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  • Subject: Re: shameless plug -
  • From: Jesse Tayler <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 12:58:26 -0500


when I first saw the “mosaic” the browser - the first one with inline images? I infamously said the internet would collapse because unknowing people might put a 800Kb image file right on a page and you’d download just by visiting the site!

I guess we made faster modems instead.



On Dec 23, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Laurence Mills-Gahl <email@hidden> wrote:


I'm not sure this new-fangled "electronic distribution" will catch on. I just bought my wife a Mac Book Air with a software package for word processing, spread sheets and presentations (I'll not use the name because I don't want to be mean to the Redmond based company) and they shipped me a box via UPS that was carried to my door and contained a card with 14 characters on it that I could type into the program once I downloaded it. 

Back when I worked in video, we used to joke about sending a tape via fedex because it would get there more quickly than trying to download something. In this case, it took approximately 61 hours to deliver fourteen characters. 0.00051 bps … I think I just heard my 2400b modem laugh from the basement.


Larry Mills-Gahl
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