ColI'm so old I remember when the internet didn't have commercials.
Barry Rowlingson@kibcol1049 I'm so old I remember when the internet was in black and white and they played an mp3 of the national anthem before it shut down every night.
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)@geospacedman @kibcol1049 MP3? Youngin'!
We just had to settle for the MIDI version, none of this waveform stuff.
食 Shoku the Umbreon
Andrew Hodgson@kibcol1049 @TheMNWolf Yep for example I used an Archimedes to browse the Internet in the early days and midi files weren't a thing on that platform, but we did have lots of repositories of tracker music.
Andre Louis@FreakyFwoof @kibcol1049 @TheMNWolf Yeah shame they didn't have a proper screen reader for the Archimedes. It didn't really work without a mouse to be honest.
Dave@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
*We* had to make do with a live orchestra in the corner of our sitting room.
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Tip of the hat (or should I say "Drop of a hat"?) to Flanders and Swann
@TheLancashireman @stuartl @kibcol1049 I should probably credit Hugh from the Armando Iannucci show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ15EdEOncc
Hugh
@TheLancashireman @geospacedman @kibcol1049 I think the live orchestra is rather a significant upgrade in fidelity compared to a MP3.
Not very portable though.
@stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
Not if it's in your sitting room, I suspect. All the windows and the crockery in the cupoards would rattle.
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Andy Wootton@TheLancashireman @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Not compared to the line-printer you needed to print the score out in EBCDIC character-graphics.
Peter 💙 Stevens@stuartl @TheLancashireman @geospacedman @kibcol1049
The chamber orchestra was less intrusive and was so called because you could put it back under the bed when you'd finished with it.
Dudula the Dud
Clare@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049 Luxury. We had to make our own rocks with sand collection our bare feet and spit.
Captain Jack Sparrow@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
Oooh! Morse code! 😂
I see we've skipped over the two-tin-cans-and-a-piece-of-string phase of the internet. 😜
@BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
Well, I say "string" but it was just bits of dead grass twisted together.
@TheLancashireman Our dead grass was confiscated by the landlord. @stuartl @geospacedman @kibcol1049
@TheLancashireman @BackFromTheDud @stuartl @geospacedman String you say? Luxury! We had it hard, we had to weave nasal snot into a fibre!