The Internet and Computing: Crash Course History of Science #43

We’ve talked a lot about advances in biotech. But none of those could have happened without advances in computing. It’s time to get back to data and explore the unlikely birth, strange life, and potential futures of the Internet. In this episode of Crash Course History of Science, Hank sits down to talk about how computers have changed, where they're going, and how the internet fits into all of this.
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  • @kylehenderson9489
    @kylehenderson94895 жыл бұрын

    I love that they point out that one of the key things about science is that "We don't know, we'll find out."

  • @procrastinator99
    @procrastinator995 жыл бұрын

    Will I ever stop loving and watching Crashcourse? I DON'T KNOW! WE'LL FIND OUT!!

  • @whiteeyedshadow8423

    @whiteeyedshadow8423

    5 жыл бұрын

    when will hank die? I DONT KNOW WE"LL FIND OUT!!

  • @operationstratos1013

    @operationstratos1013

    5 жыл бұрын

    When will Crashcourse Crash? I DON'T KNOW! WE'LL FIND OUT!

  • @safir2241
    @safir22415 жыл бұрын

    *20 years later* “Connecting your brain to the Internet: Crash Course History of Science #567”

  • @avi12

    @avi12

    5 жыл бұрын

    A.K.A Neuralink by Elon Musk

  • @UFBMusic

    @UFBMusic

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hosted by Hank's head in a jar, a la Futurama.

  • @xscitobor1233

    @xscitobor1233

    5 жыл бұрын

    Valve thinks it will be ready for games by next year (if any of the medical groups don't slow it down)

  • @iselin90
    @iselin905 жыл бұрын

    "i dont know we'll find out" almost feel like that couldve been part of the title for this wonderful video

  • @Beryllahawk
    @Beryllahawk5 жыл бұрын

    Not only do I love the phrase itself, I love how Hank's eyes light up and how he says in a different, dramatic way every time. The whispered "I don't know" was the best!

  • @JonSebastianF
    @JonSebastianF5 жыл бұрын

    _I don't know! We'll find out!_

  • @bingobangobongo5

    @bingobangobongo5

    5 жыл бұрын

    Prodigious

  • @cattking3755

    @cattking3755

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol😂

  • @melodyjade6854
    @melodyjade68545 жыл бұрын

    summary of this weeks video *"I don't know.....We'll find out!"*

  • @bingobangobongo5
    @bingobangobongo55 жыл бұрын

    Crazy how much life changes within a matter of years. I'm so excited and yet terrified to see the future play out

  • @planetpeterson2824
    @planetpeterson28245 жыл бұрын

    I really want to see a Crash Course Earth Science or separate geology, oceanography, meteorology course. I'll host them if you need me to ;)

  • @luqmanadan5070

    @luqmanadan5070

    5 жыл бұрын

    Just checked out your videos and I do say you can make a good crash course Geology teacher but it'd be better if you stuck to your channel. It might grow

  • @planetpeterson2824

    @planetpeterson2824

    5 жыл бұрын

    Luqfire See haha well that’s the plan! Thanks a lot

  • @LukeBunyip

    @LukeBunyip

    5 жыл бұрын

    Seconded. I would so love to watch an enthused geologist raving about the lithosphere, et al.

  • @FlesHBoX
    @FlesHBoX5 жыл бұрын

    I heard "next time we'll wrap up..." and thought "but this series has been sooooo short... Then I look down and see "#43" and think "wow... that happened fast! I wonder what we will get next??"

  • @safir2241
    @safir22415 жыл бұрын

    2:03 That’s incredible.

  • @HoshouNeko
    @HoshouNeko5 жыл бұрын

    Green brothers are my favorite anchors. You doing a great job! Love every episode.

  • @sarahleonard7309
    @sarahleonard73095 жыл бұрын

    "History, my friends, is not finished."

  • @auroradeboer9350
    @auroradeboer93505 жыл бұрын

    Give us an Anthropology Crash Course, please!

  • @XeLaNoiD
    @XeLaNoiD5 жыл бұрын

    I can't wait to find out !

  • @sundhaug92
    @sundhaug925 жыл бұрын

    Folders aren't necessarily parts of GUIs, you can quit easily have them in the CLI

  • @pahlavi5312

    @pahlavi5312

    5 жыл бұрын

    I get your point, but to be really really pedantic, "folders" are UI metaphors, while the ones we have in CLI are called "directories". I mean the command cd means change directory, and dir means directory. But since computers are evolving all the time, the word "directory" might be forgotten and we will increasingly use the word "folder" more.

  • @FlesHBoX

    @FlesHBoX

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@pahlavi5312 I will never forget "directories"!! lol But yeah, real talk... there is probably going to come a point where nobody using a computer has ever called it a directory, just like how we are fast approaching the point where nobody pressing the "save" button knows why it looks like that without learning it from something like scishow history of science... Now I feel really old...

  • @Marco_Onyxheart

    @Marco_Onyxheart

    5 жыл бұрын

    They're just an ordinary inode located on your computer

  • @maria-lz3he
    @maria-lz3he5 жыл бұрын

    This topic is so interesting pls talk more about it! Xx

  • @siriuslupin7968
    @siriuslupin79685 жыл бұрын

    I was looking forward to it

  • @mrseanpaul81
    @mrseanpaul815 жыл бұрын

    Great episode!

  • @wesleyrm76
    @wesleyrm765 жыл бұрын

    When this series "ends," meaning you have summarized all past discoveries, I do hope you continue to check in and update us on the historic STEM advancements that still happen each year.

  • @dejabu24
    @dejabu245 жыл бұрын

    very interesting , thank you

  • @siriuslupin7968
    @siriuslupin79685 жыл бұрын

    Best crash course=history of science

  • @orion10x10
    @orion10x105 жыл бұрын

    Do an episode on block chain, mesh nets, and cryptography. But definitely mention mesh nets.

  • @melonlord1414

    @melonlord1414

    5 жыл бұрын

    There is one at crash course computer science, I guess

  • @masinko190694
    @masinko1906945 жыл бұрын

    This is a good video make a another one like this

  • @kevinm9191
    @kevinm91915 жыл бұрын

    I love crash course!

  • @SimplyStuart94
    @SimplyStuart945 жыл бұрын

    How do you decide which words to highlight I. Quotes?

  • @williamkibler592
    @williamkibler5925 жыл бұрын

    "I dont know. We'll find out." Basically the mantra of this series

  • @bluejedi723
    @bluejedi7235 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see a series on Ecology and library/information science

  • @woodywiest
    @woodywiest5 жыл бұрын

    History of computing, or future? Fun episode.

  • @JoeBetro
    @JoeBetro5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! 🤖❤️

  • @artenikat
    @artenikat5 жыл бұрын

    I don't know... we'll find out! - me whenever I'm not sure about my test answer

  • @TakanashiYuuji
    @TakanashiYuuji5 жыл бұрын

    Get Hank a more stable desk, every time he moves his hands the desk wobbles!

  • @geoffreywinn4031
    @geoffreywinn40315 жыл бұрын

    Educational!

  • @Teo117
    @Teo117 Жыл бұрын

    The "troll educational video shows" hit my soul. I think watching every episode of crash course should become a national standard. Granting every single American a powerful foundation of Knowledge within a short time spand. All the episodes together is like 15 (24h) days. With people who are dedicated this means it can be logically viewed in a spand of a couple months. Rather than spending 4 years wasting time in highschool, imagine 4 months of crash course. I be a different person with 3 years extra.

  • @dolvana
    @dolvana5 жыл бұрын

    Well done.

  • @angelagalvez4161
    @angelagalvez41615 жыл бұрын

    PLEASE DO MORE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY VIDEOS 💓💓💓💓 any biology really sincerely a nursing student

  • @verpuh213
    @verpuh2135 жыл бұрын

    So excited about you doing an episode on blockchain and cryptos. I've been interested in this topic for years, and there are so many misconceptions about it. It's great that you'll make an educational video on this matter.

  • @verpuh213

    @verpuh213

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ouch, now that the series is over, I returned to this video and noticed that they "could do" an episode on the blockchain, not "will do".

  • @bigtimechunk723
    @bigtimechunk7235 жыл бұрын

    Hank why did you just add "Can you roll the intro" to my search history?

  • @burntpotatoes999
    @burntpotatoes9995 жыл бұрын

    ROFL when he said hey google at the beginning my google home actually responded and scared me lmao

  • @TheRealE.B.
    @TheRealE.B.5 жыл бұрын

    *One drawback of the blinding rate of advancement in computer science is that, since everyone relies on computers now, we are constantly making large chunks of our collective skillsets become obsolete and be in constant need of replacement. In the professions, for example, this often means there is a divide between young people with advanced computer skills (they haven't been around long enough to fall behind yet) but not enough experience to apply them properly, and older people with rich experience but inadequate computer skills (and often managerial responsibilities that keep them from effectively passing on knowledge to the next generation).* *The chaos of a constantly-changing environment undermines the theoretically possible efficiencies of that environment.*

  • @sad_depressed_weeb4996
    @sad_depressed_weeb49965 жыл бұрын

    *Thanks Hank for "hey Google", my google assailant got trigger* 😂😂😂

  • @BlasphemousBill2023
    @BlasphemousBill20234 жыл бұрын

    Troll educational shows; darn you found me!:) thanks!

  • @hatsikideeole3995
    @hatsikideeole39955 жыл бұрын

    @ 0:25 talking about invention of transistors and showing a board, with all sorts of components, but almost no transistors what so ever (I see resistors and capacitors for the most part).

  • @golgarisoul
    @golgarisoul5 жыл бұрын

    *It's a series of tubes!*

  • @ilovebats10
    @ilovebats105 жыл бұрын

    The scientific article paywalls are confusing. Like in physics the same paper will be behind a paywall on a journal's website and totally free on the arxiv.

  • @jackhenderson3161
    @jackhenderson31615 жыл бұрын

    Also where can I find Hank’s pin badge

  • @smileandlaughs
    @smileandlaughs5 жыл бұрын

    This video just set off my Google home.

  • @miriamparis9762
    @miriamparis97625 жыл бұрын

    I honestly didn’t make the connection between Crash Course John Green and author John Green

  • @hannahc3317

    @hannahc3317

    5 жыл бұрын

    This is Hank, his brother, but Hank is also an author now.

  • @darrellcole6311
    @darrellcole63115 жыл бұрын

    I don't know....we'll find out!!!

  • @amorrisphoto
    @amorrisphoto5 жыл бұрын

    Where does one get that pin?

  • @agimasoschandir
    @agimasoschandir5 жыл бұрын

    Xerox also brought together existing technologies. Stanford Research Institute (SRI) which developed "windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor (collaborative work)" {Wikipedia}. Douglas Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos" (available on youTube) demonstrated this technology. Several people who worked at SRI left to work for... Xerox PARC. Ethernet was "inspired" by ALOHAnet developed for DARPA, which Robert Metcalfe had studied and made part of his doctoral thesis at Harvard while working at... Xerox PARC. Laser Printers were a modified version of the electrophotography printer which the inventor Carlton Chestor sold to the Haloid Company, which was later became... Xerox.

  • @nantukoprime
    @nantukoprime5 жыл бұрын

    We went from mainframe to personal pc and client/server. We are at cloud computing. How far are we from moving to rather dumb consoles that access servers or even mainframes again for everything requiring any real resources? We are already almost dependent on our smartphone. What if the smartphone docks/syncs to the TV/VR/your eyes and is the access client for all of the above? Its only job is to manage the data coming in from servers doing all the real computing and presenting it to us through another screen. You take it to work, and it immediately connects to the work servers and you start your work day. It is the key to your car, your rail pass, and your flight ticket. Your bank needs your card/code and your phone to be present to authenticate you. It is your one device, everything else is just so you interact with it better. As long as you have it, you have the new gaming console, a gaming pc, a video editing machine, a smart home, a personal doctor, a financial advisor, an accountant, a secretary, and a chauffer. We are already partway there. I have four two-factor security apps and a password manager, one of the two-factor apps is only for work and I would be unable to do any work besides email or bare bones documentation without it. My dad unlocks and starts his car with his smartphone, and it is how he gets data from his insulin pump. My phone is my best tool to move through an airport or the subway with any speed. I've heard younger friends/coworkers talking about losing their phone like being disconnected from reality. What if it could be even more than it is now?

  • @indianstudywithme8255
    @indianstudywithme82555 жыл бұрын

    Widout internet i wouldnt have been able to watch this video 😅

  • @tim_garcia
    @tim_garcia5 жыл бұрын

    In short: we don’t know, we’ll find out!

  • @Badpvppaladin
    @Badpvppaladin5 жыл бұрын

    Hello Hank, when does the new show with your brother start? Green Brothers ftw

  • @allangustavobs
    @allangustavobs5 жыл бұрын

    Do a history of science episode with Sir. William Osler

  • @pointtothestars
    @pointtothestars Жыл бұрын

    ya made my google confused

  • @VitruvianSasquatch
    @VitruvianSasquatch5 жыл бұрын

    Smaller chips does mean less resource consumption/toxic waste, at least.

  • @naoumsayegh3619
    @naoumsayegh36195 жыл бұрын

    Was that a Wu-Tang Clan reference?!

  • @gardenhead92
    @gardenhead925 жыл бұрын

    Hypothesis-free science is terrifying. If you have enough data and look for enough connections, you *will* find connections, purely by chance.

  • @Leotique
    @Leotique5 жыл бұрын

    Predicting the future with the past.

  • @mikepierson7447
    @mikepierson74475 жыл бұрын

    Oh no next episode is the end of this series i am so sad thought bubble cheer me up

  • @AbadSebastian
    @AbadSebastian5 жыл бұрын

    I love that we're getting close to the apocalypse

  • @kjkarrde
    @kjkarrde Жыл бұрын

    It's funny watching this now, years later, and able to say yes we indeed did find out. Crypto was a fad ❤

  • @amiz9831
    @amiz98315 жыл бұрын

    Can you do a video on The Lathe of Heaven?

  • @Forran
    @Forran5 жыл бұрын

    I so wanna code on a quantum computer... People always talk about their cryptography capabilities, but I really wonder how one would write a program on it and run simulations...

  • @Nixitur

    @Nixitur

    5 жыл бұрын

    There is a quantum computing library for Python. You can connect either to a virtual machine that simulates quantum computing or to an actual quantum computer. Surprisingly, there even seem to be ones that are free to use, though you're gonna have to wait a while before you're granted access for a window of time.

  • @drisslaayadi3413
    @drisslaayadi34135 жыл бұрын

    This is freaking me out..I really don't wanna find out.

  • @michaelcampbell2390
    @michaelcampbell23905 жыл бұрын

    Hank finally hit puberty.

  • @monalisamilloroso7501
    @monalisamilloroso75015 жыл бұрын

    Without the Internet I could not watch crash course.

  • @joshbobst1629
    @joshbobst16295 жыл бұрын

    Have I given over responsibility for knowing what time it is to AI? Not in the least. I still rely on my own ability to grade contextual clues about the time. AI clocks hold little more authority in my view than do wristwatches (a little, but not that much). The reason is that AI - and wristwatches - may be many orders of magnitude better than me at measuring time, but they don't care what time it is. I do.

  • @jackhenderson3161
    @jackhenderson31615 жыл бұрын

    I LOVE CRISPR!!!!

  • @ZacharyLaid
    @ZacharyLaid5 жыл бұрын

    Without computing We wouldn't have this video Without this video We wouldn't have Elon Musk

  • @cpi23

    @cpi23

    5 жыл бұрын

    wait, we had a chance to be rid of Elon Musk???

  • @Nixitur

    @Nixitur

    5 жыл бұрын

    You win some, you lose some.

  • @enriqueenriqueziii5564
    @enriqueenriqueziii55645 жыл бұрын

    Serial Experiments Lain predicted the internet and computing.

  • @mikkosaarinen3225
    @mikkosaarinen32255 жыл бұрын

    Funnily the Library of Alexandria is now trying to archive the internet (or at least as much of it as they can)

  • @darrenkrivit6854
    @darrenkrivit68545 жыл бұрын

    Sometimes I'm sad I won't be around in 100 years, sometimes I'm relieved🤔

  • @Skubasteph
    @Skubasteph5 жыл бұрын

    the internet should be a public utility

  • @Daruqe
    @Daruqe5 жыл бұрын

    Wait, was the red menace Carmen Sandiego the whole time?

  • @likebot.
    @likebot.5 жыл бұрын

    Doesn't anyone know that DOS doesn't mean an operating system marketed by MicroSoft?

  • @redwanhasan1721
    @redwanhasan17215 жыл бұрын

    Is that PARC or PARC?

  • @abelrrant
    @abelrrant5 жыл бұрын

    in the book outliers by Maclom Gladwell: Bill gates, lived a bus ride from University of state Michigan where it was the first university to own computers. He went to private school and they had money to spend on computers. Bill spent hours writing code for accounting.

  • @unleashingpotential-psycho9433
    @unleashingpotential-psycho94335 жыл бұрын

    Soon every single human will have computer chips inside their body 🔥🔥🔥

  • @GrayLemons

    @GrayLemons

    5 жыл бұрын

    I don't think there would be any reasonable way this would occur, since every single modern person holds a cell phone with them at all times, what use would something inside your own body be? also, smart watches are attached to your body and can already measure vitals from outside your body, so what purpose would their be? I can understand a smaller number of people doing this, but not everyone.

  • @golgarisoul
    @golgarisoul5 жыл бұрын

    Inb4 biocomputers.

  • @cm374787
    @cm3747875 жыл бұрын

    My Google Home Mini didn't know either

  • @alaskaoalaska
    @alaskaoalaska5 жыл бұрын

    4:36, connecting the U.S. government's investment in information exchange to 4chan (which used to idolize Ron Paul to large degree) isn't necessarily ironic. The spirit of 1776 lives on in the internet and innovative nerds.

  • @NewbyTon
    @NewbyTon5 жыл бұрын

    Top ten best origin stories in anime

  • @MundoYui
    @MundoYui5 жыл бұрын

    Where's the chemistry at tho? I don't remember the quintessential to modern civilization's development thing that's got us away from being peasants called the periodic table of elements being mentioned.

  • @robspiess
    @robspiess5 жыл бұрын

    Computers: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things?? Let's Find Out!

  • @ericpa06
    @ericpa065 жыл бұрын

    I don't think steve wozniak got billionaire with Apple thought

  • @InterNutter
    @InterNutter5 жыл бұрын

    My Google Home couldn't roll the intro, and complained.

  • @xstephanx94
    @xstephanx945 жыл бұрын

    1994 DIGITAL NATIVE HERE

  • @Nixitur
    @Nixitur5 жыл бұрын

    Your point about quantum computers and cryptography is a bit misleading. The difference between classical and quantum computers in that context is not just one of power and speed. There is some stuff that quantum computers can do that simply has no equivalent in classical computing.

  • @Zoxesyr
    @Zoxesyr5 жыл бұрын

    this is techne rather than scio

  • @NicWalker627
    @NicWalker6274 жыл бұрын

    Who knew that computing could be ruined by a couple of steves. Way to screw us, IBM.

  • @shenpaifield5263
    @shenpaifield52635 жыл бұрын

    NC research

  • @camiloiribarren1450
    @camiloiribarren14505 жыл бұрын

    Well this is a new story of history to learn about or compute about. See what I did there?

  • @greensteve9307
    @greensteve93075 жыл бұрын

    I love telling kids that I'm only 6 months younger than the internet.

  • @philballas8698
    @philballas869811 ай бұрын

    ChatGPT has entered the chat

  • @CodeNameGTR
    @CodeNameGTR5 ай бұрын

    Hi

  • @theoriginalSkooby
    @theoriginalSkooby5 жыл бұрын

    Why is Gates green?

  • @Mussul
    @Mussul5 жыл бұрын

    gooey?