WEBVTT - Hour 2 - Old-School Internet, "3rd Rail" Answer 0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:04.600 Hey, thanks for listening to the Covino and Rich Podcast. 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:06.920 Be sure to catch us live every weekday from five 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:10.360 to seven Eastern to the four Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:12.480 Find your local station for Comedo Rich. 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.000 At Foxsports Radio dot com, or stream us live every 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:16.599 day on the iHeartRadio app. 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:18.160 It's like searching FSR. 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:22.880 All right now, Danny g just told us, our executive 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:26.240 producer said, we'll give out aprons to the best caller, 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:28.840 So start calling out eight seven seven ninety nine on 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.480 Fox if you want to contribute to the early websites 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:34.440 you were visiting back in the day that kids today 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.080 will never know about the games you played eight seven 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:40.600 seven ninety nine on Fox because on this day, nineteen 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:43.400 ninety one, the World Wide Web debuted. Now, we didn't 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:45.800 have access to that most of us, maybe at your 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:49.240 school or at the library, and then eventually late nineties 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.800 you went to work. Now, we're not asking for all 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.080 the smutty websites you visited unless you want to talk 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:55.560 about that too. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:55.920 That's fine. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.520 Crussels off my list, But you know, hey, give us 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.560 a call on Figure it out Together, Old Schooling and 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.160 fifty hits plus. You gotta talk Coco Goffin, Morris Cavino 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:06.200 and rich on Fox Sports Radio and a lot of 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:07.960 NFL I do have to get there's a forty nine 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:11.160 ers ram story because that is your Australia game mate 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:12.479 week one of the NFL. 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.200 So are we going or what? I would love to go? 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.119 Come on, I need to get out of here. 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.400 But you know what, that's the day that's around the 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:20.920 same time as when you and I plan on going 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.320 to the Mets Yankees for the twenty fifth anniversary nine 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:23.680 to eleven. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:25.840 So so I'm gone all September. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:26.880 Let's go. 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:31.160 Yeah, tell everyone beat it, see it. There are so 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.280 many great memories from the early days of the internet, 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.520 but I don't know about you. You know, when I 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:37.880 was a kid, I cared about sports. I kid about girls. 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.839 I cared about baseball cards. When I had those friends 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.160 that were into computers, I bet poorly. I was like, yeah, 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.240 I don't need to learn that like I was. I 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.720 was not the little youngster that was like, let me 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.640 learn computers. I was the guy that's like, nah, no, thanks. 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:54.720 Did you ever get an email? I didn't have an 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:58.400 email addressin Dull College. Same and I went to college 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:00.360 in the late nineties. I get my email. I just 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.440 to me was like it, I don't know. I bet poorly. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:07.320 I was like, this ain't gonna catch on. You don't 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.280 ended up benefiting me. I took typing in high school 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.440 and who knew that would you know, end up benefiting 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.360 us because we would be there sitting on a computer 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.760 computer for all those years. But I do remember loving 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:22.359 Oregon Trail number and word munchers and you. 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.920 Mean orgon trail. What I say, Oregon? 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.919 Is that how you say no, no Oregon Trail, organ Trail, 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:33.280 Organ trail or Oregon the organ trail trail. All right, well, 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.960 let me give you my memories right trail, and then 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:37.799 we'll go to the phones. I was just talking to 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.600 Mike who runs this place, you know, Holdstone Mic. Never 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.040 heard of him, cold Stone Mic. He was just here 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.280 and he brought up something that I was going to 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.760 bring up anyway. So I'm like, Wow, more people know 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.840 about this than just me in the early or not. 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:53.880 Yeah, howd not dot com. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:58.679 Mike said he got a four point two right going there? 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.480 Now it was nine point on that Jersey website with 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.160 all the guys with the deep tank. 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:04.639 Yeah, yeah, what was the name of that one? 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:05.320 Eyebrows. 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.600 No, no, but in the early days of like computers again, 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.359 worldwide Web started this day in ninety one, but early 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:16.000 computer days I never rooted harder pun intended. 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:19.040 For my buddy. This is like great school days. 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.280 He had a Commodore sixty four, like this is pre 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:27.440 internet though, and you'd be sitting there in your grade 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.480 school sweatpants like a pilgrim with the socks pulled up 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:34.520 real high, and he'd be playing Commodore sixty four strip poker, 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:36.920 and dude, I'd be rooting for him to win so 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:41.160 bad because you get some pixelated you know, nudity, and 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:45.360 you're like, yeah, buddy, And Mike said he used to 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.440 play that all the time. Well that doesn't dude, you 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.440 know what I was like, my buddy had that, I would, 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.800 I'd be so like, yeah, come on, let's go. So 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.720 the early games, the early websites, now on that same note, 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:01.800 because all these great things are usually used for evil 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.960 in perversion. I used to play a game this is now, 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.760 this is worldwide Web days. Okay, this is late nineteen hundreds, 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.680 early two thousands. There was a game. I bring this 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.280 up all the time, Rich, so you know this, I 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:18.919 know this. There was a website called the romp dot 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.040 com the romp dot com right, and there was like 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:23.880 an interactive choose your own adventures. 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.080 I love that site, man. 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.440 So my friends would be sending me like links to 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.000 like rotten dot com and banged Up dot Com. I'd 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.359 be on the romp dot com right because there was 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.280 a game on there and it was called Jake's Booty Call. 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.680 And on this game, you remember, right, right, Jake's Boy Call. 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.000 So Jake was this guy and he had spiky hair, 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:46.880 and Jake would be at like a club in the 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.880 nineteen hundred is like, all right, Jake sees a hot 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.720 blonde to the left in a hot brunette on the right, 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:54.640 and you have to make the call for Jake, and 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:57.159 depending on the moves you make is whether or not 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.000 you get the booty at the end of the night. 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.159 Three days called ja Pooty Call, and it was so 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:02.960 much fun. It was one of my first favorite games 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.960 that I played when Internet became a thing and readily 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.240 available and accessible to us in the late nineteen hundreds 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.200 early two thousands. So on this day, what are those 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.200 early games and early websites. Remember when we started our 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.600 show fark dot com is where we would go and 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.159 get to do all our prep. Yeah, Fark was a 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:20.599 big one. 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:20.919 It was. 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:25.120 It was a website that consolidated all the main headlines. Cool, yeah, 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.239 from all the websites. I remember we would ask Jeeves. Yeah, 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.920 poor guy, No one's asking them anything anymore. So what 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.719 are those memories for you? I got one because kids, 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.640 unless they go into the way back machine online, they'll 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:38.600 never see this stuff. 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:39.200 I got one. 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:43.360 And it's really interesting because during the break, unintentionally, subconsciously, 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.800 you said something to me and it hit Sure. 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.480 You said, Netflix just announced. 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:50.080 This is wild. 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.360 Yeah, Netflix just made an announced. Yo, you know what 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.240 you're gonna like this, Ryan, because you're a big gamer. 0:05:55.680 --> 0:06:00.400 GTA six gameplay will be exclusively shown on netflit for 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.600 six hours, so they're gonna give you an extended look. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:07.960 You get to watch gameplay of the longly anticipated GTA 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.760 system in late August August twenty seventh. Interestingly enough, I 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.839 remember my college roommate had a sweet computer set up 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:16.880 and he was into gaming on his computer. This is 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:20.400 I said, like ninety eight ninety nine, freshman in college, 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:25.640 and my roommate introduced me to the original Do you 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.240 remember the first ever Grand Theft Auto like the first ever. 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.640 Like the graphics like now it's like a you know, 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.479 looks like a movie, but back then it was not 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:36.359 complex at all. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.599 It was actually so a week but it was awesome. 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.760 You look up the original graphics and you'll be shocked 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:43.719 to be like, oh, that's right, that's what the original 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.440 GTA looked like. And I remember thinking like, yo, this 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.480 is really cool. So I remember that was a long way. 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:50.560 It's a couple of long hell. 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:51.000 Of a long way. 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:52.800 So oh that is wild? 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:54.680 Right do you remember now when you look at it, right, 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.520 it's two D graphics? So what games were you playing? 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:00.760 What websites were you go into? 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:01.800 Well? 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.600 Where are your go tos? Think about that because how 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.599 often do we even go to remember it was like 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:10.680 the overhead caven. I remember the like that look that GTA? Yeah, yeah, 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:12.960 I do remember that. Let's go to the phones and 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.720 say what's up? Yeah, load to get super interactive and 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.400 the best call Danny Gill. Decide he'll hook you up 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.400 with a summer prize pack of a Covin own rich 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.160 Apron and cooozies and some fun stuff. 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.080 It's a grill and Apron that way when you're a 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.520 man in the grill, that's right. You can have CNRS 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.840 faces yeah, junk gazing. 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.440 Junk level, that's right, and you could be the man. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.800 So eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, Who do 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:33.400 we got Danny? 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.360 Let's start n Neil Passo with Jared the Passo. 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:36.920 What up? 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:37.280 Jared? 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:39.480 Hey, how's it going? 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:39.880 Amy? 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.400 So my memories of the Internet back in the nineties 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.240 was a dial up sound of an annoying sound that 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.040 you would get whenever you were trying to log in 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.080 from my go to websites where the Aol chat rooms, 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.840 no doubt, wait to get home from high school. I 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:54.480 could not wait to get home from high school so 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:55.680 I can hop into the chat rooms. 0:07:55.720 --> 0:08:00.400 Dude, it would be asl age sex location. Let's chat 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:04.040 it up. Who could you, you know, have a conversation with? 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.240 Who could you finagle over your place late at night? 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.000 Cavino was haunted by that door closing sound effect. How 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.800 many people just dissed them? But he's right. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.280 Do you know Big Mike still uses his Aol email? 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:14.920 Betty? 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:15.280 Does? 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:15.760 I bet he? 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:16.000 Yeah? 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:17.040 I bet he still pays too. 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.240 First, I remember, I remember the revelation that I went 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:22.840 over my mom's bills with her. I'm sure a lot 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.040 of people as their parents get older, like AOL was 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:26.480 the really we need paying for it? I went over 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:28.480 my mom's bills. I'm like, you're still paying for my 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:29.240 mom was paying for. 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:30.520 AOL within the last decade. 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:30.760 You know. 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.520 I saw some comedian do a bit recently. I'll try 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.360 to give him props later, but he was something saying 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.600 something wrong. Wise, how did they put the Internet on 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:41.760 CD back in the day that you do put the 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.320 Internet on CD? Let me tell him the miracle was online. 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.840 Let me tell an embarrassing story. I'll call my brother. 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.720 He deserves some love and fun make fun of. Once 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:54.520 in a while, I was away at college and I 0:08:54.520 --> 0:09:00.800 get a call from my mom. Ritchie, Yeah, what's uping, Mom? 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:05.319 The computer's not working. It's like our first home computer, 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.280 like a big gas computer. You know you bought that. 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.200 Remember I one had that same like nineteen nineties computer 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.520 desk that had like all the shelves to the left 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:14.480 in the right, like it was like the same, the 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.080 same exact des desk. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.560 We all had. And then I had a Hewlett Packard 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:20.600 probably I actually forget. 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.240 The bottom of it had a layer of dust. 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.920 Yeah, my mom calls me, like, computer's not working, Richie, 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:27.600 I don't know what to do. And at the time, 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:31.640 the move was called the Geek Squad at Best Buy. 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.760 Remember like they they had like nerds on standby that 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:36.400 would then't you just have them saved in your phone 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.360 as the squad because you were you were down with them, 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.840 that rich party with him. So the goon Squad, geek squad, 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.559 coon squad comes over the house and. 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.079 Sells out my brother. You know what the goon Squad is. 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:51.560 I feel like if we made a movie, like, we 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:53.560 didn't have the rights for the Geek Squad, so we 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:54.880 called it the goon Squad. 0:09:55.320 --> 0:10:00.040 My my mom calls me and she's like, Ritchie, I 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.760 want to believe the smut your brother's looking at. 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.680 And my mom starts lift listing off all these websites 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.800 that my brother was looking to. 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:09.520 Say, a lot of Asian delivery porn. 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:11.559 My mom's like, the one that we always sad it's 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:13.560 still a family joke. Twenty five years later, she's. 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.640 Like, and he looked up some pornography that I had 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:21.480 to do with delivery guys. And to this day, to 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.480 this day, like my brother is in his forties, he 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.800 can't escape the fact that we're like Jimmy is still 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:29.080 like a delivery let. Us were using it to chat 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.920 and to explore things like Rich's brother, and to get 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:38.000 music illegally, the Lime Wires, the Airy Piazaz, the napsters, 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:41.680 spending hours of you know, downloading illegal music and videos 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:42.360 and things like that. 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:43.559 So, yeah, how did you make your Yeah? I was 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:45.320 gonna say, how you make your mix CDs without it? 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:45.600 Yeah? 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.360 How about before MySpace? Do you remember geo cities? 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:50.080 No? 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.560 But kids, I remember kids in the nineties would build 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.160 their own little personal website. 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.439 Hey, yeah, I do remember that. Yeah, Nadie you mentioned it. Yeah, 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:56.640 I do. 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.319 And you know, by the way they're saying, my Space 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.200 is coming back. Yeah, so hey, we'll see what happened. 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:01.600 I don't know. 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.720 Do we have room for another social media I don't know. 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:05.920 I did like MySpace? All right, let's go to the phones. 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:07.719 Yeah, hot, and they're jumping. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.520 You know, Danny Ryan, anyone want to chime in with Rich? 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:11.760 It's it's definitely hot. 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.560 Okay, Let's let's go to up beautiful upstate New York. JP. 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.960 Hey, JJP, Hey, how you guys doing. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.640 Hey listen, I was one of the original first owners 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.280 of a Commodore sixty four, and then it went to 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.560 the one twenty eight and I still got it with 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.679 all those games they had, and they were pretty good. 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:29.120 Did you play? 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.280 A friend of mine college he got a job with 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.960 AOL when it was brand new and they needed one 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:38.760 hundred people to sign up to be guinea pigs, and 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.520 I did. And then, uh, the first search I did 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:46.160 on a search engine was DeLorean because I was in 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.800 the car business too, and I wanted to, you know, 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.960 the Deloreent came out and guess what came up, John Deloreent, 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:56.400 cocaine arrest. But anyway, when you were mentioning the games, 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:00.320 tears came out of the game called Pong, and you 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.880 could buy it from Sears. It was ninety nine dollars 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.000 and ninety five cents. I went to the store, I 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.320 got the first one that they hadn't stocked. They only 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.400 had three, and uh, it was one you put on 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.120 your own TV and it was just time. And then 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.160 of course the bars came out with the pac Man 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:20.000 and and Space Invaders and things like that, and I 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:22.120 just really, that's. 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.360 That's pong led right today, I have the twenty six 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.840 hundred rafter that this guy, this guy's going old school. 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.320 I always found it interesting that even today, you would think, 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:34.560 because everyone's so interested in buying technology and immediately using 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.360 it and opening it, you ever noticed that like those 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.920 people that have this weird instinct to keep like one 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:44.400 of the originals still wrapped, like the first iPhone, even 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.960 the first the first commodoor. These are like million dollar 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:52.160 items now at auctions like un you know, unboxed, unwrapped, 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.800 still sealed. You would think that now you would be 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.560 buying stuff insane. I'm gonna keep it sealed, but we 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:59.720 still we don't have the instinct to do it. That dude, 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:01.319 he he was old school. He was like one of 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.880 the ogs. His you remembers his first search, like, what 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:06.440 do you think yours was? 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:07.960 Although, what was that's name? 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:08.880 JP? 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:10.080 Only pony? 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.960 He was JP at aol dot com? Like he didn't, Yeah, 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.720 like wow, what a fun fact. Let's ask him J 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:17.600 first search? 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.840 JP? What was your first email address? 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.200 Kay Glenville at aol dot com? And you know what, 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:27.199 I still got it and it was number thirty six 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:28.600 that AOL had. 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:30.920 You know what, I'm gonna feel like we should. I'm 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:31.880 gonna send you a junk shot. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.079 Right now, I'm going to send him a grill and aprons. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.520 That is impressive. That's impressive that he still uses his 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:39.360 old AOL JP hang on the line. 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.440 Okay, thank you, buddy. That is crazy to think that 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.280 appreciate you. That you know, like every time, you know, 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:44.679 when you try to think of a username and it's 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.680 like it's been used, there's someone that has, like Danny 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:48.880 at aol dot com. 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.319 That's why so many people have numbers after your name. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.840 Is that why you go by Genberger sixty nine, Guenberger 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.559 Davis sixty nine. Don't tell everyone my old AOL all right, 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.000 so look back at the phone. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.240 Yeah, let's go to Terry in Saint Louis. 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.560 Back it up, Terry, Hey, Terry, Hey, guys, looks up 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:06.760 Terry here in Saint Louis. 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.800 It's a birthday. Yeah, hey, happy birthday, Steve. 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:14.080 Do you guys remember that website ami Hot or Not 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:15.440 dot com of course. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.680 Where the people who uploaded their picks and you rated 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.520 like the girls on a one to ten of course? 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:25.120 Yeah, absolutely, absolutely that that was definitely a thing that 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.880 was pre MySpace, I think even pre Friends through Days 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.280 and yeah, completely remember that one that that's a famous. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.160 One, yeah, is it? 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:35.880 Why when you watch uh no social or too though, 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:37.800 Like because I worked at a radio station when that 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.080 was the thing too. It's like when people started uploading 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.400 your photos and other people's photos they worked with, it 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.080 was like it became really weird. But if you watch 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.520 the social network, isn't it crazy to think that Zuckerberg 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.040 was just a college kid that's connected the dots on 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.680 all this stuff, like, hey, people are interested. I remember 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.360 again not the date ourselves and me in my forties, 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.320 I remember going to college and they would hand out 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:04.440 a freshman book of people's pictures, like a Facebook of like, hey, 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.680 here's the freshman class so in case you bump into someone, 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:07.120 here is. 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.560 Like a you know, essentially like a pre yearbook. 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.760 How about nowadays we're so spoiled with all of the 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.640 radio shows having their own YouTube channels. Do you remember 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.000 in the late nineties when radio stations first got their 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.280 webcams in the studio and you could stream the radio 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.359 station audio on your little computershakers. 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:23.560 Their own website. 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.640 Finally, you know, you could see who was on the air, 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:27.720 you could see That's when you started seeing these you 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:29.840 know what these idiots looked like for the first time, 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:36.560 you couldn't you couldn't hide behind us. That's handsome, Dan, Yeah, 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.480 you couldn't be like, ooh, I'm Hollywood Jackson. 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:40.000 And then you're like, yeah, Lama. 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.880 Hollywood Jackson looks like that, right, So everything changed as 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.880 a result. Again, if you just joined us the night guy, 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.840 I I have a question for you. So Worldwide Web 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.320 debuted in ninety one, but of course we had computers 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:56.760 in the eighties. Even in late seventies computers existed. Worldwide Web, however, 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.480 ninety one was the first time. Yeah you could access 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.920 then we didn't get it at home till the late nineties. 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:02.600 We know all that. 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.280 So we're asking what are those early websites and games 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.240 you played on the computer that kids will never know 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.520 this day? Were looking up sports, like do you guys 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.240 remember like you're like the early like dead Spins, but like, 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:19.000 were there earlier ones that you remember to access sports 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:20.960 back in the day? 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:25.120 I mean I I had an ESPN cell phone. Do 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:25.600 you remember this? 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:25.960 Yeah? 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:27.960 Of course, But I'm like thinking, like, what was your 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.360 first Like I'll go check right now. Was it just 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:34.560 our team dot com? Let see Yankees dot com? It's 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.800 kind of wild because I don't remember how we would 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.440 access that. We were we still like just watching Sports 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.880 Center all the time, reading the box sport. That's why 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.560 the Sports Center did have more pullback then because you 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.880 were waiting. But dB, what do you remember we're looking at? 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.120 Well, I was gonna say, first of all, do you 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.520 remember ESPN dot go dot com? 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:51.800 Yeah? 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.120 Yeah, like because of the sponsors, so you had to 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:58.640 type in dot go dot com. I remember that, good 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:02.040 buddy Ben Maller would have the gathering of all the stories. 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.280 I feel like Ben was you guys were talking about 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.199 the fark site or whatever it was. 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.000 I like Benmallard dot com. 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:08.240 Yeah. 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.000 Benmallard dot com was one of the one of the earlier, 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:12.960 you know, to do something like that. 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.800