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Starblvds: an old article but may give accurate information if you're interested |
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Friday, 17 February 2006 |
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Anthony was instructed by TISNet not to restore StarBlvd's free transloader service. The paying TL/2 service appears to be in jeopardy as well at this time. The WebTV community is deeply saddened by the loss of one of its pioneering user-based services.
Anthony had not even seen a WebTV in his hometown of Taipei City, Taiwan when he debuted the original Transloader services. WebTV terminals weren't for sale, and the service would have been an international toll call from Taiwan. What he had seen was a network terminal similar to WebTV that had been a project of his employer, Tantung. He developed the transloader after seeing WebTV users posting their passwords on GeoCities forums, asking for help with file transfers. Knowing that releasing your password is a dangerous practice, he decided to use his programming skills to find a way to help the WebTVers, and thus was born the transloader.
Anthony coined the word "transloader" to refer to a web server-to-web server transfer. WebTV cannot "download," or "upload," transferring files from an Internet location to or from the user's WebTV unit. This deficiency was causing a massive problem with WebTV users, who were having to remote load files from other Internet servers in order to make home pages of their own, angering webmasters and causing a huge bandwidth expenditure on their behalf. The transloader solved this problem by allowing an "Internet copy service" from one web server to another so that WebTV users could copy their files into their own file directories at their home page provider.
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