Blue Peter discovers the Internet (1995) [video]
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Re: Blue Peter discovers the Internet (1995) [video]
#2As history would have it, blue peter would have loved the 2022 MAP friendly internet.
Re: Blue Peter discovers the Internet (1995) [video]
#3As history would have it, blue peter would have loved the 2022 MAP friendly internet.
"MAP"?
Re: Blue Peter discovers the Internet (1995) [video]
#4Little period details:
- strobing CRT monitors that don't line up with the frequency of the TV camera
- PCs in the internet cafe, Macs in media, Acorn Archimedes (with ARM processor!) in schools
- first thing to do with the global communications network is send a dumb message to the US President
- indexed-color images; you can see in one case when she changes windows and the colours go wrong in the background as the palette is swapped.
- very early HTML without even a DOCTYPE
- "all secondary schools are to be linked to the internet by the end of the year" (I would put money on that not having happened for several more years)
Re: Blue Peter discovers the Internet (1995) [video]
#5For people who weren’t kids in the UK, Blue Peter is a very long running weekly BBC TV programme aimed at kids. Common tropes include the studio pet(s) and garden, charity events, and the Blue Peter badge that you got for sending in a letter with a tip or other challenges (and which qualified you for various discounts at venues around the UK).
Re: Blue Peter discovers the Internet (1995) [video]
#6For people who weren’t kids in the UK, Blue Peter is a very long running weekly BBC TV programme aimed at kids. Common tropes include the studio pet(s) and garden, charity events, and the Blue Peter badge that you got for sending in a letter with a tip or other challenges (and which qualified you for various discounts at venues around the UK). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peter
> very long running
Since 1958 and over 5,000 episodes!
(so much of classic UK TV is either "has been broadcasting since the dawn of television in a largely unchanged format" or the other extreme of "we only ever made six episodes back in the 1970s and they are etched across everyone's childhood")
Re: Blue Peter discovers the Internet (1995) [video]
#7For people who weren’t kids in the UK, Blue Peter is a very long running weekly BBC TV programme aimed at kids. Common tropes include the studio pet(s) and garden, charity events, and the Blue Peter badge that you got for sending in a letter with a tip or other challenges (and which qualified you for various discounts at venues around the UK). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peter
Yes! One of my prized possessions is that badge and letter from Biddy Baxter.
Re: Blue Peter discovers the Internet (1995) [video]
#8This must be some kind of fake history, where are all the ads on the web sites? Where are the pages jumping around as the browser reflows the content? Why are there no auto playing videos? Next you will be telling me nobody used their real names on the Internet in those days. Definitely fake.
Re: Blue Peter discovers the Internet (1995) [video]
#9For people who weren’t kids in the UK, Blue Peter is a very long running weekly BBC TV programme aimed at kids. Common tropes include the studio pet(s) and garden, charity events, and the Blue Peter badge that you got for sending in a letter with a tip or other challenges (and which qualified you for various discounts at venues around the UK). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peter
Yes! One of my prized possessions is that badge and letter from Biddy Baxter.
I’ve got my badge somewhere, but no idea what happened to the reply. Guess it would have been Yvette Fielding era? (I sent in a way to recycle used christmas cards into decorative balls for the next year’s celebrations, which in retrospect seems almost tailored for the acquisition of a badge.)
Re: Blue Peter discovers the Internet (1995) [video]
#10I was watching a video of the BBC show Micro Live explaining how email works...in 1986! And it was done live.