The ARPANET did n’t make its first master of ceremonies - to - host connection until 1969 . But long before anyone was online , communications company were trying to figure out how to make interactive home shopping a realness . This short 1961 film from Bell Systems ( now AT&T ) showcases the futurist tech that they were imagining — include a way to shop for wearing apparel by videophone .
One of the most fun things about studying past visions of the future is descend across strange uses for technology that are commonplace today . This film showed primitive human body of swiftness dialing , pagers , and , yes , even online shopping . But as you ’d expect , it does n’t attend like the kind of online shopping we have here in 2015 . In fact , it looks moderately cumbersome .
pass over before to 10:40 if you only require to see the videophone shopping part . But the integral video is deserving a look .
Much like other predictions for distant shopping fromthe 1980sor eventhe thirties , it seems comparatively ineffective . Which take in sense , leave the full stop - to - point vision that companies like Bell Systems had for communication . We catch both videophones and online shopping in our 21st century future , but neither looked the direction we imagined in 1961 .
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