&quot;There wasn&#x27;t that many interesting AND bandwidth-consuming services out there in the rest of the world.&quot;<p>MIT had a video capture system. If you told it your IP address, and did the xhost + correctly (we were so trusting back then), it would pop up an X window on your machine and show video. We watched part of the 1994 World Cup that way, at a few frames per second and 1&#x2F;3rd of a continent away. And no sound.<p>Regarding network in Sweden, part of me drools over the $100&#x2F;month 1Gbit&#x2F;s offerings from Com Hem and Bredbandbolaget. The bigger part of me wonders if the extra bandwidth would be worthwhile.