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There's this new thing called "internet" that apparently lets jocks from all over the world talk about football. I love found footage.
This is apparently a CBC report from 1993 on the growth of the internet. I think it's cute how they don't refer to it as "the internet," but rather just "internet. The explanation of emoticons, and how to read them is precious.
And did you know that it's possible for people to use the internet to spread confidential information? Shocking.
Perhaps the most surprising thing about this report from 14 years ago is that there's no ominous music over a graphic of young children looking at a computer screen filled with pornography. I chalk that up to this being a Canadian broadcast.
[via Neatorama]
This is apparently a CBC report from 1993 on the growth of the internet. I think it's cute how they don't refer to it as "the internet," but rather just "internet. The explanation of emoticons, and how to read them is precious.
And did you know that it's possible for people to use the internet to spread confidential information? Shocking.
Perhaps the most surprising thing about this report from 14 years ago is that there's no ominous music over a graphic of young children looking at a computer screen filled with pornography. I chalk that up to this being a Canadian broadcast.
[via Neatorama]
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Subscribe to commentschrisMar 1st 2007 8:16AM
Wow what a great nostalgic video! And I wonder when "internet" was changed to "the internet", sounds so weird not having the "the" there.
chrisMar 1st 2007 8:16AM
Also, at 2:39 I could swear that back monitor is showing the default XP background.
Brad LinderFeb 28th 2007 6:20PM
If you click through to YouTube, the person who posted the video responds to allegations that this is a fake video by suggesting that the monitor in the video was just running the "bliss" background Microsoft later made the default background for XP. I can't remember if bliss was available for Windows 3.1, but I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt, because this would have to be a pretty elaborate hoax to be fake. And it sure seems like the sort of news report that would have been around in 1993.
MooreFeb 28th 2007 8:29PM
Another interesting tidbit is that Bill Cameron, the CBC journalist in this piece, is now dead. He succumbed to cancer back in 3/2005:
... Now immortalized on "Internet."
Atanas BoevMar 1st 2007 10:48AM
The microchip ring on the finger of the guy (4:25 in the video) is ubergeek ;) I should make one for myself!
DMar 2nd 2007 11:25AM
"Not a lot of cursing and swearing. Not a lot of putdowns. No screenfulls of 'go to hell'"
My, how times have changed. Now every idiot with a computer drowns the internet in this crap.
RonMar 7th 2007 6:45PM
Here is the same piece from the CBC Archives site...
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-75-710-4205/science_technology/computers/