All together now,
"Berners-Lee, Berners-Lee, Berners-Lee,
Berners-Lee, Berners-Lee. Berners-Le-e-ee,
Berners-Lee, Berners - Lee, Berners-Lee,
Berners-Le-e-ee, Berners - Lee."

Remember thinking it’ll never catch on

Might buy some bitcoin today

Ahhhh the beautiful sounds of the dial-up connection… Waiting, waiting, will it? Won’t it? And then finally the message telling you that you have not been connected and to try again… The sound was akin to ET eating his breakfast!

AskJeeves, Lycos, Yahoo, HotBot, AltaVista and Google. I’ve spent hours searching for useless information… more often than not about Burnley FC, of which data was limited.

I genuinely didn’t think anything could replace Encarta!!

The real heroes of dial-up internet..
Never forget them.

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4:20 wrote:The real heroes of dial-up internet..
Never forget them.

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That was from a show called Monkey Dust. If that was broadcast today, Twitter would just melt and the offended would collapse onto the floor and chew carpet. Probably the last decent satirical show.

jdrobbo wrote:Ahhhh the beautiful sounds of the dial-up connection… Waiting, waiting, will it? Won’t it? And then finally the message telling you that you have not been connected and to try again… The sound was akin to ET eating his breakfast!

AskJeeves, Lycos, Yahoo, HotBot, AltaVista and Google. I’ve spent hours searching for useless information… more often than not about Burnley FC, of which data was limited.

I genuinely didn’t think anything could replace Encarta!!

Then you finally get connected, only for your mum to pick up the phone to call your Aunty Barbara for exactly 59 minutes

claptrappers_union wrote:That was from a show called Monkey Dust. If that was broadcast today, Twitter would just melt and the offended would collapse onto the floor a chew carpet. Probably the last decent satirical show.

Monkey Dust was bloody brilliant, perhaps my favourite animated adult British show.

Another one who in c1990 was supremely confident it was so long winded that it would never catch on. Not one of my more insightful moments

It feels like it's been around forever. I remember when I first suggested getting it my wife said 'what do we want that for'? She now lives online. Oh the irony. Dial up was fun though and I worked at home when we first got it and e-mails would struggle if there were more than a dozen words. Donwloading music took longer than reaL-time (about 20 minutes for a 3 minute song I believe). Those were the days.

I'm waiting for the day when we won't actually need computers and mobile phones because new borns will simply have a chip placed in their brain at birth and that will be it. They will simply live their lives being intravenously fed whilst sitting or lying, living out their life in cyber space. Or do we do that already.....mmm? The Matrix is here.

My Grandad used to work in the family business, I remember him arguing with my Dad, "what do we need a computer for? The telephone is our computer". I also remember someone explaining to me that the Internet is just Teletext, but with better graphics.

It's crazy how much the world has moved on. I remember discussing the future with my college lecturer, he told me we will watch films over the internet one day. I couldn't grasp what he meant... to me, I imagined people sat around a CRT computer monitor in spinny chairs - he was talking ****. That'll never happen.

I used to use those chat rooms too, however a mate of mine was on a music forum, a messageboard like this one. It made me uncomfortable that when he posted something, it stayed there forever and it could be searched for in the future. At least in a chat room, as soon as your post went off screen it was gone forever. Quite interesting in regards to today, with people being held to account over resurfaced bad-taste tweets.

Sky have got their tribute mixed up with the weekends fixtures - Berners-Lee v Leicester.

Are we sure it isn't Tim Barners-Lee?

It’s Tim Internet

Pickles wrote:Are we sure it isn't Tim Barners-Lee?

Very good, Pickles, I see what you did there.

Napster
AOL
MSN Messenger
Ask Jeeves
Ebaumsworld

best of all though was 'FU*K OSAMA . COM'

I remember being told there was a Burnley FC newsgroup on rec.sport.soccer. Living in the south meant that BFC news was very hard to come by so being able to read match reports and get opinions from other Clarets was brilliant.