25 Years: How the Web began

jimbo45 · 21 Dec 2015

Hi there

amazing that the USA still uses it !!!! Usually anything not invented in the US "Doesn't exist". !!! Actually only about half true now these days -- still it shows how far the Internet has advanced -- I remember logging on with a dial up Hayes modem thinking we were in the front of technology with a 1200 Baud modem (if anybody can remember what BAUD is !!). We only had text connection too -- no windows or GUI at the start.

Nowadays 50 - 70 mbs is not that unusual and next year we (at least where I am) should be connected to speeds over 100 mbs with prospect in the near future of reaching download speeds of 1GB/s. We'l need that for some 4K video at full resolution - even with H265 compression.

Happy Xmas everybody.

Cheers
jimbo

Samsung User · 21 Dec 2015

I remember here in uk at least where I lived, it took ages on dial up to get online or do a download and update and if you run out of your allowance that we had to pay in advance for, you either had to pay extra or wait for the next lot of allowance

Winuser · 21 Dec 2015

hTconeM9user said:

I remember here in uk at least where I lived, it took ages on dial up to get online or do a download and update and if you run out of your allowance that we had to pay in advance for, you either had to pay extra or wait for the next lot of allowance

I didn't have a cap but I do remember the slow upload/download speeds with dial up internet. It use to take me 3 days to download a ISO of Linux Mandrake. I also had to have a second line put in so we could still use the phone.

Winuser · 21 Dec 2015

jimbo45 said:

Hi there

amazing that the USA still uses it !!!! Usually anything not invented in the US "Doesn't exist". !!! Actually only about half true now these days -- still it shows how far the Internet has advanced -- I remember logging on with a dial up Hayes modem thinking we were in the front of technology with a 1200 Baud modem (if anybody can remember what BAUD is !!). We only had text connection too -- no windows or GUI at the start.

Nowadays 50 - 70 mbs is not that unusual and next year we (at least where I am) should be connected to speeds over 100 mbs with prospect in the near future of reaching download speeds of 1GB/s. We'l need that for some 4K video at full resolution - even with H265 compression.

Happy Xmas everybody.

Cheers
jimbo

If I remember correctly my first modem was only 300 baud.

mrpumpkin · 21 Dec 2015

hTconeM9user said:

I remember here in uk at least where I lived, it took ages on dial up to get online or do a download and update and if you run out of your allowance that we had to pay in advance for, you either had to pay extra or wait for the next lot of allowance

I remember playing some Q3 on public UK servers, and in the beginning, you all had horrible pings. I would play as high as 150, but only because you all were lagging as well.

nigelmercier · 22 Dec 2015

Microsoft certainly didn't think the Web was going to take off, anyone else remember Blackbird?

Where I lived it was a long-distance phone call to dial up the Internet. Then I discovered that I could connect by using the free 0800 Microsoft Network sign-up number instead of my PoP number.

I also have reason to believe that I am the originator of the word "Spam", although it was not intended. My username was spamfritters and my sig (unwisely) consisted of the entire chorus from the Monty Python "Spam" sketch.

Trust_No1 · 22 Dec 2015

WOW and all these years I thought Al Gore invented the web!!!

Samsung User · 22 Dec 2015

Trust_No1 said:

WOW and all these years I thought Al Gore invented the web!!!

So now you know

Jody Thornton · 22 Dec 2015

I first used a 14,400 bps modem on both BBS systems, but I soon upgraded to a 33,600 bps modem. The only slower serial communications that I ever used was accessing SCO Open Server on a Wyse Terminal at 9,600 bps.