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Winterclaw · Apr 06, 2008, 01:45 AM // 01:45

Omega Jet Awesome if you ask me. You could download all the porn ever made in just a few hours.

The gaming applications of something like this would be huge as well.

fenix · Apr 06, 2008, 02:03 AM // 02:03

If only Australia could get the OLD super-fast internet (8mbit+), then we could maybe get this

Also, the 'grid' sounds kinda cool, as opposed to the 'internet'.

Jamison0071 · Apr 06, 2008, 02:38 AM // 02:38

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Originally Posted by fenix

If only Australia could get the OLD super-fast internet (8mbit+), then we could maybe get this

QFT! As much as I love Australia, our internet could use a little help

Brianna · Apr 06, 2008, 02:44 AM // 02:44

Insane, I wonder how that's gonna turn out.

But considering that computers, and everything we have now was only created in the 19th century and It's yet to even be 100 years old, you can only imagine what we'll have sooner or later.

Also, what happens to lag? I can't blame dying on lag anymore? No more epic lulz in MMO's?

"Omfg lag! Stfu noob!? No u''

Redfeather1975 · Apr 06, 2008, 05:05 AM // 05:05

Is this true, or just wishful thinking.
Would we actually be able to use this, or only a select few would for certain purposes.

Shakti · Apr 06, 2008, 05:13 AM // 05:13

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Originally Posted by Redfeather1975

Is this true, or just wishful thinking.
Would we actually be able to use this, or only a select few would for certain purposes.

Ahhhh but once upon a time, any internet at all was a select few for certain purposes remember? ( who else remembers using a modem before isp? or am I dating myself....) So in a few years who knows?

Queenie · Apr 06, 2008, 05:31 AM // 05:31

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Originally Posted by Jamison0071

QFT! As much as I love Australia, our internet could use a little help

I know. >_>
Haha, we've had the 8mb internet connection for awhile now, its pretty good.

Lorinda · Apr 06, 2008, 07:38 AM // 07:38

Programmers will just think of something extreemly neat for websites and the webz become slow like before again.
Happens most of the time.
*points to compleet Flash websites that came after DSL*

Mike_version2 · Apr 06, 2008, 11:22 AM // 11:22

read about this earlier, pretty exciting.

quickmonty · Apr 06, 2008, 12:43 PM // 12:43

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Originally Posted by Shakti

Ahhhh but once upon a time, any internet at all was a select few for certain purposes remember? ( who else remembers using a modem before isp? or am I dating myself....) So in a few years who knows?

My first experience on the internet was dialing up bulletin boards (prior to the WWW) to d/l files. Most were long distance calls, but the files were small. Then came AOL and all the noobs starting using the internet.

Malice Black · Apr 06, 2008, 02:02 PM // 14:02

They've been testing 100mb lines here for a while. They're already using it in the business world, should be released to the general public soon.

*Darcy* · Apr 06, 2008, 02:24 PM // 14:24

Yes, the joy of the superfast 14.4k modem. That was in the late 80s. Now I have 15/2mb cable internet and I complain of lag.

As they always oversell the bandwidth, I don't think a 100mb will help.

Malice Black · Apr 06, 2008, 02:41 PM // 14:41

Looking at £50-70 a month though. Hardly going to be that popular until the price drops.

DreamRunner · Apr 06, 2008, 06:12 PM // 18:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jamison0071

QFT! As much as I love Australia, our internet could use a little help

And its going to get censored too!

lakatz · Apr 07, 2008, 03:30 AM // 03:30

Thanks for the article Winterclaw. I read and read and read asking myself "When are they going to get to the punchline... that they're doing it with fiber optics. It was about three quarters of the way down.

That article was good PR for Cern... and bottom line... it's not a new internet... it's just a change... a step up from cable. That's what some digital post production houses are using now to transfer dailies to film and TV producers and product domestically and internationally. And companies like Verizon are offering it for internet connectivity as FiOS http://www22.verizon.com/content/ConsumerFios

EDIT:

And here's an article a man wrote in August and September of 2005 after Verizon installed FiOS at his house:
http://www.bricklin.com/fiosinstall.htm

ANOTHER EDIT:

Quote:

Originally Posted by quickmonty

My first experience on the internet was dialing up bulletin boards (prior to the WWW) to d/l files. Most were long distance calls, but the files were small. Then came AOL and all the noobs starting using the internet.

Yeah... lol... I remember the Prodigy and Compuserve days... lots of BBs... and then came AOL. Wasn't that around 1984?