Computer Chronicles show about the Internet in 1995

[rsjsouza]

Interesting show named Computer Chronicles that 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...  

Check here.

[SeanB]

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.

[4to20Milliamps]

 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.php

I 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.

[pickle9000]

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).

[SeanB]

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.

[SLJ]

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.

[SeanB]

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.

[SLJ]

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.

[madires]

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.

Lovely! Still got an old ZyXEL U-1496 running for my Fidonet node :-)