BT Broadband - Tomorrow's World, 11th October 2000

[mattfox14]

ADSL stands for shit

[cyberjackcyberjack]

no downloading movies then.. lol

[thelostlibertine]

wow love that retro BBC intro, hate BT Broadband..

[MitchAndSammyDriftz]

BT Can Fuck Shove Their Speed Capping Shit Up Their Arses, I Prefer Sky :P

[FireOFK]

we will have high quality hologram screens. we might have to carry a very tiny tiny device that will have 20x or more the power of computers we have now and you can take it everywhere with you and it will project any hologram screen size you want that can be touch sensitive. I really think this will happen in the next 20-30 years.

the smart phones of today are more than two or 3 times powerful than the computers of 10 years ago in a very small device and with more capabilities.

[CmdrTobs]

@FireOFK Duno where you got that 3 times more powerful from.... Smart phones today can run things like Quake 3 about as well as a good computer in 1999/2000. So I'm not sure in what respect they are 3 times more "powerful"

[YUSKHAN]

BT Broadband is Shit

[Paulph04]

@YUSKHAN Umm, this was like, 10 years ago.

[YUSKHAN]

@Paulph04

SAME SHIT ADSL TODAY

[Paulph04]

@YUSKHAN I'm getting 5.5-6mbps on my 8mbps BT ADSL connection whatever time it is so I can't complain. With Virgin's *20mbps* service that I had before, it would drop to 2-3mbps sometimes. With their crap customer service, I was more than willing to pay for a BT line to be rid of them.

[ATRACTIVEMAN360]

@YUSKHAN shut ya mouth bt infinity beats ass

[DauntlessEagle1]

Well guess what guys im with BT and I am still on 512 K !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH THAT !!!!! I had 2 Meg down the other week now on 512 !!!

[TheChrisFrom1993]

VDSL FTW! :)

[LaudanumVoices]

1:28 - "Daaaaaaad... where's the touch-screen?"

[joecool280]

I hated Dialup, streaming music, you could forget and pages took forever to load. I remember streaming video for the first time, being wowed by it.

[sweetypie000]

yep then they milked it and we got adsl. now they are milking that until another 10 years till we ger better speed inline with the rest of the world

[vaj99]

I had adsl in 2001.

[festivephone]

Internet, one of those things that never really took off lol

[chrislyon06]

When are BT going to bring in VDSL

[Markjuk]

More importntly, when are the BBC going to bring back Tomorrow's World? It was such a great program when it had Howard Stableford, Judith Hann and Maggie Philbin presenting.

[DarkAndMartyr]

@markjuk i think they stopped it because we finally made it to the next day

[fragglet]

TV over the web?  Incredible.

[STOPTHEEU]

Now theres SDSL!!!

[stunic75]

in the UK, more people have Broadband than mains supplied running water. Where will we be in 2018?... Staggering.

[STOPTHEEU]

Well we get 3G to our phones... wireless internet where ever we go... hmmm In the future the chances are internet will be free but with more adverts... Oh and the TV will be the new radio and the radio will be the newspaper... As for newspapers well! theyl be digital :P

[RomieK123]

haha to think this was so long ago now. i remember seeing this and getting 256k in 2001, oh how cool i though i was.....

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

lol i got a 512 installed a couple of years later and now have a 8mb line ^^

[STOPTHEEU]

8 meg? pff thats nothing :P 32 meg ^ ^

[STOPTHEEU]

Pahahahaha! im on 32 meg :P

[RomieK123]

well done to you.

[caturn88]

I bet they all had Napster in their sys tray

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

thats so true dude, people are hypcrites about it now because of the media.

[cooper91]

this was 5 months before I got a 500k cable line with Telewest!

[nitramhtims]

was that pc running windows vista?

[Xxfancythat79xX]

This was 8 yrs ago...windows vista wasn't around then.

[STOPTHEEU]

Well vista is Windows NT highly modded!! Think dos has gon? how wrong you are! :P You could code windows NT all the way to Vista but itd take a hell of a long time.. Thing is though its still the same kernal!!!

[dava123]

i remember seeing this thinking great.now i am running at 16meg and i want more speed

[a1exh]

We got ADSL in March 2000 not long before this episode. For once BBC must have been on the ball!

[houdini1990]

lol hope its out because its running now

[lange838]

When will this ADSL be availale to buy?

[manimalcruelty]

wow, only 8 years back. but sounds so old.

[ndgreenaway]

CRT monitor - Windows 98! oh my

[FuManBoobs]

And with that, internet piracy was born! Amen!

[mushtacoriley]

Fantastic..a moist comprehensive article. Well done the BBC keep up the texture.