Party Vibe

yep – this is pretty much the case.

Its worth a watch when you get home, just to see both what the old hardware looked like (much of which was still in use in the 1980s), the theme tune and and the sort of boffins who got it all working right at the start…

TBH I have only watched the first 5 minutes, and put it up because the start with that really old electronic theme tune and the ancient computers made me laugh (it reminded me of educational films I was shown as a kid, and also a comedy series called “Look Around You”)

I wonder if any of those profs managed to live long enough to see the Internet go public in the 1990s, or broadband make some of the things they were talking about in the film finally feasible to more than just a few Universities?

edit: I remember even 1970s/80s books about computers hinting about the idea of sharing data across the world using the telephone network (albeit at far slower speeds than todays Internet!), and that it was possible then – but the Governments of many countries thought it was a security risk (the Cold War was still raging then) and blocked the idea or made it difficult/expensive.