Anyone else like to collect extremely outdated educational videos about tech?
How lazy is this labeling? it's faded!
Did they use thermal labels or something?
looks like it's copyright 1994.
introduction to the internet, from 1994? yes please!
it's not from 1994.
20 seconds into the video they're showing windows 95
PRODIGY! ;_;
TELNET INTO NASA
CompuServe!
now I'm hearing vaporwave music
get on usenet, from AOL!
be part of the september that never ended!
the what? pah, it'll never catch on. stick to Gopher.
browse the web with Prodigy Web Browser!
oh wow, whitehouse .gov during the clinton administration
has anyone made an extension to chrome that makes it go through this process before you can open a browser page?
to read my posts, just to to AOL Keyword TWITTER
who needs google? I've got WebCrawler!
they just searched the web for "music" and got 25 results
They're reading the usenet group for the Wine emulator
is there a theme for gmail to make it look like this?
dialing into prodigy
front page of WinProdigy!
I love that Prodigy font
more compuserve
the internet and web sections of compuserve
the internet and web sections of compuserve
the internet and web sections of compuserve
they've got a list of browsers here
IE 2, NCSA Mosaic, NetManage WebSurfer, Oracle PowerBrowser, Pathlink NetRunner, QuarterDeck Mosaic...
POPULAR FTP sites!
all the cool kids are connecting to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's FTP site
remember the good ol' days when you had to worry about how many hours of internet you used a month?
ah-ha! 1994 my ass.
Moving onto the next video.
This one is exceptionally warned, so don't act like you're surprised.
I'm only gonna say this once
that is 1000% an amiga mouse
good to know
this is the second VHS I've watched in two days where they've tried to teach me to use Microsoft Paintbrush
hey, look who worked on the graphics! it's our friend, Dwayne Wolff!
I should have guessed, given the 3D graphics
this is what it's like in my head 24/7
it took a while but the "Introduction to the Internet" video is now up on the internet archive: https://archive.org/details/introduction-to-the-internet
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