Microsoft Coffee | The Internet's Weirdest Mystery

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On April Fools Day of 1996, a group of Microsoft employees played a practical joke on their hometown of Seattle. They decided to create boxes for a fictitious product called "Microsoft Coffee" and placed them on store shelves all around the city. The incident sparked tons of confusion and even lead to angry reactions from Microsoft and Bill Gates, who placed a ban on any future pranks from the company that did not get approved through them first.
However, no archives or records of this story ever occurring currently exist, outside of a Medium article written by one of the pranksters allegedly involved. But all the evidence that this article provides seems to show that this may be much more than just some silly internet hoax. What is the true and full story to the mysterious tale to Microsoft Coffee?
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@nationsquid 2 месяца назад

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@SupremeSDB 2 месяца назад

Yo, I was thinking about your “Windows: Microsoft’s Biggest Mistake” video, and thought it would be nice to see a video about the Xerox 8010, the first OS with a GUI, I’d really love to see that, and think it would be very interesting.

@itisliamhfjone22 2 месяца назад

squares

@crockstonyt 2 месяца назад

SationNquid

@AppropriateusernameYOUTUBE 2 месяца назад

Nationsquid if you’re ever gonna do another video like this can you please make it about that “impostor” Burger King new story in Pittsburg? It’s very obscure and I’m not even sure if it’s real or if it was just a weird hoax thing. This was also around 2014 and only one news station covered it.

@andrive 2 месяца назад

Huh

@Wilderness-Will 2 месяца назад

The fact that you (understandably) put a disclaimer that 1996 was an era of "physical media" when if you wanted to have new software on your computer you'd have to "go to the store and buy it" because this might be an entirely foreign concept to a good chunk of your audience makes me feel the most 31 I've ever felt.

@SeedashLoud 2 месяца назад

Makes me feel the most 17 I've felt, because I literally lived at the end of physical media. :((((

@IlIBonesIlI 2 месяца назад

As someone 32 years old, I feel this comment in my soul

@Antleredangelbun 2 месяца назад

Hey buddy you were a literal toddler in '96

@indigojazz 2 месяца назад

Man, same age x)

@aubreyh1930 2 месяца назад

@@Antleredangelbunphysical media lasted awhile after that and kids watch what their parents do. Someone could absolutely remember what it was like

@Hillary_Jean 2 месяца назад

Bill Gates is sitting on your couch drinking MS Coffee as he watches this.

@knoxduder 2 месяца назад

This wins at RU-vid comments for the month!

@dertythegrower 2 месяца назад

The m$ coffee topic is real... pro tips, remove one E.. he didnt research this well, heh. iykyk

@hyperthetical 2 месяца назад

And hes watching it from his UFO as well

@_DreamzGaming 2 месяца назад

😂

@boredyoutubeuser 2 месяца назад

Sitting on his couch? 😂

@PretendingToBeAHuman 2 месяца назад

I know people tend to believe “the internet never forgets” but it’s really not true. Information is lost all the time, and only the people who were there can vouch for it. Over the last 20+ years, I've seen so many events vanish from the web without a trace. Sure, there’s The Wayback Machine, but it’s quite flawed and only takes sporadic snapshots. There’s a bunch of snapshots of my own website, and it constantly jumbles instances of it around, so that each snapshot has elements in it that in reality were years apart. The truth is, the internet is not the great library of babble we think of it. It’s closer to human memory, slowly degrading, rewriting, and forgetting old information.

@Littlefighter1911 2 месяца назад

Even if you know it exists SOMEWHERE on the archive, you wouldn't know where. I tried finding a concert I participated in, in 2007. There were even CDs distributed from the rehearsals as well as a camera team recording it. Nothing. No trace of it left. HOWEVER I did manage to find a VHS, as well as contact one of the people in charge and they were able to give me a copy of the audio tracks in question. A lot of the times, I suppose, it's just knowing how to contact the right people, assuming you still know their name and they're still alive.

@dertythegrower 2 месяца назад

... first is aol buddylist. next is myspace friend lists and photos. next is gmail this year. 😮

@felsiccanis 2 месяца назад

THIS

@RileySuperstar 2 месяца назад

@@Littlefighter1911 id love to hear the tracks

@alainportant6412 2 месяца назад

It didn't forget until Trump 2017, and then the 2020 flu situation. I think Google nerfed 90% of the internet over the past 4 years.

@beejls 2 месяца назад

It's a possibility that it was a prank by the news anchors themselves. That's why it's not a nationwide thing, with no national notice. An April's Fool's joke by the anchors in one small market.

@TokyoXtreme 2 месяца назад

Seattle is not really a small market, and KOMO TV-4 certainly has the resources to pull off a prank like this - I'm 99% sure the channel themselves put the video together, which explains why the story isn't in any newspapers. Messaging the news anchors would easily settle the "mystery".

@dertythegrower 2 месяца назад

It is a digital red herring.

@vadnegru 2 месяца назад

@@TokyoXtreme What q contrast to now, when people write a whole article, based on yt video

@RogueError617 2 месяца назад

That's what I am thinking as well. It could even be an advertisement for the product disguised as a news segment that was just not released to the public since Microsoft sent the legal team after them. If the identity of this news anchor is known, then couldn't he just be contacted for information?

@RogueError617 2 месяца назад

@@TokyoXtreme right. It's likely nothing more than an unreleased paid advertisement. I think this just comes down to a product launch fail that was stopped by Microsoft and the people who were trying to launch this product are now trying to create some sort of mystery about it.

@jojomations2596 2 месяца назад

Maybe the real Microsoft Coffee was the friends we made along the way

@rbnickel4 2 месяца назад

💀

@GloryToComradeForster 2 месяца назад

You're right...

@SamsonCramer 2 месяца назад

That is so corny

@spingleboygle 2 месяца назад

“coach was right, guys, we just had to believe in Microsoft Coffee!”

@theawesometeg219 2 месяца назад

Maybe the real jojomations2596 was the friends we made along the way

@kris_0520 2 месяца назад

If a pot of coffee was brewed at a Microsoft campus, would that make it Microsoft Coffee?

@raghavthakur1760 2 месяца назад

Microstrong coffee

@ClareHehe 2 месяца назад

microdose estrogen

@camelcasee 2 месяца назад

They have cafe's called megabites

@steveOCalley 2 месяца назад

Every cup, wait 10 minutes for download.

@jimmlmao Месяц назад

Microsoft coffie is c#

@NT-X32 2 месяца назад

getting your couch stolen is crazy

@SpiralshapeDev 2 месяца назад

ong

@officialgoldenbros 2 месяца назад

he stole it

@davinp 2 месяца назад

@@officialgoldenbros his brother stole it as a prank

@nationsquid 2 месяца назад

Wanted to make it clear that this was just a joke. I'm just moving. Thanks for watching! :)

@NT-X32 2 месяца назад

keep up the work man i love your videos@@nationsquid

@Someguyhere111 2 месяца назад

Well I think it's clear what happened: aliens came and took all the copies of Microsoft Coffee, probed everyone's butts, then erased all our memories of both events.

@isaiaharmstrong1799 Месяц назад

Oh I remember the butt stuff

@mrJety89 2 месяца назад

Just email that news anchor. Email both of them.

@ArsonRaboot 2 месяца назад

A good lead, but in all fairness, it wouldn't be unreasonable for them to have forgotten the event and coverage. Could you name what you did at your job 25 years ago? Although, it's also likely that the news station has a copy of the segment. Maybe asking them is worth a shot?

@Thiesi 2 месяца назад

@@ArsonRabootTrue, but it might still be worth a try. Besides, if they were in on the prank they would almost certainly remember it to this day - unless, of course, they regularly did stuff like that.

@manitoba-op4jx 2 месяца назад

mentioning it might be enough to remind them.

@cameroncole06 2 месяца назад

Good idea.

@XxdipstcklovrxX 2 месяца назад

@@ArsonRaboottbh i think even showing them the youtube clip itself would be enough to either say "yeah that was me" or "no i dont remember doing that". i really hope we get an answer to this soon!!

@thatweirdphoneguystickman5596 2 месяца назад

"What if this April fools prank was never real, but was just an April fools prank itself? Bazinga." - what I wished Nation Squid said.

@glass6582 2 месяца назад

bazinga ò_Ō

@tzarg 2 месяца назад

Azingba

@vaiovm 2 месяца назад

Bazinga!

@NickShvelidze 2 месяца назад

Eww

@xFluing 2 месяца назад

bosnia herzegovina

@wallyhackenslacker 2 месяца назад

This strikes me as someone trying to create a Polybius-like myth centered on Microsoft, but with a disappointing lack of MiB involvement.

@eugiblisscast 2 месяца назад

I was thinking the same thing 🤣

@Littlefighter1911 2 месяца назад

11:00 It's very easy to find out. Ask the broadcasting service. Usually they keep footage around for a few decades. And if not some summary.

@mskinkaju 11 дней назад

Or try to contact the news anchors and see if they remember.

@robertotoledo107 2 месяца назад

It happened to us, as recently as 2018: I went to a public party with a couple of friends, and at some point, we headed to the store to get more alcohol, when a large amount of cops arrived to the area, and we decided to leave and headed to my house. That was a Friday, on Monday, the incident was on the newspaper, we even mocked the headline of "more than 200 young people drinking alcohol on the street" and even shared the link (as it was on the internet), this year I told the story to another friend, but I didn't find the link, and I REALLY spent some time looking for it

@wolfetteplays8894 Месяц назад

That is because the internet is the prime ground to manufacture a "year zero" type of deal.

@jamesbender3809 2 месяца назад

This is what is referred to as "Professional Gaslighting"

@eadweard. 2 месяца назад

"Gaslighting" is a term like "ironic" and "iconic": everyone's determined to use it, but no one seems to know what it means.

@classicnosh 2 месяца назад

Gaslighting involves consistently misleading someone to the extent that they start doubting their own perception of reality. It's important to note that this situation differs because, despite Microsoft's past reputation for being unreliable, they haven't explicitly acknowledged the existence of the issue.

@eadweard. 2 месяца назад

@@classicnosh What issue?

@classicnosh 2 месяца назад

@@eadweard. I meant to write software, sorry

@TitaniumTurbine Месяц назад

@@eadweard. Yep, and no one truly knows what gaslighting is until they’re dating someone who makes it an instrumental part of their personality.

@TeleviseGuy 2 месяца назад

When Google used to do April Fools, I was excited every year to see what prank they would pull off. After the pandemic started in 2020, Google completely stopped doing April Fool, and so did other tech companies. And that's kinda sad but understandable.

@81milliontotallylegitimate10 2 месяца назад

why is that understandable?

@TokyoXtreme 2 месяца назад

Because of an unrelated event, jokes aren't allowed to exist? Humor must be banned?

@HungerGamesFan88 2 месяца назад

April 1 being like 2 weeks after the pandemic/lockdowns really hit in the us, and people not really being collectively 'ready' for it quite yet. Not to mention, iirc April 1 was easter

@ps5hasnogames55 2 месяца назад

@@TokyoXtremewelcome to the woke generation where even humour is harmful

@TokyoXtreme 2 месяца назад

@@ps5hasnogames55 Need a license for lulz.

@ar_xiv 2 месяца назад

I can see this being a very minor but real thing because the public probably had close to zero interaction with the product before it was pulled, with only a handful of store employees handling the boxes

@Gameboygenius 2 месяца назад

I asked Dave Plummer from Dave's Garage and got this simple response back within minutes. Pretty damning for the story. I was there in ’96 and sure never heard of it then! And you’d think it’d be the kind of thing you’d hear about :-) Cheers, Dave

@confusedkemono Месяц назад

welp if davepl says that then it's really some elaborate prank

@acex222 Месяц назад

He's an asshole, so I wouldn't be surprised if nobody told him.

@TracksWithDax 2 месяца назад

Why do I feel like the news station was the one doing the prank, and some guy is just riding the coattails of an actual video clip by claiming the store prank even happened

@wolfieamel 2 месяца назад

on a random chances that its actually a thing, Microsoft Coffee could be something that keeps the computer awake ignoring the power management system. with that said we actually have Microsoft Coffee in PowerToys, its used to be called Caffeinate, but its now called "PowerToys Awake", and it keeps your screen awaken

@dertythegrower 2 месяца назад

It is actually a thing. He missed the research as its buried by this red herring news clip

@seancdaug 2 месяца назад

That's a very reasonable idea for a piece of software, certainly, but not the kind of thing that I'd expect to see sold as a standalone retail product in its own box, even in the '90s. As something packaged in one of Microsoft's Plus! packs for Windows, on the other hand, it would make perfect sense (which is where the whole "PowerToys" concept originated in the first place, wasn't it?).

@macdaniel6029 2 месяца назад

Today MS is completely woke.

@arandomsupra Месяц назад

Theres actually Microsoft software called COFEE which is used by police to extract evidence from windows PCs

@SurmenianSoldier Месяц назад

@@macdaniel6029 damn liberals...

@jeffreyseay7707 2 месяца назад

The worst April Fool's prank I ever went through actually happened to A LOT of people IN MY ENTIRE TOWN. Last time April 1 fell on a Friday, the local ATM was modified so as to keep ANY debit card put into it regardless, and anyone who fell for it had to either wait for it to be returned through the mail or, if for some reason they couldn't afford to wait, ask for a new one. The latter would require a small fee. But with my low income, it would NOT be a drop in the bucket for yours truly. So by putting a new twist on the law against stealing (by reinterpreting the word so as to also mean "cause to lose"), I called the bank and basically stuck up for everyone affected. Because of yours truly, NO ONE had to pay the fee that year, though we all still had to wait for Saturday to take out our money AND write a check for it, which, sadly, couldn't be avoided. I would still like to know what kind of BIFF would do something like that. I hope they don't even have a job right now and do also not have a disability, as they certainly deserve neither

@HungerGamesFan88 2 месяца назад

biff?

@jeffreyseay7707 2 месяца назад

@@HungerGamesFan88 Yes, as you likely thought, I WAS referring to Biff Tannen of Back To The Future. THAT IS the kind of prank he would pull, though I should admit I was only scratching the surface according to the trilogy

@HungerGamesFan88 2 месяца назад

@@jeffreyseay7707 oh lmao i thought it was an acronym

@MrDannyDetail Месяц назад

Wouldn't the new card be sent out through the same mail service and at the same timescale? Also here in the UK you can lose and block your card and request a new card as many times as you're unlucky enough to need to and to the best of my knowledge they never charge a fee for the new one.

@jeffreyseay7707 Месяц назад

@@MrDannyDetail This is the USA and those things cost money just as they would where you live. Everything costs money everywhere. And in this case, it happened en masse. Therefore, I knew I had to be the town hero and have them force the town Tannen to pay the entire collective bill

@xlicer 2 месяца назад

Give that news anchor vid to captain dissillusion and he will debunk it in 2 mins

@Sunyup804 2 месяца назад

in 1996 widescreen TV's were not mainstream. Broadcasts were still done in 4:3 format.

@macdaniel6029 2 месяца назад

Not only not mainstream, they didn't exist at all. Maybe a few prototypes.

@MRNGrandpere Месяц назад

The video looks stretched though, so this is probably a moot point

@MrDannyDetail Месяц назад

@@macdaniel6029 Flat screens didn't exist then, but there were extremely heavy widescreen cathode ray tube televisions even in the 90s even in the UK, so they must presumably also have existed in the US too.

@Matt-oq4jq 29 дней назад

@@macdaniel6029they absolutely existed lmao

@inny74 17 дней назад

@@Matt-oq4jq While flat-screen televisions did exist, you would likely barely ever see them at the time, as they werent financially viable to consumers (as in: very fucking expensive) and were still very early in their infancy. Flat-screen televisions wouldnt catch the mainstream consumer's attention in the US until the digital television transition began in 2009. The first US station to utilize 16:9 aspect ratio, and in turn, Digital Television, was WRAL-TV, a TV station in Raleigh, NC in July 23, 1996, past the date where this supposed April Fools would have taken place. And they were no strangers being pioneers of advanced technology, even back then. And even then, it took the rest of the stations a bit to catch up. EDIT: after looking closely, the video also does not look like a stretched 4:3, its not stretched enough to scale in-line with what widescreen TVs would be available back in the day. It is likely faked

@Thefan 2 месяца назад

Also quite confusingly, there was a tool called Microsoft Cofee. (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) It was a USB stick full of tools for digital forensics that they provided to law enforcement.

@xXHashassinXx Месяц назад

I thought this video was about that tool. I have one in my collection of oddware.

@Action2me Месяц назад

I thought this video would be about that. Really disappointed

@MyGeniusFriend 28 дней назад

If this is a hoax (and I'm tending towards that conclusion), the name might have been picked deliberately to make search engines confuse Coffee for Cofee and make it harder to disprove the story.

@Daniel_WR_Hart 27 дней назад

@@xXHashassinXx I thought this video was going to be about an early version of C#, Microsoft's alternative to Java

@redymedy 2 месяца назад

I was so worried this video would be a joke I had to look it up lmao. I love these videos so I'm glad this isn't just misinfo.

@s1nenomine677 2 месяца назад

An explanation could be made from how current Google is outright worthless when it comes to finding slightly obscure information. The net has grown too much and left Google behind, which is now only able to check small, mainstream parts of it. There likely are forums, blogs or news articles that are currently online that discuss Coffee or that UFO sighting, but you don't have a way to find them.

@professorhaystacks6606 2 месяца назад

Yeah but they're the default on most devices so they have near-monopoly power on that. That's only slightly related it's just something that bugs me.

@MCKejml Месяц назад

Couldn't this be fixed by using another search engine?

@technicolourmyles 2 месяца назад

Yeah, it's BS. Everything provided originates from a single source, no names were revealed, they made an article, a website, a Twitter account and a RU-vid channel JUST for this "story". I'll wait for the rabbit hole RU-vidrs to get on this. They would actually contact the news station and anchors to get to the bottom of this. I kinda wish you had done that instead of just regurgitating the Medium article.

@Queefy 2 месяца назад

Microsoft Hot Coffee

@robertpucovsky 2 месяца назад

It was Rockstar all along

@theprinceofinadequatelighting 2 месяца назад

The UFO took the couch.

@nickwallette6201 2 месяца назад

I'm skeptical of the "VHS artifacts".

@FriedAudio 2 месяца назад

Ditto. I don't recall ever seeing "artifacts" like that on a VHS tape. Those look more like vertical-hold issues (roll & flutter) on an old CRT television. 🤔🤔🤔

@theprinceofinadequatelighting 2 месяца назад

@@FriedAudio Distortions and vertical sync issues can happen with damaged vhs tape. Back in the 90s my brother once got his hands on a p*rno tape and tried to switch out the actual physical tape with some other cartridge (cassette?) so that our parents wouldn't find out but when he put it in the vcr there was all sorts of color distortion, audio weirdness, and vertical syncing issues. Of course, I was a kid and was just trying to get a glimpse past the distortions because booba but I remember fairly clearly... those were some formative distortions, I tell you what.

@robertpucovsky 2 месяца назад

@@FriedAudioyep that's what I'm thinking as well. Maybe if the tape got remastered it could look much better because the information is still there.

@IlIBonesIlI 2 месяца назад

I've seen a _lot_ of VHS artifacting in my time, especially from longplays and superlongplay tapes. This is plausible, but doesn't look quite right to my eye. Of course, standards and framerates were different in the US, perhaps 60FPS makes a tape flicker a little differently

@Thiesi 2 месяца назад

Well, someone from the area can probably tell whether the _4_ logo resembles any station ident of the time in the area. Besides, don't American station call signs always start with either a _K_ or a _W_ so that just a _4_ would not be what any local TV station would even be _allowed_ to be called? Given that Seattle is at least nowadays west of the Mississippi, local station call signs would have to start with a _K._ Now I don't live in the U.S., but would a station called something like _KIV-TV_ have an ident consisting of just the number _4_ like in the clip?

@ActuallyHoudini 2 месяца назад

hm. so its aliens. aliens made the coffee.

@kriscynical 2 месяца назад

What was Coffee supposed to _do,_ exactly?

@sabni8668 2 месяца назад

I thought the same. By the looks of it, Java (programming language) was only a year old. I presume it was popular enough by then. And this was Microsoft’s attempt to aggressively bring out something similar to compete with ‘Java’. Which, given Microsoft’s track record in those days, was probably believable 😂

@toajames1 2 месяца назад

@@sabni8668 They did, it's called C#.

@TheRenegade... 2 месяца назад

@@sabni8668The funny thing is that Microsoft Java exists. It's called C#

@wallyhackenslacker 2 месяца назад

@@sabni8668 Microsoft for real put out not one but two Java competitors, J++ and J#, of which J++ in particular was a blatant part of MS's embrace, extend, extinguish practice at the time.

@seancdaug 2 месяца назад

In addition to J++ (which was supposed to be an implementation of Java rather than a competitor, but it never passed Sun's compliance tests), ActiveX was often talked about as a Java competitor. It really wasn't much like Java at all, but a lot of early publicity around Java involved the ability to embed Java applets into webpages, and ActiveX was kinda sorta doing the same thing, if you squinted, I guess.

@thepokeball 2 месяца назад

Isnt Microsoft COFFEE also the name of the tool they developed for law enforcement agencies? I feel like I'm going crazy here not seeing anyone else mention this.

@dertythegrower 2 месяца назад

Smartest person here.

@SureshotCyclonus 2 месяца назад

Yes, Microsoft COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor).

@drewbabe 2 месяца назад

came to the comments to say the same. i remember when people on the internet caught wind of the existence of that software. I remember that you had to install it on a USB stick, and then it either did diagnostics or cracking or both. I specifically remember people saying "never stick a USB drive you don't own into your computer, in case it has something like this on it" and also "even if your computer is off, don't ever leave it unattended, or else a hacker could plug this in, turn your computer on, and they basically own your computer now. I don't even know entirely what it did, I just know that it was scary stuff and that only three-letter agencies were legally allowed to have it. I'm sure similar stuff exists for macOS and Linux, but given Microsoft's history of gladly adding backdoors to their OS for the NSA to exploit, it definitely added to the list of reasons I eventually stopped using Windows for personal computers...

@28russ Месяц назад

I just saw it mentioned with one comment between yours and it. 😂

@RetroPC Месяц назад

I am totally putting this image of Microsoft Coffee on a mug, so I can have a Microsoft Coffee mug.

@Darxide23 Месяц назад

This is absolutely a modern hoax and the "VHS tape" gives it away. The constant loss of vertical hold is hiding some of the edits and seams that the creator couldn't. That is _not_ how VHS typically looked and I find it more and more grating that the younger generations actually think that's how things were. The "Analog horror" genre especially is filled with tons of "VHS effect" filters that don't look anything like what real VHS did. You could get that kind of horrible, horrible distortion on a very worn out VCR, but it's not difficult to adjust for that. I've got 30 and 40 year old VHS tapes of family events recorded by my grandparents and a 20 year old VCR and the picture is perfectly fine. No rolling, no "scratchy" lines across the image, no blurring at the top and bottom, no distorted audio. It doesn't look as great on a modern LED screen, though. Just a bit fuzzy, but that's not the fault of the tape or the VCR. tl;dr: VHS doesn't look like this unless it's played back on an extremely worn out VCR or with a heavily abused tape that has been physically damaged.

@laceyrainbolt5432 7 дней назад

lmao thank you! there are plenty of real vhs rips on yt and if the tapes were stored properly they look great. way better than low-res digital video. i think adding heavy distortion of any kind to a video can make it scary, so i think that’s why it’s so exaggerated, but it’s definitely twisting the perception of people who didn’t grow up with the technology. it’s like how people in the vaporwave community would purposefully create warped and worn out cassette tapes for added nostalgia. i have tapes that are around 50 years old and they sound just fine!

@rednival 2 месяца назад

I mean, you have to admit, if you were someone trying to break into the film industry, this is genius. You have a video you can show studios and a whole lot of people vouching for how good the effects are. And it’s all about a fairly boring prank that never happened, so you’re not going to set off red flags.

@gabe_s_videos 2 месяца назад

The possibility that the story of the Microsoft Coffee prank was, itself, a prank makes me think the theory that Andy Kaufman didn't fake his own death but rather FAKED faking his own death (ie, spent the last few months of his life tricking people into thinking he was faking his death before actually dying).

@tristanbrooks4755 2 месяца назад

"Clippy was annoying" How dare you sir.

@AveryAnarchy 2 месяца назад

I am not understanding...you find this mystery, and the only piece of evidence of a video, you find the news guy from the video, and just go "we'll never know" ...?? this guy would know! ask him??

@runnersdialzero1244 2 месяца назад

He might, but I'm sure the dude did hundreds of stories in his time and details can become fuzzy.

@MrMudbill 2 месяца назад

Can't we just contact those reporters in the video? Check what they have to say?

@TokyoXtreme 2 месяца назад

That would take a layer of research one level above Googling.

@skeletino420 2 месяца назад

about the ufo story. you should go to the library in that area and check the newspaper archives, typically they have em on microfilm and they're well archived. the internet is amazing for research but sometimes you'll have to look elsewhere and dig a bit deeper, and the local library is an insanely good place to start.

@robertpucovsky 2 месяца назад

Now I'm interested in that UFO story that you mentioned. Time to get in touch with the local news paper?

@y1ttt 2 месяца назад

in the 90s i was like 7 and an aunt suddenly stormed the house asking for me, turns out a boy named just like me, same age and city, died on a hunting accident by his brother, named like mine and same age, who also enjoys hunting, the news paper my aunt gave me was lost over the past 20+ years, all the family remembers, but it doesn't exist on the archives nor the internet, lost forever such a tragic and weird incident

@flimflam384 2 месяца назад

I swear I remember this being a crappy wizard-driven Java Applet IDE/creator for Windows 95/NT 4.0 that made applets that only worked in Internet Explorer and were broken in Netscape. I'm probably thinking of something else, but at the time I was working at a mom-and-pop PC build/repair/resale store in the PNW at the time, and this rings a bell...

@joshallen128 2 месяца назад

Activex

@joshallen128 2 месяца назад

Javabeans

@joshallen128 2 месяца назад

Maybe it's visual j plus plus

@wood4sheep Месяц назад

This. I want to say M$ bought the wysiwyg ide just after I rolled out a site with it. It was competitive with early flash. The predecessor name escapes me unfortunately but the prior name was also Java-ish.

@PiraNov 2 месяца назад

My family had a PC-store back in the mid to late 90's. When I saw that icon on the thumbnail of this video it felt LEGIT nostalgic and I was looking forward to see what "that software" I barely remember was all about, just to hear it might not even have existed. But it feels eerily familiar to me. However, it is likely because it has the perfect elements that is reminiscent of things that actually existed back then.

@sjbeard2941 Месяц назад

Me too, I was sure I had seen that box or icon at some point in the mid-90s!

@MakaylaHolland 2 месяца назад

I had the same thing happen to me when I was a kid around 2009-2010. There was a bright light and sound of a crash, it woke me and my family up out our sleep. Literally had us and neighbors go outside their house to see where it came from. We honestly thought it was a plane at first but the sounds and lights were so oddly different it couldn’t have been, nothing was found. It was never reported in the news and this happened in San Diego, California. Me and my family still talk about it to this day.

@dertythegrower 2 месяца назад

Obvious.. that is a military area.

@1ice2cream3queen 2 месяца назад

"it's just a prank bro" The prank:

@Plaprad 2 месяца назад

I can vouch for a few things. I was in high school in the late 90's, and that period was WILD. "Dude, you got a Dell" is forever seared into my brain against my wishes. So I can see something like this happening. Also, stuff disappears over time. I can remember many things from the past that are just gone. I've lost count of how many times someone will bring something from the time up and I'll remember a forum thread about it, which no longer exists. But I'll be honest. Something about that news report seems "off". It just looks like something someone made today to look like it was from the 90's. Just for an example that I just thought of. There are lots of old videos from The Weather Channel on RU-vid. As well as a bunch of modern recreations of them. Look at a modern one and then one of the originals. 90's tech and graphics just had a different feel to them that most wouldn't see unless they grew up with it. But if it is a fake video, it's a well done fake.

@UltimatePerfection 2 месяца назад

Back in those days, Microsoft used to add "express" to the free versions of their commercial software (e.g. Outlook Express, FrontPage Express). I think I will wait for one of those, Microsoft Coffee Express.

@MusicFanatical1 Месяц назад

They could've called it Microsoft Espresso

@glubtier 2 месяца назад

If it was in any local Seattle news papers, I find it VERY hard to believe that Seattle Public Library has no records whatsoever. That is not a tiny library.

@helmaschine1885 Месяц назад

Yeah, his entire dismissal that it's simply news "gone from the internet" holds no water. News articles from any decade can be found digitised all the time. An April fools jokes tend to be stand out things that news channels have to tell media about afterwards so people don't keep being fooled

@cooltaylor1015 Месяц назад

Indeed, the timestamped news broadcast should be archived somewhere as well. May be difficult to find viewable copies though. It's simply a matter of narrowing down relevant possible air dates, and checking the timestamped time for that story.

@safebox36 2 месяца назад

I think the best April Fool's joke is when Google announced GMail at the same URL that was previously Garfield Mail. Because GMail continues to be a joke to this day.

@devicemodder 2 месяца назад

iirc, there's a forensics toolkit made by microsoft called microsoft cofee... or Microsoft Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE)

@InaSilentWay 2 месяца назад

my theory is that Microsoft themselves are behind this hoax to coverup the forensics app that they don’t want people searching - it makes perfect sense and would explain the high quality of the editing in the video

@thepokeball 2 месяца назад

Do you think they reused the name)

@InaSilentWay 2 месяца назад

@@thepokeball I think it was intentional and Microsoft is behind this hoax lol

@darkg1zmo 2 месяца назад

I was genuinely expecting this to end with you being the person who created the site as an April Fools prank.

@technicolourmyles 2 месяца назад

It's not impossible. Especially since he hasn't made much effort to really investigate this, and the whole video just serves to promote this story even further with the notion that we can't know if it's real or not.

@xxplosiv88 2 месяца назад

Why don't you try to get in touch with those two news reporters (if they're still kicking)?

@googlehomemini2059 2 месяца назад

And the two networks that are named specifically to see if they have any archival footage

@KingNikolai 2 месяца назад

I've lived in WA my whole life and I'm pretty familiar with this station. Keith Eldridge retired in 2022, though I don't recognize the female anchor.

@googlehomemini2059 2 месяца назад

@@KingNikolaishould ring them :)

@marinetteyvesandrielsaille7007 2 месяца назад

i believe that the story could’ve gone missing, easily. lost media is a whole thing. entire shows air and disappear

@hwertz10 Месяц назад

So I was curious until I saw the clip from the video, then went to the link and played it. That does not look like VHS playback. I'm 44 so I watched a lot of VHS stuff back in the day (both prerecorded, and tapes we'd reuse maybe dozens of times essentially for DVR-like use, record stuff to tape and watch it later.) I also transferred some ~20 year old tapes that were recorded on camcorder last year. Tapes don't roll like that, I mean when they do the picture is also snowy as hell, you don't get a rolling-but-clear picture then a slight burst of snow. Also (although this is not definitive), although the WEB was in it's infancy, there was an active Internet going back to the 1980s. Usenet was in very active use back then, and is fully archived. Google group's Usenet search function shows no mentions of Microsoft Coffee either.

@_Lassic_ 2 месяца назад

Dude your videos on this exact sort of random stuff are so awesome. I hope you can continue to upload more often with the same great quality.

@flashcardz3150 2 месяца назад

Was waiting for the final twist where you reveal that you made all of it up at the end of the video, but it never happened.

@realityveil6151 2 месяца назад

ask dave from dave's garage.

@FSAPOJake 2 месяца назад

About that news clip, it's not TOO hard to fake that stuff. Remember the old FHRITP videos that went viral a decade ago?

@helmaschine1885 Месяц назад

wtf is fhritp? are people supposed to know what you're talking about?? People can barely spell.

@FSAPOJake Месяц назад

@@helmaschine1885 Literally just type it into the RU-vid search bar. Not that hard.

@certified1075 2 месяца назад

i now own mr squids couch

@dawgwiddaglasses 2 месяца назад

Can I sniff it?

@lexibigcheese 2 месяца назад

microsoft java, also known as C# (they are INCREDIBLY similar.)

@wallyhackenslacker 2 месяца назад

Microsoft had two other for real Java clones meant to displace it: J++ and J#. J++ was so blatant that Sun Microsistems sued Microsoft over it.

@PicturesqueGames 2 месяца назад

Actually funnier than that. Microsoft was developing initial C# as J# series of extensions to java. But after some time they just couldn't wrangle it anymore so they just dropped java altogether and did the microcode part themselves.

@MrMegaManFan 2 месяца назад

If you want to hear about a different kind of “Microsoft Coffee” be sure to check out Dave’s Garage.

@realitierney 2 месяца назад

You’re a brave man having a Nickelodeon blimp on your desk haha😂😳 good video!

@IlIBonesIlI 2 месяца назад

On the subject of missing software, I remember my stepfather renting out an SNES game from Blockbuster that I have not been able to find since. If I had to compare it to anything, it was like... somewhere between _A Link to the Past_ and _Pocky & Rocky._ All I can remember are vague Chinese mythos vibes, a level select screen, and I think one level was a fight on the back of a gigantic green serpentine Dragon. I have looked high and low, my Stepfather had several friends into gaming so a number of early consoles came through my house, and being about 3-4 years old I don't remember much. I Do remember trying out Cybermorph on Atari Jaguar, and a little of the original Alien Vs Predator long before I knew what a Xenomorph was. That game kept their shilouette in my mind for many years til I saw the actual movie.

@Chubby_Bub Месяц назад

There were so many niche, third-party or bootleg games like that at the time. I'm sure it exists but it also sounds near-impossible to find.

@SourCandy2134 Месяц назад

Nationsquid wearing a Green Day shirt gives me an unhealthy amount of serotonin.

@LendriMujina 2 месяца назад

It's like the internet never bothers to preserve things unless they can potentially be used to harm someone. (If it can, however, you can bet there will always be a laser-clear trail somewhere.)

@rbnickel4 2 месяца назад

W green day fan

@Edd1sl0st 2 месяца назад

Fr, who can hate Green Day

@Harlow. 2 месяца назад

w hawaii part ii/miracle musical fan

@L0rdOfThePies 2 месяца назад

W miracle musical fan

@Seventhstager 2 месяца назад

W miracle musical fan

@gianpaolostangoni4881 2 месяца назад

Am I the only one who saw a black sphere moving on the right side of the screen at 05:38????

@helmaschine1885 Месяц назад

Terrifying! Flies are so supernatural and scary!

@gianpaolostangoni4881 Месяц назад

@@helmaschine1885 they are indeed

@iamaprofessional 2 месяца назад

Why is the VHS recording of a newscast in the 90's in 16:9 aspect ratio?

@leap123_ 2 месяца назад

its stretched from 4:3

@iamaprofessional 2 месяца назад

@@leap123_ sure, but i haven't seen a TV yet where it automatically stretches the input to match the TV ratio by default. It has to be selected. So why bother? It's sus.

@damian9303 2 месяца назад

@@iamaprofessionalMost TVs automatically stretch the composite signal so there’s no black borders

@macdaniel6029 2 месяца назад

@@iamaprofessional normal behaviour.

@iamaprofessional 2 месяца назад

@@damian9303 I use VCRs, Laserdisc, and numerous old video game consoles and have for decades and this has never been my experience.

@taylorwoolston8856 2 месяца назад

The article was posted on April 1st 2021. Nuff said.

@Kubaak01 2 месяца назад

Please do a video about that UFO story...

@JJMcCullough 24 дня назад

What an intriguing mystery! I am partial to the idea that the TV people made it up. But the recording seems strange to me.

@Edlandish Месяц назад

Shaggs reference in the sponsor, never thought I'd see that.

@rikkisnow1313 Месяц назад

I’ve been in the news twice by name and recorded for a segment about my health and it’s absolutely nowhere online, I’ve tried to find it. Very Early 2000s

@ezuru1 2 месяца назад

He gave Northridge a shout out 😮

@healthyminds9279 2 месяца назад

Great video!! This taught me a very important lesson. We can't take it for granted that somebody will document an event just because there's a lot of people in the world. Sometimes zero people will do something because we all assume someone else will. A lot of things that seem like somebody should be doing them actually have zero people. Popular MMOs have certain places where nobody ever goes to.

@boyankarshakov2576 Месяц назад

Bro i’m so addicted to Nation Squid!!! I NEED MORE VIDEOS

@KarmicXRestrictions 28 дней назад

The news footage is clearly shot and edited in 16:9 due to it being widescreen and the corner logo. If the VHS was really it would be in 4:3 and the "artifacting" would be slower. The distortions are also very conveniently placed. The Microsoft coffee during distortion has gotta be spliced audio you can hear the pause

@Gianfranco_69 Месяц назад

Knew it was an April Fools day Upload when i saw the 'Green Day' Tshirt... noone wears that in normal everyday life

@gintozlato1880 Месяц назад

Just wrong lol

@user-ns7xw6in6v 2 месяца назад

oof! feel bad. can't believe you can't find the UFO.

@geoffgunn9673 2 месяца назад

What was program called that opened the cd draw? I remember it being for using the 'coffee cup colder' on the computer as a joke. Would have been around this time when i first saw it.

@TheJillianRussell 2 месяца назад

Awesome shirt! My fave band in the world 😁

@deltasyn7434 2 месяца назад

I think this could be solved by contacting the news broadcaster. TBH, it seems like it was a prank. Either by the broadcaster themselves, or MS employees who got them to run the story. That said, if it turns out the news broadcaster was pranked into running the story, that would explain the absence of evidence in web searches. They would have scrubbed it from the web to avoid embarrassment.

@MrDannyDetail Месяц назад

I never realised that the programming language Java was named after a type of coffee, nor did I know their logo was a steaming cup of coffee, so I honestly thought for the first part of the video that Microsoft Coffee was going to turn out to be one of those cheap encyclopedia CD-Roms that were everywhere at that time, but just focused entirely on everything there is to know about that specific caffeinated beverage. Either that or a mapping CD-rom (also very common at the time) but entirely revolving around finding the nearest coffee shop wherever you happened to be with your laptop.

@s2rg11 Месяц назад

Love the reference to the Shaggs during your product placement for square space or whatever that was. The Shaggs are awesome

@s0men00bb 20 дней назад

"Microsoft Coffee" can be found on VS98 and Win 98 and so on. It was Microsoft version of Java , and was also in Internet Explorer v4.0 , earliest I think , but to enable that plugin , you often needed to restart the computer which was nightmarish at the time as they took forever to restart. You can also find in old tech news mention of Windows 96 , but IRL it is Win 98 or Win 95 OSR2 (OSR2 was Service Pack before they called them like that) , as releasing a new version a year after Win 95 was dropped. Another descrepancy is very physical and digital today and that is Office 97 , and since Win version and Office version always matched , this however does not. Win 98 wasn't ready when Office 97 was released.

@Alexifeu 2 месяца назад

RIP Couch

@aerolifts 2 месяца назад

2 uploads within a week, nationsquid treatin us good

@TokyoXtreme 2 месяца назад

What is this music that's playing in the background? I feel like it used to be popular a few years back, and now I can't remember what it's called.

@Aggronaut 13 дней назад

One of the things from this era that folks also seem to forget about is that "Parody" software was also a thing. The most widely remembered is Microshaft Winblows 98, but there were a lot of these. If I saw Microsoft Coffee at the local Software Etc, I probably would not have thought anything about it.

@Big-Chungus21 Месяц назад

I’ve always been a little scared how computing from the past can’t really be fully relived years later.

@isbestlizard 2 месяца назад

Damian Hirst levels of backdating their prank

@mttlpnkt Месяц назад

This sir deserves more upvotes

@ZiggyTheHamster Месяц назад

I am in the newspaper for some small town college-related thing, which I have a copy of somewhere, and which was republished on that college's website - a website which I later maintained as my first job and absolutely know existed and even probably have a backup of somewhere - but none of this seems to have survived, despite being in 2005-2006. I probably even posted a scan of it to MySpace. So I would definitely err on the side of "oops we weren't thinking of making durable copies of the news back then"

@gatsbysgarage8389 2 месяца назад

Reminds me of what Simon says on deciding the unknown- the thing about grand conspiracies is that they involve so many people that having no one reveal it is almost impossible

@97channel 2 месяца назад

I have known very noteworthy news items from yesteryear to completely disappear without trace. Surprisingly, it does happen. Without going into too much detail, I remember two events from the late 90's which I just cannot find a single documentation of; one was just the most insanely windy day I've ever known to hit the city I've lived in all my life. By far the strongest storm I've ever witnessed. No record of it. Lists of notable storms and related weather events completely ignore that it ever occurred. And the other thing was a celestial event around 1997 / 98 where, for around a fortnight, you could casually look at the night sky and easily spot at least one shooting star within a few minutes of looking. Again, no trace that this crazy phenomenon ever happened. Regarding Microsoft Coffee, the weird thing is it seemed really familiar when I started watching this video. I kind of vaguely remembered hearing about it in my early days of getting online, late 00's. The name, the logo, the story of the hoax; all felt like it was something I've heard about before. But now I'm questioning if it isn't simply a clever recent hoax of a hoax which imitated various 90's iconography to create a false memory. It's really interesting.

@flamshiz 2 месяца назад

the glitchiness really calls everything into question

@brianbarker2551 2 месяца назад

Heck, I'd email the TV station and see if they can pull up the video in their archives.Long shot, but they'd at least know about it?

@4cannibal Месяц назад

I kept expecting this video itself to be the april fools prank

@notsparks 16 дней назад

So I lived in Seattle then, and now. I just saw this in my feed and do actually remember seeing something about this or hearing it from a friend. I was a teenager (yup, I'm in my early 40s now) and VERY involved with computers and when I saw the thumbnail started laughing because I do remember the story from then. I don't honestly know if there were boxes because I never saw one but this was around the time I upgraded from Windows for Workgroups to Win95 and a friend and I took the bus to Egghead to get it. In fact, Egghead was regularly frequented by Microsoft employees back in the day (before it went bankrupt and the domain was purchased by Amazon). So I can say that at least the story was around then but this was long before most news stations had web presence (in 1996 there were only about 100,000 web sites on the internet and we didn't have Google to find them). The internet was mostly message boards (called BBS), so not finding much doesn't surprise me.