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From 1967... How to shop online in 1999.

Kevin M.Kevin M.
edited September 2007 in General
This is a film clip from 1967 that talks about how you will shop, email and do other things from "home computers." For the non-techie, younger generation... nobody had a home computer in 1967 or even had a clue of what the internet would be. Also, listen to the audio. He says some things about gender that are kinda funny too when you put it in today's perspective.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4796674762025998102&hl=en-CA

Comments

  • Morro
    edited September 2007
    I'm almost certain that that's a parody. The internet didn't exist in the 60's, at least outside the military.
  • NukeChem
    edited September 2007
    It was the ARPAnet back then, but some people had some fairly prescient ideas about how interconnected computers would be. In 1979, Isaac Asimov fairly accurately predicted something like wikipedia, where all people from all walks of life can equally contribute to a body of knowledge that exists in virtual space rather than in printed literature.

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