CBBC - Website 1995

[dreamsandchocolate]

i didn't have broadband internet till 2007 :/ dial-up was such a pain.

[smailer07]

He sounds like Josh Franceschi from You Me at Six.

[WhovianWaterlooRoad]

Try typing that in in the search bar. It doesn't work lol

[rexana]

Lol at the end, it's top high tech information! xD Well, it def was then, but it's so odd seeing this sort of thing again, back when the net was new. xD

[gypwin]

inspiring...also,check out my new story on youtube called 'timothy tickleskin'..

[buc555]

Who the fuck was that guy at the end?

[gurintto]

Russel Tovey at 0:00!

[jeffrey44]

This clip was used on Charlie Brooker's How TV Ruined Your Life last night.

[saled44]

stroke childrens lol

[aphoxpsylemairport]

Pretty sure that was Avid Merrion at the end.

[peculier]

I'm guessing the studio didn't have net access which explains why we saw only the URL and their screensaver ?

I remember in the early days Terry Wogan suffering and confusing his dots and back slashes and stuff. Good times.

[kaiyan246]

i realy prefer nowaday ones

[shangrila68]

Oooooh, technology!!

[chucklevisionman]

Funny imagine them talking like that nowadays everyone would be wondering what they were talking about??

[ShaiyaStudios]

Just tried it. URL not found. Damn you Toby Anstis :(

[amandacdavie]

SEO good practice canonicalisation, though!

[neil73]

Back in the day it would have taken 20 miuntes to download even this short video clip, or longer.

I was also one of those people who said that the internet would never catch on. Now the world would be in chaos without it.

[missbeanford]

omg

[ontheswedge]

Get a load of that 90's outfit Anstis is wearing...

[Pedgerow]

Everything was longer back then. They don't even call it Children's BBC anymore; it's just CBBC.

[thepod96]

It had already informally been called that for years before so it made sense to do it like that. Anyway, the 1997 system of 'CBBC ONE', 'CBBC TWO' and 'CBBC CHOICE' is still superior to the "Children's BBC on 1" before then or "CBBC on 1" like today.

[ghpg2008]

Imagine sites such as Facebook, Flickr and YouTube ect all being around in 1995! LOL!

[kickinoverya]

@ghpg2008 What a joke!!!! Internet in 1995 was so slow and mundane! All of these big sites like Facebook,Twitter,Youtube,Myspa­ce la di da da,came on the scene pretty much at the same time.First time my parents even got a computer and dial up was in 1998,and we were one of the first in our community to get it.

[sv5000w]

no they didnt myspace and facebook didnt lauch until 2004 and youtube launched in 2005 and twitter in 2006

[kickinoverya]

I know that LOL!!!! I meant the same time as in within a year or two of each other.Yes Myspace-2003,Facebook 2004,Youtube 2005 and Twitter 2006.I also meant that in 1995,there wasn't even such thing as 'social networking'.Phrased the wrong way.

[Roddors]

Get through those walls!

[ahillyar]

The /presentation bit was surely a bit surplus to requirements even then

[KitCloudkickerUK]

I never knew of anyone at that time to have the internet, If I had i'm sure either they were wealthy or just spoilt little bastards, Either way, I wouldn't have been friends with them.

[vikingsmb]

they were probably using windows 3.1 or possibly windows 95 :)

[AidanLunn]

Incidentally, the "nc" stood for "Networking Club"

"Internet - networking"? Yeah, i know . . .

Typical "cool" BBC using "networking" instead of "internet"

[maandac2]

Internet per 1,000 people back then and today

1995 -110

2009 -997

[2001JamesTV]

Stupidly long addresses like that were common in the early days of the internet. I don't think that address was round for long, I think by the end of the year it was down to the more sensible bbc(dot)co(dot)uk(slash)childr­ens. It's hard now though to imagine a time when hardly anyone like the internet, and having someone like a webs site was high-tech and exciting. Yet it wasn't that long ago really.

[frappo123]

I'm tryna find a place on the net to watch old bbc shows like kerching and all those that remind me of being young (although i wasnt that young with kerching) but i cant find anywhere :(

Its just youtube and youtube cant put whole programs on

[TruthBeyond]

How few kids had the Internet back in 1995?

[mononokehime316uk]

I didnt have it at home until April 1999 when I was 15. I first went online in December 1997 when my high school got the net. Back in 1995 it was a high tech thing I had only heard about on the X-files and that cheese spread advert.

[Sasha2999]

LMAO!

[orangebaybee]

lmaooo 'Only IF you can get onto the WORLD WIDE WEB'

[iwantcoolname]

these days people probably cant get onto anything but world wide web pages on the internet

[DoubleMiz]

@orangebaybee - It was harder to get on there in those days...

[jaychristie909]

1:12 "..Stroke childrens.." That'd get complaints nowadays :P

Great clip nevertheless!

[frappo123]

thats really funny!!!

[fitpecs]

that is so funny lol

[thejeep2000]

the link doesn't work...:(

very funny clip...a historical record..a great gem

[jimmyass]

i know just tried it

[L1U2C3Y]

Me too I thought I'd find an old website with funny graphics :/

[artvandelay1]

It'll never catch on.

[andremp03]

Blimey, thats one hell of an address. Considering it's just bbc(dot)co(dot)uk(slash)cbbc now LMAO