Comments on: Nostalgia Blues http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/08/nostalgia-blues/ On the theory and practice of networking Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:28:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Brett Glass http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/08/nostalgia-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-428882 Brett Glass Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:05:29 +0000 http://bennett.com/blog/2009/08/nostalgia-blues/#comment-428882 <a HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnUFfy9ZhoE" rel="nofollow">When I was a boy</A> all our networks Were for hauling in fish from the sea-- Our bawd rate was eight bits an hour (and she was worth it!), And our IP address was just 3. And you kids who complain that the World Wide Web Is too slow oughtta cut out your bitchin', 'Cuz when I was a boy every packet Was delivered by carrier pigeon.... --Frank Hayes (More at the link above) When I was a boy all our networks
Were for hauling in fish from the sea–
Our bawd rate was eight bits an hour (and she was worth it!),
And our IP address was just 3.

And you kids who complain that the World Wide Web
Is too slow oughtta cut out your bitchin’,
‘Cuz when I was a boy every packet
Was delivered by carrier pigeon….

–Frank Hayes (More at the link above)

]]> By: George Ou http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/08/nostalgia-blues/comment-page-1/#comment-428876 George Ou Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:27:27 +0000 http://bennett.com/blog/2009/08/nostalgia-blues/#comment-428876 I'd like to see him buy "unbundled" dialup service. I used to pay $30 a month for just dial-up service and that didn't include the cost of telephone service which was WAY higher than it is today. With the price of the phone service, I was paying $60/month. Today, I pay $35/month for Internet-only 3 Mbps DSL which is 100x faster than 30 kbps (nobody ever got more than 30 on a routine basis) dial-up service. Yeah, the "good old days". Funny thing is that "the good old days" were never all that good. People like to say "they don't build them like they used to" in reference to cars and boast about how their old car would barely get bent with a 20 MPH collision. Trouble is that they don't consider what happens when your head rams into that metal dashboard at 20 MPH or that you'd probably die in a 40 MPH crash even if you had a shoulder harness seatbelt due to the lack of a crumple zone. I’d like to see him buy “unbundled” dialup service. I used to pay $30 a month for just dial-up service and that didn’t include the cost of telephone service which was WAY higher than it is today. With the price of the phone service, I was paying $60/month.

Today, I pay $35/month for Internet-only 3 Mbps DSL which is 100x faster than 30 kbps (nobody ever got more than 30 on a routine basis) dial-up service. Yeah, the “good old days”.

Funny thing is that “the good old days” were never all that good. People like to say “they don’t build them like they used to” in reference to cars and boast about how their old car would barely get bent with a 20 MPH collision. Trouble is that they don’t consider what happens when your head rams into that metal dashboard at 20 MPH or that you’d probably die in a 40 MPH crash even if you had a shoulder harness seatbelt due to the lack of a crumple zone.

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