My kids watched and read Babar though

As my 2nd name is robson I shall say michael jacksons left pinky.

Omg :love:

The 2007 habbo raid. I was lucky enough to witness (and be part of) one of the greatest moments of the internet. Pool is closed due to aids

I am still doing this, making Mix CDs :dance:

When wearing clothes and shoes from Primark was embarrassing

The Letterland alphabet

Limewire

Demo PlayStation game CD's

People chain-smoking indoors around babies

Irish pound currency

Tiny packets of crisps for 5p and getting 100 sweets for £1

The bunch of CD's of games and other software that you'd get free in the keyboard box of a brand new all in one PC

Panicking when you accidentally clicked the internet button on your phone because it ate up credit so quickly

Being sent to the shop to buy cigarettes with a note from an adult saying it's for them

Haha, I was at centre parcs in Janary and they still had a few of these :D Made me feel really ****ing old.

Our ice cream van used to sell cheap tabs, and drugs :laugh: She would sell to kids too if they just said they were for their parents, and this seemed to be fairly common too, that the icey was a front for other stuff..I still get a bit skitzy sending the kids out to the icecream van now, just incase :D

there are lots still in operation up here, I passed one in town yesterday

Theres one on our local high street...one of the 'newer' ones, all see through and that. The actual phone doesn't work like..and its usually covered in piss or puke but still, nostalgia :laugh:

can you imagine a kid going back to say 1975

no internet

no phones

no screens

3 channels on the telly and kids shows on briefly for like an hour and a half a day

:joker:

they would melt

When annoying your parents, instead of having a screen shoved infront of you being told to get out and play in the woods :D

I don't really remember anything pre about 1995 ish.born in 87. But even then, most (everyone?) only had 5 channels. Only a few had crappy dial up internet..we had it but it was mainly for my dads work so barely got to go on it..friends actually classed us as 'rich' because we had a computer! A few years after that everyone started getting them, but it was all just dial up and crawling bricks basically and yeah, had to come off it if anyone wanted to use the phone, or pay for 2 lines

Even then, older people would be all 'back in my day you had no toys at all! you wouldn't survive' and that :laugh:

The difference though between when I was a teen and today is stark and it does make me feel ****ing ancient sometimes

Oh speaking of phone boxes they've put a couple back up where I live with defibrillators in them

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...4mryBZEz-_TSCA

They're doing that in the next village to me as well, BT sold it to the parish council for £1. The one in our village is defunct so would like it to be used for something else as well, Ive seen some places have converted them into little libraries

It's great to see them back up and used for something else

I remember the first kid in my class who got a computer and literally everyone was in awe. I think everyone took it in turns to go to his house just to "see it". Bearing in mind at this time, our whole Primary School had about 4 in total that the whole school would share, so they were seen as huge deals.

I also remember having "Computer Class" once every few weeks in Junior School where a man would come in or we would go to the village library to learn the absolute basic stuff because "the age of computers were incoming fast"! :hehe:

Is this still a thing? 4 down, 4 across was always my 'go to' though!

https://gregmaxey.com/images/word_ti..._wordart_1.png

Always the multi colour one

Holy ****, the nostalgia I'm experiencing right now :joker:

My gay self always chose the rainbow design

Its the 30th anniversary of the internet, I heard this on the radio this morning and it made me :omgno:

Hearing Pete Tong making a meal of an admittedly difficult website address is a portal into a different time when all this stuff was new.
Here’s the transcript – imagine trying to say this out loud.
“And we’ll post it out there on the BBC homepages of the internet. And I keep saying that and not giving you the address.
It’s very complicated so here it comes.
H T T P
colon
forward slash
forward slash
w w w
dot
b b c n c
dot
o r g
dot
u k
forward slash
b b c t v
forward slash
p
forward slash
tong
forward slash
index
full stop
h t m l
I know it doesn’t make sense but if you’ve got a computer and you’re outthere on the internet you’ll understand what I mean.”
We’ve checked and sadly http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/ is now offline but we can tell you that bbcnc meant “bbc network club”. Hooray!

Happy 30th Birthday Internet!

Google smashed it.

https://www.google.co.uk/logos/doodl...4240.5-law.gif

Love that!

Reminded me of when I trained on Word Perfect word processing, and the first time I used email!

Also LMA Manager and Let's Make A Soccer Team for the PS2.

Those were the days.