Thanks to Alex Khristov for uploading and sending this through. It pretty much speaks for itself.
As this video clearly illustrates, 1998 was a great year for fancy marketing videos. Screen tearing (as seen at 0:30sec) seems to be very much a positive visual effect. Copying system files was also a hot feature back in 1998, as well as over-scaled 16×16px 256-colored icons. Clippy even makes several guest appearances.
If someone could please explain the connection between Barney The Purple Dinosaur and Microsoft Windows 98 seen at 0:44sec, that would be greatly appreciated.
Maybe one day we’ll look back at videos with spinning laptops with laughter too.
Comments for "Where did we go yesterday?"
Jesse C
The Barney in the video is an Actimate. These were toys that could interact with TV and computers using Microsoft technology. Now discontinued.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actimates
Long Zheng
Microsoft should totally get back into the dolls and toys business.
mrmckeb
They do have a robot SDK out… that’s a step in the right direction.
“Hello, I am Microsoft Sam/Mary.”
Benjamin Gauthey
Barney is great. you can give him order from your computer ( Windows 98). I made a video with the Barney of my manager here :
http://benjamingauthey.com/PermaLink,guid,a649a19e-7825-4d3f-84f7-8a36 160f88a1.aspx
Orion
The Barney in the video is an Actimate as Jesse C said earlier. If you ever visit the Microsoft Redmond campus there is a visitor center and there is a display of the history of Microsoft and I think there is a small Actimate discription along with the product (or box) well or something about it.
db
In the future, we’ll probably think that square keys are stupid.
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