101 moments than you can say I was there for...

Andy Hamilton · Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:47 pm

Just thought of this one as we reached the big 2 million hit mark.

1. I was there when ssish first started (well you would hope so)
2. When ssish reached the 2 million hit mark. - ok and non selfsufficientish releated
3. On the criminal justice bill march (one of only two marches I have been on)
4. When a million people marched against the Iraq war.
5. When David Bowie played to one of the biggest ever crowds in Glastonbury (2000)

hedgewizard · Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:11 pm

I was there when a UFO appeared over a field in Dorset - nothing terribly exciting I'm afraid, just lights in the sky!

circlecross · Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:12 am

I was there when a gang of wallabies' kidnap attempt failed. it's a long story but one of those things that you were glad someone else witnessed so as to not appear mad.

hedgewizard · Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:14 am

I want to hear it!

Chickpea · Post: # 35400Post **Chickpea** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:30 am

I've been on lots of marches, against the poll tax, against the first gulf war, nuclear disarmament - do people even bother marching about that any more?

I was watching live TV new when coverage was interrupted to go to the Twin Towers which had just been struck by the first plane, and I watched live as the second plane struck, and watched all day so I saw them both come down too. Cameramen were interviewing people who had got out of the buildings but they didn't know what was going on or why they had been evacuated. On the other side of the world I knew more than some of the people in the buildings, which was very strange.

I had a home computer in 1981 and I got on the internet in 1989, before the world wide web existed, so I feel I've pretty much been in the vaguard of the home computing revolution. In the early '80s I kept telling people "One day every home will have a computer, maybe even more than one" but people didn't believe me. And in the early '90s I kept saying "One day everyone will be connected to the internet and it's going to change just about everything", but they didn't believe that either.

I saw Kate Rusby play one of her first ever paying gigs in a pub in Maghull, Merseyside, and now she's been nominated for a Mercury prize. She's dead nice as well.

Stonehead · Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:49 am

Chickpea wrote:I had a home computer in 1981 and I got on the internet in 1989, before the world wide web existed, so I feel I've pretty much been in the vaguard of the home computing revolution. In the early '80s I kept telling people "One day every home will have a computer, maybe even more than one" but people didn't believe me. And in the early '90s I kept saying "One day everyone will be connected to the internet and it's going to change just about everything", but they didn't believe that either.

Snap!

The first computer I owned was an Apple II with a then massive 48k of memory. Whoo-hoo!

Before that I'd used dumb terminals at school. They used acoustic couplers to dial in to various DEC main frames and boy, was that fun.

As for the Apple II, who else used to dial in to BBSes? Or was on ACSnet? Or got their email via UUCP? Or remembers the first connections from Oz to Arpanet? Or remembers January 1, 1983?

I was quite amused when the Web burst on to the scene and everyone "discovered" the internet. It had been there for years! Does anyone else recall the Violin and Cello browsers? And then Mosaic - on Macs, PCs and Unix?

Ah, trips down memory lane. I must be turning into an old geezer!

Merry · Post: # 35444Post **Merry** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:43 pm

I was a trainee at a nationalised industry in the early 60s when they got themselves a computer (!) for salaries, accounting etc. The boss of the new department was my table tennis partner and offered me a job in his office.
I went to my own boss to try to get a transfer but he said,
"Bad move m`dear. Stick with traditional accountancy. Computers are a flash in the pan."
I took his advice like a good little girl!

On the protest front - I was on a CND march that got mixed up with a striking miners march in the 70s in London and we swapped badges as a gesture of solidarity. I`ve still got my NUM badge!

hedgewizard · Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:42 pm

Oh yeah, I Ran The World. Which would have been OK, except I also Had My Chest Shaved For The World the day before and so got extremely chafed nipples. Ow.

red · Post: # 35623Post **red** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:33 am

I was there when we had a total eclipse of the sun - at my own house! in 1999 fantastic - the darkness rushed across the hills towards us and the chickens went in as if it were night and it was cold as well as dark... very good experience.

Mancblue · Post: # 35649Post **Mancblue** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:13 pm

1. I was there when both my children were born

2. I was there when Concord took it's last flight from Manchester Airport
3. I was at Brands hatch for the first ever A1 Grand Prix

Chickpea · Post: # 35652Post **Chickpea** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:17 pm

I was there when my children were born, too. Funny that.

Stonehead · Post: # 35732Post **Stonehead** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:09 pm

Chickpea wrote:I was there when my children were born, too. Funny that.

ROFL!

Wombat · Post: # 35813Post **Wombat** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:48 am

I was there when I was born....................just can't remember much about it.....................

Andy Hamilton · Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:50 am

I was there when Dave was born

Han&Matt · Post: # 35996Post **Han&Matt** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:12 pm

I was also watching Bowie at Glastonbury (same field as Andy)

I also watched the 1999 eclipse (on the headland at Newquay) near to Red

Robbie Williams owes me 10p! (borrowed at another Glastonbury, whilst he was fat and just out of Take That. he claimed to need to use the phone). I should claim interest I suppose...