Internet Age and the Pint

I don't know if these still exist, I certainly haven't seen one in a pub for ages.

But I remember when this internet fad first started you'd get the odd pub which would have a great big clunky PC in the corner, hooked up to the web so the average punter could check their stock, find a cure for cancer, write sonnets, or possibly just look at tits.

They had one in my local up in Middlesbrough. It sat in a corner and gathered dust. The only time I ever saw someone attempt to use it was when some pissed up old fella sauntered over with his pub lunch and started bashing the buttons on the monitor in an adgitated fashion.

"What the fuck are you doing?" Demanded the landlord, it was that sort of pub.

The old boy turned to the landlord and said, "My pie and chips 'ave gone cold. I want to warm um up in this thing..."

The PC disappeared a few weeks later. We got an Adams Family pinball maching instead. Much more fun.
( SpankyHanky, Wed 11 Feb 2009, 9:54, 5 replies)

As an ex* Cov kid yourself you'd know...

The Internet has only just hit Coventry.

ALL our PCs are big, clunky, and powered by steam.

Round here we still point at aeroplanes.

*If you could give me the details on exactly how you escaped, I'd appreciate it :)
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Wed 11 Feb 2009, 10:02, closed)

I was thrown out
I got a lighter out and sparked up a cigarette just outside Marks & Spencers. The locals saw a strange man making fire from thin air. I think someone shouted: "Warlock!" And before I knew it I was on the outskirts of the city, badly bruised, but alive.
( SpankyHanky, Wed 11 Feb 2009, 10:05, closed)

My boyfriend lives in Coventry and doesn't have internet
He's at uni there and his room in halls has never had internet, some of his friends used to, but don't anymore - Coventry's going backwards if that's even possible!
(deadly_sinners, Wed 11 Feb 2009, 11:18, closed)

So's everywhere from what I gather.
we used to have a cable network running all over the city (Aberdeen).

Then the last recession ended, the city ended up bloody loaded, and the cable company went bust.
So we're stuck- as a pretty well-off, almost recession-proof ('cos of the oil, y'see) city- with the crappy BT network.
I'm moving back to Dundee. It may be a shithole, but it's a shithole with cheap booze, 20Mbps internets and non-murdoch TV...
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Wed 11 Feb 2009, 12:23, closed)

That must
have been in one of the posh estates - Marton or Acklam perhaps.

Would have been nicked in twenty seconds flat in most of the local pubs I used to (and still do) frequent
(apollo36uk, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 12:10, closed)