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Title: Prophets from 1976
Post by: Weaver on September 17, 2018, 07:28:34 PM

Blue Peter : https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=246523556055615&id=807547022632941&refsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fsixties.timemachine%2Fvideos%2F246523556055615%2F&_rdr

Title: Re: Prophets from 1976
Post by: burakkucat on September 17, 2018, 07:44:17 PM

Unfortunately that link wants me to subscribe to "bookface" and then login.  >:(  My answer was a very big "no".

I believe it is --

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkiCBrzHYFk[/youtube]

Title: Re: Prophets from 1976
Post by: Weaver on September 17, 2018, 07:53:00 PM

Weird, because I tried it from a web browser that had not been set up, so I must have failed. My apologies. It told me I needed to log in, but let me see the video anyway.

Title: Re: Prophets from 1976
Post by: phi2008 on September 17, 2018, 10:20:54 PM

Kitz beat you to it - https://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php/topic,20469.msg357474.html

Title: Re: Prophets from 1976
Post by: Bowdon on September 18, 2018, 03:44:32 PM

That was a year before I was born.

A lot of people these days have never seen the round dial on the phone.

Title: Re: Prophets from 1976
Post by: Weaver on September 20, 2018, 12:31:54 AM

My stupidity - Kitz is on the ball, I am not.

Title: Re: Prophets from 1976
Post by: kitz on September 20, 2018, 04:04:50 PM

There's a whole series of them on the BBC archives page.    I  think I also posted one on Computers at about the same time.

If you follow their page or subscribe, they have some really interesting gems that come up from time to time. :)
https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/

Title: Re: Prophets from 1976
Post by: Weaver on September 20, 2018, 06:33:32 PM

I wonder if there is anything on telly about the early Arpanet/Darpanet. I wonder if there were prophets back then regarding the possibility of an internet or even a public-use one, outside of that handful of universities and the military.

Title: Re: Prophets from 1976
Post by: phi2008 on September 21, 2018, 09:35:16 AM

I don't know about TV but the complete history of how the Internet came to be is in the book, "Where Wizards Stay Up Late", obviously there were some "prophets" among their number or we would not be where we are today. Maybe it can all be traced back to commercialisation of the Internet? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercialization_of_the_Internet)