1991 ..... $5.00 1994 ..... $0.26 1996 ..... $0.10 1998 ..... $0.03
Backbone Home Users 1996 45-155 Mbps 28.8 kbps 1998 500 Mbps 288 kbps 2000 5 Gbps 2.88 Mbps 2002 50 Gbps 28.8 Mbps 2004 500 Gbps 288 Mbps 2006 5 Tbps 2.88 Gbps
As you can see, about the year 2005, things would be moving along pretty nicely. Also, about the year 2000, video over the net - very high quality video along the lines of high-difinition television - start to look very real. I'm seeing visions of digitized versions of servers with every movie ever made available for a buck - with huge search engines to help you find the specific scene in the specific movie where the term 'make my day' first appeared."
Source: Jack Rickard, "Editor's Notes: Bandwidth Arithmetic and Mythology," Boardwatch Magazine, May 1996, p. 109
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