Bill Gates Explains the Internet to Dave (1995) | Letterman
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Published 2022-02-01
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All Comments (21)
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Its ironic that we're now watching this on Letterman's YouTube channel.
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Incredible how we lived on a completely different planet 26 years ago. First half of my life was in another world compared with the second half.
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Dave and Bill should resume this chat and reflect what they chat in 1995.
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It’s crazy how this was only 28 years ago. Back then you’d experience the internet to take a few mins off of our REAL lives. Today we take a few mins off the internet, to LIVE our real lives.
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Dave: “So you can listen to a baseball game on your computer. Does radio ring a bell?” Bill: “Well Dave, in 27 years you’ll publish this video clip on YouTube.”
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"Computer at every desk & every home!" Mission accomplished!!!
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I love when Dave asks where do you think this will go. And Bills final thought is "eventually we wanna make computers think". He was spot on with AI now here.
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7:12 "Eventually we may figure out how to make the computer think but that turns out to be a very tough problem. In fact there's been almost no progress." It's even more fascinating to listen to this in the age of public AI generators.
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Amazing how much changed within 10 years of this being recorded. From questioning why the internet is better than a radio, to Youtube launching less than 10 years later.
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“You could find other people who have the same unusual interests as you do” is the perfect description
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such a classic interview I hope this never gets lost in time
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7:12 and here we are...
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Im with Dave, that internet thing isnt going anywhere.
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Feels like a lifetime ago doesn't it? and yet, 20 years later everyone has a computer in their pocket. No other generation in history has seen such a dramatic world change.
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This guy just showed the difference between those with vision and those who will be always stuck in the past.
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I've seen this interview when this was aired in the 90s. I will never forget this short, funny yet very insightful clip. I was looking for this for the longest time and wanted to show this to my mother as to what MS means to the computer and the beginning of the internet.
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Bill’s answer to “why don’t I have a computer?” was just brilliant
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Letterman listed a million devices to counter what you can do on a computer, without realising he was effectively proving you'll be able to trim those all down to one device.
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This is wild to watch, and to think back to being a kid and fascinated about the idea of the internet, I never would have imagined technology being what it is now.
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Incredible to be reminded how far advanced we were then, but now nearly thirty years later how much has changed AGAIN. I'd love to see Bill and Dave revisit this and see how they live now, with computers in your pocket, video streaming, etc. Such vision!
