Subj : Re: Favorite Streaming se
To   : fusion
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Apr 16 2025 10:11:50

  Re: Re: Favorite Streaming se
  By: fusion to Dumas Walker on Wed Apr 16 2025 12:50 pm

 DW>> In most places in the states, I don't think it was, unless he possibly
 DW>> means IDSN service for internet.  In 1990, I don't remember the Internet
 DW>> even being a thing that most people were aware of.  The "GUI WWW" was not
 DW>> really yet a big thing then.

 fu> it's a bit disingenuous.. like saying 2.5Gbit internet was available in
 fu> the 90's (it was.. to ISPs)

 fu> in truth (adjusted for inflation, 1995) just the cablemodems for service
 fu> back then were >$1000

 fu> and (again for inflation) 1993? $11000 for the modem

 fu> it took @Home in 1997 to make cablemodem available in a meaningful way.

Yeah, from what I remember, I think I first started hearing about broadband cable internet in 1999, though we didn't get broadnand service until 2001 or early 2002.

Nightfox

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