Ancient BBC Viewers

The launch of CBS’s Hulu is getting a lot of coverage across the blogosphere and elsewhere this week. So much hoohah in fact that their site crashed yesterday. Apparently, Hulu will only be available to those in the US. So, those across the Pond will have to make do with BBC iplayer.

I recently re-registered for the service. My wife missed the end of spies and espionage thriller Spooks the other night and wanted to catch. Anyway, filled in my username, chosen password etc and then it asked for my birthday. I prefer not to reveal my age, so often choose a year in the early part of the twentieth century (Hah, some would say, that’s perfectly correct, and those people should they meet me will discover a penchant for hospital food…). Anyway, most registration forms, go back as far as the 1920s, others as far as 1901, some even stretch back to 1900. Not the BBC! Oh, no! Even if you were born in 1887, you can still register for iplayer.

I wonder though how many Victorians there are left in the world hoping to download BBC programs from the last 7 days…those must be the most silver of silver surfers.