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John Young <jya@pipeline.com>Fri, 1 Mar 1996 23:11:58 +0800
3-1-96. NYT:
"Speed Record: One Trillion Bits a Second."
Fujitsu, NTT and AT&T have succeeded, each separately,
for the first time in transmitting information at the
rate of one trillion bits a second through optical
fiber.
"Microsoft Backs Ratings System For the Internet."
The system, called RSAC-1, will enable parents and
teachers to censor Web sites due to violence, sexual
themes, nudity or offensive language. Other companies
support the PICS form of censorship in terror of market-
share loss to the tele-vigilantes.
[Gates told a Mexican sports stadium audience that no
real money can be made on the Internet until it has the
speed to interactively out-hypnotize television.]
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