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Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband (www.popsci.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember the early 90's when fiber connection was being developed in research centers.

Researchers had found a way to transmit all of a country's phone calls' bandwidth through a simple fiber cable. Then, they wondered: what could we use this for?

This was a few years before the explosion of the internet...

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

1988 TAT-8 already went into productive use as the first transatlantic fiber optic connection. So the lab work must have happened in the 80's already.