Have you ever seen the comments section of any anime out there? Where there is internet you will find trolls. Kinda like an old German forest, only digital.
I remember when the internet was really polite, like the guy was explaining. I still try and keep my conversations as civil as possible, it really makes conversation less stressful and more enjoyable. I think that kids today might benefit from lessons of civility in school; it might make for a more enjoyable experience online for everyone.
+Know Whey Actually there wasn't anything ironic about it. Ironic would be me saying something nice and clean while agreeing with OP's comment. Educate yourself, fool.
"There's an interesting kind of restraint... there's not a lot of cursing or swearing, there's not a lot of personal cuts, there's not a lot of putdowns..." lol, the good old days of the internets!
The internet of the 90s and boy do I miss it. Nowadays it is the exact opposite and every third user believes in conspiracy theories etc. Not to mention that all the short videos my kids are watching literally makes them dumb and unable to focus on anything that takes longer than 15 seconds
I used the internet for the first time 2 years after this was made....14.4 modem, disabling pictures to make pages load faster...then a little later a 28.8 modem and ICQ. Don't get me wrong I love the internet of today...but nothing can compete with the excitement of connecting for the first time...the internet seemed soooo much bigger and mysterious back then!
This was the year I was born so I've been able to see the development of the internet from 1995 when I was 2 years old and started playing with my dads computer till now, I think that's pretty neat.
I never knew what the internet was until one day in October, 1996, I discovered it at UBC library. It took me half a second to realize that "The Internet means the END OF BOREDOM!" I would like to see the entire corpus of knowledge uploaded to the internet. How far along to that goal would you guess we're at?
wow... i love the genuine naive outlook this guy has. here we are, ironically, watching this in the one place that people do all of the above (personal attacks especially). every other message board is an ongoing fight of whose more of an idiot. the change is/was that you had to be part of an intellectual community in those days to end up in a chat room, computers were thousands of dollars and you had to be highly literate. now any a-hole with a connection can get online and dump their idiocy.
I was there during the early days of the internet. I vividly remember people who wanted to chat was genuine people, there were no trolling or meme'ing or other malicious intent. It was a very different era in internet that will never be replicated again and I am very lucky to be part of it.
"its intersesting, because one would think if you're anonymous you'd do anything you want... but people in a group have their own sense of community and what we can do..." This, and the corresponding parts, are sad because there was so much optimism about what the internet could be and how it could show the best of people... I still love it (and couldn't live without it!), but it certainly hasn't lived up to the high ideals and hopes of what the founders thought we could do with anonymity.
This video was uploaded to RU-vid 15 years after it's original recording. I am now watching this video 15 years after it was uploaded to RU-vid and 30 years after it's original recording. People in 1993 couldn't imagine what the internet has become today 30 years later in 2023.
I was born in 1982. When I think back now its unimaginable growing up without Net & mobile phones as I couldn't live without either now! Things were much simpler, quieter & less frantic/fast. You played outside with your friends everyday, playing football from when you got up until it went dark, you only spoke with friends actually in their company & going round town on Saturday with pocket money was focal point of the week! In a lot of ways being a kid/adolescent in 70/80/90s was v. similar
In 1982 I was learning Basic in 8th grade. Not from my teachers, but from other students. The teachers would literally be learning along with us by reading texts out loud to the class. The teachers were clueless and the students would often screw up the code on purpose so that we didn't have to do homework that day and could play games on the computers. (I lived in Washington State and computing was super important to the schools at that time) I'm sure the teachers were what held back a lot of students from really exploring how to use a computer and what it's capabilities were. I, like most students, used it to make text graphics. ;-)
Wow..it's amazing how the idea of the internet was such a new technology back in 93'. And to think that this news was created 28 years ago...which btw...wasn't too long ago. I say this because I was a young man when this clip came out. 😂
Most of the things we have now existed back then, sort of. But almost no one cared because these things weren't easy to find or use, and people who did care were hated for some reason ('nerd' used to be a really hurtful word). For example, you could set most VCRs to record TV shows at a later time, but you had to set their clocks first, and if their clocks weren't set they would flash '12:00' forever until you did. And practically everyone in the world had that flashing '12:00' on their VCRs.
You have to remember 25 years ago only geeks were on the internet and we for the most part, were nice to each other. Although there were flame wars back then, the attitude was much better. Back thin it was our own private world where news groups actually worked because there was no spamming. I remember 1995, that is when Microsoft finally got on board with the internet and it turned into a cesspool of humanity and people trying to make a buck through the internet.
I still remember when my parents first got internet, 30 minute dial up connection and all (LOL!) I was eight at the time. It was such a huge deal because until then, only the government had access to the internet. Never did I dream that it would become such an integral part of life and it's one of the only ways the world can function. At least for now.
@lordtalon69 I first got on the internet about 1997-98. My family had a very slow dial-up system, and only 1 computer. We really hit the internet when we got cable internet and a wireless router back around 2002-2003. I wish I knew the internet from back then, as I'd like to see what it was like: the experience, the available websites, the less than professional looking websites (though I'm sure they're still around somewhere). Thanks for not being a troll!
The internet was still mostly restricted to universities and some businesses during this time so yeah, it's not surprising it was a lot more civilized back then.
I was never into that hobby myself, but I can remember the enthusiasm that ham radioers had in the pre-internet days. When it came to communicating with others all over the world, and in real time, that was the only game in town.
I can remember in late 90s though maybe into just after turn of Millennium, that Internet chat rooms/orums/newsgroups etc on dial up there was so much less abuse/bullying/trolling etc It just didn't seem to be an issue. I think back then everyone on the internet had basically grew up without it so I think valued it more and thus behaved better. As time past & people have been brought up on it and the user base has become younger and younger, the trolling and abuse and bullying has become worse
If you want to see the vintage Peter Mansbridge introduce this segment, go to the CBC archives. There's no "the" before Internet, and no messing with the Mansbridge.
Yes definitely. The cloak of protection that is 'Anonymity' which people hide behind now hadn't took hold in the community. Back then people certainly behaved online much much more like they would have face to face.
@igotthefarts1 i myself am also 24 i remember all those things you just said, nostalgia is a wonderful thing when we were on the internet with dial up and our phone would ring and instinctively we would answer it and boot us off the internet, now? we have phones that go on the internet or you can call someone on your phone while being on the internet (all on the phone of course), god what happened to the good old days? its just not the same anymore
The world is MUCH better. With the tap of your keys, you can interact with millions of people from all around the world, find information or something you're curious about easily as opposed to rooting through a library, get more options to work from home, do research better than anyone previously, and buy stuff from home if need b
Internet is a fun invention. Life wouldn't be complete without Internet. Internet loves you. You must get on Internet every day or else Internet will be sad.
born in 84'... so not an adult beforehand, however.. i think people would say that life seemed simpler, more social, less.... degenerate. Aside from tech, materials, health advancements, i imagine life was better long before 1985.
That's the thing. I wasn't online back in '93 but when I did get online in the late 90s I generally operated a wysiwyg approach. If anything I can do myself more justice on the Internet as I'm a better writer than I am a speaker. OK, in those early days I did a bit of trolling but even that was no where near as malicious as some of the stuff you come accross nowadays.
Of course there weren't as many people on the internet as there are now, and computers in those days were considerably more cost prohibitive to a lot of people, so those that owned computers were a bit more mature and didn't feel the need to curse at others.
@jakeharvey I don't know what version of 1993 you lived-n, but I remember flamewars going back to the 80s . And yes with cursing, swearing, insults, and everything you see now .
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I was born in 1993. It so strange that my internetadicction wasn't even possible before I was born.
@@alexlester8379 yep things have changed more in the last 10 years than from 1993 to the time I posted this comment. The world will be unrecognizable in 20 years from now
Ah, 1993, it's like "I was 14 yesterday" LoL with time doubled to our days. The speed limits were like 80 km/h or 55 mph. Gas was like 20 cents per litre, maybe 60 cents per gallon! It was the first summer of full-blown El Niño.
@Nintendude712 oh even as a 9 year old dail up seemed to take forever. I remember spending over an hour loading the trailer for Star Wars - The Phantom Menace back in 1999
Is he talking about NewsGroups? Oh, I was really into those. No censorship. A beautiful free-for-all on every level. Today's communication threads are woefully compromised.
@chrisz71 This is the way "internet" used to be because it grew out of the bbs era. I think the big draw was the fact that it took a wee bit of intelligence to get connected so you appreciated the world you were emersed in. There was some flaming early on but most conversations were civil because it was an amazing new thing. Now days where any douche with a $30/m connection can login you get the majority of idiots whose soul purpose is to fuck with others online. I miss the early days.
People actually had manners back in 93 that's why there was no cussing or trolling. Now they do it for no reason. And they can hide behind a screen and not get beat up.
The Internet in 1993 was much more restricted to "serious" subjects and the bulk of users were professionals, nerds at Universities, or computer enthusiasts who were 30, 40 or 50 years old. It was just a totally different demographic. I've been on the Internet since 2001 and even then, when "social media" meant chatrooms and instant messaging, people cursed and trolled. Cyberbullying was already in the news in the late 90s.
What's it like in 2011, DavidElijah? ;) I also found it very enlightening, especially as it paints a picture of a far more innocent net-scape than the one we see now.
@arise212 It really hasnt changed much. When you think about it they dont look much different or work much different this was only 17 year back though.
True story: 1986. Went to a home of a musician I played with. He has computers down the basement like it was the USS Enterprise. He prints out a pornographic picture. I'm like "Where did that come from?". He doesn't say "internet" but he says something I didn't understand about modems and bulletin board systems or some such shit. I had no clue what the hell he was doing, saying or how anything worked. I left his house thinking HE was the fucked up one.
