It's 3am in almost 2022 and I'm watching ads from the early 2000s ... Thinking about how much fun I was having connecting to dial up playing unreal tournament and quake 3 on my HP desktop with a voodoo 3 of 3000 pci , since mine didn't have an ago slot

Growing up poor as shit made me so envious of all the worthless shit I desperately wanted.

@JamesRDavenport

8 жыл бұрын

I know the feeling! I'm a little older than Clint but didn't have a lot of stuff and had to grind as a young "Retail Monkey" to get what little I did have. Isn't it funny though how even the most bargain geeky stuff we have now is light years better than top of the line was in 2000? lol

@bigdukem69

8 жыл бұрын

I like the way you worded that. I always thought I had to have some if this stuff growing up. But when I did finally get to have some of it, I realized that it wasn't really all that. Most of it ended up being worthless junk within a year.

@firebladex8586

8 жыл бұрын

Same here. I could only dream about owning any of that stuff. $800 may as well have been a million to me.

@adambanks703

7 жыл бұрын

įkalama šuo know how you feel. I was really poor too. But it teaches you and makes you stronger.

@maximillianlylat1589

6 жыл бұрын

i feel your pain had to wait for something big once a year for christmas and wait till anything got on sale.

"if you want to feel old, this was the stuf they were stealing in fast and furious 1"

Back in the early 2000s your new computer was already considered old and out of date as soon as you had left the store.

@Tazza81

8 жыл бұрын

yup too true. Back then you would buy or build a PC that cost around $3000 that was capable of playing the latest games at the highest settings...and one year later it wasn't even able to play the latest games at the lowest settings

@RealGengarTV

8 жыл бұрын

To true... This was the main reason i got into console gaming with the modded xbox and ps1/2 :)

@TheRetroMacNerd

8 жыл бұрын

+Alistair Bushby then you buy an iMac G3

@CativaBR

8 жыл бұрын

But but my never obsolete eMachine! :c

@woopsoldcrap5564

8 жыл бұрын

+Eduardo Silva lol

The late 90s/early 2000s were a different world. I remember going to best buy, even though I wasn't into computers at the time, and being overwhelmed by the amazingness. Even Staples was interesting. Old Walmarts (pre super-center) were fantatically fun places to go. There were still malls. I miss that time.

@5roundsrapid263

8 жыл бұрын

I remember the old Walmarts! They even sold Macs, RAM and CPUs back then.

@Sedan57Chevy

8 жыл бұрын

Samurai Shampoo I haven't seen one in ten years. Maybe it's just my neck of the woods but I've only seen supercenters since '05.

@5roundsrapid263

8 жыл бұрын

+Samurai Shampoo Those are Neighborhood Markets. The old layout of store was phased out years ago. There are a handful in rural areas, but not many.

@toddstewart9070

2 жыл бұрын

The old Walmarts even sold Voodoo 3 cards.

@BlackSabbathfan

Жыл бұрын

@Sedan57Chevy Back then, all those store you mentioned, (Best Buy, Staples, Old Walmarts) all had a presence in Malls.

I remember the Computer Shoppers. They were tomes 3" thick and full of merch....loved them!

@TheBoundBowman

8 жыл бұрын

The Computer Shopper! I remember buying that at White Hen. Remember MMX technology? I remember telling my Dad we HAD to get a 200Mhz processor with MMX. Never knew what it did, it just sounded important.

@spiff2268

8 жыл бұрын

+thekachoman You oughtta donate the catalog to LGR. Also, I was taking an intro to computers course at the community college in the spring of 1995. The prof came in one day all excited about the new 1G external hard drive that was then for sale. "No way we'll ever fill one of those up" we all said.

Yes! I loved going to the CompUSA in Greensboro as a kid so much. Those rows and rows of software of all types were mesmerizing. Heck, even my dad misses going to CompUSA. Never bought a computer there, but bought tons of software and other stuff there. My first Humongous Entertainment game, "Putt-Putt Joins the Parade" came from there in early 1996. I remember buying it and eating a footlong hot dog at Sally's Hot Dogs on High Point Rd down the street afterwards. I never really noticed that back in 2000, those dang HP desktops were EVERYWHERE! We even had one of those at the time as our main computer, though it was a 1999 model. My main system at the time was a "Never Obsolete" eMachine we got at Best Buy in April 2000 and it ran like total garbage, probably due to the low specs and the fact that I ran BonziBuddy on it (shudders). Anyway, wonderful video and thanks for the nostalgia.

@LGR

8 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, man! Certainly figure you of all people would :)

@antdude

8 жыл бұрын

So much better than toy stores as a kid. ;)

@aaowens97

8 жыл бұрын

I was only about 6 and remember going to the Greensboro store as well, I remember my dad was building his first computer. It was just an enchanting place being surrounded but tones of computer stuff

@antdude

8 жыл бұрын

Avery Owens Tones? :D

@aaowens97

8 жыл бұрын

lol, I was tired while typing that last night. :D

Talking about the year 2000 like its the 80's i feel old. 2000 sounds like yesterday. I was 26...

@soulagent79

8 жыл бұрын

I was 21 and still don't feel any older. ;-)

@Admer456

8 жыл бұрын

I wasn't even born in year 2000. Maybe that explains why I play games released from 1983 to 2004. Edit: I was born in 2002.

@Ultracity6060

8 жыл бұрын

As an 80's kid, I grew up with shows like "Beyond 2000," so 2000 still sounds like the _future_ to me :/

@jackdaniels1446

7 жыл бұрын

i was born in 96 so the 2000s was my childhood good times it all went to shit after 08

@adambanks703

7 жыл бұрын

It does feel like it was yesterday. Insane how time goes fast and you don't feel older.

i love these style of videos , i just kick back and relax and just get to listen to your awesome stories

Tell you what, right around 1994 - 1996 was the golden age of computer retailing. A time when fanboys waited in line to buy Windows 95 at midnight (imagine that ...) Things were fading by 2000.

@goufr3540

8 жыл бұрын

Damn I feel old, I remember gaming on Windows 95 and 98. Those were so good at the time and seems like most things like that nowadays have just gone bland and generic.

@Tokyodriving

8 жыл бұрын

+CWDTrixie I agree. Gaming in those years were the best on PC and console.

@goufr3540

8 жыл бұрын

TokyoDriving That it was, played so much Need For Speed and several other titles on those Windows, as well as MS DOS.

@Tokyodriving

8 жыл бұрын

I can't get into games like I used to. Just doesn't feel the same. Well maybe Terraria. Too many hours on that, haha!

@azn1011

7 жыл бұрын

i remember what a huge deal it was when Windows 95 came out and my family upgraded from 3.1. good times.

These videos are SO calming! Coming back to them every now and then.

32:12 it also does DVD playback holy cow!

These longer videos are so laid back its great, keep them coming clint!

@LGR

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I hope to do so!

@farticusmaximusOG

8 жыл бұрын

+Lazy Game Reviews Needs more views, love these old catalogs

@farticusmaximusOG

8 жыл бұрын

+SMEG STAR Just saw yours so now im in 2nd place lol

CompUSA was a great place to hang out and just look at all the new "tech" like zip drives...LOL.

@LaurentiusTriarius

2 жыл бұрын

I was driving from Toronto to New York to go buy stuff there back then. That's kinda weird now but it was kinda normal.

Subbed. Glad to know I'm not the only person in the world who not only spent countless hours pouring over these--and many other catalogs and magazines (COMPUTER SHOPPER!)--but who also still waxes sentimental for the glory days of the PC & tech revolution. In my own experiences, the period from '94-'04 was the most incredible decade to be a young computer geek. I miss that time. As impressive as the current tech advances are, the excitement factor just isn't there for me anymore. Thanks for the chance to relive it!

August 2001,times were good in America and we all knew they were going to stay good!

@Atomicneko3000

8 жыл бұрын

Till a month later

@room___

8 жыл бұрын

born like a month before 8/01, so i guess was around to see this :p

@anotherhumanbeingblyat8935

4 жыл бұрын

*September 11th 2001*

"desks... desks never changes." Was genuinely waiting for you to say that Clint, then you did. Clearly been watching far too much LGR for my own good.

I remember growing up with a 12" wood grain tv that had large dials on the front in the 90's. Then in 1998 we upgraded to a 18" tv and I couldn't believe how big the picture was.

@MadameSomnambule

Жыл бұрын

Similarly, I also had a wood grain console tv as a little kid. We got rid of it years ago when it quit working and we ended up with a big ol' Panasonic tv

I love these videos. As a kid born in 86 and growing up in the 90s with a very computer-enthusiastic father I have fond memories of many trips to CompUSA, and various computer and tech exhibitions. Good work :)

Hey LGR. I just stumbled upon your channel recently and I really like it. This comp USA add gave me a nostalgia trip just like all the other cool old stuff you review. Keep up the great content.

I remember seeing my first HD TV at Best Buy around that time. It was only $9,000 lol.

@md_vandenberg

8 жыл бұрын

I recall a 1998 issue of Popular Mechanics showing off a 6-inch thick, 40-inch wide TV that would retail for... /drum roll *$40,000!*

@Yusuke_Denton

8 жыл бұрын

I remember Max Headroom.

@md_vandenberg

8 жыл бұрын

Zabeus One of the best things the 80s gave to the world.

@allston6564

7 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing mine with my Dad at Costco, we talked about how expensive they were and maybe how long it would take for the prices to come down.

@happymommywatson

6 жыл бұрын

ReviewsTechNow I got one of those monsters in my bedroom right now it's too freaking big to move but it's hd lol

that 1.6mb/s wireless dial up is still faster than the broadband i have now lol

@Rick_Zune

8 жыл бұрын

Must ask, where do you live? Have 1Gbit/s up/down connection and a 4G phone which even if it don't can access the 4G network can via 3G at least for the most part give me a decent connection. Don't think it's possible to get anything under 50mbit/s here, perhaps 24mbit/s but you sure need to go looking for it.

@CondoreComputing

8 жыл бұрын

+RichmonUA A rural part of Washington in the US. the max speed I can get is 30mb but if I want a data cap bigger than 150GB I have to go with a business plan and that would be about $120 a month.

@Rick_Zune

8 жыл бұрын

That's insane, I pay about 60$/month for my 1Gbit/s connection and I get no cap as well as 50 ish HD TV channels included in the price. I live in Sweden and the only cap we have is when you use a mobile connection.

@CondoreComputing

8 жыл бұрын

+RichmonUA You would think that our internet would be a lot better and cheaper with how much unused fiber-optic infrastructure we have in the ground. the crazy thing is that we have municipality owned fiber in the ground out here only 300 feet away from my neighborhood at the main road that is completely unused that any small or big internet provider could use but the bigger companies like Comcast lobby to put laws in place that prohibits any smaller companies from using it. and the bigger companies don't use it because they can charge stupid high prices for low quality broadband with no competition for the customers to choose from.

@Rick_Zune

8 жыл бұрын

+connly33 I heard that you for the most part just have 1 ISP to pick from, either Comcast or Time Warner, or something along those lines which I guess create quite the monopoly in the US. Which is why I'm not surprised that you have that situation with the fiber, here we have goverment directives stating that everyone that wants should have acess to fiber in 2020 and you should be able to pick any ISP you want and we have quite a few of them, all with different prices and benefits. The one I'm currently using not only provides me with my connection but it also mix my data with all their other users data creating sort of a VPN service, which is rather nice when you live in the country that's the birthplace of The Piratebay.

Oh man you're right that style of HP doorstop was everywhere. When I worked at a PC repair shop we had baker's racks of those things people brought in for various repairs.

Different catalogue brand names and currency but still feeling the nostalgia here in Scotland. Also loving the long vids as others seem to, especially the 486 build. Flood of memories that had long been forgotten when you mentioned the gamepad port on the sound card. Thanks bro!

I always thought i was the only person who likes to look at old advertisements. Wow!

@jannab8123

7 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha, "I hated those [shirts]. But mom kept buying them." So cute that every adult person these days once was a teen, too. :D

06:05 Best Compaq review ever 🤣🤣🤣

@vincentd1120

4 жыл бұрын

you can hear Clint wheezing haha

I love how you were able to take an old ad paper and turn it into an entertaining video. Much love to you man.

Love these videos Clint, they're so relaxing and I hope you can obtain some more of these to make videos with.

34:53 The Ghost and the Darkness, about the man-eating Tsavo lions. I also remember Twister being one of the first DVDs that people had.

37 minutes of LGR?!? I can't believe it. It's too good to be true!

6:41 I know this is an old video, but we're talking about old stuff, and I'm old as hell so here it is. I worked at Best Buy during these times, and I swear I've seen this exact ad or hundreds like it. Very nostalgic! If I recall the $0.70 on the price indicated to the salesperson (me......) that this is a discontinued product that's not likely in all stores.

I think that my parents got that very HP system from the cover of that Best Buy ad. It was the upgrade from our Windows 98 computer, and it lasted my parents more than 10 years. I have many fond memories of that computer... Thanks for the memories!

such great nostalgia! I miss the early 2000s.

Your talking about the Best Buy near Hanes mall in WS? I used to go to that one and circuit city across the street as well!

@LGR

7 жыл бұрын

That's the one!

I had that Sanyo 32 inch TV from the Best Buy ad. My brother and I had lots of fun stuffing into the back seat of the car to get it home, and then carrying it up to my 3rd floor apartment. And that Samsung flip phone from Sprint was my first cell phone! And all paid for from my job at Compaq!

I remember my aunt Estella had that same Compaq computer your talking about, Clint. I remember her letting me play Slingo and Elf Blowing on it. She died from cancer over 15 years ago, so when I see that model of Compaq, it reminds me of her.

I noticed near the end that CompUSA advertised Chrono Cross as a sports game!

Jurassic 5! This album is really good :V

@KajiRider1997

8 жыл бұрын

Good ol'outkast.

@Balthasar812

8 жыл бұрын

Jurassic 5 is great!

@originalscreenname44

8 жыл бұрын

That album specifically is one of my favorite albums of all time.

@hitachicordoba

8 жыл бұрын

In 2016 hip hop just doesn't have that energy and creativity... Drake and Future? I'm going back to the Past bruh

@theman2768

8 жыл бұрын

Just listen to Aesop rock impossible kid.

Thanks for taking me back to those days. Great nostalgia! If you come across more circulars, I would love to see more of these.

3:52 That black chair for 99$ I found at the side of the road near a dentists office last year and cleaned it up & gave it to my kid sister. It was in great shape. Thats HILARIOUS!! It has those same plastic arrms, and the same stitch pattern on the back rest. It has the same locking tilt knob that lets to lean back orr add more resistance so you dont fall back. It also has the pneumatic lift advertised @ 4:28

I swear I'm watching this on a computer on a desk that was on sale in that Best Buy catalog.

@roorman

7 жыл бұрын

i am watching this on a computer on a desk i had in 2000

4:42 I'm sitting on the 100$ leather chair in the middle of the page.

@tobytoyota6936

3 жыл бұрын

Are you still sitting on it

@zacharyparis4590

3 жыл бұрын

@@tobytoyota6936 Yes (It may not be it exactly, but it is the same.)

@tobytoyota6936

3 жыл бұрын

@@zacharyparis4590 haha, nice!

Thanks for making these. Really used to pore over these ads back in the day.

Looking at these old ads, I totally forgot how expensive electronics and computers were back then. You are so right that Best Buy is just not the same anymore. The Best Buy in my area opened in early 1997, right after the Nintendo 64 came out. I remember walking in and they had Mario Kart 64 playing on a ceiling mounted display which was a grid of ~16 CRTs, that just blew my mind. Remember when they had the Shelby Cobra cut-away in the car audio section for trying out stereos? My store also had a sound proof room in the back for trying out the fancy home theater equipment. Each TV size pretty much had its own aisle, so many to pick from. No Geek Squad, No cell phones, the music section took up the whole middle of the store. You had a pretty big selection of computer hardware and big box PC games. The good old days. The first digital camera I had was a Polaroid Fun Flash 640. It had like 2mb of internal storage and that was ALL. Which it would hold like 4 pictures at 640x480, and like 50 pictures at 320x240. It was fixed focus, had a 1 inch screen that killed the 4 AA batteries in minutes, and it had a serial connection to the computer that used a 3.5mm headphone plug on the camera side. It forced you to use the crappy Polaroid software to get pictures from the camera, and it would not sync with a PC on battery power, the AC adapter had to be plugged in for it to work. My first CD-RW was one of those 8x internal Iomega ZipCD drives. I want to say I got it for xmas in 2000. I want to say it was 279.99, and that was the cheapest one that Best Buy had. Kind of crazy considering you can get a BD-RW today for $50 dollars...if you even use optical media anymore. I was an early-ish adopter of USB sticks. I want to say I got a 128mb stick for 139.99 in 2004, A little more than a dollar per megabyte.

The Twin Towers were still up when this catalog was out. =(

@iammegamanx

6 жыл бұрын

ProtoMario but proto

@Zcumgod

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's how I measure time, too. Right now its 2018 AT(after towers)

@troy2000me

6 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't it be year 17 AT then?

@jbfarley

5 жыл бұрын

@@Zcumgod your math is bad and you should feel bad

@Zcumgod

5 жыл бұрын

@@jbfarley :(

Those Ericsson phones had green tinted screens, those photos are B&W.

@SilverSpade92

8 жыл бұрын

Or sometimes tan/beige tinted screens, either way, some color should be visible and yet isn't.

In 95 while still in college I worked for CompUSA in the upgrades section and one of my favorite memories was of a Extremely Irate customer screaming about not having his laptop fixed on time and Demanding to see the store director and when he showed up to try to calm this screaming customer down the customer only wanted to write down in his little day planner the corporate address and phone number, the name of the owner of CompUSA and the name of the store director to which the store director said with a Very Big Smile on his face "The owners name is Hal Compton Sr. and my name is Hal Compton Jr." It was at that point that the Irate customer went into a screaming tirade of cussing while ripping up his little day planner and left the store never collecting his laptop.

I bought my first desktop from CompUSA in 2002. I'd just got back from deployment and had sold my laptop while we were gone, and wanted a new computer. It was a display unit Compaq, nothing fancy, Celeron and such. That turned into my first modding platform. I really dove in after that. It was my first and only pre built PC, not counting laptops.

Ah, 2000 when I was still to young for my parents to listen to me when I told them not to buy a Presario.

bro age of empires was my childhood. I'd pay 30 dollars for it today. it's such a timeless game, that aoe2 has been picked back up and has received 2 new dlc expansions in the past 2 years.

@FredroStarr12

4 жыл бұрын

Funny seeing this today AOE2 Definitive Version is out and still going

I used to love looking through the Best Buy ads, mainly because it was about a 45 min - 1hr drive to the nearest BB from where I lived. There was a Circuit City right across the street from that BB also, but I don't remember every getting any ads for them.

I had a SoundBlaster Live X-Gamer and my sister had the Live MP3+. The specs were identical but the difference was in the included software. I believe the the Platinum had higher signal/noise ratio, gold inputs, better caps and the front breakout panel. Love these episodes looking through old flyers. I still have stacks of old Computer Life and Maximum PC magazines from the early 90's to early 00's I'd be more than happy to donate if you're interested. Keep up the awesome content Clint!

"It doesn't seem that long ago, but it was. Time is weird." Put that shit on my grave!

I want another one of these videos! Maybe LGRBlerbs is a good home?!

@bradtoddler3765

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, probably

Great times that we should recapture. Thx for promoting the great side of the PC business. FYI, the ads in the Sports section of the newspapers here in Atlanta were the ones that got me back in the mid nineties. All those "wholesale" distributors with the giant lists of parts and custom packages. Those PCs were going for like 2-4k and selling like crazy. As for Best Buy, Comp USA, Computer City Superstore, etc., I used to spend 40 hours a week I guess just walking around and trying to take it all in. That started in 1995 and went on through the early 2000s. Nothing like software in the box...

I always preferred Frye's Electronics superstore. You literally could find all the components you would need to totally build a desktop from scratch. They had more component parts than even the largest Radio Shack stores. I don't remember if they sent out catalog or flyers. But my computing nostalgia would be the Computer Shopper magazine. When I was stationed in Germany back in the early 1990s, that was what we looked forward to every month, just to gloss over the advertisements. As anyone who remembers, Computer Shopper was like 95% ads and 5% articles lol.

i was 3 years old in 2000 its surprising because 2000 doesnt feel that old

@tomlindo2863

8 жыл бұрын

get off my lawn... (shaking fist)

@thehylianloach9473

6 жыл бұрын

Run along now children.

genuinely miss flipping through catalogues.

That's the exact Compaq Presario we have! My dad bought it from Best Buy for Christmas 1999. We still have it and it STILL works lol. I use it to play SimCity 4 sometimes. That is amazing!

I just loved browsing these sales flyers when we got them Saturday mornings with all the other ones. BestBuy and CompUSA were especially interesting to me :) I do remember that AGP connector on the motherboards. I think I had it when I got an AMD Athlon processor...the ones that came as a card. They weren't around for a long time, but man was I excited to get one and build my first computer. The CompUSA I went to was in McLean, Virginia right next to Tyson's Corner Mall. That mall has since been expanded and a whole new metro stop added so now you can take the metro all way to DC and MD right from there

God damn. This is one of the comfiest videos yet.

I was fresh out from the army in 2001, looking for my first job LOL

@CommodoreFan64

8 жыл бұрын

I was already out of high school(2000), and working for a site prep construction company in 01 LOL!

I had the same compaq you are talking about. It broke after 6-8 months. It took 3 months of technicians trying to get it repaired till they finally broke down and gave me a different compaq ,which stopped working again. I was never happier to have a warranty on pc equipment , because after the second one broke the manager at sears got frustrated as hell because so many of that batch had been returned that they didnt even have any in stock so they just gave me a way more expensive one after my mom was done chewing them out.

This was really awesome. thanks for taking me on a trip down memory lane. It's a shame places like comp usa and circuit city are out of business now

the black and white phones... if you notice, all 3 of those graphics, outside the *overlayed* yellow price tag, are *SE-modded" monochrome ( b&w), all 3 phones are advertised under contractual conditions from separate cellphone service providers, and, thusly, all 3 have legal-ise *fine print* for which best buy was responsible for clearly reproducing to accompany the advertisements. it could possibly have been miscommunication between marketing and whoever dealt with vendor/partner relations, but i would bet that the printing color and quality varied for best buy, since they were in most every state, and couldnt single-source marketing literature. some markets may have ran the ads in black and white and color, or only in black and white. best buy may have chosen to go with b&w to guarantee faithful reproduction of that fine print across all their various printed and/or web-hosted marketing material. phones only came in black and silver back then anyway, so they were just saving time and money by using the black and white vendor photo for all distributions, but if you really want to know- i can get ahold of the ex-president of their marketing department. he might remember, he might not, the source photo may have just been a localized fluke... but, ya- phones were either black or silver around the peak of the coppermine craze. the motorola razor was really the first cellphone that successfully sold color variants in significant quantities- no, im not forgetting about iphones... we are talking around y2k, this is before the mac stores, when apple was trying to quietly withdraw from the locally-owned, "apple-certified" distributors/repair shops who were much more profit driven to restore/repair old(sold) machines rather than to market disposable products on apples behalf. apple was dependent on customer loyalty, word of mouth, internet sales, and attempting to explain to the masses the flaws inherent to i386/86/64 architecture- memory access interval/cycle limitations- and breaking down for the commoner how the expanded pipelines and out of order executions due to branch mis-predictions make a pentium IV prescott 3.4ghz no faster than a motorola 1.7 ghz cpu, and not even touching on hyperthreading v 1.0, which was, by default, shipped with HT ****factory default-disabled*** for 99% of pre-built computers relased with the p IV hyperthreading-enabled cpus. the very first cellphones "affordable" enough for personal use were like the first "portable" computers- they lacked battery power, and were marketed as *mobile (automobile) device*- to be physically connected to your car via a charging dock. a few early ones may have been available in beige- but pretty much no one wanted to shell out thousands for a mobile, personal, phone back then except for higher level executives/businessmen. offering phones in multiple colors was pointless- even white clashed with pearl or ivory for this customer demographic. to someone making 6 figures who was considering having one of these early phones (semi)permanently installed an escalade, black was the closest thing to a "true" neutral. color options didnt become feasible until the price points became feasible for a truly "personal" cellphone- not just executives who were multitasking while commuting.

The thing that drove me crazy about these ads were that they didn't give me the details I cared about. Take the monitors for example: What's the dot-pitch? I don't know. You know WHY I don't know? BECAUSE IT ISN'T IN THE AD! I mean, I don't want to sit in front of a screen door while playing my Max Payne!

I just watched this video again. I got to the point with the CompUSA ad when you talked about the Wireless Internet Connection dialup. Those are the Intel Inbusiness Internet Stations. I actually worked for Intel before I went to CompUSA. I worked at Intel from '97-'99 and was part of the team that supported those products when Intel acquired Dayna Communications that had actually developed those. So my days were spent supporting the Dayna products that were actually started as Apple / Mac networking products and when Intel acquired them they made sure to spread them out to PCs as well. I actually received one of the very first Intel Internet Stations that I used at home for a while. Later on after they moved the support to Oregon, I pawned off those products. They were cool when they started, but Intel really didn't do anything with them much beyond that.

"Time is weird...... huh, heh... ahhh (sigh)." That moment when you become acutely aware of your mortality and how fast time is flying by. I know this feel all too well. Great video! I still love Best Buy for GCU and for checking things out in person, but yeah, crazy that they're still around!

I miss the old days!

Half of my life has passed since these catalogs came out... It doesn't feel that long ago, but when you think about it, so much has happened in the meantime. I'm still not sure if things are actually better now.

@ichrismoku

8 жыл бұрын

Same I'm also the same age as Clint here and its all so nostalgic

@Astfgl

8 жыл бұрын

I'm 32 now so the year 2000 is exactly the halfway point for me. Come to think of it, 2000 was the year I first built my very own PC. On the one hand, technology was so much crappier back then than it is now, but on the other hand things still seemed so much more magical at the time.

@rmtheg234

8 жыл бұрын

I relate to you guys, this is about half my age ago. 1999 was the year we got our 1st pc, playing unreal tournament, system shock 2 with voodoo graphics cards, so much nostalgia is it hurts in a good way.

@SimonChristensen

8 жыл бұрын

I turned 5 in 2000. Didn't start school until Summer 2001.

love these videos. so interesting to look back at this stuff.

This is so cool.. I started playing computer games around that time but had zero clue what was going on in pc world so these are the things I missed out. Thanks for the video.

I had a PC that, for some god-forsaken reason, only ran right on Windows ME. Windows 98 would fail to boot half the time -- it was like starting an old clunker car, you had to crank it up several times before it would "catch" and boot. On Windows ME, it booted flawlessly every time. Windows 2000 didn't support half my devices, so that was out. So what was this horrible PC?... An AMD Athlon 750 with a GeForce 2 GTS. Back then, AMD + nVidia was death, even though it was the most cost-effective gaming solution, by far. And it only ran well on Windows ME, at least for me.

@LGR

7 жыл бұрын

Dude, that sounds like that Compaq Presario 5000US I had. Came with WinME, took a few tries to boot it up from cold, and I even had to rig up a switch inside the case to get it to turn on after a while. Really was like an old clunker, what a bunch of junk.

Computer Shopper was like porn to me throughout the 90's.

CompUSA was my fav store... loved just browsing in that store and looking at all the different vid cards.

My parents got this giant shelving thing that was made to surround a CRT with doors and everything to close up the front of it, AND it had little hidden pop out shelves on the sides for VHS tapes. He's just been adding onto it to expand it every few years when they get bigger TVs and it takes up almost the entire width of our living room now.

I remember my sister took my computer to compUSA (without me knowing) to get something she messed up on it fixed. They kept my copy of Windows 95. Assholes....

hey don't be ragging on Prodigy! Fat of the Land was one of their best albums and........ ohhhh......

My grandfather was big into computer and got me into computers which turned into my career as a software engineer. I remember back in 2000 looking through these ads and frys ads with him and he helped me build my first computer.

@ 3:20 I remember getting one of these for my truck, back when I drove over the road. I also had a Super Nintendo, LOL! It was an RCA, and lasted a LONG time, before the flyback transformer went out...

HOLYEFFINGCRAP! How the hell did you skip over the Linux compatible Corel software???? Linux Compatible in 2000?????? I couldn't even get USB to work properly in Linux in 2000, how the effing hell did they get Corel to work properly then? I mean, fjsdkal;fje?????

I fixed hundreds of those cheap computers

@bmay81

6 жыл бұрын

Mary Phillips me too, at my high school.

Nice to take a trip back in time again with these catalogs Clint. I think I might have a Circuit City catalog from late 2005 floating around. And perhaps an HP one from the same year somewhere too.

Ah. Brings back pre-internet memories of 10 year old me flipping through those tech ad flyers from the sunday paper. Great vid.

NICE job! Somewhere in my house is one last Computer Shopper magazine I saved from 1994. The dang thing is as thick as a phone book and is chocked full of history. Of all things it lists the Pentium 90 as the latest hot new computer system. My first wife tried to throw it out as garbage. I stopped that from happening. My second wife tried the same thing. WTF? It's not like I have an attic full of dusty National geographic magazines creating some kind of fire hazard!..It's ONE magazine but since it has nothing to do with Cosmo shit talking about multiple orgasms or Tom Cruise's latest Scientology hallucination, it's automatically thrown into the proverbial dustbin of history.

@ChakkyCharizard

6 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you need to pick better women to marry lol

@sgtcreasegrease

5 жыл бұрын

Women.. LOL.. I never tried to throw any girl's garbage trivial talk magazines out.

You ever notice how ugly and unwieldy CRT TVs got by the end of the '90s and into the early 2000s? They were just rounded gray bulky things that hard to carry. At least the old wooden cabinet TVs could be moved safely by two people.

@LGR

8 жыл бұрын

Very true. I actually enjoy lugging around my wooden cabinet Zenith, with its wheels and all that. But early 00's TVs are pretty awful to move around, and really ugly.

@twistedyogert

8 жыл бұрын

I wonder how much a 51" CRT TV would weigh, probably more then a small sedan, you'd need a forklift to move it.

@grogdeluxe

8 жыл бұрын

I can vouch for this too, I started working in the TV's department at Sears in 2002 and we'd have to put tubes up on the shelf above our heads. Those flat screen (not panel) HD tubes were ridiculous.

@bassblaster505

8 жыл бұрын

i remember those 50+" CRT's. never seen one in person but ive heard the flicker is mad on one of that size. for almost 10 years i had a 24" samsung CRT TV and that was one of the best TV's ive had. wish i still had it. it was built in 96

@mikekz4489

8 жыл бұрын

+Lazy Game Reviews Back in '99-'00 I helped my dad bring a new 36" TV into the house and I thought we were going drop it every step of the way.

Amazing. Great segment do this again from time to time.

That was a fantastic trip down memory lane. Thanks for sharing those!

"I was 14 in the year 2000" Son of a bitch, you're fuckin' 30 dude?

@LGR

8 жыл бұрын

I will be this year!

@doloresdebeauvoir4960

8 жыл бұрын

I thought you are a bit older than me... guess I was wrong I would love to go to the US and thrift too.

@mastermeme

8 жыл бұрын

+mieu mieu thrift everywhere for ever.

@CMSonYT

7 жыл бұрын

whoa. LGR ain't that old

LGR just reading from a magazine? Are you getting into the ASMR scene?

@LGR

8 жыл бұрын

Not intentionally!

@woopsoldcrap5564

8 жыл бұрын

+Lazy Game Reviews a reply! I need to make better comments!

These old catalogs really bring one back. One of my prized possessions is one from a local store from 1994, always brings a nostalgic chuckle watching those 486 DX systems going for outrageous prices even for the time

Oh man, so much nostalgia! I used to love looking through the Best Buy ads every Sunday!

At 7:05 I had that exact style Compaq, dont know what my dad paid for it, all I knew was that it was slow. No mechanical problems for the family with that computer, we had it from 2001 till around 2013. So many good memories playing Cluefinders, Gizmos and Gadgets, NFS Porsche Unleashed, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2001, and of couse Space Pinball. My dad could only use the internet, AOL dial up ftw. Thanks for bringin back some good memories LGR!

Really interesting look at how much computer and cell tech has grown in such a short time! Great retrospective, LGR.

Can't wait for you to cover PDA stuff, I always found those very interesting when I was a kid. Also, Nokia communicator phones! Those were advertised a lot here in Finland.

The big projection TVs were fun for a while. My dad got one for his wedding anniversary in 2002, nice 48" TV that lasted us a good 7 years before we got our flat panel smart TV.

Really looking forward to the video on the eMachines eOne! I've got one of them - my aunt bought it along with the matching KB, Mouse, and Epson Stylus printer around 2000. The Keyboard, Mouse, and Printer have died (I think, maybe she still has them), but I kept the machine when she stopped using it and it still works! I've still got most of the documentation and the recovery CD for it! Mine's a Celeron 433, 64 MB of RAM, 8MB ATI Rage XL with A/V input, and Windows 98.

Wow, was really surprised to hear some Skyroads in the outro! My favorite song from that game is Road 8, that's forever stuck in my head.

This takes me back... Thanks for sharing. I had no idea I am couple years older than you lol. I am class of 2000. By 2001, I was already in college. I remember 2001 vividly. That's when evanescence released wake me up song. I also bought my very first MP3 player. It was called Rave by Creative. It only held 32MB of song and monochrome display. It used printer cable, I think it was 25pin. It took literally half an hour to transfer 32MB of MP3 into it. Good times lol

Great video Clint! I really enjoyed the Toys R Us vid you did so really nice to see this as well!