Bill Gates Explains the Internet to Dave (1995) | Letterman 

Is it his or is it someone who has access to certain shows and episodes and is uploading them without consent? Hard to say, this channel just popped up out of nowhere.

@@OMGWTFLOLSMH its his, he promoted it on his Twitter

Yeah, I forgot to record the original like he suggested! Now I get this Internet thing.

@@OMGWTFLOLSMH It's his, they mentioned it on Seth Meyers.

@@OMGWTFLOLSMH don't matter his shows was bad anyway

Then suddenly 2022 David Blaine pops up and addresses the 2022 youtube viewers.

And so? That wouldn't have meant anything to anyone at that time.

@@robovac3557 on-demand streaming was always the dream

@@peabody3000 Not in my world buddy. Tripping over my own two feet like an idiot but at the very last moment, I manage to save myself with the sickest flip and roll and all the girls who are watching just cream themselves. Now that's a dream.

@@robovac3557 ah, so you're still in school. very well then..

I went online in 1994 and saw its business potential immediately.

@@raygordonteacheschess5501 I remember in 1994 was the year that the Internet was dramatically promoted in the media.

internet is just a giant centralized answering machine, with storage and multi media

​@@mikelisteral7863 look into Internet Computer

that's why these guys are so multi-billionaires

Yes !! That would be very interesting !!!

@@moncorp1 Me too.

Unfortunately because of Biden, you will be living in a financial mess for generations..

@@joecap2919 Okay then. Time for you to crawl back to your mom's basement.

@@joecap2919: Biden really is living rent free in your mind isn't he. The algorithm on you Biden haters computers have created this insane rabbit hole of negative information about Biden from all around the Internet and its constantly sending it to your computer and filling your brain full of such nonsense that through evolution your brain has started using the same algorithm. It's crazy and so are you.

@@joecap2919: The majority of the stimulus Programs were passed and enacted during trump's presidency not Biden. So please explain

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whatever sheeple

only thing is AI doesnt actually think.

I had the same thought.

@@kurthellis We don't know if Ai thinks or remember, right?

🎯

“I like having assistants.” He says.

Bill had a class full of girls. Dave has assistents.

@@xbia1 The innocence with which they say it makes you want to go back to that era... Much better times, unquestionably.

So you like a George Soros cloned Marxist?

It won't. Thanks to the internet...

internet is just a giant centralized answering machine, with storage and multi media

People here think Letterman’s being serious in the mocking though, it’s all jokes, everyone knew the internet in 1995

@@MarkBlackMigo I didn't

And we don't use radios any more or for a lot of people magazines and news papers!!

@@mehboobkm3728 I like to think the radio still has a place, listening to the DJ is often more entertaining that just listening to music, and it's were a lot of people hear new songs for the first time. As for news papers, they are going the way of land-line telephones...rapidly dying out, it's hard to justify the cost anymore.

from 95-2005 seems like a century of a difference. but from 2005 till now, it doesnt feel that much of difference.

@@user-df2uu3qp3y Yeah, it was a time of huge change and the rise of the internet. Since then the rise of the smart phone has caused another change, but for someone like myself who still mostly uses a PC, the change has be much slower lately.

@@user-df2uu3qp3y Up next instead of cell phones, they'll probably implant them inside people and we'll all be fully interactive and connected.

@@moncorp1 soon they're going to be implanted into our brains.

At every member of the household now. Take along everywhere they go.

@@shahrulamar5358 And in every room of the house. I'm looking at you, Alexa.

@@GradyPhilpott Who is Alexa ??

Amazon Alexa.

Just you wait until those AI generators get out of Beta testing, then you will see a thing or two. At the moment it is like Thomas Edison trying to figure out how to get a wire to glow brightly before it burned out.

today ai isnt really ai, just data set training. now the new ai is called agi

I know right? It really is fascinating with people thinking much of AI being anything impactful. But then you look at this and truly see it will only go up hill from here.

I think we need to see AI create several new jokes and come up with clever never-before-seen solutions to math problems before we go too crazy about AI. That still seems like a long ways off. Could be wrong though

we arent anywhere close to real AI.

And it took social media another 5 or 6 years to come into existence

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"So, do you like furry ?" said someone on Reddit.

​@@ghaida_alt5082 🤢

That’s actually mainly what I use the internet for and why I’m grateful for it even though at times I hate it and what it has done to the world. A huge part of it gave me an entry way into a world I would have never discovered that include my niche interests.. and not to be dramatic but I probably wouldn’t be a live today if it wasn’t for it

too many assistants

​@@JohnKelly-dz6rrand now they are out of job

Replace your assistants *wink wink*

internet is just a giant centralized answering machine, with storage and multi media

I think Dave still has plenty of assistants. @@r4zi3lgintoro65

Well it's running a statistical language model, albeit deeply sophisticated. It's not still thinking per se, but I suppose it is somewhat, if you're willing to use 'thinking' as a refrain of 'calculating', but its doing that no more than it did in 1995 so..

@@roninbayacal7857 You have no idea what you're talking about.

It is indeed a form of thinking

It's already surpassed thinking. The process of thinking is a slow, human error ridden process. AI is already beyond our thinking abilities.

@@roninbayacal7857 I'm so sorry dude, looks like you're outnumbered by people who don't understand how it really works. I guess we've passed that point where people can't tell the difference and so it doesn't really matter anymore. AI researchers tried to invent AGI, but invented something that is surprisingly good enough to do a lot of unexpected things (transformer models), and from the outside looks like something far more complicated than the sum of its parts. OpenAI are still on their quest to create true AGI, but at this point I don't think we even need to in order to accomplish what we thought we needed AGI for.

Prophetic

Troubled loners, and practically everyone else! Do you know anyone who doesn't use the internet today? How old are they?

More specifically, Reddit.

The sites you go to are obviously not the ones I go to.

@@sandponics sure

For real, I haven't seen it yet...

It's a fad.

yeha i think he was thinking that too to some degree but im sure eveyrone has that in mind on new things..

pure hype.

Internet? What's that? Never heard of it.. Does it taste like lemon?

i'm 1999, i don't ;/

As a kid I was building my own crystal set radios back in the late 1950's.

​@@sandponics I still build them. I get stations 300 miles away in the winter

Before the internet, I used to walk ten miles to school uphill in the rain. And I walked back home from school 10 miles uphill in the rain.

Back when baby boomers still had colour in their hair.

Yes

This just shows how to interview someone with knowledge in his field and try to approach it with a mindset of someone who doesn't know anything about computers. Also taking in the fact that people were even less informed about PC's in the 90's as opposed to today he did a very good interview with simple questions. And the questions were of someone who would probably be asked by people around that time. But hey it's not your fault for not seeing past your own ignorance.

but i appreciate david for the hard questions. bill could handle them, and he did.

his vision for depopulating the planet is a little scary

Letterman would still prefer his Music player, Camera and Phone as separate devices. Aparently

Two devices. Two.

ONE. ONE DEVICE @@spbalance

@@spbalance one, it's called smartphone (compunter in pocket)

@@JackieFrankieful He listed two devices. Not a million. Just thought the exaggeration was completely unhinged for no reason.

4:14 "Do tape recorders ring a bell?" Okay, Letterman, the internet is no improvement on tape recorders... This guy always thought of himself as being the smartest, never realizing how dumb he was

Oh this is good

@@jaycuthbert245 good for him nothing wrong with that

@@jaycuthbert245 - I don't doubt he was enjoying the fruits of his labour, but he wasn't married until 2009.

I bust out laughing when he said that!!

@@jaycuthbert245 I didn't know dave was the man

And Dave allowed a dork like Gates to do it.

@@johnnastrom9400 Dorks become the rich ones. The “cool” kids from school work for the DPW.

@@johnnastrom9400A dork worth more than you. A dork who changed the world. Literally. What have you done?

That's so cool!

Wow!! That's great!!

Pretty sure _everyone_ needed the internet explained to them. It's not something you're born with.

Most people couldn't understand it no matter how hard you tried.

I tried explaining the Internet to people back in 1991, but all they could say was "It will never happen". Also, I though I was well ahead of the curve, until I met a man who had been online since the mid 1970's.

And yet, 30 years later, there are still people who need the internet explained to them.

@@OMGWTFLOLSMH don't know man, these new kids seem to already know a thing or two about internet and computer when they are born.

Especially if you got the jab.

Or if your name was Jeffrey Epstein.. and Bill would say "he's dead so why are we talking about him!"

In a bad way. Every invention that takes us further from nature gives us more collective zoochosis

He should have stuck with computers

Bill pays big coin to have the internet scrub any and all negative comments about him .. hence this is why my original comment has disappeared.. thanks RU-vid for your adherence and dedication to free speech, that's unless Bill throws a wheel barrow of cash your way. Then it's Bill who? And Jeffrey Epstein pics with Bill they don't exist!!!💲💲💲

You mean I’m not here alone?

he predicted Reddit

@@Legend-gv2nx They've had troubled loner chatrooms since the beginning of the internet. Reddit is just the latest iteration.

That's far from true. If you were 20 years old in 1880 you would have seen massive changes before you were 50. Electric powered homes and machinery, lights, cars, air travel, radio, TV, the list goes on. They went from a 17th century existence to a the 20th century existence in one generation.

@@niltomega2978 that's really cool, never thought about it before

And the next generation will most likely go backwards for the general public.

its a computer in every pocket.not in every home.

@@niltomega2978 you went to the Moon with your grandfather? Sounds amazing.

Can you imagine a life with no Bill Gates?

​@@jockoharpo2622Yes

I'm reading this one day before turning 40...weird.

​@@markroberts6926happy belated birthday 🎂

And his Edison phonograph.

​@@Stefan- Actually, I hear he recently upgraded to 8-track.

He probably hates it because there are random kids on youtube with more views than him now in 1990 he had almost no competition.

He did but could not say it on interviews or tv. He could only reveal what they were going to sell in the next 12 to 24 months. Similar to how things are today.

This was more a Steve Jobs Thing.

@PH - Just like Miles Dyson.

Yeah for the worst.

He absolutely does, go and read "the road ahead", it's really a fascinating book to see that bill gate knows about all we are seeing today back then in 1995/1996. I read the book 6 or 5 years ago if I can clearly remember. He was even clearer on what the internet was than Steve Jobs, that's why their internet explorer was the hot thing then.

Tell that to the inventor of the long distance toenail trimmer.

🤮🤮🤮

What the...? On point? He's a demonic nerd.

Nonsense, BG's answers were mostly mundane but Letterman is stupid with his overly loud, false laugh and cloying attitude. BG wasn't as great as he wants everyone to think. Bill Allen did ALL the real work and was never credited by Gates. Now in 2023 we see the real BG:.sneaky, creepy, totally avaricious - at everyone's expense.

@@jmrich5328 I fully agree

We appreciate him for predicting this past plandemic It helped us prepare for the "vaccine" for the manmade frankeflu. Just ask all of the polio ridden starile children of India what they think And their govt.

To Typeo: I'd love this too.

I began my working life building mainframe computers in the mid 1960's

Same here

To Boilerhouse Garage: A normal degeneration during the devilish computing -- for other delightful decadence of driving dolls in a Discovery.

What happen to your cars and girls...? xD

@@DarthMessias 😆 Well I had a lot of both, I've been married twice, and I've owned over 50 cars (have 3 today). Maybe I'll get more into games as tine goes on, as I'm middle-aged now.

Your lack of persistence may be the reason why you are not a billionaire today, Me to.

He predicted 8chan

When I was a kid we had steam radio and lived in a cardboard box in the middle of the road.

Funny though that WiFi uses radio waves.

Most of them did. It was just a funny joke.

Yep once a crook always a crook.

Then we ripped off the macintosh user interface.

he also predicted microtransactions

Whats the name of the book?

It’s known as a phone today. Not a smart phone. There’s no need to specify a phone as smart anymore.

@@LookOutside... i dont agree with that. They still sell flip phones and others like that with limited functionality that aren't necessarily "smart". We have one for our business.

@@Orangeflava probably

Indeed, and what the transition was like from a world with no internet, to the internet being everywhere within a few years. It completely transformed the world unlike anything that's happened since.

Older people will never really know what life was like before electricity, the wheel, etc.

@@mrloop1530 What?

And old people will never understand Bitcoin.

@@getreadytotube and those who love BC will never understand value, money, or economics. 🤪

Tik tok

4chan..

The literal 45th president

I can publish my own information now i love the future.

The newspaper proprietors were able to publish their own information for years. What could possibly go wrong?

what makes you think he hasn't?

@@robert9495 I just think he could be good at it, maybe even enough for him to become a millionaire one day…

@@doubl0dave you're kidding, right? You've never heard of Bill Gates and his company Microsoft? He used to be CEO there quite a few years back. Today this guy's a billionaire and has been fir a long time. I dont mean to be rude but where have you been living all this time?

@@robert9495 I thought you would have picked up on the joke by now…

@@doubl0dave i was inclined to but the way you expressed yourself didnt seen like it.

all planned by the devil minions !!!

What's rule 34?

Underrated comment 😆

Hey I am that guy from Australia who modifies databases online in the UK. How did you know?

Agreed, that's partly why I liked the 90s better. Just enough stuff like music, movies, simpler computers. Now we have way too much info about everything.

Then go back to that time, end this nuisance

Don’t be a Luddite. Get on the metaverse and join the hive mind 🐝

yeah eveyrthing is at your fingertips..back then libraries and newspapers and other stuff...books now you just google eveyrthing

Love the time you are living you hoompa loompa..just enough technology not too much...your grandpa would say the same thing

Gates is the past. Artificial intelligence is the future.

The guy who said 256k is enough memory for anyone's computing needs in the future? MS was handed to him by the Rockerfellers. Now he's running the Rockefeller created WHO and he knows nothing about healing people. He's evil but he's no genius.

@@onesong2001 what about the third guy who died in a bike accident...

@@sandponics And Gates is very much involved with AI at the leading edge.

Grow up

Gee, I was teaching advanced computer use from 1996 to 2006 and had a ball teaching advanced systems to both young and old, and my students created amazing stuff, including websites and advanced multimedia. Possibly, there is an issues with your teaching style.

@@sandponics Well I wasnt teaching as such, I was doing in house installs and having to teach people who had never seen a computer how to get the basics, starting with locating the power button. As entry level as it gets. This was from 93 to 97 which was a small time but a big difference in general PC awareness. Plus I was expected to do it for free, often after hours, by people who werent there to learn. Usually they had a new toy but no idea it was going to be as complicated as it was. When yr installing software and trying to get the right drivers etc etc and people are asking, why doesnt it just work and what is this DOS thing, it isnt fun at all. So, very different situation I imagine to teaching a class.

@@sandponics Plus I should add that I was in sales and later in PC repair at a very large home electrical store who were, in part, aimed at selling to the technologically illiterate. I considered some of their sales practices etc to be straight up unethical, with things like rent to buy loans etc which were all carefully designed to milk people for as much cash as they could. I honestly dont know how some of it is even legal. So it wasnt the customers fault at all, it was just that they had no idea they were buying the most complicated technology on the planet, and that it was also still incredibly hard to use. You have to realise these PC's often didnt even have windows on them, just DOS. And when it came to software and asking people if they knew their RAM, CPU, HD space, sound card etc etc and then having to explain what these things were and why they were important etc, it was just a recipie for disaster. Still today a lot of people have no idea about these things.. and dont want to.

@@lumpylumpyloo ?

Yes. Maybe he knew more about the internet than he was letting on

Who do you mean, Gates or Letterman?

@@sandponics Letterman.

and we have Nomophobia.

@@pashadyne Technophobia?

@@pashadyne Fear of having to use it is called Dumb,

deceivement by the sickos demonic fallen angels to the humans!!!

720p

@@alainlalonde Actually the HD standard hadn't been finalized in 1995 and p stands for progressive overlay. Not how CRT works and more about how data is encoded. Standard resolution was 1024×768. The big really heavy CRT has 1600×1200

if you say so

Yes, along with visiting Epstein's Pedo island, cheating on his wife, admitting to making 2000% profits on vaccine investments and boasting about shooting unproven vaccine shots directly into small children's arms.

So in a different reality you could have been Bill Gates and would have been able to with Dave. How cool is that.

He was TRYING to think of something to say - his software let hom down. Typical M'soft

Dear Jackson Plop: This is true: Letterman gauges, matches the times and type of personalities. Gates was young and miraculously entrepreneuring: a comfortable guy. In this era, there would be a different approach interacting with this ultra highly prolific, well-rounded dignified gentleman of substance.

And dumb.

9 GB is massive. I remember finally getting my very first hard disk. 40MB. That's 0.04 GB. 0.04! And I thought that was huge compared to the 1.44 MB and 360 KB floppies!

I bought a new $10,000 Mac in 1996. Now I have 5 used Mac Pro's with 5 huge monitors that cost me a total of $380, with masses of software thrown in for free.

Yeah... I think this whole 'Internet' thing is gonna be huge.

Do you mean the Interwebs?

NO DOUBT

Not much of a retort. Analogue tape is no match for a digital file for speed and convenience. It's like comparing a horse and buggy to a car.

It would have depended on who you were talking to. Here is a prediction from the 1960s ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wC3E2qTCIY8.html (Enjoy)

Those people probably didnt know what a computer was back then.