I wonder what year this was. Domain has been registered since at least 1996.
I used to play football with this guys son and had no idea who he was until now. Wow!
I saw something about this on tiktok the other week, never heard of the company before, went and ordered some pink shortbread from them.
I love how forward thinking that dude was to set up a website and online ordering before anyone really knew what it was! I can’t imagine how it must have been to see the internet as a new thing.
The Day to Day had that era spot on.
A quick glance at the currency cat.
What technological advancement we’re experiencing today that is the equivalent of what internet was in the 90s / early 2000s?
This actually a really decent three minutes explanation of how the internet works. You sometimes forget that folk would have had zero concept of how it works not that long ago.
Loving the over the top ‘The Day Today’ style graphics
He sounds EXACTLY like the guy who does Brain Blaze on YouTube.
its like Look Around You
Gosh, this put a smile on my face. Fair play to’em at the time.
For some reason c:\windows\desktop\botham’s web\japan\cakes.gif returns a 404
I assume the bloke hid his time machine when the BBC arrived and is now sitting on at least £100million worth of Bitcoin and shares in Apple/Google.
You’re not one of those Internet nerds, are you?
Thought this was a deleted scene from ‘Look Around You’.
I’m actually very jealous of the people who got to live through this.
Sure, there are loads of great things on the internet now, and I really appreciate the quantity of free educational resources (eg several of Axler’s math textbooks posted for free on his website, many YouTube lecture series etc).
However I can’t help but feel the ratio of genuinely useful or interesting content to addictive crap is massively skewed now.
I understand there were always stupid videos and thirst traps since the birth of the internet, but the computing power now dedicated to maximising individual attention with tailored feeds is disgusting :/
Just checked their website and Mike looks like he’s living the life as a consultant for them now, after retiring as MD. Nice. 👍🏼
People loved that whole ‘walking into the computer’ thing in the 90s didn’t they
Did they really show a list of customer email addresses?!
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That handwriting icing is an absolute skill, what a delightful thing to watch.
What that website needs is some flaming text and a load of animated Gifs.
Love that they’ve released dozens of email addresses in this clip. That damnable so-called “web site”.
https://www.botham.co.uk/fruit-cake
You can still order now!
I wonder what year this was. Domain has been registered since at least 1996.
I used to play football with this guys son and had no idea who he was until now. Wow!
I saw something about this on tiktok the other week, never heard of the company before, went and ordered some pink shortbread from them.
I love how forward thinking that dude was to set up a website and online ordering before anyone really knew what it was! I can’t imagine how it must have been to see the internet as a new thing.
The Day to Day had that era spot on.
A quick glance at the currency cat.
What technological advancement we’re experiencing today that is the equivalent of what internet was in the 90s / early 2000s?
This actually a really decent three minutes explanation of how the internet works. You sometimes forget that folk would have had zero concept of how it works not that long ago.
Loving the over the top ‘The Day Today’ style graphics
He sounds EXACTLY like the guy who does Brain Blaze on YouTube.
its like Look Around You
Gosh, this put a smile on my face. Fair play to’em at the time.
For some reason c:\windows\desktop\botham’s web\japan\cakes.gif returns a 404
I assume the bloke hid his time machine when the BBC arrived and is now sitting on at least £100million worth of Bitcoin and shares in Apple/Google.
You’re not one of those Internet nerds, are you?
Thought this was a deleted scene from ‘Look Around You’.
I’m actually very jealous of the people who got to live through this.
Sure, there are loads of great things on the internet now, and I really appreciate the quantity of free educational resources (eg several of Axler’s math textbooks posted for free on his website, many YouTube lecture series etc).
However I can’t help but feel the ratio of genuinely useful or interesting content to addictive crap is massively skewed now.
I understand there were always stupid videos and thirst traps since the birth of the internet, but the computing power now dedicated to maximising individual attention with tailored feeds is disgusting :/
Just checked their website and Mike looks like he’s living the life as a consultant for them now, after retiring as MD. Nice. 👍🏼
People loved that whole ‘walking into the computer’ thing in the 90s didn’t they
Did they really show a list of customer email addresses?!