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Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix
From: Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 15:54:52 -0400
Just an observation: I've been on the internet since dirt was rocks. It seems to me that one theme which has come up over and over and over is that some new-ish technology demands more bandwidth than whatever it was people were doing previously and as it popularizes people begin fighting. In the early 80s it was downloading the host table, "could people please try NOT to all download via a script at exactly midnight!!!" Then it was free software in the eighties, did WSMR et al really have a RIGHT to become a magnet for such popular program downloads?! And graphic connection to remote super-computer centers. Could the images please be generated locally and downloaded "off hours" (whatever "off hours" meant on the internet) or even shipped via tape etc rather than all these real-time graphical displays running???!!! Hey, the BACKBONE was 56kb. Then Usenet, and images, particularly, oh, explicit images because OMG imagine if our administration found out our link was slow because students (pick a powerless political class to pick on and declare THEIR use wasteful) were downloading...um...you know. And games OMG games. I remember sitting in an asst provost's office in the 80s being lectured about how email was a complete and total waste of the university's resources! Computers were for COMPUTING (he had a phd in physics which is where that was coming from.) And the public getting on the internet (ahem.) On and on. Now it's video streaming. And then the bandwidth catches up and it's no big deal anymore. And then everyone stops arguing about it and goes on to the next thing to argue about. Probably will be something in the realm of this "Internet of Things" idea, too many people conversing with their toaster-ovens. My comment has always been the same: There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who try to figure out how bake more bread, and those who herd people into bread lines. I've always tried to be the sort of person who tries to figure out how to bake more bread. This too shall pass. -- -Barry Shein The World | bzs () TheWorld com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*
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