Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "1994: Are YOU Ready for the INTERNET? | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive" video.

  1.  @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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  2.  @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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  3.  @darrenowen3338  Are you seriously complimenting the Tories for giving us something in the past few years that most of the developed world has taken for granted for over a decade? Set your bar a bit higher, maybe England wouldn't be such a dump if you lot had some pride in your country and voted in a party that would look after it.
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  4. Are you sure it was fiber in the 90's and not just a fat T1 line?
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  5. I spent my first go on the internet around the same time but I spent it on a Nirvana fan page downloading .mid Midi files of their songs that I still love today for their nostalgia.
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  6. Emails were around before the web, folks were sending them back and for by the mid 80's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL1NaenGPdw
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  7.  gone-by-the-light  And you're certainly an expert on cringe - you used three 'o's in the word cool...
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  8. Looks like MacOS running on an Apple Mac, what model and version of OS is anyone's guess. In 1994 Microsoft was only on Windows 3 so Macs, Ataris and Amigas were all much better for everyday stuff than PCs were.
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  9.  @RAZR_Channel  "You put the roofies.. in thuh Jell-Oooh" - Bill Cosby ( An American Legend )...
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  10. The World Wide Web revolutionised the internet in the 90's.
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  11.  @lilbaz8073  "only" You do know that in 1994 that was actually above average, the majority of countries in the world were lucky to have 3.
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  12. Sending a packet or two along the information shitty highway?
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