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