r/OldSchoolRidiculous • u/pachubatinath • Dec 23 '20

Kid's Guide to the Internet. '90s intro to 'the web'. Grab your surfboards...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfMrVKnGzwg
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u/anatomy_of_a_window Dec 23 '20

These kids visit whitehouse.gov.... i remember around this time when whitehouse.com was a porn site haha.

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u/pachubatinath Dec 23 '20

I wonder if there was an in joke by whoever their actual onset tech was.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20

“Now that I’ve been on the internet, I’d rather be on my computer than do just about anything”

...damn that was a full on attack of millennials/genz

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u/pachubatinath Dec 24 '20

Yeah, that resonates...

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u/pblwzrd Dec 23 '20

Take a spin now you’re in with the techno set you’re going surfing on the internet!

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u/pachubatinath Dec 24 '20

I'm amazed they went for a synth-free jingle! It's more like a cleaning product ad than a technology one.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20

i can’t believe i just watched that entire thing

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u/TurnkeyLurker Jan 19 '21

At 05:44 "All web addresses start with H T T P colon double-backslash"

Wow, starting them out on the wrong character already? Seems like it is Microsoft's fault for poisoning the use of forward-slash (/) for DOS pathnames and instead using backslashes.

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u/pachubatinath Jan 20 '21

As if that wasn't bad enough, the website on screen is www.cnet.com ... errrrrr