A High Definition Look at Downtown Columbus - September 9, 1998

[@Eternall_life]

Today, exactly 25 years ago this video was filmed, incredible!

[@krexar5717]

more mindblowing to me that i was 8 months old probably goofing around when this was filmed

[@Old-World-Puritania]

I was born Now

[@MilesCraft1]

@@krexar5717 and I wasn't even alive yet. I was born in 2002.

[@rclc161]

i am completely blown the fuck away

[@PearlUniverse16]

@@krexar5717that means I’m exactly 10 years younger than you cause I’m born in February 2008

[@mikemas91]

The 90’s in HD is so cool.. my childhood.

[@timothymbess]

The two minutes of this raw video probably filled like 15 hard drives in 1998.

[@ewkalt4770]

it was most likely stored on a special hd tape

[@trelltinsley6922]

Man to think this was 20 years ago. I was born in 96 & moved to Columbus in 2004 yet it still feels like yesterday, but yeah technology sure has evolved way beyond what it was then.

[@alpzerlaken]

ewk alt I think it was a D Theather VHS

[@Dr.Frasier_Crane]

Raw video means not edited. This is edited.

[@DGTelevsionNetwork]

HD-BETA CAM more like

[@Heartclose24]

These were the times when people and the entire world made sense. I wish to go back to this era. This was the pinnacle of humanity that ever existed.

[@coldramentpm1013]

stfu u were just young

[@JackHY2K]

Incredibly crisp footage! It's like I'm reliving 1998 again! I was 4 at the time.

[@SpongeSebastian]

So was I!

[@Old-World-Puritania]

I was a baby. I remember '99 though. I experienced this as a '98 baby too. I was only months old.

[@JozaManolic103]

happy 30th

[@starmaster191]

Turned 5 that year lol

[@DarkPit99Swell]

Crazy To Think That As An 18 Year Old Currently, I Can See That There Was A World That Can Be Seen So Crisp And Clear As Day, Almost A Whole Decade Before I Was Even A Mere Cell In My Dad's Body. Way To Go Columbus, Love From Buffalo.

[@VoRLiN]

Don't need to use a capital letter for every word homie

[@onesyphorus]

hes practicing his journalism lol @@VoRLiN

[@Warp2090]

Very True Indeed My Good Sir

[@-OBEY-]

From mid to late 90s is when things changed forever when cell phones, the internet, DVD, HDTV flatscreens and gaming in 3D were the beginning for the next century to come.

[@quingun00]

Flat screens didn't show up till early 2003

[@-OBEY-]

@@quingun00 Yes they did look up Phillips releasing their first flat screen TVs in 1998.

[@quingun00]

@-OBEY- That's right they did 1st release them in 1998,But they were super expensive 😮😮😮😮The Mainstream didn't start getting them til 2001ish when prices started to come down I didn't have one until early 2004

[@alexandervonkarnstein]

And just 3 years and 2 days later, the world was about to change...

[@-OBEY-]

@@valkiron11 Wish you can back that up than just saying that man.

[@timecapsule.]

People watching this on the 9th of September 2098 will be watching 100-year-old footage, which is strange to think about.

[@ЕкатеринаКунцевич-ы4у]

Clean streets, clean people, vibe in movie 90's❤❤❤❤❤

[@BonjourBoy]

I like the part with the cheesesteak.

[@LybioNews]

+Thomas W. 01:55 me too!

[@astral16]

+Lybio I know right absolutely unheard of nowadays to just stand in one place with hands in pockets

[@chango_fett]

amazing, high definition was something very rare in those days and now anyone with cell phones can record videos of the same or better quality

[@MorganNye]

What about cameras?

[@Trunkalunx]

Wow, it's hard to believe high definition was around back in 1998! :D Edit: Before you reply, yes, I understand 4K 35mm film existed back then, but I figured only Hollywood had availability to such technologically advanced cameras at the time. Most people who had TVs back then did not have HD TVs. So, I figured most other news stations or individual small organizations had no reason to get such cameras since everyone watched standard definition TV, let alone be able to afford them due to how expensive they were at the time and still are to this very day.

[@trelltinsley6922]

Trunkalunx right

[@Drago1995]

1080p was like invented in 1996

[@ogreman-lll-957]

Drago1995 even there’s a 1080p video from 1989

[@TellyArchive]

Drago1995 Erm no, there’s one video in HD from 1993

[@MorganNye]

Ogreman /emisoccer • show it to me

[@sisigpapi]

I love videos like this. It really is like stepping into a time capsule

[@makyhianimations]

Random guy: Oh look! a video made in 2015! WBNS 10TV: No this is actually made in 1998. Random guy: Wait what.

[@aj2isotadxing]

Not a single person on a cell phone, what bliss that must have been

[@nateclipps]

Ok? Lmao “not a single person on a phone” yeah because technology wasn’t advanced like it is now.

[@craigusselman546]

I was in high school then there were cell phones back then but they were just used as phones some had rudimentarl low res cameras and some pixel video games.Notice something nobodys head is buried in their smartphones. Things have changed.

[@SpongeSebastian]

​@@nateclippsok, Captain Obvious

[@nateclipps]

@@SpongeSebastian u mad

[@Blue0000FF]

Right? Nobody's even talking on their phone!

[@Pdasilva0324]

25 years ago. Deceptively modern looking because HD was in its infancy during this era. This footage is as far away from today as it was the early 70s but this looks like it could have been filmed recently, if not for the outdated cars and brands shown.

[@basicbodybuilding]

It really does feel like it was filmed today. Feels look watching a alternate reality where the 90s stayed 90s.

[@UserName-ts3sp]

It feels kinda eerie honestly

[@supercold1171]

90's was peak America.

[@patel748]

It was a lot better time than it is now.

[@alexandervonkarnstein]

Much better!

[@Warp2090]

true

[@justonemori]

OMG I forgot about khaki's being pleated & puffy at the front. Those were some horrible days. Great video!

[@cadman10000]

Pleats are making a comeback...

[@qriketvibes2017]

i was born on September 9th, 1998

[@lyronguersmirne]

And my younger brother too 😍

[@brandonshelton6291]

Qriket Vibes same!

[@idiotic1021]

I was there that year for my uncle’s wedding. Very nice and clean city. We drove from NY.

[@NoName-gh5mq]

Daaamn I remember that first COSI

[@bac-wo6ev]

Seeing an hd footage from the 90s era feels so unreal

[@OrangeBoiiii]

Crazy how despise this being a digital HD video, it still has that 90’s tint and feel.

[@StereoMike06]

A world without people glued to their phones, where you still dressed up and went out to work, where people talked in public and where you read actual newspapers and books. When life was REAL!!

[@chachodraws2597]

WOW is is Amazing, i was born 2001 and i feel i living in the 90's. also Google was released in September 4, 1998! Which means 4 days old. i will say how time flies

[@drewhour]

I was born in 1997

[@db2pictures530]

I was born on the 4th of September 1998

[@tyler70878]

Google didn't become used much until like 2005

[@Old-World-Puritania]

I was just a newborn.

[@luismode-]

I was born 3 days after this clip, September 12 1998, thats cool!

[@gamezvideos2]

I only had high definition in 2013, when I was 12 years old. In 1998, I wasn't even dreaming of being born.

[@official_rown]

My family had HD TVs back in 2009 but it could've been 2008

[@fanofretrotechnology3802]

That just filled 3 or 4 hard drives with all the compressedish media back in 1998

[@VIDEOGEDDONx]

This video shows that even though hair styles, clothing styles, cars and architectural styles may change, when we look at old video footage a lot of what makes it look old is that it was shot on old cameras, may have degraded over the years, the versions that were broadcast to us were of lower quality, or we're watching stuff formatted for different styles of screens/lower resolution on this devices formatted for HD/4K. A lot of the grain, frame rates, and color grading is what contributes to the "old look" but if you manage to see this stuff in HD or 4K it shows the world hasn't changed much. Two versions of 1998 exist in my head, the version I actually lived, and a version seen through old news footage and video captured by random people back then that has that hazy nostalgic grainy look. And I don't know which I prefer, the reality or the one capture on cameras of the time. There's even footage here on KZbin from like 2010 that was captured in 360P/480P in 4:3 aspect ratio before HD really took over and it's like "wow 2010 looked like that!?" But reality kicks in and I'm well aware that 2010 looked just how things look right now. It's both and beautiful and weird feeling.

[@reddiamond3842]

Yeah but your memory starts to mix with the bad quality recordings so it kinda feels like it really loked like that even tho you know it wasn't lol

[@augustolobo2280]

This is really, really cool

[@LorenzoWatts-c6n]

It was Wednesday, September 9th, 1998.

[@floridasignalguy9423]

Was 3 days away from turning 4 when this was shot. Only thing that I miss about the 90s is the food used to taste a lot better then.

[@Vlm293]

mdonalds wasnt completely bad fro you back then

[@JackHY2K]

And this was about 6 months shy of my 5th birthday. I can vouch for the food tasting better back in the late 90s and early 2000s. TV shows, music, and video games were better as well.

[@Michael-bp6gd]

Food tasted so much better in the early 90's and 1980's! I'm 39!

[@heinoustentacles5719]

Well you were only 5 when they ended so I doubt there was very much you could miss...

[@fanofretrotechnology3802]

I love hdtv resolution since I was a 2000's kid born back in april 9th 2007 and got used to it way back in january 2008

[@fungo6631]

Kid, you aren't a 2000's kid, you weren't even 3 when 2010 came. And by 2007 HDTVs weren't super expensive anymore.

[@fanofretrotechnology3802]

You're right. I got carried away. I say crazy unnecessary silly things when I comment on youtube videos. But yeah, not known to be a 2000's kid, no kidding and it's not good to give your personal information on the internet. But I was aware.

[@Old-World-Puritania]

Dont worry about this Culture Warrior (fungo66631) @fanofretrotechnology. Born in 2007 and you remember 08. I believe we know things as an infant. I'm born in '98 and remember '99 easily enough. "YOU'RE NOT A NINETIES KID" SAID Every Narcissistic Priss born in '92 and JEALOUS, that we know their stuff.

[@mkl62]

Thanks for posting.

[@greener483]

What is no one doing in this video? Not one person is on their phone.... people, believe it or not, used to actually talk. What a wonderful world that must have been...

[@LybioNews]

+greener483 0:47 people are talking to each other and walking wow...

[@greener483]

+Lybio also at 1:34! How crazy! People looked so much more relaxed!?

[@justsobru]

I love my present day :-) everything is more sexier now LmAo

[@lottielcl8262]

Lybio people still do that. like a week ago i saw like 1 person on their phone idk what youre talking about

[@HBC101TVStudios]

@@greener483 Fun fact: 1998 was the year Nokias began to invade our pockets and hypnotize us with Snake for hours and hours..

[@eagl3ye]

I remember an article in Nintendo Power (had to have been around 1995 or 1996) boasting that the N64 under development would be compatible with HDTVs lol. Had no clue what that meant back in the day.

[@astral16]

not a single cell phone!

[@HBC101TVStudios]

Cell phones already existed in '98, but it was only used for calling/texting and nothing else. And pocket-sized Nokia phones were a norm in the late 90's.

[@duketravers9706]

🤣

[@lottielcl8262]

Jarrett Kushner um actually-

[@HBC101TVStudios]

Fun fact: There's tons of Nokias lying around in our pockets back in 1998!!

[@JackHY2K]

@HBC 101 In addition to what you said, the vast majority of cell phones also had monochrome displays back then. This remained until 2003. 1998-2003 is like a mini era of its own. The Y2K era with late 90s/early 2000s culture, technology and fashion.

[@C-Crystal2002]

Beautiful HD Used 1998!

[@TheRobertShow12]

I was born that day!

[@hardestverseworldisyours3579]

TheRobertShow12 look I wanna go back in time and change something

[@mat467]

@@hardestverseworldisyours3579 And what will that be ?

[@tentenchu8140]

That cheese steak looks so delicious.

[@kennerfee100]

Almost looks like it was filmed today. It's just the fashion, the cars, and no one having smartphones makes it seem obvious that it was recorded in 1998. I went there a few years ago, and it seems like the downtown skyline has barely changed since then.

[@AdamMoore-fq8qn]

Things don't really look all that different today if you consider everything but 25 years before 1998 things were drastically different and 50 years before they things were extremely different. It makes you wonder what changed society because for many many thousands of years we basically were the same then come the 1800s and things took a major turn and started to exponentially advance. Especially during the late 40s into the 50s. Suddenly we have laser technology, microcircuitry, advanced metals, fiber optics, and much more all in one decade. Strangely enough right after a few supposed ufo crashes we suddenly start coming out with the above mentioned technology. Makes you wonder how so suddenly

[@esmeraldahysa3312]

This video was ahead of its time

[@eduardolobos7380]

Why this video was ahead of its time just show normal things that existed back then and regular people and stuff.

[@blackmetalhead5883]

Whats ahead of its time about it? Just people walking down the street??? Peoole are doing that as a i write this comment

[@rtcp2020]

@@blackmetalhead5883the QUALITY.

[@rtcp2020]

@@eduardolobos7380the QUALITY.

[@imbagirl8631]

nobody on their phone and people are talking to each other :D

[@Drago1995]

1998 AMAZING (my brother was born in may 28th)

[@Averageguy1888]

I was 10 years old.......Wow

[@whowouldwin7144]

With that video quality it feels like it just a flashmob but none even smiled for a second:)

[@insansiregar7522]

This is the year I was born

[@justinmickatavage7838]

Ughh.. All the skyscrapers have signs on them now...

[@yohan1004]

Japan already had analog HD in 80's

[@johnhanserud6952]

Do you have 8k-format?

[@PH96Official]

Whoever shot the street food you literally on accidentally predicted how hd footage and images would be used to show food in incredible detail. *GIVE YOURSELF A PAT ON THE BACK*

[@Mrtraveler01]

Bank one, Adam's Mark Those are names I haven't heard in a long time.

[@marciogomes2496]

Would be interesting remastered

[@BadassBikerOwns]

Thanks for this video. The video plus music gives a very positive morning feel. It has the same effect on me as morning coffee, plus there is the nostalgic 90s feel.

[@Nephelangelo]

I wish you guys would just let the footage play raw instead of cutting every 4 seconds. I want to just people watch the 90s.

[@aidanfranits1339]

What camera was used??

[@NUCLEARARMAMENT]

Probably a Sony HDW-700 HDCAM HDVS camcorder.

[@pandakimh]

it's so clean

[@KhalidFrazier-k1y]

why dose the camara quality look so good

[@MikinessAnalog]

the first HD cameras were analog as was the recording medium. This is most likely digital.

[@ppc7457]

wrong, japan is the first nation that use HDTV.

[@Salem77k]

Woooooow 👏🏻 amazing

[@gfgct657]

Is this the first hd video?

[@lostsaint]

I think the oldest on KZbin is the Dtheater HD VHS footage of NYC from 1993

[@MikinessAnalog]

No, the first HD video recordings were analog and prohibitively expensive to record and transmit. This is most likely digital.

[@FujikkoJP]

*It gives me creep that nobody looks down by holding their phone only news paper.*

[@fanofretrotechnology3802]

Basically 4 hard drives it filled in 1998

[@buckeyelevators]

Today is September 10th, 2017, 19 years later

[@warpoverdrivu6900]

You mean to tell me the world wasnt in 4:3 and fuzzy back then?😳?😳?😳?

[@cassnate6259]

Biggest things I notice: No smartphones, those ties and large dress shirts, the dated look of the vehicles, that "Biggie" Wendy's mug. Otherwise, doesn't feel all that different. Reminds me of that feeling of traveling as a kid.

[@claudedowdy2117]

Feels like am back in 1998

[@AndriBatuah]

they talked to each other before there were smartphones.. 😊

[@lewsidboi]

Mint red NA Miata sighting at 0:34

[@The_Ballo]

You would think Japanese engineers would find something more interesting to record than Columbus

[@ahmadzaki8330]

1:51,no smartphone but people start to mind their own bussiness in late 90s

[@arturomonsalve]

20 years ago.

[@ekojar3047]

Did everybody dress in suits to work in the 90s? Maybe because my dad worked in factorys and warehouses my whole life. I only saw him with his company shirt and hat. It was like a mechanic style shirt.

[@AWrestlingHistorian]

Looks more like 2008.

[@max___mason4946]

Never expected to see you here

[@cloud_of_mase]

OMG SO HD

[@jologamer9972]

My birthday!!

[@davidmthekidd]

My first week of highschool

[@tyhairston5397]

No touch screen phones or anything just regular normal life

[@skywishr1313]

Touch screen phones were invented in the early 90s

[@anthonydeloreto3881]

I was literally a month old when this happened!

[@Vlm293]

i was about 4-5

[@JackHY2K]

And I was 4 and a half!

[@acme_tnt8741]

I was 13 in scholl 112 miles away lol.

[@brudeish]

Unlike digital HD, this footage colour looks delicate to me...

[@Enigmatism415]

This is digital HD.

[@animeloveer97]

What you are seeing is washed out colors

[@VideOH]

Interesting.

[@lotsoffun4108]

It looked like Dr Phil walking down the sidewalk near the beginning from 0:31

[@Vecrek]

20 years ago

[@mohannadislaieh3009]

Nice city

[@HyenaEmpyema]

it doesn't look like a quarter-century ago.

[@Flo_Resolution]

About 3 years and 3 days before tragety

[@MikinessAnalog]

There are about 2 or 3 HD videos of the first tower being hit, which is dually historic and forensically useful.

[@mobettabud30]

Oh look a time before everyone got on a drug that makes you walk around staring at your hand

[@dniwu3878]

1:54

[@armandoenriquez1104]

Stereo sound in 1978.

[@americanfirst4378]

so civilized

[@tordb]

Hard to imagine all of those people are now gone. The Republicans 'War on Christmas' was a success and shall never be forgotten.

[@COMENTTER]

Yo tenía un día de haber nacido

[@ReynaldoAbasr]

WHEN women wore nice business suits with nylons and heels

[@peterhughes614]

And to think I was 15 minutes from where this was shot, a 12 year old, just getting into KoRn and smoking cigarettes.

[@itsmejohnson0891]

Columbus, Ohio or Columbus, Srilanka?

[@julia2k8]

Dang, Pac had already been dead for two years 😢

[@onesyphorus]

it still looks muddy ngl lol