The predecessor to Google Earth was clumsy, yet powerful

Re:The predecessor to Google Earth was clumsy, yet powerful by s_gourichon on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:47PM (#28646975)

Video from 1994: https://youtu.be/fAsAWoency8

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Re:The predecessor to Google Earth was clumsy, yet powerful by tdeck on Friday September 24, 2021 @04:42PM (#28647567)

That's a very impressive video. It's interesting that they used ATM networking, which also showed promise but didn't really take off:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode

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Re:The predecessor to Google Earth was clumsy, yet powerful by why_only_15 on Friday September 24, 2021 @05:15PM (#28647930)

This[0] is one of my favorite articles ever, about the competition between IP and ATM in the 90s and the different mindsets they had.

[0] https://www.wired.com/1996/10/atm-3/

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Re:The predecessor to Google Earth was clumsy, yet powerful by jeffbee on Friday September 24, 2021 @06:20PM (#28648434)

Netheads vs bellheads is an instance of the superiority of the end-to-end principle. https://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoe...

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Re:The predecessor to Google Earth was clumsy, yet powerful by toast0 on Friday September 24, 2021 @09:59PM (#28649767)

ATM was the baselevel for DSL for a long time. You'd usually run Ethernet over ATM, and often PPP over Ethernet (over ATM). If you carefully tweaked your MTUs, you could get a marginal latency benefit by fully packing the underlying fixed-length ATM packets.

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