[11269] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Sun Mar 27 20:33:54 1994
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 94 21:13:17 EST
From: stpeters@swan-song.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: tenney@netcom.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
>>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.
Agreed, but let's also note that only a very few people can access the
Internet *at all* today. It's going to be awhile before we even have a
majority of the people having a good idea of what the Internet is. As
you read it, the question seems a bit premature :-)
--
Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, The Pearly Gateway; currently at:
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
