{"id":273,"date":"2004-07-30T21:38:51","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T12:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2009-02-01T21:48:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T12:48:35","slug":"what-happened-to-billy-and-dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Billy and Dave?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billy and Dave no longer exist. It seems. Look at the screen-grab below taken from a QuickTime <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/enews\/2001\/03\/23enews3.html\" target=\"_blank\">newsletter<\/a> from the year 2001<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_274\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-274\" class=\"size-full wp-image-274\" title=\"billy-dave\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/billy-dave.jpg\" alt=\"Ah\u2026 Billy and Dave\" width=\"400\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/billy-dave.jpg 400w, https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/billy-dave-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ah\u2026 Billy and Dave<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sadly even the British Web Broadcasting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bwebb.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a> no longer exists. A visit to their URL transports you secretly to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacharge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a> which is embarrassing titled &#8220;Advanced Payment Solutions for Digital Commerce&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ah-hem.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I have discovered a worm-hole and have traveled back in time to 1999. If that&#8217;s true, then I think I think I should buy shares in eBay, Amazon and Chinese ISPs. Oh, and that reminds me. If it is 1999, then how do I warn people about the impending terrorist armageddon without sounding like a loony? And how do I tell them that Y2K-end-of-the-world-doom doesn&#8217;t happen?<\/p>\n<p>Actually the last 5 years (or should I now say, the next five years) were pretty big for me. A lot of stuff happened; good and bad, happy and sad. But if I were to live them again\u2026 what would I change?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Addendum<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s now 2009. I just came across this old blog post and clicked on the links above\u2026 lo and behold Billy and Dave are still there. Even after 5 years their comic genius is as fresh as ever. But this begs the question, what are they doing now?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy and Dave no longer exist. It seems. Look at the screen-grab below taken from a QuickTime newsletter from the year 2001 Sadly even the British Web Broadcasting site no longer exists. A visit to their URL transports you secretly to this site which is embarrassing titled &#8220;Advanced Payment Solutions for Digital Commerce&#8221;. Ah-hem. Maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-comedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}