Just wanted to apologize yet again for the slowness of the server. Moving to a new server was a good choice, but now we are having trouble with the licensing of the "world-class" caching system and the developers are working on fixing that. This is why the server is still so slow, because NOTHING is currently being cached; literally everything is being reloaded every time you view a page. :-/
whoa.
@bill93 4800 is the farthest back I can recall actually using. The 14.4 was a "high speed" upgrade, costing around an additional $300- $600, when I was finishing college. It seems that within just a few years it jumped through 28.8, 56.6 and then cable.
Early 90s fast - 14.4 kbs
versus
Now (advertised speeds) fast - 1,500,000 kbs
Just looked up an online calculator. Some aerial photos I have downloaded are on average around 100MB.
Back in the 14.4 time period, that file would take about 15 hours to download (if you even tried to download it - of course probably using some form of file downloader that would allow you to pick up on the file after the inevitable dropped dial-up).
Now, I can get it within 10 to 20 seconds at my office. And if I were in an area with the highest speeds available, the time probably wouldn't even register in seconds.
@jon-payne Reminds me that Gordon Moore had recently passed. Not sure how interesting that is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
Reading Wendell's efforts is a good reminder to hit the donate button again!
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Finger Lakes Region, Upstate New York