The Internet in 1969

8 comments to The Internet in 1969

• Jared

  June 4, 2011 at 10:23 am · Reply

  I love it, especially the comment at 0:40 – “What the wife selects on her console will be paid for by the husband at his counterpart console” Lol

• Kevin

  June 6, 2011 at 3:20 pm · Reply

  If only they knew that the internet will mostly be used for twittering whatever you’re eating for breakfast, they might have just cancelled the whole thing

  • extreme ismist

    May 3, 2012 at 6:48 am · Reply

    You forgot it will also be used for complaining about people twittering whatever thry’re eating for breakfast.

• Jim

  June 9, 2011 at 11:34 am · Reply

  They may have gotten the details wrong, but this prediction wasn’t far off.

• Serge

  June 30, 2011 at 8:50 pm · Reply

  It’s nice that for every task there is a separate screen … Thanks to Bill Gates? for windows

• Joe Max

  July 29, 2011 at 6:42 am · Reply

  Does anyone know the source of this video? What is it an excerpt from?

• Brian Gonigal

  November 2, 2011 at 6:29 pm · Reply

  This is actually quite surprising. Of all the “past predictions of the future” that I’ve seen here & in other places, this one alone pretty much got it right. The only real significant things about the home computer that they missed are that you wouldn’t need a separate monitor for every function and it for some reason didn’t seem to occur to them to just use a typewriter keyboard so you wouldn’t have to write your email out longhand.

• Nick

  December 22, 2011 at 6:12 pm · Reply

  This is amazingly close, give or take some details. Considering anything resembling the Internet we know today was was about 25 years in the future, this was remarkably prescient. I wonder who was coming up with these ideas back then . . . it was not at all a subject that was exactly filling science fiction stories at the time, and that all-seeing arbiter of the future, Star Trek, made not a single mention of anything resembling the Internet.