The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. Never has one man proved this adage quite as perfectly as Toby Anstis in a newly resurfaced clip from the 1990s.
In the clip, a confused and confusing Anstis, reading off a piece of paper, says:
We now have a World Wide Web page on the internet so you can access the information yourself if you can get onto the World Wide Web.
The camera then zooms in on the computer and the website address is revealed: http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/bbctv/childrens/presentation
Once upon a time, this was how we experienced the internet and it’s best summed up by the man at the end of the clip comparing it to “a game of Scrabble gone wrong.”
The image was rediscovered earlier this month by Twitter user Pip Madeley and people can't actually believe what they were seeing.
I think @tobyanstis deserves a knighthood for getting through this— Pip (@Pip) 1568549602
@pipmadeley Stroke!! 😂😂😂— Chrissy Kinsella (@Chrissy Kinsella) 1568551407
@pipmadeley Ahh when the internet was young.— Rik Moran (@Rik Moran) 1568549705
🕹We’re set in the 90s, but we’ve made it a bit less painful for you to buy tickets 🎟Just access the World Wide Web… https://t.co/2u9x4rFAvH— World's End @ King's Head Theatre (@World's End @ King's Head Theatre) 1568582468
Oh crap I remember the pain of TV presenters reading out ridiculous website URLs https://t.co/2SnUhUVFyo— Hayden Scott-Baron ✨ (@Hayden Scott-Baron ✨) 1568966046
This is brilliant - @tobyanstis is a living legend in my eyes 🥰 #ChildrensBBC @cbbc @CBBCMemories https://t.co/UhhZf78jxM— Tom Selway (@Tom Selway) 1568549943
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