[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

@vreihen16 invented the interwebs

I can provide proof via whois! My work email address pre-dates Yahoo, Google, MySpace, and all of today's big web properties.

I always get a chuckle whenever I hear Al Gore taking credit for building the Information Superhighway. As someone who worked on it from the days when it was only an Information Dirt Road, I do not recall seeing him around or even in our annual geeky holiday party group pictures.....

[King Rudi]

If a woman sees a picture of a damaged car on the internet, in their mind; it's because a man cheated and this was the woman's revenge.

Originally Posted by vreihen16

I can provide proof via whois! My work email address pre-dates Yahoo, Google, MySpace, and all of today's big web properties.

I always get a chuckle whenever I hear Al Gore taking credit for building the Information Superhighway. As someone who worked on it from the days when it was only an Information Dirt Road, I do not recall seeing him around or even in our annual geeky holiday party group pictures.....

Can you speed up the internet in Canada? They are just starting to see 2004 up there. Does this mean My Space is still big there?

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by King Rudi

Can you speed up the internet in Canada? They are just starting to see 2004 up there. Does this mean My Space is still big there?

We've got the string between the cans pulled as tight as we can!

Seriously though, I think that their bandwidth figures are just as Loonie as their currency exchange rates.....

[King Rudi]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

We've got the string between the cans pulled as tight as we can!

Seriously though, I think that their bandwidth figures are just as Loonie as their currency exchange rates.....

We need a thicker string!

[TiMSport]

I heard they're using ISDN up there.

[iminhell1]

Heidi Klum has ugly feet.

[Sedan_Clan]

Originally Posted by iminhell1

Heidi Klum has ugly feet.

Damn! That's unfortunate.

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by TiMSport

I heard they're using ISDN up there.

I Still Doing Nothing.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by King Rudi

We need a thicker string!

You mean a narrower string, so that we can run higher frequencies over it for increased bandwidth.

Originally Posted by TiMSport

I heard they're using ISDN up there.

More likely satellite Internet, with poor performance and high latency because the birds are low to the horizon that far north.

May nobody else have to suffer the agony of trying to upload pictures over a 2400 baud modem link...from a moving car...over a high-latency geostationary satellite link...using Xmodem!

Originally Posted by 3.0L

I Still Doing Nothing.

...but it sure beats dialup!!!!!

[TiMSport]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

...but it sure beats dialup!!!!!

It certainly does. Living in Tokyo in the 90s I remember when ISDN was all the rage. My personal Internet connection was via ISDN and I thought that was the shit. Lol. I also remember public telephones using ISDN.

People would even tap into them to utilize the "high speed".

For the nerd types....

From a blog:

The Legacy of ISDN Phone Booths

Back before 1992, these ISDN phone booths were really the only form of mobile networking that was available. The Internet was still in its infancy (web browsing had not been invented yet), and very few companies were connected to it. If a company did have a network, it tended to be private network running a proprietary mail system only accessible via modem. If you were a traveling engineer or salesman, you realistically had no access to your home network from a client site unless they were willing to let you plug your modem in, something that was not possible with many PABX systems. This lack of mobile connectivity rendered the concept of laptop computers and PDAs (personal digital assistants) irrelevant to a large majority of potential users. In Japan, however, this access to public data ports created a larger market for these devices which the Japanese electronics manufacturers were able to capitalize on. This was just one of many factors that helped the Japanese electronics boom of the 1980s and 90s.

After digital mobile phones appeared in 1992, the ISDN phonebooths basically became dinosaurs overnight. However, they were backed by a huge public infrastructure in the form of a digital network spanning the country. This underlying ISDN infrastructure formed the backbone for a Japan-specific mobile technology called PHS, which I will get into in a later post. (Many European countries had also adopted ISDN, but not for their payphone networks, and so the PHS technology was really only feasible in Japan.) This was the beginning of the Galapagos effect in mobile technology – the phenomenon where Japanese mobile phone technology became completely disconnected from western technology through the 1990s and 2000s. Although public payphones in Japan still use ISDN, models sporting data call ports have all but disappeared from the streets of Japan.

Just to wrap up, I thought it is interesting that when you plugged a regular modem into an ISDN phone system, you essentially had a digital signal (the actual computer data) carried within an analog signal (the phone line coming out of the modem) carried within another digital signal (the digital ISDN line). Now, if you really wanted to get all Inception with your phone calls, you could run an IP telephony app like Skype on this computer and make 4 layer-deep a/d/a/d voice calls. And if you were making that voice call to an old school answering machine where you used an audio beeper to send commands to the answering machine, you could get another layer on top to get a nested d/a/d/a/d communication channel. These days, we can just skip it all and go direct to digital.

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

May nobody else have to suffer the agony of trying to DOWNLOAD noodz pictures over a 2400 baud modem link...

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[upstatedoc]

How does Facebook know I just got cinnamon toast crunch for my son? I didn't search for it And it just randomly showed up on my newsfeed.

[TiMSport]

Originally Posted by upstatedoc

How does Facebook know I just got cinnamon toast crunch for my son? I didn't search for it And it just randomly showed up on my newsfeed.

Cuz those sneaky bastards are watching you.
There's a reason I don't do FB.

[upstatedoc]

Originally Posted by TiMSport

Cuz those sneaky bastards are watching you.
There's a reason I don't do FB.

Then how come I don't see ads for p0rn?

[TiMSport]

Originally Posted by upstatedoc

Then how come I don't see ads for p0rn?

No answer for that one! Maybe you've got some good malware protection? Lol.

[Buug959]

Originally Posted by upstatedoc

How does Facebook know I just got cinnamon toast crunch for my son? I didn't search for it And it just randomly showed up on my newsfeed.

They have eyes and ears everywhere. Even your tinfoil hat won't save you.

[upstatedoc]

Originally Posted by LemansE90335xi

They have eyes and ears everywhere. Even your tinfoil hat won't save you.

Wait, how did you know I had one?

[TiMSport]

He works for FB, eh.

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by LemansE90335xi

They have eyes and ears everywhere. Even your tinfoil hat won't save you.

Umm, MKSixer, found you another customer!

[jmack]

Originally Posted by upstatedoc

How does Facebook know I just got cinnamon toast crunch for my son? I didn't search for it And it just randomly showed up on my newsfeed.

Not tinfoil, your phone is legitimately listening to you. Have a conversation with someone about a topic that you've never searched before. If you type the first few letters of the topic it will immediately come up.

[TiMSport]

Phones will be a thing of the past in several years.