That's how I remember it. Like the others were saying, this was fast-paced. The guests were informed of this. The general "Thank you" was enough, move on, before the time expires. It was only a half-hour show & once a week. No general public Internet as prevalent as we know it today. I miss the early 1990's, which was the height of this show. Once the episode ended, I would immediately change channel & watch NBA Inside Stuff, with Ahmad Rashad. :)
Yes my son ? ahh the 90's... indeed, well If you want to go back then so be it... I'll make it so, just before the moment of your passing... I'll be there to guide you, then off you go... have fun... oh and there is no such thing as death life is but a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves... ttfn xx
@@millermonsterair you're right, it's much better to pay $500 for some piece of shit that will make it 6 months if you're lucky you stupid f*ck*ng zoomer
@@millermonsterair if you payed 2500$ for a printer you got 2500$ worth of a printer. ultra fuckign amazing relyable, low printing costs, functional, sturdy as a tank. you never needed a second one even in heavy duty use. in our shop we had one running like 8 hours a day almsot constantly, for years, it was a small one or 2 casettet feeded laserprinter. it was ment for light use like you know maybe 50 pages a day. we sent easily 2k if not even more a day. that thing lasted longer than the company, at least 5 years in duty.
***** I agree, But I imagine it got hard to get material after the Manufacturer Explosion in the late 90s.... and by the mid 2000s there was so much out there by so many names you could lose yourself in the info.. Still this show really is informative about how computers have grown.
RU-vid is full of people that review products..that's basically it..i think you have the bug nostalgia:))..i think now there is no need for that..information is available everywhere,internet hasn't changed that much..so need shows like that,everything you "catch on the go"back then was new tech that people "didn't know what to do with it"
Michael Delgado Steward cheifet even said that he was tired of 20 years of show every week plis there were other reasons.he said someone said when computers became like fridges the won't be a need for show like this,I agree
Current reviewers do a great job as they focus on one product for a long period of time with a narrowly focused type of area they only review on. So much better than a 2 minute snippet of a product done by the marketing manager. I think if Cheifet was to come back on youtube his focus would be on interviewing high-level officials at top companies and research labs to see what kind of trends are going on. CC was a little like that in the early stages where they got actual engineers and scientists on the show rather than marketing people.
The concepts and ideas of the 90s had to wait for the chip fabrication and communication tech of the 2000s to come into being. Almost everything we use today is a 1980s or 90s idea.
@@mulletman1705 RU-vid wasn't the first video hosting/sharing platform ... In fact it wasn't even within 5 years of the first. You can absolutely bet cryptography was waiting DECADES for faster computer hardware.
This is when I used to look at a computer and learned something, now instead my computer watches me and learns all about me. No wonder we want to go back in time.
It's interesting to see the foundations of smart TVs being discussed regarding MPEG compression, setup boxes and the battle between TV and computer digital broadcasts. Even now in Australia this battle is ongoing between free-to-air, Foxtel and Netflix. Some things never change.
It's really fun to watch stories from this era of computing because you see the building blocks technicians and enthusiasts were starting to build. Things that we still use today like MPEG.
This makes modern technology very understandable by showing us the old school building blocks. It must have confused some people watching it in '95 though, as they were no doubt confused by how computers worked in general.
@@aniym21000 uh, just because the technology wasn’t as developed doesn’t mean people weren’t as skilled. People probably knew more about how computers worked because you had to to keep them running. Today it’s just running apps with no knowledge needed of how it works. Not saying that’s a bad thing. Things should work so well they’re black boxes for consumers.
6Mb per MINUTE????? im SO happy we progressed passed those days and i really dont miss it at all. yeah, its neat to look back and remember how exciting it all was back then as it was happening, but i am SO happy that weve gotten better at our tech.
I love how at 11:13 that Reboot is playing as their demo. I loved that cgi cartoon back in the day. I still wonder what happened to Win6. And the beginning of online ads..geez.
So interesting to watch this in retrospect. Most of this “interaction” found it’s home on our smart phones and tablets, not the TV. They probably didn’t imagine a phone becoming the center of almost all daily digital activity.
Even if somebody did envision it, it was not going to happen anytime soon and didn't. It took like 15+ years. "Smart TVs", on the other hand, were supposedly just around the corner. It didn't quite work out, but could have, I guess.
alot of the ideas they shared did in fact come into play, Interactive guides, live weather and Video on demand was around in the early 2000's. its not quite the "Smart" TV's we have today, but pretty close to what i experienced in my child hood with digital cable set top boxes. This was a huge leap for that era.
That's 100 kb/s pretty impressive for the 90's. Just like 100 mb/s was impressive during the 2000's. And 100gb/s is impressive now in the 10's. Can't wait to see 100 tb/s in the 20's.
For 1995, the speeds discussed in the video were fast, especially when the signal had to travel primarily through copper wires as opposed to fiber optics. It's called "baby steps." The speeds we enjoy in our broadband today didn't just come out of nowhere but were the product of technological evolution over time. It had to start somewhere, sometime ago. 25 years later, unwise people will make the same kind of snarky comments about 50 Mbps speeds being "blazing fast" without realizing that their fast speeds were only possible from that said evolution.
+Watcher3223 Those speeds were insanely fast back then! Most people were on 56K modems at best.. well in fact most people had no internet access at all!
***** And, though some people may have had 56k modems, they didn't always connect at 56k speeds; the speed you really got was dependent on the line quality between yourself and wherever you dialed to.
Damn right!. The information these shows offered always had you glued to the screen and interested in watching the entire thing from beginning to end. The producers of this show and the developers that created these technologies, computers, peripherals, programs and games really knew how to attract their audience.
Weird, the German TV show "WDR Computer Club" had a similar system to download further information onto your computer starting from the 1980s. In fact there was a commercial service based on the same technology that was already discontinued by 1995 when the station airing it switched on teletext.
Basically a Smart TV is in essence a TV with a computer board in place of the traditional TV tuner, but it is used for acquiring data programs and digital features in faster signal transmission.
I watched some episode the other day, and Intel "Absolutely" guy really cracked me up. Now after few more I see this is a defining thing in this show, hah. :D
Our home was one of the first 1000 to get hooked up to the internet via a kabel modem. Which was hilarious as you'd almost killed sites if you ended up downloading from them. In fact the only site that worked at full speed at the time was Tucows (who remembers that one?). A whopping 10Mbit/s download speed in 1999... a huge improvement over the 56K internet connection before.
My high school had speeds like that back in 1999. I was blissfully unaware of just how painfully slow a 56k modem would be in two years when finally having an internet connection at home. I still recall 768k dsl being fast enough in 2003.
10 Mbps in 1999.. on par with ADSL download speeds in 2007. But the highest speeds were a premium back then. It was not long until the price of broadband ADSL internet plummeted that more people migrated from 56k to ADSL.. And by 2006-2007 ADSL itself began to face another new competitor: internet via fiber.
@@HBC101TVStudios Yup, and now I have 1Gbps up and down via fiber with 0ms jitter and 14ms ping on speedtest. Fastest on offer at the moment in the Netherlands.
A computer show on convergence and no: Flat screens, Roku Boxes, Fire Sticks, Android TV Boxes, Chrome Cast. Just very immature set top boxes and none of it yet even running any video over IP yet. Back in the day I used to buy an unlocked box that was compatible with my cable company and I used to watch everything their wire had on it. Now everything is locked down with IP and most all cable companies don't use analog video over the coaxial cable. A couple of months ago I called AT&T and canceled my Internet and TV. They turned off the Internet right away but I plugged their cable box into my new WOW router and it still served up all the stations that I subscribed to. I don't even have cable any more. We are totally converged now... They didn't yet have home brewed DVR's back then. Hell most people were just getting 10mb cable service.
I think we were still transitioning to cds then, 4MB is a bit back then lol. I had office pro on over 60 floppies. Talk about worrying over media going bad lol.
Backthen, telephone lines were used for internet,but since 1995, also tv antennas are used for internet, eventrough antennas were only designed for 1 traffic signal,but by coding those back signals from your pc into high freqs, it does NOT interrupt or distorb the low freqs of signals,so low and high freq signals can travel across eachother on just 1 wire. Eventrough before 1995 antennas were digitaly only used for video text or downloading content on seganet.
I'm still waiting for this actually. I've got plenty of TVs including a 4K OLED, not a single one that does anything like this. Modern smart TVs run apps on the client end, they don't fetch any interesting content from a server. This is more of a thin client, and to be honest, much more interesting.
He said megabytes, so it's 48 megabits per minute, that's 800 kilo bits / 100 kilo Bytes per second, this is extremely fast for 1995 where you were happy if you got 2-3.5KB per second.
Talking about cable modem... im sittin here on fiber connection like dude i remember when we first got cable *broadband* isdn... dial up and dsl... it sure has evolved ;)
You know how to tell if a device is "smart"? It knows who bought it and doesn't spy on you because it knows it's gonna end up on the trash pile if it does.
Too bad their own executives dismissed the idea and called out supporters of such things as trolls with no business sense. Else, they could have dominated the industry in the years to come.
I had a PCI tuner card in 1998. At first it felt like an amazing novelty but I almost never used the thing, except for descrambling some channels but the quality wasn't really all that great anyway.
Used mine all the time. This was before dedicated set-top digital recording boxes were on the market so it was pretty innovative and amazing stuff to be able to record over the air broadcasts directly to digital format for later viewing.
What is so wild is that they never realize about our world with COVID. They would think it was Alien planet and impossible. At this time they did believe in flying drones, cars, auto cars, etc
Funny how the lady said people are arguing over weather the pc or the tv should be the device to use. I've been using my pc on my tv since 2002. I got that first video card and never looked back. I remember it taking a month to download a movie, I'm guessing maybe through napster
We had 6 PC's in just one class in my school and that was back in 93. I believe that their PC was the only one hooked up to broadband though. That in itself would leave everyone speechless due to the speed. It used to take f-ing ages to load a page via regular modem back then so this was wizardry.
He doesn't interrupts, he explains to the viewers what they just said in simple terms, remember that back then most people wasn't too familiar with computers to a point that even using a mouse and double-clicking was a challenge to some of them, even the "nerdy" target audience of this show wasn't familiar with all of the terms in all of the subjects they cover so it was needed to clarify things for the viewer.
He talked about that in an interview. He emphasized being concise and to the point. He wouldn't allow people to engage in extended sales pitches. That wasn't the goal of the program.
