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- Mobile phones are changing the way that people communicate. Britons now send a billion texts each month, but the popularity of the SMS text messaging service took phone manufacturers by surprise.
As sales of mobile phones begin to drop off, manufacturers are hoping that a new generation of handset - which can take and send digital photographs - might give the industry a boost, and become the next big craze among young people.
BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones investigates whether "picture-texting" is likely to take off.
Originally broadcast 23 November, 2001.
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It feels incredibly surreal to be watching this clip on a phone.
It’s surreal watching it on my Apple Watch.
@@LethalMartialArtistlad, that's nothing, I am replying to your comment on my smart microwave
But watching on a Smartphone nowadays is like breathing
I'm watching it on my toilet.
@@123shotasyou win the Internet 😂😂
CZcams is the closest thing to a time machine experience.
Archives. It's called archives.
@@NickJerrisontime machine is called a chronometer, a chronometer. ;)
@@NickJerrison I get what utomow was saying. Back in the day, you had to physically go and hunt through archives, if the material even existed. Now it's all digitized, uploaded, and freely accessible with no time or effort required from us.
@@NickJerrisonThey're. They're called archives, professor
CZcams is one of the greatest inventions humanity has made, change my mind.
23 years later, phones are our primary cameras.
Another way of looking at is that our primary camera is also our phone. I use my smartphone as a camera more than a phone, and above all else I use it as a way to text, watch film, TV, video and research information. Last time I used it as a phone was probably a week ago.
@@TheClintoniowhen you say you "used it as a phone" do you mean to call someone?
It’s so crazy to hear how 15-20 texts a day back then was considered a lot, but nowadays you can send that many texts to just one person in under a few minutes 😂
I thought the same. Most people I know these days find it impossible to not look at their phone for more than 30 seconds.
Each text cost 20c or more so you made sure to use all the available characters.
damn i know right!
After 20 years someone will be laughing similarly at what we could do now
At 10p a text message you might not
I love this era of television because the cameras and audio and even the clothing style is far more "modern", but the subject still feels so old ... its an interesting reminder of how recent, in the grand scheme of things, smartphones and social media are.
Yeah I always think the same thing. Even the Vodafone shop and logo look mostly the same. The clothes are slightly 90s, the blonde girl in the video looked modern, but her man had that 90s gelled hair.
To think that it was only 7 years after this when the iPhone came out and changed the game.
@@aa6270 7 years before the beginning of the end lol
In 2001 most professional video, especially at the BBC, was being recorded onto digital formats so they look largely indistinguishable from today aside from a slight lack in resolution.
@@HazelTheHare Actually in 2001 we were still on Betacam SP it wasn't until about 2004 they moved to DVCAM which was a horrible format.
This video looks good because the archivists have remastered slightly.
Love the way they referred to photo capability as a "gimmick".
This is more photo messaging/MMS though, which did fail to take off, because, well, the price. The current method is using mobile data to upload to a server and to download from that server, bypassing MMS fees.
The expert said it was a long way off and it was. We had to wait for 3g to come and then it started to catch on, only fully becoming a thing with snapchat that relied on 4g.
To be fair, it was. MMS were pretty expensive at the time, and took a while to send over 2G. If we’re talking phones, Facebook / WhatsApp is what made it take off for many
@@arahman56 nah they just said the camera was a gimmick not that deep bro
Well it was a "gimmick" did you not see the photos they took?
They were not photos that you savour and print out to put on the wall or display on a monitor.
They were photos to send to people in the moment as a one off.
I used to send my family the odd picture of me and they might in return, but beyond that, they were pointless.
They were poor quality, cost too much and often failed to send.
Text messages were the mainstay for quite a while.
23 years later and I can watch this on my Apple watch 😮
what? 23 years??...in 23 years you'll be watching it on AR in-eye lenses or AR glasses *and that's at the very LEAST*
@@R0DSTERWatching it in VR on the moon… or on the moon in VR
@@R0DSTERwhat he said is that now, in 2024, it is now 23 years later from 2001 and he can watch it on his apple watch.
@@oraakkeli were they? i wasn't even aware that people could watch youtube on the apple watch (regardless of the obvious "why would you?" question)
@@R0DSTER yeah im not sure if you can, i dont have one, but technically im sure it can be done. Why? No clue.
Unless if you could connect your airpods to the apple watch thus you'd be able to listen to youtube podcasts etc, idk tho.
It was awesome being a techie kid in the 2000's, phone and computer technology was advancing incredibly rapidly.
It still is
And there was actual innovation going on too. Now things are still moving quickly, but its just reiterating and updating. Back in the day advances either brought massive jumps in capabilities or brought some crazy new innovation. You see it across many industries too. Especially in software.
@@garfoonga1 Totally agree, just thinking phones went from black and white to the iphone in 7 years or so.
Smartphones ruined everything.
@@jacksonrelaxin3425 haha! I hope people people will get bored of their phones in the future.
I was part of the team that helped build the sw for that phone (Nokia 7650). Was working at Symbian at the time. We were all given one as a bonus
Ah Symbian. Miss that OS.
Thank you for your work.
Series 60 was something else, remember having the 7650, then 6600, N73, N95 and so on.
Loved Symbian S60, a real game changer, paired with excellent innovative devices. It was truly a glimpse into the future, though limited by the technology available at the time, but it was unbelievable: a small pc in your pocket which was capable of taking pictures and videos.
I fell in love with the 7650 immediately, I still remember it fondly from time to time and regret having to sell it, and Symbian S60 was a big part of that, just a magnificent pairing of software and hardware. The capability of shooting VGA photos and (short, low-res, poor sq) videos at any moment was magical.
I had the 7650, 6600, N73 and N85, loved every single one of them and it was marvellous to experience the evolution of the hardware and S60 software. Unfortunately I had been bitten by the iPhone virus in the latter years and after the N85 I switched to the 3GS, witnessing from the sidelines the slow death of Symbian and Nokia in the touchscreen era…
I will never forget what Stephen Elop has done to Nokia. I hope the figurative “burning platform” will be his final, unending torment 😄
Symbian was pretty nice! I had a Nokia E52 (actually two in a row) for quite some time, even well into the smartphone era, until something like 2016 and it was still fairly usable.
Symbian on a non-nokia smartphone was insanely bad when everyone else started getting apps and there was no app store and the few apps you could download off the internet browser from some web pages, all were meant for nokia phones and were incompatible. I had a Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro which was GREAT except for the horrible operating system which made it completely useless for anything other than text messaging and calling.
It's strange watching these from the early 2000s as the TV presentation and fashions look similar to now but the changes to things like phones are massive. Their evolution has slowed a lot recently though.
It's like re-watching Gavin and Stacey, most of it looks fairly modern except the phones and computers.
The change between 2007 and 2011 was breathtaking. Hasn't been a whole lot of innovation since.
Fashion started to suck in the 1990s and continues to this day. Straight long hair on women looks particularly boring.
End of history
@@TinLeadHammer & all that black clothing. It's not quite as bad as a few years ago. Sometimes walking around London was like being at a funeral.
God i miss those days...
Life and the experience of being in world in general, felt quieter, calmer, and slower to me. Very interesting to feel back and notice the contrast.
Can't wait till these come out, I've been stuck in 2000 for 24years
In the 1890's a British MP giving a speech in the House of Commons regarding the new telephone, said that he could see a day when "there would be a telephone in every village".
Let alone one, we now have dozens or even hundreds of phones in every village now, and even some homeless people have smartphones in their pockets.
That’s absolutely hillaruous
"I am refugee, I have nothing, I only have shirt on my back and Apple iPhone 15Pro-MAX with sixty-four megapixel camera."
@@krashd god help them 🤣
@@krashdand a family full of dependants who need free health care, but don’t worry “I am future doctor”.
The year 2000 will forever be 'the future' for me.
I can't believe we've passed it by over two decades, yet it still feels like the future. I used to love watching a show called 'Beyond 2000'. It was like the 'Tomorrow's World' show where it showed the future of tech.
Good times.
I am still disappointed to the year 2000 because according to science fiction litterature people should have had at least permanent settlements on Moon and Mars about 20 years ago. The last manned mission to Moon took place in December 1972, 50 years ago. Besides I haven't seen many flying cars in the cities yet.
@@lucone2937 We stopped going to the moon because there was no financial gain from it
Exactly. The 1990s will always be the last decade too. Can't believe we are now in the 3rd decade of this century...
I still remember the Y2K bug scare. Seems ridiculous now but everyone was afraid the world was going to come to a grinding halt because all the computers were going to reset to 1900.
Okay.... grandpa
The fact that I'm watching this 22 years later in the middle of the night on my phone is just surreal
I miss the 2000s, it was still simpler times, although being a teenager then, was still difficult without Social media and smartphones .
In 20 years you'll miss 2023 cause it was still simpler times.
God I hope not @@bobrandom5545
@@bobrandom5545 It all stems down to hindsight, seeing how everything turned out without having to guess or predict anything sounds much simpler than the present moment. You'll probably miss the 10 seconds you spent reading this absurdly pretentious reply.
Difficult???
It was better i dont think teenagers needs social media it’s not good for them
@@AD-jq7owShush.
I remember hearing about phone cameras that were good enough to capture a whole page of text on a magazine. It blew my mind.
Now enough to capture every pore on your face!
im pretty sure a vga camera can't do it
When phone cameras started having optical zoom I couldn’t believe it. That tiny lens can zoom in on something in a tree or across the yard.
You definitely can't take a photo of a A4 document using a VGA camera and see the text on the document.
@@markm0000 Hardly any phone camera have real optical zoom because you need a lens that can extend.
I remember seeing my first camera phone in Tokyo in February 2001. The camera was on the side of the phone but it blew me away how much more advanced Japan was technologically than us in Europe. I also visited Canada and the US in the same trip and they were barely using mobile phones at all. The world has since become a smaller place
My first phone was around that time. I still have it in pristine condition, but I need 110 V mains to charge it. I should do a video review probably.
I was 8 in 2001, I remember almost everyone having a pager instead of a cell phone
I was one of the first people in my group of friends to get a camera phone. They all said what's the point. Some were impressed that its a camera that's always on you.
I do remember being the first in our group to have a phone that could record video, short silent clips 30 seconds long.
Its amazing what kind of silly funny stuff you can fit into 30 seconds.
Simpler times
Nice perspective. Being gen Z i never got the idea of japan being advanced except for bullet trains.
Japan is pretty advanced in the cities
Man, crazy to think how far we've come along since then.
I remember those days, it cost 10c per text and 30c to send a picture if your on pre-paid, the camera quality was terrible looking back to it now but for the time it was impressive.
I had my first mobile phone around 1996 or so and it was a nokia. I was the first person I knew who sent a text message around 1998 (ish). I got a notification that text messages had been enabled and after messing around a bit sent my friend his first ever text. He phoned me in amazement and shock asking how I did it 😂
HA HA still remember my 2nd phone a Star tac (with the red led display the very first version) that thing cost 40p to send a text and get charge not just for making a call but answer a call also get charge 🤣🤣🤣 worse of all it round up to the nearest minute
even a 2 second you answer you get charge a full minute.
I was the first person In the world to send text messages and picture frames
Same
I was 18 when this story came out. I got my first Nokia with a camera at the time, cost about £300 and was the coolest kid amongst my friends. Such memories!
How's it feel being old now
@@coolstorybrooooo7643 Surprisingly not too bad. When you're a teenageer you look at people in their thirties and forties as old but it doesn't feel as bad when you get here. Sure, some will call me old but it doesn't stop you from living an active life.
@@coolstorybrooooo7643 You will find out soon enough.
Wow, £300? I'm 18 now and I'm used to thinking Nokia's are around £20. I can't believe how expensive they used to be, but it makes sense because they were new then. I do vaguely remember being around 9 and hearing that blackberrys were the trendy cool phone but if I'm honest I struggle to remember a time when the majority of people didn't have smartphones. It's crazy how different things are, I wish I was a teenager during your generation I think it would be more fun.
Just looked on Google and apparently Blackberrys were popular in 2010/11 so I was 6/7 not 9. I'm surprised my friends and I were talking about phones on the playground when we were in Year 2 lol
The problem with texting pictures - MMS - was that nobody could get it working. When you bought a new phone it wouldn't be set up to work out of the box, you had to go into the settings and configure it yourself, and it was extremely hard. So the normal experience was that you'd attach a photo to a text, press send, and get an error.
Luckily proper smartphones with apps like whatsapp swept SMS and MMS into the trash
Over time, operators started pushing these settings automatically on your first connection to their network. So there was a time period when MMS was actually used by many people (indeed, until the web apps arrived).
Not only MMS, even setting up GPRS internet was a painful experience.
And just a few years later we walk with computers in our pockets, absolutely insane!
Depends what you consider a computer i suppose.
@@garfoonga1 it doesn't really depends, phones are better than any PC of that time, faster Internet, communication, programing, gaming, etc, so yeah, basically we carry better computers in our pockets than the PCs of that time, there's literally nothing you could do with a computer in that time that any basic phone now can do even better
A few years? 23 years. For context that would be like watching a video of 1978 in 2001
@@MenWithVen well, 23 years is not that much considering we're in 2024 and the Earth was around for a few million years before that
those phones were also computers. There is virtually no difference to todays phones, except more computing power and different software.
In fact, the term "smartphone" is a marketing gimmick. Something that can be attributed to apple. People are so much misled about how they think about technology, compared to what it is really.
2001 only seemed like yesterday to me.
Yes 😳 I guess that's how we know we're are getting old 😂
2001 is when my father was born lmao.
Bro same....
@@HOTD108_ Wait what
@@HOTD108_how old are u n how old was ur dad when u were born 😳
Isn't it very strange this is 21 years ago, yet doesn't really look that different to today, however if you went back 21 years from 2001 to 1980 things looked massively different. Go back another 21 years to 1959 and it looked like a different world. The development of things seems to be slowing down.
Either the development has slowed as you suggest or the commercial release of these things has halted. One thing I know is that whatever tech we members of the public have was created used 20 years earlier in the military. in short, Commercial tech is 20 years behind military tech.
Mainly fashion. That's the thing you're noticing most. I think the advent of cheap, fast fashion killed a lot of innovation for basic, standard clothes. I know that off the rack stuff has been a thing for a while, but I think it finally became dominant around the turn of the millennium. And if the point is to be cheap, why rush for new trends? That would require new designers. Just rotate them out every so often, make slight alterations, and slap a popular TV show character on the front of it.
How much of this is due to the difference in video quality, I wonder? The quality and characteristics of the video make a massive difference to how we perceive the era we're watching. A 1980 video would have had a 4:3 aspect ratio and colours that look 'of their time'; a 1959 clip would have been in black & white.
yes looks like we running out of cat🐱 ideas..
Shirt, ties and shoes are out. When did you last watch a news segment about tech and the reporter was waring a tie?
Those who were in and created this news video would have never imagined we’d end up watching it on a mobile phone.
Scary how humanity got lost in such little time. Only 23 years you'd think it at least a 100 years to destroy ourselves.
0:38 bus just casually going through a red light there 😂
Nothing has changed!
bus went through amber and it turned red after it crossed - pedestrians still have the red man showing after the bus has passed proving this to be the case
@zw3880 well done 😊
@@zw3880 your wasting your time Z people don't or won't be smart in todays age...being dumb AF is cooler lol...
@@zw3880nah bro it had been red for a while. There's a good amount of delay from it turning red for cars and then green for pedestrians, you'd get pulled over for that for sure lol
What an absolute gem of an archive video!
Yeah why they butchered it by croping and deleting half of image to make it widesreen?. I guess kids die from looking at those scary black bars
@@dzenacs2011 Lol. It was not, BBC News started broadcasting in 16:9 in 2000. When they had 4:3 footage they had to crop it for widescreen transmission.
It was the beginning of the end of social interactions between people, gatherings in cafes without phones, real conversations etc.
I liked it when you could suddenly send texts to land lines. People would freak out when their phone rang and a robot voice said “Hi. Dave here. I’ll see you in the pub in 20 min” 😅
I remember my mum had gotten a new phone in around 2007, and she showed me that it could take photos. I was amazed.
Haha
i was amazed with my new nokia in 2002!!!
@@fidelcatsro6948 I think I was pretty happy with my Nokia in 2002 as well, first year of uni.
thats how her onlyfans adventure started?
oh yeah my grandma couldnt believe it when i showed her in 2009!
In the mid 90s I was working as a courier for a university with about 10 other colleagues. We had pagers, a little device about the size of a matchbox worn on the belt with a tiny display that would relay messages in ticker tape style. If your boss wanted to get hold of you he would phone the pager company, physically speak to an operator with the message, who would then type it out and send it to your pager! (Usually 'contact office ASAP')
You then had to find a phone box and call the office at your expense, if you had any money on you.
Then someone pointed out they were paying more for the pager subscriptions than the emerging mobile phone deals, we were all given mobiles. We thought we were great as we were the very first people in the whole organisation to have them! How times have changed.
Even as a Millennial, this seems old timey AF 🤣, I imagine younger generations just assume you jumped on your horse and buggy after talking on the public telephone (presumably a rotary of course)
@@bernlin2000 bro kids dont even know what public phones or rotary's are
Hah I remember sending messages to pagers on pirate radio stations
Pagers are still a must-have if you're hospital staff.
I can imagine those operators having to listen to X rated messages from lonely wives to Dale from accounting who she's cheating on her husband with 🤣
I am so glad to have been born in the 1960's and had a fair bit of life enjoying things without social media, the CCTV cameras watching us and big tech tracking us. Also life just seemed more wholesome.
Thanks for using that technology to tell us how it use to be lol
@@ouzi9122 Thanks for being snarky and proving his point.
I’ve been watching these ‘new tech’ videos from the 90s early 2000s and it’s amazing how far we’ve become, simple things we take for granted today like touchscreen and taking photos on phones were state of the art back then. It’s crazy to think where we’ll be in 30 years time where we’ll be looking at holgram phone calls in the same way they did sending photo messages
The birth of:
“You up” and “Send newds”
1.31 The industry expert was kind of right. It did take a while for phone pictures to take off, not because of the handset costs, but because of the hefty charges for sending media by text
Smartphones and WhatsApp changed the game, when it became very low cost to send pics and videos
smartphones with all display and decent camera changed it - and this we have to give to iPhone to start it. before that screensizes where all over the place and so were quality, pixel count and cameras were khm… somewhat low performance.
i think what started it really was that you were able to take good enough photos to keep them. that kicked off the camera development really. until then they were grainy and 160x200 in resolution :)
and of course speed of said cameras, i remember my first camera phone that it was dreadfully slow to even to start, and then slow following the subject, and took seconds to save one…
and now? we can save videos in 4k without any delay really…
Yeah, he wasn't making it out to be a "fad", but we were still moving from 2g to 3g them, and anyone that has had their data dropped down to 2g knows...it's slow as hell, and even pictures (especially the high quality photos today) can take a long time to transmit, clogging up the network. It got a lot better with 3g, but that wasn't widely available for another 2-3 years after this report. So he was totally right, the infrastructure just wasn't there yet, but the interest certainly was.
you mean 1:31 ?
Yes when the 3G network was invested in more thats what brought the costs down, they used to use the 2g GSM network which wasn't designed for the amount of traffic it was handling. I remember T-Mobile used to charge something stupid like 10p a minute for using the Internet on your phone. It worked out to about £60 an hour. I found this out after using MSN on my uncle's phone when I was young.
@@mityaboy4639 iPhone didn't start it.
LG did, but as usual LG had fantastic ideas but terrible marketing.
LG Prada had the first capacitive touch screen smart phone.
They were also first company to have ultra high resolution screens, laser assisted auto focus and a whole bunch of other innovations.
It's funny, in 2001 I was 8, and around this time, I vividly remembering shopping with my mum, and imagining what it would be like to watch TV on your phone. That wasn't a thing then of course, neither were smart phones, and this was an unimaginable concept to me at the time, but I think people knew it would come eventually, because when I told my mum what I was thinking about she said it would happen one day, and surely enough it did, not even a decade later. Between 2001-2011 there was a lot of advancement in tech, I agree with the other comment that it's slowed down a bit in more recent years.
my dad used to have an old samsung slide phone with a camera on back, that thing still works somehow and he's gone through like 4 smartphones! those were built well
This was a year after the networks had spent ridiculous sums on 3G network licences and the industry was expecting a quick switch to data. In reality, there was neither the 3G network roll-out, nor compatible handsets, so for the better part of a decade, most picture messaging was over 2G and 2.5G networks.
I still see 3G more than 4G where I live on O2!
Actually, the 3G network licence sell-off was a brilliant bit of game theory, raising over 20 billion pounds at the time which was insane. Unfortunately it also doomed the telecommunications industry there and throughout Europe, slowing the rollout of 3G dramatically by curtailing investment.
It’s amazing how far back this tech dates back. We tend to take sending images and full sentences in text for granted nowadays, but even my first cell phone in junior high had no picture taking capabilities. Only snake and limited texting that required tons of abbreviations to make big sentences.
We’ve come a LONG way since the days of flip phones.
and unfortunately, having to shorten words really stuck with some people so tht dey stil txt Lyk dis even two decades on.
@@yesbossmanI don’t see those forms of contractions. Auto correct probably helps
Yay, snake 🐍😅
It was possible - albeit unreliable - to sent text messages longer than 160 characters. I'd say that the lack of a keyboard was what spurred us to abbreviate everything. Typing on a dialpad is excruciating. Just to type "hello world", you have to tap 44 33 555 555 666 0 9 666 777 555 3.
If you happened to later have a polyphonic ringtone of "Yeah" by Usher, you would have been the coolest kid at school 😂👌🏽
It’s really amazing how far we’ve come, I kinda skipped this generation of phones, we kept our slightly older handsets until smartphones, so I never experienced early mobile phone pictures until recently when I found out this was possible. They genuinely look surprisingly good, it’s kinda adorable to see the low res images on fuzzy screens.
Insane that this wasn't that long ago. Now the phone I'm watching this on folds out to a tablet and has more processing power than most pcs at that time
*all
Technically it has more processing power than the computer used to get Apollo 11 to the Moon! we've come a long way...now, let's get teleportation to be a thing! xD
@@JArm1996 A Casio watch from 1985 had more processing power than the Apollo computer.
It is irrelevant, software got more bloated and your phone perform the same functions as old hardware just with fancy UI
Not that long ago? Do you realize it's already been 22 years
The first time I got a phone that could take pictures was 2005. It was stolen in 2006 and I didn't get another phone that could take pictures until 2020!
I didn't get a smart phone until about 2015.
You held off well.
@@WreckItRolfe I only got one because I had to for work. I'm thinking of getting a 'wise phone' at some point
Thats cute, so u didnt use a cell at all for 15 years’?
@@alexsandrkerensky7457 I had a mobile/cell phone but it only had basic features like being able to call and text people (it didn't have the internet or a camera). It did have snake which I am an expert at after over one and half decades of playing 🙂
I grew up in the nokia era, had many of the old ones lol 3210, 3310, 3330 and then the Sony walkman phones too
I phone 15 is here .
Just 23 years and tech just sky rocketed 📈
I remember my dad saying that he read in the Sunday Times tech section that camera's on phones were the biggest gimmick of 2002. Would love to dig that up.
Cameras*
You don't need an apostrophe. What is it with people shoving unnecessary apostrophes everywhere now?
Tbf the cameras were so naff that they were just a gimmick at the time.
@@blackdragoncyrus because autocorrect shoves them in whether we want them or not
Even the CEO of Microsoft laughed at the iPhone saying it was dead on arrival because it didn't have a physical contact keyboard.
@@adelucas4824 imagine using autocorrect, it makes you lazy and stupid.. probably
For some born in recent decades their entire lives are full of previously unimaginable technological advancements. Do we all realise how absolutely astounding this all is?
1:31 was very pleased to see his cautious optimism here. The limiting factors he mentions are totally spot-on: the social aspect, the cost of opportunity for the user and network capacity. With time, we got phones for a fraction of the cost with built-in cameras, capable of high quality multimedia messaging, the user-base absolutely exploded, with network capacity growing to match.
I can't believe it's been 23 years since 2001. Feels like yesterday. And to think that there are as many years between 2001 and 1978 as between 2001 and 2024. 😢😢😢
Simpler times back then.
@@BaconFaceMcGee BETTER times back them
and no its not "nostalgia" or the typical "my generation was the best" syndrome.
I remember being so amazed at all the amazing new tech at the time, especially phones. Before I had my first phone in 2006, I actually had a casio camera watch. I just dont feel that giddy about tech anymore.
Tech feels more insidious now
I know right. Foldable phones are meh!! Virtual Reality is meh!!!
However, AR (Augmented Reality) glasses will be the next big thing. They pretty much already are.
I remember at the time at university that students tried to capture the blackboard diagram a professor had drawn there beforehand. They could not do it because the resolution of the phones was too timid and you could not zoom in on anything.
As a university student, being able to take snapshots of things like that is a Godsend. Alongside autocorrect, digital libraries, and fully uploaded lecture recordings and PowerPoint files. Frankly, it's the easiest time to become a university student ever.
@@EzioAuditoreDaFirenze99 "it's the easiest time to become a university student ever." Todays students are not aware of this fact, at least i dont get the impression. They are very lucky indeed
@@Berk-lf6ge The only thing that's not easy is the cost of living crisis, juggling part time jobs, finding accomodation. But the study itself is a cakewalk.
Yeah... I went to college in the early 2000s. Practically nobody had a phone with a built-in camera, or carried a digicam around everywhere we went. We frankly didn't even _think_ about being able to snap a photo of the blackboard. We had to copy everything by hand.
@@EzioAuditoreDaFirenze99 True. Depending on where you live it might be even impossible to earn enough to pay rent and study at the same time with an appropiate pace.
To be fair though, what we do now is still basically just sending each other text and media messages, only in loads more complex ways 😂
And here we are
In 2001 I remember some classmates had Siemens with a color display, it blew my mind, but now hearing that phones already had cameras the same year, and MMS, wow. I am blown away
Telephones with cameras!? Whatever next, teapots with wheels!!?!?
Would that not just be a tea urn on a trolley?
I lived through that era and yes it was amazing!
“Their profits now depend on persuading us that a picture is worth a thousand words” works so well with how they would charge back in the day I love whoever wrote that line
Bizarre to hear of texting as a 'craze' rather than just a normal part of life.
I like the girl bragging enthusiastically about sending 20 texts in a day...I think most teens today send that many texts in less than an hour 🤣 but they cost money back then!!
sms slunk in at the same time as phones in boxes - no contract needed. Phones went from common but seldom used (apart from the showoff shoutingb in the supermarket) to, thanks to kids, everyone has one and use constantly.
Texting is not a normal part of life.
@@JohanDavid Maybe not for you personally, but for the vast majority of people it is
interesting how this news report doesn’t look old because video quality seems so nice
Can't wait for this, i'm so excited.
I was born in November 2001, this is so fascinating, the quality of this broadcast is very good and voices are super clear like today
Wish I would have thought of inventing the selfie stick during this time 😂
Its Crazy see the old Nokia 3210 I remember everyone in school had one & i was only 12 or 13 at the time
This brings back a Lot of really good childhood memories for me
Love this Channel
I love going back to see these staories
Goodness. The explosion of texting late 90s and the first camera fones 2001. How quickly we forget. Five years later would see the first smartphone.
I'm 26 now I was born in 1996 and I loved these phones back.In 2022 today every smartphone has a camera it's not a big deal.
"a camera"... More like multiple cameras, many with optical stabilization and the likes, sigh
Cool report :)
Love these old tech reports!
1:30 this guy was ahead of its time and knew exactly what we needed 😮
Crazy how quick our tech is evolving. Imagine what we'll have in another 20 years.
Yeah. I imagine it'll need our clothes, our boots, and our motorcycle.
This took me longer than I'd like to admit lol.@@liamwalsh4008
Beginning of the end of social interaction.
such a boomer thing to say but you're definitely gen z which makes it so much worse
@@kiituriias a millennial, i find anything wrong in that statement
It’s scary to think that most people in the video are dead.
What a great reporter. Wonderful text and choice of words.
Love how the media portrays this. Its covered like we have just discovered fire
I'll never forget the first photo txt i ever sent.
It was a photo of my friend getting arrested for pissing up against a restaurant window whilst people were eating inside!
I was heaving with laughter while he was shouting and yelling and carrying on like a complete tool!
Good times!
Haha
😳
Money well spent on your phone credit for sure 😂
@@CoClock Exactly! Up until then i didn't want to waste the huge amount of credit it cost. But i didn't want my other friends to miss out on such a glorious moment! It was well worth the £1.20 it cost
Gorgeous footage
I remember the texting craze. Dark times. Led many a kid down a dark and scary path. Thankfully we came out of it and can get people the help they need to overcome any impact the texting craze had on them.
From “I send 20 texts a day” to “I scroll TikTok watching brain-numbing videos 10 hours a day”
I’m 23 and grew up with phones, I honestly wish they never existed or at least never advanced to the way they are now.
Oh wow, a Nokia 7650. That was my first colour phone in 2006, it was a hand me down since I was still young but I have fond memories of it.
I loved this era of tech, i was an early adopter and felt like james bond with my abilty to take photos, search the internet on my phone, and more.
Still have that phone, currently picking up dust but a reminder of how it used to be.
I sure love the Nokia 7650 that was the un-sung hero of the piece. It was the first real smart phone, but it only had 3.4mb of storage to download apps and save contacts, bookmarks, mms and every other thing you need in your modern smartphone! It was running s60v1 symbian os 7.0. It could run NES and Sega emulators and even offer an almost full Web experience with the built in browser and ones like opera mini.
*Sam-sung Hero
It had a smaller memory capacity, but atleast it didn't swallow all the memory with background apps that consumed it.
I remember in the mid 2000s getting hold of a Nokia 9210 communicator. Such a gadget! Loved it.
I think the Nokia N95 was my last Nokia. What I liked about this era is that whilst there were hundreds of models to choose from, every one was different.
Today the differences are really quite subtle and these incremental tiny upgrades that arrive each year feel opportunistic and just bore me now.
Phones today are technically amazing, no question, but none of them will ever look as good as an Ericsson T29s or a Nokia 8910.
the 2000s baffle me, a decade so awkwardly wedged between the sub-modernity of the 80-90s and the hyper modernity of post 2014.
I still have my working Ngage and beloved N70
The N95 will forever remain a legendary phone in my heart, honestly!
I guess one positive though about phones being "boring" these days is that there isn't a real need to upgrade them, you can go multiple years with the same one - and I dont know if it's just me getting lazy, or life/the environment changing, but changing phones is more of a pain than a pleasure for me 🤔
Sony Ericsson K800i is my favourite of all time. Lost it in the commuter train 6 years ago, still regret.
Wow this might actually catch on. It's so cool to think we might be able to send pictures to our friends.
I can’t wait for this!!!
To put it slightly into context, this report would have been edited on video *tape* !
No... No it wouldn't. I was editing as a hobbyist on Final Cut Pro 5 only 4 years later. FCP came to the civilian market in 1999, and computer editing had existed years before for mainstream corporations and film.
Why does this entire comment section think 2001 was 1991?
Er.... BBC News was editing on Beta SP up to 2004 when it switched to the non linear Quantel Q-Edit system.
Don't ask me how I *know* .
I'm impressed that this is HD, 1080p, and wide-screen and high quality when it was filmed in 2001
it was FILMed and the film qualitiy is much better than HD
This is not HD, this is widescreen 576i, roughly the same quality as a DVD.
@@Maidaneh Not film. They used a digital camera. Some BBC shows did use 16mm film though.
Then you weren't alive in 2001. Commercial, cheap 1080p camcorders would be at every Walmart in 5 years, and even in 2001, 720p was out for the common man and common.
I think you've watched too many of those "Nostalgic" videos that act like people still shot 3:4 ratio in 2008.
@@Ranstone no, I clearly remember shopping for a camcorder sometime in 2000 or 2001 and HD wasn't a thing then, we got a miniDV camcorder that did 4:3 SD. I don't think I've even seen a wide screen TV at the time. I only started seeing HD stuff in mid 2000s when the Xbox 360 and ps3 were coming out
But I don't live in the US so maybe that's why
Production quality on this segment holds up. Had it not been for the subject, I wouldn’t have known this was 20 years ago
Just a trick. They crop and delete half of image to make it fake "widescreen video" so your brain fooled how "modern this looks". Even usa didnt have widescreen tv before 2006
You would be able to tell from the 4:3 format that has been cropped to 16:9 for youtube haha
@@maxonite yeah why they cropped it
@@maxonite Most of this has not been cropped, BBC News has been broadcasting widescreen since 2000. The rare instances they have 4:3 footage they will crop it for widescreen.
@@marvy3022 Oh, well, I feel like we had 4:3 longer here where i live
I love that this is in HD but they’re going crazy over sending a picture through a camera phone.
A glimpse into the future at the time, one that we are all already living in now.
My first camera phone was the RAZR flip phone sometime around 2003-04. I was 13 at the time. I remember my mother had one that had a little pen that popped out the top and was touch screen. I think it was called palm pilot.
Yes, I remember the Palm Pilot. I also remember when every manager in a corporate job had a company-issued Blackberry. I was never important enough to have one. ☹️
It was probably early 2005. The Razr came out just in time for Christmas 2004. Funny enough, the Razr was my first camera phone too. My sister or one of her friends *_gave_* it to me around 2007. Goes to show how phones obsolesced quickly in that era. Before the Razr I had an Audiovox 8615 or similar (no camera). After the Razr I got my first smartphone, the HTC Wildfire S. Man, early smartphones were mindblowing. My tiny, miserable little Wildfire S could record video in 720p.
SMS MMS free weekend calls and 1 megapixel videos 😂 oh the 2000s ❤❤❤
I remember my first car in Sydney with the caption at the bottom of the number plate "Towards 2000". 2000 will always remain the future for my generation =)
I remember buying a cameraphone when they first became available - I bought myself a Sony Ericsson T610 in 2003, think it had a 0.1 megapixel camera or something ridiculously low. Hard to believe that it was less than 20 years ago.
Early on for the phones to be able to send receive SMS messages the phones needed to be on the same network.
Wow yea had almost forgotten about this 😅
I remember seeing this live, I was 11 at the time and wow, I'm 3 times older and watching it from my smartphone.
I remember when text came out I even remember the 3 way messenger I am amazed how far it went
Reminds me of my own hillarious story. The telephone system in our city didn’t show the incoming phone number, so we wouldn’t know who it was until we picked them up. Being a kid, I used to make prank calls all the time.
My fun game stepped up when the telephones in some towns (including mine) started to show the number. I would pick up the call, say my friend's name and they would go batshit crazy. Good old times.
I remember when caller id spoofing was first becoming a problem and I wasn't having much luck getting my mom to understand not to trust what caller id said. I went in the other room, spoofed my brothers phone number and called her. She answered the phone excited because she hadn't heard from him in a while. I'm not sure she ever did understand it.
That's ok, miss not tech savvy was Texting for almost a year before I found out I didn't have to call.