The Joys of High Technology
Nov. 9th, 2003 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jducoeurDespite all the years I've been watching the curves going up, computer and network speed still occasionally surprise me.
I just downloaded Cotgrave's 1611 French/English dictionary. 111 Megabytes. Just a few years ago, downloading something that large would have been inconceivable; now, it took just a few minutes. Somewhere along the line, Comcast must have upgraded our pipe, because I just cracked 200KB/sec, which is faster than was theoretically possible when this cable line was first laid...
I just downloaded Cotgrave's 1611 French/English dictionary. 111 Megabytes. Just a few years ago, downloading something that large would have been inconceivable; now, it took just a few minutes. Somewhere along the line, Comcast must have upgraded our pipe, because I just cracked 200KB/sec, which is faster than was theoretically possible when this cable line was first laid...