Welcome, You've Got Dammit! 24 in 1994 (Video)
Here's a CollegeHumor.com video that's far funnier than it has any right to be:
24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot (link via TotalFark):
College Humor's 24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot
It's a 24 short that portrays the people at CTU trying to do what they do now, except using early 90s technology -- dialup, one-way pagers, pay phones, dot matrix printers (with tractor feed paper), etc.
As a tech user during that era and a former AOL insider, it was especially fun to pick out the anachronisms (though I could not for the life of me remember the term "anachronism" -- unemployment is making me soft).
If you want to get picky, AOL 3.0 didn't come out until 1996 (I was still using 2.5 when I started); Geocities wasn't really Geocities in 1994; they did, you know, have fax machines in 1994; and people were able to get stuff done before online (And even before computers. Or so I heard.)
Oh, and you can see they're using AIM (on a Windows 3.1 machine?) instead of an AOL client -- AIM didn't come out until 1997:
Since I don't even know if you can run AOL 2.5 or 3.0 on a modern machine (I couldn't, the last time I tried -- don't remember if they were ever officially sunset or just allowed to die... assuming you could find an installer -- need an install floppy?), chalk it up to "revealing mistakes."
The references to Lycos, Encarta, and such, as well as a contemporaneous event or two (Nancy Kerrigan, anyone>) were amusing. I got a few chuckles. (But why did the terrorists just disappear?)
College Humor's production values have been pretty good and are getting better all the time. Good job.
Dammit!
24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot (link via TotalFark):
College Humor's 24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot
It's a 24 short that portrays the people at CTU trying to do what they do now, except using early 90s technology -- dialup, one-way pagers, pay phones, dot matrix printers (with tractor feed paper), etc.
As a tech user during that era and a former AOL insider, it was especially fun to pick out the anachronisms (though I could not for the life of me remember the term "anachronism" -- unemployment is making me soft).
If you want to get picky, AOL 3.0 didn't come out until 1996 (I was still using 2.5 when I started); Geocities wasn't really Geocities in 1994; they did, you know, have fax machines in 1994; and people were able to get stuff done before online (And even before computers. Or so I heard.)
Oh, and you can see they're using AIM (on a Windows 3.1 machine?) instead of an AOL client -- AIM didn't come out until 1997:
Since I don't even know if you can run AOL 2.5 or 3.0 on a modern machine (I couldn't, the last time I tried -- don't remember if they were ever officially sunset or just allowed to die... assuming you could find an installer -- need an install floppy?), chalk it up to "revealing mistakes."
The references to Lycos, Encarta, and such, as well as a contemporaneous event or two (Nancy Kerrigan, anyone>) were amusing. I got a few chuckles. (But why did the terrorists just disappear?)
College Humor's production values have been pretty good and are getting better all the time. Good job.
Dammit!
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posted by Joelogon at
11/08/2007
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4 Comments:
This cracked me up. "Print it out - we'll send a bike messenger!"
Thank you for a good laugh!
By
Merujo, At
11/08/2007 9:39 PM
omg that was hilarious! I might actually have an AOL 2.5 floppy around here somewhere. I'm such a pack rat. eeesh.
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Becky, At
11/09/2007 2:13 PM
Is that Minesweeper I see in the background?
By
Anonymous, At
11/09/2007 4:06 PM
Yeah, it sure is Minesweeper. You can see it clearly in the video.
By
Joelogon, At
11/09/2007 4:10 PM
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