Relive the hideous ‘golden age’ of Internet discovery

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Watching almost anybody explain technology can be torturous. But watching talking heads and fresh-faced kids from the ’90s rave about the wonders of the Internet — the miraculous “information superhighway” that was about to change life on Earth — is made even more heinous when their saccharine explanations get remixed and run through AutoTune.

Still, the hideously catchy new song and video “Just Surf the Net” will transport you back to a time when everybody wasn’t online all the time. And fashion was worse than you remember.

The song and video, by Melodysheep, draws from weird retro sources like The Kids Guide to the Internet, which was apparently released on VHS way back when (watch that full video if you really want a blast from the past).

It’s yet another reminder of how baffling today’s world would seem to somebody who pulled a Rip Van Winkle and woke up after sleeping for 20 years, only to find people poking at their iPhones all the time.

Melodysheep is the nom de boom of John D. Boswell, whose Symphony of Science music videos apply a similar treatment to space, quantum physics and other brainy subjects. He describes “Just Surf the Net” as “a musical tribute to the Internet’s golden age: the 1990s” in the video’s YouTube description.

Flash back if you dare.

Via: Nerdcore

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