Interesting to see broadcast video from 27 years ago preserved in such high quality. The BBC has spent a lot of money to preserve pretty much everything it has broadcast in the last 30 years.
Blue Peter discovers the Internet (1995) [video]
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Re: Blue Peter discovers the Internet (1995) [video]
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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")
It blew my mind when, as an adult, I learned that there were only 15 episodes of Mr Bean (with one of those being a "Best Bits of Mr Bean" episode!).
WAT
W and I cannot stress this enough AT?!!!!!!
We had multiple re-runs of it in the 90s in various post-Soviet countries.
Re: Blue Peter discovers the Internet (1995) [video]
#33Interesting to see broadcast video from 27 years ago preserved in such high quality. The BBC has spent a lot of money to preserve pretty much everything it has broadcast in the last 30 years.
it wasn't always part of the BBC's reflexes to keep all the content.
They must have learned and adapted.
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#34This 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.
I know it’s sarcasm but the thought of a small 64x64 video auto-playing at 0.25fps is hilarious to me.
You never played Porntris I see. Note, NSFW, https://www.retrogames.cz/play_445-DOS.php?language=EN
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#35The things that made me feel older than anything was: When they recorded the audio clip for their webpage, they used Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy" as the background audio. I still love that tune. Of course, they couldn't get away with using that now without proper licensing.
The BBC has a unique exception when it comes to music, I believe. That’s why you often hear The Beatles in the Eastenders cafe. ITV couldn’t do that.
Yes, the BBC used to license tons of music (still does?), they had some really cool background music for all sorts of stuff by really good artists. Late shows on Radio one used to be legendary for the variety of alternative music they played
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#36Did Blue Peter always have such cool backing music? That sounds like Massive Attack Unfinished Sympathy...
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#37I miss the quaintness of being on the old Internet. Maybe it's just the Endless September of it all, but the content seemed more cared for when it wasn't trivial to put out. I do think it's great that barriers for publishing are lower than what they were, but sometimes I sure do wonder if they're too easy, of people are too connected. Maybe that's just what getting old feels like?
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#38Those were magical times
Re: Blue Peter discovers the Internet (1995) [video]
#39Interesting to see broadcast video from 27 years ago preserved in such high quality. The BBC has spent a lot of money to preserve pretty much everything it has broadcast in the last 30 years.
You'd hope the original broadcaster would have broadcast quality archives. It's not like they'd keep them on LP VHS.
The BBC has had to do various work to keep the archives accessible, mid-90s stuff like this was probably recorded on D3 digital composite tape, but that's now long obsolete, so has to be transferred to modern formats (nowadays as files on LTO tape AFAIK). AFAIK stuff on 2" quad (the first practical video tape format, used from the 1950s to early 80s) has been transferred at least twice, from quad to D3 or DigiBeta, then to files.
Re: Blue Peter discovers the Internet (1995) [video]
#40For 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
British people of a certain age can be defined by their Blue Peter
credentials and activities, rather like a geek-code. Mine FWIW; Lesley
Judd, Peter Purves, John Noakes, Shep the Dog, Collecting milk bottle
tops to buy a donkey (for some reason).