The YouTubers at Squirrel Monkey make videos that imagine what modern tech would look like in the past.
Their latest humorously imagines what video conferencing via Zoom would have been like in the late eighties — a real PITA! We've come a long way technology wise since 1988.
Squirrel Monkey, previously on BB
screengrab via Squirrel Monkey/YouTube
If you were sentient in 1980, this summary of that watershed year will bring back a flood of memories. If you weren’t, behold the weird world of 40 years ago.
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Of COURSE one of the first people to understand the power of HyperCard was @kevin2kelly! Now I want to find a copy of the Electronic Whole Earth Catalog and spend a day browsing around. pic.twitter.com/FMYZ4aA6NN — Drew Coffman (@DrewCoffman) May 26, 2020 Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly’s first job was at the Whole Earth Catalog. Here’s […]
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Leonard Cohen performs “First We Take Manhattan” on Sweden’s Kulturen TV program in June 1988. It’s perfectly bizarro 1980s while also being so very Cohen. Below, Cohen’s interview on the same program: (via r/ObscureMedia)
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We all know about the power and abilities of Photoshop. From changing eye color to turning an image into a painting to all the ways Photoshop users can reshape narratives in the White House, the capabilities of a skilled editor to transform reality with the tools in Adobe’s legendary program are jaw-dropping. Yet all those […]
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If you enjoy the outdoors, you know that it’s not necessarily any scarier at night than it is during the day. But it sure can seem that way when you’re using a traditional flashlight that effectively gives you tunnel vision: You see just the spot where you aim and nothing else. That’s why the H2 Headlamp […]
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If your company makes it out of this COVID 19-fueled nightmare one day, you may well have the cloud to thank for part of that. A survey found that almost 40 percent of companies have used cloud technology to scale infrastructure to better help them meet demand and control costs brought on by virus-driven changes. […]
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July 21, 2020 at 07:45PM
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Funny video imagines Zoom calls in 1988 - Boing Boing
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