[HN Gopher] When CDs Launched in America (2016) ___________________________________________________________________ When CDs Launched in America (2016) Author : indigodaddy Score : 8 points Date : 2021-09-23 08:53 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.theatlantic.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.theatlantic.com) | TheJoeMan wrote: | This part was interesting to me: | | "...Except for early adopters -- such as college students with | fast Net connections" | | I suppose it used to be the college kids had the fastest | internet, in the dorms and such, and were the drivers of | innovation. I graduated a state school recently and let me tell | you, our dorm internet was garbage. On top of that, it was | heavily policed by IT and I don't think it'd be possible for a | student to host a web server or even burn some CD's from | torrents. | smackeyacky wrote: | From 2000: Napster was taking up a significant amount of | bandwidth in colleges at the time, enough for it to be | problematic: | | https://www.iowastatedaily.com/article_23a8a315-cccc-5e15-9f... | schnable wrote: | Ay my school in the early 2000s, we had on-campus fiber to the | desktop--we had to buy fiber PCI cards for our computers--and | no security whatsoever. I don't remember how fast the | connection to the outside world was (fast enough for heavy | Napstering and Lime-wiring for sure), but the internal network | was blazing fast, and a lot of music and movies made the rounds | on SMB shares. | ryandrake wrote: | Early 1990s, we had two 10base-T lines to each dorm. Still | most people used old school modems and didn't even know what | ethernet was. I bought a load of cheap ethernet cards nearly | wholesale and demo'ed-then-sold them to students for a couple | of years. Didn't pay my tuition but gave me a few spending | coins. | polpo wrote: | In 1999 I ran a mail server with qmail that handled incoming | and outgoing mail for my personal domain and also a somewhat | large (20GB) pirate MP3 FTP site, all from a server in the | closet of my campus dorm room. The campus IT never said a word! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-09-25 23:00 UTC)