View Poll Results: how are you connected to the world wide web? | |||
56k | 1 | 1.35% | |
dsl | 18 | 24.32% | |
cable modem | 49 | 66.22% | |
fios | 4 | 5.41% | |
other | 2 | 2.70% | |
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04-12-2008, 01:43 AM | #23 |
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Wow, there are people still using 56K. I first connected to the Internet using 2400 BPS. Now, that's like a 2.4K modem speed. Yep, I was chatting and messaging people around the world back in the early late 80's with it. I upgraded to 14.4 BPS which is 14.4K modem speed in 1993 which I ended up surfing the web with it. Slow, but it was still managable. 56K, in my opinion, was truly a breakthrough as you can only transmit 33.6K through a regular telephone line. When I first heard about 56K, I was like woah, crazy but I couldn't believe it. Crazy advanced compression.
I should mention to you that I downloaded DOOM demo using 2400bps modem. It took like an hour to download 1 meg with the XModem protocol. Things sped up with the Z and Y modem protocols though so it was more like 30 minutes per 1 meg. Pretty slow back then huh? When I was in high school, I was spoiled big time. We had like the fastest Internet connection for a North American high school. We were downloading like 5-10 megs per second in this was in the mid ninties. The whole school network was connected with fibre optics. |
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04-12-2008, 02:18 AM | #25 |
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Yes, those early DOS games, a lot of them were small as heck. I mean, I could fit like 5-10 full games onto one 1.44 meg disk. Then, there were the VGA or SVGA games that were over 2-3 megs compressed. Well, they took a while to download with a 2400 BPS modem. Although, it wasn't too bad with a 14.4 if you chose to download using the Z or YModem protocol.
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