90s Guide to the Internet — We Had to LEARN This 😱💾 #retro #internet #youtubeshorts

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Okay, guys. The first thing that you need to know is that the internet is amazing and it's changing every day.

[00:00:05]Once you've learned how to get online yourselves, you'll start seeing web pages everywhere. TV shows have them, schools, Disney World, even the White House.

[00:00:13]>> What's a web page? Something ducks walk on? Haha, very funny. No, it's the name of the different sites you can look up on the internet.

[00:00:21]>> Hold on, sis. Let's start at the beginning like Dad did with us. So, Andrew and Lisa will be able to persuade their parents about the internet with some important facts. Good idea, Peter, but where do we start? Let's start with the basics first. There are three important services you can access on the internet, surfing the World Wide Web >> Surfing? That sounds pretty cool already.

[00:00:41]>> Andrew, don't interrupt. Go on, Peter.

[00:00:43]Then there are newsgroups to share information with people and then there's email. Email? I heard that's really neat. Yeah, you can even talk [music] with people all over the world on chat lines. So, where should we start? Let's start with web pages. So, first you need to know that everything [music] on the internet has an address and all web addresses start with http {colon} {double backslash}. Then to access the World Wide Web, you type in www.

[00:01:14]>> [music] >> For instance, I used the World Wide Web to search the archives of the Smithsonian Museum a few weeks ago. Can you show us what you found? Sure.

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