Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "BBC Archive" channel.

  1.  @dougoneill7266  If you think the 12 times table is easier to remember than the 10 times table then you are a fool. Almost everything in the world uses base 10.
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  2. @Ed Ho ho ho, I bet you wrote that one down in your diary as a keeper!
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  3.  @weerobot  Yes, but the distance from London to Bristol will cost the same no matter what unit you use to measure it. She was as thick as porridge that woman.
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  4. The first guy keeps his vast array of haircare products in a Bag of Holding.
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  5. "I am refugee, I have nothing, I only have shirt on my back and Apple iPhone 15Pro-MAX with sixty-four megapixel camera."
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  6. I knew the UK was at the forefront of video games in the 90's but being responsible for an entire third of all videogame content is mindblowing, though I'm not surprised since I was an Amiga user and almost every major developer on that machine was British; Core, Bullfrog, DMA Design, Team 17, Sensible Software, Bitmap Brothers, Rebellion, Psygnosis, Ocean, Flair, Gremlin, Graftgold, Image Works, Reflections, U.S. Gold, etc
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  7. Blue Peter still does stuff like this, it just gets called woke or "preachy" now because they also talk about brown and black kids like Malala Yousafzi. People make the mistake of thinking TV changed when it's people that have changed, we've become less caring and more nationalistic, a bit like what happened in Germany in the 1920's ironically.
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  8. The cassette only has phrases recorded on it so the same cassette can be used anywhere in the world. The directions come from the unit below the dashboard.
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  9. The closest thing I can think of today would be Click on the BBC, I really enjoy that because like Micro Live and other shows of the 80's it too has knowledgeable hosts who don't feel the need to dumb down whatever they are discussing. A lot of shows today feel the need to try and be cool and funny like Top Gear when many people are looking for an informative show like Fifth Gear.
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  10. It is still in Scotland. The studio moved from Dundee to Edinburgh while GTA3 was being made but the games are still made here.
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  11. 4:06 Demis Hassabis in the white shirt, founder of DeepMind, the company behind the Go series of AI programs.
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  12. What an odd twinkly green her bodysuit is, I've only ever seen that colour used to wrap mint chocolates.
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  13.  @Aaliyahchannel2024  Do you remember a game called Driver? Driver beat GTA to the 3D market by two years by releasing in 1999 (GTA3 was 2001) but as amazing as that game was it was linear and scripted and forced the player to stick to specific routes and missions. Leslie Benzies, a new recruit at DMA Design said "Let's make the next game 3D like Driver, but with the open world and lack of restraints that GTA has". A phenomena was born...
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  14.  4879daniel  They're just dressed like nerds, at that time nerds were generally smartly dressed.
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  15. 1995-2000 was an epic time for games, Doom II, GTA, Half-life, Duke Nukem 3D, Deus Ex.
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  16. "Two American boys were attacked by a chair while walking the moors, one of them died."
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  17.  @DM-kv9kj  She does that with everyone, she just has a very alluring nature, even today.
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  18.  @pgstorey  You just didn't feel like it though?
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  19. For England it would be Essex, for Scotland it would be a Glasgow youth of ill repute, or 'ned' as they are known.
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  20.  @ScottysHaze  It was 1966, just three years earlier the US had come close to ending human civilization by putting nuclear missiles in Turkey and then throwing a tantrum when the Russians tried to do the same in Cuba. I think the OP must be deluded because every account of the 60's I've heard from Americans was that their parents were so terrified of nuclear war that they all built bomb shelters in their back yards, then there was the never ending delight that was Vietnam. Had 1969 not been such a momentous year I think most Americans of a certain age would rather forget the whole decade existed.
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  21. That's because kilomolimeteres is a made up word, Bill.
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  22.  @filipkogut8533  We'll be able to enter the internet like in the movie 'Ready Player One', though that'll be closer to 20 years. In the 80's cyberspace featured in so many movies and yet it still isn't here as of 2022, there are online VR rooms and VR games, but only when all of these different services start working together on a shared framework will we have anything close to true cyberspace - where you can just walk around on the internet from games to shopping to socialising in a giant digital world. OK, maybe closer to 30 years.
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  23. Blue Peter has always treated kids the same, if you think it has changed then you've been watching something else.
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  24.  @straightpipediesel  There was a time when the US cared more about the environment and children's lungs than the EU? That is mindblowing.
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  25. Eidos, formerly Core Design, they made some fantastic games even before Tomb Raider. Curse of Enchantia, Heimdall, Chuck Rock, Rick Dangerous. They were one of the 90's heavyweights of the Amiga scene alongside DMA Design, Bitmap Brothers, Sensible Software and Team 17. When I was a teen I only knew two things about Derby, the football team that Brian Clough turned into giants and Core Design. Greetings from Dundee :)
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  26.  @IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou  No true Scotsman would speak Doric? That's good to ken, I must be English then for speaking an actual Scottish dialect instead of your Queen's English.
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  27. An opinion not shared by the majority of people.
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  28.  @MrOod67  No, there isn't.
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  29.  @chrismachin2166  Don't push your beliefs as facts, I don't say "Everybody knows there is no creator" so the least you could do is respectfully reciprocate. You have a belief system, that is all - I believe one thing, you believe another, there is no knowing.
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  30.  @PotatoPirate123  It was taken on because the internet had been around since the late 60's and so enthusiasts wanted a new name to describe the HTTP-based system that was about to shake things up, they wanted a flashy name to attract new users. They called it the Information Superhighway for a while but it didn't catch on so they then opted to calling it the World Wide Web as Tim Berners-Lee intended and eventually that was shortened to just The Web. By around 1999 most folks were back to just calling it the internet again since the web was just an evolutionary step in a thing that had existed since 1967 and had always been known as the internet.
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  31. Until you died on the job from something simple and avoidable and your widow was given £40 and a sorry. Or your child was stillborn and the doctor said "at least you have 5 others". Yes, life is so miserable with all of today's life-saving advances.
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  32.  @foreverinteriors  No, it was the launch of Voyager 2
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  33. Vice City is set in the 80's when that sort of font and colour scheme was common, it's part of the retro style. Though seeing as GTA's creators have been known to pay homage to the shows they grew up with and they were originally a computer club in the early 80's I wouldn't be surprised if they were fans of Micro Live and based the Vice City logo on it.
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  34. It's almost as if all of the other BBC video channels, radio stations and websites cater to a wide audience...
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  35. Miniskirts were around long before 1971.
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  36. When he and Ade did the live shows of Bottom, those are up there with some of the things I wish I had seen live.
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  37.  @KD400_  LMAO, you have no idea.
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  38.  @stoobie94  No, his point was that "no true Scotsman" would say "I dinnae ken", meaning that he is a prat who doesn't know a thing about the various dialects of our country. I'd bet my life savings he's a London-worshipping Rangers supporter.
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  39. They already have... Freedom: The Underground Railroad This Guilty Land Puerto Rico Blackboard And then there's the various Endeavor games by Carl de Visser and Jarratt Gray.
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  40. In the late 80's the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST were leaps and bounds ahead of other computers, even PCs and Apple Macs. Those two ruled the roost until the 90's when Windows 3 showed that PCs were the future and micro computers were the past.
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  41.  @octaviussludberry9016  But were they known as "being on the spectrum"? In those days practically every neurodivergent syndrome was just heaped in with autism, the same way that every type of psychosis was heaped in with schizophrenia.
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  42. That still required the internet though, what people consider the internet today is actually the web. The internet is the backbone of interlinked hardware going as far back as the late 60's while the web is the mass of tangled software that has ran on it since 1991.
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  43. SD cards were the futuristic thing for me, I remember when someone in the early 90's said you could fit an entire encyclopaedia on a CD (which Encarta later did), well now you can fit half a library on a 128GB microSD card smaller than a fingernail. A million or so books on an object small enough to get lost in your pocket or wallet.
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  44. The narrator was perfect, what were you expecting?
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  45. Thankfully.
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  46.  @tabascoraremaster1  No, it's actually always been the opposite.
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  47. The whole thing would be just frightfully dreadful.
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  48. Aaardman Animations, the same company makes both.
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  49.  @MamaLinz123  The smell is still the same in my opinion, hot vinegar on chips smells the same through inkless paper as it does through newspaper. It's just that so many places these days gibe you your meal in a little box instead of paper :/
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  50. Pagers are still a must-have if you're hospital staff.
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