Date   : Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:56:01 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Electric Dreams last night.

Rob wrote:

> Yes, I agree with you.  I was quoting them!

I know, I was just stating the obvious. :-)


> But Micronet/Prestel was due to be a HUGE success, after all "Our
> market studies show that there is already a base of some 600,000
> personal computers in Britain."

You know what I remember about Prestel? How almost every page had a 
little notice up top that was like "ding! this page just cost you 20p".


 > by which time an estimated three million personal computers would be 
in use."

Ah, but could you effectively Prestel from a Spectrum? :-)


> Ah, Telecom Gold was a beast of a thing.

So's the Internet. Yesterday mom wanted to look up a type of cupcake she 
remembered as a child. Yeah... um... Americans like cupcakes like the 
like baseball, and "list of cupcakes" with all sorts of permutations 
returned more links than is viable in a person's lifetime.


> Indeed.  Micronet and the other more successful IPs relied heavily on
> the feedback and interaction with their users.

Nothing changes. Look at BBC (to a degree). Look at the Daily Mail. New 
York Times. Whatever. You'll see lots of places where people can comment 
on stories. Okay, most probably shouldn't, but at least they're a level 
up from the drilling sex-obsessed lunatics that comment on YouTube stuff 
(I wish there was a "turn off comments" option).

Anyway, point is, you have to involve the audience.


> *90#

*BYE

Works on Econet too! :-)


Best wishes,

Rick.

PS: Can anybody explain why viewdata uses '#' to mark Return? And for 
clueless newbs, does pressing '#' do the same thing?

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