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I’m more shocked at the notion of the T1, HDSL or whatever being run all the way to this STB. Imagine 1.5Mbps of bandwidth straight to your house and only being
by xp84 3y ago
I’m more shocked at the notion of the T1, HDSL or whatever being run all the way to this STB. Imagine 1.5Mbps of bandwidth straight to your house and only being able to use it with this one limited device!
But of course, the Web and lots of other goodies normal people might want to do online were not even close to mature yet. So this could plausibly be your only network-connected device. Wild.
- wmf 3y agoYes, the interactive TV stuff in the 1990s was kind of a bet against the Internet. It's amazing to me that multiple companies developed entire systems that were 10x-100x too expensive to bring to market; I guess they hadn't heard that too early is the same as wrong.
- qingcharles 3y agoAnd in 1995 the total Internet bandwidth between the UK and the USA was basically a T1 IIRC.