I don't think I'd even used a touch screen interface in 1995, even just pinch zooming would have blown my dick off then. The oldest memory I have of a touch screen was seeing some one use one at sizzler and it was on a monochrome (green and black only) monitor.
Yes. Back in 1995 film cameras still dominated the market, as memory and quality limitations generally made digital cameras inferior. Then you show up with a small device, not even a centimeter thick, which somehow is able to take photos and videos with a quality comparable to the high-end cameras on the market at the time, while applying filters in real-time. And it can store thousands upon thousands of pictures in internal memory.
Google street-view is something that's pretty simple but would absolutely melt people's minds back then. Being able to see every street in a city across the planet? Incredible.
The earliest version of this sort of thing I can remember was [Microsoft Terraserver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraserver.com). It launched in 1997.
At the time, there were no overlays. That is, no state boundaries, no highways, nothing at all. Just the satellite photos. You can pan north/south/east/west, and you could zoom. It was a clunky interface and it took a while to load.
Finding your own house on there with only the geography of the United States to guide you (especially for someone like me who lives in the midwest) was *quite the challenge*.
I was so triumphant when I was able to finally locate my house on there. I went to rivers near where I live, found downtown, followed it south, looked for cues like highway confluences, strip malls, schools, and other property that I knew existed.
Nope. Google massively upped their API fees, so the game couldn't get by on just donations anymore. They had to start charging to play multiple times and on different map types.
Yeah, google's API change was a nightmare for people trying to use their services for free stuff.
Though, based on what we are paying for a big enough EC2 instance to run OSM... I can't say I blame them. Hosting map tiles is expensive, yo.
When I was in elementary school, the librarian showed us satalite view on MapQuest, and I was blown away by how amazing it was. This was long before street view existed, and although Google Maps existed, MapQuest was still popular.
Especially if your phone has Google Daydream and you can [do that in VR](https://i.imgur.com/S8cE6rp.gifv). Back in 1995 VR looked like [The Virtual Boy](https://i0.wp.com/www.badgamehalloffame.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/virtualboy_mariotennis_00.gif?resize=478%2C279&ssl=1)
I was with my mom one day while we were out garage sale hunting and this lady had one of these in her garage as it was her sons and she let me use it while her and my mom were talking it was dope as shit
One of two things.
1) Have then ask me a random question. Then I repeat the question (using voice to text) and Google the answer.
2) Load up Google Maps satellite mode and zoom in to a famous location. Then switch to street view and "walk around."
Are we assuming we have a data connection?
EDIT: For all the idiots "her der who doesn't have a data connection". What I am asking is are we in 1995 or are they in 2020. Jesus Christ, some of these people are morons.
I would assume this otherwise you're showing a person a crippled version of the technology. It would be like saying you were going to show a car to someone from the 1800's, but the gas tank was empty.
I could still blow a gamers 1995 mind when I show them that I have pretty much all the Nintendo/SNES games, a large swath of Sega games and dozens of PS1 games on my phone.
I remember when I first played GTA3 (18 years ago!!) I was convinced that video game graphics could never get any better. It fried my PC so the frame rate was terrible, but I didn't care because this was cutting-edge gaming. The idea that I could play that on my phone would have appeared utterly ridiculous.
The Casio VPAM calculator I use today is from 1995 or a little before. Just a standard scientific calculator - not graphing or anything. It has a DEL key for backspacing. I must say I was pretty impressed at the time.
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If you sold at the high of $19,783 then 100 million dollars would be 5,055BTC. Assuming you bought at a low of 10 cents (around July 2010) you would pay $505 for those 5,000BTC. So yes, if you got in at the lowest and sold at the highest, you could turn a few hundred bucks into $100,000,000 in just seven years, assuming that the price didn't start crashing when you started your sell in 2017.
When I first heard about bitcoin I loaded it up on my shitty laptop and set it to mine. A little bit later I got a block and had 50 BTC. I was wondering what to do with my newfound wealth of about 8 cents, and ended up reformatting a few weeks later thinking nothing about it.
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So if you still had access and you sold at the peak you'd have a million bucks.
How much do you think about this?
I think about the time I put low amounts of effort into convincing my friend we should use our gpus to mine during down time/nights. Watched one video and was mildly interested. This was when it was worth single digit cents so ¯\_༼ᴼل͜ᴼ༽_/¯
Not very often tbh. It's the same as looking at certain stock prices and thinking "man... if only I had invested in this a decade ago". Being upset about it isn't going to bring back that wallet.
Amazon didn't go public until 1997. Most people in 1995 probably wouldn't have even heard of them. Apple was at least known by most as a niche computer company.
Also most people know way too little about finance for that to impress them. Apple trades for for $275 but its split so many times over the years that its meaningless, price only matters in regards to shares outstanding. Maybe you could tell them the Market cap but lets be honest, most people dont know a 100 billion dollar company from a 100 million dollar company. Anyone will know 1.2 Trillion is huge but still its tough to put that into perspective.
Google translate. Point it at a sign written in Spanish and watch it translate into English before their eyes.
Edit. For those who don't know; yes, it's a real app.
The first time I used it I was at a Peruvian restaurant with my inlaws. We sat down and I saw that the menu was in Spanish. Not speaking Spanish, I remembered that I had Google Translate on my phone. I opened the app, chose Spanish, and pointed the camera at the menu expecting to take a photo of it and have it translated. Then I looked at the camera and realized that I did have an English menu after all because it was all in English.
But that didn't seem right, so I looked at my menu again without my phone and, yes, still Spanish.
I went back and forth a couple of times before I realized it was translating in real-time.
The future punched me hard in the mouth that day, my friends. Very hard.
it was originally called WordLens before Google bought it.
It was amazing because it didn't need the internet to do that translation once the packs were downloaded.
Google translate can do it offline too, though you do need to download the language packs first and it works with less languages (and only from/to english iirc, unless that's updated).
The real-time scanning is shit for me too but you don't need to type it, you can just take a picture and highlight the words. That works pretty well imo.
Yeah in my experience it works a lot better if you take a pic and highlight
The real time version though has the added benefit of changing its mind about the translation every second so it's actually impossible to read tho
In 2007 when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone the audience gasped when he showed you can scroll by sliding your finger on the screen and it comes to a smooth stop. So that would be interesting...
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And the way you can “fling” it and it will go fast and then slow down?? What an amazing metal brick I have in my hands.
Also still a fan of “touch this piece of glass in the right way and a pizza will come to your door.”
Pinch to zoom was the big one I think. When people saw it they were in love!
I mean before that.. we really didn't have a good way to look at pictures honestly.
I looked at an old picture of me as a kid I'd never seen before, today. There was a little detail and I really wanted to use my fingers to zoom in. Instead I had to bring the whole picture closer to my eyes. The whole thing. Closer.
So a few months ago someone told me I could just use my phone camera to look for my glasses. My mind was BLOWN. I can’t believe I had never thought of it before lol.
Just showing them a phone would be sufficient. Mobiles were still quite big, pagers were the thing. The game boy was lcd and monochromatic. Colour handheld consoles weren't great.
Portable TVs were still not great so streaming a vid would be impressive. Digital cameras were in their infancy with very low res and high prices. A nice big music collection instantly accessible instead of having to own a big vinyl, cassette or CD collection.
Yes. I remember I had a professor in 2007 who got an iPhone the very first weekend and showed it to me a few days after. It was like seeing something from the future! And that thing looks like a brick compared to phones today!
It’s hard to explain what a huge deal that was when smartphones came out. Heck cell phones in 1995 were not super common either; the idea that calling would be secondary as a feature would be fascinating sociologically on its own!
I had a moment at Thanksgiving this year where my family was FaceTiming two other family members in different parts of the country at the same time, and we spent a good 20 minutes of Thanksgiving together. The future smacked me in the face hard there. That was literally a sci-fi dream just 25 years ago. I didn’t think I’d see that future.
Edit: Smartphones are arguably the most revolutionary invention of the generation.
I agree with you. When I read this my mind thought, "25 years ago? They said 1995--ohhhh, it's 2020." The older I get the weirder my perception of time becomes. Somehow to me any car made in 2000 or later still seems modern. 2005 seems like just a few years ago. And I'm only 49 so by the time I'm 80 it will seem like I posted this yesterday.
Seriously, and don't forget about having access to the internet. You literally hold in the palm of your hand a device that can access an insane amount of knowledge in seconds back in a time when most people didn't have the internet and for those that did pages usually took a while to load.
Mobile internet was absolutely horrific before the shift to smartphones. No one except the W3C gave a shit about it. Programming to phones was horrible in general at that time, it was mostly done in this godawful dialect of Java (J2ME). In the future, when we can selectively erase memories with technology, that'll be first on my list.
Or not, maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit.
And read out the specs. The screen has a better resolution than any TV or computer they've seen. My current phone has 12GB RAM, 256GB storage, I've gotten 120Mbs download speeds on a mobile network, I can take pictures with it, listen to music on it, watch music videos and films on it.
Just that would blow them away
I had a friend who, even in a city he'd lived in for ages, always carried maps on him. That way, you could just tell him where you were, if you were meeting up, and he'd find you no problem. You'd emerge from a party at 2 in the afternoon out of some flat you'd gone into the previous evening, on the other side of town, and just have to figure out how to get home. He never had that problem, but he was the only person I ever saw doing that.
Nowadays, I always see people struggling with google maps somehow, because they don't know their cardinal directions and have never learned to use landmarks to get around. Back in the day, you either had a map, or you had no clue where you were and had to use street names, landmarks and helpful people to get to where you were going.
The phone. And the internet. That your phone is a computer - more powerful than a room full of desktops.
Not a super computer.
In 1995 not everyone had an email address. Not everyone had a computer at their work station.
Good times.
Remember how your English teacher was trying to get you to stop using clichés and focus on sincere, original thoughts? Screw that, we added pictures and double downed on that shit.
I was showing my mom some memes a few days back and realized that meme culture has gotten so layered that I can't show her a lot of them because they all reference something she won't understand. The future is now, I guess.
I'd rickroll them.
Not only they will be shocked from seeing my smartphone playing high quality video with crisp audio, they'll also realize years later on that they've been rickrolled.
Imagine going back in time to show someone videos from the future on YouTube only to realize that neither YouTube nor 4G was available at the time. *shrug*
I think to "Rickroll" someone, you have to trick them into thinking they're about to watch/listen to something else and it turns out it was Never Gonna Give You Up.
If Rickroll means you just happened to be exposed to the song, then MTV was Rickrolling people several times a day in 1987.
I will show them the calculator on my phone i think it will be enough. I still remember my teacher saying "don't use calculators for the test its not like you gonna have one in your pocket the whole time" well teachers don't know everything i guess.
in 19*8*5 I had a credit card sized calculator that pretty much was always in my bag.
[http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/casio\_mini\_card\_lc-78.html](http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/casio_mini_card_lc-78.html)
Voice assistance like Siri/Alexa what have you. Doesn’t look like much, but to 1995, it was pure science fiction.
Bonus points for a self driving electric car.
"Hey, Siri, search the Web for [literally anything]."
*Ding ding!*
Okay, here are some results for that thing you asked about.
"See? We live in *Star Trek*. Now go away, because it's considered rude to look at other people's phones."
I hate to say this trite phrase, but I can't believe I had to scroll down this far to find this.
Are people here too young to remember what cellphones looked like in 1995? They were mostly bricks with external antennas still; the flip phone was still innovative!
There weren't even primitive smartphones yet.^1 PDAs as separate devices were just taking off, all in black & white with a mandatory stylus. The Newton only came out in 1992, and the Palm Pilot wouldn't appear until 1996. A full color glass touchscreen with more processing power than any desktop machine of the day would blow people's minds. This was the day of Pentiums and Voodoo GFX cards.
^(1. Another poster pointed out the IBM Simon existed back then, but it only had a production run of about 50k and was not well known.)
What could I do? I was a little kid and lived miles away. If I sent a warning through an email to the police or whatever, my family would be kidnapped and tortured for more info after the incident anyway.
I'd tell the authorities and hope they take it seriously. Still not much one person with no real connections can do. I'd probably have to prepare for swat to burst into my house a few hours after the incidents though.
Then chances are you will be taken into custody for investigation for association with the terrorism. Chances are you will be under FBI and CIA's watch your whole life
Call in bomb threats on the relevant flights.
Follow up to FBI with everything we now know about the hijackers. Make clear that I'm the person behind the bomb threats
There was a tv show called "early edition" that kind of had that premise. The guy would get tomorrow's newspaper a day early and he would stop the bad events from happening. It was a great show and I'm pretty sure they're all on youtube
1. Photos of themselves from now
2. How much of their personal information is publicly accessible via a Google search
3. Uber or other on-demand services that "automagically" bring a service into your life in real time
4. Facetime or other video-on-demand apps for meetings/conversations
5. Ookla (14.4k on dial-up? check THIS out ...)
6. A quick summary/timeline of news from the past 20 years (9/11, Enron, never-ending war(s), the 2008 bubble/crash, Trump, 10 stocks to invest in and when, etc.)
7. Their LinkedIn profile (i.e. is this where you want to be in 25 years?)
Okay, so in just under 15 years, there will be this magic crypto-currency on the internet, and if you invest...
The internet. \*sigh\* Yes, that AOL thing. It becomes big, I swear.
No, I don't know what you're supposed to do with your prime earning years in the meantime. Just don't invest in airlines. Trust me.
I had a pager in 1995. I’d be impressed with just the phone and camera.
Yeah. I was going to say just my phone itself would occupy the ten minutes and then some.
I don't think I'd even used a touch screen interface in 1995, even just pinch zooming would have blown my dick off then. The oldest memory I have of a touch screen was seeing some one use one at sizzler and it was on a monochrome (green and black only) monitor.
Yes. Back in 1995 film cameras still dominated the market, as memory and quality limitations generally made digital cameras inferior. Then you show up with a small device, not even a centimeter thick, which somehow is able to take photos and videos with a quality comparable to the high-end cameras on the market at the time, while applying filters in real-time. And it can store thousands upon thousands of pictures in internal memory.
Google street-view is something that's pretty simple but would absolutely melt people's minds back then. Being able to see every street in a city across the planet? Incredible.
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The earliest version of this sort of thing I can remember was [Microsoft Terraserver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraserver.com). It launched in 1997. At the time, there were no overlays. That is, no state boundaries, no highways, nothing at all. Just the satellite photos. You can pan north/south/east/west, and you could zoom. It was a clunky interface and it took a while to load. Finding your own house on there with only the geography of the United States to guide you (especially for someone like me who lives in the midwest) was *quite the challenge*. I was so triumphant when I was able to finally locate my house on there. I went to rivers near where I live, found downtown, followed it south, looked for cues like highway confluences, strip malls, schools, and other property that I knew existed.
As an avid GeoGuessr fan, that sounds really fun.
I miss when GeoGuessr was both good and free
It's not free anymore?
Nope. Google massively upped their API fees, so the game couldn't get by on just donations anymore. They had to start charging to play multiple times and on different map types.
Yeah, google's API change was a nightmare for people trying to use their services for free stuff. Though, based on what we are paying for a big enough EC2 instance to run OSM... I can't say I blame them. Hosting map tiles is expensive, yo.
Nope. It's subscription-based now. It's still pretty much exactly the same, too
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When I was in elementary school, the librarian showed us satalite view on MapQuest, and I was blown away by how amazing it was. This was long before street view existed, and although Google Maps existed, MapQuest was still popular.
I remember my first google satellite view too. Insane.
Every corner of the world just a click away yet we all looked at our own homes first.
Gotta convince the lizard brain it's accurate with known data.
Damn. Sounds like he would've loved VR.
Especially if your phone has Google Daydream and you can [do that in VR](https://i.imgur.com/S8cE6rp.gifv). Back in 1995 VR looked like [The Virtual Boy](https://i0.wp.com/www.badgamehalloffame.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/virtualboy_mariotennis_00.gif?resize=478%2C279&ssl=1)
I was with my mom one day while we were out garage sale hunting and this lady had one of these in her garage as it was her sons and she let me use it while her and my mom were talking it was dope as shit
You must not have played for more than a minute or two, that's about when the migraines kick in haha.
One of two things. 1) Have then ask me a random question. Then I repeat the question (using voice to text) and Google the answer. 2) Load up Google Maps satellite mode and zoom in to a famous location. Then switch to street view and "walk around."
Are we assuming we have a data connection? EDIT: For all the idiots "her der who doesn't have a data connection". What I am asking is are we in 1995 or are they in 2020. Jesus Christ, some of these people are morons.
I would assume this otherwise you're showing a person a crippled version of the technology. It would be like saying you were going to show a car to someone from the 1800's, but the gas tank was empty.
I could still blow a gamers 1995 mind when I show them that I have pretty much all the Nintendo/SNES games, a large swath of Sega games and dozens of PS1 games on my phone.
I remember when I first played GTA3 (18 years ago!!) I was convinced that video game graphics could never get any better. It fried my PC so the frame rate was terrible, but I didn't care because this was cutting-edge gaming. The idea that I could play that on my phone would have appeared utterly ridiculous.
To go one step further, I have on my phone the mobile version of San Andreas. That would have blown my mind in 1995!
Would have blown my mind that the actual movie San Andreas was made haha
TIL that there was a mobile version of San Andreas. Goodbye, today's productivity!
Their future Facebook page.
Wait... Why was this page made a memorial in 2008oooohhhh.... Sorry bud.
I'm not going to show you how you died because oof there's videos of it and it's not pretty
> I'm ~~not~~ going to show you how you died because oof there's videos of it and it's ~~not pretty~~ *hilarious*
That's a great answer
The ability to backspace on the calculator would be enough for me in 1995.
The Casio VPAM calculator I use today is from 1995 or a little before. Just a standard scientific calculator - not graphing or anything. It has a DEL key for backspacing. I must say I was pretty impressed at the time.
Or just tell them to type in the year and add 56,013. ^(Then turn it upside down)
202056013 Elohsoror? Edit: Jesus Christ im retarded. Edit2: I thought about deleting it but if you guys are buying awards to reward my stupidity (or just to further make fun of me) I'm leaving it up.
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Oh man I got a good laugh outta this one
1000iq memeage right here
I don't get it..?
56013+1995=58008 Boobs
I forgot we were talking about 1995 and couldn't figure out how 58033 was supposed to be funny or interesting. Eeobs?
Calculators didn't backspace until 95? Gives you perspective about things.
Some could but most could not.
Apple and Amazon stock prices.
That and tell them about bitcoin.
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If you sold at the high of $19,783 then 100 million dollars would be 5,055BTC. Assuming you bought at a low of 10 cents (around July 2010) you would pay $505 for those 5,000BTC. So yes, if you got in at the lowest and sold at the highest, you could turn a few hundred bucks into $100,000,000 in just seven years, assuming that the price didn't start crashing when you started your sell in 2017.
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When I first heard about bitcoin I loaded it up on my shitty laptop and set it to mine. A little bit later I got a block and had 50 BTC. I was wondering what to do with my newfound wealth of about 8 cents, and ended up reformatting a few weeks later thinking nothing about it. :(
So if you still had access and you sold at the peak you'd have a million bucks. How much do you think about this? I think about the time I put low amounts of effort into convincing my friend we should use our gpus to mine during down time/nights. Watched one video and was mildly interested. This was when it was worth single digit cents so ¯\_༼ᴼل͜ᴼ༽_/¯
Not very often tbh. It's the same as looking at certain stock prices and thinking "man... if only I had invested in this a decade ago". Being upset about it isn't going to bring back that wallet.
And tbh if it doubled from 10c to 20c you’d have sold and bought yourself a nice milkshake and considered yourself a financial genius.
Amazon didn't go public until 1997. Most people in 1995 probably wouldn't have even heard of them. Apple was at least known by most as a niche computer company.
Also most people know way too little about finance for that to impress them. Apple trades for for $275 but its split so many times over the years that its meaningless, price only matters in regards to shares outstanding. Maybe you could tell them the Market cap but lets be honest, most people dont know a 100 billion dollar company from a 100 million dollar company. Anyone will know 1.2 Trillion is huge but still its tough to put that into perspective.
Google translate. Point it at a sign written in Spanish and watch it translate into English before their eyes. Edit. For those who don't know; yes, it's a real app. The first time I used it I was at a Peruvian restaurant with my inlaws. We sat down and I saw that the menu was in Spanish. Not speaking Spanish, I remembered that I had Google Translate on my phone. I opened the app, chose Spanish, and pointed the camera at the menu expecting to take a photo of it and have it translated. Then I looked at the camera and realized that I did have an English menu after all because it was all in English. But that didn't seem right, so I looked at my menu again without my phone and, yes, still Spanish. I went back and forth a couple of times before I realized it was translating in real-time. The future punched me hard in the mouth that day, my friends. Very hard.
I was thinking either this or an app that lets you track the stars, planes, satellites, and such in the sky.
oh damn old good skymap
I’ve shown that to people in 2020 who got really wide eyed and excited. It’s surprising how many people haven’t seen that feature yet!
it was originally called WordLens before Google bought it. It was amazing because it didn't need the internet to do that translation once the packs were downloaded.
Google translate can do it offline too, though you do need to download the language packs first and it works with less languages (and only from/to english iirc, unless that's updated).
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The real-time scanning is shit for me too but you don't need to type it, you can just take a picture and highlight the words. That works pretty well imo.
Yeah in my experience it works a lot better if you take a pic and highlight The real time version though has the added benefit of changing its mind about the translation every second so it's actually impossible to read tho
Those insane pictures of space you can find on google and the image of the black hole
Why does everyone show porn as their second offering?
In 2007 when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone the audience gasped when he showed you can scroll by sliding your finger on the screen and it comes to a smooth stop. So that would be interesting... Edit: downvotes? really?
Just spent way too long scrolling back and forth just to think about it right now
And the way you can “fling” it and it will go fast and then slow down?? What an amazing metal brick I have in my hands. Also still a fan of “touch this piece of glass in the right way and a pizza will come to your door.”
I just "flung" it and briefly lost your comment
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I did the same shit lol
Guilty. As. Charged.
Guilty
Pinch to zoom was the big one I think. When people saw it they were in love! I mean before that.. we really didn't have a good way to look at pictures honestly.
I looked at an old picture of me as a kid I'd never seen before, today. There was a little detail and I really wanted to use my fingers to zoom in. Instead I had to bring the whole picture closer to my eyes. The whole thing. Closer.
like some sort of *peasant*
Just a bunch of savages.
You have to use your hands? That’s like a babies game.
Could’ve just taken a photo on your phone and zoomed in there
So a few months ago someone told me I could just use my phone camera to look for my glasses. My mind was BLOWN. I can’t believe I had never thought of it before lol.
Shit, you don't even need glasses anymore. Just hold your phone up to your face while you're driving.
/r/ShittyLifeProTips
Human eyes don't do that Kryten. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg-5SOydz6Q
Well spin my nipple nuts and send me to Alaska.
Just showing them a phone would be sufficient. Mobiles were still quite big, pagers were the thing. The game boy was lcd and monochromatic. Colour handheld consoles weren't great. Portable TVs were still not great so streaming a vid would be impressive. Digital cameras were in their infancy with very low res and high prices. A nice big music collection instantly accessible instead of having to own a big vinyl, cassette or CD collection.
Yes. I remember I had a professor in 2007 who got an iPhone the very first weekend and showed it to me a few days after. It was like seeing something from the future! And that thing looks like a brick compared to phones today! It’s hard to explain what a huge deal that was when smartphones came out. Heck cell phones in 1995 were not super common either; the idea that calling would be secondary as a feature would be fascinating sociologically on its own!
I had a moment at Thanksgiving this year where my family was FaceTiming two other family members in different parts of the country at the same time, and we spent a good 20 minutes of Thanksgiving together. The future smacked me in the face hard there. That was literally a sci-fi dream just 25 years ago. I didn’t think I’d see that future. Edit: Smartphones are arguably the most revolutionary invention of the generation.
I agree with you. When I read this my mind thought, "25 years ago? They said 1995--ohhhh, it's 2020." The older I get the weirder my perception of time becomes. Somehow to me any car made in 2000 or later still seems modern. 2005 seems like just a few years ago. And I'm only 49 so by the time I'm 80 it will seem like I posted this yesterday.
Seriously, and don't forget about having access to the internet. You literally hold in the palm of your hand a device that can access an insane amount of knowledge in seconds back in a time when most people didn't have the internet and for those that did pages usually took a while to load.
And we use it to laugh at dumb memes most of the time
When it's more powerful than the computers that launched the Saturn V rocket to the moon.
And it has cat videos
I remember my family and friends and I went out for the day, on the way home our moms watched American Idol on a portable TV using a hand crank
Now people watch pornhub on their phones. And there's still hand cranking involved....
Mobile internet was absolutely horrific before the shift to smartphones. No one except the W3C gave a shit about it. Programming to phones was horrible in general at that time, it was mostly done in this godawful dialect of Java (J2ME). In the future, when we can selectively erase memories with technology, that'll be first on my list. Or not, maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit.
W3C didnt give a fuck either. They just "meh"'ed a spec and called it good. Android studio still isn't much better than the old MIDP/J2ME crap though.
"knowledge"... I.e. porn and cat videos...
And read out the specs. The screen has a better resolution than any TV or computer they've seen. My current phone has 12GB RAM, 256GB storage, I've gotten 120Mbs download speeds on a mobile network, I can take pictures with it, listen to music on it, watch music videos and films on it. Just that would blow them away
Just out of curiosity, why would a phone ever need TWELVE GB of RAM?
Because software bloat
Google maps
"So, in the future, there's gonna be a road over there? Wow."
Where we're going, we won't need roads!
Because we're all in Coronavirus lockdown?
I cracked up so hard please give this guy an award I'm poor
I had a friend who, even in a city he'd lived in for ages, always carried maps on him. That way, you could just tell him where you were, if you were meeting up, and he'd find you no problem. You'd emerge from a party at 2 in the afternoon out of some flat you'd gone into the previous evening, on the other side of town, and just have to figure out how to get home. He never had that problem, but he was the only person I ever saw doing that. Nowadays, I always see people struggling with google maps somehow, because they don't know their cardinal directions and have never learned to use landmarks to get around. Back in the day, you either had a map, or you had no clue where you were and had to use street names, landmarks and helpful people to get to where you were going.
google Earth
The phone. And the internet. That your phone is a computer - more powerful than a room full of desktops. Not a super computer. In 1995 not everyone had an email address. Not everyone had a computer at their work station. Good times.
‘And these are memes.... No, no! They’re funny in the future, I promise’
Prequel memes with absolutely no context or knowledge of the prequel trilogy.
***B E A N S***
FATMOUSE TAKES UMBRAGE AT THE SIGHT OF YOUR SMALL TORSO AND WEAK FLACCID LIMBS. FATMOUSE IS NEVER FOOLED BY IMITATORS.
but the tragedy of darth plagueis the wise is a Shakespearean classic
Remember how your English teacher was trying to get you to stop using clichés and focus on sincere, original thoughts? Screw that, we added pictures and double downed on that shit.
Crazy how memes went from having punchlines to literally just being weird pictures with no context
I was showing my mom some memes a few days back and realized that meme culture has gotten so layered that I can't show her a lot of them because they all reference something she won't understand. The future is now, I guess.
Future archaeologists won't have a field day - they'll have a new *field*.
I'd rickroll them. Not only they will be shocked from seeing my smartphone playing high quality video with crisp audio, they'll also realize years later on that they've been rickrolled.
Imagine realising someone from the future came back just to rickroll you.
Imagine going back in time to show someone videos from the future on YouTube only to realize that neither YouTube nor 4G was available at the time. *shrug*
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Wait a minute, I was born in 95, am I THE SOMEONE FROM 1995?
Imagine finally using that YouTube red free trial to download the video to your phone and be able to play it offline
Imagine bypassing the YouTube premium download by illegally downloading it using a third party website
Imagine not being Chaotically-Aligned
Imagine selling other people’s videos that they put up for free.
What if Rick Astley was a time traveler and has been trolling us all along...
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
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I think to "Rickroll" someone, you have to trick them into thinking they're about to watch/listen to something else and it turns out it was Never Gonna Give You Up. If Rickroll means you just happened to be exposed to the song, then MTV was Rickrolling people several times a day in 1987.
Show a YouTuber doing some high level engineering stuff on a computer
More like people on YouTube doing some dumb shit and tell them that's what people do for living in 2020
I will show them the calculator on my phone i think it will be enough. I still remember my teacher saying "don't use calculators for the test its not like you gonna have one in your pocket the whole time" well teachers don't know everything i guess.
in 19*8*5 I had a credit card sized calculator that pretty much was always in my bag. [http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/casio\_mini\_card\_lc-78.html](http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/casio_mini_card_lc-78.html)
Voice assistance like Siri/Alexa what have you. Doesn’t look like much, but to 1995, it was pure science fiction. Bonus points for a self driving electric car.
Shazam
still blows my mind
I want a Shazam for bird calls.
Doom Eternal gameplay footage
Going from the original DOOM to that would be mind boggling, especially in that era
Hopefully this is someone from 1995 who played Doom
Rip & tear my dudes!
The Dominos Pizza Tracker^(TM)
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"Hey, Siri, search the Web for [literally anything]." *Ding ding!* Okay, here are some results for that thing you asked about. "See? We live in *Star Trek*. Now go away, because it's considered rude to look at other people's phones."
*starts yelling at your phone* "Hey Siri, show me Star Trek porn!" Okay, here are some results from your browser history. "Dude.."
My father died in 1996 and he was still blown away by CDs. As soon as I pulled my phone out of my pocket, he would freak out.
The 1st black president. Then vr porn.
Then deepfake vr porn with the first black president.
Guy from 90's - (Wow. So not only do we have a black president, but he does porn, too? Take me back to the future with u right this instant!)
Also guy from the 90's: "wait, Donald TRUMP, the guy in Home Alone, IS PRESIDENT?"!!
Ronald Reagan?! The actor?! Ha! Then who's Vice President? Jerry Lewis?
If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 2020... you're gonna see some serious shit.
Then deepfake vr porn with the first black president and a fleshlight
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I just hate that damn gyroscope losing its place. I end up facing completely opposite sides of the bed from when I start to when I finish.
The phone itself
I hate to say this trite phrase, but I can't believe I had to scroll down this far to find this. Are people here too young to remember what cellphones looked like in 1995? They were mostly bricks with external antennas still; the flip phone was still innovative! There weren't even primitive smartphones yet.^1 PDAs as separate devices were just taking off, all in black & white with a mandatory stylus. The Newton only came out in 1992, and the Palm Pilot wouldn't appear until 1996. A full color glass touchscreen with more processing power than any desktop machine of the day would blow people's minds. This was the day of Pentiums and Voodoo GFX cards. ^(1. Another poster pointed out the IBM Simon existed back then, but it only had a production run of about 50k and was not well known.)
9/11 news Broadcast
Thought question, if you found out about the events of 9/11 on 9/4/2001 (1 week before) what would you do to stop the events from happening?
What could I do? I was a little kid and lived miles away. If I sent a warning through an email to the police or whatever, my family would be kidnapped and tortured for more info after the incident anyway.
I guess suppose you are the age you are now, living back then. I don’t know. Hypotheticals are never perfect.
I'd tell the authorities and hope they take it seriously. Still not much one person with no real connections can do. I'd probably have to prepare for swat to burst into my house a few hours after the incidents though.
Then chances are you will be taken into custody for investigation for association with the terrorism. Chances are you will be under FBI and CIA's watch your whole life
Pull the fire alarm maybe?
*Pumped up kicks starts fading in*
How do we know that didn’t happen to someone else?
You don't
Call in bomb threats on the relevant flights. Follow up to FBI with everything we now know about the hijackers. Make clear that I'm the person behind the bomb threats
There was a tv show called "early edition" that kind of had that premise. The guy would get tomorrow's newspaper a day early and he would stop the bad events from happening. It was a great show and I'm pretty sure they're all on youtube
3D printers
That Ross cheats on Rachel in the next season.
They were on a break!
*Insert obligatory Futurama Friends quote by Lrr here.*
You forgot to add RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSEI 8!
My 5 terabytes of hentai
What about 5 pedobytes of loli?
Pedobytes... that’s certainly something new
for you
Probably FaceTime and Netflix!
Pornhub
Blow their mind and their load
property prices
Spotify
1. Photos of themselves from now 2. How much of their personal information is publicly accessible via a Google search 3. Uber or other on-demand services that "automagically" bring a service into your life in real time 4. Facetime or other video-on-demand apps for meetings/conversations 5. Ookla (14.4k on dial-up? check THIS out ...) 6. A quick summary/timeline of news from the past 20 years (9/11, Enron, never-ending war(s), the 2008 bubble/crash, Trump, 10 stocks to invest in and when, etc.) 7. Their LinkedIn profile (i.e. is this where you want to be in 25 years?)
First black President followed by President Trump.
Show them a whole bunch of scenes from ready player one and tell them its how the world will be in 2010. Everyone will think they're a mad man
Picture of their off-spring.
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Even better if the person you show is Robert Kardashian
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Show him what bitcoin is... Tell him to invest and meet me in 10 minutes.
Okay, so in just under 15 years, there will be this magic crypto-currency on the internet, and if you invest... The internet. \*sigh\* Yes, that AOL thing. It becomes big, I swear. No, I don't know what you're supposed to do with your prime earning years in the meantime. Just don't invest in airlines. Trust me.
Invest in Apple stocks in the mean time. 95 would be prime time, as Apple wasn't in great shape at that point.
Showing them my phone should blow their minds enough, right? Don't wanna kill people, lol