https://feddit.org/u/NichEherVielleicht posted on Mar 7, 2026 18:22
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Jesus fuck spoilers dude
Oh jeez, he died only four years after the show ended!
Oh my god that gag frustrated me
I remember the final episode where the whole cast came out for a bow and Wilson came out with a small, handheld fence to hide his face š¤£
He removed it before taking his bow.
How dare you! That ruins the mystery! ššš
Nah, remember the final episode when he came out and showed everyone in the audience his face? It was something else, lemme tell you.
So much chin!
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The show ran from 1991-1999.
The internet went public in 1992.
imdb was on the internet in 1993.
Other search engines existed before Google. So while itās true nobody could google anything before 1998, it was possible to google the actor before the show ended its series.
I feel like I saw him in the newspaper and didnāt need to, but Iām pretty sure you already could look up actors back then
The Internet in the 90s was mostly text based. Do you know how long it took to view an image of considerable quality? I sure as hell would not have wasted my time (which was also limited because you paidby the minute) to look up this guy.
Yeah. We had the option to look him up (I used dogpile.com, myself). We just didnāt want to look it up. We didnāt have the annoying need to try and ruin everything by looking it up on the internet.
How dare he.
Iām intimately familiar with waiting for interlaced 4 colour gif images to load at 1200 bps.
Speak for yourself. lol
I grew up spending time reading encyclopedias for fun, but also doing reports by going to the library and seeking out likely sources in the card catalogue. Being able to access information online was revolutionary.
Iāve never looked back.
I donāt know about millennials but we Gen-Xers definitely couldnāt Google shit back then. The most we could do is go to a payphone and page someone because half of everybody had beepers for some reason.
Likenany millennials would willingly watch that show. eeeeeerrrruuuuuogh
Iām right slam in the middle of the millennials; I first heard of google in 8th grade.
I donāt recall IMDB being particularly good with TV shows until the 2010ās, though.
Wow you were and early adopter. I remember my first modem being 14.4k and I was the first along the people I knew at the time. It was an external modem that plugged in the parallel port.
I ran a BBS back then too.
alt.tv.homeimprovement probably was not that active
Canonically, he played the same character in Cast Away [2000].
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/dbc021a4-d222-4bbc-9d28-d5d162e5055e.jpeg
I never needed to google his look to know he was wise.
Oh hai
modem that plugged in the parallel port.
Since thatās so wildly unlikely, what was the model?
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I donāt think you recall how much of a heartthrob JTT was. He was huge.
It wasnāt GenX, and hopefully wasnāt Boomers, that were fawning over him.
Iāve run into a few of these at work in recent years actually. This is a 56k modem but given 14.4k is even slower, it is very likely.
US Robotics 1 020 0439-00 80-010955-01 56Kbps Courier Everything External Modem https://share.google/sonEV4wqjG1suyQB5
It was merely one example. Iām sure that was the only site anyone could use to look up what actors looked like.
No way I remember that, tried google image and couldnāt find it but dound a lot of similar products.
With some wild ascii art I hope.
and i refuse to look into it for keyfabe reasons
I remember the cast being at an awards show or something back when the show was at its peak popularity, and to continue the gag this guy wore a mask over the bottom half of his face that was a tiny fence made out of popsicle sticks so that people still wouldnāt know what he looked like.
Correct, and I still donāt know what this fine fellow looks like.
There was a brief moment when his mouth was slightly visible through a gap and that excited me more than any fanservice (not true, but you knowā¦)
Thatās the same guy?!?
Absolutely
thatās David Lynch
Because the internet didnāt exist in the 90ās. /s
Search engines did not work that great back then and without imdb or wikipedia, there was`t concentrated places to see headshots of people that did something interesting.
I remember hearing or reading that he used to walk around the studio with a little fence on a stick for the same reason.
Different guy who would also hide his face, on a different show too.
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Couldnāt open that, but web searches say rs232. Serial, not parallel, just like essentially all external modems.
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People may be confusing the connector type, the horrendous 25 pin DB thing, with the protocol.
before google & wikipedia we used the CIA factbook and Ask Jeeves š
That would put you around ~87, and 14 years old in 2001. Google came out in late 1998 I think. So it really isnāt all that hard to believe there was slow adoption in some areas, and 3 years Iām not even sure if Iād call it slow when it comes to school systems and such. In that time period schools were just acquiring computers and setting up labs/figuring out how to introduce them into curriculums. They knew typing was going to be needed for all of the students but most didnāt have the budgets to bring about all the changes they wanted. I think I had 2 or 3 essays in 1998 that we were brought to the lab of about 15 computers and had to type and print them out to turn in. They had 1 lab they set up and they rotated half the class went in the morning, half in the afternoon. Then they rotated which class/grade needed had access to make sure everyone grade 3-5 had access a couple times a year.
I was born in 89, so a couple years behind you. By the time we got to middle school though we had a required typing course with those black covers over the keyboards to force all the kids to type without looking. Think that was 6th grade for me
I fixed the link. I hate that my phone browser defaults to the stupid Google analytic links. Need to find out if thereās a seeing to turn it off.
I am an ā87 model, class of 2005, 8th grade was 2000-2001 for me. 8th grade for me was the only year I did at a brand new middle school; the school was for 6-8 and it opened my 8th grade year. They made a big thing about computers, and we all got at least some training in MS Works. Yeah. I took an elective class instead of like, Spanish or something that was more training in formatting shit like memosā¦Iāve never written a āmemoā in my fucking life, memos were repealed when I was in college, you use email or teams or something now. And I took a course my freshman year of high school about the same thing.
I swear there were like 5 kinds of memos that were formatted differently we were supposed to know the differences between. That class was like British table manners. āIf the starter course includes a meat dish, hold your starter fork without using your thumb or smallest finger, while crossing your ankles with your left in front of right on most days and right in front of left on Tuesdays and the Queenās birthday.ā āFor an inter-departmental memo, single space and hanging intent, with the address of the company left justified and the contact information of the memoās originator right justified. But for an intra-department memoā¦ā Thatās where I was on 9ā11, in that classroom. I didnāt learn much about typing in there, I learned how to type on MSN messenger hitting on girls.
Fotos were rare, and it took forever to download them
Read his name in the credits then look him up in the library.
Though I doubt that would work for this.
Oh baby.
