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Go back in time with these NBC News archive clips from 1994 and 1995 when the "World Wide Web" and Internet were mere mysteries. See what Matt Lauer, Katie Couric, Bryant Gumbel, Tom Brokaw, and Bill Gates had to say so many years ago.
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Flashback! The Internet In 1995 | Archives | TODAY

[@mjelves]

"In the year 2000".... Biggest catchphrase of the 90's

[@FurbyGender]

Sigurd Mjelve and it was literally a boring year 😂

[@retropat3670]

Also Y2K, did they ever make money off peoples fears and ignorance about technology.

[@JustinLodes]

lol member Conan O'brien "in the year 2000" 😂

[@jmfr030201]

Sigurd Mjelve k

[@nadeemshaikh7863]

And, that was Eric Schmidt, future Google CEO

[@terran5364]

We're watching this on the internet.

[@joeydufrene]

Brendan Feay im reading this in a book

[@williammason475]

lol

[@louie6452]

Brendan Feay I’m watching this, on my phone

[@neetrab]

@@louie6452 which has the internet on it.

[@MrJonnyPepper]

Maybe you are

[@Peter_1986]

"It's very hip to be on the Internet right now." LMAO

[@summer20105707]

Big understatement wasn't it?

[@BreannaMae]

At the time it really was. I remember those days well.

[@Etobeeshawn]

I know eh. But what makes that statement more amusing (for lack of a better word) is its coming from a nerd, in this case Bill Gates lol. Oh, and I say that with respect

[@patrickoliver9133]

Now its practically crack cocaine

[@NiteDriv3r]

It always is Nxixgxgxexrx!

[@chris12carp]

Wow that lady had it spot on. "If i subscribe to the internet, I'm afraid I'll spend less time with my family" This is perhaps the most common fault with the internet world we live in.

[@sweiland75]

It's only because you WANT to spend less time with your family. You have the option of whether or not to disconnect.

[@rogerdebougainville889]

that lady is *Katie Couric*

[@Turnoutburndown]

Yes there were many academic studies of the early internet that found the same thing.

[@sergeydc]

Ok boomer

[@chris12carp]

sweiland75 very true. Most don’t even realise it though and for the kids that’s all they know

[@linken0879]

Anything that happened in your childhood is nostalgic, anything that happens in your twenties and thirties is “revolutionary” and anything that happens in your fifties and after, is “to much”. Round and round it goes for every single generation

[@szhzs6121]

that's pretty grim

[@LordHasenpfeffer]

I'm 56 and for more than the past 20 years - if not 30 - I've never been able to find people my age who really know what they're doing when it comes to IT. It's always, "I don't know nuthin' 'bout no computers." It's disgusting.

[@John-ct9zs]

@@LordHasenpfeffer That's kinda weird considering there were computers in schools in the early-mid 80s...nothing like today, but they were around.

[@12345682900]

Your words are profound (...and I agree completely) but please correct "to much" to "too much." Thank you.

[@q.t.gamingfamily]

I was married, pregnant with our 5th child, long on my own. I actually REMEMBER this discussion kol

[@6piecechickenmcnuggets23]

"What is internet anyway?" - _Everyone_ (1990's)

[@KingTamzid123]

1999 My birthday year :3

[@LeoRack]

More like 1990-1994(5). In the second half of the 90s, pretty much everyone in the US knew about Internet (at least a little bit :p)

[@pika62221]

@@LeoRack majority got online in 1996, so it was booming by the end of the 90's www.pewresearch.org/politics/1996/12/16/online-use/

[@fightfannerd2078]

@@LeoRack I didn't know what the internet was untill 1999

[@Bailemos888]

I love it😂

[@walkedale1986]

"it's very... hip ... to be on the internet now" *adjusts nerdiest glasses known to man*

[@electrictroy2010]

Watch old 80s and 90s movies..... people wore giant glasses (even the non-nerdy beautiful people) .

[@tomascanevaro4292]

🤓

[@alchemist_one]

yeah, but billg could leap over a chair from a standing position... Connie Chan saw it

[@colossusforbin5484]

I first got on the internet in 1997. I remember just how slow webpages loaded. I remember thinking one day, going from one webpage to another will be as fast as changing a channel on TV.

[@Eric-xh9ee]

Oh wow. My parents isn't get internet until 2006 or so so I grew up without it aside from using it at my high school.

[@d.n.3652]

Ironically now, changing tv channels is now slower than what it used to be

[@joshyoon]

"I'm afraid if I subscribe to the internet, I will get hooked and never spend time with my family." WOW. Katic Couric was spot on with this!!! Everybody glued to their phones today.

[@radicalstreet7029]

Exactly man. The Internet is an amazing thing, but at the same time it's not. It's addictive and it's literally everywhere..

[@agoo7581]

Durr phone bad durrr.

[@jcmottern]

Me on the toilet reading this on my phone 🤣

[@GuanoLad]

Those were the right things to get excited about, and to be concerned about. They anticipated those factors immediately.

[@maxfowler8838]

+GuanoLad very true , we need to be as weary of how we have come to use it as much as we embrace the positve side of it.

[@bethanyray6421]

as someone born in 2002, this is sooo fascinating to me. I want to see these people react to themselves saying this stuff now.

[@rvegas81]

Too funny! I remember both dates.

[@freakyfornash]

That's the year I graduated high school too! L.O.L.!

[@opiratha]

well I wish I could get back and destroy it before it became a trend, you don't understand how life was so much better, families were families, they chatted, friends were friends, man were man.....

[@AsoSnT]

yeah it must be, just think about me a few years before, no internet, no cellphone. I don't know what's best considering how people are glued to them now.

[@mzingayemubaya4096]

Well that lady was 100% correct about getting hooked on the internet and not spending time with family

[@agoo7581]

Of course, for kids in abusive and non-supportive families, the internet provided a support system for them. Also, the internet exposed abusive parents, spouses, and also helped create awareness in domestic violence. Your privilege is showing. Stop it.

[@Th3BigBoy]

@@agoo7581 You sound really angry. I hope you find peace and understand someday that you don't need to fly into a rage so easily because the people you are talking to now aren't the people who hurt you then.

[@haroldiscool6410]

@@agoo7581bro gotta chill dude. Just cuz ur hurt doesn’t mean everyone else was sometimes it’s just you don’t need to project your own failures onto everyone else to make yourself feel better

[@matthewshores999]

"I don't want to have anything to do with the internet..." Yeah, good luck with that.

[@cryptoranger9524]

Google says no

[@christianpearson7108]

20 years later, i actually understand exactly how she feels

[@seradginasuioloer8727]

@@christianpearson7108 ,same Imao

[@slowedandreverbed323]

People saying the same thing about crypto today 🤡

[@hulkdeisel]

@@slowedandreverbed323 what you know about Bitcoin?

[@nathancoflin9295]

That last comment from Bryant Gumbel is a total Larry David thing to say... "At least you have the option of not answering the phone...on the internet you have to hear from people you don't even want to hear from"

[@tomascanevaro4292]

He predicted Twitter lol

[@jordanfabula3137]

People in this video were being so prophetic about the Internet taking over daily life and overloading us with information, now look where we are...

[@ZZ-vl5nd]

These boomers are the very same who told us millenials that internet will screw us, but are now deep intro Facebook and conspiracy rabbit holes.

[@ianh1984]

@@ZZ-vl5nd It's true. Older relatives who used to look down on me for being on the computer a lot when I was a teen, are the ones who are constantly on their phones and on facebook.

[@chamboyette853]

@@ianh1984 Uhhhh, but that doesn't make it wrong or mean they were wrong.

[@ianh1984]

@@chamboyette853 Just hypocritical, I guess. People in their 40s and 50s are the most inconsiderate when it comes to using devices when in company. When i meet my friends in their 30s we are in the moment and spend time with each other similar to how we did in high school before a phone was everyones entire life. The young generation don't know of a world without constant instant communication, but they tend to be able to put it down for a little while much better than the generation that spent their formative years analog only. It's just strange to me, Gen X can't take their eyes off their phones for 2 minutes. You know it's not going to disappear forever if you put it down for a couple of hours and spend time with loved ones.

[@chamboyette853]

​@@ianh1984 You bring up some good points. However there are serious flaws in your logic. 1. You completely ignore the fact that people in their 20s go to the bathroom approximately 1.1612% (I don't remember the digits that follow) more than people in their 40s. And I think you would agree that this is gross. 2. People in their 40s were born closer to the medieval period when the nobles were honorable (and besides people never used their cell phones); and 3. the TV shows in the 1990s were better than they are today which proves that people in their 40s are more cultured. You seem to have trouble thinking logically.

[@TheReviewLabOfficial]

Now, we as a society, cannot live without it. I'm watching this video on my phone connected to the"guess what" internet. Funny how times change.

[@utsr07]

+J. LEE TV "Watching something from your phone? How can you watch something from your phone? It only makes phone calls." That's how the year 2000 version of me would've reacted to that statement.

[@hakc97again]

Phillip Skiles How would you have perceived the term smartphone?

[@Sirenhound]

It must be hard to type your comment using the rotary phone, and how can you see the video? Tell me this future-boy! Who's president in 2018?

[@ianh1984]

@@utsr07 "They're always on their phone. When will they ever look up from their phone and acknowledge my existence?!" Huh, how can they always be on their phone and be looking at it at the same time? Video call? Speaker phone?

[@zaco21_]

That’s like how the Television was made, times changed rapidly and a lot of people used it a lot.

[@FelixDance88]

Katie Couric was tapping into something quite profound so early in the internet game.

[@seradginasuioloer8727]

Predicted well

[@MrHAPPYHAWAIIAN]

Bunch a bs

[@melsop54]

"If I subscribe to the internet, I'm afraid I will not spend more time with my family." Me watching this in 2019: I HAVEN'T SEEN MY FAMILY IN DAYS!"

[@RillianGrant]

Then 2020

[@MarkSmithhhh]

Lol my family is there too

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

“You haven’t seen anything yet.” -The year 2020

[@dinamosflams]

"THANK GOD" -me

[@enigmathegrayman2953]

Katie Couric doesn’t know how prophetic that statement was 30 years ago when she said that.

[@brendas.1374]

The first time I used the internet was back in 1998. It was at the public library and you had to sign up to use it.

[@koreboredom4302]

Back when "The Internet" was just called "internet".

[@YesPlease1]

And then, he made his biggest contribution to Internet. "Add the 'the'. The internet."

[@peterholzer4481]

Yes, that was weird. I don't recall anyone omitting the article, ever. But then I didn't have access to American TV and had to make do with Usenet, mailing-lists, etc.

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

It was never called "Internet" by anyone I ever heard or knew. It was always called "The Internet." I also get annoyed at people who don't capitalize the "I."

[@joed180]

@@ObiWanBillKenobi Thank you.

[@r3tr0actiongamer24]

The world wide web lol

[@QuantumBraced]

In 1995 my friend's family participated in beta testing of cable internet, they didn't pay much and got 384 kbps down which was insanely fast for the time. Everyone else had 28.8 kbps dial-up or worse, and of course 95% didn't have internet at all. I was in awe when he showed me, he was always online, no need to use the phone line, and web pages loaded instantly.

[@SB4F]

What!? I didn't know that existed at the time. I still had a 14.4kb dial up until late 2001. Took between a month to a scorching fast 3 days to download a song.

[@yohan1004]

By early 90's 128Kbps ISDN modems were availabe to the public to purchase, but expensive. Your friends were lucky. Although in 1995, not much stuff was on Internet anyway. 1996, 1997 MPEG became popular and introduced, that was the time when proper video can downloaded from internet websites.

[@brandondetroitfanmichaels4325]

@@yohan1004 98- 2003 Was my favorite time to be on the internet. Especially being a teenager! AOL! You've got mail!

[@dontgiveupplz]

@@brandondetroitfanmichaels4325the best 🥹

[@Zoomer30_]

In 2001 Mediacom rolled out cable internet here and it was 😂 1.5 Mbps. In 2004 they doubled it to 3. I now have 100 Mbps.

[@DireClown30309]

0:09 Those "few dollars a month" really added up back then!! I remember chatting on AOL for hours, and my parents went nuts when they saw the phone bill! ;-)

[@steventopper9310]

We still chat on AOL! It hasn't changed people still use landlines and flip phones from the 90's. We still use the brick phones as well! Their still in style! Anyone else miss the late 90's?.

[@christinab.2864]

I bet it was peaceful back than. No spam on landlines, people interdicted myselves online even yicks, flip phone and didn’t have to give the person the other end why they can’t talk to the person next to me and hanged up, kids played outside alone after age 7 in a short yard, you can go on your bus again play outside, school was very safe and realistic and no state tests that your don’t even know the answers, ect. But 9/11 really did change all this.

[@santiagosantarge819]

@@steventopper9310 flip phones arent traced huh? I love old technology.

[@santiagosantarge819]

@@steventopper9310 im nostalgic too

[@dannycooper1245]

It's crazy that 24 years ago people were asking, "What is this internet thing?" The world has advanced tremendously!

[@Heisenberg-cj7zk]

Aliens

[@CJK55]

1:01 "...what is internet anyway?" asking those important questions

[@McGriddle69]

It’s so crazy how in just a short time how important the Internet has become. It’s essential in today’s world.

[@christianpearson7108]

not essential

[@nobetawedielikemysanity]

@@christianpearson7108 absolutely essential. Just because you don’t depend on it doesn’t mean other people don’t . I mean just look at content creators.

[@christopherlee7334]

@@christianpearson7108 I mean just by disconnecting a few digital wires entire banking industries were practically frozen. A few clicks of a mouse and entire electrical grids go down. A minor computer glitch and supply chains across the world grind to a halt. I'd say that's pretty essential.

[@yogeshkumarallum2540]

​@@christianpearson7108maybe you live under a stone World doesn't

[@smitty7326]

I remember going over to a friend's house in 1995 and seeing the internet for the first time. He called me over just to see it. Neither of us had any idea what it really was.

[@lisad7788]

Lol..."hearing from people you don't even want to hear from"...great wisdom from Bryant Gumbel.

[@winterlynn9012]

Yeah I cracked up when he said that lol

[@PaulXPZ]

So they predicted Twitter

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

Junk Mail: The Next Generation

[@CaptchaNeon]

LMAO "I don't want to use the internet because I'm afraid I'll be addicted" Well Katie, are you addicted?

[@youbian]

Pre-internet/Cell-phones was the golden age

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

I remember these ads, Netscape Navigator, Mosaic. A lot of sleepless nights, beyond cramming in college!

[@KishanMainali]

People found it hard to understand the internet back then, now they are finding it hard to understand crypto/blockchain

[@mrvantagepro]

Just think how hilarious 2021 will look 25 years from now.

[@spinningbackkick6021]

Or scary

[@VigilanteVegan]

“ When you get phone calls, you have the option of not answering. With emails you’ll get emails all the time with people you don’t want to hear from.” You have the option of not responding to emails... And it’s easier to ignore an email that it is to ignore phone ringing.

[@ldchappell1]

I couldn't wait to go online in those days. I saved $40 a month in 1994 and 1995 so I could buy a new computer. That was 6 computers ago.

[@powder.4030]

" im affraid that if i suscribe to internet i get hooked and never spend time with my family " ??????

[@emptyspotlight]

pOWder.40 ironic how that is... Many years ago

[@austinwetzell8488]

Katie Couric was rockin’ the Dorothy Hamill hairstyle back in the mid-90’s!

[@i_am_albertovera]

Wao! I clearly remembered this day, I was 17 yo and was so amazed of America Online. September 2021 baby!

[@braupaul]

Constant information...that's why i do my best to stay away from the news on the internet and only check it every 1 to 2 weeks.

[@sleepyandhollow.]

26 years later, here I am, on the internet, looking at this "flashback" "archive" footage from a different time...LOL

[@Khorvalar]

I was born in 1992, interesting time to grow up!

[@John-ct9zs]

At that time in the 90s, even the late 90s, it was considered hip to be on the internet. But especially around 1993-1997. You were considered cutting edge. It was like owning the latest smart phone today, but several months before it's release...you could brag about how in the know you are to everyone else that still did things the analog way, like using a physical phone book or calling information.

[@ToasterAlley]

"i wud get hooked and never spend time with my family" LOL!!!

[@electrictroy2010]

I’ve been using the internet since 1988. Of course that was before the WWW arrived so it was just pure text and downloadable programs or photos .

[@Tornado1994]

UseNet.

[@senorswordfish6019]

1990s, the time when they were obssessed with the year 2000s

[@seradginasuioloer8727]

And now people are obessed with the 2000s and 90s and 80s!

[@seradginasuioloer8727]

@@depression_isnt_real , yes and ni

[@flexor212000]

0:50. I just saw Bill Gates in an interview on PBS yesterday. He adjusts his glasses like that the exact same fucking way hahahah!

[@beneye1]

plot twist: those were the same exact glasses. He didn't get rich by spending.

[@danielrbsutton]

I remember when Bryant Gumbel was on the Today Show! Such memories!!

[@rameezrazaansari4534]

Be it INdia, America or Europe 90s vibe is same everywhere... I seriously want to get back to there and wanted to be there forever....😁

[@zidanjkhan]

1:32 lady couldn't be more accurate

[@gd01skorpius]

The internet sent me here.

[@MrZlep]

The 90's - when the world was a much better place.

[@eviola11]

Nonsense

[@stephendoyle1323]

I agree! The 90's were a great time to live.

[@eviola11]

Nope. Fuck off with this nostalgia / "good ol days" garbage. Every generation does it.

[@estew6764]

The 90s were a fun time for me :-) No idea why Eric has to get all pissy. Can't someone just watch a video and make a comment w out such meaness aimed at him?

[@MultiBillycarter]

E Stew Actually he's right every generation does this.

[@atarikidd8979]

I miss those days. Before the media got involved. Before facebook, Google and twitter. Before the day of censorship.

[@sapphire48481]

Incredible to watch and witness this happening!!! What have we turned ourselves into?

[@neetrab]

1:15 "A lot of people can...I guess they can communicate with nbc writers and writers" - the internet is way bigger than just communicating to NBC lol

[@richardlingo4055]

Whats funny is the internet went public in 1989 but in 1995 people were just becoming aware of its existence

[@radic888]

Yes, I was using it in 1990, so I can't understand how these presenters were so out of touch.

[@t-bo-lesotho]

It wasn't until the World Wide Web went public in 1993 that it became better known to most people.

[@lunixcaptain]

"Out of touch" is a tad harsh. Most people didn't have a computer. How or why would you be "in touch" without a natural on-ramp?

[@radic888]

@@lunixcaptain Actually, computers were quite common in newsrooms and businesses by that time. So, yes, they do appear out of touch.

[@starlingermosen1401]

Thanks for the internet i can watch this video 26 years later

[@SomeOldVideos]

when Katie Couric said "Internet is..." who else instinctively said "a series of tubes"

[@ChadBest-ug8uo]

I was a teacher in the mid-90's. One day our principal called a "special meeting.". She was excited to announce this new thing we would be using called "Email."

[@PeepsMichael]

Remember, everyone here, especially you, are very hip because you’re in the internet right now. Now that’s cool.

[@MsBerries25]

I was working for a software development company right at the hinge of the dawn of the web. We had to scramble to roll with the software changes into presenting web design versus database design. Most people think the "internet" and the "worldwide web" are one and the same; they are NOT

[@kevklatman]

Internet seems cool how do i get one?

[@sostdm617]

Lol

[@mussman717word]

This is actually prophetic in a way

[@ninjapirate123]

This feels like yesterday

[@philallard986]

All the issues these people raised are absolutely true.

[@josearellano203]

I was little when this was taking place. It took several minutes to connect to the Internet at first. I am no stranger to the Internet due to being born in 1992. And the Internet has replaced phone books by now for sure. Who would know that just 20 years ago that by now we'd use the Internet on tablets and smartphones as well? Even I didn't imagine it! And the future holds the internet with no mobile device with just using a screen to be on it.

[@stylicho]

I remember back when I first started spending a lot of time on the Internet I was wasting a lot of time in chat rooms lol. I also never was able to foretell the information that the Internet would bring. I never foresaw Wikipedia or how to videos on KZbin.

[@Dr2009king]

They didn't realize this video will be on the internet :D

[@pinkcloud8182]

it must have been so weird for people to wrap their heads around the idea of the internet... i was born in the late 90s and i'm kind of shocked just thinking about how much it grew in so little time... how do you even explain the internet to someone??

[@John-ct9zs]

Do you remember before smart phones? It's kinda like that. We knew that computers could network with each other, even in the 80s, and even as a kid I did use the internet in the 80s, there were usenet forums back then. But at the time, I had no idea I was using the internet, this was at a friends house. So when the internet started creeping into the world around 1993, and really took off in 1994, 1995, 1996....well it just astounded people. If you don't have a thing, you don't know what you are missing. And if everyone else doesn't have a thing, then that's normal for the world. There are poor people in Third World countries today that don't have much, and they could explain it to you. Self driving cars are not everywhere right now, but one day they might be. How will you explain to some kid or early 20s young adult the world before self driving cars? When you yourself had to drive your own car? It's like that.

[@FurbyGender]

Irrational fears of Americans being introduced to internet 😂. To the woman who says that she has no intentions of getting on the internet, what say ye now? I know damn well you're online! 😂

[@milan51259]

I dont know what she would say today, but me like: "Ok boomer!"

[@MrANTIeggman]

Bro, she's RIGHT. If the internet has shown us anything, it's the upsides AND the downsides of being plugged in.

[@joed180]

You were seriously here calling her irrational? 4 years later and it's worse than ever.

[@seradginasuioloer8727]

@@joed180 , agreed Pandemic has eaten us up Imagine if this happened in the 80s or 90s

[@ashishd.chindarkar2602]

This arguments are similar to bitcoin arguments now days 🙄

[@michaelmonitor7443]

"What's Blockchain??? Can I send an E-Mail to it?!?"

[@jojojorisjhjosef]

Right here 1:25, the most truthful worry ever.

[@emptyspotlight]

Scary....

[@Ali08]

She called it! 🤐

[@seradginasuioloer8727]

Prophetic

[@Bittrio]

I heard of this thing called bitcoin...

[@labibwajdi3169]

1:25 Fast forward 24 years later...

[@Zoomer30]

The absolute tonnage of thing that Bryant Gumbel doesn't get would stun a team of horses.

[@spicysalad4140]

To think that this was happening around the time I was born... Wow!

[@dsfddsgh]

The dude from MicroSystems called it back 1995. He was right most every company was on the internet by the year 2000.

[@ldchappell1]

+dsfddsgh I think most people knew by late 1993 that everybody would be on the internet within a few years. I first read about it in an April 1993 Time cover story titled "The Information Superhighway" That was the first time I heard about internet commerce, chat-rooms, file sharing, and web browsing.

[@Trackers89]

+dsfddsgh That guy (Eric Schmidt) is also now chairman of Google, so that prediction was definitely in his favor.

[@_Bat-Man_]

2:08 that’s why I deactivated my Facebook lol

[@akshay-jr1qz]

R u a girl

[@dividedshark7511]

"What is cryptocurrency anyway?"

[@0Akeldama0]

yyyup

[@johnbartlett9568]

Covid 19 is a Hoax

[@markf6660]

Cryptocurrency is Depressing

[@LeafInTheWind88]

Katie Couric summed it up precisely.

[@dharkbizkit]

oh the old internet, how much i miss the times, when not everyone, was there, especially not the people, who talked trash about in the 90s and 2000s

[@shmookins]

Faces on books. Birds chirping and tweeting.

[@emptyspotlight]

Shadow Heart spaces that were yours now long abandoned

[@gebesh_]

I was 20in 1995 and I remember hearing con is about the internet that year from the radio or on campus. So wild how society has changed since then

[@earthrenew]

people talk the same way about bitcoin. Bill Gates loves bitcoin, I bet he would call it very hip too. Geeks always understand these things. That's why you never bet against the geeks. and geeks love bitcoin.

[@Alto50]

Great year for bitcoin. Hope you're on the moon my friend.

[@AndreasK6rgend]

Bitcoin is worse than Fictional Money controlled by elites .. whats next, skynet? equilibrium...

[@ChrisBrunelle]

I don't think it's so much Bitcoin specifically, but the whole block chain idea which has so many applications. Not that I'm going to pretend to understand it thoroughly, but it could literally be the "next big thing" like the internet was back in the mid 90's

[@topmiacaremid7583]

You were right!!!

[@topmiacaremid7583]

How rich are you now?

[@tfh5575]

we got internet at my house in 2000..and it took over my life

[@elissaharbuck2170]

I almost forgot how stupid we were in the nineties

[@ChadBest-ug8uo]

30 years later, I think the internet has caused more harm than good. *Keeps families apart *Forms addictions *Outlet to purchase illegal materials *Cyberattacks *Outlet for fraud *Cyberbullying *Useless advertising the list goes on

[@user-xn8hk4je4i]

thank you very much.

[@johnfoltz8183]

Too bad the internet thing never worked out the way they had hoped it would be. Meanwhile we're still stuck using phones and fax machines to communicate to people.

[@Anurania]

Internet was supposed to set information free. For a while it did. Now we're experiencing more censorship and suppression of information than we ever had before.

[@lifeuncommon1116]

@@Anurania not really. That is a fallacy. The information and more can be got hold of if you hunt for it. This you could never do before because not only was the information broadcast to you censored but so were all other means. Now the primary notifications are being censored but not the backdoors. To censors it is like a never ending game of whackamole. It was easy before the internet, because you can only send so many leaflets or newsletters in the post and they cannot be searched.

[@mak2488]

Just an observation 🤔 Everyone in this clip is speaking of “the internet” in the same EXACT way that people today are speaking about crypto/Bitcoin/Ethereum. They were taunting it, unsure of it, CEO’s and leaders claimed we would all be exposed to it in a few years while the common man/woman more or less ignored it. If ever you needed a clue as to what’s next, this blast form the recent past is probably it.

[@chamboyette853]

I am a bit surprised about this. In the spring of 1990 I was introduced to email in my computer class and was aware about the internet. I wrote emails and participated in forums as well. I'm surprised news people weren't aware of this over 4 years after.

[@chamboyette853]

@jzhephf hhinkcle But Jo Mama did.

[@lunixcaptain]

I mean, most people didn't have a computer at the time.

[@chamboyette853]

@@lunixcaptain By then a lot of people did even if most didn't.

[@CryptoJackk]

wait 10 years and a video like this will be posted, but people will be talking about bitcoin!

[@SteveRogers-cx2iw]

so did this 'Inter-Net' thing ever catch on? 🤔🤔🤔

[@monickalynn4365]

And slow as a turtle back then! This is uncanny-and a great flashback.They were on point for sure.Does Bryant Gumble EVER age?

[@satoshihunter]

2021 now. Unimaginable.

[@chrismarinov2007]

Boy did this age terribly.

[@JellyMelodies]

Crypto is at this stage right now..! I love it

[@christianpearson7108]

internet has way more value than a made up currency, you have access to information that you have needed to go to a library or school to obtain, you can learn to fix cars on the net, you can open up a business or learn to open up a business, online game with someone across the world, communicate with someone across the world...the comparisons are hardly the same.

[@tyroneanderson5619]

@@christianpearson7108 You are literally the person in this video, another doubter that didn't see the value in new technology because he didn't understand it. Made up currency? Lmao Seriously? Do you even know how Bitcoin works?

[@christianpearson7108]

@@tyroneanderson5619 dont care to, but yes i actually know how it works.i dont want a depend on tech to pay for something....and no im not the person in te video im a 90s baby who has been on the internet since 1998-1999...and tbh im not too mesmerized by it anymore.

[@tyroneanderson5619]

@@christianpearson7108 Ok then stay in your cave while the rest of the world moves ahead.

[@christianpearson7108]

@@tyroneanderson5619 i dont know about a cave but a place off the grid seems better than what im living in right now.(which i would be able to do in a all digital world) also you dont control the internet if you havent been paying attention for the past year you would know that ppl who have authority abuse power..a digital coin from the gov isnt good and companies like coin base then turn into the banks with complete control of the currency...There is no perfect system man is infallible.

[@bielaggs]

that lady was trying to warn us, I swear she is a time traveler

[@Basiafan]

Hello, I am a big fan of Basia. Would you share an episode August 23,1994 please?

[@DanWagner77]

lol poor Bryant Gumbel, he just didn't get it

[@christopherharwood1164]

Dan Wagner he's still an idoit

[@JosipMiller]

Well, everyone uses the internet today a no one still does not get it. That is the problem.

[@RadiantSilverlighter]

Christopher Harwood Irony.

[@jaitanmartini1478]

Hilarious that they are now immortalized in "The Internet" now on, ahahahahaah.