Anomalies and timeslips

[king_pellinor]

I have just been to collect my lunch from what we optimistically refer to as the canteen.

Sky News was running a news story of which the gist seemed to be that there's this new thing called "surfing" that you can do on the Internet. They got an IT journalist in to explain: apparently you just go to a web a[age and click on any link that looks interesting - "search engines" (like Yahoo) are apparently particularly good for this - and see what you find. You can keep going as long as you like, and you don't need to be looking for anything in particular.

What the story didn't address was:

a) Why it is apparently 1995 again; and

b) Why my ID card works given that I won't join this firm for 2 years.

Comments

[chainmailmaiden]

So are you mad, in a coma or back in time? ;-)

[(Anonymous)]

Live on Mars moment...

Just wait until this evening and you'll find out how to get back.

[evilmissbecky.livejournal.com]

Dude! If you would be so kind, please to be looking up my 1995 self and tell me the winning lottery numbers. Thanks!

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

How are you receiving these comments? Via email? Then you're probably not back in time. Via mysterious phone-calls or talking test-card girls...? Then you should really worry.

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

I think it is probably something to do with these new telephones that Vodafone have invented which you can carry around with you and which can now 'surf the whole internet' according to a billboard I passed in town. Quite why anyone wants all that porn on their phone is another matter though.

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

Well that brings us forward a few years, but we're still a bit previous to 2007. Phones have had internets on for ages, haven't they?

Actually, the journalist chap was saying the advantage of a big screen was that you could open lots of windows (illustrated by windows being opened pretty much randomly all over the screen in a very confusing manner) and therefore keep track of where you'd been. This gives further weight to the idea of us being in 1995, as he's obviously never heard of Mozilla and tabbed browsing.

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

No, I'm working on some tax stuff.

Oh, wait...

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

I think the technology has been there but hideously expensive and very limited by what ISPs would provide, now I hink Vodafone have managed to get a lot more sorted out. But why?

As for opening lots of windows isn't that what happens when your unprotected school PC gets hacked by spyware and spambots? And then you lose your job, go to jail, etc etc?