Today's example of how 1980s-1990s era BSD fortunes have not aged equally well:
Dreams are free, but you get soaked on the connect time.
"connect time?"
It's been a long time since we worried about connect charges.
It's been …
- 30 years since we went to a always-on PPP link (56 Kb/s) to our ISP
(this required a second dedicated analog phone line) - 27+ years since we switched to an always-on cable modem (6 Mb/s)
(Katherine wrote up our experience for the October 1997 WIRED) - 17+ years since we switched to FiOS (60 Mb/s),
- 4+ years since we upgraded to 1 Gb/s FiOS.
