M-Bone, Web TV, and Early Internet Nostalgia
The discussion reflects on early internet technologies including the M-Bone protocol and the 1996 Rolling Stones concert broadcast. Historical consumer products like Web TV and AOL TV are reviewed alongside technical standards such as 56k frame relay and ISDN connections.
m-bone· ipv6· web tv· microsoft· aol tv· frame relay· isdn
00:00 What's the problem? AI sucks. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak It's Thursday February 20th 2025 this is your award-winning Give Our Nation Media Assassination episode 1740 This is no agenda With a I would give anything to bring back the M-Bone. Do you know the Rolling Stones did a concert over the M-Bone? Yes, I think it was 1996. Yeah, I remember it! All 15 people were able to watch and enjoy it. It was actually 50 thousand they say... The thing is that only universities who had T1's and Spark stations could really see it
01:07 I want a number of people writing in about it. They've talked about the six bone which came now, I don't remember the six bone It was the M bone on IPv6 Oh is that when they get it? Yeah when ipv TV was going to be the next best thing Well, I beat well IPTV is actually what's in play right now yeah, but they had it it was a specific protocol and a whole thing they developed that was IPTV and they had set-top boxes for IPTV and that went nowhere. Well, what about Internet 2? Remind me of that. What was Internet 2? I forgot! Internet 2 is going to be the next big thing and it was what the universities decided to move too Yeah now everyone knows And then everyone says oh the universities are using it's gonna ruin regular internet because everyones gonna use internet 2 Yes, I do remember that well of course many people who are listening now will not remember web TV
02:11 They will remember anything and we just lost half the listenership what believe it or not kids when I was a kid You could go to Sam Goody, and you could pick up a web TV box And it brought up a browser at, I think was 2400 baud speed. No it was faster. Okay maybe... That was the 9600 baud era. 9600 baud era okay and then you had a remote control that you controlled a little pointer with on the TV and be like and it was such an experience! It was great. And Microsoft ended up buying the operation?
02:50 Wasn't it Microsoft's? No, you're right. They bought it and of course... And they bought for next to nothing! Yeah well it wasn't worth that. It was the last cheap purchase Microsoft made. It wasn't worth anything so... Well not when Microsoft got... Okay let's take it to AOL TV remember that one? I sure do Oh man, we've been through a lot John. Yeah we got a couple of old farts here talking about the old days That's right baby that's right I remember my 56k frame relay Frame relay? I had frame relay man yeah you were rocking it I had ISDN Well that was the...ISDN was 64 kilobits i think wasn't it? Yeah but there is two channels oh that's right so you got 128
