Salutations, traveler of The Internets! Welcome to William's Bloody Hell, so named after our founder, Sir Bloody William.
He is seen in the likeness above in a rare, 19th century woodcut. This
image was rumoured to have been
commissioned after a bout of unpleasantness
in the White Chapel district of London. Do enjoy your stay and peruse our many, varied offerings, much of which cannot be found elsewhere!
:: Today's soundtrack: The Who "My Generation" ::
You kids today. When I was young...
Did you know there used to be only one phone line per household? That's right. None of this personal cell-phone-for-every-member-of-the-family business. You were lucky if you had two separate lines in the whole house. Some people still even had rotary phones back then!
My house didn't have a VCR until I was in fifth grade! This was common! Only in the late '80s, early '90s did they become affordable to the average home. Buying a prerecorded movie on VHS in the '80s was also a major investment! Most of them cost over $50!!
I grew up listening to music on audio cassette tapes! I didn't have a CD player until high school! Again, pretty common, way back then. I was in that overlap generation that had to go through converting their tunes from cassette to CD. Record players began to fade from existence.
16-bit video games were revolutionary! When SUPER Nintendo came out, my goodness, it changed the world! Homes with video gaming consoles were pretty wealthy ones, too. Most of us has to get our kicks downtown at the arcade, thank you very much! And the gaming controller had: a four direction pad (up, down, left, right), A button, B button, select button and start/pause. THAT'S IT! None of this triangle, square. circle, x, front top left, front button left, front bottom right, front top right, 2 joy sticks, four direction pad.. blah blah. You need four hands to control a game nowadays!
No computer, either! These days every home has at least one, but back in the day? No sir. I actually had to type my school reports on an honest to goodness typewriter for a good long while before we got a word processor. I didn't get a computer until I moved out of my parents house and on my own. Living way in the boonies, it was a while before even the schools around here got computers. I remember elementary school, where each classroom had ONE Apple IIE (the kind where the only monitor color was green). We could play "Where In The World is Carmen San Diego", and that's about it. My high school computer lab taught useless things like the history of the computer, how to type, and how to save a file onto a floppy disc (the difference between "Save" and "Save As" commands... bleh).
I'll bet half of you reading this can't even imagine. You, with your digital phone that takes pictures for no reason. And me with my music still on audio cassettes...
William (now showing his age)
