Ripped from VHS, The Internet Show is an hour-long introduction to the mid-90s Internet from PBS Home Video, hosted by writers Gina Smith and John Levine.
This video is completely out-of-print and unavailable.
Ripped from VHS, The Internet Show is an hour-long introduction to the mid-90s Internet from PBS Home Video, hosted by writers Gina Smith and John Levine.
This video is completely out-of-print and unavailable.
I miss when the Internet was still a mystery...
Yeah man, I remember when it actually felt like a "place" that you wandered around. And those modem noises actually made you feel like you were going somewhere. I used to get a totally trippy vibe like I was in another world.
from your photo you look 14 wtf
steamfend I am but I wasn't allowed to really use the internet until the 5th grade
Bailey Mina what he is trying to say is you were never around when the Internet was a mystery 🙄
It was like the wild west back then.
i watched the whole thing and now i can internet
commander bean hahaha!
Comfortably Numb for the most part it was a different world back than.
Lol
Surfing the internet.
YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A "NEWBIE" "INTERNAUT"! CONSIDER YOURSELF "FLAMED"!!!
I really don't think this "internet" thing is gonna be as big as everyone's saying.
lol, well that "internaut" thing certainly never caught on
I'll give it a year before it totally flops
@@poopoogigolo bet
I'm vigorously emailing myself graphic images to this day, I think it's gonna stay.
We're still stuck at communicating to people by fax.
The Internet Show, now being shown on the Internet!
Brad Melv m e t a
Thank God, my VCR is in for repairs
"you can check out all kinds of graphic images on the internet" .... Oh, i know that... for sure :)
YOU SAID IT BROTHER
... you mean we can show naked womensssss!!!!
Well it is interesting to realize that certain fandoms could have never existed without the internet.
hello fellow internauts !
Jack isn't the cyberspace wonderful
Fish *nerd alert sound* WAIT! Whats a cyberspace?
bring back saxophone solos!
or guitar solos
or fisting solos
oh wait that's still a thing
THIS WILL NEVER CATCH ON
No, please....
This is the first time I've ever heard the term Internaut lmao
You can tell it's vintage when Compaq is the sponsor.
This reminded me that before the Internet was publicly available (1992), although I took computer programming in 1971 in college, my first real practical use for computers was when libraries put their card catalogs in a database and there were terminals available for the public to use. Before that, card catalogs didn't tell you if a book was checked out. You had to go and search for a book on the shelf to see if it was there.
What country are you in? The Internet was publicly available from 1990 here in Australia, I got connected in 91. I'm pretty sure North America had it a decade or so before we did. The Internet was centered around Bulletin board system's at the time.
@@R3WIRED I stand corrected. I had to look this up. I'm in the US. I guess it went public in 1989/1990 in both Australia and the US. I had used local bulletin boards in NYC since about 1987, and used a national bulletin board through CompuServe once during that time, as I remember it costing $7/hour. But I moved to Colorado and I don't think it was available where I lived until 1992, when I did it for a few "free hours" through Prodigy, an introductory offer I got from buying a new computer. I remember needing to buy a computer magazine that had an article on either simple Unix commands or just had lists of URLs, because, I don't remember it having a browser. Then the following year I did it through AOL, and finally after a year or so of suffering with their $3/hour internet playpen, I went to a monthly provider called Pipeline, and got unlimited Internet use for $20/month. This is all making me wonder where I got the 1992 year in the first place. Maybe that was the first year in the US where it was widely available beyond just large cities and universities. In the pre-internet era, back to the early 1970s, I had a few programming courses but was not really interested in computers until a programmer friend and I started going to home computer shows in NYC. The first I remember was a computer he wanted to see, the Timex Sinclair (1982). That was disappointing. I was working at New York University -- not in data -- but I used their computer network and got to use the first IBM PC, and then at home got a Commodore Vic-20.
21:40 "censorship is not a part of internet culture" Sadly that's no longer the case.
Social media ≠ Other places online What's okay on places like 4chan is not okay on youtube and vice versa.
Those Gov arshole blocked PH in my country, damn it. This statement is such a fake news
I mean, there's still places that follow this, but everything is becoming more centralized. Forums are now just subreddits, which means we traded that lack of censorship for ease of use as more and more people joined. It's cool that so many more people use the internet than in the early 2000s, but now they bitch because someone said something mean and because they don't know how to handle it, they want the owners of the site to deal with it for them. People ruin everything.
@@RockfordRoe 4chan is a social media.
@@RockfordRoe I think you mean what's okay everywhere else is not ok on leftist run social media platforms. Like free thought, and independent views
"This video is completely out-of-print and unavailable." Now it is on the internet and available thanks to your channel, good job.
"remember, lurking is good." kills me
"Meh this internet stuff is stupid. It's too complicated and only nerds will ever use it. It won't last." -Myself in the early 90's "Meh this bitcoin stuff is stupid. It's too complicated and only nerds will ever use it. It won't last." -Myself in 2009 Damn, when will I ever learn?
well i mean you were right about the bitcoin
Bitcoin didn't exist until 2010....
@@11111110 you are incorrect. It officially existed since January of 2009 and was being worked on well before that. This information is easily found online.
Finally - a television show all about this "Internet" thing I've been reading so much about.
Why is Borat presenting?
Yeah thought the same lol
Haha yeah Borat and Monica Lewinsky
Glad I'm not the only one.
Because its 2021 and Kazakhstan finally is connected to the world. This is cutting edge tech right now for their country.
I love 90s internet shows..Back then the internet was so optimistic, and made it sound so wonderful like being able to "travel" anywhere in the world and accessing the entire worlds knowledge...now it's polluted and saturated with useless crap. I feel like we got off track.
You surf the wrong sites. Everything they said has come true. Use Google Earth and Google maps for example and take a stroll on a road thousands of miles away from you and get tons of information about everything. You can have video phone communications with Skype all over the world. You can even order stuff from the places you see on your virtual world tour. You can educate yourself about pretty much every topic with videos and text for free. You can learn new languages, for free! You have access to thousands of books for free. You can learn about math and physics, for free. The internet is awesome. Just because some idiots use it only for porn and tabloid spam doesn't mean you have to do so, too.
yes the internet now heavily is based on Social Media like facebook Twitter. etc. Kinda lame
We haven't even cracked the surface of Tim Berners Lee's (father of HTTP) vision of a semantic web. Right now the internet is mostly a collection of web "sites" - made for human eyeballs. In the future the internet will comprise mostly of web services or API's, made for machine to machine communication. My AirBnb booking will schedule a flight for me, and call an Uber to send me to the airport. My house will order it's own supplies and schedule maintenance when needed. The possibilities are endless.
All you need is some discernment and the internet remains an infinitely valuable resource. I totally understand why, but you're just cynical.
F. S. I had told my nephew that everything they said in this video has come to pass.
37:55 I can't believe that lurking has been a thing since the 90s and yet so many people chose not to do it
I'm watching this video on my 10 free hours AOL cd.
0:56 It wouldn't be 90's if there weren't a blaring saxophone intro
0:35, is that fucking Borat?
from KZ? Probably he is.
haha. Good call.
I was just about to ask that same question! lol
Very niiiice... how much?
And he's with Monica Lewinsky.
"The number of Hypertext documents are still rather limited"... WOW
I remember those days...
Too much 'geek speak'..
Holy shit that guy in the car is "BORAT"
Doctor Branius Is nice!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 same
It's interesting looking at this gem of internet history. Seeing the early versions of some of the current net slang is a treat. And lol @ 37:54 "Lurking is good!" , seeing how the definitions have evolved is hilarious!
lurk moar
I love how he pronounces "answer" at 21:20
I am a minute and three seconds into this and it is already the best thing ever!
All my Internauts holla if you hear me in 2018!
The 90s were a hellava drug.
Thank god I found this video, otherwise I would have no clue what it was or how to use it..... oh.. wait.....
Haha I cringe every time I hear "The Information Superhighway." They used to talk about it ad naseum in the 90s.
go away with word cringe, from 90's video. Noone is interesting about your millenian dictionary.
The term 'Internaut' may Trump(2020) the term 'Information superhighway'
@@Thelegitshitgamer That's a really lame and ignorant trend. It makes you look like a moron. Stop.
"Surf the Web" The interwebs will blow your minds, guys!!! You can chat with people... IN CHINA!
Don't forget cyberspace
35:34 the start of the Internet of things. I actually learned alot from this. I knew that the world Wide Web is not the Internet, but I did not realize how many other things you could and can still do without it. But most of these things have been improved upon and built upon the world wide web. And a hell of alot prettier that is for sure.
It was the most amazing thing ever. Now look at what it's become...
WOW talk about pre planning, this is cutting edge!
Hey Andy, Awesome project collecting these. Thank you so much for your work.
Memes aside, this video is actually quite informative, especially for the time.
I love how you can still see and hear influences from the 80's as late as 1995 in the fashion and music. Lol
I like how the car is in park every time John gets a close-up
I just found this tape and was thinking of transferring it. Thanks for putting this online!
I wonder if they ever thought that thousands of people would watch this video on the internet 20 years later
Thank you Gina and John, I know know what the internet is! Can't wait to check out that neat Doctor Fun website on my Amiga.
I've been in IT since 1990 and have actively used the internet since about 1993 and this is the first time I've heard the term Internaut. I think they made it up for this show to see if it would catch on.
I kinda wish it did.
If I may ask, was the Internet widely used in 1993 or was it still a rarity?
Not true. I used to hear that very often since 1994, and I was in a different country.
@@retromintman8450 In 93, most people didn't have access. You can look up stats on online adoption rates by year
@@11111110 I forgot I had even asked this WOW HAHA
the good ol days when the only musical instrument that existed was a sax.
So glad I surfed to this video! The information superhighway is such a neat place!
I'm watching this on a phone. What a time to be alive.
very interesting, thank you for the upload
"one thing you should definetly remember is that this fantasy world is in your own head. in reality your only typing words on a computer screen. just keep telling yourself that no matter what"
"All kinds of graphic images on the internet"......yuh don't Google "graphic images" in 2017.
21:40 "Censorship is not a part of the Internet Culture..." 2021 "hold my beer"...
wow that guy really looks like Borat in the beginning.
This is the greatest hour of video on the information superhighway.
these hosts are a dynamite duo
I was 10 when this video came out, so I got to try the internet from back then to the present and see the changes along the way, as well as use flip phones and the early smart phones, and use the first tablets when they came out. Remember also when TVs were just TVs? Amazing how much everything has changed just in my short lifetime.
Sallent R TV use to go off to.
Geez, I forgot how the mid 90's actually still resembled the 80's so much.
That's why I loved the early to mid 90's
No, not really. I was 12 in 1995. It looked NOTHING like 1989.
@@Tornado1994 Maybe 1990 and a little of 91 had some carryover 80s but from 1992 onward I feel the 90s looked like the 90s For this to look like the 80s that womans shoulder pads would've been way bigger
“You can’t believe everything you read on the Internet.” --Abraham Lincoln
We got internet in my house in 1998. I used it to go to actual news sites (instead of my facebook feed), email penpals (instead of facebook), enter chat rooms (never do anymore) and go to message boards (I still do with moviechat.org and themoviedb.com). Since then I've added online banking, ebay and of course, youtube. Besides a few message board sites that have closed (like the sony BBS), I don't miss those days. Dial up was so frustrating.
imagine time traveling to 1995 and showing them google earth VR
rad now I will be able to impress everyone with my amazing techno savvy XD
Jesus, you know it's an old video on Computers when they call it "Electronic Mail".
WOW... This Internet is amazing!! I want it!!
How do I connect to the internet?
damn its crazy i love these 90's internet/computer shows then i see them talking from huntington wv, which is where i live so just kinda crazy to randomly run into this
Looks like Borat driving that yellow car at the start!
Fun to watch this after so many years. :-)
great stuff great intro to the internet
Ah the 90's, lol.
Gina's got that mid 90s hair on point.
Can't wait to log into Gopher!
"The Data Super Highway" LMAO! Love it!
I know of a 1990's Compaq server still running a production corporate accounting system 24/7. Slated to be replaced this year (2017). We'll see...
A few MINUTES later? Too long. Can't wait that long. This Internet thing will never take off.
@6:40 "Internaut" LOL* Too funny. *"Geek Speak" for Laugh out Loud
I used to love yahoo and ask Jeeves searches!
I turned 18 in June95. Gotten live best 2 worlds. Pre/Post Internet
I remember 2400 bps modems. My first one was 300 bps. I used it on my Commodore VIC20 for BBS access.
I actually had internet on American Online and it was slow but I didn't mind because I can wait while it loads.
This is so Neat!
Here's a phrase you'll never hear today "PC's and Macs AND Amigas"
RIP Doctor Fun 1993-2006
I grew up in the 90s and No One used the term "Internaut".... ever....
Those people back then had no freakin clue that the Internet would be so important for human kind Communication is better then ever.. hopefully even better in the future (sometimes people are unable to connect 🙄 I hate when I don’t have access to the internet)
"no one owns the internet," oh how times change.
I'm actually more mad at myself fr 1995-2005 not thinking up any Internet entertainment type invention. Now watching this.
This is so rad!
i was 11 when this video came out
G33K SP34K
I remember watching this in 1995 late at night I think it was on PBS even back then I thought the term Internaut was fucking stupid this show was the only time I ever heard that term. A few years ago I saw Gina on one of Leo Laporte's twit shows and remembered this I so wanted someone to ask her if she was still a Internaut. We all know what Internauts favorite activity is and it's not email!
this is great! ово је одлично!
This video is actually available for download from the Internet Archive.
So lucky to be watching this in 2022 on the "information super highway" lol
Feels like a time machine
10:12 Holy crap, how big is that dude's carry-on? I've flown a lot, and never seen anything like that lol!
he was so petty with Gina and her being sick💀
EVERYONE CAN INTERNET!
18:19 Goodness gracious! RELAX BUDDY!!! 🤪 Touch screens are still years ahead! 🤖📱
@Yoav Senderowicz Official No, they were around back then. I believe they were mostly used by the disabled however.
good gawd... by February of 1994 i was pretty much done with Archie, Gopher and Veronica. I was still using ftp quite a bit. But by that time, i was fully onboard with a PPP account and Netscape. At a whopping 14.4 kb.
It's sad that very likely all the computers in this video have been destroyed, and most of the cars here probably crushed.
Still use IRC today! Freenode server has around 100,000 people at the moment :)
This was actually from late 1994.
I'm an internaut!
This Internet thing might catch on.
Is that Borat?