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<blockquote data-quote="Sophrosyne" data-source="post: 64793486" data-attributes="member: 193127"><p>The internet consists of servers and others hooked up in such a fashion that they relay packets of data from one point to another. I believe Compuserve was a connect only service akin to a very large bulletin board which was what you had prior to the internet. Compuserv had many servers hooked up to each other a network but you couldn't directly pass packets of data to others you had to log into it or a bulletin board server and upload to the BBS or to something akin to a forum. Back then the bandwidth was extremely limited modems started out at 300 baud or about 37.5 bytes/sec. Compare that to lets say a 3Mbit/sec which is 10,000 times as fast and you can see that even a small picture would take minutes to load. I once downloaded a 500k picture at 300 baud and it was 45 minutes into downloading when my connection was interrupted. Imagine a CF page taking hours to show up the first time and you get the idea that text only was all that was possible. When we got 12,000 and 14.4k baud modems then later 56k modems then pictures were possible but even then large uncompressed images took too long to load. </p><p>Text based communication is very fast as you can compress text while most pictures online are already compressed optimally compression speeds up loading of pages as the amount of data is reduced dramitically.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sophrosyne, post: 64793486, member: 193127"] The internet consists of servers and others hooked up in such a fashion that they relay packets of data from one point to another. I believe Compuserve was a connect only service akin to a very large bulletin board which was what you had prior to the internet. Compuserv had many servers hooked up to each other a network but you couldn't directly pass packets of data to others you had to log into it or a bulletin board server and upload to the BBS or to something akin to a forum. Back then the bandwidth was extremely limited modems started out at 300 baud or about 37.5 bytes/sec. Compare that to lets say a 3Mbit/sec which is 10,000 times as fast and you can see that even a small picture would take minutes to load. I once downloaded a 500k picture at 300 baud and it was 45 minutes into downloading when my connection was interrupted. Imagine a CF page taking hours to show up the first time and you get the idea that text only was all that was possible. When we got 12,000 and 14.4k baud modems then later 56k modems then pictures were possible but even then large uncompressed images took too long to load. Text based communication is very fast as you can compress text while most pictures online are already compressed optimally compression speeds up loading of pages as the amount of data is reduced dramitically. [/QUOTE]
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