waider | everything old is new again

Back when I had a 16k Sinclair Spectrum, the height of public networking per the adverts in Your Spectrum and the like was Micronet 800 and/or Prestel - I can't quite recall which one the advert I'm thinking of was for, and it's sort of moot as Micronet was part of Prestel. Anyway. The advert featured a trendy young dude using his online connection to check out cinema listings, his bank balance, and a bus timetable in order to plan his evening. This is suddenly brought to mind by my own favourite telco, Eircom, suggesting that you buy their broadband offering to view bus timetables.