A sheep, a werewolf and a walrus walk into a bar.

(26-10-2021, 05:34 PM)Neowise Wrote: [ -> ]

(26-10-2021, 05:25 PM)Wichita Lineman Wrote: [ -> ]But how did anyone find Amazon if they couldnt Google it? 

well, they would gopher them, or use altivista or yahoo search on there netscape browser.
yahoo was like a directory back then, where you'd submit the site into the books category. altavista was like a predecessor to google, where it scraped the web, but finding stuff was just a chore. google redefined internet search so much so that it gained the term, to google for stuff

Oh jesus, remember Altavista... 

I would have thought Netflix was the most recent, thank Christ that didn't come up!

(26-10-2021, 05:54 PM)Zaph Wrote: [ -> ]I remember in the early days of the internet Guinness installed PCs for anyone to use in a few pubs, including McGowan's in Phibsboro.  We were there one afternoon and we decided to have a play with it and within minutes we were chatting with someone in Ohio or somewhere like that.  Accessing it was a bit of a chore iirc, it was all done through Netscape, but it was so incredible we didn't care how long it took.  Kids these days would lose their minds waiting for a 28.8k dial-up modem to get going.

The funny thing is, stories like this will become this generation's version of our grandparent's telling us how they got to school

Back in my day, telephones were fixed to the wall in your house, you couldn't just walk around with them. If you wanted to make a call when you were out and about, you had to use a telephone booth on the street. What's a telephone booth? I'll explain later. And if you wanted to connect to the internet, you had to sit at a giant screen in the corner of the living room. And you couldn't connect to the internet and talk on the phone to someone at the same time. How did we watch Netflix? Oh boy, are you in for a surprise, let me first tell you about this incredible device called a VCR...

Those telephone booths had calling cards that actually became collector's items.

(26-10-2021, 06:20 PM)aaronjennings Wrote: [ -> ]Back in my day, telephones were fixed to the wall in your house, you couldn't just walk around with them.

Telephone on the wall?  Ooohhh, fancy.  The rest of us had to make do with the telephone table in the hall.  If you were really lucky you had one with a seat as part of it.

Do you remember when people starting to get a cordless phone, i.e. the LAN line phone that you could take around the house? When they first came out, not many, if any, had mobile phones, so it was quite something. That reminds me: remember when mobile phones were for making and receiving calls? Moving on: remember texts? 

Gosh, texts, 25p per text! Having to type numbers repeatedly to get letters, especially S or Z where you had to press 7 or 9 FOUR times before the letter would come up!

Conversation on the Dart before texts became a thing, when commuter's mobile rings. "Hi Love. Yeah I'm nearly home. I got those messages. I'll talk to you when I get home".

(26-10-2021, 04:46 PM)aaronjennings Wrote: [ -> ]Mmm... happy to be throught, but annoyed that I wasted a lifeline, I probably would have come to the same conclusion without it

I was the same as you, used 50/50 and left with the two answers I was stuck between. Glad I went with my gut, but probably could have done similar without the 50/50.

(26-10-2021, 06:34 PM)quickbeam Wrote: [ -> ]Those telephone booths had calling cards that actually became collector's items.

Or before that the A and B buttons, I was very young so I never knew what they were for.

The excitement when we first got the landline and the race to answer the phone, back then there was no caller display and no one thought twice about answering.

Gosh yeah. Still not sure what A and B are. I remember getting our first phone too, and the excitement. I remember too that our phone number going from 6 digits to 7 digits. I still remember the number too.

(26-10-2021, 08:56 PM)quickbeam Wrote: [ -> ]Gosh yeah.  Still not sure what A and B are.  I remember getting our first phone too, and the excitement.  I remember too that our phone number going from 6 digits to 7 digits.  I still remember the number too.

Oooh, we went from 5 digits to 7, still remember mine and a primary school friends, and my grandparents!

We didn't have our own phone line in the house for ages, there was a line between my grandparents and ours. If my parents wanted to make a call, one of us would be sent over to Nana to switch the line over. And we had to put 20p into the box for the cost of the call too!
She often just switched it over to ours, and if it rang and was for them, we would be sent over to get her to pick up the phone and transfer the call too.

Welcome back. Question 10 is worth €32,000 and a correct answer here will guarantee you at least that amount.

Lets play, Who wants to be a FoG millionaire?

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I feel like I'm getting picked on here with all these music questions..

Not even a sports question to make up for it...

Oh gods, no sport please.

(27-10-2021, 09:10 AM)Trigger Wrote: [ -> ]I feel like I'm getting picked on here with all these music questions..

Not even a sports question to make up for it...

You need to stay in because I'm saving you as my phone a friend for the sports question.

(27-10-2021, 09:39 AM)cee_jay Wrote: [ -> ]

(27-10-2021, 09:10 AM)Trigger Wrote: [ -> ]I feel like I'm getting picked on here with all these music questions..

Not even a sports question to make up for it...

You need to stay in because I'm saving you as my phone a friend for the sports question.

Kol said that you can still be a Phone A Friend even if not in the competition. You cam also be in The Audience, i.e. submit an answer which will be taken into account if someone Asks the Audience.

I think I'm right with this one.

(27-10-2021, 09:16 AM)quickbeam Wrote: [ -> ]Oh gods, no sport please.

More sports questions! (apart from the sports I don't like, obviously)

I've got a feeling in my gut that I know the answer but...



...so ring ring, ring ring...

(27-10-2021, 11:33 AM)E.N. Wrote: [ -> ]I've got a feeling in my gut that I know the answer but...



...so ring ring, ring ring...

I did that at 9am this morning as soon as I read the question

(27-10-2021, 11:54 AM)Trigger Wrote: [ -> ]

(27-10-2021, 11:33 AM)E.N. Wrote: [ -> ]...so ring ring, ring ring...

I did that at 9am this morning as soon as I read the question

My new friend agreed with my gut feel, which is good. But now I wish I'd had more courage in my convictions

(27-10-2021, 11:56 AM)E.N. Wrote: [ -> ]

(27-10-2021, 11:54 AM)Trigger Wrote: [ -> ]I did that at 9am this morning as soon as I read the question

My new friend agreed with my gut feel, which is good. But now I wish I'd had more courage in my convictions

Considering I had 0 knowledge of the question, 25% chance of getting it right, I feel a lot more confident after reading my friends comments.

@Kol , can we bank after we've seen a question? I've a feeling I'm getting to that point.

(27-10-2021, 12:05 PM)Leg End Reject Wrote: [ -> ]@Kol , can we bank after we've seen a question? I've a feeling I'm getting to that point.

Yes you can, or you can use all 3 lifelines on a question and still bank. Same format as the original show.

Just @Neowise left to answer today.

sorry for the hold up...

All answers are in, unfortunately for some not the correct answers.

80% of ye better not have been wrong!

Apologies to my new friends if I'm wrong!

(27-10-2021, 07:00 PM)Leg End Reject Wrote: [ -> ]Apologies to my new friends if I'm wrong!

Nobody wanted to be my friend today

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It was hard but I resisted the temptation to check the answer after I submitted. I'm only about 50/50 on my answer.

Edit: and picked wrong

(27-10-2021, 07:02 PM)quickbeam Wrote: [ -> ]It was hard but I resisted the temptation to check the answer after I submitted.  I'm only about 50/50 on my answer.

Edit: and picked wrong

Oh no, did you go for Irving Berlin? I narrowed it down to those 2 but knew I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas was Irving's famous song.

Phew, thank you audience, I just blindly decided to go with the majority before the percentages even came in

(27-10-2021, 07:05 PM)Leg End Reject Wrote: [ -> ]Oh no, did you go for Irving Berlin? I narrowed it down to those 2 but knew I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas was Irving's famous song.

No, ruled out Berlin and Porter quickly. I was 50/50 between Copeland and Gershwin. Well, a little surer about Copeland, which is why I went with him in the end. Ah well. I didn't need that €16K anyway I 100% would have taken the money if it was real life.