As part of the CiTV.co.uk website you could set up your own email account with them which ran in a webmail interface within the browser - I certainly did that as a child. That CiTV account stuff really was very advanced (or at least felt like it to a 10 year old at the time)
As part of the CiTV.co.uk website you could set up your own email account with them which ran in a webmail interface within the browser - I certainly did that as a child. That CiTV account stuff really was very advanced (or at least felt like it to a 10 year old at the time)
Wow I remember that now, I had one too. The CiTV website was amazing compared to CBBC spent many hours on there as a kid.
As part of the CiTV.co.uk website you could set up your own email account with them which ran in a webmail interface within the browser - I certainly did that as a child. That CiTV account stuff really was very advanced (or at least felt like it to a 10 year old at the time)
Wow I remember that now, I had one too. The CiTV website was amazing compared to CBBC spent many hours on there as a kid.
First website I ever visited. The promos made it sound amazing, so I asked to log on to the Internet for the first time (remember when you could log off from the Internet?)
Of course its very difficult to explain what was basically the norm in those early days of the internet, it seems alien now, but emailing via a form on a website was fairly normal.
It's also easy to forget that ITV's web presence was very fragmented at that point, URL's were all over the place, and as mentioned, even with the launch of itv.com, many links just redirected somewhere else.
(and at this point we are only two posts away from someone mentioning G-wizz)
As part of the CiTV.co.uk website you could set up your own email account with them which ran in a webmail interface within the browser - I certainly did that as a child. That CiTV account stuff really was very advanced (or at least felt like it to a 10 year old at the time)
Don't forget Carlton had a pretty impressive online presence (including Carlton.com, Popcorn.co.uk and Jamba) so presumably had decent resources to draw upon.
As part of the CiTV.co.uk website you could set up your own email account with them which ran in a webmail interface within the browser - I certainly did that as a child. That CiTV account stuff really was very advanced (or at least felt like it to a 10 year old at the time)
Don't forget Carlton had a pretty impressive online presence (including Carlton.com, Popcorn.co.uk and Jamba) so presumably had decent resources to draw upon.
The CITV website prior to probably 2002 used to be independently run, it wasn't done by ITV or Carlton or whoever. It may have been at around the time of the unified ITV look launch in 2002 when the operation was taken back in house.
Back in the dial-up days, I used to hate it though. Using an email client, you could compose your email, go online briefly to send & receive and then go back offline again. With a form on a website you were online throughout, blocking the phone line and potentially costing more too depending on your package.
Not necessarily. Compose in Notepad, cut and paste.
Of course you could save even more time with online "contact" forms by not bothering to use any capitalisation, punctuation or the Enter key. Just type your CITV loving ad-hoc reckon into the form and bash Submit and squeal with delight if it gets read out on the telly.
Ironically enough these days with always on connections and mobile phones, people still seem allergic to capital letters, full stops and the Enter key like they're going to bite your head off if you go anywhere near them.