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Ha, this reminds me of getting my first ISP account cancelled when I exceeded their web hosting bandwidth limit. The limit was 150 MB (I think per month? This w

Ha, this reminds me of getting my first ISP account cancelled when I exceeded their web hosting bandwidth limit. The limit was 150 MB (I think per month? This was 1995, but even for back then, that seems awfully low…), and my pages racked up something like 450 MB of transfers. The network administrator was quite displeased with me. I don’t know what’s wrong with Gene Forney, I can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t want to reminisce about those times - even if only as a reminder of how far we’ve come since then!

asveikau 3y ago
> I don’t know what’s wrong with Gene Forney Yeah, we don't have a copy of the email that was sent to him but the response indicates that he mistook it for some kind of argument. Very strange.
Simulacra 3y ago
When I ran out of time on AOL as a kid, I just hacked someone else's account and used it, or used AOLHell to create a new account. I remember this other kids account was hacked for time, now he works for Google. Fun times.
pixl97 3y ago
>The limit was 150 MB (I think per month? This was 1995, but even for back then, that seems awfully low…) 150MB in 95 was a huge amount. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail#Internal_development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail#Internal_deve... In 2004, 9 years later the idea of 1GB of email was though of as insane >Advanced search capabilities eventually led to considerations for providing a generous amount of storage space, which in turn opened up the possibility of allowing users to keep their emails forever, rather than having to delete them to stay under a storage limit. After considering alternatives such as 100 MB, the company finally settled upon 1 GB of space, compared to the 2 to 4 MB that was the standard at the time. So yea, no surprise your host kicked you. *I realize this is space versus bandwidth, but they do correlate. Your ISP at that time may have only had T1 connectivity
- nocoiner 3y ago
  For sure, I definitely recall how space constrained things felt back then. Still, five megabytes of traffic per day doesn’t feel like much of an allowance, even back then. I guess it was really just intended for text-only personal pages. I wonder what kind of hardware their web server was hosted on… I bet you’re definitely right about my ISP being on a T1. What was bandwidth on those, 1.5 Mbps? I don’t blame them for kicking me off either.
  - int_19h 3y ago
    How many pages that weren't mostly text were around on the web in 1995, really? FWIW around that time I was still using a BBS, and that place had a download limit of one 3.5" floppy (1.44 Mb) per day per user.
    - DropInIn 3y ago
      5 / 1.44 is?? Not many users....
    - pixl97 3y ago
      The first video I remember watching on the internet was someone pouring liquid oxygen on a grill and the melt down from it. I'm pretty sure that was 96ish era and would have had to have been a pretty huge file for the time. Was on a 64k line and not dial up.

asveikau 3y ago

> I don’t know what’s wrong with Gene Forney Yeah, we don't have a copy of the email that was sent to him but the response indicates that he mistook it for some kind of argument. Very strange.

Simulacra 3y ago

When I ran out of time on AOL as a kid, I just hacked someone else's account and used it, or used AOLHell to create a new account. I remember this other kids account was hacked for time, now he works for Google. Fun times.

pixl97 3y ago

>The limit was 150 MB (I think per month? This was 1995, but even for back then, that seems awfully low…) 150MB in 95 was a huge amount. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail#Internal_development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail#Internal_deve... In 2004, 9 years later the idea of 1GB of email was though of as insane >Advanced search capabilities eventually led to considerations for providing a generous amount of storage space, which in turn opened up the possibility of allowing users to keep their emails forever, rather than having to delete them to stay under a storage limit. After considering alternatives such as 100 MB, the company finally settled upon 1 GB of space, compared to the 2 to 4 MB that was the standard at the time. So yea, no surprise your host kicked you. *I realize this is space versus bandwidth, but they do correlate. Your ISP at that time may have only had T1 connectivity

nocoiner 3y ago
For sure, I definitely recall how space constrained things felt back then. Still, five megabytes of traffic per day doesn’t feel like much of an allowance, even back then. I guess it was really just intended for text-only personal pages. I wonder what kind of hardware their web server was hosted on… I bet you’re definitely right about my ISP being on a T1. What was bandwidth on those, 1.5 Mbps? I don’t blame them for kicking me off either.
- int_19h 3y ago
  How many pages that weren't mostly text were around on the web in 1995, really? FWIW around that time I was still using a BBS, and that place had a download limit of one 3.5" floppy (1.44 Mb) per day per user.
  - DropInIn 3y ago
    5 / 1.44 is?? Not many users....
  - pixl97 3y ago
    The first video I remember watching on the internet was someone pouring liquid oxygen on a grill and the melt down from it. I'm pretty sure that was 96ish era and would have had to have been a pretty huge file for the time. Was on a 64k line and not dial up.