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Chuckup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 06:38 PM
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WOW, now this is fast, physicists smash internet speed record
http://www.sitepunch.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=17
How long do you think they took to send a full-length DVD over the net?

20 minutes, 10 minutes, how about 7 seconds!

Where do I sign up?
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La_Serpiente Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 06:40 PM
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1. You could do some major hacking
with speeds that fast.
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Chuckup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 06:46 PM
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3. Think of all the illegal music downloads
like 100 full albums in 30 seconds...well heck that would just ruin all the fun of not getting caught!
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 06:42 PM
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2. I wish I had that type of ISP.
Instead, I get cyber-traffic jams on my dorm ISP about once a week.:-(
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Dudley_DUright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 10:23 PM
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4. Of course the folks at CERN are responsible for
the HTML markup language and were the site of the very first webpage in history (to help share info among high energy physicists). Glad to see they are still pushing the envelope.
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Dudley_DUright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 10:31 PM
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5. Some information on Internet2, the new and improved internet
http://www.internet2.edu/

Coming soon to a network near you .
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