LGR - CompUSA & Best Buy Ad Nostalgia [Summer of 2000]

Taking a look at newspaper sales flyers from the year 2000! These two computer and technology stores always had my attention as a teenager.

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[lswap]

It's 3am in almost 2022 and I'm watching ads from the early 2000s ... Thinking about how much fun I was having connecting to dial up playing unreal tournament and quake 3 on my HP desktop with a voodoo 3 of 3000 pci, since mine didn't have an ago slot

[Aezetyr]

6:41 I know this is an old video, but we're talking about old stuff, and I'm old as hell so here it is. I worked at Best Buy during these times, and I swear I've seen this exact ad or hundreds like it. Very nostalgic! If I recall the $0.70 on the price indicated to the salesperson that this is a discontinued product that's not likely in all stores.

[KilroyTheGrand]

Growing up poor as shit made me so envious of all the worthless shit I desperately wanted.

[SedanChevy]

The late 90s/early 2000s were a different world. I remember going to best buy, even though I wasn't into computers at the time, and being overwhelmed by the amazingness. Even Staples was interesting. Old Walmarts (pre super-center) were fantatically fun places to go. There were still malls. I miss that time.

[TheNostalgiaMall]

Yes! I loved going to the CompUSA in Greensboro as a kid so much. Those rows and rows of software of all types were mesmerizing. Heck, even my dad misses going to CompUSA. Never bought a computer there, but bought tons of software and other stuff there. My first Humongous Entertainment game, "Putt-Putt Joins the Parade" came from there in early 1996. I remember buying it and eating a footlong hot dog at Sally's Hot Dogs on High Point Rd down the street afterwards. I never really noticed that back in 2000, those dang HP desktops were EVERYWHERE! We even had one of those at the time as our main computer, though it was a 1999 model. My main system at the time was a "Never Obsolete" eMachine we got at Best Buy in April 2000 and it ran like total garbage, probably due to the low specs and the fact that I ran BonziBuddy on it (shudders). Anyway, wonderful video and thanks for the nostalgia.

[Brunnen_Gee]

I bought my first desktop from CompUSA in 2002. I'd just got back from deployment and had sold my laptop while we were gone, and wanted a new computer. It was a display unit Compaq, nothing fancy, Celeron and such. That turned into my first modding platform. I really dove in after that. It was my first and only pre built PC, not counting laptops.

[retrojoe]

I remember the Computer Shoppers. They were tomes 3" thick and full of merch....loved them!

[docnova]

I had the same compaq you are talking about. It broke after 6-8 months. It took 3 months of technicians trying to get it repaired till they finally broke down and gave me a different compaq, which stopped working again. I was never happier to have a warranty on pc equipment, because after the second one broke the manager at sears got frustrated as hell because so many of that batch had been returned that they didnt even have any in stock so they just gave me a way more expensive one after my mom was done chewing them out.

[SimderZ]

Talking about the year 2000 like its the 80's i feel old. 2000 sounds like yesterday. I was 26...

[benjaminmiddaugh]

I think that my parents got that very HP system from the cover of that Best Buy ad. It was the upgrade from our Windows 98 computer, and it lasted my parents more than 10 years. I have many fond memories of that computer... Thanks for the memories!

[alphaomega]

These longer videos are so laid back its great, keep them coming clint!

[theKeshaWarrior]

That's the exact Compaq Presario we have! My dad bought it from Best Buy for Christmas 1999. We still have it and it STILL works lol. I use it to play SimCity 4 sometimes. That is amazing!

[robertwhitley]

August 2001, times were good in America and we all knew they were going to stay good!

[biboKralle]

These videos are SO calming! Coming back to them every now and then.

[thomasclarke]

"desks... desks never changes." Was genuinely waiting for you to say that Clint, then you did. Clearly been watching far too much LGR for my own good.

[youdud]

The big projection TVs were fun for a while. My dad got one for his wedding anniversary in 2002, nice 48" TV that lasted us a good 7 years before we got our flat panel smart TV.

[ThePokemaster]

i love these style of videos, i just kick back and relax and just get to listen to your awesome stories

[demonicsweaters]

I love how you were able to take an old ad paper and turn it into an entertaining video. Much love to you man.

[Big_Tex]

Tell you what, right around 1994 - 1996 was the golden age of computer retailing. A time when fanboys waited in line to buy Windows 95 at midnight (imagine that ...) Things were fading by 2000.

[andrewchristiansen]

3:52 That black chair for 99$ I found at the side of the road near a dentists office last year and cleaned it up & gave it to my kid sister. It was in great shape. Thats HILARIOUS!!
It has those same plastic arrms, and the same stitch pattern on the back rest. It has the same locking tilt knob that lets to lean back orr add more resistance so you dont fall back. It also has the pneumatic lift advertised @ 4:28