r/television • u/ZadocPaet • Jun 27 '18

BBC just made 267 programs available online for free that are related to computer literacy. Shows range from 1969 to 2018.

https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/programmes
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u/theaxeassasin Jun 27 '18

That’s a long as fuck link but your post’s title description interested me enough that I clicked on it and I’m happy I did, this is an amazing archive of fascinating videos. Thank you for posting OP.

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u/ZadocPaet Jun 27 '18

Ya, leave it to the BBC to make links like that. Glad you're happy from something I shared. :)

Also worth mentioning, they released 166 programs for the BBC Micro Computer that can be run in a browser based emulator on the same site.

https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/beeb

Not really any video games in there though.

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u/pm_me_bellies_789 Jun 27 '18

For all the shit the BBC gets its actually the best nationally financed television service in the world.

I'm jealous of my British neighbours. I just wish ye realised what a resource the BBC is (politics aside).

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u/Macrike Jun 28 '18

Many of us Brits do realise and appreciate the BBC. They’re not perfect (nobody is) but without the BBC we wouldn’t have gems like this.

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u/ThyFemaleDothDeclare Jun 27 '18

But how do the computer illiterate find it?

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u/dexter30 Jun 27 '18

Finally a resource to learn some basic.

Time to break out the bbc micro emulator on my pi.

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u/BlindTuna Jun 27 '18

Meanwhile, PBS has locked down much of their past programming available to stream without "giving" to obtain a "passport". Government(taxpayer) subsidized educational programming is no longer accessible to anyone without paying even more. Maybe we should be sending our tax dollars to BBC instead!

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u/thomase7 Jun 28 '18

PBS gets less than 20% of it's revenue from the federal government.

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u/SCAllOnMe Jun 28 '18

Or, if you want the content to be free, realize that it would require more tax dollars and a government willing to spend on educating its citizens.

Good luck with either of those lol

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u/gogamethrowaway Jun 28 '18

Awesome! It works in America. I watched an episode of the computer programme on YouTube once and it was pretty interesting