High Tech: computers and gadgets in 1994
February 1994
Original script: Remember manual typewriters? Heck, remember pens and pencils? They may be obsolete someday. We’ve gotten to the point where there is some computer or high-tech gadget that will do just about anything we need to do. It can be easy or hard. Fun or frustrating. Tonight, we begin a two-part look at the changes technology has caused in our lives. We call it High Tech 101.
Hal Clement and photojournalist Ben Cutshall delivered the lesson.
Пікірлер: 120
Love the aesthetic of old computers
@KhairulAnwar-mp8lo
Ай бұрын
Saem
@m-stat9
11 күн бұрын
me not 💩
We went from: "Computer, open calculator." To: "Computer, open calculator. Shut up, Alexa! I'm wasn't talking to you!"
@jamesjiao
17 күн бұрын
Alexa: "I am sorry. I don't understand what you mean by: I wasn't talking to you."
@tonycollazorappo
17 күн бұрын
I thought I was the only one who yells at Alexa and google, LOL. They are nosey!! LOL.
@johneygd
8 күн бұрын
Haha🤣
1994: CDs are replacing records 2024: Records still exist
@fivehundrediq5212
22 күн бұрын
Records are a very small niche market
@KylesVideos
17 күн бұрын
@@fivehundrediq5212less niche than CDs these days!
@S500-
15 күн бұрын
Its ironic that LP Records are still available but not CDs and same goes to Cassettes V/A.
@hackerx7329
15 күн бұрын
@@fivehundrediq5212 Vinyl outsold CDs the last 2 years.
@blank12358
14 күн бұрын
@@fivehundrediq5212 Records are going mainstream. Gen Z say they've had enough of the digital world and they're going analogue!
30 years later, and VR still hasn't caught on.
@StatusQuo209
7 ай бұрын
What do you mean, there are millions of Quests out there.
@Puretea4711
7 ай бұрын
@@StatusQuo209 maybe, but there is only trash software and some mid games for it.....
@StatusQuo209
7 ай бұрын
@@Puretea4711 half life Alyx, beat saber, boneworks, project cars 2, Assetto Corsa, Bounce, etc. There are a lot more. I agree though that MOST games are trash. There are a ton of gems tho
@FlockofSmeagles
7 ай бұрын
For you, it's definitely the future. Spatial computing is 2 steps away from your grumpy ass yelling at it because you don't get it.
@QWADZA
7 ай бұрын
those are pc games not quest. pc is too expensive for the average person
Here's the thing, it felt amazing back then.
@dudemetoo2053
7 ай бұрын
Agreed. It was quite magical. The home PC evolution along with getting connected to the internet by the masses of society felt very optimistic - almost as if society was on the verge of something pretty amazing.
@ShimiNicholasKomane-tg3bt
3 ай бұрын
Right,I was thinking the same thing, we thought sophistication level in which technology became then was enough,boy were we wrong😊,fascinating stuff😊.
@Astro_War
14 күн бұрын
Its still amazing. Cameras optics on smartphones are incredible. I can turn lights on in my house, open my electric gate, from anywhere in the world!!
@gamereactz
13 күн бұрын
@@Astro_War right just because they are ancient and nostalgic..
@Astro_War
12 күн бұрын
@@gamereactz Happens to everyone. One day, maybe, we will all be ancient and nostalgic.
RIP to the man who adopted the Apple Newton.
the foundation for our future was set in the 90's
@robroy6374
7 ай бұрын
80s
@marodonthemorone
7 ай бұрын
70s
@robroy6374
7 ай бұрын
60s@@marodonthemorone
@fakereality96
4 ай бұрын
50s
@robroy6374
4 ай бұрын
@@fakereality96 haha
Technology has come a long way. Now we scroll through social media while sitting on the toilet. 😎
@user-oe1mk8wr7d
7 ай бұрын
People shit on both toilet and twitter simultaneously nowadays
@FromDesertTown
19 күн бұрын
Now we can brainwash millions of people and get them to vote for us because we tweet lies from our golden toilet!
@MarkWhich
10 күн бұрын
That's gross who would do that?
Mobile phones in the 1980s: Ginormous. Mobile phones in the 1990s: Large. Mobile phones in the 2000s: Nice and small. Mobile phones in the 2010s: Large. Mobile phones in the 2020s: Ginormous.
@allexxsash8047
9 күн бұрын
Mobile phones in the 2030s: The herald boy
So much has changed. Yet so much is still the same. "Hey Siri, what time is it?" "HEY SIRI!" "DAMN YOU SIRI, YOU PIECE OF CRAP!"
@Fuzy2K
15 күн бұрын
"I can show you more results on your iPhone" Fuck off, Siri! I only asked what *date* it is!
You guys would not want to have to go back to this trust me
They were very optimistic about the future at that time, for them we should already be using flying cars...
@GugureSux
10 күн бұрын
You are correct. Best regard: one of those people.
Now we got Netflix, Smart TV's, iPhones Spotify, AI... Dang! What's next?
This is fantastic. A moment in that time. Thanks for the upload! 🎉
Прошло тридцать (!) лет, а виртуальная реальность всё ещё не стала такой, какой мы её представляли.
id love to go back in time with a laptop made today with like a 4090 or smth in it would be so funny to see peoples reactions
by watching this video I am not sure if we moved anywhere in last 30 years. yes, everything is faster with nicer graphic, but voice controlled computer was thing, VR was thing. we just have crazy resources to run ton of resources for virtualisation for job that can handle calculator in the past
the whooooshing noise 😂
I was way more materialistic back then than I am today. But I began to experience those feelings of tech-lust again watching this, even though it’s so primitive by today’s standards.
Wow!! I can't wait!!
Star Wars 2:20 Had the wrong music. This is a snippet from ESB, but the music is from ROTJ.
Wow ☺️ nice flashback
News pages are going to be saying this about spatial computing in about 15 years. Here it comes. Ready or not!
@jeromedavis8575
2 ай бұрын
It's here!
Aside from smartphones, technology now just seems faster and sleeker, but doesn't seem like much revolutionary changes?
@dudemetoo2053
7 ай бұрын
It was a bit different at the time.. PC's and being connected to the World Wide Web was something New, amazing, and even revolutionary to most everyone for the time when News papers, Snail Mail, and LAN Phone lines were about as advance as most common folks were use too.That said, I blame smart-phones for killing the PC revolution and outside of gaming PCs, Home PC's and that excitement of wheat a PC can bring to your home - pretty much died.
@csuporj
12 күн бұрын
Computers became like cars. Word and Excel 1997 did already everything anyone would want to do. Internet Explorer in 1998 could show pages like the ones created by Word. My computer monitor in 1998 had a resolution of 1024x768 with 1 million colors. 16 megabytes of Ram could handle that and run Word. The only change is that the internet got fast enough to watch 4K movies, and computers got small enough to fit in a phone.
@adreto2978
16 сағат бұрын
CPUs are faster and faster each year which matters to people who need performance. GPUs also have experienced crazy growth in last 5 years and power AI and data centre like stuff. Most of the advancements nowadays are in data centre
I miss the 90s.
✨️Amazing✨️
It was all a dream...or was it?
I don't believe some of this technology will ever be released at least not for a long time
@oldradios09
7 күн бұрын
“It will be available sometime in the fall of 1995” then its never released
This video is a good example of Moore's law. The number of transistors on a microchip doubles about every two years with a minimal cost increase.. computer technology will get better, smaller, and cheaper.
@csuporj
12 күн бұрын
Yet google photos has the same 15 gigabyte free storage as 10 years ago.
"Four times a day" I can get an update on information from second to second. we have evolved
it took me18days and 6hrs to download green days dookie
vinyls making a comeback, we love to see it
4:35 "You can have a virtual surgery, where medical students could practice on a virtual patient rather than an actual patient". Wow future is so exciting! What people actually got: *Surgeon Simulator 2013* 😵
It's interesting to see technology like phones began to replace calendars, planners, notebooks... but nowadays it seems people have hone back to those.
The Apple Newton. The only person to ever own one, was Nelson Muntz, who promptly threw it at Millhouse's head.
And all of that stuff is now done on a cell phone.
6:46 - the ancestor of Siri 😂
In 1994 the world already had Doom II. The peak of civilization was reached.
"E mail" thats just swell. But I dont think it will ever happen.
Cool 😎
What’s a CD? I have all my music on vinyl . It’s the new IN thing now.
Is that all real? Looks so cool!
I remember seeing a really old printer that was at least twice the size of a dishwasher and was "programmed" by pulling out a "circuit board", unplugging wires and rearranging them into preset fields. It was fed "punched cards" from another machine to tell it what to print and each line was printed in its entirety, one line, then the next, making a very rhythmic beat (cha-chunk, cha-chunk, cha-chunk). I think those were all called "data processing machines". I guess they were they precursors of modern computer components. It's hard to imagine what they had to deal with back then.
1994 was the future, anno 2024 everything seems to go backwards whether in sociaty,economy or gui on computers etc,,, We are living in an annoying age🥲
Where was the Walk Man by SONY.
@CosmizEve
7 ай бұрын
the first walkman was 12 years old by the time this was made
"Technology has invaded every corner of our lives." ... if they only knew
It's weird how records ended up outlasting CDs for the most part.
@fivehundrediq5212
22 күн бұрын
That’s because a small group of retards want to go back to 1978
Hal is amazon alexa
What will they think of next?
The days before people were addicted to social media....
They can get you coffee now
A portable vhs player...
1:25 it will. With a help of another man, but it will, sir. Wait for 20 years.
The information super highway is truly here and its no longer the "super highway". It's a "mega highway"..
lol it would have been awesome to see where these people now
@mth469
4 күн бұрын
probably dead
@ 3:42
Imagine what they'd think of todays technology.
Siris Grandma 😆 never knew she was blonde hah
Is it just me or the old devices were more useful?
@GugureSux
10 күн бұрын
It's safer to say that old devices were more robust and designed for a very specific use. That meant that they were specialized and optimized for said tasks, which kept things easy to follow and use.
none of this will ever take off phht.
7:37 you say not true is no. sorry.
First
VR in 1994, ugly headset. VR in 2024, ugly headset.
No more magic today. Everything in this video is now done by one device in our pocket. So boring.
I thought CD roms with pre-recorded data was stupid then and I think it is stupid now.