[ih] vic/vat [Re: IPv8...]

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 20:14:40 PDT 2026


Great video. There's a retro web page about vic/vat at http://www.dcs.uky.edu/~wc/softopt/av/avmboneoverview.html
Regards/Ngā mihi
    Brian Carpenter

On 22-Apr-26 10:22, Karl Auerbach via Internet-history wrote:
> Severe Tire Damage you say?
> 
> Here's my video ...  (Please forgive the poor tech quality of the video
> - we were then, and still are, learning how.)
> 
> https://www.history-of-the-internet.org/videos/std/
> 
>           --karl--
> 
> On 4/21/26 3:03 PM, Dave McGuire via Internet-history wrote:
>> There was a garage band called Severe Tire Damage who would "stream"
>> (what we'd call it today) their shows about once per week.  A bunch of
>> us would get pizza and beer and watch religiously.  Although the
>> 8-bit, 8kHz mono audio on the SPARCstations of the day left a bit to
>> be desired, we were still amazed that it worked at all.  I believe the
>> name of the Mbone-based video streaming program was "vic".


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