Date   : Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:35:56
From   : rs423@... (Mick)
Subject: [BeebSoc] Auntie, dear Auntie

Rick Murray wrote:
> Give 'em credit, the FCC mandated everything had to support captions, 
> so you'll find caption-capable NTSC videotapes. That's something we 
> never sussed.
How did you access the subtitles? Surely the picture from a VHS is too 
unstable?? Are you yanking my chain???



>
>
>> No! Go back to a time when the internet was the fidonet (not literally)
>
> ?
>
> Fidonet was an ad-hoc collection of computers calling each other 
> directly. Public and private messages could be passed, and sometimes 
> files too, but its aim, spirit, and abilities are about as different 
> to The Internet as a dial-up BBS is to Twitter.
But it's all we had. Our BBS did all the work for us. I wonder how many 
computers are still fidonetting?



>
> [Amstrad @-mailer, anybody?]
Yes, I was given one. Still got it. Had a half hour play. Is there any 
way of hacking it? IIRC you couldn't even use the phone without 
registering it.


>
>
>>> Tesco did one... Around 1999, everybody and their uncle bought and
>>> rebranded bits of Pipex.
>> What, Pipex that is now StalkStalk?
>
> <sigh> Once upon a time, the Big Pipes were Demon and Pipex.
I was with Bulldog (cable and wireless), Pipex took it over. Now Pipex 
are themselves a victim of StalkStalk it's true. Interestingly ex 
Bulldog customers are not being stalked by the stalk stalk robot.



>
> My oh my, haven't we totally cocked up the internet!
My oh my, haven't we screwed up the world!





>
>>> Wasn't that Brookside?
>> Dunno? Is that how it ended eh? Or did *Terry make the tea to the
>> closing credits?
>
> I think in total I watched maybe three episodes? I didn't much like 
> their accents...
Don't visit Liverpool then.


>
>
>> Perhaps perverts could get something out of it. "Cor, did she just
>> scratch her raspberry ripples"????
>
> You'd have to be a pretty pathetic pervert to watch people sleeping 
> for *hours* in order to catch a peek at somebody scratching something. 
> I mean, it's on-line right? Isn't on-line supposed to be the great 
> purveyor of porn?
True it is. To be honest, I can't see any reason at all to watch BB on 
line or any other way for that matter. I will admit to watching  the 
Jack Dee / Nutbar Felts celeb offerings though. Or some of them.



>
> Geek porn!
>
> <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Ibm5100_%282297950254%29.jpg>

>
>
> [bonus points if you know why I chose this specific thing]
It looks very interesting. No bonus for me though.



>
>
>> This lexdyxia is geeting worst...
>
> Could be worse, could be a programmer with dyscalculia... :-/

Oh you've seen my programming then :-(



Mick