So back in 1969, what did we think the Internet would be like? Take a look.

[Tx4obama]

Run time: 01:57 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0pPfyYtiBc   Posted on YouTube: September 11, 2007 By YouTube Member: clark7795 Views on YouTube: 482760   Posted on DU: April 02, 2010 By DU Member: Tx4obama Views on DU: 1305

 
Video shows how the Internet was IMAGINED back in 1969.
They got some of it right!

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Not too far off!

The hardware looks dated but the activities and convenience are close to current reality.

However: "What the wife selects on her console is paid for by the husband on his console..."

1969 is longer ago than I thought. (And I was there)

[Patsy Stone]

15. I wish I owned that model.

Somehow mine didn't come with a "husband pays all the wife's bills" button.

Meanwhile, isn't that more equipment than it took to get to the moon?

[FiveGoodMen]

16. Those are getting hard to find!

Regarding the equipment, all that old stuff looks like a hobbyist could have built it from a kit. Which is probably just about the truth of the matter.

Very densely integrated circuits have changed the look -- and size -- of technology a lot!

[Crabby Appleton]

2. That's from a 1967 Philco-Ford Corp short film

called 1999 A.D. They got the general idea right.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/year1999.asp

http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/04/1999-ad-1967.html

[Tx4obama]

6. Thanks for the links, that kitchen video is hilarious! n/t

[demwing]

19. I like how it takes the kid two minutes to find the dining room

you can get anywhere in my place in 30 seconds or less :)

[Wickerman]

3. Ha, that is AOL, there are only saying it's 1969!

actually, that is a great document. Thanks for posting.

[ET Awful]

4. Sexist!!!!

What the wife selects on her console will be paid for by the husband on his counterpart console :)

Dammit, whatever my wife/gf/SO selects on her console she can damn well pay for herself :)

[The Doctor.]

9. Ummm...

1967.

We've kind have made progress since then.

I'm looking forward to when it's more typical to see; "What the husband selects on his console will be paid for by the wife on her counterpart console." :)

[ET Awful]

12. LOL :) n/t

[damntexdem]

5. "A monitor checks all circuits every two seconds."

Hmm, well I guess that would be enough to check "these and HUNDREDS of electronic circuits."

[bbgrunt]

7. very interesting except.....WHO was narrating? sounded

a lot like ronnie to me.

[JHB]

13. I don't know which "ronnie" you're thinking of, but...

...it definitely wasn't Reagan. The voice is wrong, and depending on exactly when they would have recorded it Reagan would have been running for or serving as governor of California, not making voice-overs.

[Taverner]

14. And this speaker was a baritone - Raygun was a tenor

[bleever]

8. I wish we could look at DU circa 1969.

Would it go to DefCon level 4 if more than three people were logged on at the same time?

[Capitalocracy]

18. Here's what it would be like:

Hubert Humphrey was too far left, that's why he lost to Nixon! Get away from that McGovern nonsense, vote for George Wallace in the primaries or we're sunk in '72!

[The Doctor.]

10. They got it totally wrong! Where's the PRON?!?!?

:)

[patrick t. cakes]

11. free republic master control.

is that jim robinsons basement?

[BrklynLiberal]

17. Pretty prescient,all things considered.