#but once again I find myself wondering how jeremie pays for stuff. data wasn't as cheap then as it is today | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

a-queenoffairys · 1 year ago

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This post got me thinking and doing a bit of searching. WiFi has been around since the 90s at least, but it's another question whether or not it would have been available at a school in 2003, and he was able to connect to the Internet when he wasn't on school grounds too. I generally assumed his laptop could be using a satellite connection, but I didn't give it much serious thought.

So I asked my parents and they said if you had an always-connected laptop in 2003, it was probably using a SIM card to connect through the mobile phone network! You can even still find laptops with SIM slots today, since not everyone has the option of hooking their place of residence up to an ISP. So I have learnt something today, thank you! 👍

jeremie belpois was out here opening his laptop anywhere, did the guy carry a hot spot on him 24/7, insta-connect to nearest internet? what was his skill? how’d he pull that off? did the xana alert not require internet connection even though it was his laptop?

#code lyoko reblog #hi computer networking is one of my interests and I like learning about the history of it #I'd also guess that any illegal activity performed on his pc or laptop would be done via the supercomputer #using a vpn to take advantage of the supercomputer's superior processing power and network access capabilities #and making it harder to trace back to his personal devices #(note vpns aren't exactly what yt sponsors sell them as. think of it as a tunnel that lets him do stuff on the sc remotely)#but once again I find myself wondering how jeremie pays for stuff. data wasn't as cheap then as it is today #and as someone in the notes said: his laptop had remarkably long battery life

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