April 6th, 2008
Two things happened this week that brought my focus back to online video and where all this hoopla will eventually take us.
First, I read an article about Joost, a peer-to-peer online TV distribution system created by the same people who made Skype (which sold to eBay for a gazillion dollars).
Second, my wife pointed out to me last night that our TiVo box will soon offer the option to purchase and download movies directly from Amazon through our high-speed Internet connection.
These two factors herald the true arrival of online video this year!
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April 4th, 2008
Back in the eighties, it wasn’t that usual to have a modem in your computer, if you even had one. These days, there are different kinds of modems – cable modems, DSL modems, and dialup modems like I used to have.
Even though dialup modems seem incredibly slow these days, compared to “broadband” connections like DSL and cable, they are amazingly fast compared to the ones you could get back in the 80s.
I remember that when I got my first dialup modem for my first computer. Back then, most computers didn’t have modems; modems have been standard in most computers for years now, but are starting to get phased out because they’re so out of date.
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