What was before broadband

It was the first, and most important, move to net neutrality , which is now endangered by those who have forgotten why network neutrality was important in the first place. For example, in the late 80s I was an e-mail administrator and just getting a message from one part of the Internet to another often required wildly varying addresses. How complicated was it? I think the title of an essential book of the time,! Afterwards, you could send traffic across the entire Internet without jumping through gateways.

It was more than just that though. By the early 90s, it had expanded, but it was still not open to most people and commercial traffic was forbidden. With CIX's AUP agreement it became possible for people to subscribe to Internet services, which is what almost of you do today, and, for better or for worse, online shopping, cue Amazon, and advertising. Thus, it was that the Internet I knew back in became the Internet we all know in It's really been an amazingly fast journey and we owe it to the Web and CIX.

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If you want to use the phone whilst you are online, you can choose a broadband connection or get a second line installed specifically for internet access. A broadband connection allows online access all day:. If you are thinking of building your own website, choose an ISP that offers hosting space as part of the package. Find out what technical support is available and how much the ISP charges for this service. Ask what the ISP does to prevent or manage system failures.

Available broadband services can vary across Northern Ireland. Broadband internet services are usually provided over a standard telephone line. However, the phone and internet signals are separated - so you can use your phone at the same time as the internet.

Broadband gives you much faster access to the internet, allowing you to download large files quickly, such as video and music. Broadband is constantly connected, so you don't have to wait for a connection to be made when you want to use the internet.

You might also decide to go for wireless or mobile broadband. For wireless broadband you need to buy a router - or you might get one from your ISP as part of your service package. Remember, your computer or laptop must also be wireless enabled.

A mobile broadband connection can be used anywhere that you get a mobile phone signal, but you need to arrange the service through a mobile broadband provider. These include cable and satellite. Cable companies offer high bandwidth services over existing cable networks. A cable modem can offer a similar speed to ADSL services. Broadband internet access can be brought into your home via satellite. Currently, there are two types of satellite broadband available:.

One way access provides a very fast connection, but you can only receive information. For example, you can download internet pages and files, but you can't upload email attachments. If you need to send information back, you will need to use a cable modem, or dial-up service.

Two way allows information to be sent both ways. You can send data files back, as well as receive them, via your satellite. However, sending information back via this service is slow and expensive. There are also Wi-Fi hotspots which can give you access to fixed-line broadband at different locations. We'll let you be the judge of that. Long before the internet, if you wanted to go on a date you'd either have to pluck up the courage to ask in person, send the request by proxy usually your long-suffering best-friend , or better yet, slip them a pre-date questionnaire.

Of course, this still goes on today but to a lesser extent, thanks to apps like Tinder. The internet has changed the dating game forever. Long before Google was even a glint in Sergey Brin and Larry Page's eyes, you had to work to find information. There used to be things called books , specifically encyclopedias, buildings with books called a library , and for those more tech-savvy there was the mighty Encarta ' Those were dark times when you needed to actually search, and read, through reams of text for the information you're after.

How things have changed. Of course, it had its benefits. It would take an equally incredible amount of effort for someone to check any statements of fact if not common knowledge - which was handy at times. Before the internet, many jobs taken for granted today didn't exist. If you'd mentioned you were a web designer, for example, people would look at you strangely.

After all, the only things that 'design' webs are spiders right? Life after the internet would never be the same again. Office life before the internet was a lot harder than today. If you wanted to look at cute cat pictures, and still look like you were working, you had a tough time.

Activities, like staring out the window, or those 'inspirational' posters was a much riskier way to waste time in the office. Today, you can check out that latest funny meme or watch videos on YouTube whilst appearing to be hard at work. Before the internet, if you wanted to put up some information for everyone to see you actually needed to physically stick something to a wall.

Yes, a hardcopy post needed to be printed, carried somewhere, and stuck to a noticeboard, wall, or another surface. However, this didn't mean that you wouldn't receive some less than favorable feedback from some people — just like today. Oftentimes other nefarious members of the public could, and often would, deface you finely crafted notice, or scrawl childish imagery on it. When mobile phones have first released, the idea that you could play games on them was unthinkable.

But when the first Nokia came with games like "Snake", it would change the world of gaming forever.