More and more bandwidth...

Just so, increasing the commonly available symmetric crosscut bandwidth won't make web browsing more popular---just like commonly
available T1s didn't make UUCP more popular and Fast Ethernet didn't make Gopher any more popular.
But AOL usage---"what everyone wants" in 1994---was under 20 kbps, for use on phone lines. Mr. Malik says the web currently works at about 1 Mbps. Of course 100 Mbps symmetric connections to the home won't make a difference in 1 Mbps web surfing---just like they don't make a difference in 20 kbps AOL usage.

But what else will they enable? Multiple simultaneous video streams? Immersive applications? Real-time collaborative software? Cheap,
easy reuse of spare cycles, a sort of NeighborsExcel@Home?

This seems intuitively obvious: As long as I'm regularly being limited by the bandwidth I have, I don't have enough!

It's a little harder to dispose of the server-side-throttling argument. Again, if the use is quite different from the current day,
why should we expect it to use central servers?

We really are AOL users, or perhaps telegraph operators, trying to predict the Web.

-Brian Sniffen


The Internet began with being web browsing and emailing and in most part of the World it is still just that, because most of the Internet is a low bandwidth network.

On one side broadband and on the other always better compressions allowed the use of images and videos on web pages.
May be most users forget what websites used to be just a few years ago and how full of images they are now.
It wouldn't be possible to access them with a modem.
We need always more bandwidth because we have always new applications for it.
And the future will be a totally different Network, thanks to more and more available bandwidth.

It was the same with electricity.
They began using it for a few bulbs, then came one after the other all the electric appliances and we still use more and more energy...

Multiple simultaneous video streams. Immersive applications. Real-time collaborative software and much, much more...
Let's not put limits to human imagination...