ティージェーグレェ「teajaygrey」 on Nostr: Sees some journalist with a line, "when 300bps was the fastest internet connection" ...
Sees some journalist with a line, "when 300bps was the fastest internet connection"
Umm, what?
"56 Kbps
In the late 1960s, the precursor to the modern Internet was an experiment conducted by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), a branch of the US Department of Defense. In 1969, ARPANET came online with speeds of up to 56 Kbps."
As far as I know, the same 56Kbps leased lines were true for NLS (oN-Line System) which was subsumed into (D)ARPANet as the first node.
However, the 1968 "Mother of All Demos" was a bit different insomuch as it was a public demonstration outside of SRI (Stanford Research Institute) held at the Civic Auditorium in SF, salient Wikipedia excerpt:
"The Augment researchers also created two customized homemade modems at 1200 baud – high-speed for 1968 – linked via a leased line to transfer data from the computer workstation keyboard and mouse at the Civic Auditorium to their Menlo Park headquarters' SDS-940 computer.[Note 2]"
The 1968 Mother of All Demos also utilized two leased video lines from the phone company, though I am less clear about the technical specifics of such things; I'd welcome insights from anyone who might know!
By the 1970s, 3Mbps Ethernet was prevalent.
"The word Internet was used in 1945 by the United States War Department in a radio operator's manual, and in 1974 as the shorthand form of Internetwork." (I would conjecture more likely a contraction of: "The Intergalactic Network of Computers" but I didn't know J.C.R. Licklider personally).
Regardless, while the Bell 103 modem was 300bps and from 1962, I don't think (m)any Internet nodes were connected that way primarily, ever?
TL;DR: the Internet was always faster in most parts than 300bps, even if some of its users weren't blessed to have faster connections.
Umm, what?
"56 Kbps
In the late 1960s, the precursor to the modern Internet was an experiment conducted by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), a branch of the US Department of Defense. In 1969, ARPANET came online with speeds of up to 56 Kbps."
As far as I know, the same 56Kbps leased lines were true for NLS (oN-Line System) which was subsumed into (D)ARPANet as the first node.
However, the 1968 "Mother of All Demos" was a bit different insomuch as it was a public demonstration outside of SRI (Stanford Research Institute) held at the Civic Auditorium in SF, salient Wikipedia excerpt:
"The Augment researchers also created two customized homemade modems at 1200 baud – high-speed for 1968 – linked via a leased line to transfer data from the computer workstation keyboard and mouse at the Civic Auditorium to their Menlo Park headquarters' SDS-940 computer.[Note 2]"
The 1968 Mother of All Demos also utilized two leased video lines from the phone company, though I am less clear about the technical specifics of such things; I'd welcome insights from anyone who might know!
By the 1970s, 3Mbps Ethernet was prevalent.
"The word Internet was used in 1945 by the United States War Department in a radio operator's manual, and in 1974 as the shorthand form of Internetwork." (I would conjecture more likely a contraction of: "The Intergalactic Network of Computers" but I didn't know J.C.R. Licklider personally).
Regardless, while the Bell 103 modem was 300bps and from 1962, I don't think (m)any Internet nodes were connected that way primarily, ever?
TL;DR: the Internet was always faster in most parts than 300bps, even if some of its users weren't blessed to have faster connections.