Re: Media Question 1

In article <b04rj1hlc5rftntbckhf6jqkqtrok4du2p@xxxxxxx>,
sj_walton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> On 30 Sep 2005 18:21:10 GMT, Marcus Houlden <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:32:07 +0100, Paul Hyett <pah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >wrote the following to uk.media.tv.misc:
> >
> >> If only the WWW had been around when I was at school - I could have
> >> copied whole articles off there, rather than copying them straight out
> >> of books... :)
> >
> >We did have net access at 6th form college (95 - 97), but it was a single
> >machine sharing a line with the phone in the computer room. Fun trying to
> >access the Tomorrow's World website at about 12 Kbps.
> >
> you should be so lucky.
> 93 -94 I remember my first web access to a chinese university website
> at 9600 baud

I still remember the day the site network manager figured out that he
could up the offsite total bandwidth from 19.2K to 128K at the flip of
an ifconfig option. Like a different world, it was, all of a sudden.
--
SAm.
.

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