Bryant Gumbel (in 1994): ‘What is the Internet anyway?’

This two-minute video from 1994 is pretty amusing — for the conversation and Couric’s hair. Watch.

Did you know about the Internet in 1994? Hosts of NBC’s “Today Show” — including Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric — had heard of it, but they were pretty clueless about how it worked. A video of them discussing it was unearthed on YouTube, during which Gumbel says, “What is the Internet anyway?”

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