Computer Chronicles show about the Internet in 1995 - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: rsjsouza
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 16, 2013, 08:47:13 pm
content: Interesting show namedComputer Chroniclesthat talks about the "new" Internet technology. It also talks about how a live video multicast quickly clogs the available bandwidth - something we don't think when watch one of the almost 500 videos of a certain Aussie...Checkhere.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 16, 2013, 08:52:04 pm
content: Done when JC Dvorak was a Cranky Nerd, and had hair...........Made when the Mullet was the in thing, and dead squirrels on heads was cool, along with ties.

author: 4to20Milliamps
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 17, 2013, 01:43:33 am
content: I actually have a couple of these disks, I stopped using AOL because they were a rip off and impossible to cancel, that video totally reminded of it.http://www.glossynews.com/aol/article-1302.phpI got a free year of internet from a class action suit somebody filed, what a crappy internet service.....you always got messages that said "this area of the internet hasn't been created yet"never wore a tie or had a mullet though.

author: pickle9000
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 17, 2013, 02:02:06 am
content: I know some people like retro computing but for me living through it once was enough. Things are better now, having said that a computers operational life seems to be doing much better (people can use their computers longer).

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 17, 2013, 05:24:06 pm
content: Having just turned off the old HP Pavilion laptop at work todaqy i can agree, this one came with Win98, and was upgraded to XP. Got to the point where it took an hour to click a window. Next stop is my office, a quick scrub of all the junk to gat either to a plain XP config or i will just put a new copy of XP on it, and then go to SP3 and leave it at that. Or install Puppy on it and make it like new again. I want to keep it as it has real serial and parallel ports on it, even if the drive is tiny.

author: SLJ
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 17, 2013, 05:57:39 pm
content: Notice the 300 baud modem for connecting to bulletin boards on this early portable (along with the 5 inch screen). One of these days I'll have to hook it to a phone line and see if any of the old phone numbers still work after thirty two years.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 17, 2013, 06:16:50 pm
content: They do work here still, there are a lot of people for whom internet is dial up only, as they are way too far from the exchange for ADSL to work ( 80km plus) and where a cellular phone will not work. Some have actually gone to the expense of putting up a 30m mast and having a high gain YAGI aimed at the nearest cell tower on the top, then a low loss cable down to a hard wired GSM modem, just to get EDGE speed internet, but often it degrades to GPRS.

author: SLJ
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 17, 2013, 08:26:45 pm
content: This one is way before the Internet when you had to dial directly into a server and could only access that server's bulletin board during your connection.

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 17, 2013, 09:22:43 pm
content: Quote from: SLJ on May 17, 2013, 05:57:39 pmLovely! Still got an old ZyXEL U-1496 running for my Fidonet node :-)