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Here's a great comment on another video linked in the comments of this video: Me in 1995: I can't wait to see what fantastic technology we'll have 25 years f

• bobsmooth 3y ago
  The internet hasn't changed that much, only the scale of it. You could "watch videos downloaded off the internet" for a long time, but now we can access a massive library of 1080p video with zero buffer time. People don't appreciate how amazing YouTube really is.
  • shrimp_emoji 3y ago
    Which means now we can be barred from owning (downloading) the videos. And be subject to algorithmic feeds and whatever dark UI patterns value extract our data most efficiently. :D Rentseeking++
  • zamnos 3y ago
    > massive library of 1080p video with zero buffer time. Yes but can you sit there and wait for several hours before accessing a grainy 240p clip of a whale being blown up, and then thinking it was the best thing ever for three days? Kids these days....
• fuzzfactor 3y ago
  1968: waiting for new latest-technology vinyl records to come out from pop stars who were setting "records" for the number of millions sold per hit release 1978: copied selected vinyl to cassettes for portability 1988: copied selected CDs to cassettes next 1998: designed RIAA circuit for digitizing vinyl collection 2008: never did digitize much 2018: people are listening to vinyl all over again