Few folks I guess recall the dial-up line that ran westward from Beijing to Karlsruhe that functioned in the early-to-mid '80s. It ran at 300 baud. On good days. -s On Saturday 03 November 2001 16:55, Nigel Titley wrote:
Rafi Sadowsky wrote:
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Nipper, Arnold wrote:
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Hm, I'm still waiting to witness a traceroute from Europe to Asia or the Pacific that doesn't go over the US for the first time.
Well, back in 1995 I connected a Japanese internet customer (the name escapes me) to BTnet in the UK. The connection method was frame relay and so at the IP layer there was one hop between London and Tokyo....
Nigel
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