> I find it both happy and disturbing. I remember the first 2.4/2.5g links I
> turned up as well as the first 10g and (eventually) the first 100g links.
>
> I was leaving the house earlier this week thinking about how it used to be
> Mbps of traffic that was a lot and now it’s Gbps and how that’s shifted to
> Tbps.
>
> While it makes me feel old, it’s also something that I marvel about
> periodically.
A bit of perspective on bandwidth and feeling old. The first non-academic
connection from Africa (Usenet and Email, pre-Internet) ran at about 9600 bps
over a Telebit Trailblazer in my living room.
The first non-academic IP connection was a satellite connection (64Kbps IIRC,
not in my living room :-)).
Now we have a bajillion Gbps over submarine fibre landing pretty much
everywhere, and my guess is that it is not enough bandwidth.
All this to bring such vital resources as Facebook and Netflix :-)
paul
