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- Diane-Louise Jordan takes a trip on the information superhighway, to explore some of the delights of the newfangled internet. She visits a London cyber cafe, where she does a little web surfing and sends an email to the President of the United States, Bill Clinton.
Then it's on to Sulgrave House - the home of the BBC Networking Club - to build a Blue Peter website.
Originally broadcast 16 March, 1995.
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The only thing that hasn’t dated is how COOL Massive Attack’s Unfinished Sympathy is👏👏
Remember seeing this episode as a 12yr old. Don’t think I actually got to really use a computer that was on the internet for another 4yrs…I was in Somerset though 🤣
I don't think I went online until the very early 2000s. I had a few school friends who went to internet cafes in the mid/late 90s, but it never appealed to me.
Tractors are better than the Internet. Change my mind lol
I'm 64 and not even being peripherally connected to IT I like many others was guilty of being asleep at the wheel as it exploded around me, not realising or caring about its significance( because right up to the 1990s I thought of computers and IT as a niche interest of young people and nerds). I came within a whisker of being left behind.
@@danyoutube7491 I remember going to the Yeovil library and trying to go ‘surf the net’. I couldn’t think of anything to look up and I don’t think I could understand the keyboard buttons. It was all a bit confusing!
And absolutely classic piece of music.
It would blow those kids mind, to think that in 27 years time they’d be watching a video of themselves, in that programme, on a mobile phone.
No, they wouldn't be mind-blown at all. I was a kid then and that sort of development was the least we were expecting 27 years in the future. We'd been exposed to basically that exact stuff already for a good decade or two from film and tv. What we have now in fact seems hardly any different to be honest, apart from everyone being constantly addicted to staring at phones, obsessed with themselves and believing endless right-wing and other propaganda they get fed on the internet. Technological advancements seemed to basically plateau or even get stifled as big business rapidly took over and all the focus on change in society was shifted and co-opted into nothing but endless social media applications, data stealing, disinformation and weird ego politics.
1970-2000 saw vast changes and advancements in a mere 30 years. In '95 we were expecting after another 30 years to have hover cars and school trips to space, mate. Ask any proper 80s-90s kid and they'll confirm how thoroughly disenchanted we are with technology and what it's being used for to make society a more and more confused, stressed, harsh and unfriendly place to live.
@@AD-kv9kj Mate, I am an 80's kid. I certainly wouldn't say "what we have now in fact seems hardly any different".
Watching online videos on a mobile phone was possible less than 10 years after that episode aired
@@Pasi123 barely! In 2005 they were feature phones, and just about able to play short clips (certainly not UA-cam). I remember the first time I saw video on a phone and being pretty amazed tbh.
@@a1white In 2005 there was already many smartphones running Symbian, Windows Mobile etc. that were capable of playing UA-cam. I first watched UA-cam on a phone in around 2010-2011 and that was on smartphones from around 2004-2006 (Nokia 6630, Nokia N93, Nokia 9300i)
Rumours have it that this will be coming to the Isle of Wight next year. Can't wait.
Won’t you have to have that new-fangled electricity thingy first?
@@AtheistOrphan At great expense the local electricity board bought a new donkey from Matey Hibberd to power the old water mill. However a lot of people don't trust this electrickery , they thinks it's the work of the devil.
What about the steam engine?
@@sammyali6za is that the iron horse I have been hearing about?
Think you'd need to get used to telegraphs first
I always used to go onto the Internet to get away from people, around 1998 onwards....
Now, I stay off the Internet to get away from people.
How times change.
Till now still the same. I go onto the Internet to get away from people
You still can. You have control over where and what you visit.
@@corneliussmiff2773 #2055
The #internet?????
Who knows
I won't
I started using the internet actively in year 2001 when I resumed my first job. 3 to 4 years before then, I used to go to cyber cafes to use the internet. Nostalgic feeling
This was such an exciting time to be a kid.the Internet was this brand new thing to explore, games were going 3d, we had crazy movies like Toy Story using cgi. It felt like we were living in the future. Crazy how quickly we came to take it all for granted!
My experience of dial-up Internet at home was often frustrating because of its slowness and random disconnections but along with all computer stuff in the 2000s, it evokes fond memories for me.
Not only that it was very expensive. I can remember out first telephone bill after we got connected, it was about 5 times more than normal! After that it was a question of finding out what you needed to know, then getting off line ASAP.
@@CamcorderSteve Wasn't so bad a few years later, could still be slow, but you then had monthly fees instead depending on the provider, BT continued to charge for usage for at least ten years after that, avoided them like the plague.
Cable and Wireless, later named NTL, then Virgin Media for me for many years, I would still be with them if their customer service wasn't so bad, especially to long term customers.
I never experienced the frustration of slow internet, it didn't bother me, in 1994 I was just happy to be using it at Uni. Couldn't get enough of it no matter how slow it might seem today.
@@CamcorderSteve --- It wasn't that expensive if you had something like Demon Internet, where you called a low rate or even free line in London and paid a subscription to Demon monthly.
Same
Those PC speakers are the most 90’s thing that I’ve seen in a while.
Yeah they are lol
Ironically Amazon sells a version similar to these.
Diane-Louise Jordan's awkward with the kids is brilliantly out of its time here; 4:53
Little girl; 'We've been to Hiawaii. Not literally.'
DLJ; 'Yeah I know.'
This clip is older than I am, but it's so nice to be able to have a glimpse into the early days of the world wide web. This video feels like it's from 15 years ago at most, yet it's from nearly 30 years ago. Technology is pure madness, but I love the simplicity of computers from back in the 90's and early 00's. Take me back!
To an old fart like me (pushing 60), 1995 seems like 5 - 10 years ago.
I was living through probably the best time ive ever had in the mid 90's, late teens, early 20's. knew a couple of people that had internet then, it took me until 2003 to get it though.. and as youve said, it doesnt feel like nearly 30 years ago, 10 at the most, i'm doing ok now but i'd go back to that time in an instant.
I was 16 then and no one new or even comprehended what the internet was.
Agreed
@@AtheistOrphan you said that earlier
Love this video for the use of Massive Attack alone. What a banger
I miss the internet before it became main stream and popular. It seemed so much more fun and exciting and the websites that got created and made famous by word of mouth, IRC, email chains were always interesting, great or just shocking. It feels like now the internet has become a few main sites controlling it all and its getting harder and harder to find anything outside that.
There are plenty of old style forums alive and well.
@@firstname8873 Cheers. I still actually use a couple that are still alive from 15-20 years ago. Most I used to enjoy are gone now.
I was speaking more about niche type websites. To give an example, once upon a time if you wanted to search a show, singer, band, group, etc in Yahoo or even Google, you would find heaps of fan made sites, most very basic, but they all offered real personality and because they all had different owners, you got different view points, thoughts and content.
Now when you try similar searches you get the big main websites and news articles for the most part.
web is mainstream. maybe you mean gopher, usenet?
It was great till the smartphone
There is 4Chan
It seemed smart back then. Now it's used for Tik Toc, Facebook and Twitter.
I used to work for Easynet, Cyberia’s sister company and Internet provider. The main ‘machine room’ was a cupboard in the corner of Cyberia. On a given day there was a reasonable chance you’d see me crashing through the grey double doors and running into the cupboard because some crappy bit of hardware decided to do one. Oh or the air con failed, or the interruptible power supply decided to have a sit down… ah happy days..
Where was it? Looks a bit trendy.
@@markmooch 39 Whitfield St, London. Not especially trendy area, very close to Tottenham Court Road.
Were you an engineer?
@@ezgoing4260 I started my career as a tech support agent, but after a couple of years I was a network engineer looking after the access network (dial up/ISDN and leased line access). I was also occasionally on call for the other systems.
I came from the future to destroy SkyNet before it became self-aware and realised humanity was a threat to its existence
The internet not existing was a completely normal thing and no ones life was any the worse for it.
I was about 13 when this video came out. Back then only my cool friends had the internet. I asked my mum if we could get it but she said it was a fad. 😂
Absolutely hilarious. 😂
@@tgs1766 I know, it really was back in the day. 😂
Yeah, I used to hear that a lot too. People were still saying it was a fad right up until the millennium, but which time they really should have known better!
The dotcom bubble bursting in 2000 only seemed to confirm to some that it was all over for the internet, and some newspapers and channels even chimed in on that. But of course that was a really stupid opinion in hindsight. A load of online businesses may have crumbled but the WWW itself just kept on growing like the ravenous beast it is!
@@CountScarlioni kinda ridiculous concidering the amount of money we where putting on our parents telephone bills
i was 13 too and nobody talked about the internet at school. It was as if it didnt exist at all. I dont think i was even aware of it
To an old fart like me, 1995 seems about five years ago.
OK grandpa time to put you in the home
@@lumpylumpyloo - OK I’ll just find my Zimmer frame. And can you speak up? My hearing’s not what it used to be.
@@lumpylumpyloo Young people should be seen, but not heard,
Granny...
@@clavichord yeah cuz old ppl have done the world justice? Yeah I'd all old ppl who are in charge and look where we are at today.
I was turning 20 in 1995. I remember going to internet cafes when on vacation to send emails
I immediately think of Jen from the IT Crowd as I watch this!
Acorn. A pioneer of its time and we wouldn’t be where we are now without them. Miss that little nut device 😢
Quick glimpse of Tim Vincent surfing the dark web looking for a local dealer.
You mean Richard bacon I think
1995 was a good year, so glad I was born and experienced life before social media.
The weird thing is, the internet still feels like a new thing to me, despite how long it's been around. I first used it in 1996 at university, which seems five minutes ago. I recall, when later working, crowding round the BBC News page watching a buffering and flaky video of 9/11 as it happened. Yet of course, there's grown ups walking the earth, for whom all this has been there since before their birth.
I was thinking something similar just the other day. I was born about 1980, first got a modem in the house in '84, first went on BBSs myself in early '94, used the Web for some minutes for school in dad's colleague's office in February '95, used it daily at work in summer '96, got dialup at home in '99: I've been using it almost every single day for more than half my life-and not only does it still feel new to me, but also that "more than half" fact strikes me as rather sad. I've been Googling since early 2000: only 20 years without Google in my life, and almost 23 with it-it's a blessing, but also sad.
At least UA-cam is still a minor. It won't be 18 until 2023.
Speaking of 9/11: I saved several screenshots that week, some on that day. There was so much traffic that many of the pictures at the BBC news site were just blank placeholders.
The novelty wore off after about 6 months for me lol
Maybe we should try to define what we mean by "new" in this context. I'll think about it.
Dialling attempt 1 of 5. Connecting.... Connected at 4.61 KB/Sec. Downloading 180 MB. Estimated time left: 39 years. We owe a lot to dial up, having first got us online in 1989.
Connection speed was usually displayed in bit/s. 4.61 KB/Sec download speed is about 38000 bit/s. More than 33600, which is nice.
I was still using my Amiga at this stage... I hadn't even moved to PC... The internet didn't really interest me that much beyond being curiosity. But, then the mid 90s were all music, clubs, and a bit of blur if I am to be honest. I would eventually get online at home in '99 with Everquest. Things were coming along nicely by then, though we still had to pay 99p an hour via our 56k modem to use it!
This is one of several reasons why the Internet took off faster in the U.S. than in the U.K. In America, by the time people were wanting to get online at home, unlimited local calls had been included for decades in the price of simply having a telephone line. AOL had much success sending out unsolicited CD-ROMs offering a free month or two of unlimited hours online-which wouldn't have worked nearly as well if users had had to pay the phone company for every minute of using the line.
Party drugs and late night gaming. The bread and butter of the '90s.
I actually missed this episode of Blue Peter because I had just started work as a software developer. Windows 95 had just come out, The Playstation(1) had just been released. The world was a better place.
That's the trick the devil plays right. He comes as an angel of light. Then down the line years later, we realise it was all one big trap
@@SwazersCVery few people will know that you are absolutely right
3:47 - ‘Warming up the lamp’. Love it!
Those kids are going on 40 years old.
Yes we are!
I wish we still said “surf the net”
You can say it if you wish too, it's not illegal lol
What do people say today?
@@graybow2255 There is no real replacement term because it really isn't something that's done to the same extent. The web today is not what it once was, but is more like TV in that it's a small selection of centralized platforms. There are not vast, independent places of information, art, discussion etc to stumble through and like there once was, so "surfing the net" really doesn't describe it. You would be more likely to say "I'm going to check my Twitter feed" or "I'm just gonna watch some UA-cam". That's sadly what capitalism does eventually to every innovative platform, everything eventually becomes a service, even if it's free to the end user, and monopolies are formed.
Go ahead and re introduce it
@@davidb4165 It's all still there, we just choose to use the internet differently. If there really is something you want but you can't find it, build a website.
Lol that kid said it feels like you’ve got the world at your finger tips 😂 that’s me right now using my iPad
The entire idea of a so-called "cybercafe" feels so antiquated nowadays, since the internet is an omnipresent thing that powers almost everything nowadays, and our smartphones are essentially tiny computers that we take anywhere anytime, in addition to just using a laptop in an actual coffee shop like I do for work all the time.
My primary school's website would have been made in the early 00s and not remade. There was a section of the website to allow comments, all unverified and would appear immediately. Someone posted some horrible (for a 7YO) stuff and signed it as someone else (the someone else was Banele "ban-ee-lee" who was a horrible child, and we soon found out calling him Banana pissed him off a huge amount. If anyone knew who had done it they had no incentive to say). However the style of writing was completely wrong, the only person who has worse spelling than him was me, and the comment had all correct spelling and grammar.
The IT technician (someone's mum who didn't work professionally in computing, just knew some things) mentioned that they could track the IP and find out who had done it. None of us knew that she didn't have the resources to identify who exactly, and none of the means to contact ISPs to find out who posted a comment. However this freaked out the kid who had done it and they confessed because they didn't want to be caught (the kid had been bullied by Banana and teachers had never punished him, so he did that to get him punished for something, but they got punished and Banana never did).
I invented for my personal use a box measuring 1.5 feet by 1 foot. I drew a cinema inside and put a magnifying glass in front and put a cell phone in the back as a screen . I watch simi -3D movies sensation with a cinema feel.
I’m honestly really excited to see where this internets thing goes, seems very promising..
It'll pass. How on earth are you supposed to make money from it?
Oh the iceberg 😢
We even paid 2$ per hour to use Internet in Pakistan back in year 1999 for the slowest speed of 56kbps modem downloading speed of maximum 7kbps.....Haha, yet it was like the addiction of staying online all the time.
WWW is a short for World Wide Web? I am a 2000’s child, now it makes so much sense. 22 years never realized that.
Yes. The World Wide Web is only one part of the Internet. Email protocols are another part. File Transfer Protocol is another. The "www" in a URL distinguishes that address from similar ones used for other purposes, such as FTP.
I was 8 in 1995 and I remember being so excited by those big grey boxy computers. By the time I got to secondary school in 1998, the internet was pretty common.
Totally! I'm the same as you and I remember that also. Primary we had one computer lol, but by the time I got to year 9 at secondary school, there was a classroom of computer for IT studies.
1:22 That slow jpeg reveal is *so* evocative.
The future was going to be awesome!
I literally remember seeing this clip whilst I was eating my tea after school age 8 just before going to play out.
I still remember to this day typing in my first address into a web browser in 1996 at my local library. GREAT TIMES
4:52
Diane "I've been to Hawaii"
Smartass kid "Not literally"
Diane: "Yeah I know"
Oof😂
I remember getting online in 1996 using Demon Internet. I think the kids of today would be shocked learning how we had to keep track of time as we got disconnected every hour and had to redial again. Using it at night was cheaper for the phone call as well :D
Then freeserve came along!
@@garyl4533 Freeserve was a godsend!
Anyone remember Newsgroups?
I was 16 in 1995. Was one of the best years of my life
I can’t remember to much about it 😬
Good times!
I was 9. There was one computer in the entire school stored in a giant cabinet and we only got to use it about once a month.
I was 39 ........
I was born 🤣
Kids today think they're clued up about computers, but their parents were there at the beginning and had to use actual computers, solve problems with them, troubleshoot and install software by hand. We forget how nowadays everything is so automated and have the expectations that things "should just work". So much of how a computer works is now hidden behind a UI or in an app that people almost forget they are using computers.
In other words: up till the 90s you had to be a computer nerd to use one regularly.
This was 7 years before I got a dial up connection at home!
Me too!
It's amazing to see how we connect to the internet has evolved over the decades too. Here in the UK at least, first it was dial-up (or if you're really old - an 'acoustic coupler'), then broadband was edging its way in, in the late 90s early 00s, but that was only really available if you lived near a phone exchange in a town of city. Even if you could get BB it was prohibitly expensive, but worth it since you could go online AND be able to make phone calls at the same time! Maybe once 3G or even 4G mobile phone technology evolved we could access the internet wirelessly on our phones. In fact, it's only been in the last few years that I got a 4G Router for my parents who lived rurally, because a copper phone line connection out in the sticks was as much use as a chocolate teapot. Paying through the nose for expensive BB and getting sloth speeds in return? No thank you! Moved them over to a 4G Router for internet access and they have never looked back.
Now we have fibre ever increasingly making it's way to our suburban homes, either FTTC or FTTH. We also have reliable satellite internet thanks to things like Starlink becoming more popular, but it's still very expensive.
How we connect to the internet has changed so much since its early days 35 years ago, it will be interesting to see how we will connect in the future decades to come.
Apparently Cyberia Internet Cafe (39 Whitfield Street, London) is now occupied by a French restaurant named Noizè. Whether it offers the opportunity to surf the Net is not certain.
It might do if it has free wi-fi!
I absolutely LOVED her in blue Peter!! She was soooo good
She was annoying. One of the worst presenters .
Crazy to think the kids in this video, some of them probably have kids of their own as old as they were in the video now 😳
I was about 10 years old, and remember those computers. I think our Primary School at the time, had just started to integrate the internet, I remember 1 of them having internet then slowly the other 3-4 computers started to get on the net. But didn't really use the net properly probably till 1996-1997 when I got into secondary school.
I was 15 in 1995 and I remember this episode lol
I knew Dianne a little when I lived in London. Nice to see her here
¡Qué nostalgia de mis primeras conexiones de Internet hace más de 20 años en el colegio! Saludos y Bendiciones desde Chile.
Now we can commit a hate crime while sat on the lavvy. Now that’s progress.
It makes me wonder now -
Is Cyberia Cafe still open?
Used the internet for the first time as a 16 yr old in 1996. Remember how basic, slow and cumbersome it was. Very limited information too. Only around 2000-01 when I was at uni did it become recognizable in its current form. Remember doing research using it 1998-99 time and just finding it a waste of time and frustrating. Happy to have grown up in an analogue generation like those kids in the vid though. I don’t envy digital natives because it’s not clear if the internet is a net benefit for them.
I was 9 when this aired. And I’m from England. I remember everything you see. This was my childhood! Coventry is only about 15 miles from where I grew up. Mad seeing this. Like going back in time!
Also never realised just how young Tim was. He seemed like a proper adult to me. Now in my mid-late thirties he seems so young!
Same
I remember watching this! 'information super highway' is a great term. I left high school in 2002 having never had an IT lesson (no working computers at the school) but my parents worked for BT so I had a laptop with an internet connection and I spent all my free time in a Buffy the Vampire Slayer chatroom and making websites on Geocities
Geocities 😍😍😍
I wish we could still surf down the information superhighway to the world wide web.
6:24 That Blue Peter home page has gone hiding 😥, but I discovered the Blue Peter logo was designed by Tony Hart! 😄⛵
The Warping Poster 2:00 is fun as a former OS/2 user. :D
Please don't say the information super Highway, oh, too late
"So what are you going to do now?"
"Planets. But after the TV crew have gone I'm going to play deathmatch Doom for three hours straight." 4:30
I miss this era as many graphics as possible and just the enormous enthusiasm at anything also playing pretty random music
I first heard of the internet around this time but it took another three years until I used it - until then I spent many hours with those free AOL CDs installing it all but failing to load any pages, not understanding I needed a modem.
Watching this I'm reminded yet again about the astonishing speed at which personal IT and communication accelerated over only a couple of decades between,1990 and 2010: from having to sit down to use clunky state of the art dial-up with fuzzy screens to the first Apple and Android smartphones in your pocket.
So you would understand how some of us are watching blockchain tech , Web 3.0 and VR and AR 👍 it’s just early days
@@noompsieOG Over my head ...
@@phillipecook3227 yeah that’s ok 👍 it’s still early for the new tech coming out. You should look into it it’s pretty awesome
In 1995 we didn't have a computer at home but I would go to my Mom's office to use theirs. I loved to download desktop pets, which were animated animals walking around or chasing your cursor. A colleague of my Mom would play Age of Empire and Tomb Raider.
I first used the Internet in 2007, when I was twenty-seven!
Marvellous! Thank you, BBC Archive!
something ive wondered, when did we actually get home internet? i know, or think i know, it was the early 90's but not sure on the exact year, i didnt get it until 2003, although i used it in college sometimes.
the whole information superhighway never took off.
Gosh, I remember first seeing an email address on Newsround and wondering what it was. Though internet pages do take me back though 😊
Massive Attack went to the 90s from the future.
5:00 Imagine telling this kids that in few decades they could download an Artificial Intelligence app on their (Mobile) phones that generates coherent and artistic images by understanding the text you're typing in
We had one computer at school which was connected to the internet in 1996. It was kept in a special room by itself and we queued up to use it under supervision by Mr. Wilson at lunchtime. The girls were only allowed to watch it, not touch it because Mr. Wilson said it wasn't appropriate for women to be on the internet. Mind-boggling looking back on it now.
Its mad im watching this on my phone without no cable to a phone line!!!
Proud be a part Generation X
6:04 - And later she went on to set up IMDb AND Discogs!
4:03...I remember using Acorn computers back at school in the 90s.....we heard about internet back then but only the geek nerds in the class showed any interest....the most interesting thing i saw was microsoft Encarta.......really blows my mind how much has changed since this program 👍
The internet will never take off
When schools just had the one computer
You were lucky. In my school in Ireland we got a cardboard cutout shape thing. The Headmaster walked it around to each classroom to show us; 'This is what a one looks like''. The assistant Head towed a big cardboard box with PRINTER written on it))
I need to get in on that Information Super Highway thing, sounds like it may become big.
I try to recall the first time I became aware of the Internet and I have no memory of it. I remember the library at my college in 1995 had only 1 pc with Internet but it was always being used. When I went into higher education at 18 years old in 1996 was the first time I used the Internet or email and got dialup at home. I find it fascinating that I might have even seen articles like this one at the time. What else is happening even now that is not making an obvious impact on me but in the future, I will wonder how I missed it
Oh look, Bill Clinton got stuck in an endless loop for comedy effect 😗🧐🙃
Something got stuck in he’s zip
Monica kept playing with his Joystick 🕹️
@@lioncurlew probably put it in 5th gear
@@garryleeks4848 lol
this video scares me. time is so strange. 1995 and i was born in 2001 this video was already 6 years old yet it look recognisable to me as say 2005. in that time however of 10 years it looks like not much has changed. but this video was 5 years after the 80s but there are many things in this video that look IDENTICAL to now yet this was before mobile phones became super computers and after the worry of "credit" on your phones, we have touch screen built into our cars, virtual reality headsets, the ability to render billions of polygons in real time and able to stream movies, music and video games straight to any connected device.
its so creepy how the future works, itll look the same but function so differently
I love watching videos like this. Wasn’t even born but I find it so funny how much has changed. I remember being in school in 2008 using one of those bulky white computers (probably from early 00’s or late 90’s). Good times.
Yeah, those lonnnnng years of grey-cream tyranny! It had been accepted that it was the unchallenged colour of a _serious_ computer system since late 1970s. Nobody really challenged that trend much until the early 2000s. I think it was because during that time the PC market was always laser focused on the business market, who liked uniformity in the appearance of their equipment so if a computer was made in a funky colour (basically any colour that wasn't grey-cream) then businesses wouldn't want them.
I'm glad we finally got away from that!
"we've been to Hawaii."
"ooo 'I've been to Hawaii.' it sounds so international."
"not literally."
"yeah, I know."
One thing that hasn't changed is presenters turning to look into the camera while driving. It's still done nowadays which surprises me because it's dangerous, illegal and totally unnecessary.
How far we have progressed since then.
I still remember Internet is where it's information wild west instead of another MSM
1995 seems not so long ago.
Netscape {best browser ever} was the internet browser and then followed Microsoft Internet Explorer.
oof, those slow prehistoric internet load times and simplistic websites. nostalgic yes, but im so glad we are at the download speeds we are today.
you spent a long time online back then not because there was so much to look at, but because it took so long to load up the first thing you decided to click on. and then the infamous popups.....was a sure fire warning you likely just got a virus on your computer.
Computers surprisingly were one of the few technologies media and people (mostly) got right. Especially about the internet and how computers would integrate in our daily lives...Flying cars? Not so much :)
But can you make a computer out of a cereal box and some sticky-backed-plastic?
A blue Peter badge is coming your way, a nice shiny one 👍
Here’s one I made earlier…
4:54 child - iv been to hawaii, not literally.
Presenter - yeah i know.
internet is just a fad
Agree, it will never catch on
@@elektrolucas it's caught on too well with some people, they seem unable to function without it lol
Seems Rob you function without it as well seeing you replied on here.
@@daz69phillips if you regard replying on social media as an Important function then you have problems my friend!
Ok granddad.
Fibre optics? Yeah finally got decent fibre in 2022.
I was 11 years old and I remember my mother calling it a fad that won't last. My or my how times have changed.
Local legend Tim Vincent, sporting the most nineties of hair cuts ever!
4:06 - ‘If you’ve got a computer in your school it’s likely to be one of these’ - An Acorn, wow. My school computer was a Commodore PET.
My school had a BBC micro. Fond memories of Granny's garden on that beast.
Those PETs are expensive these days. They were an iconic design really and i'd love one on my shelf.
I think she just meant a big box-like piece of rubbish
@@chromatophore881 - So would I! Would make a fantastic object d’art.
I wasn't even born when this episode was board casted still I am being able to watch it on the "INTERNET". Neat.
I wonder how 😬 those kids will be seeing themselves now
6:27 What web browser is that? It's not Mosaic, Netscape, nor IE.