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SciShow Tangents

Computers

SciShow Tangents

Complexly

Schultz, Stefan, Tangents, Hank, 770430, Chin, Riley, Scishow, Complexly, Sam, Sam Schultz, Stefan Chin, Hank Green, Itunes:https://feeds.simplecast.com/jmge1h9a, Comedy, Ceri Riley, Science, Education, Ceri, Green

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Back in my day, a computer was a computer: It was big, tan, and was plugged into your living room wall. But now we've got computer cars, computer phones, even computer lightbulbs! And that's great! But I think we better keep an eye on them all just in case...

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to SciShow Tangents. It's a lightly competitive knowledge showcase.

0:21.4

I'm your host Hank Green, and joining me this week is always his science expert,

0:24.8

Sarah Reilly. Hello, and our resident, every man, Sam Schultz, Ella. So all three of us are nerds

0:31.8

in one way or another, and I am the old one. Sarah is the young one. But look, it's the

0:38.7

year 2022. So we all, we all had computers growing. Why? You're the middle one. Oh, okay.

0:46.0

I thought that would be the cool one. No, no, none of us are cool. That's not what we,

0:55.1

what I wanted to talk about. I wanted to talk about computers and our very first computers. Do

1:00.0

you remember your first computer? I could not tell you the, the model of it, but it wasn't all.

1:06.3

It wasn't a big enough deal. They were just around. Well, I was too young, I think, because it

1:11.5

was when my dad was in grad school. So it was when we still lived in New Jersey. My dad was going

1:17.0

to Cornell in Ithaca, New York, and we'd like commute back and forth. He, when he wasn't writing

1:21.9

his dissertation, I would play Candyland on the computer. Oh, I think it was like an old Apple

1:27.5

computer. And he got to the point where I'd played this Candyland computer game so many times,

1:33.3

and the computer was so slow that I would already know where to click on the next screen to like,

1:39.2

it was there was a mouse. Okay. So I'm getting some information here. Yes. There was a mouse.

1:43.8

There was a monitor. There was a keyboard. There was a, it was color. I imagine. Yes, it was color.

1:48.8

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It was like a tank, a tennis like classic. They were all tan back then.

1:54.8

I was the hip color. Everybody wanted it to be tan. All right. So that makes me think that I'm old,

2:00.5

Sam. Mine. I don't necessarily remember. I do remember getting our first computer. It was tan

2:08.1

as well. I remember getting the internet more, more vividly because I remember going to Nickelodeon.com

2:14.9

and having to wait all an entire night for one of the games to load up. All right. And it was two

2:20.7

dogs and you click on one and the one dog would smell the other dogs butt and then think of like,

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