Back in the days....
Way before people had media centers in their front rooms with computers connected to the interweb, tv's that can stream and search..I was there in the for front of all this modern technology in the early 1980s.(ok I was only a little nipper at the time but)
We had the Prestel service en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestel

My dad was a repair man for radio rentals we had all the gear on test before it hit the shops. I dont think it ever made it into radio rentals as the cost for the service was so ridiculously HUGE.

We had a Baird Tv (with fancy wooden laminate around the edges) with a modem built into the back of it. No keyboard All i can remember was that it was like Ceefax on demand... I think they rolled out an email system at some stage? I dunno...

Then in 1996 I went to college and started using the interwebs there
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