25 Years of Online Communications
February 27th, 2009 Filed in: General 30 comments
(47 votes, average: 4.04 out of 5)
Loading ...This year marks 25 years of online communication, what a milestone!
To celebrate, the Yahoo! Mail Team have produced a video – check it out below 
If you experience any issues with this video, you can also view a larger version here.
Kate – Yahoo!7 Mail Team
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1. Yahoo!7 Mail Blog »&hellip | April 24th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
[...] 2009 and online communications have been around for 25 years. If you are 30-something years-old like me, you’ve probably had [...]
2. shirley menteith | April 28th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
i think this is absolutly fantastic . from shirley graham
3. lam | May 19th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
thank you
4. Jane | May 19th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Amazing! Wow. It’s amazing how much things have evolved in just 25 years.
5. David | May 19th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
probably the worst video of computer comms evolution I have ever seen.
It started a bit before IBM XT’s and bulletin boards
6. Mr.Jade Cadelina | May 19th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
brings back memories…. was looking for a compuserve screen capture or a bbs system. but its a great video.
thank you for creating this.
7. Jenny | May 19th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
If Yahoo are all for celebrating 25 years of online communication then why are they closing Geocities?
That’s destroying an important part of the history of the internet!
Shame on you Yahoo!
8. Francis | May 19th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Ah, brings back good memories…
9. Rollie | May 19th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Pretty cool video – I enjoyed this, thank you!
10. Dinky-di Aussie | May 20th, 2009 at 1:45 am
Please tell me it was made in America. It’s too glib and full of cliches to have been made by Australians.
11. baaby | May 20th, 2009 at 3:15 am
i love it
12. Babatunde | May 20th, 2009 at 7:11 am
I want to work for yahoo. How can I do that so I can become part of yahoo history in the next 25 years?
CONGRATULATIONS!
Tunde
13. Rogerio | May 20th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
It’s a good video but not excellent. I don’t know why you guys decided to feature only yahoo ‘products’ in a video about online communications in general, surely there’s a lot of ‘history’ missing there!
14. sonia paulina furfaro | May 20th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
it is vere good video clip to wash
15. sonia paulina furfaro | May 20th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
I’ll like to give the vidio clip to other friend’s of my to washer also ok
16. Kirsty | May 21st, 2009 at 10:20 am
Im not sure about this new yahoo what does everyone think about new yahoo
17. barbie walden | May 21st, 2009 at 1:50 pm
what can i say,fantastic
18. julie | May 21st, 2009 at 5:22 pm
excellent I remember that first computer tech has come so far awsome
19. Shay | May 21st, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Fantastic Little Video Congradulations On 25 Years !!! to think I have only been on the net for the last 10!!
Great Work Yahoo look forward to all the next 25 years brings!
20. Andrew Burns | May 22nd, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Yahoo!7 Mail is the best, not like that over rated Hotmail or the cheap imatation email site gmail.com…
Google overall is so lame, they are like a unpopular kid at school trying to fit so they wear their pants low, and sloutch alot.
Except in this case they make gMail and that web brower I can’t be bothered knowing about.
-.-
21. Geoff | May 22nd, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Really cool
22. patricia | May 23rd, 2009 at 9:55 am
You are the founder of finger away communication, I can not imagine myself without yahoo, you are the rock, champion of communication technology. Congratulation!!!!
I love yahoo………………………..
23. Milos Svacha | May 23rd, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Send me more please about yours new Palm. Also your price. Thank you.
24. Colin | May 23rd, 2009 at 8:04 pm
How True
How Slow it was
We put up with it
It was The NEW Dimension DIAL UP
How we have progressed from
CRYSTAL SET RADIO reception
Before Radio
Before TV even Black & White TV
Before SPUTNIC
The first Human Launched Satelite
Before Phenolic & Vinyl Music Players
Videos Beta & VHS & Stereo Sound
DVideo’s & Sound CD
Ipods etc
Most of those reading this would not know what all this comunication history is about.
25. James | May 23rd, 2009 at 11:22 pm
That was a classic!! Thanks for the ‘FLASHBACK’, it will be hard to forget! ‘well done’.
26. Colin Franklin | May 25th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
its just nice to see the various changes i seen since owning a computer since 1998 as I was self taught to use one ,
I just love all I have learnt here and met so many friends onall sids of the world .
Thank you Yahoo.com.
Colin
27. Phil O'Dendron | May 25th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
I thought that Yahoo might have brought us an interesting mini-doco on the progression of personal computing. At least, that’s what it advertised, and why I thought that this piece of drivel promised.
However, what it brought us was a self serving mini ad, congratulating itself on its achievements, and aimed at the lumpenmasse unable to discern reality from “reality” and even less capable of being able to spell or get grammar right.
Boring, and a total waste of time.
28. carlos | May 26th, 2009 at 2:58 am
is incredible!!!! I remember when there was a few pages online and there was netscape!!!!! and you could get an email address with out having to come up with a very long and crazy name!!!! the web has change the world….. and is going to get even better!!!!
29. Diane | May 26th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Online communication began in basic form in the 1961, CTSS. Email was started in 1965 by ARPANET
So online communucation is older than 25 years. Just not used by general public
30. Luke | May 28th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
I thought this was a great little video, the music was also pretty catchy too (is it a real song? probably not).
It just goes to show how far we really have come in the last 25 years, although I’m pretty young I still find it fascinating to learn about the history of communications and how it has evolved.
Yahoo should definitely keep doing videos like this celebrating other significant milestones.
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