When the Internet Was New | DARK SIDE OF THE 90'S

In the 1990s, the surge of internet-exclusive companies captured the dreams and greed of American investors.
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[@lutherboateng8915]

Thanks for posting and making this wonderful video

[@DeeViningUK]

What about the UK? We miss you, Vice!

[@Matt-hc1fi]

@@DeeViningUK use a VPN

[@Jeyshara]

Any legal way to watch this in Germany?

[@prowebmaster5873]

sounds interesting, ty

[@9852323]

I miss the wild wild west days of the internet in the 90s and 00s.

[@thewatcherofawesomecontent]

Mark "Fuckhead" Zuckerberg swooped in and double-fucked our asses for all eternity.

[@walterwhite1]

We all do

[@PraveenSrJ01]

The smartphone destroyed the whole world 🌎

[@jaydover346]

@@PraveenSrJ01 Seriously

[@23ofSeptember]

I remember when KZbin wasn't censored.

[@bertoman1990]

As a 90's kid, i'm glad to have been part of the beginning of the internet and to see through its development over the years. No doubt the human mind is extraordinary in ways we feel impossible.

[@WavyMac]

I remember dial up and the pin ball game on windows xp. good times man

[@bertoman1990]

@@WavyMac yes sir, one of the best games of that decade

[@SmokeyChipOatley]

Born in ‘88… I’m positive by the time I’m my parents’ age I’ll be able to totally shock young kids/teens by telling them about how I remember what it was like before the internet. Heck even now my friends kids look at me like a three headed alien whenever I tell them that I didn’t get home internet access until I was 12. If I’m feeling extra devious I go into detail about dial up. I imagine their reaction to be how I felt as a kid when older grown ups would go on about black and white television before cable.

[@shaneintegra]

Those were the real golden years, where practically everyones internet connection was completely open to the public Hahahaha

[@versatileduplicity9313]

Y’all cameras sucked !!!

[@wizzzer1337]

I like how this really is edited like a 90s documentary

[@darrione_jarrell_soriano]

Holy crap! I thought this WAS a 90s documentary until they mentioned Google Chrome, and then saw the video was uploaded a few weeks ago~ xD

[@davechristian7543]

Well i guess u didn't watch Vice a decade or more ago Ya Goose.

[@jenkims1953]

@@davechristian7543 yeah lol i reckon derp right

[@DarthTwilight]

Butchy-lookin' man-lady, wide ties, and edgy haircuts.... Yeah, I concur.

[@DarthTwilight]

@davechristian7543 That's Maverick... I'm Goose, ya broccoli-handed hamburger thief.

[@napnemeanix]

Who remembers Aim, MySpace, AOL, SBC Yahoo, Windows 95, Chatrooms I’m from 1992 lol

[@floridaboz1]

Yes, all of them

[@punkgrl325]

MySpace was the start of social media and the beginning of the end of the web’s decentralization, unfortunately.

[@floridaboz1]

@ghost mall I still use IRC

[@ToMaToEsGrOw]

What's your screen name? B0bisc00l92. The simple times. The best was when that grey box popped up and it was a mystery who it was.

[@bklynzfranchise]

I met my wife on aol 😂

[@OceanWolf808]

I used to access the public library’s computer to find cheat codes and strategy guides for video games in the 90s. Good times.

[@bcranford714]

I use to do that at the local community college also

[@kevintombs6267]

runescape classic in the public library for the win

[@dasit6034]

glittering prizes

[@annetteslife]

As a 70s kid and a 90s young adult I remember this all too well

[@Ellie80681]

💯

[@fabiandimaspratama]

Being a young adult in the 1990s must have been very exciting moment of life in some countries

[@dankbabayyyy]

@@fabiandimaspratama soviets in the early 90s would like to speak w you

[@PraveenSrJ01]

Are you in your mid 50s today?

[@Kgio-2112]

@@fabiandimaspratama 80s were way better. Magical times.

[@thaismagalhaes5928]

Being a 90's kid, I remember all too well how internet blew my mind.

[@PraveenSrJ01]

Same here and I’m 39 years old

[@mad-meh2719]

Going from dial up to broadband was a game changer for sure.

[@boxingfan2796]

I miss the old, 90s and early 2000s internet. Was a different place. Felt a lot more decentralized. Now the internet feels monopolized in a way.

[@thaismagalhaes5928]

@@boxingfan2796 that's because it is monopolized nowadays.

[@boxingfan2796]

@@thaismagalhaes5928 Yep, its pretty much owned by Big Tech now. They have so much power, money, and control over everything. Hence why the internet is nowhere near as fun and interesting as it used to be.

[@axnyslie]

A much much better time to be online. Before social media ruined everything.

[@LifeofBrad1]

Early social media was alright. Most people just used it to keep in touch with friends and family. You know, what it was intended for. It was after everyone suddenly got smartphones around 2012 that things started going to sh!t. That's when the new generation of social media sites/apps centred around smartphones such as Instagram and Snapchat came in. Now we have TikTok. Look at the damage that has done and is continuing to do. I'll say it till I'm blue in the face. Smartphones are the real problem, but people don't realise it because they've become so integrated into their daily lives. This is why we don't see any programs being set up to help people with smartphone/social media addiction. Being addicted to looking at your phone is seen as the norm now. Nobody bats an eyelid at it.

[@KJ4EZJ]

@@LifeofBrad1 Hard disagree. Facebook was ruining social media long before smartphones were common. Smartphones are just a window to a world. You do realize you can use TikTok in a browser on a PC, right?

[@premkenneth8939]

What when wrong

[@slantize]

Back when AIM and yahoo chat was just enough

[@digitalblunt]

@@KJ4EZJ Yeah, the whole whopping one percent of people that use Tiktok on PC.

[@JJMomoida]

As a kid growing up in the 90s, I remember being so excited about the internet (and honestly computer tech in general). It really did feel like... well, like the future, like that was it. Nowadays I am much more disillusioned when it comes to the internet. We are more connected than ever, and at the same time somehow disconnected from one another. The feeling is hard to describe...

[@Minalkra]

Truth. How much of 'you' is in your internet persona? How much do you keep private? How often do you show that private self?

[@Greek316]

Not hard at all... you described it perfectly! Social media ruined the internet.

[@MOSMASTERING]

I was called a nerd/geek at school because I had a computer and used the internet in the 90s. People that knew how to use a modem and get online back then were smarter. So forums were a lot more interesting and intellectual. Now that everyone has access, the average intelligence online has plummeted and it feels just rude, annoying and full of people complaining and being stupid.. such a shame. The internet just feels different. It was far more fun exploring and finding different things.. now everything is homogenised and streamlined, its lost a lot of charm.

[@ScratchyBaws]

Never in my 50yrs on this planet have i ever met anyone that was excited about the internet, you must have really had a boring life back then.

[@ScratchyBaws]

@@MOSMASTERING You poor wee boy. 60yrs old and still living in your parents basement reminiscing your wee geeky porn days.

[@OmegaWolf747]

As an 80s kid and a 90s teen, I was so curious about this new thing called the internet. Didn't get to really start using it till I was 21, but it was well worth the wait.

[@jackson5116]

I was using it in college in the early-90's. It was more or less just sending emails back and forth to people.

[@PraveenSrJ01]

I was in the 6th grade when the internet took off

[@the_kombinator]

Hah, first time I connected to the Internet was over a 9600 BPS modem on a (even then) outdated 386 SX. It. was. painful. So was Doom on that machine.

[@23ofSeptember]

For me, it was mostly chatrooms and trying to get girls to send me pictures. lol

[@CosmicHarmony58]

@@23ofSeptember BAHA, me too. And I remember with success too 🤣 I was like 8 pretending to be a 17 year old cool guy 🤣🤣🤣 I didn’t know any better at the time though

[@YakkoWarnerTower]

I remember when Windows 95 was one of the coolest things when I was a kid. man the Internet/World Wide Web was becoming better innovated in the 90's lol.

[@PeepGamePopoff]

Everything in the 90s was produced way better… way more originality and less stuff to subconsciously copy

[@blackryan5291]

I remember running win95 and then I downloaded a service pack I think. Not sure but I felt like I was doing some advanced things. I wasn't. LOL. That download updated my Win95 to Win95a. I have no idea what the hell it did but I damn near walked off into the sunset thinking I was a computer hacker or something. Fun times

[@yengsabio5315]

And then the issue with Y2K compliance.

[@MrYossarianuk]

Windows 95 was like the dark ages compared to Amiga/WorkBench..

[@jackson5116]

@@yengsabio5315 that's what Windows98 was for

[@scaryjpg]

Now I really understand my Dad's nerdy excitement over computers growing up. My parents immigrated to America in the 90s and I can't even imagine the fascination he must have had buying our first computer. It was a truly simple time such as playing CD ROM games lol

[@asuscomputer]

i started the first britney spears website in 1997 because she was the top searched person

[@karpebuyit1227]

Cap

[@thepunisher8649]

You can't even put a personalized profile pic. 😂

[@ricky-sanchez]

I believe him. He has no profile pic because you have to either host the pic, or have Facebook. That's why I don't have a pfp either. I'm sure by now tho his original website is defunct, because all the web hosting sites of 1997 are gone. ( Geocities, angel fire, tripod, just to name a few.)

[@StealthyZombie]

@@ricky-sanchez You don’t need FB to upload a profile pic here… that’s a load of BS.

[@jeromeglick]

@@ricky-sanchez No, all you have to do is go to KZbin settings to change your profile pic. Just upload something from your desktop.

[@The__Nation]

I was born in the 90’s… the title makes it seems like it was ages ago 😂😂

[@j2323j]

It was

[@munanchoinc]

Bro, the 90s was over 30-20 years ago...

[@roaches23]

30 years ago lol

[@mitcHELLOworld]

I don’t really know how the title makes it seem anything. It’s just a statement “ how the internet exploded in the 90s”

[@mitcHELLOworld]

Such a confusing comment, both because the 90s were in fact quite a while ago, and because the title doesn’t make it seem like anything… lol

[@DeadPixel1105]

I miss the 90s so much. It really was an amazing time to grow up, with all the huge advances in technology and electronics that took place during the decade.

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

Me too.90s were the best. :)

[@sinebar]

We went to visit my grandparents for the Hollidays a few years ago and my grandpa wanted me to look as his computer. He said it wasn't working. So I went into his office and he had a PC from like the 90's and it had an old version of Netscape Navigator. He was still using a landline for internet but that PC was so old he couldn't get online anymore. We went and got him a new computer and hooked him up modern internet and he was like a kid with a new toy. It was cute.

[@the_kombinator]

Hah, what happened to his old computer? If configured properly and made usable, retro geeks WILL buy that, for decent coin.

[@Illfigureoutanamelater]

Wow, that computer was so old it probably didn't have a "Y2K Proof" gold sticker on it yet!

[@Chris-cv1ll]

You did teach him about modern internet safety? The good part about older computer s is that they can be safer from modern hackers. It’s why icbm silos use antiques with honest to god floppy disks

[@sinebar]

@@Chris-cv1ll Oh yes we had "the talk". But I installed anti-virus too so he should be ok.

[@maggip.1963]

You're lucky. When my mother's near and dear Dell desktop running windows 98 and AOL finally crashed, she wasn't happy with anything new unless we could make it as similar to the old one as possible right down to the desktop wallpaper of Godzilla my kid brother made in MS Paint 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@smurxxx0910]

I remember not having internet or any kind of computer even in the offices at school to every student having access to multiple computers at school. I felt like my graduating class was an experiment.

[@matthewromano9621]

What year

[@smurxxx0910]

@@matthewromano9621 06. I remember my 4th grade year getting our computer lab and it being a big deal in like 97. From there we had a bunch of new classes that teachers didn't know how to teach every semester and the technology kept changing too fast for them to learn enough to teach us. None of it matters because all of those machines and softwares are obsolete now.

[@bitelaserkhalif]

@@smurxxx0910 the peak era of Moore's law is what causing it. Back then, 1 year old hardware is immediately outdated (late 90-early 2000s) Today, 10 year old PC is usable (sandy bridge and bulldozer), you can run some game of today on those systems, but back then? Good luck running crysis on pentium 3/4

[@LeTrashPanda]

Beepers ruled the day, God I hated those things. Previews of coming attractions with soon to come cell phones that would intrude on every waking moment.

[@bchristian85]

Love how they went straight from Netscape to Google Chrome without even mentioning IE. Between 1997 and whenever Firefox started to become popular, almost everyone was using IE except the few who knew better.

[@Chris-cv1ll]

And it was one of the times Microsoft was fined by the USA courts for a monopoly and such.

[@bchristian85]

@@Chris-cv1ll They supposedly lost, but not much was done about it. Firefox didn't arrive until 2004 and that was the first really great alternative. There were other alternatives in the early 2000s but they all had their pluses and minuses and weren't compatible with all websites. I used Maxthon myself because it used an IE core but had much better security and great features like tabbed browsing, a new concept at that time.

[@bchristian85]

@@Chris-cv1ll I also refuse to use Microsoft Edge, even though it's supposedly not that bad, because I have such a bad taste in my mouth about IE in the late 90s and early 2000s.

[@digitalblunt]

Fun fact: In 1998, Netscape released a large amount of their existing source code as open source, and this became the basis of the Mozilla and eventually Firefox code bases.

[@bchristian85]

@@digitalblunt This is why Firefox was so successful. The Netscape base made it broadly compatible with most websites, whereas the other alternatives of the time such as Opera had some problems.

[@Razear]

Sometimes I wish we could return to a time pre-Internet, even temporarily. The constant stimulus and need to feel connected can be fatiguing.

[@simplylitzy]

Same. That’s when self discipline should come in though, so we know when to put the electronics down & get grounded for the sake of our brains.

[@TheGoodContent37]

Dude, go live to a third world country. There's people still living like that with zero cellphones and internet.

[@gman4141007]

@@TheGoodContent37 and those would kill maybe for a day worth of free internet and cellphone and look at us being tired of it. lol

[@MachineGunPepe]

@@TheGoodContent37 Most 3rd world countries people are addicted to the internet as well. There's no escaping it.

[@PeepGamePopoff]

They are setting you up for the 90s in the metaverse… hence why they constantly remind us that the 90s was a better place as a whole

[@om-nj2hw]

This video ended really abruptly.

[@kurtsydavis7517]

How

[@panaromisakarya9116]

Before facebook and Instagram ruined internet

[@LifeofBrad1]

To be fair, the early days of Facebook were alright. I remember using it when I was 14 (2008). It was actually pretty fun in those days. People didn't care if you chose not to use a picture of yourself as your profile pic back then. I used pictures of cars, anime, places in Japan, etc, as my profile pic and people liked them. This wasn't uncommon at the time. Now if you don't have multiple pictures of yourself and your entire personal life on public display on there, people think there's something wrong with you. If you ask me, when everyone suddenly got smartphones around 2012 is when things started going downhill.

[@HBKshowstopper]

TikTok has created more "Darwin award" challenges than any other social media site/app. My niece created an account on TikTok for me a while ago. I deleted it shortly after. Kids don't realize or understand how dangerous TikTok can be. I'm not a parent, but if I were I would never let my child use it for any purpose. The US government should just ban the app permanently.

[@lionelsanches8699]

​​@@LifeofBrad1 kinda dumb y tf would I want the world to see my private life especially in 2020s fb honestly I loose iq points scrolling thru fb now especially the fake street woke people sharing misinformation and pretending to be smart arses mfs never picked up a book in their life's or studied different laws either than the justice laws

[@TehDawg]

@@LifeofBrad1 I totally agree, blackberry’s we’re the end of the last best era, when instagram and Facebook weren’t so accessible that anyone could make themselves out to be someone they weren’t. It’s a nostalgia I long for.

[@TheGameTrainzHD]

It really is so beautiful. Little did they know, after all those sleepless nights in the office, working hard to craft this idea of a global connection to everyone on earth, that their dreams would become a total reality. The internet is an amazing thing.

[@Dan-di9jd]

Unfortunately they're all just workers and don't actually have any rights to what they made. It belonged to the company and all that hard work only made someone else rich.

[@SnoopyDoofie]

Life was more relaxing back then. You could start loading a web page, go out and mow the lawn and by the time you were done, the web page had finished downloading.

[@ihatemyjob9502]

lol

[@miata350]

As a teen in the 90's, I didn't get much sleep. School and part time jobs during the day, friends in the evening, and internet all night.

[@botmsj]

That was more futuristic than ChatGPT and Starship combined.

[@davidmthekidd]

Oh 1996, the days I would surf the web in search for cheat codes for Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Netscape was my default browser at our Public Library in middle school.

[@dudesumting]

cheatplanet 🤙

[@adamFIVE88]

For me it was around 2002-03 for resident evil hints lmao

[@lucasrem]

Back then it was already the battle of browsers, you were very late ! Games only, your still stuck in games?

[@TehDawg]

@@lucasrem go on then musk, what was your earliest browser? Lmso

[@christopherwharton6022]

They invented the internet, and five minutes later internet porn was invented.

[@JoseRamos-mv2ty]

I watch porn at least 4 times a day

[@teeetekkr3xx]

@@JoseRamos-mv2ty boy you ain't never lied! Whoever invented porn a baaaaad muthashutchomouth

[@milhouse14]

The internet killed the VHS porn star.

[@The.Original.Potatocakes]

Kazaa

[@IsmailofeRegime]

@post-apocposadistspacedolp5764 Wasn't even necessary. Could just type "ass" and find porn websites. There was even a pornographic website called the White House.

[@wheresmyeyebrow1608]

I rememeber my computer being the size of a microwave back in the mid-2000s.

[@charreedawn]

Lol

[@the_kombinator]

w..waat?

[@LuigiCotocea]

Same, it was like with cathode tube i think

[@CrkdLtrN]

This plays like a trailer. We need a full length documentary!

[@RadagonTheRed]

I was born in 1991 so I have seen the growth of the internet from this … to THIS. It’s incredible.

[@veilsideFD3S]

I remember times spent on the internet was brief due to dial up connection, because of the importance a phone call had back then. Like an hour to an hour and a half max. Just going through web pages of the things I liked

[@brianhoward7277]

The beginning of the internet was like the fucking Wild Wild West. Glad I grew up right during the beginning of it to see it for what it originally was and what it then turned into.

[@floridaboz1]

True, you did what you wanted, you said what you wanted, there was very little content moderation. It was truly the wild west of the internet

[@xennial7408]

So true. I miss that time. "Hate speech" was everywhere, but I rather ignored this than watching everything you say not offending some spoiled snowflake.

[@LifeofBrad1]

I was born in 94 and the internet was still the Wild West when I was growing up. If you ask me, it wasn't until after the 2016 presidential election that big tech really started sanitizing the internet. Vice played a part in that sh!t too, which is hilarious when you consider who founded it.

[@danielt.3152]

I was on the internet when there was only 4 websites, you could see the entire internet web sites in less than 4 hrs. I told my daughter, she said “dad that never happened” I laughed, I worked at DEC.

[@ToniLovesSkateboarding]

The 90s really was an amazing decade. I was born in 1980 so I spent all my teenage years discovering music like Nirvana, Pearl jam, etc. Tryin to get on the World Wide Web off a free CD-Rom from AOL or whatever other companies. NAPSTER, Mtv, Yahoo Chat Rooms, Super Nintendo, Beavis and Butthead, Arcades and so many more cool things. I miss it :)

[@lionelhutz5137]

Going to blockbuster video, watching movies and eating pizza with friends on a Friday night. Kids today are missing out.

[@infomercialwars]

It's your lucky day because there are new episodes of Beavis and Butthead and they're pretty damn funny

[@acewentworth]

feel you. seems like much easier times. not much turmoil!

[@thisguy73]

world of warcraft

[@edstar83]

Gen-X represent. I was born in 1976.

[@mxpwr4003]

All 90s teen like me here will say the same thing on how this thing was mind-boggling when it started to get into homes. Speed was 1.8k sec on good days :) I remember chat rooms like mIRC.. had a hard time believing it was real people with nicknames sending all this random garbage chat in public rooms. Now isn't there something as trivial as writing to people with a keyboard lol

[@Reconseal4050]

I remember how expensive internet was back then! Especially if you wanted Cable or a T1 line!

[@ricky-sanchez]

All you needed was 56k modem and a telephone line. Cable and t1 didn't exist for regular people until the early 2000s. Please stop the cap.

[@jamesslick4790]

@@ricky-sanchez My stepmother had a T1 line iñher house in the early 1990s. But then again, she had worked for Verizon since the 1960s (When it was Bell Telephone division of AT&T), She had all the cool gear early, LOL.

[@ricky-sanchez]

@@jamesslick4790 As cool as that is, it's kind of like saying my uncle worked for the army for 30 years, and has a rocket launcher in his basement.

[@jamesslick4790]

@@ricky-sanchez Not really. The Army does not supply rocket launchers for you to keep at home. Hell, they don't even let you keep your rifle! no matter how long you served. (I asked, LOL). OTOH, Verizon GAVE my stepmother the T1 line (and a cellular phone) as a legit job perk. Besides, I was agreeing with you. A T1 line in the '90s was something that was kinda out of reach to anyone outside of major corporations OR higher level telecom workers.

[@ricky-sanchez]

@@jamesslick4790 We don't know what the army gives away. I know a bunch of people who came home with grenades after a few years in the service. If you work anywhere for 30 years, your bound to get good stuff no one else can get their hands on. I worked at cvs for a few years, and had all kinds of stuff normal people couldn't have, from promotional displays, to products that were discontinued for years. It's cool your mother had t1 in the early 90s, but again, that wasn't something normal people could have, even in the late 90s. She was definitely testing it for the company.

[@snoozy04]

Back in the early 90's I didn't know how to capitalize the letters on the keyboard. The keyboard was so intimidating to me, now I can type like 60 words per minute...

[@jeromeglick]

Remember typing reports on a loud clackety Smith-Corona electric typewriter that leaked ink before getting Microsoft Word 2000.

[@ArtieOddity]

The first search I did in the mid 90s at the high-school computer lab was for "lowriders".

[@ricky-sanchez]

Mine was butt. Internet was very straightforward.👍

[@jeromeglick]

Remember the old bubbly Google logo? It didn't last too long.

[@memeeater420]

I bet people in the 90s were freaked out by how fast technology were growing. Just like us right now with the AI's.

[@bronwaith]

That was a very weird ending, you could have at least shown the time magazine cover

[@angelh1743]

I remember those days in the 90's working for an internet company. It was ground breaking. And so so much fun. At times at work we stayed up all night and in between work we played a lot of PS1 games because I always brought into the building a square TV, PS1, & controllers. And when we worked the graveyard shifts, it helped pass the night. Before we knew it it was 6am and time to go home. Sometimes we stayed until 12pm, went to lunch together, and then go home. And do it all over again. You really don't see that anymore and that's just sad. I'm grateful for the 90's & early 2K's.

[@Dan-di9jd]

I think people got a bit smarter knowing that they're really working to make someone else rich. I mean if you owned it all and you were putting in the work then that's one thing.

[@PowerInOne22]

What a time to be alive. MIss those days.

[@j.w.4352]

'88 baby here with a question I'm tired of asking myself: Can we just go ahead and have some kinds of instant good feelings created instead of pills and medications with side effects? Like "What's wrong with that guy?"...."He's a little sad, give him a dose of the 90's with a little 70's in it" lol

[@PeepGamePopoff]

Metaverse here we come

[@punkgrl325]

Got my first computer in 1996, an old Macintosh that was thrown out from the elementary school where my dad worked and I attended at the time. Man, things have come such a long way since then!

[@digitalblunt]

I remember those old Macs!

[@mahdiyussuf9804]

@ 1:51 lol, i remember that "bum equipment" brand from the 90s 🤣🤣

[@longlivebytor]

As a web application developer, I can safely say that the world wide web really changed my life.

[@landoc05]

I was there before the web, in 1987, on Usenet. We were pioneers.

[@Patrick19833]

I remember bulletin board systems. Also the door games like Legend Of The Red Dragon and Food Fight!

[@landoc05]

@@Patrick19833 I still use my old Fidonet address.

[@topologyrob]

Sent some email in ‘81

[@3forte]

The 90s were fast paced times. Cartoons were about fast images, music was upbeat, advertisements have loud colors and lightning bolts, me as a kid would drink various sugary drinks while skateboarding. This break neck speed of technology and everything else definitely molded the mindset of millennials.

[@the_kombinator]

Tech changed so fast. Working on a computer store in the mid-late 90s, I was able to keep up just a step behind top of the line - so not minimum requirements - but even then, I spent most of my money at the store I worked at. Now? Systems last even up to a decade. I grew up in MOOREs (edit) law's knee, at the most exponential growth. A nice 386 DX in 1991 would be completely useless by 1996 (for most people) - the late 90s, you'd better have bought a good motherboard that can support a good upgrade path. Then ATX and SLOT came. LOL. I gave up around the P4 era, the system I had was good enough to get me through College without more than adding RAM, and the occasional CPU upgrade (PIII 800 to 1.1 GHz) on the same board.

[@infomercialwars]

I know, I'm still tired from the 90s

[@infomercialwars]

@@the_kombinator I think you mean Moore's law? Hopefully..

[@the_kombinator]

@@infomercialwars I swore I looked it up to be sure. And typed in Murphy's law anyhow. I'm dumb.

[@jennifercooper3846]

Upbeat music?! The 90’s were the decade of grunge. All the bands were from Seattle and depressed or angry or both. Loved it, but I don’t know about calling it upbeat music.

[@froggore52]

Our first computer ran Netscape Navigator over a 56k dial up connection on Windows 95. To say things have improved would be a big understatement.

[@thisguy73]

Holy smoke 56K!! RICH!! SOme of us suffered in 28k!

[@madalynd0]

i wish i was alive for the times like this that were just unbelievable for the human mind to understand, like seeing space for the first time to. all these things, i hope we’ll still be able to come up with new things and new ideas yk

[@floridaboz1]

I really miss the wild west days of the internet. I am sure some of your remember being told that the internet was a Fad that would never catch on A few of my memories 1. The day i got my first computer. I was overseas for the military and when i came back, i used the overseas money that i saved to buy my first computer, A HP. 2. Napster (every 90s kid here knows..., i will leave it at that) 3. When i got my first broadband connection, i was still in the military at the time, and i was the first person on my block to get broadband. 4. Making my first legit website. 5. Helping my sister pass a test in college on the history of the internet.. In short i did not just use the internet, i studied it, and learned how it worked and its history 6. My first multi display, I was using windows 98 at the time, and i rarely have ever had a system that was not since then... multi display with CRT monitors really fills up a desk 7. My first IT Job 8. My first computer build (since than i have built like 5 or 6. 9. My first round with linux 10. Watching The Screen Savers on TechTV. 11. The military finding out that i was tech savvy, so they got me involved in doing more computer work 12. Talking or messaging out of state friends and family on MSN Live Messenger, AOL Messenger or Yahoo! Messenger without long distance fees 13. AOL Disks EVERYWHERE, if you know you know. 14. THE DIALUP SOUND. (google if you dont know) 15. YOU GOT MAIL (like i missed it so much, that i had a extension on my chrome that plays that when i get a email) 16. Do you guys also remember the horrible screen resolution on some of the first phones with a internet browser and them being painfully slow on both internet and the general speed of the phone. (might add more later) In short, i know there has been many complaints about how connected we are now. but for me, i have got many jobs and made a lot of money in my life because of the internet. So i am really glad that it is there. I am sure there is many more than i do not remember, but tell me, what are your favorite tech, internet or computer memories edit number 2: my very first computer but not internet memory was playing Oregon Trail on some elementary school computer. They only had one or a few computers there. But i did really well in my typewriter class.

[@jeromeglick]

Yeah my neighbor still thinks it's a fad that won't catch on. That's why he doesn't have internet, or even a computer for that matter. Another guy I know finally got his first computer and e-mail 5 years ago. He even got a smartphone this year. Never too late I guess.

[@floridaboz1]

@@jeromeglick I just like how it went from a fad to part of almost everyone's daily life in so many different ways. So many people still do not understand how much they use the internet from using the card reader in a place of business to using the gas pumps at the gas station.

[@jeromeglick]

@@floridaboz1 Same could be said of electricity, telephone, radio, and television. I read in an old TV industry journal from the 1940s that the novelty of a new TV set would be lost on new owners in a matter of days, which is why they emphasized the importance of producing quality programming to keep the viewers coming back.

[@floridaboz1]

@@jeromeglick Another great example is that damned horseless carriage. They said that would never catch on at all, no chance in hell...

[@jeromeglick]

@@floridaboz1 So what's the next thing people are saying that won't catch on? The metaverse? Digital currency? Implant chips?

[@evanhuber4703]

Damn we thank you for your service Netscape workers

[@TH3_OR151NAL_BLOcK]

Ah the good ole AOL days lol....now I couldn't imagine life without internet again. . . I remember spending hours in the library going through Britannica and encyclopedia for school reports, now everything is done from your finger tips, you actually really don't even have to leave the house anymore lol. Work, shopping, school etc. All from home 👍✨

[@the_kombinator]

I got Encarta 96 once from an aunt for Christmas. I was not sure how I would run it on a 386 without a CDROM lol.

[@TH3_OR151NAL_BLOcK]

@@the_kombinator true story 😂

[@fakereality96]

Lucky. In the mid 90's I got stuck having to use my grandmother's old World Book encyclopedia from the 60's for my school reports, which featured articles on South Vietnam and Rhodesia. 😋

[@CraftyZanTub]

I'm Gen X, but I cut my Internet teeth in 1997 when my mother gave me a brand new (to me) floor model all in 1 PC. I nerd out on these nostalgia videos.

[@dannyrivas7284]

I remember when I first logged in to Runescape back in 2004 I was in awe that all the players around me were real people from around the world

[@stefanoastegonzalez527]

I also started to play RS back in 2004, I still even have the yo-yo from the xmas event. Those were definitely great times.

[@gideon2171]

More of this please!

[@blomegoog]

old enough to have lived thru this, and can name pretty much every computer shown, and every politician and newscaster.

[@JohnDoe-cd6ro]

My favorite part of 90s internet was Newgrounds and learning html.

[@wrenchedfoxbody]

I was born in 84, middle of America Missouri. When the internet came into homes, it was wild. Loading in the AOL disc for the 60min or whatever time. Being able to chat/talk to people from all over. (A/S/L for the ones who know) It was crazy, coming from a time when you got charged extra for a long distance phone call. It all ended tho, when mom picked up the phone to make a call. Those were the best times and we didn't know it.

[@XxLIVRAxX]

I was 9 years old when we got our first home PC, an IBM Aptiva 95 with Windows 95 and a bundle of programs like games and the Encarta Encyclopedia 96, of course we had Netscape Navigator, that was a life changing experience

[@zachsodano]

Love this thanks for the content the people need to see more history like this well played

[@tethron.]

Great topic!!

[@rizalukman7982]

Thank you for the video.I used internet for the first time in Australia in 1997

[@oeao2841]

I remember when my middle school just got computers…we had those colored Apple computers in the early 2000s

[@johnnybongo5077]

The Government(1990): What would be the best and easiest way to keep track of everyone and disguise it as a tool for convenience?

[@ricky-sanchez]

Telephone.

[@johnnybongo5077]

@@ricky-sanchez That also.👍

[@centralcal6604]

I remember receiving those A.O.L discs in the mail pretty frequently

[@yodead369]

Anyone that grew up in the 90s! The Internet, yahoo, AIM, AOL! Ahhh. “You got mail!”. 😅

[@DennisTrovato]

The older generations grew up without the internet and the newer generation grew up with the internet. But for that small slice of people I belong to, the internet grew up with US.

[@fakereality96]

Cusper babies!!! 😁

[@nawsh2252]

Why did this end so abruptly?

[@ricky-sanchez]

It's part of a larger documentary. Vice is gonna split it into multiple parts for views and content.😒

[@anotherpeasant]

In 1995 my dad bought a Packard Bell with a 486 dx/2 blazing along at 66MHz for around 3 grand CDN. I was an intelligent and curious 10 year old with an excited geek for a dad. We literally watched the birth and growth of the Internet in real time. It was a very, very unique and interesting time to grow up and become of age.

[@eustab.anas-mann9510]

In 1995 Pentiums were 120 to 200 megahertz. I'll take "things that never happened" for $500, Alex.

[@TheFlareMind]

I started using computers in mid 90s, introduced in primary school but i only started using the internet around late 90s/early 2000's properly. Yes i had those AOL CD-ROMS and playing DOOM, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Tomb Raider 3 and Age of Exmpires to name a few, simpler times.

[@westwoodoralsurgerydentalgroup]

Great video about this time in the early 90’s and the genius of Mark Andresson

[@Yungbeck]

Sure, thats cool and all but it was us, the YOUTH in the 90s that fucking brought the internet into another stratosphere. You're welcome, kids.

[@jessannreece5672]

We were one of the first families on our block to have a computer and internet lol I was so obsessed with AOL

[@Stationary76]

Loved Netscape Navigator & Communicator. IRC, MUD's, BBS, ICQ, MySpace! The good old days. :D

[@freddelarsson4434]

It's cool that Vice did this story, even though how used we all are to use Internet these days, it's always interesting seeing & listening about how it all began.

[@TheGoodContent37]

I still remember visiting the "Hacking websites and forums" back when images on webpages weren't even a thing. All text learning amazing stuff like destroying computers by making the fan speed go nuts or things like that xD

[@ChadwickTheChad]

I was introduced to the internet by my step-dad in september of 1993. I had been really big into BBSs for a few years before since 1990 for local chat rooms and stuff, and one day he asked me "Hey, you want to see the biggest chat room in the world?" He then showed me IRC. I can even remember the first thing I said on the internet, which was "Hey, are you guys really from australia?"

[@versatileduplicity9313]

Back when adult friend finder wasn’t a scam

[@ricky-sanchez]

Found the kidnapper...

[@23ofSeptember]

Now here's a guy....

[@al821]

I remember the early days of the internet. Can meet so many people that might live down the street.

[@Ellie80681]

I was born in the early 80s, glad to see the transition and work with tech till this day! ❤ I also remember buying music and books from Amazon on my phone in the early 2000s.

[@the_kombinator]

You might like the retro rigs I build on my channel. Just now putting the final touches on a rather nice Shuttle HOT 386 DX 40 :)

[@gretelh3144]

I remember sometime in the 90’s my high school teacher brought us into the school’s computer labs. He tried to explain how we could ask the computer anything. We all sat totally confused. He explained more about how the computer shares information and we should try it out. We sat whispering to each other as though he’d lost his mind. I remember in college an ex boyfriend of mine was studying something to do with computers and we were in different states. He told me if I gave him my password he could create a place where we talked live (instead of emailing). My mind was blown then too. Now just look at us! Wonder what life will be like in another 25 years. (if we haven’t blown us all up by then.)

[@Kgio-2112]

Yup. Look at us now. A souless life. Most people wont even look you in the eye . they dont know how. They are too uncomfortable. This " connected" world is very unconnected.

[@jennifercooper3846]

@@Kgio-2112 yes, good point. And also the fact that everyone in the world is connected-not just the good but the bad too, making the internet a dangerous place. Great, huh?

[@0ptimal]

Man as a highschooler what got me was chatting online w people from all over. It was so new and just awesome, I was addicted to it. That and getting a computer at home I was fascinated with just the software, like exploring windows and files and seeing how it all worked. But what really put the internet over the top for me was gaming, when ncaa football 2005 came out and my buddy had internet at his house, and we went over to play one night it was the greatest thing ever. To compete against people from anywhere at any time. Then when KZbin came about, oh man that was life altering too, still is. Myspace n all that was ok but wasn't really my thing, n I could tell early on that those sorts of things could cause problems so stayed away. Well when I really thought that was when ebola was news, I saw videos of people losing their minds and immediately knew it was because the irrational fear has spread through Facebook. Irrational because there was hardly any cases at all, yet it's all people talked about on fb. Now it's done that times a million with every fear inducing thing you can think of. And even non fear things like ideas and beliefs.

[@Keldrynn]

I love how there is zero mention of internet explorer lol

[@seanx666]

My grandma bought me a Packard Bell PC in 94(?) just so I could play Doom. I had to mow a ton of lawns the next summer because I ended up in the pay sections of Prodigy and didn't know it. Good times!

[@PraveenSrJ01]

I’m definitely a 90s kid and I remember all of this born in 1983. Great times!!!

[@UpUpDnDnLtRtLtRtBAStart]

I was born in 83 too.

[@snakemouth69]

‘83 in tha house!!! 🤙

[@robsonrobbi1763]

We old now

[@fakereality96]

Same.

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

I grew up in the 1970s, but got interested in 1983, in computers, then it exploded(my interest) in the 1990s, and is still going strong!

[@dave1135]

1998 we had internet, but all that was available was dial up, with average speed of 14.2kbps. later we got DSL, which was better. This spring I got fibre optic, average speed is 100mbps

[@ESport211]

I remember my first experience with the internet in 1998 when I was 18. i was looking for lowriders pictures and this guy got on Google and typed up lowrider pictures and , BAM. there they were. I didn't think much of it at the time - I think I was more excited that I now had a lot of lowrider pictures.

[@ludwigvoncocksucker3275]

my porn addiction exploded in the 90s as well.....

[@kurtsydavis7517]

How

[@rook9309]

The whole spirit of the internet was different back then. The Aol era was the best. Chat rooms, punters and the iconic “you’ve got mail” on launch. Used to be able to meet girls out of thin air lol

[@boydpukalo8980]

I remember those days while attending the University of Michigan, a very exciting time.

[@harukrentz435]

I had my first PC in 2003 and my first home internet a year after. It was super slow, super expensive, and super dangerous. Easy to say my first home internet only lasted one month after my mom saw her phone bill and my PC need to re-boot after it catched viruses. 😂

[@the_kombinator]

Bro, I had my first computer in 1993. I booted it up and it just said C:\ - I had to read a 400 page manual to get decent at using it. I'm sure someone will chime in on how the situation looked in 1983...

[@jennifercooper3846]

@@the_kombinator that reminds me of seeing all the guys on the train when I commuted in the 90’s, reading those huge C+++ books. Lol I used to be glad I wasn’t trying to learn that.

[@TehDawg]

That’s fucking mental mate. I was born in 98, and I grew up in the 2000’s where my dad had one of them fat, slow computers with a tower, and a mouse that used a ball senser. These days coping with a computer that took literally about 15 minutes to get onto the home screen, let alone the internet, would drive me mad. I can’t believe in 2003, which seems long ago, but so modern, the internet was still a baby and still so slow. Kind of utopian.

[@the_kombinator]

@@TehDawg LOL in 2003 I was running a P4 3.08 with ( I think? ) a gig of RAM and a Radeon 8900 (64? 128? I can't recall) - it was my last major gaming setup before I got all serious at Uni. LOL now I run all retro stuff, including a very similar to what I had in 1997 - a 486 DX4/75 with 16 Mb RAM. Try getting on the net then with a 56k modem. THAT was back when the Internet was truly young. A baby would have been like in 1990.

[@paulsteel9127]

@@TehDawg In 2003 the internet was in no way a "baby". Your dad just had a crappy computer and crappy internet access. I already had broadband in 2003.

[@DieselDucy]

I remember the first time I got on the internet. 1995. Monochrome text based screen. It was amazing back then.

[@niceshot4563]

This short documentary just ended out of nowhere

[@0ptimal]

I remember when it took like 45 mins to download a single song lol

[@xennial7408]

Being a 90's teen and nerd 🙂 I remember everyone suddenly come at me asking what's this internet is all about. So many 5.24" modems I used to screw into tower cases and cut my fingers on the HDD enclosures... Setting jumpers correctly to make the 2nd serial port available on the IO-card while not interfering with the mouse on COM1... And finally code the ATxxx-codes according to the different dial-up service... Great time for nerds to make money. 🙂 Unfortunately also for the only phone company in Germany. They charged by minute while in the US it was flat fee already. Still hate them until today for that!

[@ephraimwarrior6766]

dial up and sound like a atm and aol start up was so funny l0l.

[@Dedicated2WendyWilliams]

bogles my mind when people say things like "worst thing to even have was the invention of it in 1990... those people are stuck mentally in ancient times