You really goofed revealing your actual address in this video, and now I've taken the liberty of ordering a hundred pizzas to 69 Balls Rd.

@stephengnb

3 жыл бұрын

What kind of pizza(s)? I hope it includes boobie pizza, maybe a dong pizza as well.

@Blubbstock

3 жыл бұрын

@@stephengnb Fresh oats pizza

@youdontknowme5969

3 жыл бұрын

there's a legitimate 420 N High Street in a town near me 😎🌿

@michealhunt6607

3 жыл бұрын

You joke, but i live near an actual Balls Road lol

@ericsills6484

3 жыл бұрын

There's a Preacher's Bottom Road in Wilkes County, NC. I hope I never find out what preacher's bottom they're talking about!

sometimes i forget how much the early 2000's were still the 90's, truer words have never been spoken

@craigh5236

3 жыл бұрын

Just like the early 70s were still the 60's

@Brigadium75

3 жыл бұрын

Now 2010s is just 2011

@Corn0nTheCobb

2 жыл бұрын

I spoke truer words just last night during an hour long drive home, when I said "Man, I REALLY have to poop". Boy, did I have to poop or what. It was quite an understatement, actually. It ended up being my toilet-clogger of the year!

@secretcommenter5720

2 жыл бұрын

@@Corn0nTheCobb I'm literally ROLLING 🤣🤣🤣

@ikagura

2 жыл бұрын

That's the y2k era.

The Cybiko really has that early 2000s 'Okay, so it's got to be a shape, but make it weird, and cover it in translucent plastic' look perfectly

@steveshin820

Жыл бұрын

I miss that look

@javkiller

Жыл бұрын

@@steveshin820 It looks like something straight out of nickelodeon's marketing department.

@SupersGoneHyper

Жыл бұрын

​@@javkiller Mom: we have a GameBoy at home The GameBoy at home:

@JessicaFEREM

Жыл бұрын

I love transluscent plastic, hell I just modded my nintendo switch to be completely clear

@SupersGoneHyper

Жыл бұрын

@@JessicaFEREM nice, I needa learn how to do that too.

I wish I still had mine. Me and a group of friends all got them in middle school and we did indeed use them to play games and chat from separate class rooms before teachers or schools could imagine what “texting” was. The experience was only fun cuz like 8 of us had them so it did make a decent network around the school and at whoever’s house we sat around playing in. I believe we all got that memory add on too so we could actually install a decent number of games. Thanks for the 30 minutes of reminiscing.

@Tony-Gunk

Жыл бұрын

I still have mine with the mp3 player attachment too lol

@stevenirby5576

Жыл бұрын

I'm so jealous of you. I didn't even know about this until now and I'm from a very techy family at that time.

@lurchilurch5507

Жыл бұрын

But there was SMS in 2000 already? I think everyone got Nokia 3330s etc. around that time, or even earlier. So texting was definitely a thing

@lka1988

Жыл бұрын

@@lurchilurch5507 SMS was a thing, but cell phones and plans were still relatively expensive for every day usage, and every text cost money.

@lurchilurch5507

Жыл бұрын

@@lka1988 I know, I was there! People still used them though

My jaw still aches from the constant screaming of the late 90's and early 2000's, good times. Great video

@DrSpaceman69

3 жыл бұрын

screaming & hair gel

@scthomas1982

3 жыл бұрын

You stopped? Is that why people give me those looks?

@tefras14

3 жыл бұрын

It was the screaming that separated the men from the boys

@isiraratnayake9491

3 жыл бұрын

Why screaming?

@matsv201

3 жыл бұрын

@@isiraratnayake9491 because awsome

It's my lifelong dream to find a happily married couple that met over Cybiko. There's gotta be at least one.

@FantomLightning

3 жыл бұрын

Unless it's a fever dream I feel like I once saw someone talking about how they met their spouse over Cybiko either in one of the comment sections of a Cybiko video or on a forum.

@matsv201

3 жыл бұрын

Yea.. they guy is 50 and the girl is 30... well. She wasnt 30 back then.....

@R0XYF0X

3 жыл бұрын

@@matsv201 How views have changed. I immediately noticed the problematic side-effects of an anonymous communication device that is used to find children... I wonder if they thought of that back then.

@mackenziebullied4900

3 жыл бұрын

@@JoshuaJacobs83 Do you guys ever have proper conversations tho? Like that's a big gap tf yall gonna talk about 😂😂

@jothain

3 жыл бұрын

@@R0XYF0X There really wasn't need for that in that time. I don't know any molesting type events that would've happened at that time. It was more that grownups just didn't have interest in such things. Plus I think it would've immediately caught attention if elder people would've used thing like that.

22:24 To be fair in 2000 there wasn't a bunch of other signals in the air for the cybiko to compete with, that might be why the range isn't as good as promised

@chrismooney2240

Жыл бұрын

Yep. I know wifi interferes with picking up radio stations. A lot of stations would just be static til i unplugged the wifi box.

@andrewhamop6665

Жыл бұрын

@@chrismooney2240 that's likely not the Wi-Fi signals themselves interfering with the radio, rather it's the noise generated from the router's power supply.

@TheGunkTv

Жыл бұрын

@@chrismooney2240 Wifi itself can't interfere as it uses a whole different frequency range as radio

@lurchilurch5507

Жыл бұрын

Nah even in the article he showed the author said the reception was terrible even in 2000

@joenowak7212

2 ай бұрын

I bet money it was always garbage lol

This is amazing, that "who's nearby" thing is almost exactly like the StreetPass thing Nintendo did over a decade later.

@Roadent1241

2 жыл бұрын

Did that ever work? I know I lived in the sticks and rarely left the house to walk around an actual street but the idea of passing someone with a DS, with it switched on, on streetpass mode, or on the same game as you AND on Streetpass, was astronomical, and I can tell you that I only 'streetpassed' someone on Nintendogs ONCE in 5 years for every weekend that I sat in the car for half an hour there every Saturday and half an hour a Sunday back. So yeah.... No real chance? XD I wonder what that one person thought having streetpassed me that one Walk....

@angelicgalaxy4534

2 жыл бұрын

@@Roadent1241 When I was living at a campground,my 3DS managed to street pass someone who had Fire Emblem Shadows of Valentia Echoes. That was the only time it ever streetpassed someone.

@Roadent1241

2 жыл бұрын

@@angelicgalaxy4534 I dunno why they made it seem like something that happened lots enough that multiple games had the feature XD

@occono3543

2 жыл бұрын

@@Roadent1241 It worked much better in Japan. It was slightly myopic of Nintendo that they pushed the feature so hard globally.

@Fay7666

2 жыл бұрын

I've heard that it did work, but obviously you had to go to places that had a naturally high 3DS population like a convention or even a (maybe on the affluent side) school. Out on the street? not unheard of but not necessarily common. The one that never worked was the PS Vita one, because that did need the app to be constantly running.

3:20 ''Ah that marketing... Sometimes I forget how much the early 2000s were still the 90's...'' instant classic

@fubaralakbar6800

3 жыл бұрын

They really were

@The_Wandering_Nerd

3 жыл бұрын

The 90s didn't become the 2000s imho until the combination of the dot-com crash and the 9/11 tragedy spiraled USA pop culture into edgy, antisocial depression.

@dmo530

3 жыл бұрын

Everything was more Xtreme back then.

@NonsensicalSpudz

3 жыл бұрын

yeah thats how it goes, its like the 80s didn't really end until like 95/94, and with current we didn't see a change until like 2014 etc

@fubaralakbar6800

3 жыл бұрын

@@NonsensicalSpudz Yeah, I've always thought that decades run from 5 to 5 rather than 0 to 9

Being a dysgraphic (fine motor disability that particularly impedes handwriting) public school student whose family couldn’t afford a laptop until I entered high school, Cybiko and Cybiko Xtreme’s word processing capabilities and ability to export text documents via cable literally carried me through middle school. This thing is absurdly capable for a time period when many people let alone kids didn’t even have candy bar Nokia phones yet, if this thing had gameplay performance on par with the original Game Boy the Cybiko would have been an unstoppable beast, and as it was, it featured predecessor capabilities that predicted modern smartphones. Great to see you cover this thing. Also, the Cybiko Xtreme was the first device I ever used that accepted SD cards, done via an adapter.

@HanzoHimemiya

3 жыл бұрын

Cybiko was a decent idea but in 2007 Ipod and Iphone monopolized all the gadgets

@SuperTrainStationH

3 жыл бұрын

@@HanzoHimemiya Cybiko as a platform device was dead by 2003/2004 at the latest, it’s not even a contest, it was off the market for years by then ha ha.

@HanzoHimemiya

3 жыл бұрын

@@SuperTrainStationH GBA kicked him early

@JoshuaJacobs83

3 жыл бұрын

That’s cool! But it didn’t literally carry you. 😉. It’s good to see people using tech to overcome setbacks

@jothain

3 жыл бұрын

@@HanzoHimemiya I wouldn't exactly say monopolize. I got Nokia 5800 XM before iPhone was here and it essentially had everything and more than iPhone had. Ie. it had vastly better GPS, maps and connectivity. I had it for several months before I saw first iPhone used anywhere. It took couple iterations for iPhone to get features right. Though admittedly Apple did the touchscreen much better. Not to mention that Nokia had all the features way earlier. Touchscreen was the only lackluster thing in Nokia's and slightly incoherent OS that they struggled with.

"WAP browsers were taking off like a certified freak, seven days a week!" Clint.

@RockyFoxxowo

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@Tonlah

2 жыл бұрын

make that pull-out game weak

@jameswalker199

11 ай бұрын

Since it's a mobile phone thing, wouldn't that be a "certified phreak"?

I STILL think this thing has one of the coolest Y2K tech designs around. So charismatic and truly futuristic looking.

@Kuchenwurst

Жыл бұрын

​@@generfeld According to LGR in this video, new batteries are pretty easy to find. He even tells us what specification exactly to look for.

Ah yes. "I have a Cybiko and I must scream"

@762rk95tp

3 жыл бұрын

I have no Cybiko, and I must scream.

@jmalmsten

3 жыл бұрын

Scream, Harlequin, said the Ticktockman

@cpuwizard9225

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for reminding me of a book I was happy to forget I had read.

@Backtothegameplay

3 жыл бұрын

@@cpuwizard9225 Same...

@derekchristenson5711

3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, your Cybiko's battery leaked, damaging your speaker connection, so no one can hear you... Cybiko scream... or whatever it would be called.

The fact that a magazine ad for this thing literally had a speech bubble reading "Make #1 Sexy Chat" will never not be funny.

@fireglo450music

3 жыл бұрын

#1 sexy chat in all of Kazakhstan, great success!

"The early 2000s were still the 90s." That hit me like a rock!! What a realization. 😁😁😁

@Belgand

Жыл бұрын

It helps if you think about things more in terms of 3 year chunks or so than decades. 1999 to 2001 had a good deal more in common than 1999 and 1991.

@samnicholson5051

10 ай бұрын

@@Belgand True. A lot of the most popular music from 1991 was still characteristically 80s sounding.

@lastotallyawesomebleach204

8 ай бұрын

The 90's pretty much ended in 1998 for me

@Noid

6 ай бұрын

This is basically every decade. The early 90s were still in the 80s. The early 80s were still in the 70s and so on...

@redpup112

5 ай бұрын

In truth, basically every decade's culture for the first 5 years are determined by the last 5 years' culture. It's weird.

My middle school wanted to test the viability of using these in the classroom. My class was the one chosen to test it so we all got Cybikos for free from the school! My friends were so jealous. Pretty neat gadget but all it did was mostly distract us from paying attention to the teacher. The chat really was so much better than passing notes! I'm not sure what the range was but there were enough Cybikos to communicate with my classmates in other classrooms occasionally. The games weren't great but the novelty was. I still have my black and yellow model somewhere. Great memories!

The 2000s really were the "Before its Time" time of tech. Especially the first half lol.

@solenoidnull9542

3 жыл бұрын

I remember getting all excited when a >64mb MP3 player became available. I could finally hold 30 songs instead of 12. Fast forward 20 years and my $50 MP3 player can fit thousands.

@PplsChampion

3 жыл бұрын

@PiK i had one too (casio) but they already had wireless handheld mini TVs since the early 80s [song watchman, 1982]

@lennybrewster4673

3 жыл бұрын

Despite the speed, the internet was ten times better

@illford6921

3 жыл бұрын

@@lennybrewster4673 not really. There more to do now. It's just social media and news outlets but that's a side effect of freedom

@mjrleaguesweetie

3 жыл бұрын

I remember going to Walmart and buying an internal CD burner for my Compaq PC and feeling like I was living on another planet when I got it working

You win the internet for taking the time to enter the DN3D theme music into the music app. That's top LGR energy right there.

@jeremyfirth

3 жыл бұрын

@@randomeverythingboy Too late. It's back now.

@prodjoshkta

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeremyfirth guys, Jeremy said it so it’s gotta be true

@humanperson9480

3 жыл бұрын

@@randomeverythingboy old technology is bringing back old lingo

@unlimitedbitsgaming

3 жыл бұрын

@@randomeverythingboy This video is about a device that released in 2000 SO DEAL WITH IT!

@spiff2268

3 жыл бұрын

@@humanperson9480 Uber pwnage right there!

2:57 I just like that it being green and having "buttons and stuff" is a positive according to this one kid.

Looks like the software dev(s) really tried to get the most out of the hardware here, which is always nice to see.

I was obsessed with these. I remember they had an online store where you could play games, win points and get prizes, including a new cybiko. I also remember when the store had a bug that allowed you to spend the same points over and over, I got 2 free units this way and gave them to friends. I only ran into another unit once or twice. I was the only one who had this.

@qshank2752

2 жыл бұрын

Just out of curiosity were the 1 or 2 units u ran into the ones you gave to your friends?

@xLucidor

2 жыл бұрын

Haha yeah, i spend all My birthday money on the Xtreme after seeing a popup commercial, It was perfect on paper, but useless becouse i was like the only one in Sweden that had one :/

@greenaum

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! Might be at that point they didn't care about people getting units for free, if nobody was buying them anyway. Saves them money on warehousing them.

@caddyguy5369

2 жыл бұрын

I never came across another one.

@zodd67

2 жыл бұрын

@@xLucidor Same for me in the UK, I did have fun trying out the free games though as they had many. Not super advanced however

I can't imagine would disappointing it would be to ask your parents for this, get it, and then realize none of your friends got one, and it doesn't actually connect to anything besides other cybikos.

@edwardmenendez

3 жыл бұрын

That was me! Lol I had to pretend and avoid the classic I told you so from parents haha.

@GuyManley

3 жыл бұрын

@@edwardmenendez You're bringing up some repressed memories of mine. 😂

@what-it-is

3 жыл бұрын

joe steffe had one too. we only had homeroom together, and that 15 minutes was barely enough time to connect them.

@projectno5

3 жыл бұрын

it was. i know

@phantomikon

3 жыл бұрын

I was 17 years old at the time. I spent my own money on one of these things. If I rememberer correctly, I was able to take it back to the store for a refund.

I got cybiko in middle school. The only other 2 cybiko's I ever connected to were my 2 friends in school who I convinced to buy one. I think we played games on it at school for like a week before it got boring.

"Vinegar, scraping and alcohol" My typical Friday night.

@wezzbeet2923

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

28:03 When Clint said "that means I can pay the bills", it set off this Pavlovian response from years of watching KZread where I fully expected him to start talking about NordVPN

@needfuldoer4531

3 жыл бұрын

Or when he segues to today's sponsor, Glasswire!

@md_vandenberg

3 жыл бұрын

RAID SHADOW LEGENDS

@walkingcontradiction223

3 жыл бұрын

I came out with a new game: "Legends Raiding Shadows." I fully intend on using 90% of the investment into advertising, 2% on the "game" and the remaining 8% on my Mega Yacht and the crew to operate it.

Imagine how excited these Cybikos would be in the Toy Story universe to have other Cybikos in range after 20 years. Like "Yes, we are making a comeback!."

@wezzbeet2923

2 жыл бұрын

Haha top comment

@TankEngine75

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the new Toy Story Headcanon!

@thehylianloach9473

Жыл бұрын

What the fuck

Rip Cybiko, the world wasn't ready for how cool you were

I guess in a way the Cybiko lives on, on the show Cyberchase. The sqwak pads that the kids on the show used look a lot like the Cybiko. And Cyberchase is STILL coming out with new episodes, like 20 years after it debuted!

@draculinalilith396

Жыл бұрын

It also sorta lives on in the show Lain. The people also use something similar to the cybiko for studying and stuff, as does Lain herself.

Four restored Cybiko's!?! Dude that is going to be one lit party!

@Connie_TinuityError

2 жыл бұрын

on one of them, the antenna does not work

Not gonna lie, the number of fleshed out apps for this thing is actually really impressive from a programming point of view. Even one of these games/apps would take a decent amount of time to program.

@lonedog80

3 жыл бұрын

Ehhh... I doubt they reprogramed any of it. I had a Game Boy cart that had most of the same tools in the mid 90s, they're probably licensed from a company who specializes in that type of software

@braidena1633

3 жыл бұрын

@@lonedog80 No, there used to be a pretty good sized programming community for it. I didn't participate but I looked into it

@MikeStavola

3 жыл бұрын

I remember playing a few RPGs on my Cybiko. I made a racing game, too.

@braidena1633

3 жыл бұрын

@@MikeStavola There were quite a few indie developers. It had some cool functionality -- only problem was you needed to find other people with cybikos and there weren't all that many, at least where i was

I remember spending lots of time on the music app, and playing the labyrinth game at school with a friend who had one. It was a terrible experience trying to use the wireless features, and I think we both lost faith in the product after that. However this was the first device I could connect to my PC and manage the files, install updates and new games and such - I'm grateful for that experience since I was a fledgling nerd and needed an outlet for tinkering with things.

1:56 I love 90s/early 2000s packaging and ads. Look at closeups of screaming faces. Lol Everything back then had to have an EDGE to it. It had to be IN YO FACE and have attitude! Lmao I miss it.

In my period era experience, we had stable chats and games with multiple Cybikos going on at the advertised ranges.

@jbruijn

3 жыл бұрын

There's a decent chance the part of the spectrum around the Cybiko has been reassigned for phones or other uses, or suffers from splatter from adjacent frequencies. That would have the observed effect; a useable range of a few feet

@RhinoBlindado

3 жыл бұрын

My guess is that nowadays there's a lot more of devices on those ranges, so there's a lot more of interference

@thephoenixhasflown

3 жыл бұрын

@@jbruijn or it could basically be the wall of radio interference that is basically all over the civilized world and cuts your 1980s transistors radio range down to effectively/listenably the next town over.

@thephoenixhasflown

3 жыл бұрын

@@jbruijn splatter, that's a good word for it.

@fungi331

3 жыл бұрын

@@jbruijn your probably right on that one, they have been cutting down on the amateur bands for years (RIP 2.4 GHz) also smart electric meters and overloading pager towers could decrease range (pagers are at 930 mHz, so harmonic distortions are possible, and smart meter interference has been getting overwhelming in the past few years.) also solar activity has changed a lot in 30 years so signals may not propagate as well (there was a geomagnetic storm a few weeks ago... although mostly lower bands are affected by such)

OMG, I was so much in awe when a second LGR appeared!!! 😱

@thomassynths

3 жыл бұрын

Stefan Urquelle

@nurotn

3 жыл бұрын

Luigi to Mario!

@sinephase

3 жыл бұрын

IKR? Brown haired Clint appears!

@pleasedontwatchthese9593

3 жыл бұрын

You should see his xmiss specials

Just imagine if by some cosmic fluke everyone has one of these today instead of these smartphones.

@MefistofelesDiabolus

5 ай бұрын

Alternative reality :o

Translucent colored plastic is such an underrated material. I love it, whish it was around more these days.

@pauldavis5665

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, imagine a PS5 made with translucent plastic. Would look sick.

I love when you sneak a tech tale in, don't think we didn't notice

@MrAdamJoel

3 жыл бұрын

More Tech Tales!!!

@pilcrow182

3 жыл бұрын

I'm honestly not sure if this would be more of a tech tales or an oddware video. Seems like something in-between.

As a European, I never ever even heard about this. It absolutely is a device that could only exist around the 2000s, that's for sure! Everything portable was so whimsical and cumbersome back then. The first rays of the new dawn of technology that lurked around the corner.

@Tjobbert

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't seen this thing back in the day or something anything like it here in Europe. I had a palmtop PDA though with Bejeweled which was cool. Although that could've been a bit later when this thing came out.

@johndododoe1411

3 жыл бұрын

That was the time when everyone in Europe were already getting cellular stuff. 9600 bps was the speed of cellphone data before this came out, though half that was often encountered. At those speeds avoiding the overhead of wrapping stuff in Internet protocols still made sense.

@sonickrnd

3 жыл бұрын

As a Russian, I've never seen these too. Still vote for p2p networks. (But with 50-100m range, please)

@kanwar89

3 жыл бұрын

Your comment made me nostalgic. 😌

@pantherk709

3 жыл бұрын

Dont feel too left out.. I was in the US and part of the key demographic at the time and never heard of this.

I'm shocked at the smooth scrolling and transitions in the UI and the general level of polish on show, for a thing meant for kids it was pretty seriously done

Wow, this is absolutely everything I ever dreamed my TI-84 calculator could do, even in 2015 (we weren’t allowed to bring out anything else during class).

So, I usually kinda wanted stuff like this, but was always turned off by the 0% chance that anyone I wanted to communicate with actually had one.

@CommodoreFan64

3 жыл бұрын

Yep that was the problem with this kind of stuff, you had to hope someone else had one. It's like in the early 90's I only knew one kid in my entire school that had a GameGear, so having a link cable for 2 player games was pointless for me.

@FloorFerret

3 жыл бұрын

I had one of these and yes that was they issue. Cool if everyone had one...Not so much when its just you and your brother

@Toxicity1987

3 жыл бұрын

I mean Nintendo has a similar system with the DS. And that thing is very popular.

@remerico

3 жыл бұрын

@@Toxicity1987 People bought Nintendo DS mainly for the first-party games though, the wireless gaming was mostly a bonus. Cybiko's main marketing was about communicating with other Cybiko users wirelessly.

@jothain

3 жыл бұрын

Hah, yeah. I guess this type of things could've worked in bigger cities, but ie. where I lived my friends lived around 5km's away. So it was time for bicycle or landline call to know if they're home 😂

I don’t think I ever encountered another cybiko in the wild, despite taking it to a hockey game and other public events. What a weird era

@chrisproctor123

3 жыл бұрын

Were you within 6ft of the other users? We'll never know

@billtrepashko2853

2 жыл бұрын

The only one I ever came across was my sister’s.

@mikehoward5012

2 жыл бұрын

Plus the video seems to indicate this has like 10 channels. I'm not sure if these would scan other ranges, but that could've been a downfall too.

@HE-162

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikehoward5012 i don’t recall being able to scan multiple channels? Would have to go back 20 years and check haha

@fightingfinn1503

2 жыл бұрын

Same only me and my brother had one lol

I had one of the originals when it came out. I was SO excited to get it, it made me feel important lol. Until I realized I was the only kid in town with one, so it was basically a paperweight with batteries. The idea behind it was so cool and the asthetic was perfect for a 12 year old kid in that time. The marketing really did work. They may have been ahead of their time by just a few years with the tech.

14:05 "69 Balls Rd." had me laughing It's exactly the kind of thing I would have put in there I mean, look what I chose for my youtube usename back in the 2000s

The range extension thing if there are other Cybiko's nearby sounds like a mesh network. I did not expect a toy, lest of all an early 2000s toy, to have a full-fledged mesh network. That's pretty good.

@ram89572

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah the idea is good. The tech to support it just wasn't there back then and even if it was, there was no way it would be available at a price point to be sold for use by kids.

@peepopalaber

3 жыл бұрын

it literally is that.

@zodd67

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's what modern motorcycle bluetooth headsets only in recent years implemented......... And the feature makes the price hike significantly so makes me wonder if the patent ran out recently

@YourFaceIsAlreadyTaken

2 жыл бұрын

It was exactly that. In a world without internet, these people could still communicate. I can't think of a widely-accepted way to do this in 2022, other than going back to low-tech solutions like FRS radios.

17:37 Nice to see you and X-mas Clint are having fun together :)

@joeltyler3427

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking about saying something like that.

"Everyone was screaming! All the time!" I can't tell if he's talking about the year 2000 or the year 2021.

@Dr_Andracca

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, common misconception, people in 2001 were screaming due to how awesome new tech was, people in 2021 are screaming due to... well, take your pick really, but mostly screaming in horror.

@wezzbeet2923

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 tru doe

@StefanCCCC

2 жыл бұрын

In 2021 they just keep their mouths open, in mock surprise and submission. Making no noise.

@c.j.3404

2 жыл бұрын

Or 2001

@georgeyreynolds

Жыл бұрын

In 2020 people weren't screaming, they were mostly coughing and then dying alone.

I had something like this in the early 2000's called IMfree by motorola. It was a portable AIM device you used around the house. had a usb wireless base unit it would connect to, i would sit on the couch downstairs and chat with my friends. I thought it was the coolest thing at the time I had it.

"You type in the type of kid you are and the type of kids you want to meet." Are we sure the FBI didn't create this device? ಠ_ಠ

@abadenoughdude300

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the slogan "find kids within a 300 ft radius" sets off a whole bunch of alarms from today's point of view lol.

@PiroKUSS

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't seen that emote in years.

@nickwallette6201

3 жыл бұрын

I'm just concerned about the body image Clint has, looking for people from 5'3 to 5'11, 60 to 80 lbs. Have some realistic expectations, Clint! Bump that up to at least 85.

@derekchristenson5711

3 жыл бұрын

Not with that terrible wireless range, they didn't! LOL

@unfa00

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine spoofing your dimensions to attract kids.

Nickelodeon promoted the HELL of this thing in 2000, and even showed it in action in the movie Big Fat Liar. I never knew anyone that owned one, though, and never had any desire to own one. It looked too weird

@JonathanCandor

3 жыл бұрын

finally something im to young to remember

@evilmidget

3 жыл бұрын

@@JonathanCandor lol it was actually a frequent prize on Slime Time Live on weekdays after school.

@dabnisbrickey6527

3 жыл бұрын

I was born in 1995. I guess I'm too young to remember this being promoted

@chainlightning58

3 жыл бұрын

This is bothering me...I would have been about 13-14 when this came out and don't remember the Cybiko AT ALL. It seems this thing was exactly +/-1.5 years behind/ahead of its time.

@Dr_Andracca

3 жыл бұрын

@@chainlightning58 I would have been around 7 or 8 and frequently watched Nickelodeon, I've even seen Big Fat Liar a lot as a kid, but I don't remember this *at all*.

"That's not quite 300 feet." Followed by Clint immediately losing it made me laugh really hard. XD

Blast from the past! These had a short run at my school back in around 2004, when a retailer sold them for £5. The got so popular that the teachers ended up buying their own to figure out our names and confiscate them 😂 I remember there was supposed to be a CyWIG device that was supposed to be an optimised internet gateway for Cybiko’s. Looks like it ended up being vapourware, but pictures of it exist on Google.

Can you imagine the excitement if Clint and his brother connected with another Cybiko user while walking around Raleigh? That would be like stumbling into the last Blockbuster Video while looking for a movie to watch during a catastrophic internet outage.

@sinisterthoughts2896

3 жыл бұрын

I had the same thought.

@itsmejak7888

Жыл бұрын

i've been in that blockbuster

@RealAlphaMale69

Жыл бұрын

Who's clint?

@No_True_Scotsman

Жыл бұрын

Even better than finding a Street Pass in 2022

@Milamberinx

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like they may have just seen each other's lime green handsets before connecting.

The early 00's-ness of this product is both nostalgia inducing and existentially terrifying. That "transparent casing" trend died a sudden and hard death, didn't it! xD

@UNSCPILOT

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly miss being able to see the internal circuits of devices. Modern tech has got a bit tedious with the obsessive minimalism

@birdy369

2 жыл бұрын

ahh that transparent casing wouldve matched my inflatable furniture so well though

@wezzbeet2923

2 жыл бұрын

@meow purr 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 don't know if this is top comment or worst 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@mchagnon7

2 жыл бұрын

Not if you're in prison.

@carso1500

2 жыл бұрын

@@UNSCPILOT it's making a comeback thou, i have seen a shit ton of transparent PCs lately (with lots of lights too)

My brother and I had these as kids. The only thing I remember using them for was chatting with each other at night when we were supposed to be sleeping. (Which was actually exciting at the time!) But most of time we had to hold them up against the wall separating our rooms to get them to communicate with each other. We eventually replaced these with another device called a "Friend Link" IIRC, which was made just for chatting, but even with those, we had issues with them seeing each other through a wall

I love your humor and writing. Your videos are always interesting to watch. You deserve a TV show for yourself.

"OK so we need to stand 6 feet apart" "Oh, for social distancing?" "Social what? No no that's just how far these Cybikos can talk to each other from"

@hitkid2456

3 жыл бұрын

Well it is social something or other!

@airthrowDBT

3 жыл бұрын

They got well over 6 feet in 2000-2001 when I was using them in highschool, you could chat reliably across most of the cafeteria and definitely in any classroom

@shanethrelfall416

3 жыл бұрын

I’m sure these things worked way past 6 feet, I get it it’s only a joke but it only works if the joke is true

@solinus7131

3 жыл бұрын

@@airthrowDBT I think the antenna for these may have been defective or Damaged

@airthrowDBT

3 жыл бұрын

Im actually really sentimental for these Cybikos. I was so excited for the tech and really wanted them to catch on. Ubiquitous LTE and Wifi makes the concept pretty obsolete though

I had one, I remember my grandma going to Target to get me one cause I wanted one so bad cause I thought it was so awesome. Looking back at it I didn't really do much with it, dunno what happened to mine. Bless my grandma for always trying to make me happy.

@mrjohnnyk

3 жыл бұрын

Same experience I had with mine lol

Holy cow this just unlocked a tonne of memories, I HAD one of these! :O I had completely forgotten gosh what a mind bend...

All I can say is I really feel like I remember them connecting with anyone on the bus or classroom easily. Maybe it's just nostalgia but I feel like I got a huge use out of it. Also a huge coincidence that LGR put this up a mere month before I felt like explaining cybiko to a zoomer.

The radio must die over time because when I had one of these growing up I could connect to people 2-3 houses down the road from me. One kid at the end of the road actually had two of these (he broke the first one) and used that one to provide an internet gateway for everyone else in the neighborhood.

@RhinoBlindado

3 жыл бұрын

Today there's a lot more of wireless devices, so probably it has a lot more of interference thus the range is shortened

@antikommunistischaktion

3 жыл бұрын

​@@RhinoBlindado Thing is though with that radio band, 900Mhz, there really shouldn't be that much more than there was in 2000. I would argue perhaps there's even less devices operating in that frequency today. 900Mhz was really popular for baby monitors and cordless phones but those two devices have been pretty much replaced by cell phones and WiFi cameras neither of which use that spectrum. Yes I know those devices are still around, but they generally use 2.4Ghz now. Even scada has mainly been replaced by cellular at this point. The only thing I can think of that still uses 900Mhz are wireless bridging systems where you can't have line of sight, but even then I doubt that that's common where they were testing.

@Atmatan_Kabbaher

29 күн бұрын

​@@antikommunistischaktioneven without being active 900 has a lot of background noise these days

My childhood! I worked on software for this device. My first job haha.

@imaysin97

3 жыл бұрын

Nice Edit: spelling.

@12Mantis

3 жыл бұрын

Cool, got any good stories you could share with us?

@milkyoni

2 жыл бұрын

If you worked on software for this how could it be your childhood?

@aliosa227

2 жыл бұрын

@@milkyoni I got into programming in middle school. This came out while I was in high school, and pushed me further into it

@AlTheEngineer

Жыл бұрын

@@milkyoni many of us early coders learned to code in middle school or even earlier. I picked up programming in 4th-5th grade and by 9th grade I was already writing full fledged programs and games. Since I went to engineering college at 16 yrs of age, I got my first real software engineering job at 3 months before turning 18. I remember the job offer was contingent on finishing my degree (which had 1 semester left) and by the time I actually finished the degree I was already promoted to mid-level dev haha! Good ol' days! Many think I'm way older when I tell them I've been in the industry for nearly 20 years, lol but I'm just 36.

I had one. But never was able to connect with anyone. I must have been the only one using it. 😄

This is the first LGR video I ever watched! And now a year later I have loads of retro stuff of my own and have built 4 different Pentium III machines. Thank you LGR for your awesome content and inspiration.

I got one of these during summer vacation. I was sooo excited for school thinking of all the other people who would have one. We'd be able to send secret messages and everything it would be amazing! I was the only one who had one...

@camaroguy2496

3 жыл бұрын

Yup.. same here. My buddy finally got one and we were able to chat during one class otherwise we were too far. Ah the early 2000's tech. still love it.

@jothain

3 жыл бұрын

Hah, late 90's to early 2000's tech was stuff which created forever alone memes. I mean the stuff was so all over the place. Really good innovations here and there, but no compatibility between. It was quite exciting time when internet connection came affordable that you could actually be online for something else than downloading something and got actual viable online messaging, like ICQ and Messenger.. SMS texting was so damn expensive at the beginning. Though fun times trying to cipher those weirdly compacted 160 characters back then :)

@-DeScruff

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah during this time period there really were a lot of toys, electronics, games exc that basically required multiple people to own them which always caused kid me to be disappointed.

3:11 "Hey dude... It's under a hundred and twenty nine dollars..." *Literal death scream*

@pleasedontwatchthese9593

3 жыл бұрын

Dude You're Getting a Dell

I and 4 other people had this at my middle school. I had to get file transfers from my friends for new games because I had an iMac without a serial port. The turn based games were fun! My friend got us all cellular antenna boosters which extended the range dramatically and we were able to chat with each other across the school in different classrooms. I miss my cybiko

@AlTheEngineer

Жыл бұрын

That's a cool story :) what kind of antenna boosters did you guys use? Did it just replace the aerial?

Me and my brother had Cybikos, they were great. Thanks for reminding me about them! I couldn’t find the name in a simple google search.

17:37 Rare footage of Clint having a good time with his Christmas Clone.

I just love the way stuff from this era looks. I was too young to experience things like this myself, but they still feel like part of my past. It's hard to believe how much time has passed since 2000 in part because of that. I'm quite glad that you're documenting this kind of stuff.

@brandonlewis2599

3 жыл бұрын

I remember having mixed feelings about it at the time. Someone needs to do a proper documentary on the "90's tech style".

@Roninkinx

3 жыл бұрын

I feel the same way I was only 9 or 10, and am living vicariously through these lol.

@user-ce1cu5my4j

3 жыл бұрын

Good old times when things weren't a feautureless copies of each other and color range was wider than shades of grey.

@dreamscape9295

3 жыл бұрын

@@Roninkinx Exactly, I keep getting older tech at garage sales, and stuff of about this age and forward is much of what I find. I played GameCube, NES, N64, and OG Xbox right alongside my 360 not long ago. Growing up seeing 90s cars and still seeing them on the road today has a similar effect. Really makes me feel older than I am, and I grew up in the early 2000s

My brother and I got a cybiko each one christmas and I remember it being the most exciting thing ever, just watching your video brings back that feeling, good days!

Oh gosh, that ICQ sound really got me!

That American Psycho reference was nearly the end of me. Couldn't breathe.

Me and one of my best friends both got one of these for Christmas when we were 14. I remember the signal was terrible, we could barely connect unless we were like the next classroom over... but at the time everyone at school thought they were so cool. Glad to see this video, I had nearly forgotten about these days.

You put a lot of work into your videos and it shows. Thank you for the content.

My eyes lit up when I saw the thumbnail, I had a blue cybiko and I loved that thing. I could never get it to work where I could find anyone else using it tho so I was frustrated with that but it was still an awesome gift

Lost my stools at the "and perhaps the condition of your colon" comment 😂

You're getting really good at the Christmas clone VFX, Clint! I don't know how you even did that one! But you know it's only May, right?

@LGR

3 жыл бұрын

Haaaa

@artchic528

3 жыл бұрын

Clint has successfully created artificial life through countless hours of rigorous computations, tinkering with circuitry and building his exact likeness in droid form to help combat those pesky Christmas Clones. He disguised the drone as his “brother” to keep both himself and the droid safe from the US government.

@marinacelada3246

3 жыл бұрын

@@artchic528 I always thought the droids were the ones battling the clones!

That ICQ "uh-oh" sent a cold chill down my spine.

This is what I imagine “communicators” in any Minecraft fanfiction looks like and I totally love it.

The fact that there is a coffee shop in Raleigh called "Sir Walter Coffee" is absolutely killing me right now.

@peterhiggins7998

3 жыл бұрын

Must be big fans of Walter Scott's writing.

@U014B

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, but more literally.

@thomasallen531

3 жыл бұрын

Their use to be a Chevrolet dealer in raleigh called Sir Walter as well

@octane613

3 жыл бұрын

I was there a couple days ago. It's alright.

@livelongandprosper70

3 жыл бұрын

@@octane613 and ?

I really do miss the late 90s-early 00s translucent plastic aesthetic

@arnevajsing7120

3 жыл бұрын

And neon colors

@noecarrier5035

3 жыл бұрын

And the little soft plastic buttons in numerous curved shapes. Yeah, it's certainly a look.

@AbbieOates

3 жыл бұрын

@@noecarrier5035 Those buttons were the worst. They felt cheap and always seemed to wear out way too fast. The clear plastic was fun however.

@noecarrier5035

3 жыл бұрын

@@AbbieOates Yeah, they had that black plastic liner underneath that seemed to abrade the white plastic during use. The cheaper ones were made with ink that would rub off on your fingers and you'd have no idea what the button did. My baby sister would also chew on them obsessively for some reason so never could be left out for long.

@ricdimarco1499

3 жыл бұрын

I want a translucent plastic case for my phone, now.

Great video! Love your stuff, man.

This was one of my favorite devices ever, it felt impossible at the time, it was so weird looking and was some of the most fun I had at school

My uncle got me one of those for Christmas when I was in highschool. I used it in school over this clunky portable word processor that my school gave me to take notes on in class because of my dyslexia and dysgraphia. I loved that thing.

@mercster

3 жыл бұрын

Ahh yes, dysgraphia, otherwise known as "not trying hard enough."

I can personally vouch for his account of the screaming people of 2000. Thought they were going to die... then they didn't... so that made them scream more... it was a whole thing and a half you really had to be there

@manuel0578

3 жыл бұрын

9/11

@JanChrissD

3 жыл бұрын

@@manuel0578 Didn't see that coming

@LAUGHINGMANWILL

3 жыл бұрын

​@@manuel0578 It was the millennium itself. The end of everything. The return of the christ child. A soda called Surge that would make energy drinks look like juice boxes (and it was marketed for teens) ...I digress many reasons to scream.

I really hope early 2000s design comes back. I unironically love it.

@stevenirby5576

Жыл бұрын

Hell yes. I love that green. Remember the big colorful Macs from that era? 😍

@lepidotos

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenirby5576 I've got a few. Or at least, a few Power Mac G4s, my other Macs are either white plastic or the black rubber on my PowerBook G3. I do have an ice blue N64 that I love though.

@anotheryoutubeaccount5259

Жыл бұрын

Jesus

@cmfrtblynmb02

11 ай бұрын

I think it was too much but I am really bored of the flat, black/white/grey/navy design of the current era.

@anotheryoutubeaccount5259

11 ай бұрын

@@cmfrtblynmb02 Ok, I'll make a pink and purple one just for you

“It even has a watermark” i laughed so hard it caught me off guard.

ICQ noises still bring a flood of nostalgia. Almost more than AIM sounds.

@Max-uv3eg

3 жыл бұрын

AO

@bfrheostat

3 жыл бұрын

Me-meow!

The mouth screaming advertising needs to come back, because the 2020s make me constantly want to scream.

@stepmi

3 жыл бұрын

90% of mobile game icons now have those, and half of those click-baity youtube previews too.

LGR, you're always so professional so that 14:03 watermark joke caught me completely off guard

I had one of these in middle school and me and my friends used to use these to chat in class instead of passing notes 😂

Man I remember being 13 having the Cybiko, PS2 and 32" CRT TV. I thought I was on top of the world. Good times.

@Vishnu_Karthik

3 жыл бұрын

CRT TVs have 0% Input Lag and instant response time, CRTs also have a magic filter that makes 2d Pixel Art and jagged Ps1/2 games look good.

@joecool9739

3 жыл бұрын

You "thought" you were on top of the world? You *WERE* on top of the world

@bravelittleabacus

3 жыл бұрын

you were at the top of the world, what do you mean?

@joecool9739

3 жыл бұрын

@@Vishnu_Karthik You obviously werent around back then CRT tvs were pixely shit Everything looked blurry They would constantly break too You must be the only one claiming that CRTs had HD quality

@Vishnu_Karthik

3 жыл бұрын

​@@joecool9739 I never said CRT had HD quality. That's you putting words into my mouth, kid. If you were older than 18, you'd know that Pixel Art games and PS2/PS1 games look great on a CRT Screen because the Scanlines&Phosphorous CRT Glow acts like Anti-Aliasing. LCD screens are sharper, all the Pixels of the 2d Games and all the Jagged Polygons of PS2/PS1 are going to stick out like a sore thumb.

The shape, the color, the features, the fact that it appears in Big Fat Liar (because of course it does)... It's the most early 2000s techno-gadget that I ever seen. I love it!

This is fascinating. If I had the money, I'd definitely try to start a collection of old technology. Starting with this and Gizmondo

I remember one kid having this in school and he was always looking around for someone else that had one but no one ever did 😂

@meowmocha12

8 ай бұрын

Ouch. But seriously, though, being excited about something and not finding other people who are into it is kind of disappointing. I remember as a small child, I was obsessed with Neopets, a virtual pet site. Hardly anyone had an account, and the few who did weren't really that into it.

“i-rolling” lol!! I’m e-rritated by this thing.

@lotus_flower2001

3 жыл бұрын

Haha nice one! You should be in a sit.com

@vincentschumann937

3 жыл бұрын

@@lotus_flower2001 not sure if the dot was intentional but its under construction

@Joe-ef2sj

3 жыл бұрын

Wow! I'm totally laughing!! Your a comedic genius! Hahaha! Look at my face, I'm laughing!! 😐

@vincentschumann937

3 жыл бұрын

@@Joe-ef2sj dude thats the wrong smiley

@echoes28

3 жыл бұрын

@@Joe-ef2sj what’s your fucking problem?

something about how clint words stuff makes me happy "a recessed reset button" ahhh, smooth and soothing

Man, that ICQ sound, just time warped me back 20 years... the nostalgia!

I remember these! Never had one or knew how they worked, though. Really drives home just how far the tech has come since then.