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Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
- shahahmed 4y agoi liked her light dig at the british govt for not having a modem or a policy on the internet. funny how different it is now with all the european regulation of the internet.
- chrisco255 4y agoYes, thank you Europe for the cookie popups.
- Eduard 4y agoBlame the industry for doing so much tracking and at the same time not developing an industry standard for automating user consent decisions.
- shever73 4y agoI miss programmes like Tomorrow’s World.
- TheDudeMan 4y agoSay it again! https://imgflip.com/i/6ug8by https://imgflip.com/i/6ug8by
- losvedir 4y agoWow, the phrase "information superhighway" really brought me back. I hadn't heard that for quite some time!
- desindol 4y agoFun fact: Because of this phrase (In German „Datenautobahn“) the German digital ministry is docked to the ministry of transport…
- aspyct 4y agoOMG this is... quite the misunderstanding -_-'
- peteradio 4y agoThat's amazing, I don't even care if its true.
- instance 4y agoCheck it out: https://www.bmvi.de/EN/Home/home.html https://www.bmvi.de/EN/Home/home.html "Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport"
- mr_mitm 4y agoDoesn't confirm the "Because of this phrase" part of the claim.
- mtmail 4y agoIt got its current name 2013. It was a merger 1998 of "Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building" and the one responsible for transport. The urban development department was responsible for internet infrastructure not the transport one.
- mcv 4y agoShouldn't it be the ministry for infrastructure?
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoReminiscent of how New York transferred responsibility for the state canal system to the electric power authority because of NYSDOT mismanagement.
- jamiek88 4y agoIn Texas the railroad commission is super powerful and responsible for oil and gas leases.
- the_jesus_villa 4y agoIronically, I just ran into this phrase last week while reading an anthropology paper from the 90's ("Maya Hackers and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State: Modernity, Ethnostalgia, and a Lizard Queen in Guatemala") Whenever I hear this phrase it reminds me the part in the book Cryptonomicon where the pretentious humanities professor feels so clever for asking "How many slums will we bulldoze to build the Information Superhighway?"
- EvanAnderson 4y agoOh, ugh... Memories of all the awful road metaphor headlines of the time are flooding back-- "Breaking Down on the Information Superhighway", "Traffic Jams...",
- frank_nitti 4y agoUnfortunately that term brings an even more awful memory back for me and many others, as That enthusiasm was used for a brazen lie to the American public: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5839394 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...
- ulkesh 4y agoAnd, as evident in the video, its considerable overuse. I cringed watching this every time she said it beyond the first few times.
- illys 4y agoI heard that so many times in the 1990's in France, "les autoroutes de l'information". I knew that politicians were running after what the USA do, but I did not realize that they were also translating and recycling the very same words. I just realized it while watching that 1994 video :-)
- Jimajesty 4y agoI've been reading Douglas Copeland's 1994 novel "Microserfs" recently and there's a bit where the main character starts reading up on actual highway construction in response to the information superhighway.
- alcover 4y agoIs it as good as Generation X ? Also I'd love Coupland to reiterate and do a 'Generation Z' about zoomers and digital natives.
- Jimajesty 4y agoHe did write a sequel of sorts to Generation X called Generation A in 2009. I haven't read it so I can't comment on it, though I suspect it is already 'of it's time' in the way that, say, Microserfs is. It's a fun novel to be sure, for something that emanates a huge "now-ness circa 1994" it's still very enjoyable today, but maybe that's because I can vaguely remember life back then. I'd wonder what a younger reader might think about it?
- Eduard 4y agoGoogle Trends shows "information superhighway" is getting midly more popular again in recent time: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=information%20superhighway https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=informat...
- cm2187 4y agoFunny to see the BBC complaining about "letting the market forces" build the internet. The said market forces didn't do too bad.
- mizzao 4y agoYou mean the oligopoly of big tech?
- cm2187 4y agoIf it was government controlled, it would be even less diverse. Think of the original AOL, but country wide.
- throwaway787544 4y ago
- tambourine_man 4y agoConsidering that ARPANET and CERN were both government funded, I’d say market forces had little to do with it.
- beardyw 4y agoYes, it was a government initiative to create a decentralised network. Getting ready in 1994 was over 20 years late. Fun fact: Queen Elizabeth sent an email in 1976. Or more likely she pressed a button.
- fundad 4y agoNot to mention BBC
- HarHarVeryFunny 4y agoARPANET was basically military and educational, and was pre-web. I remember using a 300 baud acoustic coupler to dial into a university computer c.1980; there really wasn't a whole lot you could do with it back then - just simple text-based stuff like telnet (remote login) and command-line based e-mail (SMTP) as well as FTP. Even things like IRC, Usenet, Archie, Gopher all came later. While the commercial internet, allowing companies and consumers to connect, grew out of ARPANET, it obviously was commercially funded, with backbones built out by the telecoms, etc. I think for most people today the term "internet" is essentially synonymous with "web" - stuff they can do in their browser, which of course came a lot later. HTML and HTTP were only invented c.1990, and this was the beginning of the internet as people today know it. Even then, a lot of people only saw the internet as filtered through AOL.
- laxd 4y agoDisappointed to not find a flower shop at branch.com:1080
- exodust 4y agohttp://web.archive.org/web/19961020151638/http://branch.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/19961020151638/http://branch.com/ Even the order form is still there, ready for your credit card. There's a link on the order form, "credit card concerns"... > "...we feel that using a credit card here may be more secure than using it at your local restaurant. We don't know. We haven't had a problem in this area." I guess "we don't know" covers them just in case things go wrong!
- alt227 4y agoWhen I pause Netflix, why dont I have the option to purchase the clothes they are wearing on screen?
- c0mptonFP 4y agoGotta drink a verification can to enable it
- scyzoryk_xyz 4y agoUbik ... Safe when taken as directed.
- mudrockbestgirl 4y agoBecause we got NFTs instead.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- fikama 4y agoBecouse Netflix is not from China (I heard that chinese tiktok has exactly this option) - just a fun fact
- lm28469 4y agoIt's just advertising, American's instagram has it too
- illwrks 4y agoImagine the admin required to setup and manage something like that... If implemented now, what about in 2032 when you're watching re-runs from 2022? What if the store goes bust or styles change?
- Joker_vD 4y agoSurely that's a job that ML would handle easily?
- SMAAART 4y agothis is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95-yZ-31j9A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95-yZ-31j9A
- throwaway787544 4y ago
- jlarocco 4y agoAnd mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz92bJDp4eo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz92bJDp4eo
- mr_sturd 4y agoPort explicitly specified in at least one URL. Was HTTP without a standard port back in '94?
- capableweb 4y ago> On March 1990 they published the document RFC1060 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1060 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1060) where they listed the well-known ports at that time. In that list there wasn't a protocol assigned to port 80. It went from 79 to 81: 79 FINGER Finger 81 HOSTS2-NS HOSTS2 Name Server > So, at that time port 80 was officially free. > In 1991 Tim Berners-Lee issued the first version of HTTP in a document about HTTP 0.9 (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html) where he stated: >> If the port number is not specified, 80 is always assumed for HTTP. > Then in July 1992 was published RFC 1340 that obsoletes RFC 1060 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1340 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1340) where appears: finger 79/tcp Finger finger 79/udp Finger www 80/tcp World Wide Web HTTP www 80/udp World Wide Web HTTP > That document makes official the port 80 as www or http. [...] From https://superuser.com/a/996843 https://superuser.com/a/996843 So at 1994, 80 is pretty much the default, but sometimes it was specified anyways, just like some addresses you see around still prints/shows http:// http:// / https:// https://. Not everyone know what part of the URI is important or not.
- Steltek 4y agoI figured that it was someone's idea to get above the 1024 mark when all they had was a shell account and people weren't using :8080 yet. It could also be that "virtual hosting by name" wasn't a thing yet so a single computer hosting multiple sites had to break it out by port.
- paulgb 4y agoI think you’re right that it’s about virtual hosts. AFAICT the Host header first appeared in this 1997 RFC: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2068#section-14.23 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2068#section-14.23
- everyone 4y agoAll the websites shown probably implemented way better than most modern ones?
- meijer 4y agoDefinitely simpler. You could just "View source" and understand everything.
- phelm 4y agoInteresting that the copper wires stuck around, UK's fibre optic rollout still ongoing not to be completed til 2026 or later
- someweirdperson 4y agoInventions like mp3 probably helped to reduce the pressure to upgrade.
- uni_rule 4y agoI think it would have more to do with Fiber to the Node allowing ISPs to only half-upgrade their infrastructure and still achieve workable broadband, even if having the foresight to do straight fiber would have been a much better goal to work towards at the time.
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- mikehollinger 4y ago1. This brought me back. When she clicked into the "mall" and the navigation was an imagemap with hotlinks [1] going off to a flower shop, I immediately thought of a website that some guy payed me to build back in the 90's when I was in high school. He bought SellMemphis.com, SellAtlanta.com, etc and wanted to create a directory for local businesses. Also - good on you, Philips Flowers, for keeping 1800florals.com in what must've been intense pressure from 1800flowers.com! 2. We still can't buy items directly in-stream. However, product placement is huge, and not just for consumer goods. Music featured in Stranger Things ends up trending on Spotify. Apple creates a playlist (in its own platform) for "Defiant Jazz," featured in Severance, also on its own platform). 3. Regulation (or lack of regulation) played out in an interesting way. We now have an interesting problem with digital infrastructure in the US anyway, where copper cables (still) only get you so far, wireless is the new expectation, and countries that -had- no comms infrastructure are by default more modern now than large tracts of the US, because they skipped past the "telephone poll" phase straight to cell towers. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/19990208003609/http://branch.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/19990208003609/http://branch.com...
- cypress66 4y agoCell towers are not a replacement for wired connections. There's only so much data rate you can have for a given frequency bandwidth[1]. Wires (or fibers) work around this because the medium isn't shared. Each wire has the entire spectrum for itself. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theorem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theo...
- mikehollinger 4y agoOh absolutely! I guess I'm confusing my own point - which is / was that in some places cell towers are showing up -before- wireline connections.
- uni_rule 4y agoI suppose it is easier to run one major fiber line to a cell than it is commit to FTTH. Still I though this was a half-deserved dig at how outside of cell-service many more rural parts of North America still top out at decades old ADSL, and the places that do have good broadband are often via cable tv infrastructure (DOCSIS). I suppose if someone did build new infrastructure from scratch they would just start at LTE/5G and laying fiber to the premises, why start anywhere else?
- theden 4y agoMaybe it's nostalgia, but there's something calming about CRTs...
- FartyMcFarter 4y agoAs I remember it they were a pain to look at for long periods. Maybe there was some upside to that though, encouraging people not to stay on the computer for too long...
- Loeffelmann 4y agoI just imagined the static feeling of touching them with your hand. Damn nostalgic...
- B1FF_PSUVM 4y agoPutting the back of your hand close enough to the screen could be a hair-raising experience ...
- chrisco255 4y agoThey're great fun on moving day! Very calming to lug a 50 pound crt up three flights of stairs!
- euroderf 4y agoThe amber ones had excellent contrast, unsurpassed IMHO.
- thepostman0 4y agoThey were nice to sit near on a cold day.
- poszlem 4y agoKind of makes me wonder what would those people say if we played them Bo Burnham's Welcome to The Internet from 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
- april_22 4y agoAnd I am even more excited by thinking about what the internet will look like in 2031
- AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
- irrational 4y agoBased on past experience, it is going to look a lot like the internet of today. Things just don't move that fast that 9 years will make much of a difference.
- adrianN 4y agoLike the internet today, but with more ads, more sponsored content, and more AI generated submarines.
- pkdpic 4y agoThose submarines are going to be pretty sweet.
- dredmorbius 4y agoFor those unfamiliar, not as wet as you might think: <http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13993>
- cainxinth 4y ago
- dis-sys 4y agowell, 28 years after airing of this report, most UK & EU internet services are now provided by a few American companies. for other smaller countries in Asia and Africa, things are probably worse, they are pretty much denied for their digital sovereignty with all essential online services, privacy data and sometimes the infrastructure itself completely controlled by those few companies.
- uni_rule 4y agoWhich companies? Unless you mean websites and not the ISPs themselves, in which case, fair.
- nuker 4y agoI built a retro 486 PC, bought a modem and could not find any dial-up ISPs in Australia. The 19xx prefix is not dial-able using VoIP line that I set up (we don't have POTS lines anymore).
- prox 4y agoWell, you can built a new internet! Just find some more computers to connect to!
- mynameisash 4y agoI would - unironically - love to build an 'early internet' where we could dial in (or just emulate it via an intentionally low-bandwidth, high-latency layer over home wifi). Go back to chat rooms, islands of communities centered around a particular topic.
- anthk 4y agoTildes. https://scribe.bus-hit.me/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf https://scribe.bus-hit.me/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-...
- Cyberdog 4y agoYou're in luck - here's a list of still-operative dial-up BBSes: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbs/connection/dial-up/list/brief/ https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbs/connection/dial-up/list/b...
- myth_drannon 4y agoThere is a device you connect to your computer port and it can emulate dial up. It connects to your wifi but your computer sees it as a modem, then you type regular AT commands and instead of a number it connects to telnet BBSs.
- Handytinge 4y agoAs someone who did support for dial up in Australia many years ago, I've been thinking of doing this. It would be trivial to set up a VoIP service restricted to outbound POPs.
- brudgers 4y agoRelated? Ed Krol's The Whole Internet https://archive.org/details/wholeinternetuse00krol https://archive.org/details/wholeinternetuse00krol
- ghaff 4y agoI have that on my bookshelf. I particularly like that there's one chapter near the end on this new-fangled WWW thing.
- antihero 4y agoIt'll never catch on.
- therealmarv 4y agoI'm also deeply sceptical.
- 1970-01-01 4y agoRelated are the AT&T "You will" commercials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2EgfkhC1eo
- anderspitman 4y agoThey were not, in fact, ready.
- timnetworks 4y agopersonal information in professionally produced video before the first minute is out. it's not even the anchor, probably just staff.
- SubiculumCode 4y agoThe answer is no. We were not ready for the internet. Its made people crazy.
- irrational 4y agoWorld Wide Web (or WWW) is too long to say and "The Web" never really caught on, but the Internet is not quite accurate. It feels like we need a word to differentiate IP from HTTP. Though, since we haven't come up with one yet, I guess we will just have to live with the WWW being called the Internet.
- antiterra 4y agoWhat exactly is your requirement for ‘the web’ catching on? It’s used very often on ycombinator in submission titles and comments. I see it used by millennials and gen z on Discord, though more commonly as an adjective, eg ‘oh is it just web or is there an app?’ Sometimes they drop ‘the’ and it becomes “hey i saw this on web.” Online Korean comics are usually just called webtoons instead of manhwa. It’s used on corporate sites, ads, hotel amenities descriptions and in references to ‘the dark web.’ What more do you need?
- joegahona 4y agoFor a while, I remember "The Net" being used. It sounds very wrong now.
- jbb_hn 4y agoProbably due to that provocative movie on cable TV by the same name. It had that girl from the bus.
- nilsbunger 4y agoThat movie showed ip addresses with fields greater than 255!
- jvolkman 4y agoAnd the hottest band on the internet.
- mmh0000 4y agoI love the Seinfeld joke!
- ngcc_hk 4y agoAround that time is it the plan to move to iso/osi 7 level. Is there migration to that? Is a chairman of a little known committee called ietf … That is my memory. There is some sort of gov standardisation towards that. Read some ietf papers in u and very confused by that direction.
- igortg 4y agoFunny thing that sending an e-mail to the president (Brazilian president) was one of the first things I did when got online (1995). It was basically Playboy website and this till I found IRC :p
- jamiek88 4y agoHahaha, brilliant. As a kid in UK IRC then Napster freed my mind from isolation due to my geekiness. There was one other kid in school into programming then getting online there was whole world. We didn’t even have free local calls so being able to chat with a F/14/California was mind blowing! Funny how many of them there were…
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- ck2 4y agoFor some reason this made me flashback to the summer of 1981 when MTV first went on the air https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs Spot the mainframe cabinet and wait for the full wall Moog (they actually showed non-stop videos back then, it was awesome, nothing like it before)
- euroderf 4y agoThey went like the first two or three years without commercials. Hard to believe now.
- OkayPhysicist 4y agoOr, viewed another way: they played nothing but commercials (for albums, concerts, and merch)
- euroderf 4y agoA wag once observed that the purpose of TV programming is to keep you in your chair for the ads. Product placement blurs this line. So commercial-free MTV was all "product" placement, all the time ?
- buildsjets 4y agoMusic videos and live performances are about 99% of my YouTube consumption, so it's been a great MTV replacement for me.
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- jedberg 4y agoI like the not so subtle dig at John Major's total lack of policy regarding the internet in 1994.
- wing-_-nuts 4y agoAnyone else pained by the fact that it's 28 years later and we STILL don't have fiber deployed widely? My parents are paying $65 / mo for 5mb dsl, and it's the best option they can get a stones throw outside of the city limits. Pathetic when you compare it to municipal broadband deployed everywhere with powerlines like in Chattanooga, TN
- capableweb 4y agoYeah, absolutely ridiculous how slow the US has been regarding rolling out low-latency fiber. Granted, smaller countries could do it easier but even so, consumer fiber-optic connections have been around since the 2000s, and still it seems like it's mostly only available in bigger cities in the US.
- formerkrogemp 4y agoA lot of the billions of dollars earmarked over the decades for telecom and cable companies was spent on dividends and buybacks rather than fiber rollout as intended.
- thakoppno 4y agoWe live a mile from facebook headquarters in the middle of silicon valley and our neighborhood just got fiber 6 months ago.
- enos_feedler 4y agoIt's amazing just how quickly you can catch the under estimation of the internet's potential. Within the first sentence, starting with the word "imagine", the largest image that could be conjured is related to viewing content created offline, rather than creating and sharing it within the internet itself. In the furthest stretches of the imagination, the prediction still falls very short. No criticism to anyone in 1994, it's just fascinating how difficult it is to peer far into the future.
- willhinsa 4y agoI think Bowie's prediction for the impact of the internet was not too far off the mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaHcOs7mhfU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaHcOs7mhfU
- paul7986 4y agoNapster came into existence in '99
- revolvingocelot 4y agoThe parent comment is 6 minutes, but the full 15 minute interview (about more the the internet) is worth it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLf6KZmJyrA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLf6KZmJyrA
- solomonb 4y agoHas Jeremy Paxman since then reflected on this discussion publicly?
- revolvingocelot 4y agoNo idea, sorry.
- drexlspivey 4y agoAlso check out Arthur C Clarke (author of the 2001 Space Odyssey) predicting internet connected personal computers and remote work in 1974 https://youtu.be/OIRZebE8O84 https://youtu.be/OIRZebE8O84
- jedberg 4y agoThe irony of watching this on my high speed fiber based internet connection while the host talks about the future where one can watch high quality video on high speed fiber connections. The future is now!
- rmatt2000 4y agoHere is one of my favorite videos from the early days of the web. Two popular morning television hosts discuss the at-symbol and ask "what is internet, anyway?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlJku_CSyNg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlJku_CSyNg
- standardUser 4y agoNarrator: "They weren't"
- gfodor 4y ago“Recipes” - it’s always, always there in these kind of things, and makes me laugh every time.
- madrox 4y agoNot only will you get your recipes, you'll get to hear part of the author's life story before every ingredient!
- justinlloyd 4y agoI watched this live when it first aired. My Miracom 9600 being my gateway drug to Usenet, Gopher, IRC, and the warez scene I was a part of. How far we have come. The future will be interesting and exciting, if we can get past this current hump of monolithic "controlled experiences" that Facebook/Meta/Google/Amazon/Twitter/etc want to push on us.
- ffhhj 4y agoSomething I'd have prefered about URL's is a numbering system instead of superdomains, that would allow allocating different sites at the same domain name. For example: * amazon.1 is the index of sites * amazon.123 is Amazon Inc. * amazon.878 is some roof installation company * amazon.111 is a courthouse in Brazil
- leto_ii 4y agoI realize I'm going way against the grain of other commenters, but this video has made me aware of how little progress has actually been made since then. I mean, the core ideas of the modern internet services we're relying on were already there back in 1994. Aside from much slicker devices, much higher bandwidth, much broader reach and a few new things around the edges, how much change have we actually seen? I'm of course being a bit facetious - speed, convenience, reach are all very important. But when it comes right down to core "mind blowing" new tech, how much have we actually improved on 1994?
- prng2021 4y agoDynamic websites is a core idea of the modern internet and that concept did not exist in 1994 internet. JavaScript did not exist. Modern internet is also real-time and largely community driven. Even the notion of these did not exist in 1994 internet. Websockets did not exist. Social networks did not exist. Video conferencing did not exist. Collaborative document editing did not exist. The ideas of wearables and always connected devices (smart watches, speakers, thermostats, lights, etc) did not exist in 1994. The idea that you could create virtual worlds, ie a metaverse, where anyone and everyone could interact by talking and even manipulating objects in the virtual world did not exist in 1994. The idea of aggregating user behavior across every connected device they use, site they visit, physical location they visit, and generating a prediction of their likes/dislikes and future behavior in order to tailor the actual user experience to each individual (targeted advertising, your personal google search results, etc) is a mind blowing core idea of the modern internet which did not exist in 1994.
- ctoth 4y ago> Dynamic websites is a core idea of the modern internet and that concept did not exist in 1994 internet. CGI and other forms of dynamicity absolutely existed in 1994[0]. > JavaScript did not exist. IT just needed 1 more year! > Modern internet is also real-time and largely community driven. Even the notion of these did not exist in 1994 internet. Check out MUDs and MOOs. Lambda was 3 years old in 1994. Wired called online virtual worlds "the addiction of the '90s[1]." > Websockets did not exist. But Berkeley sockets did (although you might have had to do some tinkering with Winsock on Windows!) , and I'm curious what you can do over a web socket that you can't do over a traditional socket. > Social networks did not exist. MUDs and mOOs again. > Video conferencing did not exist. Intel actually released a "kit" to enable this on regular Windows PCs in 1994. Cost a pretty penny though[2]! >Collaborative document editing did not exist. The first instance of a collaborative real-time editor was demonstrated by Douglas Engelbart in 1968, in The Mother of All Demos. Widely available implementations of the concept took decades to appear. A piece of software called Instant Update was released for the classic Mac OS in 1991 from ON Technology[3]. > The ideas of wearables and always connected devices (smart watches, speakers, thermostats, lights, etc) did not exist in 1994. Proto wearables absolutely existed in 1994[4]. X10 was developed in 1975 by Pico Electronics of Glenrothes, Scotland, in order to allow remote control of home devices and appliances. It was pretty cool, too, the modules had big honkin relays in them and would go 'clonk' when you switched them! > The idea that you could create virtual worlds, ie a metaverse, where anyone and everyone could interact by talking and even manipulating objects in the virtual world did not exist in 1994. Seriously though, check out what LambdaMOO and similar things were[5][6]. > The idea of aggregating user behavior across every connected device they use, site they visit, physical location they visit, and generating a prediction of their likes/dislikes and future behavior in order to tailor the actual user experience to each individual (targeted advertising, your personal google search results, etc) is a mind blowing core idea of the modern internet which did not exist in 1994. Now this, you're right about. Personally I could 1000% do without. [0]: 1993: CGI Scripts and Early Server-Side Web Programming. https://webdevelopmenthistory.com/1993-cgi-scripts-and-early-server-side-web-programming/ https://webdevelopmenthistory.com/1993-cgi-scripts-and-early... [1]: Johnny Manhattan Meets the Furry Muckers. https://www.wired.com/1994/03/muds-3/ https://www.wired.com/1994/03/muds-3/ [2]: Intel to Unveil Kit for Video Conferencing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1994/01/25/intel-to-unveil-kit-for-video-conferencing/cf8a17c8-7887-49a1-a018-20cc863be162/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1994/01/25/i... [3]: Collaborative real-time editor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor [4]: The 1994 Smartwatch That Syncs with a CRT. https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/03/16/the-1994-smartwatch-that-syncs-with-a-crt-wearablewednesday/ https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/03/16/the-1994-smartwatch-tha... [5]: Virtual(ly) Law: The Emergence of Law in LambdaMOO. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1083-6101.1996.tb00185.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1083-6101... [6]: Fly Me To the MOO: Adventures in Textual Reality. http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9405/moo.html http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9405/moo.html
- andreygrehov 4y agoIs there anything like Tomorrow’s World today?
- thepostman0 4y agoNot really, there's BBC Clock, since most things involve computers.
- formvoltron 4y agoWow this episode was a goldmine for anyone back then listening hard enough. In this little episode she told you to make: winamp youtube amazon spotify Also back then the Apple Newton had already been created and shipped. Also NeXT.
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- thevulcanlogic 4y agocurious how most of the services present nowadays in Internet were already planned in 1994...makes you think where is the innovation?
- 1916 4y ago