Flints (and arrows?)

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 49979

<< What will we do if Harry gets up out of the flowerbed and sees Dudley on 
the internet? >>

Well, the internet has been around since the '60s or earlier. It was text 
only, and mostly accessible from military bases and universities. But it did 
exist, and was mostly used by "normal" people for e-mail. 

I believe the web (which is only a portion of the 'Net) was essentially 
"invented" in '93, and it took a couple of years before anyone found any kind 
of a practical use for it. But there were certainly web pages and web sites 
available for investigation by the summer of '95. 

I think some people have pointed out already that there have been a few such 
technological glitches in the timing of things in the series already. Chiefly 
to do with Dudley's broken toys. Clearly, the boy is an "early adopter" of 
any technogizmo that comes down the track. It must be a nightmare to sort out 
this kind of thing in a series set in such a recent "historical" era. Anyone 
watched the film "Clueless" recently and been reminded that the scene with 
every third teenager pulling out a cel phone in the halls between classes was 
originally intended as a joke?

-JOdel