1993: CNN's first reports on the Web
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The World Wide Web celebrates its 25th birthday and we take a look back at how CNN reported on the internet.
The World Wide Web celebrates its 25th birthday and we take a look back at how CNN reported on the internet.
In March 1993 I returned to the USA after a two year assignment in Ecuador. People on the radio and TV were talking about the World Wide Web. I had no idea what it was, and I barely knew about email. Now 30 years later I can't live without it.
Who's still watching in 1995?
I was born in 1994, so I guess I am ..😁
This "internet" thing sounds good, it could become big one day
I'm too young to use the internet.
Fingers crossed 😂
har dee har har....oh you so funny
never caught on unfortunately 😥
All these years later....and Nintendo is still way more fun than an encyclopedia.
Exactumundo. Nintendo rules.
Yes! It's better to keep the masses dumb and hooked to video games.
@@paulsteel9127 a cheeseburger tastes better than broccoli. Admitting that is not synonymous with advocating “keeping the masses hooked” on cheeseburgers.
I mean, to be fair I am currently making the choice to watch a news report from 30 years ago
Well the Switch came out in 1993.
"One danger is it could turn out to be an elitist system--available only to people with a computer and modem" heh
Well that's not wrong. It does require an internet and a modem.
I suppose you could *technically* make an argument that this is true if you zoom out to a global scale. Kind of difficult to argue you’re not part of the “elite” if you’ve got an internet connection when compared to starving kids in dirt poor villages.
When companies realised that they can profit from bringing everyone online.
@@lemo4739 Even that argument is on its way to go out the door.
Privileged much?
“At lightning speed!” 13kbps was lightning speed back then. A few days ago I downloaded the Red Dead Redemption 5.3GB update in less than 15 minutes. I wonder what 1993 would think of that?
1993 would probably be 1994 by the time it downloaded that.
kzhead.info/sun/fpiKdqx6hGluqIU/bejne.html
My first modem was 300 bits per second. Pretty much limited to text in real time. I used it with my Commodore VIC 20 to access electronic bulletin board systems. A "BBS" was one guy who owned a computer that he set up for other computers to access, like an answering machine. Some of these "BBS's" were hooked to other networks through something called "internet."
13k wasn't even available in 93, hehe. Most people in the US with modems were lucky to consistently get 9.6k if they owned 2400 baud modems (and not all 2400 baud modems could achieve 9.6 IIRC)
Considering it took ten minutes for one photo...lol
I'm watching this video on the internet. So meta.
I too am watching Internet. We have Internet in common, yes?
Nola Chick like everyone else of course
me to
I have a computer and a modem. Separating the haves from the have nots. Lol
KZhead is better than internet
If only they knew about social media and the headaches of it today
Everything comes with its upsides and downsides. If you had the choice to remove those "headaches" but also give up all the benefits from the internet which one would you choose? If you're younger than 30 to 35 you probably won't be able to answer this in a objective way as you wouldn't have experienced life without the internet.
@@flybeep1661 Yeah, I'm not sure I'd want to get rid of it, despite whatever issues I might perceive from it. That being said, I'm only 27, and more recently so, so my life without the internet was only for part of my childhood (I must have started using it at either 7 or 8). I don't know how different my life would have been without it (if the entire world didn't have it). Maybe I would have felt inclined to go outside more and have a stronger social life. I just don't know.
"Given a choice between Nintendo and the Encyclopedia, he would choose the Encyclopedia." ....I dunno I smell something fishy with that statement.
Well now you can use the "Nintendo" to access the "Encyclopedia"
For some it may be true. Just look at how popular Wikipedia is.
And now teatchers say wikipedia is bad source of information cuz books are better. Ironic
they love encyclopedia dramatica
He was super cereal.
In early 1990s very few people ( relatively speaking ) knew what internet was. Fast forward to today internet literally is akin to electricity. You turn off internet and the word literally goes back to dark ages.
God wouldn't that be nice. No bullshit jobs, no traffic jams, no bills, no taxes. I could list the benefits all day.
@@chrisheard5727 Yeah, and spend all your days hunting for the few remaining animals in the jungle
@@milaanvigraham8664 You say that like it's a bad thing.
@@chrisheard5727 Yes, you'll starve pretty soon. Without the modern economy, our large population can't survive - there isn't enough wildlifr
@@milaanvigraham8664 Some of us know how to make it without a grocery store.
This is so nostalgic, I think internet is one of the most important tech inventions. Interconnectivity is very very important now.
1:02 When scientific research was done with MS Paint
I get that it's laughably primitive, but It's clearly not MS Paint. It's not MS at all. I would really like to know what that program they're using actually is. It's definitely doing some kind of electron probability cloud calculations.
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This is nothing, a hero in Indian movie used windows media player to trace terrorists...
@@fortnite-kq7ok kzhead.info/sun/etKsqaaQfaKEn4U/bejne.html Our man is hardcore, typing in media player 7 to track bad guys... Imagine what version 9 can do...
don't forget mario paint
Anyone else watching this off their phone while sitting on the toilet?
Lol. "An elitest system" now pretty much everyone has it
It's almost always the rich who have access to the newest technologies first. It's 2022 now, and there are still some people in the 3rd World who do not have consistent or reliable access to the Internet, believe it or not
@Duffelbag Drag I wasn't referring to the poorest of the poor in 3rd world countries. Of course, their priorities are much more basic. I was talking about the ppl in the 3rd world who need internet access like students and some workers
@Duffelbag Drag But that IS changing. Internet access even in the poorest areas is growing.
I remember my teacher when I was a kid said the internet was going to give the freedom of speech to the world. Well shit ..
Was your teacher incorrect? And if so, then in what way?
Now we can carry the internet in our back pockets ...what a time to be alive 😃💖
No way. The internet is way too big to carry in your back pocket. It's almost the size of a loaf of bread. It is still pretty small though. The problem with it being so small though is that if someone drops it, it could cause riots in the streets! Luckily, it's stored safely in Big Ben.
I remember sitting in a college classroom in 1995. I was 20 years old and had 2 pagers. Why 2? Have no clue why. All my friends did and we all thought it was cool and no we weren’t drug dealers! 😬 So, my music teacher starts talking about the World Wide Web. That was the very first time ever hearing those 3 words. I’m not even sure he called it the internet either. So in a class of about 30 of us, no more than 5 people could hop on a Mac desktop computer (Yes Apple) at a time because of bandwidth issues. The whole room would fill up with connecting modem sounds snd we all opened Netscape and learned about those “blue underlined words called hyperlinks” which would take you to another part of the www. Just like you can get on a highway to anywhere in America, this hyperlink can exist anywhere on earth on a bigger computer. Then we sent each of us an electronic piece of mail. My very first email in my life was my colleges email. It was like my last name with literally maybe 10 random numbers with the “symbol that looks like a flower” followed by our college name. We were all astonished! None of us wanted to leave after that. It was the first class in the history of our college that was offered as an elective. It was called World Wide Web 1 or something. By the next semester, it was by far the most enrolled elective course by students and it was hard to get in that class because of the sheer number of kids trying to enroll. Once you became a Junior, you were allowed first dibs. Crazy times 😂
😂😂😂😁How you feel about the transformation.
We're the same age, I first heard about the internet around late 1992/early 1993, my senior year of high school. But I didn't fully understand it until 1994, and that's when I first went online. But I didn't regularly go online until 1998/1999. I don't know about you, but I always felt like an old man on the internet, even when I was only 22 or 23. Most of the people online seemed to be middle school and high school kids, with a handful of others around our age, and even less older than us. It was rare to find anyone over age 30 online back in those days. They were around as that 90s Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan movie showed, but still rare in real life. Looking back it's amazing how I felt like an old fart when I became a regular online when I was just a 22 year old kid.
I used email in 1993 at college but if i remember correctly we could only email other colleges. I want to say it was unix. I remember using Netscape to surf the web in 1996 to look up guitar tabs and lyrics. The connection was very slow so tried not to click the wrong icon due to the delay.
I can't believe that the internet was still a new technology when this piece of news came out in 93'. I was married that year. 😳
I turned 1 that year
I was just born that year
I turned 3 that yese
I was a CMEN
@@duffelbagdrag I wasn't alive.
I was around when the Internet started. I was in my 30's. I already had a bunch of computers before that time and used them to access the few BBS systems in our city. Loved the old ASCII coded pictures. After a while I started programming in HTML and CGI while later moving on the PHP, using CSS and JavaScript. I'm now 65 and still programming for the web as well as programming Micro Controllers for many projects I'm asked to make. Other than the Social Media portion of the Internet, I think it's been a great thing. There's no encyclopedia in the world that match what someone can find that could useful info on the Internet for building things. One just has to search it wisely and avoid anything that has an opinion or slant. IMHO, as already mentioned, it's Social Media part that's the biggest issue. But that's just my opinion for what it's worth.
I was born in 1993
@@93seronica You may have missed a lot of the beginnings of the net, but trust me there's way more to come. So long as people use it as a serious resource for teaching and learning. There are so many resources out there that can help you with almost anything. For news, not so much. That's why I've avoided social media altogether. No Face Book. No X. Nothing. I don't think I'm missing much.
@@93seronica You're young. Yes there was a world where there was no Internet and no cell phones. Party lines were used for cheaper phone bills and kids played outside all day doing what most parents today would call dangerous things for fun. It was a wonderful time to be alive.
I miss this type of internet service. I am a '90s kid. Self-explanatory. I feel like we NEVER needed social media. Using the basic of AOL was so much fun. Nowadays everything is out of control. It's a serious problem. Everybody is damn obsessed with technology. Just wanna be on their phones 24/7 always looking down. Mental AF. 😱
Every generation has a similar critique of the next generation. When the "24/7 always looking down" phone kids are talking amongst each other in 2050, they'll say, "Kids nowadays are just constantly absorbed in augmented/virtual reality. Back when we were kids in the '20s we'd have to pull out our phones to communicate with others or look something up. I miss the older, simpler times!"
She takes a walk to her computer
1993! Birth of the world wide web internet
actually, the Internet was available for public use in 1989. The worldwide web was created in 1991 and gained popularity by 1993.
Thank You for uploading this
LOL. Yeah. That's what youngsters are now doing after school. Coming home and instead of Nintendo, are accessing the Encyclopedia Brittanica on the internet. The dream has now come true.
Yes...and Nintendo went broke...
Yes, kids are accessing “tools” on the internet, but it’s not the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Nintendo is no more.
they still use nintendo
Nintendo switch exists
Why does the reporter at the end look like part of his head is missing?
this segment has some great music can't tell if it's a video game or porn but either way CNN sounds like it used to be a hell of a lot more exciting
@Dana I'm so glad you commented, had completely forgotten about this banger
The bad old days of Windows 3.1, 640x480 VGA display, and CRT monitors.
What are you talking about? Horrible modem noises, monitors that could crush your foot if they fell and enough AOL CD's to fill a galaxy, You had to be hardcore back then.
nothing wrong with 3.1, bloody awesome it was.
And Mac OS 7.
Connected thru 12000 computers... Wow that's a drop in the ocean compared to today.
This video has literally been played on more devices than the internet at the time had servers. It just boggles the mind how far we've come.
First computer 1984. Internet 1994.
What?!? Please subtract around 30 years from each of those statements :D
@@HKragh He might be talking about his own personal milestones in this field.
@@heinoustentacles5719 you're probably right :)
69 was the first internet
the internet started in australia in 1995
0:58 "data bases" Wow... I don't know if that's more odd than actually referring to the internet as "the information super highway" (1:21). It's like people calling a car an 'automobile' rather than just saying that its a 'car'. Or saying "airplane" or "aeroplane" rather than just "plane". That's the thing with the internet, isnt it? We are seeing so many words in our vocabulary become archaic before our very eyes.
Yeah, data Like, bases of data. Makes sense!
Graphics alone make it an awesome piece to watch!
No one will ever choose anything over Duck Tales for the NES.
I love seeing old stuff like this. It's (for some reason) so funny. Hehehe.... Now it's The Interent" or "Chrome" or "Firefox".... then, it was" The Web" so funny...
It was the year that I turned a year old! It's no wonder I don't remember a time without the internet. Cell phones were huge at the time and only a few people had them. It's amazing how much we have in the access to the Internet three decades later and pretty soon it will be the whole world in the access to the Internet. And at this time it was like the companies who had access to the Internet a lot especially.
Hello, CNN? Yes, I too would like to sign up for Internet.
and computers dropped in prices and most people can afford it.
This internet thing will never take off
This is in the wrong aspect ratio for 1993.
He pronounced “Wikipedia” wrong
I am looking for an old CNN special from, I think, from the year 1998 or 2000. They showed you what technology might look like in the year 2050. I can not find it.
Internet when starting out was mostly available to mostly wealthy people because even computers were expensive .the only regular internet use for most lower income people in 90s were libraries for like 1 hr a day
I got Internet-discovery flashbacks reading this lol. It's exactly how I gained access to it in 1994 until 2000 when I was finally able to afford a PC. I hated that 1hour timer on the screen, would start flashing with less than 5 minutes left!
@@maxmulsanne7054So funny. I started using internet in early 2000 l
Right out the stone age
RIght OuT tHe sTonE AGh!
Man, we as a society have become these people in 1993's worst nightmare when it comes to technology consumers.
When dail up was considered lighting speed
Im looking on my computer i cannot find the encyclopedia Britannica.
The best thing about the internet is that its CHEAP. When you have no money to go out to the city,you can always sit at home and dig through internet garbage.
It's way more fun and enjoyable and a million times less stressful, I think.
@@dreamlandnightmare So is having fun with real friends.
@@dreamlandnightmare If your "friends" give you a hard time,then maybe they are not your friends.
So...does CNN want us to be afraid of "Internet" or not?!
LawoftheLandPA It’s just reporting the facts. Be scared if you want to.
@@grelymolycremp7838 back when they did that lmao
no one really calls it the "net" or "web"... people thought that would sound cooler, but it just never caught on
I got home from school and looked at an encyclopedia. I read an article on Nintendo.
The World Wide Web celebrates its 25th birthday and we take a look back at how CNN reported on the internet. The World Wide Web celebrates its 24th birthday and we take a look back at how CNN reported on the internet.
Watching this in 2024 aint no joke, you can use the restroom, make something to eat 🎉🎉 come back and itll still be loading lol😂
Watching this in lockdown 2021
And most of this today wouldn't be possible if weren't for break-up of Ma Bell - AT&T in the 1980s.
Anyone know what day this piece ran in 1993?
Oh what they didn't know was it was going to be hand held...wow
"children will more likely gravitate to the internet rather than video games" my mom: *brain rot*
1:30 the kid chose the encyclopedia over Nintendo because he knew he could download emulators
I would ha e been 6 yrs old in 1994. The internet thing was just getting introduced to the world. Now I have a kid who is 6 yrs old born in a time when internet is like the “air “ . It’s everything and everywhere.
The phantom elite, quelle surprise.
I get the name "Net" but I do not understand the combination of of "Information Superhighway" and "Surfing." Clarify, please, thanks.
1:04 fidget spinner?
Formic acid.
*sigh*
Built my first computer from computer show parts in 1991.
I remember one quy paid his bills with a modem. It was in 1994. I was confused.
This is amazing! Anybody know how I can get this INTERNET thingy? It's great! I have an idea what if somebody made a WWW place where people can see pictures and maybe even send stuff to each other! Probably just a fad ... anyway, gotta get back to my typewriter. Got a term paper to finish. :(
And please, don't forget to put the new cover sheets on those TPS reports.
Uhm... yeah, I kind of have to go ahead and disagree with that...
So did you chat like whatsapp in 90s .like instant fast Or just few messages
The internet? Is that thing still around?- Homer Simpson
We must be the elite because we all have internet
Miss these days
internet existed in military since 1969? what else do they have that have not been released yet?
The Internet has been around longer than they're saying. 1966! The government was using it for defense systems. The World Wide Web was the early 90s for the commercial use.
1980
1990's for nationwide use
Watching this on 18th August, 2023.
30 years ago
Someone would think you’re crazy if you’d say it IS your phone back then… lol it was either the phone, or internet then. I was -4 back in ‘93, not even a concept of the person I am today yet 😅
94 Old School!
the way internet use to be back then i dont think i would of ever been hooked on it then as i am today
Got online for the first time late 1996 and believe me, you got into it really quick because there was nothing like it. Even the idea of being able to chat with people in a "chatbox" from all around the world was very exciting. You had ICQ for social media, Napster to get music (that came later in the decade), yahoo search engine (or alta vista), simple flash games, and because it was all new it was pretty exciting to surf around the web.
and till this day we would still choose game system
I love that " Groovy Music "... Lol
No way people thought calling it the net was better
I remember my "FAMILY" asking me what the INTERNET when I was 11.
I bet most kids couldn't tell you what an encyclopedia is but I bet they all could tell you what Nintendo is.
It's a series of tubes!!!
They mention "internet" but no mention of "the Web".
Indeed. The internet was already 24 years old in '93
The World Wide Web had only been introduced in August 1991. It was basically niche by ‘93. It wasn’t until 1995 when it went full commercial and mainstream.
At lightning speeeeeeed
wrong aspect ratio.
Africa's Data is still statistically significant expensive in Our Universities comparing to the other continents, let alone accessibility and teaching Big data, Data analytics or Data Science. Therefore "Data Limit" is touchy and painful barrier that slows our intellectual liberation and robust Debate
Because your kind needs to make your own type of internet
Yeah I am totally amazed about how the internet has changed since 1993. 33 years later KZhead has come to stay for a particular reason.
kid today: browsing wikipedia on their phone while playing the Switch
Now people share videos and pictures at lightning Speed....
In July 1993 I was in my mothers womb lol
Psh, this internet thing will never take off.
My dad was one of those elitist Internet users with a dial up modem that hogged your phone line. 20 years later in 2013 he was still using dial up 😂
0:35 "Critics say one danger is this could turn out to be an elitist system, one available only to people with a computer and a modem." Unless he's talking about third-world countries (where the lack of Internet access sort of still makes that true today), the exact opposite was already in the process of happening in the United States in 1993, and we know that now. 1:13 "And thus widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots." He may be right, but not in the way he thinks in 1993. What happened is the huge rise of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, KZhead, Amazon, and other giant Internet companies that ended up controlling people's personal information, knowing your media habits far far better than they should, and controlling the information and news that people see, and when you control all those types of information, you can start to control what people think and do.
1:21 he is same as Carl Sagan
They didn’t even consider the thought of online gaming did they
I remember starting windows from DOS C:\>win
I remember cp/m
And prince.exe... Prince megahit
"Internet".
this is not the web. its the internet.
LOL Al Gore's predictions on the use of Internet by young people were just as accurate as his predictions on global warming melting the Arctic ice cap. 😂
I can't blame the US picked Bush the Goofball 😂
@@TheStreetFoolosopherMr187 Both were terrible..
Prodigy user here!