Lets take a minute to appreciate how great the internet is.

BetterThanThou

I was just browsing through Netflix, and it just hit me how great Netflix truly is. You've got as many movies and TV shows as you want, a huge selection, for the price of 2 or 3 movie rentals, in HD quality, at your very finger tips, and it's fairly up to date.
Then you've got sites like eBay, gone are the days of looking around a million shops to find an Egyptian staff, you can order one at the click of a button.

sea_monkey

A person can now learn everything there is to know about anything if they choose to. From physics to geography to history.

But yeah, cats.

Red Pepper

BetterThanThou wrote: »

I was just browsing through Netflix, and it just hit me how great Netflix truly is. You've got as many movies and TV shows as you want, a huge selection, for the price of 2 or 3 movie rentals, in HD quality, at your very finger tips, and it's fairly up to date.
Then you've got sites like eBay, gone are the days of looking around a million shops to find an Egyptian staff, you can order one at the click of a button.

Are you Harrison Ford?

The Moldy Gowl

Boobies

Lawrence1895

I'm listening to a radio station from Germany, it's called NetRadio, as in InterNet...great stuff, the internet is

dodderangler

Red Pepper wrote: »

Are you Harrison Ford?

Na his name is Moses

TeddyTedson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlGztHbDspg

hfallada

BetterThanThou wrote: »

I was just browsing through Netflix, and it just hit me how great Netflix truly is. You've got as many movies and TV shows as you want, a huge selection, for the price of 2 or 3 movie rentals, in HD quality, at your very finger tips, and it's fairly up to date.
Then you've got sites like eBay, gone are the days of looking around a million shops to find an Egyptian staff, you can order one at the click of a button.

And by netflix do you mean adult entertainment sites?

BetterThanThou

BetterThanThou wrote: »

Then you've got sites like eBay, gone are the days of looking around a million shops to find Egyptian staff, you can order one at the click of a button.

It's a lot of hassle hiring non-EU people though.

rwg

BetterThanThou wrote: »

I was just browsing through Netflix, and it just hit me how great Netflix truly is. You've got as many movies and TV shows as you want, a huge selection, for the price of 2 or 3 movie rentals, in HD quality, at your very finger tips, and it's fairly up to date.
Then you've got sites like eBay, gone are the days of looking around a million shops to find an Egyptian staff, you can order one at the click of a button.

Netflix - fairly up to date?

dodderangler

So internet Is great because of netflix?
Have you heard of porn?

Akrasia

Its a disgrace. My internet connection is so slow it's only capable of downloading 8 million bits of information a second. It's like living in the middle ages.

C14N

Akrasia wrote: »

Its a disgrace. My internet connection is so slow it's only capable of downloading 8 million bits of information a second. It's like living in the middle ages.

How awful, do you have to watch Youtube videos in 720p instead of 1080p?

Ruu

Someone needs the phone, have to sign off!

Sir Arthur Daley

Ruubot2 wrote: »

Someone needs the phone, have to sign off!

Ah one of the many curses of dial up.

Dj Grimreefer

Sir Arther Daley wrote: »

Ah one of the many curses of dial up.

or telephone wire getting kicked out not only disconnecting you but also breaking the little clip so now it doesnt stay in, can't say I miss those days although I like to hear the old crazy modem sounds now and again

3rdDegree

We have a tool that provides us with access to the sum of all human knowledge, and we use it to watch videos of people falling down!

obplayer

3rdDegree wrote: »

We have a tool that provides us with access to the sum of all human knowledge, and we use it to watch videos of people falling down!

We can do both!

Mickey H

3rdDegree wrote: »

We have a tool that provides us with access to the sum of all human knowledge, and we use it to watch videos of people falling down!

Yes, those are the videos we watch.

Karl Stein

1985.

Buy camera.
Buy film.
Take photo.
Bring film to Chemist.
Chemist sends it to third party.
Third party sends it back to Chemist.
Collect photos from chemist.
Bring home to view.
Back to chemist to get copies made.
Collect copies.
Post copies to friends/family.

Now.

Take pic with phone.
Send.

sdanseo

Let's be fair, Netflix is not bad and well worth €7 a month especially as I'm making use of the 2 simultaneous streams, but a "great selection" is pushing it just a little. For movies, it's mediocre at very best. A bit better for box sets but even then only if there's some you enjoy.

There are many other things that help make the internet. What if Google didn't exist? Woe betide us if boards wasn't around to expel our sometimes totally incorrect opinions, and where would we be without pr0n?

ardle1

I bet God had a tear in his eye and felt proud when we invented, eh! clothes, tools, factories, processed food etc.... But I've a funny feeling when we invented the 'Internet' he said to himself..... 'hey wait a minute, now your taking the piss, ah fcuk it leave them at it, I'm havin a beer'......


The internet rules, Here's to many more years off Internet hilarity......

rwg

Karl Stein wrote: »

1985.

Buy camera.
Buy film.
Take photo.
Bring film to Chemist.
Chemist sends it to third party.
Third party sends it back to Chemist.
Collect photos from chemist.
Bring home to view.
Back to chemist to get copies made.
Collect copies.
Post copies to friends/family.

Now.

Take pic with phone.
Send.

you could do that with no Internet access :P

Cantremember

Karl Stein wrote: »

1985.

Buy camera.
Buy film.
Take photo.
Bring film to Chemist.
Chemist sends it to third party.
Third party sends it back to Chemist.
Collect photos from chemist.
Bring home to view.
Back to chemist to get copies made.
Collect copies.
Post copies to friends/family.

Now.

Take pic with phone.
Send.

Family and friends think: Christ not another batch of "our holiday in (insert exotic country name).

Karl Stein

rwg wrote: »

you could do that with no Internet access :P

Fair point. I was thinking of Viber where you can do it essentially for free.

efb

I hearts internet

Cantremember

sdeire wrote: »

where would we be without pr0n?

Trying to pick up our food with a fr0k? Wondering who would win the Masters gl0f? And on and on and n0.

Arthur Beesley

3rdDegree wrote: »

We have a tool that provides us with access to the sum of all human knowledge, and we use it to watch videos of people falling down!

Can it tell me how many eyes has four flies and a geefer?

SCOOP 64

Karl Stein wrote: »

1985.

Buy camera.
Buy film.
Take photo.
Bring film to Chemist.
Chemist sends it to third party.
Third party sends it back to Chemist.
Collect photos from chemist.
Bring home to view.
Back to chemist to get copies made.
Collect copies.
Post copies to friends/family.

Now.

Take pic with phone.
Send.

Yeah, then photo is never seen again, i like the good old days when you actually had them printed.

Calibos

Karl Stein wrote: »

1985.

Buy camera.
Buy film.
Take photo.
Bring film to Chemist.
Chemist sends it to third party.
Third party sends it back to Chemist.
Collect photos from chemist.
Bring home to view.
Back to chemist to get copies made.
Collect copies.
Post copies to friends/family.

Now.

Take pic with phone.
Send.

I know its amazing isn't it.

I used to have to take a photo of my Dinner.
Bring the film to the chemist.
Collect the photo a few days later.
Bring it to the photo copying machine in the video shop.
Print off a load of cheap copies.
Then go round all my friends and families houses and pop the photocopies through their letterboxes!!

Kids don't know how easy they have it these days!!

rwg

efb wrote: »

I hearts internet

your doing it wrong

hashtag Internet smileyface semicolon right bracket emoticon

Capt'n Midnight

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

Ah one of the many curses of dial up.

My internet connection over wifi is only 32,768 times faster than my first 2,400 bps modem

Temptamperu

BetterThanThou wrote: »

I was just browsing through Netflix, and it just hit me how great Netflix truly is. You've got as many movies and TV shows as you want, a huge selection, for the price of 2 or 3 movie rentals, in HD quality, at your very finger tips, and it's fairly up to date.
Then you've got sites like eBay, gone are the days of looking around a million shops to find an Egyptian staff, you can order one at the click of a button.

Its all for free too if you know what you are about :pac:

JJJJNR

The internet has to be the most important human advancement ever, in terms of communication. That said if the world ended tomorrow in a dinosaur type apocalyptic event, there would be nothing of it left, no trace, and nothing to mark how advanced humankind actually got.

JJJJNR

JJJJNR wrote: »

The internet has to be the most important human advancement ever, in terms of communication.

Surely that's the telephone? People continents apart were connected via the telephone, and before that the only communication was written and posted and sailed around the world to be received perhaps months later.

Telephone beats internet in groundbreaking communication imo, but since then I'd go with net and cell phones as the biggies.

Karl Stein

JJJJNR wrote: »

The internet has to be the most important human advancement ever, in terms of communication.

I would say the first fully functional transatlantic cable was more important personally. 150 years ago communication between the the US and Europe took ten days, in clement weather, by ship.

Karl Stein

Candie wrote: »

Surely that's the telephone?

Surely it's the undersea cable?

Karl Stein wrote: »

I would say the first fully functional transatlantic cable was more important personally. 150 years ago communication between the the US and Europe took ten days, in clement weather, by ship.

The communication satellite would be second in my books and the internet third.

Karl Stein

Karl Stein wrote: »

Surely it's the undersea cable?

It was the chicken AND the egg.

Capt'n Midnight

JJJJNR wrote: »

The internet has to be the most important human advancement ever, in terms of communication. That said if the world ended tomorrow in a dinosaur type apocalyptic event, there would be nothing of it left, no trace, and nothing to mark how advanced humankind actually got.

The invention of language not more importanter ?

Also we've left stuff on the moon that will be there for ages

rwg

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The invention of language not more importanter ?

Also we've left stuff on the moon that will be there for ages

importanter?

job seeker

Even better when you can download free of charge OP..

Capt'n Midnight

rwg wrote: »

importanter?

It's a perfectly cromulant word.