2.24.11 - 9:30AM
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Jason Newman

'What Is Internet, Anyway?' - An Urlesque Compilation of Early Internet Clips

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Early Internet Watching Bryant Gumbel incredulously ask what the internet was in a 1994 'Today Show' clip got me thinking how clueless most of us were in the early 1990s when the World Wide Web began to explode.

Not surprisingly, a look back at news reports, commercials and instructional videos at the time yields a bounty of unintentional humor. Consider this video I put together a time capsule of the Wild West days.

We laugh now, but wait ten years, when we'll see similar videos about blogs and Twitter (oh god, the "haha, I don't know what verbs to use! Twit! Twote! Twat!" jokes).

"What Is Internet, Anyway?"

previously:// Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel Ask 'What Is the Internet?'

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2.24.11

By VarsityBasketweaving

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"You know I can even send e-mail on the Internet?"

As opposed to....

2.25.11

By Brad Mc

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I love the video, but it's not quite a humorous as I expected ... their descriptions are all pretty accurate for the time!

2.27.11

By blackbelt_jones

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The thing that struck me as hilarious was "the internet yellow pages" Right in the beginning, I paid about 20 dollars for that book. It seems like a joke now: a search engine in book form!