dripping paint outro

[@TheShadowPhoenix]

Watched the entire first half in silence with closed captions because I thought they were being funny and didn't want to use sound for the Old Internet before I realized I had previously muted the tab..... smh

[@Pixiesfairiedust]

Lmaoo

[@humanrightsadvocate]

1:31 Nostalgia can cause an increased secretion of lacrimal fluid.

[@admiralarthur1315]

Ayy we got an hila kleiner

[@maryrandall3902]

CaptainSwagelz it appears that you forgot the “s” 😂

[@StevieDamnit]

Created my first troll account in 1997 on wbs.net. Except I didn't call myself that, because back then, troll was mostly used as a verb based on an old fisherman's term to bait people instead of the creature under a bridge.

[@enter_eagle]

Stevie84s I thought the term was 'trawl'

[@StevieDamnit]

Rainier M - Trawling is where you use a net by drawing it through water. Trolling involves fishing lines where you bait the hook.

[@whitefantom]

Oh my gosh, I'd completely forgotten about WBS.

[@Journey_Awaits]

I hear they are making a sequel to Half Life

[@michaelpapadopoulos6054]

fortnite?

[@metanumia]

Still waiting on Chex Quest 2: Brutal Chex Quest.

[@Alex_K221]

Half life 2 confirmed.

[@hiimapop7755]

Woah. I didn't realize that The Curiosity Box has been out for... 23 years?!?!

[@aguywithsubs8956]

The old internet back when the trending tab had actual trending vids

[@Zenko_7]

Fake. You can't use the phone and internet at the same time.

[@ChadMojito]

he said it's a cellular device

[@Jako1987]

Chad Mojito 🇫🇷🍔🐀 but he clearly used cellular 54k modem at the start. Maybe he is super rich and has two landlines? 🤔

[@AtlasReburdened]

It's a *cellular* telephone. Geez, get with the times you square.

[@lightyagami3492]

I remember being able to spy on my sisters phone conversations from my parents badroom when i conntected to the internet 😂😂😂

[@ColdestLivewire]

that's a cell phone, it also has a bag to carry it around

[@TyDie85]

Part of me misses hearing that sound of the modem when connecting online. I remember geocities and angelfire being extremely popular. I'd use NetScape haha. Man, what fun!

[@MiYa-ht5hf]

0:49 "you'll get that later" lol

[@beenathomas9153]

COMPUTERS! are they- a) the future b) soul sucking death boxes sent by cthulu.

[@Valigarmanda]

Beena Thomas I'm guessing the latter.

[@Swolecoffee]

Prolly both

[@XenoTravis]

I wish they used an actual camera from the 90s and not a filter. it is weird to see a high Def low Def video

[@endless013]

watch it in 144p

[@blackham7]

endless013 144p doesn't accurately emulate the artefacts and picture quality of a VHS cam corder

[@awwgez]

I can't tell you how comforting it is to me now hearing that dial up modem sound. The nostalgia is painful and pure.

[@DoItProjects]

The nostalgia in this episode is strong. I loved every second of it. HEY! So I had about 10 different geocities sites back in the day, and a few years ago I thought I heard about a geocities salvaging/recovery project. Anyone know about that and could point me in the right direction?

[@JensGulin]

Do It: you may be interested in knowing that - in the future - there's a thing called "to googe". It's like using link catalogs, but faster and you can find whatever you ask for. Try this hyperlink from the future... lmgtfy.com/?q=geocities+salvaging Since GeoCities is such a prominent part of the Internet, it would not disappear unless every interconnected server break down. Here's one of the discussions to follow. blog.geocities.institute/

[@DoItProjects]

Jens Gulin I appreciate your very friendly, not at all sarcastic or condescending reply.

[@JensGulin]

Yeah, in the early Internet everyone is helpful and kind. Maybe even a bit naïve at times. We're not that many wandering around in the digital wilderness so better share and enjoy. It is however a bit difficult to know if comments are educationally frank or just bluntly sarcastic. Not everyone has caught on the use of smileys so better always assume a friendly tone. In the future, however, trolls would not hesitate to repeatedly meme a Sandstorm or LMGTFY on any chance. :-p

[@DoItProjects]

Jens Gulin LMGTFY is seriously one of the best things the “future Internet” has ever spawned.

[@NoriMori1992]

Do It *worst

[@EPrimeify]

Also, Blue came out in 1999, "I Wanna Be" came out in 2001. SOOOOO. 4 years too soon.

[@Felix-wq2ec]

EPrimeify Still in the 90s.

[@slovakthrowback3738]

idk but 2001 doesnt seem like the 90s

[@TheTrueAltoClef]

Is in 1995 Has a laptop *error in continuity intensifies*

[@gordonrichardson2972]

Laptops have been around since the 1990s. Not so sleek and thin, but certainly available.

[@TheTrueAltoClef]

Gordon Richardson mmh, interesting indeed

[@seraphic22]

Portable computers actually go all the way back to the mid 70's but it wasn't until the early 80's that we got the first laptop. I'm going from memory so I might be a little wrong but I believe it was the Epson HX-20 from 81/82 which was the first 'laptop', it's been years since I've looked into this stuff so I might be out a bit with dates but I doubt by much.

[@voodoomonkies999]

sera .phic TIL EPSON made laptops?! Wow

[@seraphic22]

TIL EPSON? Is that a joke I don't get? But yes they used to make laptops and computers. Even quite recently with the Epson Endeavor series of computers (includes super compact destops, netbooks, weird hybrid laptop tablets and possible some other things). Not sure if they are still making computers as that side of their business has mostly been in Japan.

[@bonecanoe86]

Wait so it wasn't Al Gore this whole time?

[@Vejitatheouji]

FAKE NEWS

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

Al Gore was a principal advocate for the Senate bill that funded the non-profit Mozilla, which created the first functional web browser, called FireFox. That is the open source platform on which every decent browser was built for the next decade or so, including Netscape, mentioned in this video as the only browser worth talking about. Netscape was the plaintiff that sued to stop Microsoft from monopolizing the market using its operating system to dominate the browser market even though Internet Explorer was far worse. During the campaign, Gore was clear about what he did and didn't do. In the short format of the debate, he came across as WAY overstating it and that's what became the soundbite that is still famous to this day.

[@alexanderwhyte5316]

What about the dingel Norwood bill?

[@amaracea]

lol no it was never Al Gore. I think people came up with that joke because "Al" looks a lot like "AI." If you don't see the difference that's my point. One is Al. The other is an acronym for Artificial Intelligence, which is where the internet is taking us (and a lot faster than you think). I'm not sure Al Gore ever even claimed to have invented the internet. And in fact, Tim Berners-Lee did not invent the internet, but rather IMPROVED the internet. To say he invented the internet is like saying Steve Jobs invented the smart phone; yes, he invented the current, functional version that's actually worth existing, but other people had invented versions before that on less effective scales. The biggest step forward toward the internet we have now was from the last place you'd expect: The US Government. Yeah, the same government that has absolutely NO idea how to actually use the internet, technically invented it. A team in the Department of Defense invented the ARPANET, which later expanded to become the Internet. What Tim Berners-Lee invented was _websites_ on the internet, not the actual internet itself. He also invented the first web _server_ and web _browser_ . He did not invent the internet, but rather ways to make the internet accessible to normal people instead of just the government.

[@nydecorpindustries7922]

Al Gor was the inventor of the Economy

[@daemn42]

This video should really be entitled "The Old World Wide Web", because there was quite a lot of Old Internet *before* the Web. Email has been around in one form or another since the 60's. SMTP (the protocol email uses today) was developed in the 70's and widely used in the 80's and onward. Those of us in the late 80's and most of 90's usually remotely logged into a UNIX server somewhere to access email. Local email clients took a long time to become widely used, with the exception of AOL. Usenet (a truly massive group messaging exchange) was established in the 80's is still around today operating at it's highest volume (although has migrated toward binary distribution rather than user posts). It offered semi-anonymous discussions about any/all topics imaginable. Modern day equivalent would be Reddit. IRC (Internet Relay Chat) was created in 1988 as a massive realtime chat system that could handle disruptions to the underlying network links (which were quite common at the time). IRC was also frequently used for real-time news reporting and aggregation during several major world events, much as twitter is used today, but faster. Today one IRC network (Freenode) still handles 90,000 concurrent users. MUD (Multi User Dungeon) - Realtime large scale multi-user gaming usually with dynamic construction, meaning what one user created in their environment or for their character, others could interact with immediately. Origins in the mid 70's there was access to one version of a MUD or another any time a single large computer allowed many users into it at once, either via dialup directly, or over the Internet. Sometimes the MUDs had pre-defined adventures, but often were just a place for people to hang out and interact, from their own virtual environments. Gopher was basically a text based hyperlink document system (similar to, but parallel to the WWW) established in 1991, which grew much faster than the Web for several years (due to very low bandwidth requirements). It was heavily used for information exchange on college campuses and libraries and was killed off when they tried to get greedy with the server licensing and all web clients implemented the gopher client protocol rendering the text-only gopher clients obsolete. The internet connected version of AOL didn't happen until the Time Warner merger in 1991 so for those of us already on the internet then, AOL was just another ISP, targeting those who didn't know computers. There were hundreds of other ISPs which could provide access to all of the services above. Virtually every college student of the 90's also had access to all of these services, often on much faster networks (although "much faster" is relative, as we're talking a T1 line or three (1.5Mbps) versus 2400-9000bps dialup). The real issue with the Old Web for a few years was that it was hard to find new places to go. A new website URL would be spread by literal word of mouth, and you might follow every link it pointed to, and then be *done* with nowhere else to go. Yahoo was the first portal to start seriously creating a human curated table of contents for the WWW, and eventually when the pace of expansion got too fast for Yahoo, early search engines like AltaVista took over. AltaVista was "The Google of its time". as the first really good general purpose full text search engine. They killed themselves by trying to become a web portal to compete with Yahoo right when Google started to rise, and they never recovered.

[@darcraven01]

1:39 aaaahhhhhhh that sound! kill it, kill it with phone call!!

[@wokeconsultant6703]

hila klieners unite

[@llliiillliii3545]

Don't forget Ethan "women only exist to be dominated by men" Klein.

[@ToothyGus]

People still watch H3h3? They stopped being funny long ago.

[@erickmonroy184]

ToothyGus nah

[@vloppysagina]

lllIIIlllIII Well, yeah, that's the truth. *You triggered?*

[@nobodank1708]

Dylan Crawford no he’s internally oppressed

[@thesnowedone]

I was a first year CS student back in 1992, and we had just gotten Netscape Navigator in the Xterm labs. Good times. :)

[@zenstateofmind9907]

I actually love that you made viewers sit through the entire AOL loading process. I remember that well from when i was a kid

[@user-ic1ic5nb6p]

i'm pretty sure nintendo used the 90s phrases website during the making of splatoon.

[@JustinY.]

Ah, the soothing sounds of AOL dial up internet.

[@lancemanipis3879]

Justin Y. You again

[@thegamingengine4537]

Four likes only lol

[@zyngo]

booooobooooooooREEEYOOOREEEYOOOOOREEEEYOOOOO-ERRRRRRRRRRRR

[@Silylily]

Justin Y. I have beaten you

[@tvrighteoustom223]

Justin Y. BROOOOO HOW ARE YOU HERE

[@kasperstenbom]

I absolutely love the aesthetics of VHS. Retro. Glitch. All that stuff. It warms my heart!

[@doffy419]

watch in 144p

[@StoopVital]

I can't imagine the internet without my side of DONG

[@farenhite4329]

StoopVital without my *DOWWWG**

[@marcelinebrownell8399]

I LOVE DONG

[@Danilego]

The DONG is eternal. Internet can’t exist without it. Nothing can exist without it. Let’s all praise the DONG

[@yugal.prakash]

Danilego All Hail *D.O.N.G.*

[@Midshipman_Vlores]

StoopVital begone, WEEB

[@GunwantBhambra]

I heard from someone windows 98 is begin made, so excited!!!

[@blepblops]

I have no idea what you just said

[@blepblops]

BP Gnosis I heard from someone that windows 98 has begun and it made me so exited? That still doesn't make much sense

[@MGSLurmey]

No, it's "I heard from someone that Windows 98 is being made and I'm so excited!"

[@blepblops]

Oh, Still though what even is this comment

[@MGSLurmey]

I must admit, you don't seem very bright. It's a joke because the video is set in the 90s before Windows 98 was made. The OP is pretending to be someone from the 90s who is excited about Windows 98 being released soon.

[@maniacminds2415]

The internet, a great way to turn you into a vampire

[@theintelligentmilkjug944]

"Kermit on weed" amazing name

[@zach4916]

Sorry I'm late. Dial-up and all.

[@heruhcanedean]

The thing I remember most about old internet is my friends having AOL disk covered walls

[@LordofSyn]

Heruhcane Dean They made great free drink coasters. I knew artists that would cut them up and make mobiles and other art due to their stock being so plentiful.

[@postmodernrecycler]

Yes! We made a gigunda castle out of them in the lobby of my freshman dorm

[@punkonthego]

_Chromatic Aberration_

[@tSp289]

Man, I remember the 56k modem. Of course by our rural line that meant a 14mb file would take nearly 2 hours to download, and it's cost 1p per minute, so the moment it was done you'd disconnect. Then we got a 1Mbps broadband connection that dropped every hour or so to the point I had the tiny router next to the computer so I could unplug and re-plug it until it started working again whilst playing Myth and Neverwinter Nights. Now I don't even know how anyone deals with having 3G instead of 4G.

[@umarshah9]

Nice.. see that you went with the 4:3 keeping in line with the appropriate aspect ratio for the time period. Props for attention to detail there. Appreciate all that you do for us the audience and good luck with your health.

[@Saronite]

oh i love that OFWWA ... aka Opposing force : World Wide Abusive

[@thelastcube.]

Wow, what did people do before the Internet as we know it today

[@xponen]

in the old days we used to watch cool TV-shows exclusively on TV and played video game on console with friends, we also have cool textbook that have hand-drawn illustration on it on how to service a car, change tire, or tie bandages & build a hut. Nowadays everything is replaced with KZbin; it's convenient but mostly lower quality.

[@blackham7]

There used to be big huge printed encyclopedia books that people would collect alphabetically labelled. However you'll rarely see a printed copy today

[@zer0b0t]

Dream that some day someone invented something that could answer our questions

[@Zaybith_7]

Hid inside and listened to recordings. Before that we stayed inside and read books. Before that we stayed inside and knitted. Before that we stayed inside and cooked. We stayed inside.

[@incognitotorpedo42]

Drugs. We did drugs.

[@rara2ra2yrra3racjj2]

Ah, the old Vsauce outro hits me right in the feels. It should be brought back, that is for damn sure.

[@Lunsker]

The Web Archive let me go back to some very nostalgic websites and I cried a little bit while basking in the good old days, thank you for this video and sharing a way to go back through time for a few hours.

[@F-Man]

The nostalgia!

[@kurtf3734]

I’m early so let me say that I like DONG

[@Sumit.R]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@bl4ckscor3]

Don't you mean DOWWWNG?

[@kurtf3734]

bl4ckscor3 I had to make it DONG but yeah I guess DOWWWNG is cool too

[@gamergodyt4167]

Lenny face

[@pentilex4338]

Congrats, it's great when people come out! Always be yourself!

[@devjock]

Never was a fan of Geocities.. I was an Angelfire user..

[@whitefantom]

I had both. I started out on Geocities, but after they were bought out by Yahoo, I went to Angelfire.

[@outdoorsjoe]

devjock tripod was my favorite.

[@chadwaldron3594]

Same here man, I remember those website templates.

[@tamber5977]

y'all. ytmnd.

[@revmaillet]

Thanx for the blast from the past... My daughter grew up on the early internet sounds from my computer and we both still miss it. I don't miss the waiting forever on pictures or sites to download but with the good there was bad.

[@beyond5225]

"You've heard of Webcams right.... They are cameras that can connect to the internet, yea its WiLd"....now we got KZbin Red. And Redtube :3

[@lazyperfectionist1]

Dude, you're gettin' a Dell.

[@nunk3205]

The best part is that it shows that it was recorded 2 days ago, meaning it took two days to upload.

[@YYeDoudou]

The dialling sound is so comforting

[@NovaDelta]

Your video is in 16x9 pls explain

[@Joeobrown1]

they have the internet on computers now?

[@Max_Jacoby]

"Now it's safe to turn off your computer" should be in the end of the video.

[@avi12]

1:30 I remember when I first connected to the internet, back in like 2005-6, I used a dial-up thing to connect. That was a lovely sound.

[@ChadMojito]

why did you use 1980s-style music for a 1990s-themed video 🤔🤔🤔

[@soinelle85]

The early 90's still had some influences from the 80's lingering.

[@CST4R1]

Why doesn't the world all drive cars made from 2018

[@daviddechamplain5718]

This type of music was used all the time then for all institutional videos like employee orientation, etc. At least it seemed that way.

[@MrFernando182100]

Chad Mojito 🇫🇷🍔🐀 thank you

[@billybobjoe198]

You can still hear 80's pop songs on the radio at stores. The 80's are eternal.

[@CyclingSteve]

Your modem is far too new.

[@amd64online]

Sounds like V.92 handshake, they came out late 90s early 2000s.

[@bullettoface49]

I think the best part of this video was the end, where they used the old Vsauce outro.

[@philtripe]

1989? i was using phone modems since about 1980...my friend worked for PRIME and they had computer games like a lunar lander and an exploring game that was like D and D but you had to use the home phone that pushed into a big box that held the earpiece and mouth piece in rubber so the computers could "talk" and the ones downtown were these 6 foot tall reel to reel machines that took up an entire huge room

[@peepeepoopoocacaccococaca9749]

stickloaf damn, how old are you?

[@PaleGhost69]

You guys member Neopets and Newgrounds? I member.

[@Sheamu5]

PaleGhost69 yea I member, do you member joe cartoon and homestar runner, man those were great.

[@crowleon6174]

How about Stickdeath.com.....was a great site back in the day

[@Angel_Underscore]

Cried when i forgot my password to my neopet account, that poor tigerish jpeg is now wondering around without an owner. If you see him please contact me.

[@CraftyVegan]

both still exist.... and I still have both my accounts... fml

[@junkowl7539]

Is it just me or is Jake starting to get that signature Vsauce hairline?

[@Camelotsmoon]

That's kinda how I see and hear the "old internet.", through the lense of AOLs UI and dial-up sound. I didn't get broadband until like 2007.

[@tylisirn]

Ick... That dialup sound... I'd definitely be double checking my actual connected baudrate after that, since it didn't sound like a successful fullspeed handshake...

[@danishqureshi8583]

Was this uploaded using internet explorer?

[@AsenaKar]

I dont wanna remeber 90s internet that modem noice killed me. But early 2000s was awesome.... i miss being young...

[@AmberAmber]

AsenaKar me too 😭

[@TBustah]

Berners-Lee just created the World Wide Web. The internet had already existed in a rudimentary form for over 20 years at that point (as ARPANET), it was created by American universities and the military as a way to share data. All that Berner-Leee did was connect all of these smaller existing systems together and made them more widely accessible.

[@kennethng4805]

When I first used the Internet, it was text only. I had to connect to the Internet using telnet. I had to use the unix mail command. Things got easier when I got to use PINE.

[@caesaroftampa1266]

"'The Innernet' a Cinco product"

[@laoganmafootballclub6632]

Zorotl vs. Dame tu Cosita

[@PeepsMichael]

I got instant nostalgic when I saw that old Vsauce ending.

[@maxcap60]

i used to love that logging on sound for aol

[@OrangeC7]

Just from seeing the title I could tell it was going to be a Jake Roper video

[@user-yz1gv1di4x]

Jake is slowy transitioning into Michael II

[@VGMStudios33]

シメキ BITE YOUR TONGUE!

[@michaeldijoseph4000]

That was a mega slick plug for Curiosity Box

[@Error-jl3vc]

I think The sound of dial up internet is one of the most iconic sounds along with the windows error sound

[@UpcycleElectronics]

Don't LOL your AOL Roper, you didn't even check your AIM upon dialing in on your DONG

[@shalashaska9946]

Every kid should be forced to use 56K for a week just so they know what's worth complaining about.

[@volcanoisland1895]

When you say that do you mean 56 kilobytes? Cus any website today would chew through that just to open one page... I suppose maybe that would mean 1 or 2 wikipedia articles a week. You point is fair though, we are far too reliant on technology.

[@shalashaska9946]

Yeah that was the standard speed, 56 Kilobits per second. Today most people have over 10 megabits per second.

[@retak4110]

I survived on 512 kbps until last year, now I've upgraded to 12 mbps. the pain was real. I don't know how people got by on 56 kbps. a true nightmare must have been.

[@shalashaska9946]

retak Yeah even 512 is 10 times faster than what we had back in the day. Took like 4-5 minutes to load into a server to play a game.

[@thirteenthandy]

56k was a "high speed modem." I started with a 2400 modem, then we upgraded to a 14.4k. Next came 28.8k but we skipped that in my house and held onto that 14.4 for a while longer. You can't compare today's web content with then. The pages were very basic, although I still usually surfed with images turned off when we first got internet service. We were on a provider called Prodigy, which was an AOL competitor. Prodigy charged by the hour, so I was only allowed one hour of internet a day after school. It wasn't Netscape then, Prodigy had its own browser and I would usually head over to the Nintendo site and essentially wait for a couple pages to load and then find I've run out of internet time for the day. Luckily we had that smokin' 14.4 and no hourly rates by the time I discovered Real Audio and also started downloading .wav files of Marilyn Manson And The Spooky Kids demos, which took multiple days if I recall correctly.

[@adamc457]

That dial up tone! Takes me back.

[@C_B_Hubbs]

I really like the use of the old Vsauce end sequence there at the end

[@JustaYeomanBowman]

Should've used an old computer. Or at least taken off the Apple watch

[@tchok]

Everyone should watch this in 144p for immersion

[@80ki68]

T. chok Away with thee, thief of comments!

[@tchok]

Otto Von Rus Sorry I didn't read the other comments, I just thought of it because the video was already 240p when I clicked on it.

[@80ki68]

T. chok Ok, sorry.

[@man_on_wheelz]

Oh the nostalgia of that dial-up internet graphic!!! I used to try and mimic it every time and predict the noise it would make hahaha!!!

[@NathanY0ung]

It hit me hard when I heard the dial-up noise, reminds me of the good old times :)

[@ChadMojito]

I've met the creator of Docteur Fun once :) amazing guy

[@alex95sang52]

Chad Mojito 🇫🇷🍔🐀 You're French ?

[@daftwod]

Don't Google 'old internet dong'

[@marianokaz1503]

Like that 90's vibe, great work!

[@SupaEMT134]

Please watch in 240p for _full immersion_