[11267] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Sun Mar 27 19:59:42 1994
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 17:56:02 -0800
To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
At 8:01 PM 3/26/94 -0500, Dick St.Peters wrote:
>The subject of this thread, from some distant-past posting, asks how
>long to a multimedia Internet. The answer is we already have one.
Well, then from day one we've had a multimedia Internet -- we could have
ftp'ed pictures and digitized sound any time and at any baud rate, even
300baud although the MTBF might get in the way :-)
However, I interpretted the question more like "When will the majority of
users be able to play real-time movies with sound across the Internet?"
Sure, we have the technical ability today, but only a very few people can
do so today.
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