New Internet connection technologies sprung up everywhere. Displays got larger with higher resolutions. Processor and network speeds improved dramatically.
Students of computer history will note that around this time a huge surge in computer advancements began. We were Internet addicts and we wanted to surf the net and not have to wait. This is normally the part when us old timers do the traditional joke of “And we liked it! We loved it!” but that would be a lie. And, if you were lucky, it wouldn’t pause to buffer before the video was done. Go refill your beverage, talk with friends, read a book, and about 5-10 minutes later you could start the video. Even at the lower resolution you’d start the video, then immediately pause it so the video could buffer. Good video streaming, forget about it! High resolution video was originally 640x480, what we now call 480p or SD video, but most early video was 320x240. This is a quick discussion, all puns intended, about why QUIC is important to the modern internet.īack in the old days, about the mid-1990’s, when the Internet was new and the Wild Wild Web was a better fit for A simple web page could take upwards of 1-2 minutes to load.
Today’s topic is the newly published QUIC protocol. James Kehr here with the Windows Networking Escalation Engineering team.
