Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire?

[Leg End Reject]

I had the Bridge on Spies album ... on cassette!

I loved Friends Like These and You Give Up.

[Trigger]

Holy smokes! @Trigger your guess was spot on!

Don't thank me..

Thank wheelofnames.com

[Barna77]

I thought Bridge of Spies was a movie? Tom Hanks in it maybe? Was it based on a book?

What I'm saying is don't phone me.

I had read recently about the bridge of spies in Berlin, and there was some mention about an album called after it, but I couldn't remember the band.
The 50/50 narrowed it nicely 

[Declan A Walsh]

Like a lot here, I was able to rule out The Cure and Depeche Mode as I knew they had albums before 1987. It didn't really matter at that point, but I was also pretty sure that Depeche Mode did not have an album with that title. That just left two possible answers. I knew that the Saw Doctors became well-known later than 1987, but that did not rule out the possibility that they were an unknown act at that stage. However, I was pretty sure I had in fact heard the name of their first album (which I could not remember!) and it wasn't Bridge of Spies, if it was their first! Besides, that was not the kind of album title I would expect from The Saw Doctors! That just left T'Pau. They were big in 1987. In fact, they had a few hits. Heart and Soul was their first hit, but, understandably, everyone thinks of China In Our Hands, because it was a massive hit for them. I heard a few of their singles - repeats of Top of The Pops on BBC4 help to remind me in the last year or two - and I have to say that I particularly can't stand China in Our Hands! Anyway, given the tiny possibilities with The Saw Doctors, I was about 95% certain it was T'Pau, so I took a slight risk on it.

[Kol]

Welcome back, hope you all had a good weekend and listened to Bridge of Spies.
Let's play, Who wants to be a FoG millionaire?

[Kol]

   

[Neowise]

Smug face 

[Leg End Reject]

I think I know this, but I'm doubting myself.

[Trigger]

I've submitted, I'm 99% sure.. submitting early so that I don't overthink it and get on with my day ha

[nothing]

I've submitted, I'm 99% sure.. submitting early so that I don't overthink it and get on with my day ha

Same, though only 25% sure!

[Leg End Reject]

Answered, I'm only 50% sure now.

[Neowise]

Answered, I'm only 50% sure now.

Ive yourT’pau level of confidence and i used your exact wording to repay the favour if needed, but as you’ve answered already, can’t do that anymore, good luck.

[Leg End Reject]

Answered, I'm only 50% sure now.

Ive yourT’pau level of confidence and i used your exact wording to repay the favour if needed, but as you’ve answered already, can’t do that anymore, good luck.

I've already used my phone a friend, but I did notice that so thank you.

[E.N.]

I've submitted, I'm 99% sure.. submitting early so that I don't overthink it and get on with my day ha

Similar, but far less confident

[Kol]

Everyone has answered, standby for the results.

We have our first wrongs answers.

[Wichita Lineman]

[E.N.]

[quickbeam]

We have our first wrongs answers.

I Phoned A Friend. If it turns out I got the wrong answer there'll be hell to pay. Never mind that they gave the same answer that I was leaning towards anyway. It'll be 100% their fault.

[E.N.]

Has to be the dusty old bookshop, surely...?

[aaronjennings]

Had to use my 50/50 today... left me with the two answers I was torn between

[Kol]

   

   

[Kol]

Player	Amount	50/50	Phone a Friend	Ask the Audience
Aaron	€16,000	x	x
Barna	€16,000	x
CeeJay	€16,000	x
E.N.	€16,000	x
Edser	€16,000	x		x
LER	€16,000	x	x
Neowise	€16,000	x	x
nothing	€16,000		x
QB	€16,000	x	x	x
Shane	€16,000		x	x
Trigger	€16,000	x
Zaph	€16,000	x		x
Declan	€1,000		x	x
Wichey	€1,000

[Trigger]

Boom boom!

[aaronjennings]

Mmm... happy to be throught, but annoyed that I wasted a lifeline, I probably would have come to the same conclusion without it

[quickbeam]

Thanks Trig. Never doubted you

I'm the first to have used all lifelines now.

[E.N.]

Has to be the dusty old bookshop, surely...?

Whoo-hoo!

Guessing it's then Google, Facebook, Netflix, in that order...?

[Trigger]

Netflix before each Google and Facebook I thibk.. they started ages ago mail order dvd's.. you can still buy/rent dvd's in the states

Google was end of the 90's I'm sure while Facebook was definitely 2000's

[E.N.]

Has to be the dusty old bookshop, surely...?

Whoo-hoo!

Guessing it's then Google, Facebook, Netflix, in that order...?

No, Netflix was dvd rental from 97

Amazon 94, Netflix 97, Google 98, Facebook 04

[Kol]

I think its

amazon 1994
Netflix 1995
Google 1197
Facebook 2004

[Zaph]

Phew, I asked the audience. Thanks, you did well folks.

[quickbeam]

Maybe I should have gone with my gut and saved a lifeline These were my thoughts at 10.16am:

Again, need to think this out...
A) Google - pretty sure there was a bit birthday for Google recently, 20, or 25 years going? That would mean founded 1996-2001.
B) Amazon - not sure. Long before Alexa and Prime, it was a book seller, which is pretty low tech. It may even have been mail order and not online at first.
C) Facebook - well, here I refer to The Social Network, but when was that set? Late 90s at the earliest. I think I can rule this out.
D) Netflix - like Amazon it was fairly low tech to start with, a service that would post out DVDs to you with an envelope included so you could post it back to them after watching.

Am thinking Amazon or Netflix. Probably leaning more towards Amazon.

Trig seems confident, I could ask him. Or, I could risk Amazon.

Until deciding to Phone at 12.05pm.

Just checked, and:
Google - 1998
Amazon - 1994
Facebook - 2004
Netflix - 1997

[E.N.]

Netflix before each Google and Facebook I thibk.. they started ages ago mail order dvd's.. you can still buy/rent dvd's in the states

As soon as a I read it I knew that too. Lucky they weren't the answer!

[Declan A Walsh]

My first thought was to ask for 50-50 and then I dismissed it and headed down the cul-de-sac, rather like a lot of contestants in the Jeremy Clarkson era! I did not realise that Amazon had a pre-internet existence, likewise with Netflix. At least, you know I wasn't cheating! 

[Neowise]

My first thought was to ask for 50-50 and then I dismissed it and headed down the cul-de-sac, rather like a lot of contestants in the Jeremy Clarkson era! I did not realise that Amazon had a pre-internet existence, likewise with Netflix. At least, you know I wasn't cheating! 

Amazon did not have a pre internet existence. It started as an online bookstore, that is, selling books over the web.
Later expandin into selling everything, not just books.

Netflix was dvd movie rental via the post, before it became movie streamer.

[nothing]

I think its

amazon 1994
Netflix 1995
Google 1197
Facebook 2004

1197?! I know google are all powerful, just didn't realise they'd been around so long

The relief!

[Wichita Lineman]

But how did anyone find Amazon if they couldnt Google it? 

[nothing]

yahoo or ask jeeves!

[Neowise]

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

[Trigger]

Yahoo was indeed the big search engine back in those days, failing that you just had to ask in the yahoo chat rooms for a link and hope for the best

[Zaph]

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.