Today Show 1994: What is the internet?

[Very_Boring_Name]

Run time: 01:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVKRSsrIqpA   Posted on YouTube: January 29, 2011 By YouTube Member: wTTwZZ Views on YouTube: 63   Posted on DU: January 29, 2011 By DU Member: Very_Boring_Name Views on DU: 1120

 

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. Bryant, that string with 'a' with the ring around it is who you write to when ...

...your online order of puffy shirts is running late.

[KurtNYC]

2. what a time warp

don't know her name but the woman on screen right really likes her own answer that it is "a computer billboard"

[JBoy]

3. It would be even funnier now to get them to explain what it is.

[Charleston Chew]

4. not relevant to DU but...

this really tickled me. Great find.

[forty6]

5. What pins this to 1994 is Gumble's last remarks in the clip.

I guess the date of the L.A. earthquakes is what pins the month and time. "The Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17, 1994, at 4:31 AM Pacific Standard Time in Reseda, a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, lasting for about 45 seconds." "USGS Response to an Urban Earthquake -- Northridge ‘94" Just 17 years ago this month. How far and fast we have changed!

[underpants]

6. Funny. He doesn't say "dot" - I always thought it was funny how the geeks...

decided on "dot" because hehehe "period" was so hehehe you know period

[CLANG]

7. Yeah, and it isn't an asterisk, it's a "star".

[dbonds]

9. If you are real geek you call it a splat.

And a ! is a bang.

[HankyDubs]

8. It's a series of tubes

:argh:

[PoliticAverse]

10. Update: NBC fires employee that leaked "What is the Internet" video

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20110204/nbc-heres-why-we-fired-the-today-show-youtube-leaker/