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Jamez wrote:Haha!

No, well you need to have been lurking around this corner of the internet since at least the summer of 2001.

I wonder what happened to Ian Scrounger and Hedgehog Online? It was going to be this big amazing website, but nothing ever came of it.

EDIT: I've just been to hedgehogonline.com and there's yet another holding page. It's gone from BBC News red to blue. I wonder if that site has ever had anything other than a holding page!

I seem to recall it was for a short period, and was a pres site of some description offering BBC news themes for download?

It was mainly videos, actually.

Long before YouTube came along and made it very easy to watch videos online. TV Ark make me laugh as they still have all their videos in shitty RealPlayer format hosted on a server which seems to be down most of the time.

Not only that, but the website is slow, very user unfriendly and the design is really terrible.

idents.tv has got the right idea by offering high quality videos in formats such as MP4 and FLV.

However, all that aside, I'm glad TV Ark's content is finding its way onto YouTube. TV Ark hardly owns the copyright to any of the stuff it has - so they shouldn't whinge.

The same goes for The TV Room. I think McGonagle has completely lost interest because he took the site down for a while about 18 months ago and there are still many, many sections which never reappeared again.

RealPlayer is shit and so is any website that uses it as its primary method of video delivery. I wish the BBC News website would pull its finger out and offer all its videos in Flash, too.

Along the lines of this? It's quite wonderful.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/

My word - I'd forgotten all about identz! That was a great site. I was disappointed when it closed...

Nick Harvey wrote:Even I have to marvel at the total display of ignorance in Mr Plymouth's original post there.

I think the motto ought to be "If you don't not know nothing about nothing, then don't not try to talk about it".

It was a question, which has been answered. It would have been ignorant NOT to ask what he was going on about. I didn't start looking at this site until about 2004/2005.

I notice James you managed to miss out the bit where all the MP3s got an annoying woman talking over them, the random revamps and the complete closure of Identz all within a few months.

Admittedly Identz never promised to be the replacement for the entire internet due to its astoundingness like hedgehog online did, nor did it have a truely amazing radio station that broadcast 24 hours a day IN STEREO with popular features such as Guinness World Record readings like Neon Radio, but I thought you'd have at least mentioned its most distinctive feature.

Hymagumba wrote:I notice James you managed to miss out the bit where all the MP3s got an annoying woman talking over them, the random revamps and the complete closure of Identz all within a few months.

Admittedly Identz never promised to be the replacement for the entire internet due to its astoundingness like hedgehog online did, nor did it have a truely amazing radio station that broadcast 24 hours a day IN STEREO with popular features such as Guinness World Record readings like Neon Radio, but I thought you'd have at least mentioned its most distinctive feature.

I got my hands on the clean versions before they were rudely talked over. Seemed a bit needless to do it in my view. I mean, you're either going to share or not, but "#tra la la# COPYRIGHT BBC ALL RIGHTS RESEVRVED #tra la la#" was just nippy.

Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that's bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not thy victory vain, Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.

wtf... are we going all highbrow all of a sudden?

rfrancis51284 wrote:

Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that's bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not thy victory vain, Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.

wtf... are we going all highbrow all of a sudden?

I'm quite sure you know how to use Google Rob.

noelfirl wrote:

rfrancis51284 wrote:

Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that's bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not thy victory vain, Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.

wtf... are we going all highbrow all of a sudden?

I'm quite sure you know how to use Google Rob.

*tee hee hee*

Does that mean it's happening soon?