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Kurt is congris 😮😮
bro forgot the ad link 😭
you are holding me back kurtis
Wait this is the same sponsor that Drew had 😭
although this vid is longer than an hour, the editing in the entire vid is SO SO good! u must have been tired making this whole vid kurtis but i really really enjoyed it.. thank uuuu :))
bro literally bought all the things he secretly wanted as a kid and covered it up with this challenge
huhuhuhu bro literally ong fr literally bro huhuhuhu bro bro brother literal bro
@@ahall9839 bro?
@@ahall9839Imagine getting this pressed over someone's word choice lol
@@ahall9839what
And they're all tax-dedactable!
ok now do a video only communicating through cave paintings, smoke signals and morse code
Then follow it up with surviving in dinosaur times
@@ConorDriskell-jx4vu 'dinosaur times' 😭
thanx i feel elderly enough at 38, lol
Don't translate भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु .
@@junglejin3096 it's giving "medusa times" from kurtis' terminally online video, l fw it
Idk but the message of “it is 2024 and me and my friend Jacob are using the xyber computer” made it really sweet like a kid wrote it
i keep thinking about this comment ur so right thats really pure and cute
it actually made me cry they are just being kids
it's 10 times better when you realize they actually typed out "cumputer" lololol
my dad uses a My Lil Reminder when he's building something-- extremely useful for saying a precise measurement for cutting etc so you dont second guess yourself between the time it takes to measure and prepare to cut it. he clips it to his shoulder and doesnt have to stop to write anything down, much quicker. not the intended purpose but it's like the only thing it's perfect for
What do you mean not intended purpose? It’s being used as a reminder and its name is my lil reminder?
@@passivelyobsessive5460 how much does this mean to you.
@@passivelyobsessive5460 I love how you're genuinely disturbed by this comment. Definitely justified though.
@@passivelyobsessive5460 are you okay
Lil reminder is easily the most practical product and something potentially useful today for any situation where you want to recall info without unlocking your phone, swiping to the notes app, and visually reading it.
“This was my personal phone I used when I was at law school in 2001” written in pink pen? Bro literally bought a phone from Elle woods
LITERALLY
fun fact the book legally blonde (written in 2001) was written by a girl who went to law school who loved pink and being hyperfeminine
OMG I thought the same thing
I WAS THINKING THAT SAME THING
This comment is lovely 💗🥹
kurtis, danny, and drew all posted the same day. they're also all sponsored by opera. my little game theory is that they were all given the same deadline and all got it done on the last day, as anyone would
i thought i was the only one who noticed lmaooo
Would be even funnier if they all did it before Easter so they wouldn't run out of time cz the holidays
Also the 3 videos end with 6 at the minute mark. 1:06 for Connor, 36 for Drew and 26 for Danny. Coincidence? I don't think so!!
Don't translate भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु .
@@ville__ I'll tell you if I die
Okay but the clacky noises of the My Little Reminder is so nostalgic though, specifically that frequency of that specific type of cheap metal on that specific density of cheap plastic. That level of low quality material just sent me back to that 2000-2010 era of my childhood man damn
You comment about you & Jacob "missing" out on a childhood together but feeling 10 years old while playing with the stuff literally almost made me cry lol "we were girls together" type
I appreciate that y'all recorded the entire Xybernaut Computer segment sitting on the floor of the dining room. Really enhances the vibe of kids playing with a new toy
Don't translate भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु .
@@ville__Thank Gooooood, I appreciate you, friend!!! ❤ I've been awaiting death for so long!
@@podgy5 FIRST WARNING
@@ville__please don't disgrace sanskrit like that 😞
The Xybernaut makes you look like the Borg!
ITS HERE!!!! THE HOUR LONG VIDEO!!!!
I genuinely didn't realize it was an hour long but I'm definitely gonna watch all of it still
I've been waiting since that Instagram story by him😭
i just watched the whole thing and had no idea😭
!!!!!!
im 32 minutes in and just realised💀💀💀💀
The Palm Pilot loses all data when the battery dies because it uses volatile memory. The way you're supposed to use it is along with its docking station. It would sync all your data and settings to your PC, from where you could retrieve it too. It wasn't meant to be a stand-alone device like our phones are today.
I'm gonna Palm Pre
You could also communicate via IR, so if he had an IR receiver and the eight software on the computer it would work. There might have been a wifi expansion card, but I think that may not have been until after Palm III
That part with the xybernaut computer gave me major nostalgia. Up at 3am, dying of laughter at a sleepover, playing pictochat on our DS's.
beatboxing puppy
im the beatboxing puppy🗣‼️
Girl we’ve been knowing how to draw 💅
I know you think its funny
😅😅😅nooo
All the people know they love me
you know its a good day when kurtis, danny and drew post on the same day
i didn't even know drew posted omg tripple whammy!!
Didn't realise drew posted today
Fr
The stars have aligned
Same it gave me Kurtis and Danny's notifications but not Drew @@bananaphone420
"You know what... I'm okay. I'm too old for all that stuff anyway. I'm just happy I was able to be a wearable computer for just one more day." Enough to make a grown man cry...
fun fact! videophones were really important for communication between deaf ppl and those were often the people who found them worth the cost
Fun fact about the Casio camera watch: Paul McCartney had one in 2001, and he absolutely LOVED IT. He showed it off, took pictures with it during interviews, and even used a picture of himself taken with his camera watch for the cover of his 2001 album Driving Rain!!
That is hilarious 😂😂
They made a TV watch , too 😮
That's a very interesting tidbit.
omg no way that album cover is made by a casio camera?? this makes so much sense now... paul has really always been out there on the forefront of music, taking grainy ass emo selfies in a bathroom mirror with a shitty novelty camera and calling it an album cover? indie artists could never reach that level
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I leave a comment knowing it will increase your chances of being suggested to people because I really want Kurtis to do a silly little video about silly little As Seen On TV products
Don't translate भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु ...
YES PLS
@@ville__ I'll message in a few hours to say that's bs
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Yes please
bro I have actually so many old tech because my father was born in the 50s AND HE NEVER THROWED ANYTHING AWAY, sometimes I like to go where he keeps his old stuff and play around, this video is amazing, gonna show this to him, he loves old tech and when people actually preserves them, thanks for the video
I was a ‘97 baby, but because my parents were older and had their own business that was very techy, I grew up learning late 80s and early 90s tech by playing with it. I remember seeing the transition between beige/black blocky tech into the glossy frutiger aero tech. I don’t specifically remember any of these devices (except for the lil reminder), but the aesthetic is so nostalgic for me. I can even remember the smell of the plastic of this kind of tech. It’s cool to see how far we’ve come in just three decades, but it’s also daunting.
You’re really living the dream. You just found a way to monetize buying a bunch of crap you wanted to play with anyway and it was still a banger.
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Brandon Farris has mastered it.
It's all for the Tax write-off.
25:23 the irony of kurtis sitting outside on a nice beautiful day but he's trying everything he can just to look at a small screen 💀💀
that much sun on his face is consider a nice day? where i live a nice day is the opposite...a cloudy day with barey any sun and windy...that is what we wait to say...its a nice day (we have to much sun all year and high temperatures too)
@@tootsipop hahahaha yes for me and people in my country that's such a nice day! i live in Finland where half of the year is dark and we don't get sunlight. so i'm definitely biased on this
@@shadow_song well now Finland is on my bucket list, i live in north-west México...the desert part of the country so heat and sun is our main personality hahaha
@@tootsipop welcome welcome haha! by the way, as a fun anecdote, the best foreign professors i have had in uni so far have all been Mexican! lol
Don't translate..... भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु ..
33:12 "horses used to be cars" ah yes, the good old evolution line
My dad is a software engineer and when I was real young in the 90s he had a gig programing games for the palm pilot. I remember he would give me his palm pilot to keep me occupied anywhere we had to wait (restaurants, DMV, post office). When I was an adult, he admitted he was basically using me for testing, because I would find bugs and then complain to him that it wasn't working. There were several games, but the things I remember best was mancala and a little drawing pad.
"Delete all photos or just the one?" "Just the one" ... "Dang, guess I gotta do that 90 more times :/ "
Maybe he realised there were old pics on it after he already took his own pics
I thought that too but then figured the two pictures of the doggo he took couldn't have been that important. Then again he did have to wake them up from a nappp
Just retake those, he said he took 2 pics of his dog
Old millenial here (38). Palm Pilots wouldn't originally forget your data when the battery died (that'd be a crazy way to design it really). I'm guessing it has something like an internal ROM battery on the board to keep the volatile memory chip powered, and that's dead now. That same sort of problem happens with old NES or SNES cartridges and prevents them from being able to keep game saves anymore.
Those old game cartridges just use a watch battery, you can replace it pretty easily (and no, doing so does not affect the cart's value among collectors).
The early PalmPilot models would only retain their memory for about 15 minutes if the batteries died. But you were supposed to sync your data with your PC so you could restore it after changing the batteries.
@@doctorhandsome I never knew that! I'll have to try on some of my dead snes cartridges
Yeah u gotta leave the snes on 😂
Is that why I can't save my Godzilla and Batman gameboy games?
12:38 not sure if anyone mentioned it, but picturephones/videophones were (and to my knowledge still are) super helpful for people who use ASL or other sign languages! I’m from a part of the US that’s considered a “deaf city,” and tons of colleges and other places around use have a separate number for a videophone!
Preservation of tech is important and I'm glad Kurtis said that and addressed it
The My Little Reminder is so nostalgic for me only because I used to record a lil message for my dad when he would get deployed and he would record one for me and at 6 years old a year of your dad being somewhere dangerous and having no contact with him was so confusing, but I had that exact My Little Reminder. Even the sound of the key chain clanking and moving triggered hella nostalgia. thank u Kurtis
Awww that’s sweet
thats so sweet omg 😭
@@jordansstuff thank u 🥺 looking back it definitely altered my childhood in positive ways 🫶🏻
@@tigerlilly6888 thank you 😭😭😭
Alright who's cutting onions 🥲🥲🥲
The imagination behind early 2000s tech is so fun. The wearable computer is sick af, so was the fit lmao. I want to see the As Seen On TV products!
Seconded
Don't translate भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु .
Reminds me of Johnny Mnemonic in a way lmao
omg
Reminds me of inspector gadget kinda
It would have been cool to see you use an old camera and mic in this bit. Cool to rethink the relationship that content creators have with tech.
54:10 We are not going to ignore how genius World Wide Web shooter is.
My fave thing abt u and Jacob collabs are how wholesome and childlike y’all are with each other so ur little monologue abt wanting to meet him sooner really hurt my heart dude 😭
Don't translate भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु ...
I was looking for this comment 😢❤
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Actually go away, Your one video and your Community tab talking sh Bout us women isn't content @ville__
@@FiFiTheFelinebro replied on several comments w the same bullshit
30:50 - I love the insane design choice of making “delete all photos” the default selected option instead of deleting the singular photo. Imagine how infuriating it would be to navigate off that every time on a PC or phone.
I don't think it makes the already strange 'taking pictures of a chick you're into' any better
I had that watch as a kid and it happened to me twice that I deleted all my photos. It was devastating to lose all my silly pictures so I just decided to really force myself to only take quality pictures so I wouldn't have to delete anything. I stopped using the watch as a camera only as little after that
I like to think someone put it in to erase at least *some* of the revenge porn they enabled
with this sort of things you want to delete all. you take the pictures in the day, then transfer them all to your computer and then clear the camera. you dont just keep them on the watch forever
I thought that too! But then, I think a lot of these sort of tech menus were set up alphabetically rather then functionally 😅
these kinds of videos you make genuinely take so much weight off of my shoulders for no other reason than simple joy. create whatever you feel you must, it's highly enjoyed :D
It’s so nice seeing him not miss a single pun opportunity
damn danny, drew, and kurtis dropping videos on the same day i’m so happy
AHHHH OMG
whos drew???
Thank the sponsors, they need to upload before the end of the month.
MY DOPAMINE IS GOING CRAZY RN. THANK YOU BOYS. 🏂
Chad chad also
Let’s be real, no technology-vintage _or_ modern-will _EVER_ be able to fix Kelly’s monstrosity of a face in the old Barbie movies😭
Ahhhh yes😂
Underrated comment
HELP I CANT WITH THIS COMMENT LMAOO
Its been two years. Yet we still haven’t heal from that face.
Don't translate भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु .
As someone who lived through it all, I can say that back in the day, new tech and gadgets were coming at us very quickly. We transitioned from using payphones and pagers to analog cell phones, SMS texting, and T9. One year, we had palm pilots, which were all the rage. Then suddenly, your company would introduce the “Blackberry,” and everything changed. We were constantly adapting to completely different “solutions” every couple of years in various aspects of our lives-how we communicated, worked, and even how we lived. And then came modern smartphones. Once they were adopted, they became the new de facto standard for everyone. Since then, they’ve remained stable. It’s worth noting that stability in tech wasn’t something we had until recently. Additionally, a lot of the older tech was frankly subpar and rarely used. Our everyday essentials ranged from walkmans and pagers to MP3 players and flip phones-essentially what we have now.
What I notice the most is a 10 year old laptop.. the ones that came with or got upgraded to SSD drive works just as well as a new laptop for day to day activities. Online banking, paying bills, sending emails, watching KZhead, social media, and reading the interzones. From 1995 to 2015ish the internet was changing so fast that after just 2-4 years your computer became practically unusable to do the stuff you normally did. People would say their computer was getting slow but that’s not true, the games, websites, and email programs got so much larger and much more complicated your computer could not keep up. That still happens to an extent but nearly as dramatic. Maybe your bank site takes a few seconds more to load vs back in the day when it became an actual few minutes extra to load.
Im loving the home decor. Jealous of the cowboy coffee table genuinely
Kurtis should do this with kids tech. I remember the tech for girls was pretty crazy at the time and it's more likely to be usable for one person or meant to be for just one kid and a friend.
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Yes! I loved Dream Life and Designers World, which were single game consoles. And then the coolest thing imo was Pixel Chix
I remember having this stupid gadget called mylife that like broke after 10mins of playing. But there was this really cool messaging gadget I had where you could basically just text with ur friends but it was soooo dope
Fr me and my sister had little devices that could talk to each other from 3 houses down when she was at the neighbors. It did take forever to type but we loved it
oh my god yes the leap frog tablet was my childhood 😭
41:42 what a sweet moment between two perfect strangers bonding over the same two things across time
My eyes legit got a bit watery lol I’m such a sap
Don't translate... भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु .
That note was the cutest thing oh my god I almost cried lmao 😭
Y'all need to get out and have some social interactions if you get sappy over something that unimportant.
so sweet.. i hope somehow they see the video lol
The wearable computer when you tried to put memes into it: "Let's Cyber-Not do this."
This is probably my favorite Curtis Connor video by far and you can tell he had a lot of fun making it with his friends❤
the note that came with the video phone was the most wholesome thing ever
no cause why did it make me a lil emotional ; _ ;
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Oh wow , the 'my lil reminder' holds a special place in my ❤. My grandma passed away and for years after, Id click it to hear her say "I love you". I didn't know what it was called until now!
❤❤❤❤❤❤
AWW :( you're going to make me cry. i'm so glad you had something to remember her by.
I feel like this is the only good use for that device. 🩷
This comment made me cry 😢
we did the same with my aunts message machine ❤
I'm like 5 years older than you and I actually had and used a bunch of these devices as a kid. This period of technology happened in such a brief window of time. It's wild how much difference a few years can make. Every time my dad upgraded to a new Palm Pilot I got the old one. I've genuinely been considering trying to find one to use in my daily life exactly for notes and calendar stuff. Graffiti took a bit of time to get used to, but I could write it at the same speed as writing on paper, which has always been faster for me than thumb typing. It was really nice that the Pilot was a device that just got out of your way. It did the basic functions it promised really well, and then it never advertised at you, demanded SaaS subscriptions or micro transactions, distracted you with short form bullshit, or changed its whole UI because the UI/UX team felt the need to justify their existence this fiscal quarter. We don't actually have anything like it these days, and I think we're missing out. Love this whole experiment!
Two things with Palm Pilots. First, they were intended to be used with a desktop computer, which would sync / backup all the data. You can also swap the batteries in under 3 seconds to preserve the data, but good luck with that. Later models had a watch battery to preserve the memory when you swapped batteries. Second: the "graffiti" writing was very divisive. People who spent the time learning it could write much faster than using the keyboard, especially when standing or walking. I know this because my grandfather still uses his Paul Pilot today.
the videophone note was so sweet, it made me realize how many memories were attached to these silly vintage tech.
I thought so, too! Like, I can totally imagine parents giving this to their kid as a last gift before going to uni and how lovely it had to be. Today it's so obvious everyone has a phone, so it doesn't feel that meeningful...
I heard a pawn broker say "everything that comes thru my doors has a story attached to it" &that really helped me get rid of some of my mom's stuff after her passing. Cuz some things were important&some were..The Lil Reminder&other pointless stuff. Like EVERY cell phone she EVER HAD since 2002 😩
"Omg Danny Drew and Kurtis posted on the same day!!!" My brother in christ the Opera sponsorship was due today.
Counting them, I've seen 4 Opera gx sponsored videos today sjdjdjs
@@skeletonizer9529 so have I!
opera is a super not very secure or private browser
WHO CARES + I EXPOSED KURTIS CONNER 💀💀
@@ville__ looked at your channel, and I'm surprised you live your life just trying to rage bait. Is it fun to get reactions, or are you just not getting respect in real life?
this video is probably my favourite you've ever made ☹ its so clear how passionate you are about older tech and it was really enjoyable to watch !!!
When Kurtis mentioned Minesweeper, I remembered how much I used to love it on my old clunker of a computer back in the day. Had to immediately go download the modern app. And play it until I actually won a game (which took a while, since whatever part of my brain figures out where to put the flags apparently works poorly)
😂😂😂 I am a 63 year old with ADHD. When I first saw the commercial with the recording thing, I wanted it more than anything I had ever wanted in my life!! I told everyone, and got 4 or 5 for Christmas that year! It took me about six months to lose all of them. 😂😂 adding: this is one of my favorite videos ever!💖
Oh my god 😂 Did they actually help you before you've lost them? What did you use them for?
This is an amazing story 😂
you and me both ginia, you and me both
That’s such a cute story omg
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from 45:40 on, the laughter of two long time friends just being idiots at home is genuinely heartwarming
Don't translate भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु ...
He should get him an AT&T Video Phone (and a landline connection) so they can talk.
WHO CARES + I EXPOSED KURTIS CONNER 💀💀
SHUT THE HELL UPP @@ville__
@@ville__ didnt know kurtis had bots! aww he's so luckyy
23:58 Some types of data storage need a very low but constant flow of electricity to keep the data. What companies would often do was put a button battery into the device to keep that data storage fed when there's no other source. If that's the case, that battery might have gone dry by now. I'm a gen 1 pokemon player, I know the pain.
Dude really just had fun and also managed to make a genuinely great video about technology and friendship along the way. U rock guy.
This is so weird! I was a tech reviewer back in 1999 and did a review of the Xybernaut for a tech trade publication. Hadn't thought about that for decades - thanks for a trip down memory lane!
Love it when things like this happen :)
What was your review? Did you like the product at that time?😅
Is your review still available to read?
@@leoflores1597 It had a lot of promise but the tech simply wasn't there yet. The publication I worked for at the time focused on IT in government, and I remember talking to the product managers for it, and they had a number of users in the military - stuff like folks walking around with service manuals loaded on the thing so they could service helicopters wearing just that instead of six to ten giant binders with the same info following them around on a cart.
Genuinely curious what the opinion was in the time. I’m assuming it’s pretty accurate to his- cool for trying something, fuckin weird in general lmao
My grandfather actually worked with Bell in the development of the picture phone, one of the reasons they cited for dropping the project was "nobody wants to get dressed just to use the phone". If only they knew how the times would change!
now... no one wants to get dressed to use the phone!
were they... using the phone... naked ??
@@idkwhattoputhere5541 Not naked, but certainly not dressed up. Usually like fresh out of bed, or ready for bed.
This was such a good video, and Iaughed so hard at several parts. Your speech about Jacob was extremely relatable. I met my best friend in highschool and we're on two decades of friendship now, but it still feels like we should have known each other longer
Not everyone is great at remembering where we parked, Kurtis. Some of us forget to think about where we’re parked after we get out of the car and then later have to walk down multiple rows of cars to find it.
kurtis conner? i hardly know her
Omg first comment
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Omg first comment
i hardly know her? kurtis conner
Conner hardly? Know I Kurtis her
7:40 I'll be honest, I was expecting the bit from Spy Kids 2 here. "How long have we been falling?" "I don't know, my watch doesn't tell time!"
Were you considering a lie?
ME TOO OMG IM GLAD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE
THIS VIDEO BROUGHT BACK MEMEMORIES like dude i just remembered this kid in elementary who i used to take selfies with on his watch that took pictures
I definitely want to see an as-seen-on-TV products video
Idk how to explain it, but there’s something I really enjoy about 1990s-2000s era tech. It might be because I grew up with it or the way they’re designed mechanically and artistically, but something about it clicks with my brain in a way that a lot of modern tech can’t.
Tech back then was so creative and experimental
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I agree. Maybe cuz we’ve also moved on to Sleek design. I enjoy the look of early 90s and 2000s ideas. I think the modern equivalent would be cyberpunks organized chaos. The Xenon movies from Disney was such an aesthetic.
I agree- I think it was because they were still making things to be new and creative
this is why i love vintage sci-fi so much tbh, it hits so much different than modern sci-fi because the technology is imagined but its still based off the technology of the time, yknow??
That note from the person who had the video phone in law school in 2001 is so sweet , I hope they see this ! I’m sure they’d be happy to know this is where their video phone ended up
as someone who was born in the early 2000s and loves vintage tech, this video and the digimon video are my all time favorites of yours. keep making video that make you happy! id love to see an as-seen-on-tv product review next!
Just broadcast your own analogue signal, get a vcr, 2 tv signal boosters and a portable antenna connect the first booster into the rf out, the second booster into the first and then the antenna into the second booster then finally tune into it on the portable TV
This is one of the best videos you've ever made. You actually had me at the end there. If the technology could talk it probably would say something like that. And the preservation of that tech is so important because so many new technologies came out and some were actually pretty cool. In an age when everything is evolving so fast, it's really nice to see where what we have came from.
thanks for watching!!
aww, the little personal note on the video phone is so sweet! I love little personal notes like that on second hand purchases.
I got asked to review this comment 😭 haha
I absolutely loved my Palm Pilot. I actually still have one with it's charger in my closet. That thing was so great, and the only reason I changed from that to a smart phone was because my car started breaking down a lot, and I got stuck somewhere with no phone. That portable PC is just screaming to be turned into a Fallout setup as well.
44 years old and it blows my mind all the things we dreamed about as kids that actually exist today. Having a sleepover playing Wipeout on PS1 in the 90s, to playing Wipeout today on PSVR.
i love how 'my lil reminder' is just a needlessly complicated version of taking notes
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The guy chewing on the mailbox has to be the most "Family guy" cutaway I've ever seen.
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Gen Z videos are peak comedy
My dad has at least 6 old handheld gaming devices that he's been collecting off eBay and other websites for the last few years. He has tons and tons of old games on them and is always showing me old franchises and game styles. It's super cool to see!
The Max Keeble's Big Move reference - I can't hear "handheld" without thinking of that to this day loll so glad you mentioned it
1 hour 6 minutes and 7 seconds of Kurtis seems like what my un-planned schedule for the day said
same
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“heading to the coffee shop do you want anything? :)” actually adorable “a small hot chocolate pls :)” they’re actually so adorable omg
WHO CARES + I EXPOSED KURTIS CONNER 💀💀
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i think the smile emoticon adds a lot
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this is a top tier video, the passion and curiosity comes through so strongly
Please keep doing videos like this. Everything about this was excellent.
You need to keep that nightmare recording of how to get to Hamilton from Toronto so that someone in the future can stumble upon it and create spooky urban legends about wtf it means
“Milk, juice, butter and eggs” has played in a consonant loop in my mind for 20 years
"Oh no...where did I park..."
It used to be a family joke that we would just say those items in the same tone as the ad
Well at least it's not a vowel loop
@@screwyourhandlefr that would be dangerous
@@grimm3995so dangerous
the my lil reminder would be super useful for counting stiches when u knit/crochet. i always forget them 5 seconds later, i should get one of those fr
The fuzzy screen thing is a "feature" lol, I had one when I was a teenager, and it was somewhat fragile to impacts, but if you held the power button you could reboot it. Also there's effectively a CMOS battery in there, that is clearly dead, that preserves your info between battery changes. I had the keyboard, helped me through university taking notes!
As someone who has struggled with severe short term memory problems (doing much better now), I can guarantee I would completely forget I'd made a reminder and would record over it. I learned to carry around a little notebook and pen, some things don't need to be tech haha
The reminder always seemed oddly marketed since they were just showing things a notepad could do instead of finding good use cases for recording audio
@@charlesnathansmithin every way it was less useful than a simple notepad, because you could only remind urself of one thing.
only thing i imagine the audio could be useful for would be if you had an idea for a song or something and didn’t want to forget
I was thinking that while Kurtis showed the commercial like....bro just use a note pad ?? At most I can see this being useful for visually impaired people but I'm SURE they have better recorders already
@@4my009 mini tape recorders already existed. These were completely pointless even then. They're on par with custom recorded birthday cards
I love how they made a small handheld reminder device, went through the whole process of developing, testing and distributing it, and at no point in this entire process went "Oh wait, couldn't you just buy a small pad of paper for like 3 bucks instead?" I feel like that basically sums of most of these 'cool' products from years back. People overcomplicating simple technology because it sounds futuristic. Explains why Back to the Future 2 feels so comedic in its depiction of 2015.
that "reminder device" looks like a yakbak and sounds just as bad but doesn't even come with a fart button, I hope it didn't cost him much...
I think it's because in the 80s and 90s the idea was to make technological answers to everyday mundane tasks, like what AI should be used for
I was gonna say "what if you had no hands" but then how would you press the buttons
But it can be used as a recorder for music or voices if you maybe heard something cool in a bar and wanted to prolong the memory. I think it’s kinda cute
If you didn’t live trough this time you can’t imagine how fun it was to easily record and playback your own voice. I doubt many people actually used it to record reminders
24:30 when I was a kid and my mom got her first cell phone, the first time it died, I thought it was dead-dead and she’d have to get a new one lol
Bro i cant watch ur videos infront of others due to awkwardly bursting out in laughter when everyone is jus chillin 😅
Bro, for the next one you MUST obtain a Password Journal, a Furby, and a Poo-Chi robot dog.
NOT THE PASSWORD JOURNAL 😭😭
I actually still have all three of those things! Just...packed away somewhere. What a blast from the past.
Computer systems networking technician here! Three tips that I can think of at the moment that will help you to access your USB storage with your wearable computer in order of tediousness from least to worst; 1. You appear to be using either windows 95 or windows 98 or windows ME operating system (OS) wherein the OS cannot recognize storage devices over a certain size, if you are lucky you may be able to access part of the storage on a 32GB or maybe 128GB USB stick depending on the OS. 2. You may need to first download the applicable drivers onto your computer. Windows at the time did not have default plug-and-play technology integrated everywhere like today and so every peripheral device you bought usually came with a disc that needed to be installed or would take a minute to install itself when plugged in. 3. Your USB storage device needs to be formatted with FAT32 or an older file organization system in order to be recognized by that version of windows but USB storage these days are formatted as NTFS or sometimes PAL if you're shopping internationally, your USB storage can be reformatted into FAT32 on almost any computer with DOS (all windows systems are built on DOS) and the FAT32 formatted storage will be accessible to almost any working OS with a working USB slot. Formatting a storage device destroys its "file allocation table" (table of contents) telling the storage that it is now empty and can freely overwrite existing data, this means you will lose all files upon starting the process of formatting unless you have the means to recover deleted information eg disc doctor. side notes about other topics in your video: Someone once brought a palm pilot to a high school I went to and everyone was as unimpressed by it as with the rich kids blackberry, really the discman got more attention. I recommend sega game gear for old tech gaming, got one for my birthday when I was young, it was far superior to the gameboy and had a backlit color LCD screen almost a decade before nintendo rolled out the gameboy color, only problem is it wants 6 AAs to run off cord but did the gameboy even come with a cord or did you have to buy it separately? I live relatively close to Sudbury and my old black/white TV can pick up a few channels with a car antennae attached (used to get five channels on it 15 years ago).
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Well, it's official. I'm obsolete. I'm col k every educated. Retired RN . I've hung blood transfusions and done peritoneal dialysis. But I didn't understand a WORD!!! You might as well be talking Arabic to me😮😮😮
NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THE GAME GEAR. I had one growing up too, i had to spend most times playing it sitting on the ground next to an outlet but it was so fucking worth it, the quality of the screen was unmatched at the time and it had great games, my fave handheld console of the 90's honestly.
I EXPOSED KURTIS
@@morganespud7432 KURTIS IS BAD
Fun fact: the reason the handheld was reset after the battery was removed is due to the way its memory works! Some types of memory are "volatile," meaning they need an electrical charge to hold data. This is what the handheld has - probably DRAM, or dynamic random access memory. However, when the electrical charge is removed, the data doesn't disappear immediately. It slowly leaks out, which means if you were to change the battery infinitely fast your data would be preserved!
I thought that's why they provided button batteries or backup batteries to hold the memory until you change the main battery?
@@georgeyreynolds That is why, but I'm guessing the handheld doesn't have those: either the model didn't include them at all, or the version Kurtis had didn't have batteries in.
the nostalgic handwritten note sent with the video telephone is so adorable 😭😭
I see Opera had a every specific deadline lmao
"Compact" and "portable" used to mean something different. I own an Underwood typewriter, which was considered one of the first portable typewriters, and it weighs a little under 20 pounds.
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The original gameboy "pocket" because yes if your jean's ass pocket was big enough it could technically fit, barely, uncomfortably, and you couldn't sit down.
@@ville__imagine the only way your able to get subs is by scaring kids 💀 yikes
I'm loving this recent resurgence of Opera ads. Opera is, by far, my favorite way that Google steals and sells my data.
24:21 it used to keep the memory even with no power using a button battery but over time the button battery has died making to reset every time power is cycled.
okay but that's genuinely good art. Like the idea of taking a 25 year old wearable computer, drawing something and throwing an (almost) haiku on it and then signing prints is something I'm super into
I absolutely agree. Although it’s funny the last line of the haiku was 6 syllables instead of the the 5 haha
@@arisully28 Tired can be interpreted as either 1 or 2 syllables, so technically his haiku can be interpreted as proper.
I loved my palm pilot! It actually changed my handwriting.You had to be really careful that your battery didn't die, because you would lose all your data so it came with a cable so that you could link it to your computer and download everything. Mine was rechargable, but again you had to watch it or you would lose everything,
Yes I still remember how to draw letters from when I had a Palm Pilot haha
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@@ville__ oh my god that's so scary! Shut up you witch
Mine had a internal battery just to retain memory during battery swaps.
@@WillACarpenter yeah the internal batteries are at the end of their lives now. The reason Curtis' pilot would reset after restart.
thanks for helping me procrastinate my assignments for a whole hour today, kurtis😸