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on the show (mid 90's) they said all music would be digital and you wouldn't have to buy cds i remember they said that i remembered thinking thats a bunch of horse crap

but look at what we have today



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yup, i remember that show . it was hosted by richard hart or something like that. I also watched beyond 2000. Both shows were on the discovery channel.


i also remember watching CNET shows like cnet central when cnet was an actual network so to speak, and when ryan seacrest hosted the "new edge"


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Originally posted by GS474:
on the show (mid 90's) they said all music would be digital and you wouldn't have to buy cds i remember they said that i remembered thinking thats a bunch of horse crap

but look at what we have today






i vaguely remember it...if i saw it again, i'd definitley know it. Around that time though i was more interested in shows like The Site on msnbc, and c/net used to have a show on the sci-fi channel (ryan seacrest used to be on it before he was ever "famous"). And there was this show on PBS called "New Media News." I think they were out of the bay area...it was kinda corny but i liked it. I actually became friends with "The Gixxer," for a while. Who was the game review guy on that show.


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Yep remember both of those shows, tried to catch both of em every week when I was growing up.

Would be kinda fun to get em all on DVD and see how much of that stuff actually worked out. Kinda like browsing 5-10 year old Popular Science magazines. Some of it worked, most of it didn't.

But looking at a 50 year old popular science magazine and you'll laugh your ass off. Wheres my flying car damnit!?


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I remember those... My show growing up was, actually, Mr. Wizard. LOL


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Originally posted by XT8088:
yup, i remember that show . it was hosted by richard hart or something like that. I also watched beyond 2000. Both shows were on the discovery channel.


i also remember watching CNET shows like cnet central when cnet was an actual network so to speak, and when ryan seacrest hosted the "new edge"





yeah beyond 2000 was another show i liked the need to bring something like those shows back


ive been pissed of at tv every since g4 took over tech tv


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yeah, those were the good ol' days.. When technology was exciting...



BTW, nice car you have there, sir. Seems your car and my car were seperated at birth...




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Originally posted by Strife:
Yep remember both of those shows, tried to catch both of em every week when I was growing up.

Would be kinda fun to get em all on DVD and see how much of that stuff actually worked out. Kinda like browsing 5-10 year old Popular Science magazines. Some of it worked, most of it didn't.

But looking at a 50 year old popular science magazine and you'll laugh your ass off. Wheres my flying car damnit!?




You should re-read some of the articles in magazines like Compute! and Omni. It's scary how accurately they predicted events.

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Originally posted by chemguru:
Originally posted by Strife:
Yep remember both of those shows, tried to catch both of em every week when I was growing up.

Would be kinda fun to get em all on DVD and see how much of that stuff actually worked out. Kinda like browsing 5-10 year old Popular Science magazines. Some of it worked, most of it didn't.

But looking at a 50 year old popular science magazine and you'll laugh your ass off. Wheres my flying car damnit!?




You should re-read some of the articles in magazines like Compute! and Omni. It's scary how accurately they predicted events.

--JamesT




or even popular science, i got them in highschool for projects and alot of stuff has come true in the past 10 or so years.


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Originally posted by loggerbomb:
Originally posted by chemguru:
You should re-read some of the articles in magazines like Compute! and Omni. It's scary how accurately they predicted events.

--JamesT




or even popular science, i got them in highschool for projects and alot of stuff has come true in the past 10 or so years.



I have a MacUser magazine from 1994 that celebrated their tenth anniversary with a prediction of what would come in the year 2004. Some of their ideas were slightly off (to paraphrase, "the 2 gigabyte hard drives will make the 128K Mac's seem Lilliputian in comparison"), but several out-of-the-blue remarks were eerily accurate - for example, the prediction that Apple would shorten the name from Macintosh to Mac.

I can only imagine articles from more scientific magazines predicting specific technology of the future.

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