AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
The Internet has lost its original purpose
- Thread starter Shut Up Legs
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luckyfox
She's the cats pajamas
- Location
- County Durham
On Sunday morning I had a look through twitter and followed a link for running advice.. big mistake! Within minutes my phone looked like a Christmas tree lighting up page after page of adverts, it froze and I had to switch it off to make it stop. Once it came back on I had a text confirming the purchase of '2 x vids' and a charge of £12.00 added to my bill!!!
Took me a while but eventually I got hold of the company who had in fact charged me for nuddy vids! Clearly it wasn't me as it's a sin to do that on a Sunday
They agreed to 'refund as a gesture of good will' and blocked my number from the service so it doesn't happen again. (A few people have been caught out with this company so be wary)
Moral of the story... use trusted sites!
Took me a while but eventually I got hold of the company who had in fact charged me for nuddy vids! Clearly it wasn't me as it's a sin to do that on a Sunday
They agreed to 'refund as a gesture of good will' and blocked my number from the service so it doesn't happen again. (A few people have been caught out with this company so be wary)Moral of the story... use trusted sites!
OP
OP
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
Well, we can't be wary if we don't know what company it is (hint, hint, ...).On Sunday morning I had a look through twitter and followed a link for running advice.. big mistake! Within minutes my phone looked like a Christmas tree lighting up page after page of adverts, it froze and I had to switch it off to make it stop. Once it came back on I had a text confirming the purchase of '2 x vids' and a charge of £12.00 added to my bill!!!
Took me a while but eventually I got hold of the company who had in fact charged me for nuddy vids! Clearly it wasn't me as it's a sin to do that on a Sunday
Moral of the story... use trusted sites!
luckyfox
She's the cats pajamas
- Location
- County Durham
Cheeky beggar! All it shows is XFunKey and the contact number 02035405930. I'm sure the internet has billions of perfectly acceptable free videos like that
Davidc
Guru
- Location
- Somerset UK
In the eighties the web hadn't been invented and the internet was the sparkling new way to exchange files (FTP). Then came email (I think it had been around since ARPANET but I hadn't met it) and things were looking downhill - I think it was the third or fourth I received that was the first rude one!
The web was an interesting novelty when I met it, I think it was 1992, but very soon it showed how limiting MODEM speeds of 20ish then 30ish kb/s were. Fortunately I had access to the blistering speed of 128kb/s when at work!
I agree with vernons posts. I wouldn't go back to the chaotic muddle of slow incompatibility and universal instability of 20 years ago. For all its faults the web as it is now, coupled to faster data rates, is a lot more useful and reliable.
I'm not convinced that the web had a purpose. The internet, email, and FTP all did, but the web was always a flexible tool that could be used for anything anyone dreamt up for it. A sort of Swiss Army Knife for the then infant online digital world.
The web was an interesting novelty when I met it, I think it was 1992, but very soon it showed how limiting MODEM speeds of 20ish then 30ish kb/s were. Fortunately I had access to the blistering speed of 128kb/s when at work!
I agree with vernons posts. I wouldn't go back to the chaotic muddle of slow incompatibility and universal instability of 20 years ago. For all its faults the web as it is now, coupled to faster data rates, is a lot more useful and reliable.
I'm not convinced that the web had a purpose. The internet, email, and FTP all did, but the web was always a flexible tool that could be used for anything anyone dreamt up for it. A sort of Swiss Army Knife for the then infant online digital world.
classic33
Leg End Member
Run from home, by two Chinese men.Cheeky beggar! All it shows is XFunKey and the contact number 02035405930. I'm sure the internet has billions of perfectly acceptable free videos like that
PaulSecteur
No longer a Specialized fanboy
- Location
- Walsall, West Mids.
Anyone miss the "bingy-boingy-screetchy" noise of a dialup modem?
swee'pea99
Squire
I'm not sure the internet ever had an 'original purpose' as such...it kind of evolved out of technology development - an interesting example of a capability that grew to find an application. But certainly it's a staggeringly brilliant resource that no-one who'd experienced life without it would ever want to lose.
Just the other day I was saying to my wife what a boon it was to be able to access so quickly and easily any number of ideas about what to do with a glut of green tomatoes. In the old days you'd have had to go to the library and spend an hour pulling out book after book, looking in the index for 'Tomatoes' and hoping to find entries reading 'Tomatoes (green)', then search through for the entries before finding nothing there you hadn't already seen before, with everything you actually did find then having to be laboriously copied down with pen & paper. And of course you could only do any of this when the library was actually open. And after that hour, you'd probably have only a tiny fraction of what you could find online in two minutes.
Now you just cross the room to the PC, type in 'Using green tomatoes', and one second later - ta-da! - the world is your lobster. Magic!
Just the other day I was saying to my wife what a boon it was to be able to access so quickly and easily any number of ideas about what to do with a glut of green tomatoes. In the old days you'd have had to go to the library and spend an hour pulling out book after book, looking in the index for 'Tomatoes' and hoping to find entries reading 'Tomatoes (green)', then search through for the entries before finding nothing there you hadn't already seen before, with everything you actually did find then having to be laboriously copied down with pen & paper. And of course you could only do any of this when the library was actually open. And after that hour, you'd probably have only a tiny fraction of what you could find online in two minutes.
Now you just cross the room to the PC, type in 'Using green tomatoes', and one second later - ta-da! - the world is your lobster. Magic!
CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
- Location
- London
I don't recall much spam in the early Usenet days, though it did come later, but agree on websites. Anyone yearning for those early days can travel back in time:
http://www.wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/
CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
- Location
- London
Fidonet was <fouryorkshiremen>loooxury</fym>. Before that I was logging-in to three different TBBS boards (with my 300-baud acoustic coupler).
CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
- Location
- London
What the hell kind of connection are you on? TalkTalk?! No webpage takes more than a second or two to load here.
Oh yes and dialup connections that cost the same as an international call, before phreaking and bluebleep made know-nothing scriptkiddies the kings of cracking
Whatever the internet's original purpose was (debatable), its curent purpose is surveillance: http://www.theguardian.com/technolo...is-price-of-a-free-web-advertising?CMP=twt_gu
What I miss about the 1990s internet is decentralisation. These days everything is Google or Amazon or Facebook or Twitter which means that (1) anyone trying to change that has network effects stacked agsint them; (2) most of the people even attempting (1) don't want to decentralise anyway, they want to replace the current chokepoints with their own
tl;dr I liked the net when it was built on protocols, not platforms
What I miss about the 1990s internet is decentralisation. These days everything is Google or Amazon or Facebook or Twitter which means that (1) anyone trying to change that has network effects stacked agsint them; (2) most of the people even attempting (1) don't want to decentralise anyway, they want to replace the current chokepoints with their own
tl;dr I liked the net when it was built on protocols, not platforms
