From the press office (56k warning)

dun · 27 Oct 2008 at 11:33

dayloon said:
Why do people still put "56k warning" on subjects. Does anyone actually still use 56k anymore ?

Lol thats the best one.

Liquidfox · 27 Oct 2008 at 13:08

Well this whole thread's a lie. CERN developed the internet for means of sharing information, the americans made it public knowledge.

Slinky1989 · 27 Oct 2008 at 18:58

Tefal said:
Hobo on the run?

Something like that yeah

Although I imagine the job title "hobo on the run" would entail some kind of benny hill running scenario.

lokkers · 27 Oct 2008 at 19:47

Liquidfox said:
Well this whole thread's a lie. CERN developed the internet for means of sharing information, the americans made it public knowledge.

I thought they (TBL) invented the World Wide Web? I thought the internet was developed by the yanks to communicate during a nuclear war. I am, however, probably wrong.

EDIT: I appear to be correct!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#Creation

milkinc13 · 27 Oct 2008 at 20:06

56k ah the painfully slow memories

Pinter75 · 27 Oct 2008 at 20:09

I thought DARPA invented the communication between computers (ARPANET). They did this to create a de-centralised network.

Berners-Lee (at CERM) did invent the "World Wide Web", ie. the Hypertext Markup Language along with TCP/IP.

So the yanks invented the comms, we invented a way to interface with it.

Pinter75 · 27 Oct 2008 at 20:11

milkinc13 said:
56k ah the painfully slow memories

Ha, you wannt try being on a 9,600bps connection! THATS SLOW!

gillywibble · 27 Oct 2008 at 20:15

I know someone who uses 16k