Topic: A paper from 1992
Anonymous A started this discussion 11 years ago #45,574
Was he right?Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 17 minutes later[^] [v] #601,327
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 37 minutes later, 55 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #601,329
Meh, they said Sinclair's C5 would change the world... What happened with that?
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 33 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #601,334
@OP
Moronic Twitter users had a field day with a Sun page lead from 1992 pouring scorn on the invention of the internet headlined: “COMPUTER ‘WEB’ TO CHANGE BILLIONS OF LIVES (YEAH, RIGHT)”.
Among those to tweet the pic convinced that it was a real cutting were:
@annesauras: Journalism looked down the gun barrel and laughed
@HarryReekieCNN: brilliant.... look what The Sun wrote about the Internet two decades ago
@MarthaLaneFox: hilarious. how the sun newspaper reported tim b-l discovery of www
@Heathy278: Proof that the Sun knows bugger all
Of course anyone with half a brain cell would have noticed that the Dot Comme byline might suggest the piece was a spoof.
And those with brain cells in double figures would have recalled The Sun’s brilliant millennium book of spoof front pages Hold Ye Front Page, now reborn as www.holdyefrontpage.co.uk – an educational website.
The @holdyefrontpage Twitter account had great fun mocking the various Twitter users who were caught out.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/spoof-cutting-sun-makes-twits-tweeters
Moronic Twitter users had a field day with a Sun page lead from 1992 pouring scorn on the invention of the internet headlined: “COMPUTER ‘WEB’ TO CHANGE BILLIONS OF LIVES (YEAH, RIGHT)”.
Among those to tweet the pic convinced that it was a real cutting were:
@annesauras: Journalism looked down the gun barrel and laughed
@HarryReekieCNN: brilliant.... look what The Sun wrote about the Internet two decades ago
@MarthaLaneFox: hilarious. how the sun newspaper reported tim b-l discovery of www
@Heathy278: Proof that the Sun knows bugger all
Of course anyone with half a brain cell would have noticed that the Dot Comme byline might suggest the piece was a spoof.
And those with brain cells in double figures would have recalled The Sun’s brilliant millennium book of spoof front pages Hold Ye Front Page, now reborn as www.holdyefrontpage.co.uk – an educational website.
The @holdyefrontpage Twitter account had great fun mocking the various Twitter users who were caught out.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/spoof-cutting-sun-makes-twits-tweeters