I feel like the CEO of Blockbusters overheard Gus, and internalized the idea that the Internet was stupid and pointless.

@imnotreal6909

Жыл бұрын

Na he was just setting the layup for Netflix’s ceo

@jeff21killersep54

Жыл бұрын

Damn I miss blockbusters

@JukedSoluble

Жыл бұрын

Well that moron at Hollywood video owned Game crazy. The only retail store that could have competed with game stop for new and used games had they fleshed out the business model. Really screwed the pooch there.

I respect the fact that Gus admits how wrong he was and is prepared to be wrong about literally anything that happens to be waiting for him in the future.

Still waiting for the Chris gets on the wrong plane RTAA movie

@thomasmason3122

Жыл бұрын

Same here, that’s too good of a story not to be an rtaa

@reuellucas7187

Жыл бұрын

Can anyone link me the podcast number with the timestamp

@PhoeniksStorm

Жыл бұрын

@@reuellucas7187 kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZIGTyaynY5nMlpc.html RT Podcast 709 @31:00.

@CyanAnn

Жыл бұрын

@@reuellucas7187 kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZIGTyaynY5nMlpc.html 30:55

@KingKeseGaming

Жыл бұрын

@@reuellucas7187 episode 709 around the 29 minute mark

I wish I could go back in time and start an internet company 😂 I would’ve been a domain broker

@DoomShepherd

Жыл бұрын

I'd just go back to the year I turned 15, and put my college money into shares of Microsoft when it went public that year. 15K then, about 33M today.

@BakuganBrawler211

Жыл бұрын

@@DoomShepherd That’s another idea for sure hell when I was 13 is when Bitcoin was just picking up a bit of steam before it blew up. Would’ve been balling out but here we are 🥲

@hellodolly7989

Жыл бұрын

I’d just buy bitcoin

@SPACEHARICE

Жыл бұрын

@@DoomShepherd time travel would be op You could literally become a trillionaire starting in the 90s

To be fair had internet technology not progressed as fast as it did he probably would have been right.

@WeaponOfMyDestructio

Жыл бұрын

and if we never invented the wheel Ferrari would just be painting horses red.

@Razgriz85

Жыл бұрын

Nothing more exciting than waiting for a picture to load on a browser using a 56K dial-up modem. Worst part was, if you scrolled before it loaded all the way, you had to refresh the page and start again.

@BonnieAngel141

Жыл бұрын

No shit… wtf are you talking about?

@LLorax0

Жыл бұрын

@@WeaponOfMyDestructio I feel like had the wheel never been invented the events leading to Ferrari's birth wouldn't have happened.

@WeaponOfMyDestructio

Жыл бұрын

@@LLorax0 you don't need a wheel to stuff a calzone just some salami 👌

Gus: I think I'm wrong about everything. That doesn't sound like the Gus I know, he thinks he's right about everything.

@LilianaKali

Жыл бұрын

Character development/growth XD

If Burnie was still around he'd be chompin at the bit to tell Gus what else he's wrong about

@bhume7535

Жыл бұрын

😭

It is funny when you look back at stuff that people thought wouldn't go anywhere but in fact became super big.

@themachoechidnaugandarandy7583

Жыл бұрын

I remember when water bottles first appeared. People would mock anyone that had one plus I think the Brits banned it due to some TV show

@tnecniw

Жыл бұрын

@@themachoechidnaugandarandy7583 I mean, water bottles should still be heavily discouraged unless necessary. A real big waste of plastic in most cases.

@Skorpeonismyrealname

Жыл бұрын

My personal favourite is a newspaper stating that humans won't fly for another million years. Within the week, Wright Brothers' first flight.

@JarieSuicune

Жыл бұрын

@@tnecniw Largely because of lazy and/or uncaring people not disposing of it correctly and/or lack of proper established methods of doing so. But in some regions, bottled water is basically the only safe-to-drink water that those people can have. Having basically-guaranteed clean water is a first-world blessing, but there are times that even that fails and then it's either bottled water... or risk extreme sickness and/or death.

@tnecniw

Жыл бұрын

@@JarieSuicune Obviously. That is why I am saying "unless necessary". For example, I loathe the idea of bottled water in sweden, where 99% of our water is completely drinkable.

I was pretty sure that cell phones would always have tactile keys instead of contextual on-screen keyboards, and that Blackberry would always be setting the standard. God, I miss Blackberry.

@misteryA555

Жыл бұрын

My dad was given a blackberry phone from his work. I thought he was the height of coolness!

I had a moment similar to this. Back in 2011 or so when "Let's Play" was a somewhat common term used in place of a "walkthrough", but not in the common vernacular like it is today, a few of the people I watched live streamed once in a blue moon. They used websites such as "LiveStream" and "Ustream" more often than not. Twitch existed, but wasn't THE go to streaming website at the time, I think at least. I thought to myself "this is a neat novelty, but that's all it'll be, a novelty". Now here we are 10 years later where live streaming is a huge industry and subculture.

to be fair, people said the same thing about TV. "its not gonna take off. no one will have the time to sit around and stare at it"

I remember a conversation I had... must've been three years *AFTER* this, with someone who was insistent that ISPs would eventually have to start billing internet service based on both (a) bandwidth, and (b) distance, "just like long distance phone service". Not only did that not happen, but within _very_ few years long-distance phone charges THEMSELVES were already becoming a relic of the past.

@ferd617

Жыл бұрын

The sad thing is where this happened: In the cafeteria at the backbone ISP we all worked for. The couldn't-have-been-more-wrong guy was one of our database people, with no real networking expertise, and boy did it show on that day.

He then proceeded to dump his Apple stock

@amitkenan3878

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

2 years before I was born, Gus mad a very wrong perdiction. I have honestly never ever known an internet without pictures. I can't even say I know what a "vax lab" is... Wait... does this mean there were no ads?

Young Gus REALLY rocking the _Tron_ armor there. Disney called, they said Steven Lisberger wants His RESIDUALS!

Lmao he wasn't the only smart person who thought that

When I was in elementary school, our teacher wanted us to learn how to cite our sources on the internet. We all complained that it was stupid and we wanted to go to the library and use a book because it’s easier to do a bibliography and that we’d always be able to do that! So!! Why did we need to learn to do it online!!!

"Let's sell the company"

It’s funny how a lot of teenagers are like “Yeah I know everything” while I was the opposite I was like “I don’t know Jack shit and I’m fine with that”.

@nullpoint3346

Жыл бұрын

You're problem was that you were fine. The best course is to accept that you will be wrong, while doing everything you can to never be wrong. Even if you have to become a lawyer.

He knew exactly what to say to his past self While playing the Welcome to the internet song lol

😅 we've all our moments

I love this, lol.

Love the strong bad ref

The very first time I used the internet, below the search bar was helpful suggestions of things to search that were mostly science related.

Whao! Chad! Shout out to the main man!

For some reason being in a gifted student class meant I was first to use the internet in 1996 while an early teen. First thing I looked up was Mortal Kombat, it was ALL pictures and it was glorious. My teachers made a terrible mistake.

Late in the 90's my teacher wanted to get us familiar with the internet. He thought it would be important. I thought the internet was pretty useless.

Takes a lot of humility to say that.

relatable

ANMA has been a goldmine for rtaa ☺️

Oh wow, all this time I thought Gus was saying "Backslap".

Nice homestar runner reference 😉

I SAW THAT HOMESTAR RUNNER REFERENCE YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM ME!!!

I was a senior when the first iPhone was released. There were some arguments against it at the time such as “who wants a all touch screen phone where’s the keys? No one’s gonna want that and it’ll never take off.”

_"The internet was a mistake."_ - Al Gore, probably.

@GabePuratekuta

Жыл бұрын

"Why did I invent such a thing!?" ~ Also Al Gore, probably.

i love gus no matter hwhere, hwhen or hwhat scenario

People don't want pictures on the internet....I mean. Yeah that's uh. That's how you made a career my dude. Go Young Gus for giving older Gus the finger 🤣

"The Internet Likes Images"

Even I was blown away using dial up on Win 3.0. It was slow but I knew it would change the world...and I thought for good until Facebook came out.

He had the same mindset as that one guy who said on the news that the internet was a fad and would die in a couple years.

"Stock in Microsoft? No thanks!"

Things that I thought were going to be a flash in the pan. Camera phones. Who wants this 10 byte camera on your phone when you can get a 10 megabyte camera for 100 dollars. Bottled water, who wants to carry this thing around when there is a fountain over there. Streaming services ( original Netflix). Yeah people are going to watch movies on their computers when they finally have TVs the size of their walls. This was before game systems offered internet.

NCSA Mosaic, the precessor to Netscape Navigator & Mozilla FireFox, and whose code Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer was based off of

The first time I used the internet I was in 6th grade, the only web browser was Internet Explorer, it was slow as hell but I didn't even realize how slow it was because I had zero basis for comparison and instantly recognized the potential of the internet, even realizing that the internet could eventually replace physical schools because everything you can learn in school is avalible online, you can even get direct one one communcation with teachers any time and set your own hours instead of having to get up at 6 am. I'm surprised it took till the covid lockdown to prove that online Schooling was a viable option... more surprised they opened regular schools back up. It doesn't really work for everyone, my kid also does physical therapy in school for his disability and that can't be done over a computer but they could limit physical school to just special needs.

I was the same way when Netflix came out. I thought, "renting movies for as long as you want, that sounds dumb, might as well keep it". Fast forward a few years later, blockbuster declares bankruptcy and Netflix is on top, jokes on me.

0:20 shout out to the Compy386, the best emailing pc out there!

Wait he's an alumni at SW/TX State University... How did I not know this

Now how does Gus feel about NFT? The world wants to know

@TheBookkeeper

Жыл бұрын

Lol That's what I'm saying.

Gus... Hasn't changed much, has he?

Day 1 asking for an RTAA of Blaine’s Foghorn leghorn impression in court from Tales from the Stinky Dragon

lol How you gonna do AltaVista like that, man?

We were all like that at 16

first time seeing and experiencing the internet... world wide uh what the hell is this??

A dumb man thinks he knows everything. A smart man knows he doesn't know a thing.

Gus was nearly as wrong about the Virus, if you recall.

I felt that way about minecraft have not touched it to this day

Oh my gosh, this is what I'm talking about. People who badmouth the innovation of mankind shouldn't be allowed to reap the benefits. The crazy part is that mankind constantly says things are impossible even though they KNOW mankind has a LONG history of just being wrong.

There was also the time Gus said Covid would be over in a month...

Thankfully for Gus, he wasn't the only person who thought the graphical internet was a dumb fad, lol... [I wasn't one of those dummies tho]

Sweet irony

It's going to be crazy in 20 years Tik Tok is going to be the next KZread, and everyone talking shit about it now is going to look back and regret it.

Hi I’m the kid that was in your store today and I met you remember

I dunno… Gus was slightly more wrong when he thought the “Lamborghini“ with a license plate that said ‘ZeroKids’ was actually a Corvette.

When I was 16 or 17, about 1994/5, my dad wanted to get me into a programming course. At that time there was big talk about the Internet in the media, but it was the usual right-wing luddite nonsense about it being a "pointless" and "meaningless" thing that no one would ever actually need. My dad had bought a ZX Spectrum in 1985, which was considered an outrageous extravagance for our family at the time. He used to program games on it from magazines and books. Later he bought me a second hand Atari 800XL. I never did start the programming course, it was far too expensive for our family, but I do now appreciate how aware he was. It's about the only thing he was willing to spend money on so it obviously meant something.

Tron

“Was” ?

I just found out Gus Sorola's birthyear, 1978

@Unownshipper

Жыл бұрын

I’m happy for you, but if you just Google his name, you can also learn the month and date as well. He’s got a Wikipedia article.

I know the feeling

An rtaa for an anma? Well well.

Does the rise of the Internet count as a Black Swan event? I guess it depends on if you ask Gus lol

Gus was in university when he was 16?

Compy :)

Considering the internet holds all of human knowledge, I'd say Gus was already wrong about everything.

@unusualusername8847

Жыл бұрын

It doesn't hold the answer to why RT fanfiction exists

@lifeiscrap103

Жыл бұрын

@@unusualusername8847 Simple, because boners exist.

@somebastardontheinternet

Жыл бұрын

​@@unusualusername8847 There are answers that mankind is not meant to know.

Microsoft? Pfffft. Yeah, okay. Adelphia is the real future. If you could talk to yourself at 16, would you slap the living s*** out of you? The answer is yes. Yes, I effing would.

Everyone is glossing over the part where he was in college at 16.

Wow zero, early viewer

4th sick

You've always been like that and I still glimpses on that behavior in your podcast, you being stubborn on calling Forza (fore zaaa) and not like how it's suppose to be pronounced. The whole company is filled with weridos and perverts.