1995 : BLUE PETER discovers the INTERNET | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

Pandora's box..yep. oh the excitement and nieveity. Miss these days.

The internet? Pfft. it'l never catch on.

It’s sad this computers always stood there but where rarely used in junior high school like the books in the shelf and everything else.

One thing that hasn't changed is presenters turning to look into the camera while driving. It's still done nowadays which surprises me because it's dangerous, illegal and totally unnecessary.

We lived through it lads. What a different world now. But still the same.

This was before they realised how dangerous it is to vlog while driving!!!!!😮
Maybe this was filmed before Windows 95 came out, or maybe it was too expensive of an OS at the time!
The Danish pastries just left on a plate to go stale!😂
Oh the NOZ! You cannot mistake the 90's!😊
The Acorn Archimedes!😃❤️
This was back when the internet was innocent.

It would look interesting more.

I think it would be good nowadays if the internet looked like it did then in the old format and style.

Internet Cafes; when you absolutely, positively need to have all your private data stolen by viruses and keyloggers, then get hacked six ways to sunday

Thanks to the Internet, Simon Groom can now look at beautiful pairs of knockers to his heart's content! (I'm talking of course about the knockers on the doors of Durham Cathedral. I'm sure nothing else ever entered Simon's mind!)

I used to think it was called "Blue Peter" because of Peter Purves. I couldn't think of any other reason - though I did wonder what was "blue" about him.

This is a neat Time Capsule of the 90's with huge computer monitors, the Internet being referred to as the 'information Superhighway', early 3D graphics and hearing Bill Clinton's voice.

What’s ‘The Internet’. Never heard of it.

This was such an exciting time to be a kid.the Internet was this brand new thing to explore, games were going 3d, we had crazy movies like Toy Story using cgi. It felt like we were living in the future. Crazy how quickly we came to take it all for granted!

Windows 3.1 with large fonts - what a rare sight.

Amazing how they were amazed NY the most basic functions, imagine telling them people have jobs solely over the Internet and we interact more often over the Internet than in real life.

Me 1995 wow 🙂
Me 2022 wow 😭

My yahoo mail address I had created in 1995 and use it for all purpose to this day.

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I miss this era as many graphics as possible and just the enormous enthusiasm at anything also playing pretty random music

Good lord we had it good back in those days: Netscape Navigator, dial-up... JOY! :D

has every black BBC presenter become a marxist pro black activist now?

I was 11 years old and I remember my mother calling it a fad that won't last. My or my how times have changed.

Not sure if this whole internet thing will be successful

Why wasn’t she using Google Chrome

I knew Dianne a little when I lived in London. Nice to see her here

I want to go back in time and tell Diane not to get too excited. Before long the internet will be overrun with Russian and Chinese bots, American Nazis and wannabe pornstars.

Adorable

Back in 2000, it's frustrating to keep an hour of time for internet surfing or else get charged for hilariously expensive telephone bills

¡Qué nostalgia de mis primeras conexiones de Internet hace más de 20 años en el colegio! Saludos y Bendiciones desde Chile.

literally talked to the local drunk guy the other day and he genuinly still doesn't know what the internet is, i tell him he could get TV on it, it's like a big tv service

A script and production worthy of Alan Partridge

Why is this woman going about the internet? It's not exactly new ffs!!

how boring is it in the UK?\

I absolutely LOVED her in blue Peter!! She was soooo good

They probably didn't expect to see them say all this on the internet with a smartphone that can fit in their pockets

It'll never catch on

My love of Massive Attack was obviously planted from a very young age. Child "I've been to Hawaii, not literally" Presenter "I know"

When this was filmed the majority of computers being used would be using slow 386 and 486 c.p.u. The introduction of Microsoft Windows 95 and the Pentium/Cyrix c.p.u. significantly improved computer performance.

"Information superhighway" 😂 Also, when was the last time someone used the phrase "world wide web"?

1995 seems not so long ago.
Netscape {best browser ever} was the internet browser and then followed Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Banger they’re playing massive attack. What a time.

Any updates on how it went?

This will never catch on! 🙂

Hmm. We're having trouble finding that site.

Wow

I still remember to this day typing in my first address into a web browser in 1996 at my local library. GREAT TIMES

Crazy to think the kids in this video, some of them probably have kids of their own as old as they were in the video now 😳
I was about 10 years old, and remember those computers. I think our Primary School at the time, had just started to integrate the internet, I remember 1 of them having internet then slowly the other 3-4 computers started to get on the net. But didn't really use the net properly probably till 1996-1997 when I got into secondary school.

Now, this is old then. I was 15 when the internet first became a thing before computer screens started becoming thin.

The first thing I had was dial-up through our landline phone which had that weird noise going, took a long while to connect and was also expensive before smartphones came out and started offering unlimited data sims which I used for a low monthly fee. It wasn't until 2 years ago that I got broadband which I now use obviously.

You always know something sticks when Massive Attack's "Unfinished Symphony" is still relevant even now today.