Amazingly Accurate Tech Predictions
Not really RV related but I just had to post this somewhere.. :@ I just watched an old TV show called "Beachcombers". Since was a Canadian show many may not have heard of it? This particular epis...
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Amazing, isn't it? MSDOS dates back to 1981 when IBM licensed it from Microsoft for use on their new line of personal computers. Still, by 1986 Windows had just been introduced but wasn't very popular - yet. While the Internet dates from the 80's, the World Wide Web is from about 1990, so those kids were really in the forefront of technology.
I remember prior to the Internet in the 1980's, transmission of data was by use of a modem over telephone lines, where the operator's computer program "called" another computer's phone number. The two computers would "shake hands", and data could be transferred. If you lacked the phone number, passwords or the right protocol, you didn't connect and couldn't access the data. When it worked, it was SLOW! Using this procedure was necessary for two completely separate assignments at work.
I remember prior to the Internet in the 1980's, transmission of data was by use of a modem over telephone lines, where the operator's computer program "called" another computer's phone number. The two computers would "shake hands", and data could be transferred. If you lacked the phone number, passwords or the right protocol, you didn't connect and couldn't access the data. When it worked, it was SLOW! Using this procedure was necessary for two completely separate assignments at work.
