David M Green: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

The comedian and writer on Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell shares some of his favourite online finds

We first got the Internet" on our family computer in 1996. I recall staring at the thick CRT monitor for about 15 minutes as images on the Thomas the Tank Engine homepage appeared line by line and thinking this was pretty tedious.

Skip forward to 1999 when a friend and I realised we could use our modem to make prank phone calls. The recipient - typically a classmate we didn't like or, more often, their parent - would pick up the phone and hear something akin to a fax machine trying to establish a connection. We, on the other end, would hear confused voices coming out of the modem's internal speaker.