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Comment by kloch | Hacker News Reader

Here's a great comment on another video linked in the comments of this video:

  Me in 1995: I can't wait to see what fantastic technology we'll have 25 years from now!
  Me in 2020: watching videos of people buying computers in 1995

The linked video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHgBSpKV51g

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The internet hasn't changed that much, only the scale of it. You could "watch videos downloaded off the internet" for a long time, but now we can access a massive library of 1080p video with zero buffer time. People don't appreciate how amazing YouTube really is.

> massive library of 1080p video with zero buffer time.

Yes but can you sit there and wait for several hours before accessing a grainy 240p clip of a whale being blown up, and then thinking it was the best thing ever for three days? Kids these days....

Which means now we can be barred from owning (downloading) the videos. And be subject to algorithmic feeds and whatever dark UI patterns value extract our data most efficiently. :D Rentseeking++

1968: waiting for new latest-technology vinyl records to come out from pop stars who were setting "records" for the number of millions sold per hit release

1978: copied selected vinyl to cassettes for portability

1988: copied selected CDs to cassettes next

1998: designed RIAA circuit for digitizing vinyl collection

2008: never did digitize much

2018: people are listening to vinyl all over again

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