Got a rather special topic today.

Today we're going to be discovering how to find

anything on the internet...

At least according to this CD-ROM from the year 2000.

From CareerTrack.

Communicate with the world.

Quick and Easy.

Access to unlimited information and so on.

We're apparently gonna learn how to use a web browser,

navigate the web, find what you want.

I really don't know what we're going to discover

on this disc because I have not tried it yet.

I found it in an episode of LGR Thrifts at a local

Goodwill Store and well...

Anything like this, I am instantly intrigued by.

Not only does it look ridiculously low budget,

I don't know if this was even sold or if was just

like handed out or what.

There's no UPC. Maybe it was part of a larger

product of some kind or offered through their

website or who knows what but yeah.

It's got little FMV sequences it looks like

and I'm down.

I don't even know if this booklet has anything in there.

I haven't looked at it yet.

Yeah wow. (laughs)

Instructions on installation, insert the CD into the drive

it will automatically boot.

Yeah, I don't anticipate this will be anything too

complicated considering I saw the Macromedia thingy

right there on the back so this is probably a Macromedia

Director....yeah, right there.

Pondview productions, yeah okay, enough rambling.

Let's dive into How to Find Anything on the Internet

in the year 2000 on Windows 98.

Okay, well I am ready to find out how to find

anything on the internet.

Welcome to CareerTrack, How to Find Anything

on the Internet.

Let's install it.

Well, that wasn't much.

I'm assuming it's all pretty much gonna be loading

off of the CD cause there were some Quicktime things

there so it's probably just a bunch of .mov files

if I had to guess.

Alright, nice little interface here,

well yeah, nice for the time.

Just curious about those files though.

Oh, it's a bunch of .avi files.

Pretty much just Quicktime and Macromedia Director.

Alright, let's get started.

[dramatic mouse click]

- [Terri] Welcome to Pryor Resources How to Find Anything

on the Internet. I am Terri Parker Brown.

- [LGR] Hi Terri.

- [Terri] And I'll show you how to get the most

out of the internet with information, entertainment,

products and services, that are easily available

at any time, the internet is continually becoming

more of a part of the way we live

and the way we do business.

In this course you'll see what the internet has to offer.

As you learn how to use a web browser to view web pages...

- [LGR] Oh is that what you do with a web browser?

- [Terri] And we'll be working with the most commonly used

web browers: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape

Navigator, and the America Online Browser.

- [LGR] I mean, that sums up the year 2000 pretty well.

Alright so she just sort of faded into the Earth there,

sort of a ghostly apparition left over.

And it looks like we are left with whatever else

the rest of this is.

So we've got a text transcript where you can print things

out, don't have a printer installed. (laughs)

And there's an index.

Oh man, look at all the topics.

Wow, a lot of topics.

Mmm. Frames.

So yeah, it's really, I guess, just a bunch of videos.

That's uh, hmm, well let's just look around at a few

more of these I mean, cause why not.

There might be some fascinating stuff in here.

At least the videos are pretty decent quality.

- [Terri] Before you get started with this course, we'll

take a moment to show you how to use it.

The screen is divided into three areas.

- [LGR] Oh dear.

I figured it out, it's basically a glorified

Quicktime player.

It's okay. It's okay, Terri. I understand.

We've got an interface within an interface here.

I have gotten the interface.

- [Terri] The web lets you view and interact

with pages that...

- [LGR] (laughs) Classic New York Times website.

You man, you can see a lot of this stuff still on

archive.org but you know, ads and a lot of the

images aren't on there, they didn't get backed up

or they're just hard to reach sometimes because

I don't know, archiving is a thing, but yeah, it's

nice. I mean, look at that, it's really clear imagery here.

These are well made videos, I've gotta say.

- [Terri] Our computer is already online.

- [LGR] What is this desktop? (laughs)

It's...what is all this? Like some of these are

default icons they just left but the Recycle Bin is full,

this Quick Start menu is just going off to the wherever,

and look at this, you got the task manager, got some display

options, what is this some sort of sound thing?

I don't know, it just strikes me as odd that a tutorial

here would go with a computer that has some stuff that

is very obviously geared towards their specific PC.

Like, why wouldn't they just turn off these icons and

make it as clear as possible? Anyway, whatever.

Oh my, let me just pause it right here.

Look at these headlines.

Alaska airplane turned upside down, yeah the black box.

Euro comforted after ECB raises rates.

- [Terri] Below that is the menu bar.

We click a menu heading to open that menu.

- [LGR] Alright, well this is computer stuff.

Good things to learn.

- [Terri] To get back to the previous page using

the keyboard, we hold the ALT key and press

the right arrow key.

- [LGR] Wait, really?

- [Terri] ALT left arrow would move us forward.

- [LGR] What the heck, I just learned something.

ALT left and right will take you back and forward through

web pages.

(laughs)

I've never done that. (laughs)

Well, look at me the caveman pressing the back and

forward buttons.

- [Terri] When you start typing an address that matches

one of these, the browser completes the address for you.

- [LGR] Hmm. Auto Complete. The bane of many a

challenging relationship. (laughs)

"I swear, I've never been to that site before."

Alright well, we've graduated the getting started lessons.

Let's move on to getting around.

- [Terri] Once you know how to get to webpages using

addresses and hyperlinks you can start exploring the web.

This time we'll work with....

- [LGR] Oooooh.

Ooh, classic AOL. Oh, dude.

Dude, I just gotta, I gotta stop right there.

Look at it. Look at the username too.

TerriPB2000.

(laughs)

That's just a perfect little slice of time right here.

Oh man, year 2000 AOL, holy crap.

This is great.

I like how this was all apparently captured

on the same day, February 3, 2000.

Ahh but anyway, old AOL. Sorry, I just get a little...

I get a little wistful, misty eyed seeing this.

- [Terri] AOL is similar to Netscape Navigator but AOL is

different in that it's an online service that includes

a browser for viewing content from both AOL and

from the internet.

- [LGR] Dang right it's different.

That's what made AOL so friggin' neat, you know.

Keywords man and little, they had dedicated things

and pages and stuff to go to only within AOL.

The channels. Yeah, that's what they were called.

- [Terri] And this time, the browser we'll use is

Microsoft Internet Explorer.

- [LGR] Man just hopping around, man.

Netscape, AOL, Internet Explorer.

Oh dude dude dude.

There we go.

Oh yeah, "Amazon.com. Top 100 CDs, shop now and save."

Look at that weak little Amazon link, it's just a

you know, whatever.

I also love how like click bait is exactly the same.

"Pilots last words." "22 romantic gifts." "Common interview

goofs." "Top 10 car features." (laughs)

Like, my god we're in an endless loop of garbage.

- [Terri] Yahoo is the type of site known as a portal

cause it gives you access to lots of other web

locations and features.

- [LGR] You know, I never really used Yahoo that much

because by the time I get into really searching

the internet deeply, I had already figured out what

Google was, it was 1998, so whatever, it was

still like friggin' new.

Yeah, I think I used Ask Jeeves and AltaVista a little

bit more than Yahoo for whatever reason, I don't know.

I was more inclined to just type in stuff and like,

Yahoo's lists of things were, you know, kinda useful or

whatever but...

I don't know just never super got into the Yahoo thing.

Oh okay, let's see. Let's pause here, what are these others?

I just like looking at these different stories.

"Carolina Panthers running back Fred Lane arrested."

Yep, the year 2000.

Derek Jeter, the Yankees, 10 million dollar deal.

American Psycho loses NC-17 battle?

I didn't know there was a battle for that. I love that movie.

- [Terri] Click the my AOL button and select preferences.

- [LGR] Ooh, the preferences.

I always liked this preferences menu with the little,

with the uh, the squares.

The icons. Like, it looked so nice compared to, you know,

the drab interface of Internet Explorer.

I mean, look at this. Would you rather have this or

this? I know which one I would rather have in

the year 2000.

- [Terri] Your favorites menu include this one,

called Net Lingo, which is a handy guide to internet

terms and jargon.

- [LGR] (laughs) "Internet terms and jargon."

Now that would just be memes.

You know, oh yeah like emoticons and acronyms and LOL.

Oh, that old school Google, there we go.

Add free web search to your site and I did.

My Angelfire site had a little Google box.

Odd to be like, nostalgic about Google but you know,

the late 90s Google was a little different, or well year

2000 in this case, whatever same thing.

- [Terri] A search engine searches the web for sites that

contain a word or words that you're looking for.

- [LGR] Man, that was just like a revolution when

that happened, it was like, search engines,

yeah not just a bunch of stuff listed in a

catalog like Yahoo.

It's like holy crap, you can find things by word.

Do boolean searches and all that good stuff.

- [Terri] Let's say you're in the binocular business,

specializing in binoculars for bird watching.

- [LGR] (laughs) Okay.

Let's say that I am.

- [Terri] To look through all these pages for references to

bird watching or Seattle and Tacoma would be ridiculous.

- [LGR] Yeah, ridiculous.

Holy crap, holy crap the memories are coming back again

for something else that's completely unrelated to what

she's talking about.

Callwave. The internet answering machine.

Yeah, you know, you had dial up and you're on the internet

or whatever and somebody's trying to call, somebody could

like leave a message or whatever that way.

I don't even remember how it worked but I remember that.

You'd like get a .wav file and it's like holy crap,

there's somebody that's left a message for you while