Although I progressed from my childhood into my teens in the 90s, l don’t retain much memory of the internet back then as l had no exposure to it.
Although I progressed from my childhood into my teens in the 90s, l don’t retain much memory of the internet back then as l had no exposure to it.
The Internet was a place.
Compared to now, you had to go somewhere physical to be on the Internet. That changed the relationship that people had with the Internet, you went there to do something rather than have it entertain you when bored. It also meant you weren’t always available to being messaged.
There were also a lot less videos online due to bandwidth. Animation was a far bigger deal since the bandwidth needed to show an animation was significantly less than the bandwidth needed to show even SD video.
That really changed more in 2008+ with the invention of smartphones.
I really need to understand this term, bandwidth. Also latency.
Bandwidth is akin to number of lanes on an interstate, latency is how long it takes each car to go from point A to B (or X, or wherever you’re measuring to).
Technically, bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower frequencies in a continuous band of frequencies. It is typically measured in unit of hertz (so how “wide” is the signal) - in ye olden days the signal width corresponded to transmission capacity.
While latency is a measure of how long a specified bit of data took to transit a system, especially when compared against the “ideal” performance of the system.
If I send you a 24TB hard drive in the mail and it takes three days to arrive, thats high bandwidth, high latency.
If I send you a 24 character morse code message over the radio it’s low latency and low bandwidth.
Conclusion:
bandwith = maximum volume per second, like width of a water pipe
latency = delay in arrival, how many milliseconds the data takes to make the journey, like how slow or long a pipe is.