On 11/28/20 7:57 AM, Mayayana wrote:
"Paul" wrote

| To be fair though, at launch, cable distribution of Internet was a
| mess. For example, in the city I'm in, they tried to run way too
| many users off a central router.

I remember that. I never had cable until much later, but
I remember that it was basically an old-fashioned party
line. Is it still, just with more capacity? I don't know. Back
then people were finding their neighbors' desktops in
Network Neighborhood.

I didn't have cable internet at the time (this area isn't that
overpopulated, so didn't have the service until 2006). Now somewhere
(probably both ISP and router) block the SaMBa ports.

Then again, there was no real
security issue. Tech experts had managed to scan a picture
of their cat and send it via email. Or they figured out how
to print a party announcement with "robot font". No one
was shopping, banking, or actually living their lives online.
It was still a novelty.

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