“My family got a WebTV box in the ’90s. We were all sitting in the living room, figuring it out. We found a site that said it would take our photo, so we gathered on the couch in front of the TV and smiled while a countdown ticked away. When it hit zero, the screen flashed and then said to wait a moment for our photo to be processed.
We all thought this was pretty cool. After a moment, the photo loaded, and it was a picture of a chimp. That’s when we realised that it didn’t have some hidden built-in camera and we’d been had.”
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Ted 6 month s ago
What I always found amazing about the internet was how quickly it became high speed. I was doing internet support back in the mid 90s supporting 14.4k (and up) dial up modems. Back then a T1 (1.544 Mbps) was so amazing - only business had them. Now there is Gig (1,000 Mbps) fiber coming in to our houses.
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Tilford 1 month ago
Ted,
That's 30 years ago...
That's 30 years ago...
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Noel 6 month s ago
#13 what a fake download window. downloading from a local network address, at a speed of around 60Mbit.
remember that the fastest dial-up modems (56k) would download around 8Kb/s
remember that the fastest dial-up modems (56k) would download around 8Kb/s
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Noel 6 month s ago
#16 microsoft proxy server on a windows 95 machine, and the whole win3.11 network could access internet
That's 30 years ago...
remember that the fastest dial-up modems (56k) would download around 8Kb/s