On-Line Services and the Internet 📼 1996 VHS 60fps

There are no Long Distance charges!!! But plenty of erroneous backslashes. 1996 Silicon Mountain VHS EP tape.

Time flow:
0:00 Description
3:35 Roll tape!
4:06 Introduction
7:07 Parts of the Internet
10:44 Internet Connections for You
20:23 Resources on the Internet
30:24 Get Going!!!

#internet #vhs #1996

[vwestlife]

*UPDATE:* After a day and a half, YouTube finally finished processing it, and it's available in 720p60 now.

This was captured and uploaded at 720p60, but even after waiting for nearly two days and re-uploading it, YouTube is refusing to show it as anything higher than 360p, even though a shorter video with the exact same encoding settings was processed by YouTube to 720p60 almost immediately.

[UpLateGeek]

You should do a video comparing those "VHS filter" effects to actual VHS recordings.

I see a lot of retro channels using VHS filters in their intros or end screens, but they all seem to way overdo the "dodgy VHS" look. From memory, most of the dodgy VHS look was when you started a recording over another, and it was only for a second or two as it picked up the tracking. But those VHS filters seem to apply the dodginess throughout. Even if you had a damaged section of tape, usually it was completely garbled, not just the consistently dodginess like the VHS filter seem to apply.

[thenewman]

Looks like YouTube's AI has become sentient, insisting on the vintage aesthetic 360p resolution as a throwback.

[TheEpicOne]

i caught the tail end of this era being born in the very late 90s. love these bits of technological history!

[cocusar]

This sounds like the intercom voice on Half Life 1's tram ride. Amazing. Thanks for the upload!

[ceticobr]

The first time I ever had access to the internet the web was not a thing yet (not available to the average person). The services available to me were: email, gopher, veronica, telnet, ftp and newsgroups - all of them were text based. Nonetheless this video takes me back to my teenage years. The nostalgia is strong on this channel.

[mushroomsamba]

I love Sony's branding here 3:26 "Remote Commander" 😆It doesn't merely control... it COMMANDS. Sounds like a serious piece of equipment!

[compu]

I wonder if the content in this actually helped anyone figure out what they needed to do to get online in 96. It's so condensed it's like reading the glossary in the back of a book!

[albear]

Daaaang! That's an old school throwback. I first got on the newfangled interwebs on a POS Macintosh LC with a 13K modem. back in 1996 when I was 23 years old and living alone. I remember internet service costing $44.99 a month for 50 hours of usage. Expensive now thinking about it. With inflation, $44.99 in 1996 is worth $84.97 in July 2022.

It really was an interesting time back then. I also remember that Netscape Navigator browser. Good times. Then 2 years later I bought myself a PC 1000% more powerful than the old LC. A IBM Aptiva with a 500Mhz AMD K6-2 and 56K modem.

[AutistCat]

The first time I used the web, I was at a library and they had a “phone book” of website urls! This was in 1995. It took me forever to type in the urls, I remember that 😅

[Frank_]

It reminds me of the day when my cousin, a lawyer with an honorary degree from Oxford, asked me the ultimate question: "Why do I need a browser if I already have the internet?" There were people who needed this tape.

[rfplaysgames]

Diamond Entertainment Corporation was one of those home video companies, like United American Video (UAV) that also released old public domain cartoons on VHS. I am glad that we are no longer limited to 5 hours, a month, & having to pay by-the-hour for internet service. Also, I like how she refers to Windows 95 as "MS Windows 95".

[MarshalArnold]

Ah, yes back when the internet was fun and exciting!

[DerekPower]

Ehhhh … almost there in parts 😁

I was 14 at the time of this. Funny enough, due to my dad’s graduate education and being in Air Force, we had a computer and an ARPANET connection in the 1980s. But once ISPs were on the scene, we jumped on that bandwagon.

Those were the days. Also, the more things change 😁

[MaxStax]

I first got on-line at home in 1995 with AOL. I don't ever recall any kind of time limits, it was always unlimited. When I moved to a regular ISP a year or so later, I also had unlimited on-line time for one monthly fee. Back then you could call an 800 number for free Microsoft tech support with an actual person. They had a live hold music DJ who also updated various estimated hold times for the different areas. They once sent me a check for a new sound card when I couldn't get any sound after installing the Windows 98 Upgrade, and it worked, had sound after that.

[zorka]

No matter the resolution, this video sure brought back many memories for this old person. I was in early and recall going through much of what this video was about having personally put up a set of web pages back in 1995 when it was all fun to do. Nowadays it has all become so commercialized and sophisticated, while perhaps sometimes helpful, the hobbiest fun factor is no longer there. Thanks for posting.

[SuperRescue]

I was there at the dawn of dial up.
I remember learning how to tune the modem to get the max out of it.
My computer had a massive 4gb hard drive....
Happy days

[BocaRetroGames]

That's so cool. I was 12 in 96. I miss the early days of the Internet

[orangejjay]

I love how the audio is higher in quality than the video. VHS HIFI is some cool stuff and you don't have to "be a computer geek" to appreciate it.

[susqibi]

You always have the coolest stuff old school stuff thanks for taking the time to share your treasures