A new generation of tech entrepreneur was on the rise, creating sites that changed the very landscape of the web. Correspondent David Pogue talked with four young people using the Internet for all it's worth: 21-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, founder of thefacebook.com; Blake Ross, who co-created the web browser Firefox at age 19; Robin Liss, who created camera review websites while in middle school; and Wayne Chang, creator of the i2hub high-speed communications network. Originally broadcast on "CBS Sunday Morning" July 17, 2005.
18 years later, only Facebook and Firefox survived
That’s business.
Define: Survived Chang co-founded Crashlytics, a mobile company building crash reporting for iOS and Android, with Jeff Seibert in 2011. Crashlytics raised $1 million from venture capitalists Flybridge Capital Partners and Baseline Ventures as well as individual angel investors David Chang, Lars Albright, Jennifer Lum, Peter Wernau, Roy Rodenstein, Chris Sheehan, Ty Danco, Joe Caruso, and others.[7][8][9] In April 2012, Crashlytics raised another $5 million from Flybridge Capital Partners and Baseline Ventures.[10] Crashlytics has been installed on over 2.9 billion active devices and is the #1 most installed SDK for performance. Its Answers product became #1 in mobile analytics-beating out Google Analytics.[11] In January 2013, Twitter acquired Crashlytics for over $100 million. Most of the package was in stock vesting over four years with an upfront payment of $38.2 million in common Twitter stock.[12] In January 2017, Google acquired Crashlytics from Twitter.[13][14][15]
30 years later, none of them will exist.
@@SonnyAkucoming back in 12 years
"surviving on life-support" might be more accurate
It’s crazy watching this in 2021 knowing who’s made it big and who’s faded into obscurity.
@@l4ku sound dumb.
They're likely rich from their projects. People like this who like to build things caught the internet at the easiest time to make big money behind the scenes. Now competition is fierce.
Who are you talking about
@@l4k what?
@@laptop_1 wdym
I do not remember 2005 looking this archaic. It feels like yesterday.
Still looks familiar ... We just have fancier fonts and animations, and miniaturized machines.
I don't really see the archaicness.
@@TheRandomGuy570 The webpage design looks ancient. Otherwise it doesn't look that archaic.
i feel you brother
I hear yeah. This makes me feel old as *bleep*!
Miss when Mark Zuckerburg actually sounded human and like a chill guy
Before he was secretly replaced by a robot.
Incredible that Zuckerberg had all the women he could want from Facebook -all the pretty ones-Then he goes and marries the Ugliest from Vietnam or something
@@jamesr8584*lizard
@@jamesr8584 I think he was picked as the subject of a MK ultra experiment during his time at Harvard, just like that kid Ted Kaczynski, and that's why he looks and sounds like an complete idiot now.
@@jamesr8584😂
The fire fox guy is the man
yeah man, bro's sound is pretty recognizable from the second time you hear
watching this in firefox feels surreal
is also surreal that someone is using firefox xD
@@Teteercklol, Firefox with ublock origin and privacy badger is the way to go dude. Or do you still have youtube adds I take it?
nah i use arc nowadays and i dont mind watching some adds. i like that youtube it's free :) and creators can make a living of it.@@Dave21103
@@Dave21103 hell yeah brother I'm rocking them
@@Dave21103Heck yeah another person with some sense. I've been using Firefox since the 2000s, before that it was Opera. I've never seen a reason to switch to Chrome.
Fun Fact: the mural at 1:00 was painted by David Cho. He was paid for those murals in facebook stock, and the value of the stock grew to 200 million making him the highest paid living fine artist in history up until that point.
His name is David ChoE and he has never been the richest artist in the world. i guess the word FUN has more value then Facts. But it does explain how a trash artist like him got so much exposure. Kinda sad tbf, but well. i guess that is art.
@@puntvandekomma9498 name 1 other live fine artist whose net worth surpasses 200 million
@@puntvandekomma9498 You should take it easy. First of all, the 200 million number is outdated. Facebook went public at $28 a share back in 2012, which means that Choe got paid around 5,263,157 shares. Admitting he didn't sell any, those shares would be worth around $1,852,368,387 today ( 2 billion during ATH ) making him the richest artist in the world BY FAR.
@puntvandekomma9498 OK brainiac, who is the highest paid fine artist?
@@realSamAndrew I think you can find those estimations by yourself, instead of acting out like a woman. But it's certainly not 2 billion dollars, that much I do know.
Blake Ross is the biggest chad among them for creating firefox and going with the open source movement as a dev, I owe these people.
My goodness, I just love how vintage CBS Sunday Morning was, when Osgood was presenting the program to us, and how he signs off the show. “I’ll see you on the radio.”
Imagine 20 years from now…how we will be looking back at the early adoption of AI
There will be no humans left to do the review💀
Technology has slowed down its growth so probably longer than that it'll take
@@instalocktaka3712 did you skip AI 2023?
💀💀@@roviotech9072
@@instalocktaka3712 No it hasn't. Wtf!
Imagine life without camcorderinfo. Mad to even consider it for a second.
She was a content creator before their time lol
She could've been KZhead of her time crazy to think she had the right ideas not the platform
I Never heard of it until now?
@@StealthGT40so you are suggesting that she is an influencer not an entrepreneur, which was the the whole point of the report.
Never heard of cam
Feels like I'm looking 30 years into the past.
When you could find loads of information on an internet search. Now junk, next to nothing. The Web has become a more annoying version of TV.
@@zackthebongripper7274 Yep. I have to add "forum" or "reddit" to a search term in order to find anything remotely useful.
no but almost 20 years
thats because how rapid tech changed in past 15 years, especially camera quality lol
@@zackthebongripper7274 🤡🤡🤡
Oh, how times have changed. I miss the days of the internet's "wild west" days. p2p file sharing was at its height, KZhead didn't exist yet, and companies were making a killing selling Anti-Malware programs because Internet Explorer was still king(before Mozilla, of course). Oh, and Facebook hadn't turned our parents and family into complete monsters yet. You know...the good 'ole days.
couldnt agree more, back when the internet was mostly harmless and fun. now its all exploited. wish we could go back in time.
and before politics became 100% cancer
Lolll
The thing I miss the most is everywhere literally asking for all your Real Life details, with photographic evidence and so on.
Sort of, the missing people that met on forums haven't been investigated yet. Eminem Stan stuff.
its weird watching this in 2023, while using firefox and browsing facebook at the same time😁 its like opening a time capsule
They would have been happy to know they will make it.
How old are you? Who the heck used Facebook apart from 80 year olds
@@agme8045 I should be asking you that, since you think repeating a tired joke is cool or something. Facebook has the highest use base of all social media platforms. Unless 80 year old make.up most of the world population, then logic dictates everyone uses it
@@QuickProgramming it’s not a joke, only old people use Facebook in the west. I’m 19 years old btw, I don’t mind saying it. In my country at least, only old people use Facebook. Even my parent’s generation is increasingly dumping Facebook in exchange for Instagram instead. Heck, even grandparents are using instagram now. I genuinely don’t know anyone my age who uses Facebook, and it’s been like that for years. Last time I used it I was 11 years old. Unless you’re from Africa or Asia, wth are you doing on Facebook? It’s full of boomers spreading fake news.
@@agme8045 that's anecdotal evidence. Just coz no one you know uses it doesn't mean no one does. At 19, Google must be your friend. A simple Google search will tell you Facebook is the most used across all countries and ages. 320 million people in India use Facebook, while 190 million are from the USA. So USA is not so different to india considering india has almost 2 billion people, compared to 500 million from usa. It actually means more people per capita use facebook in usa than india. 40% of all UK people use facebook daily. Thats not a small number. 25% of facebook users are between 25-35, which is very high. So unless you consider this age group as old, your stats are wrong. Facebook may be the origin of most conspiracy theories but at this point, I think twitter has probably taken that spot since Elon took over
This is an interesting video. How happy were when they all started. That looks like it was for them a fun project, at the beginning.
Zuck waking up Dustin in the middle of the interview "dude, what's up?"
Very nostalgic. Reminds me of Friendster and Myspace before facebook became popular. 😊
Any crappy programmer making $13/hr could make those websites today. Unfortunately, today, the bar is much much higher. Now that we have the social media layer, programmers have become low status janitors, while social influencers are the new entrepreneurs; unfortunately, they have to duke it out for increasingly fickle attention. The camera/printer lady, ironically, was ahead of her time as a content creator lol
i i have the feeling the bar is much much higher in every industry actually. I dont knwo whats happening, but seems competition got fiercer in every field. I see older people from the previous generation that were reasonably succesful in their lives but that wouldnt stand a chance today.
A crazy or unique idea was enough two to three (or four) decades ago to be a blockbuster hit. Now you need more than that.
If he was using tools and available knowledge only from that time, then not really.
Actually those aren't your words, those are TechLeads
The barrier for entry is practically on the floor now. Back then, figuring out how to do "basic" things didn't involve watching the first 5 youtube videos you found on the topic. You had to really work at figuring things out. It also didn't involve connecting frameworks together and working as a glorified digital plumber which is what a _lot_ of the industry is now. Plumbers are still skilled jobs that can make good money, but you aren't typically solving novel problems or revolutionizing anything
"Its actually going really well, the actual goal is 24" ... (Interviewer slowly dies inside)
Interesting did he meet his goal? His site Is dead
@@BrutalStrike2im sure he made a bunch of money before the business sunk
He had another company that Twitter bought.
@@BrutalStrike2 yeah he's cracked
Big up Nathan Fielder for bring us this fantastic set of interviews
huh
2005: “Exploit the anonymity of the internet” 2024: “find my iPhone I’m eating here right nao”
watching this today, is like when we watched footage from the 80s, in the 2000s. Yeah, I'm getting old.
3:16 - That sound was so nostalgic!!
I remember when Facebook first came out, I was in high school. Everyone was making profiles, optimizing them with countless photos and shaming others who didn't just as if they were getting paid by Facebook itself. I found it all so bothersome and unnecessary but reassured myself thinking it would just be a trend that would not last for long... boy was I wrong. Now social media is bigger than ever
Would be cool to see 2021 update!
3 out of 4 people are worth more than $100M today
4:02 the great ultimate equalizer
firefox guy is the goat
You just listen to the young woman and realize that this is a special person. The intelligence, the maturity at her age back then. Unbelievable.
cant deny. but unfortunately she is the least successful person among the four
she also had a terrible idea and niche. i mean who tf buys cameras in the 2000s
all that female intelligence and nothing to show for it
CBS Sunday Morning has long been one of the best programs on television.
Blake Ross seemed so genuine and humble. I wonder what he’s up to now
he had a computer when they are 6 or 7 years old. they had a great technology in this time 😶😶
I believe, when i got my 1st computer…I was 6 or 7
Where are they now? Do THAT segment next time!!
maybe to powerful
I love how to footage from the 00s looks like! It's way better to look at. Imagine how the 00s felt like in real life
Much better times
@@Cr7_archivesthat's what everyone always says about the past. That's what they said about the 90s and 80s, and in those times, the 60s or whatever. People in the future will look back at now and say, "ah, simpler, better times". We're all just nostalgic. It doesn't mean anything.
eh.. It just felt weird looking at yourself on screen since you didn't get to see yourself all the time through your cell phone camera.
@@thebusybeanhomecafe4035 Right? 9/11, the tech bubble, economic recessions. Such better times. It's a phrase used by the willfully ignorant.
"The Facebook" LOL
Remember:) the purpose of the site was to troll for "hot chicks"
@@antzleah5413 You're right. Zuck was halfway through puberty at that time. :o)
myspace was king long before facebook.
Yeah, lol
@@doubleoseven273 and what it is now?
Omg 😳 can’t believe this was 16 years ago!
Almost 20 years ago
@@Kbxbigbro808 `18 full years so far
@@Kbxbigbro80818 years
19
Oh gosh it's been ages since I last had a Facebook so it's crazy to look back on those times and remember how everyone used to want one lol.😅
this sounds inspiring when i am seeing this on 15 January 2024
Nice to see him as a human, instead of a robot....
8:00: "Improve people's lives through government." What a wonderful idea!
Firefox is still a great browser. More people should use it.
im using it right now
the only thing that's not trash from all the rest of these
It’s trash. Brave is so much better.
Their stance on and actions on censoring "hate speech" really killed it for a lot of people.
@@ABC-ip6jq Perhaps, but I separate political/cultural views from software. Firefox itself does not push anything onto me, it is merely software.
Wow 😮 2005 simpler times
Blake Ross is a legend
Extremely inspiring❤
There's something inspiring about looking back at the humble beginnings of these soon-to-be tech giants, when greed, corruption, immortality, and blinding wealth wasn't an issue
1 Blake Ross 2 Mark Zuckerberg 3 Robin Liss 4 Wayne Chang
5. Robert Paulson
6:33 In terms of motivation all other projects suck compared to Firefox.
One brought the modern browser layout to the masses, one started the social media mega-boom, one invented new compression methods for distributing live media, and one had a camcorder review blog. 🤨
Women…
And she made bank from it too.
I believe even back then they knew it was a review blog, but they just included her for diversity (to show at least 1 woman).
@@sriharshacv7760 that’s progressive!
No different from any content creator like Marques Brownlee today. Making bank in the early internet (just before KZhead) reviewing sht? She was ahead of her time.
Oh my how times have changed. 6:23 Now there are MANY 20 year old life coaches and so called "experts" everywhere online
ahh, the good ole days, everybody's talking about the good ole days, let talk about them...
Back when the internet was seen as something good
Back when cars, planes, science and other things were seen as something good….
I still see it as something good. It’s just that you’re negative lol.
Yet, you're still using it...
wah wah internet bad );
@@JRAnalyzes He isn't bashing the internet? Hello? Robot?
Future generations will look back at this video as the tipping point to where the world went down the toilet
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What about the Camcorderinfo Page?
Zuck sounds like a stalker. Not far off the mark.
lol
Boy do I miss those times. Life felt simpler
Firefox guy is awesome
I feel like life has passed me by.
whatever happened to the camcorder lady?
Looks good project, i would say they likely to succeed in there business
That artwork in the background of Zukerburgs office was created by korean artist David choe. He did the art in return for not money.. but shares in facebook when it was a nothing company. He sold his stocks for over 200 million....
What was Wayne Chang's "solution" for lawsuits?
Didnt work..he got sued.
They are all doing great now.
One of the excellent entertainment and timepass to deal with our days created by the idea of wonderful American mark zuckerberg wonderful
R.I.P Camcorders.
- Start young in computing to build skills early. [3:19] - Use the internet's anonymity to establish credibility based on product quality. [3:51] - Collaborate globally to improve products through open source communities. [4:44] - Embrace and leverage your youth in creative ways. [5:01] - Be prepared to make sacrifices, such as sleep and social life, for project success. [5:33]
Good luck with that lol
@@u2b83 its the jews
I was 12 in 2005 and the perfect age to be a sponge for all of this, but it’s crazy how dated this looks now, it feels like yesterday
Wow whats a camcorder?
Unfortunatly that level playing field the internet once was is long gone. (He types on a platform owned by google)
i love when random things like this popped up
Sooooo essentially tested on college students first, you saw how destructive it was and how addicting it was, tweaked it to be even more ruthless then released it to the masses?
Stop acting out like a gay man. Nothing about this service is destructive, you're just blabbering nonsense that you heard on TV.
so funny haha, my comment I just wrote basically touches on this too. Gnarly. You see these college students 'spending hours', as the announcer said, on 'The Facebook' and the camera pans to teenagers scrolling...haunting to see that that's what the majority of society does now a days. The seed was planted.
old gold days
It's just so mind blowing to me that people being even 10,14 years knew what internet was back then and were actually smart enough to put up their own websites out there! Pretty cool
Why is that mind-blowing to you? I was using the Internet in the 90's.
@@JustMe99999 but did you have an internet company back then?
@@divyamxdeep Actually I did, from 98-00. Not as successful as Zuck unfortunately haha
@@JustMe99999 then you’re too mind blowing to me just like zuck or anyone like you guys. What was your company about though?
@@divyamxdeep It was an online electronics store - TVs, stereos, etc.
You can easily tell who's Slytherin, Griffindor etc. in these four.
That girl was incredibly close to creating youtube
thats crazy that they recognized facebook and firefox before their big boom
Why in the description were all the young men's websites named and Robin Liss' generalized?????
1:36 first man to probably say Snapchat 😂😂
He said snap shot
Bro, im here at 2024
This Marck Zuckerberg and his "the facebook" project looks like a great promise for the future. I hope he succeeds on this project!
Anandtech was also started by a teenager.
Couple duds in this video, but Facebook has turned into nightmare in 2021: misinformation, death scrolling, social media monopoly, platform for narcissism.
They don't have monopoly
What a garbage little comment. You must be watching a lot of TV, because non of those things are actually true, or problematic. The n°1 reason for Facebook being a nightmare is censorship and deplatforming.
Zuck appears human in this.
This seems so very long ago.
@05:29 For some odd reason, I was suddenly reminded of that old Tom Holland interview and I thought Mark Zuckerberg would also burst out singing, ".....I can't really explain it.... I haven't got the words..... It's a feeling that you can't control..." kzhead.infoUO_v4uZ2OY4?si=cruIQ87qNI9MMud8
yeah! I bet he don't like seeing people hating on Facebook!!
Believe me, I was on the computer when I was 12.
So what?
I need to invent a Time Machine so I can go back in time and start using a computer all day everyday
You could literally just be making money taking photos from the past instead of doing all that. Way better idea for making money using a time machine.
i wonder how many people have seen this video while on facebook via firefox.
Kinda creepy how FB back then when Mark is showing the report was basically a college hook up site
He ruined society
@@Daydreamerr13 better him than some chinese company
"One way to increase your net worth is to use the internet, for all its worth" That was like a kanye lyric or something
Seeing this in 2025 and knowing who became famous and who vanished into obscurity is absurd.
5:55 guess it all went down from there
I wonder what the world would be like now if social media never became a thing and cellphones were only used for phone calls and text?
people would actually still have social skills, have less anxiety, depression, and distractions-thats probably what. lol. I wish that timeline happened.
#Firefox is used at colleges and university!
Incredible
The social network started with this story.. probably
nope
@@michaeljames4630 thank you for the speedy reply
Age 7 got a computer, age 11 got a job at a corporation haha. That's wild! Power to the hustlers!
Wish I saw this video when I was 6 years old.
Facebook was the Tinder of that time
The earliest work from home.