Windows 10: 25 Years: How the Web began

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to clear Temp Files ??

Last Nite I began to download a game.It was almost 25% download was over.But due to some reason,i cancelled the download.Next Morning I again started the download and to my surprise,the game began to download from where i had stopped last nite.Does it
mean that when i cancelled the download,25% portion was in my memory????If i had not downloaded the game next morning,it would have been there in memory,consuming it???

If YEs,how could i remove uncompleted file traces from memory???

 

E71: what DOESN'T work after FW 200.21.118

Web browser: sometimes after surfing the web for a while the browser suddenly becomes unable to press buttons or links even if the cursor changes to the hand icon. Even writing a reply to this discussion board came to a crude stop when the browser refused
to press the "submit" button, so this reply was written with Opera Mini. The browser requires a restart to become operational again.

The problems began after updating to the v.200 firmware.
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amazing that the USA still uses it !!!! Usually anything not invented in the US "Doesn't exist". !!! Actually only about half true now these days -- still it shows how far the Internet has advanced -- I remember logging on with a dial up Hayes modem thinking we were in the front of technology with a 1200 Baud modem (if anybody can remember what BAUD is !!). We only had text connection too -- no windows or GUI at the start.

Nowadays 50 - 70 mbs is not that unusual and next year we (at least where I am) should be connected to speeds over 100 mbs with prospect in the near future of reaching download speeds of 1GB/s. We'l need that for some 4K video at full resolution - even with H265 compression.

Happy Xmas everybody.

Cheers
jimbo

 

I remember here in uk at least where I lived, it took ages on dial up to get online or do a download and update and if you run out of your allowance that we had to pay in advance for, you either had to pay extra or wait for the next lot of allowance

 

I didn't have a cap but I do remember the slow upload/download speeds with dial up internet. It use to take me 3 days to download a ISO of Linux Mandrake. I also had to have a second line put in so we could still use the phone.

 

If I remember correctly my first modem was only 300 baud.

 

I remember playing some Q3 on public UK servers, and in the beginning, you all had horrible pings. I would play as high as 150, but only because you all were lagging as well.

 

Microsoft certainly didn't think the Web was going to take off, anyone else remember Blackbird?

Where I lived it was a long-distance phone call to dial up the Internet. Then I discovered that I could connect by using the free 0800 Microsoft Network sign-up number instead of my PoP number.

I also have reason to believe that I am the originator of the word "Spam", although it was not intended. My username was spamfritters and my sig (unwisely) consisted of the entire chorus from the Monty Python "Spam" sketch.

 

WOW and all these years I thought Al Gore invented the web!!!

 

So now you know

 

I first used a 14,400 bps modem on both BBS systems, but I soon upgraded to a 33,600 bps modem. The only slower serial communications that I ever used was accessing SCO Open Server on a Wyse Terminal at 9,600 bps.

 

Well the Internet was invented by the US. It was a DARPA (defense advance research project agency) project - ARPANET.

the original Web was dumb terminal menus to select documents across the internet with hypertext markup language invented by TBL and company at CERN. It didn't take off big until the first graphical browser, Mosaic, which was also of US origin - NCSA in Illinois. Netscape, which evolved into Firefox, was a derivative of Mosaic.

I remember when TBL, early on, gave a talk about www. We discussed it, weren't confident it would take off! But you know it wasn't just www and hypertext that enabled it, it was evolving GUI interfaces an many other things from around the globe.

 

so netscape is now firefox???.... wow that browser sure made a 500% improvement. hated netscape more than internet explorer but have used firefox and it really isn't all that bad of a browser. much better than internet explorer or chrome

 

Yes, Netscape released its code to Mozilla, which started the work towards Firefox. Of course Firefox rewrote Netscape with gecko and Firefox only has that tenuous root in Netscape.