[thelist] Re: [thelist] Re: [thelist] This site will make you cry (to the tune of £1 ,000,000)

Mark Gallagher mark at cyberfuddle.com
Thu Jul 11 03:44:03 CDT 2002


Gary Bland wrote:
> Simon Willison wrote:
>
>> http://www.connected-earth.com/
>>
>> The above site is a museum of communications history (I tell you that now
>> because it will probably take you five minutes to figure out should you
>> visit it). It apparently cost over a million pounds to develop, and was
>> launched by the Tessa Jowell MP, the UK Secretary of State for Culture,
>> Media and Sport. If you have any respect for your provision I suggest
>> having a large bottle of Whiskey to hand before clicking the link.
>>
>> I know threads that point blank flame sites are a bad idea, but this has
>> just plain upset me.
>
> The site tell me I need flash 5, Quicktime, and media player 7 plug-ins.
> Not much to the site without the plug-ins.

It's certainly an interesting experience trying to download Quicktime
and WMP7 for Linux :-)



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