Soon my son soon! One day the internet shall go to wales! Soon. The world 🌎 fears that Wales just is not ready. One day you will all be on the super highways of the world 🌎.
@@anthonywalsh2520, : I May Be A Bit Thick,?????? But I Don't Understand Your Post, Sorry It Must Be Me, ??????????? Can You Please Explain,????? . Season's Greeting,.
"This is the information superhighway... and earlier today I sent an electronic mail message to the president........ of Nigeria, who wanted to transfer some funds to me for small fee"
Wow. That's... That's the funniest and most original thing I've come across today... Not. 😐 Not every Nigerian does this ffs. Can't blame you though.🤦🏼♂️ And yes, I'm Nigerian.
There's no cringe factor. They talk frankly about what it could eventually do, what it currently can do, and what's standing in the way of progress. Brilliant.
Six years after this I was ten years old and writing my first website in HTML 4, I am still so astounded by the amount of change over the past few decades.
HTML absolutely rocks! You can change font style, size, color, you can make tables, you can insert pictures and hypertext links, it is amazing! Much better than a book!
same here, i remember using dial-up .. i remember what optimization used to mean, something that no longer exists. modern websites are made to waste resources. you need at least 2gb RAM to visit modern websites, they take like 10x more disk space then needed and load 50x slower than they could. horrible ... i remember optimizing my webpages and figuring out how to make them interactive with as little code as possible, i remember optimizing images to be as small in size as possible, while keeping good visuals.
For the past 12 years I have a FO cable that ends on my roof, From there the TV RF coax cable is used to connect the modem inside the house with the box on the roof.
Oh, it saw the "light of day" in that in that day (you lnow when this all kicked off) that is what it wss called. So sit back down, nephew. Wacky idea and straight history are disparate domains. Beeeyach.
So many people didn’t believe it would happen. I used to watch Captain Picard on Star Trek the Next Generation, walking around with a handheld tablet reading his daily duties and updates. “ absolute rubbish it will never happen” people said 😀
I always think the same about star trek the next generation which was the first to introduce the touch screen tech and hand held devices, its pretty much happened minus the enterprise lol
@@easydrive3662 very far seeing show, they accurately predicted mobile phones, medical scanners, and bio neural computers, they almost seemed plugged into the mid future before it happened.
I like to think that Gene Rodenberry was a time traveler from the Federation sent back to guide us on a path towards a Star Trek Future and helped lay the seeds.
@@elelegidosf9707 Reading this comment 24hrs later, about a 5 year post, on a 23 year old comment was impressive. You were spot on and concise in only 2 sentences.
@@vaiman7777 Reading this comment 10 days later, about a comment, about a 5 year old post, on a 23 year old comment was impressive. You were spot on and concise in only 2 sentences.
that was back in the days when people still had some common sense left, even tho i was just a poor kid, I miss those days where everything was so simple :(
Bill Clinton never got the hang of email. He famously only sent two emails in his entire time as president. It's just as well, he probably would have sent this TV presenter a dick pic.
The first head of state to send an e-mail was Queen Elizabeth II. And that happened in 1976, 22 years before this Tomorrows World episode came out. www.wired.com/2012/12/queen-and-the-internet/
28 years later and I still get my 'information superhighway' through copper wires. If the Government was as forward thinking as Tomorrow's World was, we may all have had world-leading fibre to the home by now. Instead, there are parts of the country still devoid of any realistic internet connection with no prospect of it anytime soon.
It's pretty amazing how much technology advanced in the 90s. Although I do, strangely, miss the days of having to boot up Encarta to find out any information, and also how basic the internet actually was.
People in the 90s had a pretty good handle on the technological changes on the horizon. What no one saw was the social effect of those changes. The ability of private citizens to disseminate their own content and compete for influence with governments and corporations has had no parallel in history.
@@ylfaer They did sabotage it. 99% of everything done online is controlled by Google or Apple and if on a PC, Microsoft because you're using a device controlled by one of them. Then you have Twitter, Facebook, RU-vid (Google) which heavily influence people, push their narratives and use all sorts various mass censorship to control what people see. All these companies are closely involved with the government too. The information people get is so controlled you don't even notice it most of the time even though everything you see is only what they allow you to. Of course there's plenty of places still on the internet to get information that is completely organic and uncensored but the problem is the vast majority of people don't know about these sites and platforms and things and also don't want to put in the effort. So the vast majority of everyone online only gets information filtered through one of three companies that basically control the internet and they all have the same agendas and narratives that they want everyone to follow. They absolutely "sabotaged it" as you put it by taking control of it and didn't waste any time doing it either.
Hi there from 2020, My small apartment is now a voice commanded universal interactive multimedia entertaiment center, I even have one in my pocket. Cheers!
But now Big Brother knows every secret, every facet of your life. Who you vote for, who you are shagging, where you drink, where you work, where you shop, and even what you like for breakfast. They can even track your movements, down to the nearest 10 square metres. All they need to do, is tap a couple of keys, and they OWN YOU BITCH! They can even make your everday life, virtually impossible, and confine you to your home, if they so wish, then arrest you and FINE you, even when you have committed no crime. Sometimes, I wish it was 1994 again, when the closest we came to religious fanaticism, was the Mormons knocking on your door, or the Salvation Army Christmas appeal on tv. And CCTV was a thing, but only to catch shoplifters, and general ner-do-wells up to their skullduggery. When a fun size mars bar was the same size as today's regular size mars bar. And car tax was the same price for everybody, not free for those who are lucky enough to afford a brand new car. And it was easy to guess the occupation of somebody wearing a hi viz jacket, not wondering if they could potentially be a government operative, looking for somebody to publicly shame, or fine for inadvertently dropping a cigarette butt. Technology has made our lives easier in some ways, but it has also created a selfish, materialistic attitude in many people, and created a society where our fundamental freedoms are scrutinised and have come under threat. And has proliferated an insidious, over-reaching element to how we are governed.
Given how little of the tech was known back then, this is a very well researched and put together programme. They've nailed the applications at least 15 years before they've become mainstream.
The presenter here, Kate Bellingham, has a Masters degree in Electronic Communications Systems Engineering. She graduated from university before the program was broadcast.
Well, that's not really true. Most of the technology in such programmes was then just only available in laboratory or experimental setups (so basically, some high-ranked people inside the company that were working on the new technology got a chance to try it out at their home). So they knew a lot about the technology back then, could provide experimental setups just for demonstration purposes but it just wasn't cheap enough yet (or still too much restricted by current technology somewhere else) to be brought to the general public.
@@cloerenjackson3699 I know, my dad already worked from home in the eighties by modem. I wasn't talking about that particular subject, but commenting on the original comment by someone who stated they knew little about the technology in those days, while in reality, a lot of very clever people were years and years ahead of the then common technology, researching the possibilities in laboratories and such.
@@weeardguy I don't think you have a valid point. Nothing esoteric or exotic appears in this video. It is all technology which will have been deployed in businesses at the time it was broadcast. It was only relevant because internet access wasn't yet common on the home then. The Presenter, Kate Bellingham, already had a BSc in Electronic Communications Systems Engineering when the program was broadcast. She is describing the subject she studied for her degree. Much of what she is saying will be material she didn't have to research especially for the show because she is already trained in that field. It was her job to explain it to a wide audience of non-specialists.
Most of the UK has fibre thanks to cable companies like NTL and Telewest (who later merged and became Virgin Media). Only when cable TV providers started offering internet access did the fat, lazy cats at BT start to panic and make promises of ISDN and ADSL connections but by then it was too late. Because BT was the only telephone provider in the country they had no need to upgrade anything, if you wanted to go online you had to use BT and you would have to accept 56k because it was all you were gonna get. So BT must have shit a brick when cable modems landed, I think they shit an even bigger brick when the cable companies started offering free phone lines with your cable modem. I think my whole extended family moved over to Telewest in the same week dropping BT like a ginger baby and never looking back.
Tomorrow's World was a first class, entertaining, popularist but intelligent programme, which the BBC used to do so well, and I loved watching it as a kid in the 80s and 90s, and of course they were often uncannily spot on about their predictions. Basically Kate described the Internet in a nutshell and what we use it for, but it has expanded way beyond those capacities and what was thought at the time. It was weird to see the type of PCs I used at Uni and at the library, and the simple blocky text of the web pages.
Google earth and Spotify both blew my mind when I first saw them and now I couldn't live without either! My first computer was ZX Spectrum with 16k of RAM. 16k! My toothbrush probably has more RAM than that!
I think I remember watching this at the time. Someone told me to you'd be able to buy a house on the computer one day and I could hardly believe it although I did watch a programme at the time where a female reporter was put in a room with nothing but a computer and she had to order certain items online (such as a coat and some socks, and something to eat) to complete her task. I remember the first time I went to someone's house and he was sitting at a desk with a huge monitor in front of him and he was surfing the internet and I thought it was marvellous. Now none of us know how to live without it! ☺
Maybe you mouse-click on the position of the tracking head and it resets at the server terminal? Not sure what would happen if more than one person wants to watch it, though.
People in 1994 : talking bout internet Me in 2020 using the Internet to see people in 1994 talking bout the future of internet : Hmmmmm interesting....... continue explaining please.
You don't need hindsight. The "can't play a video" was just with the existing infrastructure. She then goes on to explain that much more will be possible when the infrastructure is upgraded, which was exactly correct.
NO CORRECTRIX, SHE SAID IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE ON COPPER WIRE. MOST OF US STILL USE COPPER, THE MO-DEMS THEMSELVES GOT BETTER AND CAN TRANSFER INFORMATION WITHOUT WIRES. SHE WAS NOT EXACTLY CORRECT CORRECTRIX
Quite some cables between you and the servers are fibre optics. The last few kilometers are copper, but the rest is fiber optics. Not that you're totally wrong, because you can transfer quite some data through copper.
Steven Whiting My neighbourhood just got fibre optics last year (after they tore up the street), and only this year was it brought into my apartment building.
All of my neighbours can get 300MB fibre to the premises but yet I can only have 1.5MBps ADSL. I asked them when I can get fibre and they said "never".
And here we are today, watching this video on the internet. You forget how prehistoric the 90s was in terms of technology. I can't believe how far we have come in the last 20 years. Imagine this woman could time travel into the future, she woud be amazed.
"You can transform your home into a massive interactive entertainment center." Yea, or a massive survailance tracking device that records everything you do and puts it in a database for convenient use for others.
I actually met Kate in real life! No joking, she came to my school last Thursday! Also, fun fact: Kate said the reason the BBC used so many monitors on that episode is because they thought it would be 'modern!' -Lightning \[T]/
Honestly though that feature to buy items that appear in what you're watching is kind of cool. Similar to what amazon prime video does where you can see who the actors are in any scene you pause.
Its always the way in the UK. Too nany old fuddy duddies in the Lords holding us back, with their "Lets wait and see" mind set. So nothing gets done quickly, and we lag behind when we SHOULD be at the forefront. It is often left to private investors to get projects off the ground, and the end consumer initially pays a fortune, until other private investors start similar projects, creating competition, thus lowering the cost to the consumer. Yet we spend BILLIONS on foreign aid, so the likes of India can have ITS own space program, and we are left gobsmacked, wondering how they do it! If we spent more money at home, we could be world beaters, in many areas. Look at the French Railways, we pioneered the Railways, yet lag behind france by about 40 or 50 years with our creaking infrastructure. And German car production. How is it they are so successful at it, and we failed so miserably, especially from the late 1960's onwards. The Germans had the same competition from the far east, yet still manage to innovate, and succeed at it. Why are we in the UK so different?
@Hugh Jones Thing is, Labour are just as bad. They talk the talk, but borrow so much money, that we end up being crippled with debt. Then they tax the rich who provide the jobs, and they end uo registering in the Cayman Islands to avoid the high taxes. So then the burden falls to the working class, as per. If Labour were less motivated by generating revenue via taxation, and more motivated by job creation/retention, then there would be more people contributing to the pot, instead of taking from it, via welfare etc. And divert NI contributions directly into private healthcare initiatives, instead of creaming their cut off the top, then there would be no need for a tax payer funded NHS, which IS a drain on the public purse. We must also STOP health tourism too, which costs tge NHS/US, about £6bn per year in lost revenue. Because it costs the NHS more to chase up paynents from foreign governments, than the actual treatment given to THEIR subjects, who all too often, piss off back home, once they've aborted the sprog they can't afford to feed, or once they've had their dental work done. Somebody has to pay, and it is always the tax payer who is saddled with the bill. This country needs a complete change in how it generates and allocates public finance. The solutions are simple, but there is no will for radical change, which only serves to leave us lagging behind.
@@hermanmunster3358 The main reason why internet is working so well is fact that it was not made or invented by any government or state owned company... Your idea that government should be creating jobs is also sily, as most of the time job creation by government ends up with army of bureaucrats that are only producing paper for other bureaucrats and idiotic laws and regulations that are invented often only to prove that this army is necessary and create more bureaucratic jobs for other family members. At the beginning of XX century Austro-Hungarian Empire was the worst country on this planet in the topic of income tax as the income tax was at staggering level of 13%... During WW2 in ocupied by German socilistic government Poland the income tax jumped to 30% as they simply hated Polish people. In 1901 USA got the income tax of 1% up to 4% and for the 1964 tax year, the top marginal tax rate for individuals was lowered to 77%...
@@Bialy_1 I never said "governments should be creating jobs" although governments do have a responsibility to ensure that job creation is a priority. What I was saying was that governments could do more to encourage private initiatives in infrastructure and manufacturing projects, by allowing temporary tax breaks, or providing enterprise zones on former industrial sites, whereby new developments could spring up, or revitalising those areas so that they are brought back into public use. And just so you know, the INTERNET was developed by various scientists and computer engineers, then helped with funding by the US Government's department of defense. Without US Government assistance, the internet as we know it, may never have gotten off the ground. The idea may well have came from one person. But as often is the case during product development, a collaboration is required to see certain ideas through to fruition. Learn to understand what you are reading pal.
@@Bialy_1 Not to challenge your sentiments, but the Internet was invented by government, specifically the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA). The reason the Internet succeeded where others failed, and what you aluded to, was: no centralized control. That's because point of the project was to develop at network which could continue to function to despite "multiple catastrophic failures" (ie. nuclear strikes).
Hello from the future. In the future, we have something called RU-vid and this is the medium through which I am communicating with you. In the future, the superhighway is up in the air and is wireless, named ‘wifi.’ Seriously, I can’t believe how far we’ve come in the past 25-30 years. Being in my twenties, I really cant fathom the world in which these things didn’t exist. I helped my grandmother with her ‘tablet’ a while back, and she was absolutely blown away, exclaiming I was frightfully clever, while in reality I only helped her tweak a few things with the setting.
Right, except comcast took billions and billions of dollars in government aid and didn't expand to where they were supposed to. They simply expanded to the most dense areas that would make them the most money, which they would do anyway as it was most profitable. Most of the rural areas and less profitable places never got it for decades and many still don't. Another corrupt government handout to billion dollar companies. I'm sure we know who got rich off that deal. And now decades later we finally have space-x with Starlink that is having to fill the gap using fast satellite internet.
Why is this stupid? This was 21 years ago - the 'Information Super Highway' they refer to IS the internet - it was a buzzword used in the 80s and 90s to describe the internet back then, when it first became available to the consumer market.
tjf4375 As you cannot see, this is sarcasm, and as you may not know, *****'s channel is mostly also about sarcasm about how to draw really good. (if removed, still true) 10/10 would watch Oliver draw again 10/10 would find random Oliver Aged 24 comments over RU-vid again note: he also works at Bossa Studios, famous for Surgeon Simulator and I AM BREAD, but you probably don't need to know that.
This was the start of all we have today, it was pioneering, and it was on dial-up! 90’s kids and beyond won’t understand any of this! Information superhighway = internet!
I'm watching this on my PC, on two 4K monitors, downloaded over a 1Gb/sec fibre-optic home Internet connection, in the middle of an Australian suburb. Only took the best part of 30 years :) to achieve.
Don't laugh but I've started my own search engine to take advantage of this new technology. I'm thinking of calling it Boogle or Doogle or something like that.
Ahhhhhhhhh 1994 I was one of those 20 million that had taken his first baby steps onto the information superhighway. Has been on fascinating trip. Can't wait to see where we go from here.
The Internet is great and all. But, contrary to the prognostications in this video, RU-vid still doesn't tell me where that woman's floral waistcoat comes from. Obvious fail.
This was just amazing to watch. 1997 was a big year for me, getting a computer online at home (with noisy modem, cable all the way up the stairs!). As a collector of rare vinyl we're STILL adding them to the 'highway'. Things are still effectively 'lost' until info on them all at least is available. Love it's continued growth and watch it with fascination.
Yea, it's been interesting to witness melody slowly being eliminated from music over the years. I guess these days if it's not auto-tuned or *...wait for the bass drop after a cacophonous din* it isn't music 😋
Man… I remember going over my mums friends house in the 90s and connecting to the internet for the first time… that shit was amazing! I also enjoyed the paper clip winking.
One day we will be able to watch these videos live on your computers and possibly leave a comment below saying things like "One day we will be able to watch these videos live on your computers and possibly leave a comment below" :)
We got our first real computer in 95, 100mhz pentium for like $2400 I member being jelly at my buddy's 133mhz. Another buddy had a 2nd phone line, talk about baller
Argh the good old days xD I also remember the college investing in some new Pentium 133 MHz 'workstations' and they had to lock the room because they felt people would be going crazy to get on them lol Do you also remember the Cyrix CPU's? I had one, and managed to achieve something in the region of a 20 MHz over-clock..I felt like a king. I mean 20 MHz people would laugh at that today. I also had a Commodore Amiga at home, which I felt was way ahead of its time especially when it came to working with video and titling a lot of which cost zilch thanks to public-domain software.
And 28 years later, good ol' Blighty is still pi55ing about with copper and there are large parts of the country that still don't have high speed BB, myself included, despite living in a reasonably large town. I started using the internet in '96, on the old dial up modem, and made my first online purchase within a few weeks, from New Zealand! It was a leap of faith as I had no cetainty that the items would arrive. They did, in just over a week and I was blown away, it was life changing. Shortly afterwards I found Amazon and ordered a number of books, which were about 50% cheaper than buying in the UK. They arrived in 4 days! This is the end of the high street I proclaimed! I just wish I'd bought Amazon shares then, I could have retired by now if I had!
Ah, Teletext. It felt a bit like a simple version of the internet (before I knew the internet even existed); checking world news, weather and football scores.
In the 90s I thought that with the internet everyone can communicate with people around the world. They can read books, learn history, learn languages and become super smart. Oh how wrong I was in that time. The people of today dont want to read, they want to make selfies on the top of a roof and fall down.
Interesting idea but too complicated and slow for the general public I think. I'll stick to reading books, writing letters and going down the road to the flower shop.