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Me in 1995: I can't wait to see what fantastic technology we'll have 25 years from now! Me in 2020: *watching videos of people buying computers in 1995*

@maccagrabme

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was much more fun back then tech wise, todays tech is so much more advanced now but im not wowed by it and its functional rather than exciting. I get little buzz walking around a modern computer store.

@St4r_Z0mb13

7 ай бұрын

​@@maccagrabmeYou don't get buzz walking around a computer store?

@Poppa

5 ай бұрын

that’s truly awfully incredible when you sincerely consider it

“i can watch the game and be at the game at the same time” what a foreshadowing

@tiffanye9403

3 жыл бұрын

Speaks for every American that is at a baseball game and watching pre games on his phone or texting at a concert or being at the store but your shopping on Amazon online

@mustachesally4134

Жыл бұрын

@@tiffanye9403 it's called "marketing". Folks realized overtime how to use tech to capitalize people to spend money.

We’re watching a video about the most advanced gadgets in 1995 on a handheld device that’s a combination off all the gadgets in this video.

@akhilaryappatt7209

3 жыл бұрын

still on PC here. I hate using phones for the most parts, now

@yellowblanka6058

3 жыл бұрын

@@akhilaryappatt7209 Ditto, though I don't hate phones/tablets, just using a PC. There's something to be said for a larger screen and a keyboard and mouse for input.

@GugureSux

3 жыл бұрын

@@akhilaryappatt7209 Seconding this. No matter how many fancy feats my phone gets, it's still "just a phone" to me at the end of the screen. Nice backup and digital multitool in a pinch, or for watching a short clip while sitting in a loo or restaurant, but that's about it. For any kind of work and play, even a basic PC is worlds above any mobile piece.

@ericm7994

3 жыл бұрын

on a pc

@Felamine

3 жыл бұрын

Started watching on my PC, then finished on my phone.

25 years ago...those years have gone by in a flash which is frightening.

@mwalker267

3 жыл бұрын

You're not kidding. I can't close my eyes and put myself right back in that moment! Like it was yesterday.

@brit4294

3 жыл бұрын

@Macho Sancho I resonate with this on a deep level

@redcomic619

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe for you. For me it’s been a lifetime.

@andeleon6838

3 жыл бұрын

You're right, I'm 25, born on this year. This life gone to waste in a flash 😂

@Dummerbrella987

3 жыл бұрын

Says you. Felt like a whole quarter century to me!

Back in 1995, when I was 30, my mother bought me my first home computer, a COMPAQ, for $3000.00. Up to this point, I had worked on desk computers in the Navy and at my civilian jobs, but had no interest in having one at home. Her gift changed me and I've lived an online, computer life ever since.

@leonsphinx9652

3 жыл бұрын

@@johntitorii6676 I'd say he's doing alright considering that was twenty five years ago and his comment is from last month.

It is FASCINATING the questions the consumers are asking versus what I hear now-a-days at Walmart!

@yoitired

3 жыл бұрын

Are they a lot more tech savvy now?

@animalyze7120

3 жыл бұрын

​@@yoitired Nope, far worse than these people who were literally seeing something new. Best buy is even worse lol

@miriambucholtz9315

3 жыл бұрын

@@animalyze7120 That's why I won't buy electronics at Walmart any more. I like intelligent answers when I have questions.

@Classic7-4-7

3 жыл бұрын

@@miriambucholtz9315 You dont get top shelf employees offering minimum wage

@yellowblanka6058

3 жыл бұрын

These are largely yuppies (you almost needed to be a yuppie or borderline to afford tech in those days) and it's shot in Palo Alto California, a tech center. I'm sure if he posted footage from say a mid-west Wal-Mart at the time you'd hear some ludicrous questions.

It’s like a time capsule, it’s quite eerie to see all this.

@VonDutchNL

Жыл бұрын

Why eerie tho

@DJKinney

Жыл бұрын

Why eerie?

the audio sounds like it was recorded today

@targaryenXoolf

3 жыл бұрын

Probably a Shure microphone. They last longer than humans.

When I was a kid growing up in the 90s, I absolutely ate up this computer store experience. Kudos for having the foresight to videotape this back then!

@yellowblanka6058

3 жыл бұрын

I have fond memories of wandering the aisles of Computer City and CompUSA checking out all the big-box games and playing games at the computer stations etc. I remember being at CompUSA for the Windows 95 launch with my father. The place was absolutely packed - this release was a HUGE deal, and they had bins and bins of discounted software for the occasion.

@brodriguez11000

3 жыл бұрын

Considering the size of cameras and video equipment back then makes it even more so.

@charliebrownn6622

Жыл бұрын

@@brodriguez11000 There have been good little camcorders since the late 1980s, the Sony Handycam 8mm. kzread.info/dash/bejne/p4uavMuGY83aoMY.html

7:38 sounds like someone is playing a display kiosk of Sonic the Hedgehog (1) for the Sega Genesis somewhere in the background! It’s faint, but undeniable.

@Betamaxx1

3 жыл бұрын

i definitely heard someone losing all their rings.

@LeonSKennedy7777

3 жыл бұрын

Betamaxx1 indeed! it’s difficult to piece out, but the music from the first stage, “Green Hill Zone” is also playing.

@moonlitegram

3 жыл бұрын

nice catch

@yellowblanka6058

3 жыл бұрын

Wasn't sure until I heard the ting of somebody losing a bunch of rings, lol.

@jbobb2012

3 жыл бұрын

You could hear the music and the rings.

I was 7 then, and vividly remember going to computer shows/shopping with my dad! It always took so long! He had to read everything and just stand there and think in silence forever 😄 I love this.

This is modern to me. I have one lightbulb which I take from room to room, and I grow my hair to use as a towel.

@frdsg8350

3 жыл бұрын

I'm watching this on my fingernail

@SpotlessLeopard

3 жыл бұрын

@@frdsg8350 So my mindreading technology informs me.

Those salesmen were like geniuses interpreting the new technology to all the dismayed and confused consumers!

Back when Silicon Valley had some Affordable Toys!! I'm a proud knucklehead who thought that Cut & Paste was essentially Scissors and Elmer's Glue....so a ton of these Toys are out of my realm even as a grown up kid in 2020. But always a blast for me to watch and listen to people get excited talking about these products and in explaining all the capabilities too. I do miss seeing and hearing your side Mr. Hoffman....just so you know you are appreciated in 1995 or 2020! Cheers From Ohio

Watching this on a smart phone makes this very early technology surreal!

So mesmerizing. My father owned a computer store in the Old Mill shopping mall way back when. Raised in Palo Alto, unfortunately he passed back in 2002. It sure has changed, thank you for sharing.

25 years ago. How time flies!!!

The biggest difference I see in this video and in the now, is that people are really looking at the different products, and trying to learn what it does. In 2020 we just go to the store to get what we want and walk right out.

at that time, computers were seen as so expensive, I remember not being able to justify the cost for such a 'luxury' that I saw as not much more than a toy. LOL I didn't get my first computer until 2000. I sure was behind the times but thought how fascinating it was. I remember our first cordless phone. I can still see my brother going from room to room, and upstairs on it telling whomever he was speaking to on the other end how incredible this was that he could move around the house. For those of us that had been tethered to a cord on the wall all our lives, we thought it was the greatest invention! I love love nostalgia and the warm feelings it brings to see footage like this.

@piyh3962

3 жыл бұрын

@Macho Sancho Unless you wanted to be a billionaire in 2020

@xman666soad

3 жыл бұрын

Computers weren’t “seen” as expensive. They’re “were” expensive. $2000 then is like $5000 today. That means an original iPhone would have cost $3000 in 1995

@yellowblanka6058

3 жыл бұрын

@Macho Sancho While not as much of a commodity as they are today, computers were certainly far more than a novelty in the 80's - you had several well known, affordable home computer brands, a healthy shareware/commercial software scene, steadily advancing tech etc. If you were talking about the mid to late 70's when using a home computer meant buying a hobby kit and soldering it together yourself for the ability to run a few simple programs, yeah, you'd have a point.

@Whassevah

3 жыл бұрын

Sometime during the 1990s I remember one night tuning my shortwave radio until I heard a recognizable voice. I thought it was a radio drama program but somehow some details sounded too familiar. I continued listening until I made out the details and eventually realized that it was a wireless phone conversation by our neighbor whose husband (or more correctly, her "lover") was on the other line. To my amazement that I somehow accidentally picked up this 'secret' conversation, I recorded it through the radio's built-in cassette recorder--but I eventually deleted this illegally "wiretapped" recording for fear of it getting in thr wrong hands.

The store was Incredible Universe. Kinda like a Best Buy, but 5 times bigger.

@JakeRoot

3 жыл бұрын

If it's not in the Universe, it doesn't exist!

@AllisonWonderland101

3 жыл бұрын

Oh! I was hoping it would’ve been the Western-themed Radio Shack- or was it a Fry’s? Lol So much fun to go to as a child!

@user181

3 жыл бұрын

Allison Wonderland It turns out that Incredible Universe was a venture by the parent company of Radio Shack (Tandy Corporation), so there certainly was some resemblance. They had a section with some Radio Shack things, but the store had so much more, in terms of variety and quantity - unimaginably huge for a single store. There were about 20 stores nationwide, but they were only around for a few years.

@shaunw9270

3 жыл бұрын

@@user181 I remember Tandy stores. We had them in Britain too . Used to love just hanging around browsing if I wasn't buying.

@Tactical_Nightwach

3 жыл бұрын

OMG i had one of those PDAs and Franklin devices lol man that was the shit if you had one

I miss the 90s so much. Thank you for sharing this wonderful content.

@nerdbamarich2063

Жыл бұрын

@@daakrolb I miss those days

@nerdbamarich2063

Жыл бұрын

@@daakrolb no doubt

We shop very differently now. It's hard to imagine actually going to a store and researching a product. The days of reading the text on a box or asking an employee a question are long gone.

@MrBlaktoe

3 жыл бұрын

That was less common than you think. Smart folks would go get a magazine and read up. Whether it was PC Gamer, PC Mag. I know I did. It's how I learned to not be an early adopter of whatever was the hot new electronics. But now we have people pre-ordering games and then turning around and complaining on the internet about games that are buggy on release day.

@luciehanson6250

3 жыл бұрын

Sam at Best Buy was my best friend last week, as I bought a Roku. I prefer people!

*_1990's: Is this an alien gizmo_* *2020: What kind of ancient device is that?*

I guess everybody was going through an inspector gadget phase with all those trench coats back then.

@MrBlaktoe

3 жыл бұрын

the time of Ska. Trench coats were real big.

@sebastianm2926

3 жыл бұрын

trench coats are due for a comeback

@indian3750

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

This feels like a brilliant sitcom about a computer store. I’d watch a season of this

At 7:43 I heard the distinct sound of someone playing a Sonic game that just lost all of their rings... those were the days! :)

@mikesully110

3 жыл бұрын

you're right lol, they are on Green Hill Zone :D

I had one of those cassette adapters too. Used for both my CD player and portable DVD player in my old Suzuki Alto and Daihatsu Applause. That was my Bluetooth before Bluetooth 😆.

as someone who LIVES in Palo Alto, this is so cool!!!!! (even if i didn’t it’s still cool!)

I was born in 1981. By 1995 I got my first computer, a 486 DX2 66 MHz with a whopping 4 MB of RAM, which later I upgraded to 8 MB and added a Sound Blaster Multimedia Kit that came with the then-new released Full Throttle. Man was I happy back then, man am I happy watching this video. You have the most valuable movie vault, congrats!

This was two and a half years before I was even born- I’m a spring chicken compared to most commenters here. It’s crazy to see how much has changed in a quarter century. Compared to almost any other time in human history, not much usually changes dramatically over the course of just a couple of decades. But this? This might as well be a hundred years ago. My family got our first PC circa 2004 (we were late to the party!) and it didn’t feel that unlike some of the machines pictured here. Another decade later, and the technology industry was almost unrecognizable comparatively. David, never stop posting stuff like this.

The days your first three letter word on a computer you learned to type was: “dir”

@wichtelchen

3 жыл бұрын

mine was "win".^^ (On the family computer back then, a .bat file with that name was installed into the commands-folder that started the windows 3.11 system).

@MrBlaktoe

3 жыл бұрын

and learning how to edit the autoexec.bat to overcome the limitations of 640k active memory. Thems were the days. lol

@swifty1969

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrBlaktoe oh! yeah! I remember doing that...LOL!!!

Gen X here. I worked at The Wiz (aka Nobody Beats the Wiz) in the early 90's and remember all the computers and gadgets of the time there. I got my first IBM compatible PC in 1988. A Hyundai dual 5 1/4 disk 8088 computer with CGA monitor which cost $1200. Before that, I had a TI 99 4/a that I got for Christmas in 1984.

@DeedeeandtheBeebee

2 ай бұрын

The wiz is real!!!??? I thought it was just a made up store from Seinfeld lol

Very glad to have found your awesome channel. New subscriber.😁👍 Thank you for all you have done with making these documentaries over the years.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mike. David Hoffman - filmmaker

A golden time for PCs and electronics. I went to the Super Mall around this time. It was insane. Stories and stories of shops. Constantly packed with people since this was before Amazon. I remember going into a game store and being absolutely awed by all the new consoles that were coming out at the time. I remember playing a sega genesis 3D or something and it rocked. I also played Road Rash... 2? Seriously a magical experience.

These are my favorite of your videos. Thanks so much! Takes me back to that sense of wonder as a kid :)

Thanks for bringing so much life into my lockdown here in Australia, David! I'm younger than most of you films, they show me so much I've never seen!

I asked my kindergarten teacher if it would ever be 1995 again and I was extremely sad when she said it would be gone and never come back again. I miss you Mrs. O!

these everyday trivial stuffs make such great memories . my salutations to you for capturing these moments for posterity and sharing these with us.

I was 10 years old. I wanted some of this stuff. I’m pretty sure I had the electric keyboard.

This is amazing. Thank you so much.

At 4:00 these young women are likely in or nearing their 50s now. Wild

@JJ-bv2gp

3 жыл бұрын

Much better quality than we have today

@vessy9927

3 жыл бұрын

@@JJ-bv2gp disagree

@doiceslife8374

3 жыл бұрын

I just realized my parents are in their 50s I could've swore my parents were younger then I realized I'm turning 20 very soon

2:27 - what the hell is that thing! 😂 it’s been so long since I used a landline phone!

California back in the day. Thanks for sharing history.

Back when the sales men actually knew what they were talking about

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

I was in Woodside as a kid in 1995, as a young adult in the mid-2000’s I lived on University Ave. in the President Hotel. Grew up in P.A. and the peninsula, it was a special time and place to be a part of.

I still remember Dad went to the launch of Windows 95 at midnight queuing up to buy this highly anticipated GUI software. And we were also one of the first countries to do so located down under. Ahh... the good old days when the sound of dial up modem annoys the crap out of the whole family and now it's music to my ears.

0:16 "OH I can look at it in the car!" And thus the mayhem began.

Incredible Universe was an amazing store, it was so much fun visiting.

Nostalgia 10 out of 10, thank you for this piece of our history.

Life was so much easier back then. I so miss it....

Yup i remember going to these computer stores when i was a kid in the 90s and my dad bought me a portable cd player i loved it.

I'd love to know where exactly in Palo Alto this was taken, because I grew up in Palo Alto, born in 2001. Although I doubt that store still exist, it be cool to see what is there now

I was only 1 years old so it's good to watch back and see what kind of stuff was around

I worked at Egghead Software from 1991 to 1996- I really loved it. It was a great era for home computing. Explaining MODEMs and "multimedia" to everyone who came in- helping get people logged onto local BBS. The Windows 95 launch was a huge to-do. I clearly remember buying a 320MB Western Digital hard drive with my employee discount for $200 :D

Wonder how many of these people still live in California.

Wow, thanks for this, Mr. Hoffman!! So fun to go back to that time. We had an Incredible Universe store here in Phoenix and I bought my first PC there (after having Atari computers since 1984, haha). The store later became a Fry's Electronics, but it lacked the glitz of Incredible Universe. What a transitional time for technology that was, thanks for documenting it! Also, what the heck was that scream in the background at 5:49?! Someone playing DOOM nearby?

My dad had an old word processor, it weighed a ton. Oh and his old Motorola mobile phone, that was the size of a small car 🤣😂 It seems like yesterday!

It was much more fun back then, the technology was changing very rapidly, new processors every few months, multimedia, 3d cards, early internet without censorship online, complete freedom and proper social media sites like Compuserve, it was mindblowing having conversations with people on the other side of the world, online people were very polite and a lot happier. Now your modern pc is a fully fledged media centre but the excitement and sense of awe has gone, I cant even be bothered to walk around a computer store now whereas back then it was buzzing and I was upgrading every few months.

Great quality recording 👍

I was lucky enough to be in my teens during the 90s and experience this. My family was really poor and I got a job at compusa part time during the weekends. I remember coming home with lots of pamphlets, books and materials to take home and study. And our manager gives new hires a test based on their department. Mine was to know about monitors and PCs. I was given a job shadow and mock customer service engagements about a particular monitor, pc and software that can go along with it if it's for business or school. They provided you with knowledge and intellectual skills to make sure you knew what you were selling. You spend enough time in that department that you end up knowing it like the back of your hand. People were invested in employees back then. And people were invested in each other. If you go to bestbuy and ask a tech in that row and ask about which mics has the best frequency for recording. The tech won't know. But the will answer will always be "it works real well in Fortnite".

This reminds me of the days of checking out all the cool gadgets at the local RadioShack or circuit city as a kid. Ah the 90s

very interesting! and amazing how technology has advanced. seems like yesterday to me!

I miss those days! Full of excitement to see what comes out next

I would like to own it :) Like always, Great video Sir Hoffman. Thank You for Your work. The world is in need of people like you like never before. We MUST remember people how it was before when human solidarity and humanity actually existed. There is a slight chance that we bring back humanity but sadly, i doubt that. Your vids are gold Sir. Thank You, you are doing a job that you probably did not even knew that you will be doing. We can call this an attempt to save humanity and human traditions, that this new age sociopathic generations destroyed and they literally do not value anything. Please, You continue this, and i and my team will try to save Blues music. Have a great day Sir.

I love these time capsule videos.

I grew up in Palo Alto! I remember this store when I was a kid.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

2 жыл бұрын

You are correct. That is where it was. David Hoffman filmmaker

I love that these people are so excited and knowledgeable about the tech. Now people barely know how to turn stuff on and get unhappy when the latest phone doesn't have 42 cameras.

me watching this video on a tiny screen of people being amazed of tiny screens 25 years ago.

Loved 80s-90s when things were still fresh and new and interesting, not like today, we've pretty much seen everything now and know what to expect.

5:50 The guy in the background is me reacting to the price for one of these gadgets.

@alanmorales1500

3 жыл бұрын

lol that's hillarious 😂

Wow. You naturally think back to 1995 and don't really think about how much has changed until you see a video like this. People were wowing over cordless phones and pocket organizers!

David, congrats on 500K!

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Bob. David Hoffman Filmmaker

Sure brings back memories!

I remember!

Love your video historys. If you ever come across retro video game console release videos I would most definitely watch. Same for things like windows 3.1, first mobile phones etc

Wow. My dad had a pair of those iGlass VR glasses. They cost like a ton but it was amazing to play Doom and look around by moving your head. :D

This was the year I first started working on computers... wow just so many memories..

Awesome, thanks again! 1995? Buying a 486 with 3.1? Dang.. should've waited for the Windows 95 with the Pentium.. massively better. Things changed sooo fast during this era with home electronics.

No internet to research a product, you had to go to the store and see for yourself, and the store associates were quite knowledgeable

Its fun to see adults playing and having fun with gadgets. Remember kids there was a time in the past when not everyone looked dour and angry all the time!

Man this is some amazing stuff this is showing us how far we had become with technology .

It was nice when new tech was always comeing out and fighting to be cheaper then the next. Now there more like it has an apple on it people will buy it no matter what

I'm almost 30 and this is making me really homesick somehow.

Great video! Just wish you would've zoomed in a little less lol. Great to see the technology from back in the day. I still remember it like new!

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

3 жыл бұрын

You bet. I wish so as well. At that time, in a lowlight situation, it was difficult to see focus unless you zoomed all the way in. That's what I would do in very dark situations. The store was not well lit for what video required at that time. David Hoffman - filmmaker

:) As a computer engineer born around that time, I have to say its amazing what technology existed back then given processing and manufacturing constraints. I guess this is what those born in the 20s will say in the late 40s with autonomous technology, printed food and personal quantum computers.

@moonlitegram

3 жыл бұрын

"20s" and "40s" are still heavily ingrained as 1920 and 1940 in my mind, so it took me a second to piece together what you were trying to say here. lol

That was the year I moved to Silicon Valley from SoCal and joined a small startup who wrote a famous web browser and brought the internet to the masses. It's all a blur now. It's been a wild ride.

About 15 years ago I went into a computer store in Sydney and as I stood there, a beautifully dressed elderly couple walked in and nervously approached a young salesman. "How can I help you?" he asked. The old lady looked at her husband for reassuance, looked back at the sales guy and said confidently - "We'd like to by an internet please.". It was a priceless moment!

I believe it was around February of '96. I was 15, and my mom bought one with her income tax refund. It was one of my most cherished gifts. I wasted so many hours playing Civilization II on that thing. She also eventually got me my own phone line, so I could use it for dial-up internet. That was a serious expense for her, as we were fairly low income. I didn't appreciate that as much as I should have back then.

Everyone was playing patience when they were supposed to be working.

Thank you very much David Hoffman

I would love to have some of these gadgets now! They'd be incredibly useful and make my life much easier!

Reminds me of shopping at Radio Shack at our local Mall. All the neat gadgets were there. That and Best Buy.

This is the closest to time traveling

Knowledgable sales staff - what a concept!

What a huge deal was choosing a home phone back then, now I just see them at Best Buy in a small isle as the “forgotten.”

"Whatever it is, digital?". Man... wish I could go back and hangout for a couple years

I will always remember 2006. 8 years old. First computer was an eMachines tower with a 733i intel and Windows Me.

wow technology back then was so exciting.. ;) cheers..