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"Bye Bye Shops"

A few weeks ago I awoke to another fine Scottish Summer morning with plenty of rain. I dragged my body out of bed and went through the usual morning program of washing, dressing and eating.

I sat down prepared for another thrilling day of doing nothing, it was the holidays of course. I picked up the post and flipped through the white envelopes:

My bank statement of £18.36.
Safeway Sales leaflet, including half-price ice tea.
Some Telewest letters for my parents.

I was preparing my plan for buying £18 of ice tea when one of the Telewest letters caught my eye. It was a bullet with BROADBAND in large letters, so I opened it because I wasn't waiting for parents to come home.

And so the new plan was born to convince parents to pay out for broadband... surprisngly they agreed without me asking them which I found scary considering they hardly use the net.

All I had to pay was putting up with some fat Telewest bloke drilling holes in my room... I even had to make him tea.

Anyway it was done and dusted I hate BROADBAND... Hurrah... I could download music at up to 100 times faster than before. Well I could but I messed it up in the first day would you believe. I deleted software by mistake so spend ages fixing it, which I did because I'm the best.

Well that long story was how I got broadband, that morning I woke up could just be a normal day and most definately was but could it have heralded the day of downloading games instead of buying them in shops? Well... I suppose it might.

Since I had it installed I've been able to download hundreds of songs, only taking about 2 minutes for one song. In this I also risked downloading 'free' games... which was going well for a while until I downloaded virus... so moving on from that I was able to download game in a matter of minutes.

Could this way be the future of buying games? Gone with the practice of buying software from such good places as Special Reserve and other poor shops (hehe) but now these retails would need to move to the net and establish downloadable services for people to purchase games.

Well after writing this I've realised many flaws in this such as:

Not everybody has the internet
Harder if you have consoles
Shops would probably object to it
You'd need credit cards and many gamers are children
It would make gamers more lazy than before

So that is my future of gaming and goodnight.

Soon enough it'll become the norm to have Broadband.
How many years now to that stage? 2? maybe 3?

No, that's you.

Tsk Tsk

That sounds gay. Bet you shop in Topman.

*strokes Motorola broadband box thing*

A serious topic, from Sheepy? I'm shocked.

But yeah, I want broadband, got 56k, yadda yadda.

I've never really thought that a Cable-connection is all that neccesary unless you either play games on-line or like to downloand EVERYTHING you see - like music and games.

I don't do stuff like that - not anymore because 56k's too bloody slow!
I used to download music and stuff, but I soon got fed-up.
I think 56k's ok for using forums or stuff though... and apparently these ones aren't a lot faster with cable.

But if I could get it in my area then I would.
I probably can - there's an airport across the road and they must have it...

*kisses cable box*

We've had it for a while now, can't remember how long, but it rules. Almost as much as me ;)

Sibs wrote:
> *sniff, sniff*
>
> I want broadband... or ADSL... or something fast anyway...
>
> *sniff, sniff*


So do I Sibs.

So do I.

*sniff, sniff*

I want broadband... or ADSL... or something fast anyway...

*sniff, sniff*

DSL is better.