We watched Zig Zag and Look and Read in primary. Fuck I'm old.

>>23860

Prescient.

>>23860
Look and Read was the baddest shit in town. I loved it. There were loads of them, and some were less good than others (Dark Towers pissed all over Badger Girl), but every sane child loved Look and Read.

Oddly, I remember my teacher telling us about "magic, magic E", but I had no idea there was a whole song. I get the impression I am probably midway in age between you and the OP, so perhaps my teacher just played that video every year and was sick of it by, erm, 1994ish?? and so she kept referring to it but forgot to ever actually show us the song.

With a generation of kids growing up being told about Magic Magic E in school, it's no wonder the rave culture was so big in the 90s

>>23860

Derek Griffiths is a fucking legend.

Unless he has been Yewtreed, in which case he's a beast. Can't be too careful these days.

What was that TV series where a woman had an underground tunnelling machine and would use it to travel to various countries around the world, to learn about them? The woman might have been Scottish, and it would have been a BBC series. That is absolutely everything I can remember about it. It was probably made in the early '90s, although it might theoretically have been as late as 1996. In my head the plot device that enabled the woman to go to Thailand this week looked like this thing from Thunderbirds, although I'm probably making that up. I'm sure it was a tunnel-digging thing rather than a bog-standard magic teleportation device, though.

I promise I'm not crazy! This programme did exist!

All I can remember watching at primary school was Numbertime and Letterland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXbai_m04BE
One time instead of doing double PE, my year group were brought to the assembly hall to watch a screening of Gregory's Girl. I don't know what prompted this change of events, but it was very weird. There used to be a kid who always had a copy of White Chicks on DVD with him. Every time a teacher suggested we watched a DVD as a treat, he would always bring it out. I think over the course of five years, only one teacher obliged.

Other than the World Cup 2002 England versus Brazil game and several years later the sex education video I don't really remember anything we watched in primary school. Oh, apart from The bloody Snowman. God, I couldn't stand that, no idea why but it really irritated me. Actually I remember bringing in and watching my Blue Planet tape and I think I saw some of that Final Fantasy film too. Alright, I'm stopping here, that's enough remembering for one afternoon, this could go on forever.

>>23868
> I think over the course of five years, only one teacher obliged.
I hope they were struck off. I remember watching the first hour of Shallow Hal two or three times in secondary school, which I think defeats the point of watching Shallow Hal, if there ever was any.

We all got gathered together to watch the live raising of the Mary Rose. Fuck me, there's nothing more guaranteed to enthrall 11 year olds than a huge barge milimetrically dragging something brown and muddy out of brown muddy water over the course of a couple of hours.
That said, it was novel in that it was a telly, rather than the radio recorder lessons or projected 16mm films about volcanoes or foreigners.
Annie Apple on that letterland cover looks like a deviant, so I'm happy we missed out on that.

>>23869
>Other than the World Cup 2002 England versus Brazil game
Thanks for the memory, I know exactly where I was when that happened. No idea where I was when 9/11 happened, but that's not important.

For some reason English...Lit, I think, was our doss class. Teachers showed Road to Perdition and the only thing I remember is the meaning of diegetic/non diegetic and that Sam Mendes likes to foreshadow death with water. We also watched Saving Private Ryan, but I assume that was at the end of term or something as I can recall no justification for it beyond "It's long".

And the one of my teachers gave me shit for reading a David Gemmell book in her history class, and I will never get over that, you bitch. Your lessons were incredibly boring and you knew I was an A grade student but couldn't handle the reality that you had nothing to contribute to my development and that I had to pretend I was a religious allegory of an axeman to get away from you. She legit held my book up in front of class so everyone could mock the nerd.

>>23871
>And the one of my teachers gave me shit for reading a David Gemmell book in her history class, and I will never get over that, you bitch. Your lessons were incredibly boring and you knew I was an A grade student but couldn't handle the reality that you had nothing to contribute to my development and that I had to pretend I was a religious allegory of an axeman to get away from you. She legit held my book up in front of class so everyone could mock the nerd.

I've come to the conclusion since arriving at adulthood that teachers may be the least emotionally qualified to interact with young people.

>>23871
>I will never get over that
Obviously this teacher did influence your "development" if you've turned into a fully-grown adult who still seethes about a teacher that "made fun of him for being too clever", and feels the need to casually mention getting an A at GCSE to a bunch of online strangers.

>>23869
>the World Cup 2002 England versus Brazil game

Was that when Ronaldinho lobbed Seaman from the free kick? I watched that live and I'm fairly certain it was at home rather than school, must have been a teacher training day. It was a teacher training day when 9/11 happened, I remember having the telly on in the background whilst I played Sim City 3000. The next day our form tutor, who looked like Wizadora, was crying because she knew someone caught up in it. She was obsessed with The Monkees so they'd regularly play that over the tannoy in the morning.

>>23871
I watched To Kill A Mockingbird in English Literature, which I think was the only book we actually read all the way through as a class. My teacher was obsessed with it, but he did manage to get the actors who played Jem and Scout to give a talk to our year group. He'd also been all the way to Alabama and stole a brick from somewhere set in the novel, making us touch it for good luck.

He was a bit of a David Brent character. He'd regularly have recordings of him playing the acoustic guitar on in the background and he told us that Disney bought one of his short stories, about an old woman dreaming she's flying away attached to a giant kite who ends up dying in her sleep, but that was evidently a load of bollocks. His wife was also a teacher at the school, a little on the strict and Christian side, and he ended up leaving because he was having an affair. I think he also got into trouble because he'd keep trying to give the lasses alcohol on residential trips.

>>23874

It's funny actually, this post contains exactly the sort of passive aggressive condescension I associate with the teachers I remember from my youth.

Haven't you got some marking to do? I know it's the holidays now but from what I hear you have to spend all of it "marking", which definitely isn't code for drinking wine at 10 in the morning while normal people are at work. It must be miserable. No wonder you're all such bastards, getting all that time off and being paid so badly for it.

>>23871
I was reading The Catcher In The Rye instead of paying attention in a year 7 Citizenship class, and got chastised by the teacher. I deserved it, and I've turned into the sort of self pitying whiny cunt as is depicted in the novel. Having said that, it was a particularly pointless Citizenship class (all about how we can order a free anti bullying wristband when those charity rubber wristbands were hot shit), so perhaps my actions were justified.

I was an edgy adolescent on 9/11, and when I got home from school that day, my mum called through from the living room, "Come and watch this! America is under attack!" and my reply was, "Yes! Awesome!" I didn't have any strong opinions about al-Qaeda or the Taliban back then, but I had some very positive opinions about Bill Hicks.

>>23876
There was a kid in my class who was a loutish hooligan and he would always sulk at the back of the class while reading David Gemmell books. I've never read anything by him, but the coincidence is astounding.

>>23874
Yes, I was an A student in history at GCSE. I think the point to take away is that you think that's a boast. What else does one mention to internet strangers? The art of dismantling sex dolls? I'm quite sure I'm in the right place for this kind of idle chat.

>>23878
You grow up in Kent? I don't know if I was a loutish hooligan. I originally picked up one book because it had a sword on the cover and I was 10. Ended up with his bibliography. He writes decent heroic fantasy, builds a good world and history, and can get you tingling a little bit with build up.

Speaking of edginess, I remember a small group of boys who tried to a little goose step through the entrance of the holocaust museum. We also had an assembly to watch Schindler's List one time and had to have it turned off after 20 minutes because people would keep laughing. It was the entire year group in there and after a while everyone was just pissing about in their little groups.

>>23879
I did not. My guy was called Philip.

>>23878

>I was an edgy adolescent on 9/11, and when I got home from school that day, my mum called through from the living room, "Come and watch this! America is under attack!" and my reply was, "Yes! Awesome!" I didn't have any strong opinions about al-Qaeda or the Taliban back then, but I had some very positive opinions about Bill Hicks.

That made me chuckle. I was much the same, but I was only eleven years old, and wouldn't discover Bill Hicks until several years later. I'm not quite sure where exactly my nascent anti-Americanism had come from, but it's one of the few things I still have in common with my eleven year old self.

>>23874
> and feels the need to casually mention getting an A at GCSE to a bunch of online strangers.
ladmeight, he's just setting the context. It wasn't the teacher alientating some F-grade flidder, but someone who could be top of the class!

>>23882

The point could have been that he wasn't endangering his education by sitting there with a book, therefore the teacher's reaction was disproportionate, rather than showing off his excellent GCSE grades.

>>23886

That's how I read it, instead of getting envious of his A in GCSE history.

>>23878
On 9/11 while my mum watched the news on TV I was getting my information from the front page of Newgrounds. I was amazed that something so significant was happening offline that it had displaced news posts about new Flash movies and games.

>>23889
>Newgrounds

I wasted so many hours playing Alien Hominid and Disorderly.

>>23890

https://web.archive.org/web/20011110110024/http://newgrounds.com/

I miss Web 1.0 so much lads.

>>23891
It misses you too but it's dead and gone and now the modern internet is all that's left.

The bit that pisses me off is that the modern Internet isn't even the Internet. There's like five sites. Everyone is one one of three big apps and that's basically it, that's the whole Internet as far as most normal people are concerned. I bet in ten years, Facebook and Twitter will merge, and that'll just be it. Noosphere™.

I really enjoy when you stumble across the remains of Web 1.0 though, like delving into a Dwemer ruin. The other day I was searching for Castlevania midis for my Doom level, and I was digging through some delightful old MS FrontPage jobs, with little animated torches and borders. Very nostalgic.

>>23908
I found a forum once which had posts from 1999. That was pretty weird. The annoying thing is that I assume those sites are all still out there; it's just that nobody else uses them so nobody recommends them to you, and I even suspect that search engines hide them because nobody wants results like that.

>>23909
The One Ring dot net still has forums and articles discussing LOTR casting speculation from 1998 or so.

>>23909
I found my own account on such a website recently as I was reminded of a screenname I used to use a decade or so ago. The offending website doesn't have an option to delete your account, claiming "security reasons", so I just had to change the screenname, change the contact email address to a temporary, and sign out. It upsets me that some morsel of my adolescent internet presence still remains.

>>23909
>I found a forum once which had posts from 1999

I have some posts from 1991. Luckily nothing too embarrassing and I discovered the idea of anonymity soon after.

This is ultra-niche, but finishing.com is still the resource for professional metal platers. The site dates back to 1995, but the earliest posts are carried over from the BBS, which was founded in 1989. The only way to attach an image to a post is to e-mail it to Ted, who hand-codes the whole site.

https://www.finishing.com/letters/

>>23916
I love everything about that.

>>23916

That's fucking fantastic.