Kids react to technology!This episode: Old Computers!-
(Finebros) Today you are reacting to this! - What is this?What is that?Uh, a
computer?Ooh, it's an old computer. It looks cool! I like pressing buttons.
It's. . . huge. It's very huge. If you don't a desk, where do you put this?It
looks very hipster. Question time!- (Finebros) So it's an computer-- - Yes.
(Finebros) From the late 1970s or early 80s. What do you think of it just from
looking at it?Kinda like those old televisions that are very boxy. (Finebros)
Go ahead! Turn it on. Um. . . Nothing's happening. (Finebros) So you turn the
monitor on, where else might an on switch be?Uhhhh. . . Oh! Wait. . .
Hello!(tapping glass)How do I do this?- (Finebros) It's in the back. - Oh, pfff. Oh! I see where it is. (computer
beeps and whirs)Why does it have to make so much noise?And there's nothing on
the screen. Doesn't look anything like what we have now. Apps! Games! Websites!
Everything. But THIS thing right here has nothing!(Finebros) Go ahead and try
to do something on the computer. Nothing's happening. Um. . . Uh. . . How do I
do this?(Finebros) You can't do anything or even type until you hit- a reset
button that's on the computer-- - Ugggggh!Reset!(computer boops)It's very
tedious. It's like pre-flight checks kind of. That is too many steps!(Finebros)
How do you do anything?Maybe press SHIFT. Okay, that didn't do anything.
Where's the mouse?Where's the mouse?(Finebros) Everything is just done with the
keyboard. What?!- (Finebros) Okay, now-- - Nah, no, no, no. (Finebros) Okay,
okay, okay!I'm gonna write my name. (giggling)Wait, it doesn't matter. Blah blah blah. Are there any programs on it?(Finebros) You
had to type into the keyboard to get it to do anything. So if I type in GAMES.
. . hit return. Error?!Ah! Error. This computer is an error. (Finebros) How do
you go on the internet?You, um. . . Um. . . - (computer boops) - What?Pretty
sure Timothy Berners Lee didn't create it yet. (Finebros) There was no internet
back then!What?!Then how do you look up homework?(Finebros) You gotta go to the
library!Who wants to do that?(Finebros) So computers back then could only do limited
things. For example, you can do math, type documents and code. . . - but that's
about it. - Are you serious?That's mind
blowing. That was the peak of technology. Now it seems kinda worthless. Well,
it's kinda good because it was kinda the first technology, but. . . computers
today are kind of better. (Finebros) Let's do some math. Go ahead, type in a math problem. Two. . .
plus. . . two. . . Return. I don't see anything. (Finebros) When you just type
numbers out, the computer doesn't knowwhat you want it do. It just sees the numbers. You need to give it
a command to let it know,"Hey! I'm about to give you numbers!"Answer
the math problem!That doesn't make any sense!You have to give some sort of command
and then type in what you want it to do?This would be the hardest thing in the
world!(Finebros) So what you need to do is you have to type the world PRINT
first. Oh. Math has nothing to do with PRINT!I don't get how you have to put
PRINT when nothing prints out. Now just press print. . . Oh. . . Return. Oh! It
did it!I feel so proud of myself. Finally! Take a thousand years. I don't get
it. And I also don't get the 1970s. The person that was using this a long time
agomust have a lot of codes right next to them. I don't want to do this
anymore!(Finebros) So besides the computer, there is something else next to it.
These things. (Finebros) Do you have any idea what those things are?Oh, it's a
paper printer?Power source?External disk drives?- (Finebros) They're actually
used for this. - Hey!A CD!It's a CD
case. A floppy disk. Oh, floppy disk!It was like a flash drive. (Finebros) They
actually call that a floppy disk. Waaaah! (laughs)Oh yeah, it is floppy.
(Finebros) That big computer has no hard drive on it. That's horrible!Then why
is it so big?(Finebros) So floppy disks were used to store data. Floppy disks
could also come with programs on them. So the one you're holding has a version
of DOS. Dots?- (Finebros) You know what DOS is? - No. No. No. I think it it can
be somebody's last name. (Finebros) Do you want to play a game on the
computer?Uh, yeah!Yes!Could you grab the floppy disk, please?(Finebros) Go
ahead, put it in. How do I put this in?(Finebros) Oh, it might. . . is the lid
shut?(Finebros) Alright, turn it around.
No, other way. Now turn it around.
It doesn't suck it in?(Finebros) Shut it. This isn't working. Do I just press
something?- PRINT. . . ? - (Finebros) Try it!Disk. . . RETURN. It said zero. I
don't like this computer. Really don't.
(Finebros) If the computer was already on and you put in the disk,you gotta
turn the computer off and turn it back on. Ooh my gosh!You guys are crazy. -
(computer whirring) - Yes!It worked. (Finebros) Okay, let me help you. No, no,
no! Don't touch it. Uh, I don't like it. It works at least!(Finebros) No. . . I
think the game broke. I think it messed up. Do I have to pay for it?Too much
pixellation. Game over!It's green, which makes it look ugly. I like this better
than Flappy Bird!(Finebros) So every computer, even today, has something called
a processorinside of it and depending on how good your processor is is how
powerfulthe machine is. You would need at least 850 of those computers to
equal- the single power of this one small phone. - What?How can they do that?Technology is
awesome!Look at how humanity has used their intellect. Pretty
awesome!Truth!(Finebros) So, finally, would you want one of these
today?Sorta. It's pretty cool. No. It can do really nothing. I have better things,
so why would I want this?Three decades ago I would love to have this,but now
this is just a foot stool. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!(Finebros)
You wouldn't use it?No!The games are boring, the stuff is boringand the whole
thing is boring. Thanks for watching this technological episode of Kids
React!Leave a comment of which technology we should react to next. B-Y-E. -
RETURN. - (computer boops)Error?! What?!
