Here’s a fun video. It’s Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric trying to figure out what the internet is in 1994. As Iowahawk described it, it’s like video of three dinosaurs discussing an approaching sky fireball.
So that’s the internet: Some university computers connected together so they can send NBC electronic messages about violence. And you don’t need a phone!
Remember when we had to pretty much rely on these people for the news? Oh, and remember when you were wondering about some trivial thing, to get the answer you’d have to drive to the library, use the card catalog to find a relevant book, find the book and then check the index for the topic and then hope you found the relevant information? And when you were bored, you couldn’t just play a flash game on Facebook? I forget what you did instead; contemplate death, I guess.
Anyway, just saying we have a lot to be thankful to Al Gore about. Maybe we should stop tipping him over to see if he’s able to upright himself.
1994? You sure? I could have sworn they were like that back during the 2008 election season.
I hear they have the internet on computers now. Amazing!
These empty suits have way to much influence over the island we call the free world. I guess there are two main groups who get their news from these people. Some stubborn people over 40 and very poor people without cable or satellite.
You see, the internet is a thing that will render you useless before taking your jobs.
Being a super smart technology guy, I have super fast connection to the internet and am now setting up a switch in my office to shut the whole thing down instantly!!! Muwhahahahah!!! Laugh if you will, but when you launch your browser and you receive my bank account number and routing information with a counter which will not turn the internet back on until I have amassed like a gazillion dollars…or at least enough for a Corvette ZO/6, you will laugh no more! I will accept credit cards, cash, checks and or travelers cheques. I’m not sure if I’m going to accept US Dollars, however. I might insist on Swiss Pandas instead. You will know when your screen goes blank! Muwhahahahahah!
They began talking about the Northridge quake at the end of that clip. I think Gumbel was describing my daily sleeping pattern after that event.
What a brain trust. By 1996, not only did most companies have access to the Internet, many had access at home. At the end of the clip they were talking about the average commiefornistani who live in gang infested neighborhoods run by democrats. I would be frightened too and sleep in shoes with a flashlight and 45.
by 94 I’d ditched my library card and typewriter. I was as plugged in as CompUServe dial up would provide. Still had some disco flashbacks on occasions. Still do now
Liberals attempting to educate us on television…was there ever a time they actually knew WTF they were talking about?
And NO I will NOT tip algore. getting that close might cause him to ask for another “massage”. ewwww
The real question is, What is this journalist thingy?
Make it go away. Please. I promise to be good if someone will just make it go away.
Who are these people? Geez, the quality of Youtube videos is really slipping these days. Some people should just stick to whatever they did when there was no Youtube.
I have to barge in here and say I find it irritating that Wikipedia likes to have writers make up all kinds of fooey crapola about facts and fine people and poor souls don’t know the difference and one day they can take books on Kindle and nookie and meddle with the language and you won’t know what’s going up or coming down.
That was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. I guess now we at least know Katie Couric’s brain isn’t suffering from any kind of degenerative condition, since she was as clueless back then as she is now!
Is it me, or does Katie Colic look a little androgynous here – kinda like David Bowie?
2/1/2011 – 9:05AM Eastern – “This Video Has Been Removed By The User”
Guess someone got their panties in a bunch.
Yeah. Heh.