Anyone else pained by the fact that it's 28 years later and we STILL don't have fiber deployed widely? My parents are paying $65 / mo for 5mb dsl, and it's the best option they can get a stones throw outside of the city limits. Pathetic when you compare it to municipal broadband deployed everywhere with powerlines like in Chattanooga, TN
Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
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#102this is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95-yZ-31j9A
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#103Disappointed to not find a flower shop at branch.com:1080
http://web.archive.org/web/19961020151638/http://branch.com/ Even the order form is still there, ready for your credit card. There's a link on the order form, "credit card concerns"... > "...we feel that using a credit card here may be more secure than using it at your local restaurant. We don't know. We haven't had a problem in this area." I guess "we don't know" covers them just in case things go wrong!
Pity - I used your link and tried hunting for the Mother's Day bouquet she was looking at but it wasn't archived.
Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
#104Anyone else pained by the fact that it's 28 years later and we STILL don't have fiber deployed widely? My parents are paying $65 / mo for 5mb dsl, and it's the best option they can get a stones throw outside of the city limits. Pathetic when you compare it to municipal broadband deployed everywhere with powerlines like in Chattanooga, TN
Yeah, absolutely ridiculous how slow the US has been regarding rolling out low-latency fiber. Granted, smaller countries could do it easier but even so, consumer fiber-optic connections have been around since the 2000s, and still it seems like it's mostly only available in bigger cities in the US.
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#105It'll never catch on.
I'm also deeply sceptical.
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#106Port explicitly specified in at least one URL. Was HTTP without a standard port back in '94?
I don’t remember why, but many engineering schools, including the one I was attending, used 8080 for department websites. I feel like that was the second most common that I saw.
Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
#107Say it again!
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
This makes sense. Cloud computing should be part of the Meteorology department!
The Department of Agriculture would beg to differ - clearly the oversight of server farms should be their responsibility.
Unless the servers are doing machine learning, in which case that falls under the Department of Education.
Re: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]
#109It's amazing just how quickly you can catch the under estimation of the internet's potential. Within the first sentence, starting with the word "imagine", the largest image that could be conjured is related to viewing content created offline, rather than creating and sharing it within the internet itself. In the furthest stretches of the imagination, the prediction still falls very short. No criticism to anyone in 1994, it's just fascinating how difficult it is to peer far into the future.