On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 10:30?AM K4HCK via groups.io
<cmooth@...> wrote:
Wild times. I'll never forget when the office I worked in realized we were hitting capacity on the T1 line. It was mind boggling at the time that ~12 employees could use that much bandwidth.
Just as I became aware, the University of Arkansas replaced the
previous 56k connection to MidNet with a T1. Man, tall cotton.
The university was pretty forward-thinking on networking, though. By
1991-92, they had fiber connecting all campus buildings in the steam
tunnels. FDDI ring at 100 Mbit/s. Ho-hum now, but there was no 100
Mbit/s Ethernet then, only 10. And yes, the buildings were all
10BASE2 thinnet. Except the College of Business - they were Token
Ring because "real" computers had to be (and were for them) IBM.
So, so long ago. Mounting wuarchive over NFS, watching Shuttle
launches over MBONE (or listening to Carl Malamud's talk show).
Cu-SeeMe. Then Mosaic ...
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