COVID Vaccine !

[Ming the Merciless]

No, but then we didn't have the internet allowing disinformation to be spread so easily.

And of course, smallpox vaccination was the first ever developed, and the program to eradicate the disease by mass vaccination started in 1967, when people were generally far less questioning of authority.

I love that people forget that we had the Internet well before the 1980s. What we didn’t have was the world wide web. The latter arriving in the early 90s.

 

[Alex321]

I love that people forget that we had the Internet well before the 1980s. What we didn’t have was the world wide web. The latter arriving in the early 90s.

Most people didn't have the internet well before the 1980s.

The earliest things that could possibly be called "the internet" weren't around until the mid 1970's, and those didn't really get out of academia until around 1980. But even then they weren't in widespread use until quite late 80's. I can still remember things like email and usenet only becoming widespread some time after I started work (in IT) in 1981.

 

[Dogtrousers]

In the late 80s I worked briefly on a system called "Internet". It had nothing to do with that internet, this was a different one. The fact that it had been so named tells you about the lack of profile of "the internet" at the time.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Most people didn't have the internet well before the 1980s.

The earliest things that could possibly be called "the internet" weren't around until the mid 1970's, and those didn't really get out of academia until around 1980. But even then they weren't in widespread use until quite late 80's. I can still remember things like email and usenet only becoming widespread some time after I started work (in IT) in 1981.

Correct most didn’t, but that is not the same as saying before the Internet which was blatantly not true. Usenet etc was around in the 70s and as you know email as we know it came about in 1974. It wasn’t just in academia either many business were using the Internet by the 80s

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Huh? Is this meant to be sarcasm or irony?
It already is mired in politics, surely - politics and conspiracy theories in even more peculiar forms than polio ever has been - and has been since about 2 days after it was 'discovered' in/by 'the West', and very probably, in politics of a sort at least, since before that (although I doubt we'll ever find out for sure).

Neither.

What I was trying to say was that the eradication of Polio has been hampered by ignorance and superstition at a political level.

I hope that in the long-term that this will not be the case with Covid.

 

[Alex321]

Correct most didn’t, but that is not the same as saying before the Internet which was blatantly not true. Usenet etc was around in the 70s and as you know email as we know it came about in 1974.

I didn't say it was "before the internet", I said " we didn't have the internet allowing disinformation to be spread so easily " and I would stand by that, as most people didn't have it, and even for those who did, it wasn't so easy to spread misinformation to the credulous/gullible.

Yes, the internet existed, but not in the mass usage form which allows or even encourages that. Most of us didn't have it at all.

I worked in IT from 1981, and had a home computer (Sinclair Spectrum) when those were still in their infancy. But it was quite late 80's before I had an external connection from home - and that was via a 33k modem initially. That was shortly after buying our first IBM-compatible PC, and was still well before internet access became commonplace at an individual level.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I worked in IT from 1981, and had a home computer (Sinclair Spectrum) when those were still in their infancy. But it was quite late 80's before I had an external connection from home - and that was via a 33k modem initially. That was shortly after buying our first IBM-compatible PC, and was still well before internet access became commonplace at an individual level.

In the mid-late 80s I worked on comms and TCP/IP was a wierd oddity that was known to exist but the industry where I was working weas all about X.25 and various SNA things like APPC. People with home connectivity were mainly uber nerds who dialled up to bulletin bourds where they talked about bulletin boards with other bulletin board nerds.

I imagine the only misinformation that was being spread over the internet at the time was some inaccurate lecture timetables at some American university or other.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

In the mid-late 80s I worked on comms and TCP/IP was a wierd oddity that was known to exist but the industry where I was working weas all about X.25 and various SNA things like APPC. People with home connectivity were mainly uber nerds who dialled up to bulletin bourds where they talked about bulletin boards with other bulletin board nerds.

I imagine the only misinformation that was being spread over the internet at the time was some inaccurate lecture timetables at some American university or other.

Or playing Dungeons and Dragons.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Or playing Dungeons and Dragons.

You are in a maze of twisty little passages all alike
Take vaccine
You take the vaccine. Your hands turn blue and fall off.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

In the mid-late 80s I worked on comms and TCP/IP was a wierd oddity that was known to exist but the industry where I was working weas all about X.25 and various SNA things like APPC. People with home connectivity were mainly uber nerds who dialled up to bulletin bourds where they talked about bulletin boards with other bulletin board nerds.

I imagine the only misinformation that was being spread over the internet at the time was some inaccurate lecture timetables at some American university or other.

Though our favourite in the 80s was that our instant messaging system allowed you to send them with a date / time in the future. That meant the message would be held until that time. You set up future messages for colleagues that would appear when you were on holiday and have suitable gaps between to appear you were responding to them.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

You are in a maze of twisty little passages all alike
Take vaccine
You take the vaccine. Your hands turn blue and fall off.

After you look through a key hole and get jabbed in the eye.

 

[C R]

Off to look for an android nethack clone

 

[mjr]

So I took an hour off work and went to the vaccination centre for a booked booster... but I was refused entry because it hasn't been 180 days yet and Norfolk and Waveney CCG (who operate that centre) are still sticking to that. Why the fark did it let me book there without warning, then? Seems like someone goofed. I seem to have a knack for finding these.

I cannot rebook now until they mark me as a no-show and I was told about 50 people were refused entry to that centre this morning alone. Nothing on the CCG website about when they will change anything.

 

[midlife]

seems like my CCG are sticking to the 6 month rule as well..........

https://northcumbriaccg.nhs.uk/dropins

 

[MrGrumpy]

180 days it’s 3 months or 12 weeks now up here? It was prior to omnicron 6 month or 24 weeks?