The Computer Programme (5): The New Media (Communications & Media)

[@zooblestyx]

I dare assume the irony isn't lost on any of us that we are watching this particular episode on youtube.

[@PiggyWiggyO]

They didnt mention You tube in this video! LOL Still they were far sighted enough just the same.

[@ttrjw]

But not on Prestel... Keyboards haven't gone away of course.

[@bloodyliar]

'...and its flashing to tell me I have received a message.. so.. press '1'.. and it's from Prince Owame Ullabula from Nigeria with a very interesting business proposal...'

[@crusader2.0_loading89]

ROFL

[@malcolmclements9254]

I had the same one promising me unlimited riches just for my bank ac details. These are the modern day Red Indians and Dick Turpins... somethings never change.

[@Bertie_Ahern]

Many of us have been working from home since even before this episode was broadcast. I think people often forget that.

[@Giskard1000]

Wow! Leslie was working remotely from home in 1982!! What a trailblazer!

[@vishva8kumara]

Now [2020] most people having to work from home or risk dying.

[@actualbennett2245]

@@vishva8kumara Apparently only if elderly or immune compromised or trusting of the WEF/WHO/SAGE/Neil Ferguson.

[@mikeyo1234]

Visionary re paper. In the 1990s people spoke of the paperless office, but he sensibly says people still like to read things on paper.

[@Slarti]

Before the days of the concept of security - presenters shared accounts and logins over the television...

[@haroldfarthington7492]

They got hacked live on tv by playful hackers who posted a playful message

[@ChrisNorris]

15:15 speedy :) Whenever I hear of folks complaining about internet speed I always think of my old 2400 baud modem. I know it is comparing apples to oranges but anyway makes me smile.

[@djsherz]

Hands up if Micro Men brought you here!

[@wlouisharris]

Really interesting segment. In so many ways they were dead on - the advent of online shopping for example. Still they would be shocked to see the pile of mail I need to shred with just 6 months of mail.

[@user-jt5vm3mi1w]

I got 0 mail in 6 months

[@ttrjw]

Can't see this messaging thing catching on - messages wherever you are....?

[@stephenelliott7071]

And yet we still have keyboard input in 2021 lol.

[@liverush24]

As the part of the programme featuring Leslie was filmed prior to the studio parts , I suppose she was working from home in 1981. Possibly she was doing so prior to 1981. Amazing!

[@Robert-zv7ry]

I read the morning news, check weather on my phone.... at the time couldn't inmange flat led touch screens and wires less technical... But my touch screen still has a Corgi keyboard so it's still with us

[@stevezpj]

In the future you could "work from home". 2020 certainly made that comment a bit more chilling.

[@ShakespeareCafe]

The promise of everyone working from home hasn't worked out very well...those pesky managers would never hear of it

[@AudoricArt]

[2020 entered the chat.]

[@nathaniliescutotherescue6047]

Im from the future. Covid changed all that.

[@southendonseaarts]

Remember AOL or compuserve but if dad uses the phone you got cut off

[@s33nington]

o daymn, is that blackgang chine? right in the childhood!

[@peterjennings8258]

Yes it certainly is..... and although its been relocated from this site its all still there 40 years later.... I take my daughter there all the time!

[@malcolmclements9254]

At least the telegraph gave you a reason for a cancellation. The railways just remark cancelled due to staff shortages, maybe they've been attacked by Red Indians!

[@clive7903]

Say goodbye to your filing cabinet 🤪 say goodbye to your keyboard 🥳

[@mikewatte4478]

Im guessing british rail spent a lot of money on printing

[@syferdet]

15:02 Chris, this is starting to sound a little shady.... 😄

[@AudoricArt]

8:33 Little did we know, computers are all powered by eldrich tech demons from the nightmare demention.

[@furrball]

With Prestel! Pictoresque... - Scotty

[@vishva8kumara]

So this Prestel thing looks like an early form of Google..

[@Del11k]

www.historytoday.com/history-matters/prestel-british-internet-never-was

[@SteveCirelli]

My company says that no one! W wants to work from home. Everyone loves being in the office and you have to go in.

[@debatabletruths6687]

Is it me or did the soldiers end up as inverse endian?

[@saultube44]

This is the '80s people saw it, 20 years earlier, and people never listen to visionaries, oh but the joke is on them

[@CompatibilityMadness]

It took a while, but something is starting to change in paper "Newspaper" world. Google : The Washington Post + Amazon.

[@mikewatte4478]

Millions of commuters bought a paper to read on the trip to work. With wifi and the Internet almost almost everywhere im guessing paper sales have dropped

[@mikewatte4478]

Microsoft office doesnt need paper

[@vishva8kumara]

3:08 Injuns

[@i.george2321]

and today i read the 'unbiased' BBC news on my phone on the train, spied by google and facebook for any slight targeted advertisement hint

[@crusader2.0_loading89]

Lol... Yeeeesss!

[@jacobhn2]

www. = World Wilde Web.

[@user-jt5vm3mi1w]

working from home is shite