The Internet Changed Me

may I have your attention please your attention please mate may I have some please what if I put up gameplay of Subway Surfer and used a robot voice would would that keep you stimulated Wikipedia says that people born between the year 1981 and 1996 are part of a group called Millennials and I am a 96 baby hello year of the Rat what's up I'm cusping on that Millennial gen Z line so I can relate to all you gen's ears okay I know what cap means I know what drip means and I also don't remember where I was when 9 11 happened however gen Z there is a difference between us we're both a generation that grew up on the internet but you grew up with the internet we grew up with the internet the internet didn't used to always look like this it is metamorphosized a multitude of times now if you talk to an older Millennial they'll tell you the horror stories of the late 90s internet how the internet used to be paired with your home's landline and if you don't know what landline is good if you wanted to surf the net at blazing speeds of seven kilobytes a second then you couldn't use your telephone at the same time this was before texting even existed so if you needed to talk to someone you had to call them and look up their phone number in that 20 pound weapon known as a phone book and then if someone else was using the internet they'd get the pleasure of listening to although if I had to make a sound that represented the entire internet it would sound exactly like this I didn't grow up with dial up but I did grow up in a time where the internet looked completely different by the time I was exploring the interwebs we got speeds up to one megabyte per second so the highest quality video you could stream on YouTube was in 240p or this big and it would still buffer a lot gen Z you weren't there when YouTube had a five-star scoring system and the Subscribe button was yellow and people would put these things all over their videos you weren't there when the videos were in a 4x3 aspect ratio because that's what TVs look like you weren't there when a background for a website would be a never-ending grid of a JPEG and music would play against your will and your cursor would turn into a sparkly wand and okay that's actually pretty cool whatever happened to that and then the person who built the website would go hmm it's looking pretty good good but you know what this web page really needs a counter that'll tell you the total number of people who visited let me just copy this HTML code I found online and if you're around my age and you also had unsupervised computer time then great you were also there to experience the pre-puberty years of the internet try to imagine the internet without social media no Facebook Twitter Instagram or Myspace where people back then just not talking about themselves or sharing their opinions online were we as a society more connected with the people we knew in the real world no of course not people have been sharing their opinions online since day one they were just doing it on random message boards I know it sounds trivial nowadays but there was once a novelty in being able to type anything you wanted into the computer and then someone else you didn't know would instantaneously respond even Neopets a game targeted to Children had chat rooms and let anyone send unfiltered messages to Children I'm surprised I didn't meet any weirdos that's one thing that'll never change with the internet there will always be weirdos online in fact most of a weirdo's life is spent behind a computer I would know I think people loved sending messages so much that sometimes your friend would send you a message that said you've just has been hit by the duck truck send this message to eight of your friends and you'll be as sexy as a truck ignore and you'll be hit by a 16-wheeler you have seven days and instead of blocking that person some people would keep the chain going hey I have a quick question when was the last time you ever had to type a specific website into your address bar somewhere about 10 years give or take you just type in a y and then YouTube pops up you put in a t you get Twitter and P gets you pictures of alligators.com and if you had a specific question you wanted to ask the internet you just Yahoo it right Yahoo oh no that's not the one you kids are using you kids are using that new search engine right Ask Jeeves I know there's like four main websites that everyone goes on but back then instead of having a social media account people made their own websites so there were a bunch of different websites for you to explore and to help you find those websites you had a few search engines to pick from everyone loves to dunk on Bing for even attempting to be a search engine but back in the day Google had some competition obviously I can see why Google ultimately won the search engine battle Google is a great company and I would recommend Google to all my peers and co-workers I love Google as much as I love the internet some of the best memories we had on the computer weren't even on the internet were they sometimes the internet would just go down but did that stop us did we go outside no we were still able to supply ourselves with hours of entertainment even without an internet all you had to do was click Start all programs accessories games and then foreign Cadet pinball I guarantee every Millennial watching this right now just got hit with a big wave of nostalgia this game might seem simple because there's only two buttons that you can press but when you really got into it this game had a whole lot more going on trust me space cadet pinball was all we had sometimes and I cherished every second of it but if you were anything like me growing up you were also practicing your art skills and luckily every computer came pre-installed with a top of the line painting software that every artist needs yeah this program's got everything there's a line tool and a bucket tool and a circle tool and sometimes when I was really bored I would make a black rectangle scribble the freeform selection tool on it and then blammo yeah I still got it I just made a masterpiece and fun James bonus tip for some extra self-induced epilepsy hold down control I which will invert the colors so your Masterpiece will go oh it hurts to look at hey looks like you're trying to create a conclusion to this YouTube video would you like my help no clippy even when you were around I never used you I just liked having you there to keep me company the internet is still a relatively new invention that is ever changing the way we live and we have yet to see the full effects of what being connected since birth does to a person the fact that the accumulation of all human knowledge can now fit in your pocket that's going to affect your day-to-day life now I'm not gonna sit here and tell you to get off the internet touch grass and live your life to the fullest otherwise I'd be a hypocrite and unemployed there's no denying all the positive things that the internet has to offer but I'm also not going to deny all the negative things that come with instant gratification too as technology advances so too do we advance the amount of time we spend online the internet can connect us to a million different people and perspectives that we never would have been exposed to before but it can also expose owes us to some really nasty people and perspectives and the only thing we can do about those people is shrug and say sorry that's the internet so are we as a society better off with the internet I think so but just I don't know just remember to drink water and stretch all right that's the lesson of this video go stretch I'm serious right now go touch your toes thank you all so much for watching this video about the internet and how it's changed one thing that hasn't changed is how amazing my team is please everyone give them a big round of applause they did an amazing job I don't have too many updates to 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Channel: TheOdd1sOut

Views: 12,297,126

Keywords: internet, the internet, memes, millennial, gen z, generation z, internet explorer, pinball, space cadet pinball, ms pain, paint, youtube, website, barfeild, cartoon, animation, funny, lol, theodd1sout, theoddisout, theoddonesout, James, James Rallison, dial up

Id: Xm-yXsm23_c

Length: 9min 16sec (556 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 03 2022