erisi236
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Post by erisi236 on Sept 21, 2011 19:35:52 GMT -5
This is honestly kind of amazing in its accuracy. It's not quite right, but the reality is at least eerily similar.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Sept 21, 2011 20:01:49 GMT -5
Is that Tom Selleck narrating?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2011 20:05:02 GMT -5
As the comments say, it's funny that in the end, AT&T was the one who shunned away from all of this.
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Blindkarevik
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Post by Blindkarevik on Sept 21, 2011 20:13:42 GMT -5
That's honestly pretty amazing. Especially since it all seemed to happen so naturally that it's tough to really see the amount of progress in such a short time.
I remember these ads and thinking how awesome most of that stuff would be, and now we have it and don't even think about it.
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Post by Cela on Sept 21, 2011 20:18:41 GMT -5
Ok, were all of those really earth shattering ideas at the time? I can't imagine ticket kiosks being that bizzare.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2011 20:26:16 GMT -5
Ok, were all of those really earth shattering ideas at the time? I can't imagine ticket kiosks being that bizzare. I don't remember seeing any ticket kiosks until around say 1998-1999. |
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Sept 21, 2011 20:46:13 GMT -5
At the time the technology to do all those things existed, we just never put that technology to use for those things.
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Post by Beets by Schrute on Sept 21, 2011 21:31:28 GMT -5
Wow, they called the future more correctly than Back to the Future did.
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Post by Macho Dude Handy Damage on Sept 21, 2011 22:14:41 GMT -5
At the time the technology to do all those things existed, we just never put that technology to use for those things. That's true. These weren't totally new, crazy and far fetched idea at the time at all, due do the technology we had at the time. But I'm surprised they didn't mention doing that kinda stuff over the internet (or anything internet related at all really) which by 1993 was getting more and more popular. People had certainly at least heard of it by then. |
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Post by ICBM on Sept 21, 2011 22:38:33 GMT -5
I had not heard of the internet in 1993. Swear dude the first I heard of it was the Super Bowl comercial for Mission Impossible because they plugged the website. That was the first time I remember hearing WWW. anything and I had to ask around alot of people before I got an explaination. After that you heard it for everything and now it's so commonplace we never think about it
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Sept 21, 2011 22:49:07 GMT -5
Have you ever used the word "LOL" as short hand for laughing?
Have you ever turned the safe option off as you look for porn?
You will.
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Dave at the Movies
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Sept 22, 2011 10:03:02 GMT -5
At the time the technology to do all those things existed, we just never put that technology to use for those things. That's true. These weren't totally new, crazy and far fetched idea at the time at all, due do the technology we had at the time. But I'm surprised they didn't mention doing that kinda stuff over the internet (or anything internet related at all really) which by 1993 was getting more and more popular. People had certainly at least heard of it by then. It depends for most people. The mainstream really didn't start getting into the internet till about 1996 and even then it was still a pretty new phenomenon for most people. It wasn't till song downloading and stuff like myspace that it really really took off. |
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Post by Macho Dude Handy Damage on Sept 22, 2011 10:52:20 GMT -5
That's true. These weren't totally new, crazy and far fetched idea at the time at all, due do the technology we had at the time. But I'm surprised they didn't mention doing that kinda stuff over the internet (or anything internet related at all really) which by 1993 was getting more and more popular. People had certainly at least heard of it by then. It depends for most people. The mainstream really didn't start getting into the internet till about 1996 and even then it was still a pretty new phenomenon for most people. It wasn't till song downloading and stuff like myspace that it really really took off. I'm from Norway, who back in those days, were always a few years behind the rest of the world. Even I knew what the internet was in 1993. I knew exactly ONE person who had internet access. I just figured most people in the US/North America, knew what it was back then. Maybe I was wrong in that assumption. Myself, my family didn't get internet access until about 1998/1999. |
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Sept 22, 2011 11:10:59 GMT -5
It depends for most people. The mainstream really didn't start getting into the internet till about 1996 and even then it was still a pretty new phenomenon for most people. It wasn't till song downloading and stuff like myspace that it really really took off. I'm from Norway, who back in those days, were always a few years behind the rest of the world. Even I knew what the internet was in 1993. I knew exactly ONE person who had internet access. I just figured most people in the US/North America, knew what it was back then. Maybe I was wrong in that assumption. Myself, my family didn't get internet access until about 1998/1999. I'm not sure what the actual statistics were but I don't believe most people even had internet till about 2000. |
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Post by jamofpearls on Sept 22, 2011 11:27:34 GMT -5
You will run into Jenna Elfman at the future train station, as she makes a telephone call.
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Post by Hit Girl on Sept 22, 2011 12:05:04 GMT -5
We need voice activated doors, brothas.
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Post by Gopher Mod on Sept 22, 2011 12:22:30 GMT -5
We need voice activated doors, brothas. Not that hard to do this day and age. You just need to find some software out there that recognizes your voice, wire that up to an electrical system that can unlock doors and you've got what you need. |
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Post by Macho Dude Handy Damage on Sept 22, 2011 18:04:56 GMT -5
I'm from Norway, who back in those days, were always a few years behind the rest of the world. Even I knew what the internet was in 1993. I knew exactly ONE person who had internet access. I just figured most people in the US/North America, knew what it was back then. Maybe I was wrong in that assumption. Myself, my family didn't get internet access until about 1998/1999. I'm not sure what the actual statistics were but I don't believe most people even had internet till about 2000. I wasn't really talking about having internet, I was talking about knowing what it was. |
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Post by CM Dazz on Sept 22, 2011 18:12:37 GMT -5
They couldn't predict flat screen TVs (except for the one movie commercial). All of them, even the touchscreens they showed were the old tube TVs. I dunno, just found that funny.
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Sept 22, 2011 18:20:56 GMT -5
You will run into Jenna Elfman at the future train station, as she makes a telephone call. You will be taught the history of jazz by the dude who played Benson. |
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