Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
By: MRO to Moondog on Mon Sep 05 2022 02:13 pm
Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
By: Moondog to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Sep 05 2022 12:41 pm
i would prefer they stuck with the small jumps in time, and show the late half of the 90's after the dot com boom and when file sharing services w hot. Remember Pointcast? Companies hated it because it consumed so much bandwith. Distributed computing was also new, so there's lots to play wi
i dont know of any company that used pointcast. i looked it up and internet
Pointcast wasn't used. Users would install it on their systems and use it to stream news, sports scores or stock information. Same thing with limewire, napster,and other programs that would install adware or eat bandwidth. I had
a friend that was assigned to a project to help reduce bandwidth consumption for a big corporation. He would skim through internet logs, and flag non-critical sites that were taking up user's time and eating bandwidth and su bmit them to another team that would add them to be blocked or set off alerts when accessed. This was before established firewall programs came out with most of the common websites already on the block list.
When I worked in nuclear generation we had lots of issues with searches bringing up undesirable results. Connectors would be either male or female,
or somemone would be looking for petcock valves. We also had several
employees or contractors that would be from countries other than the US, and surfing Asian, Indian, or Eastern European sites would get flagged right
away. One employee who kept his Chinese national status so he could return some day would access news sites and streaming video sites at work. Some of these required special plug-ins which would set off virus scanners or
firewall intrusion alerts.
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