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UKC was, I seem to remember the main academic gateway to the internet in the late 80s early 90s - did groundbreaking work.
by Angostura 3y ago
UKC was, I seem to remember the main academic gateway to the internet in the late 80s early 90s - did groundbreaking work.
- galeos 3y agoThat's funny. I went for an open day in the UK Computer Science dept in 1999. It was an exciting department but one of the things that put me off was the internet was so slow in the lab it was almost unusable. Perhaps they were having a bad day...
- defrost 3y agoLate 1990's Comp Sci department? A whole slew of people would have been getting great speeds from a dedicated fibre link or two .. just not the open day labs. First rule of bandwidth club.
- thom 3y agoUKC was on Janet so it shouldn’t have been so terrible compared to other institutions. One of the biggest issues back then was people running remote X sessions on shared departmental machines so everything would grind to a halt at the start of lessons (unless you knew how to use Blackbox etc). And all the best machines were reserved for multimedia students.
- thom 3y agoCertainly in the 90s through HENSA and the UK Mirror Service it was responsible for hosting huge amounts of useful software. I always chose mirror.ac.uk as my mirror in Debian for sentimental reasons.