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Only 90s kids will understand the pain of this TV clip featuring a really long website address

Only 90s kids will understand the pain of this TV clip featuring a really long website address

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: https://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.

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