It's hip to be on the Internet right now: NBC report from 1994

It's hip to be on the Internet right now: NBC report from 1994 - Video

by Brad Linder (RSS feed) Jun 15th 2009 at 3:00PM

So there's this thing called "the Internet." You may have heard of it.. 15 years ago, Tom Brokaw filed a report about this strange thing, and today it looks like something out of a time capsule. Of course, the fun thing about Time Capsules is opening them, so it was awfully nice of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to post an early Brokaw report on the Internet on Hulu.

In it, Brokaw visits the "computer convention" in Las Vegas, and talks to Bill Gates, and Eric Schmidt, among others about the internet. What's funny about the clip is that Tom Brokaw, Bill Gates, and other people don't look that different, but the computers shown in the video look ancient, as do the little bits of internet content shown in the video.

[via The Business Insider]

Tags: bill-gates, eric-schmidt, internet, retro, tom-brokaw, video

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Richard said 3:45PM on 6-15-2009

It would be great if you could post videos on a globally friendly site!! We can't get Hulu in the UK because the internet had borders now!!!

julio.go83 said 3:37PM on 6-15-2009

Only for the US :/

richard.gailey said 3:45PM on 6-15-2009

Thanks for the article, but ditto the above. People outside the US also follow here.

Diego said 3:45PM on 6-15-2009

Yeah, in Europe we too want to see the video!

Quikboy said 4:00PM on 6-15-2009

That was hilarious! Especially the ending :)

Matthew Fleigle said 4:22PM on 6-15-2009

Just so I understand this, it is a joke right? I feel stupid for even asking (since it says Jimmy Fallon), but most of it seems legit

Tom said 4:47PM on 6-15-2009

Yep, can't see the video. Put it up on YouTube.

venk said 4:52PM on 6-15-2009

"It's gonna be a long time before people have flat screens as small as that book"

Netbooks, Kindle, etc

Looks like Long Time < 15 Years

stridery said 7:25PM on 6-15-2009

Well, that is an eternity in nerd years.

edward said 9:45PM on 6-15-2009

I long for the days of an internet without borders.

BTW DLS bloggers over the pat few weeks I have noticed more frequent posts, allowing me to visi multiple imes a day. Good Work!

Stridery said 7:16PM on 6-15-2009

Well, that is an eternity in nerd years.

Richard said 8:20AM on 6-16-2009

So there's this thing called "the rest of the world outside of the USA." You may have heard of it...

molo said 9:42AM on 6-16-2009

Hi
please use a video service that the whole world can use.
Thanks from Oz

Eric H said 9:32AM on 6-16-2009

The poster has no control over where the video was posted, complain to Hulu not him.

feraligatr8 said 8:31AM on 6-17-2009

the video was probably posted on youtube too, he probably didn't bother to look.

Eric H said 8:56AM on 6-17-2009

I just looked and I couldn't find it.

ga.andres1 said 8:31AM on 6-17-2009

http://www.fancast.com/tv/Late-Night-With-Jimmy-Fallon/102993/1093477361/Tom-Brokaws-Early-Reports-About-the-Internet/videos

Maff said 8:31AM on 6-17-2009

I'm fed up of sites limiting people. Why only broadcast to the minority that is the USA?

ga.andres1, you link is limited too as it only works in certain browsers and is therefore not up to w3c standards so I cannot view that either.

feraligatr8 said 4:05AM on 6-17-2009

sigh... did u have to post a link to faggy hulu?

glenn said 8:48PM on 6-18-2009

works on firefox, what broswer are you using?

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