Subj : Re: Halt and Catch Fire
To   : MRO
From : Moondog
Date : Tue Sep 06 2022 08:52 am

  Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
  By: MRO to Moondog on Mon Sep 05 2022 02:13 pm

 >   Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
 >   By: Moondog to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Sep 05 2022 12:41 pm
 > 
 >  > i would prefer they stuck with the small jumps in time, and show the late
 >  > half of the 90's after the dot com boom and when  file sharing services w
 >  > hot.  Remember Pointcast?  Companies hated it because it consumed so much
 >  > bandwith.  Distributed computing was also new, so there's lots to play wi
 > 
 > i dont know of any company that used pointcast.  i looked it up and internet
 > 
Pointcast wasn't used.  Users would install it on their systems and use it to
stream news, sports scores or stock information.  Same thing with limewire,
napster,and other programs that would install adware or eat bandwidth.  I had
a friend that was assigned to a project to help reduce bandwidth consumption
for a big corporation.  He would skim through internet logs, and flag
non-critical sites that were taking up user's time and eating bandwidth and su
bmit them to another team that would add them to be blocked or set off alerts
when accessed.  This was before established firewall programs came out with
most of the common websites already on the block list.

When I worked in nuclear generation we had lots of issues with searches
bringing up undesirable results.  Connectors would be either male or female,
or somemone would be looking for petcock valves.  We also had several
employees or contractors that would be from countries other than the US, and
surfing Asian, Indian, or Eastern European sites would get flagged right
away.  One employee who kept his Chinese national status so he could return
some day would access news sites and streaming video sites at work.  Some of
these required special plug-ins which would set off virus scanners or
firewall intrusion alerts.

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