After "Cloud Cover", PM Fact-Checked On "1987-88 Digital Camera" Comment

[Andhadhun]

Commodore 64 was famous for email and taking digital pictures, I was working for an IT company which had contracts with US embassy and I frequent to US embassy in Karachi, never heard of email and never ever someone mentioned a digital camera.

I guess that is the reason India surged ahead in IT technology and paksitan did not.

 

[xyxmt]

I guess that is the reason India surged ahead in IT technology and paksitan did not.

So Indian did have emails in 88 and digital cameras?

 

[Andhadhun]

So Indian did have emails in 88 and digital cameras?

Email since 1986.

Back then sanctions were imposed on India, so the only digital camera one would have is if someone came from abroad and gave him one or if he traveled abroad and got one.

 

[Sharky]

And this guy is the prime minister. He is worse than pappu.

 

[xyxmt]

Email since 1986.

Back then sanctions were imposed on India, so the only digital camera one would have is if someone came from abroad and gave him one or if he traveled abroad and got one.

messaging between physically connected computer is not email genius. Unless Mr. Modi was connected to ARPANET in his 10 and final grade of education he could not have used computer messaging.

 

[Andhadhun]

messaging between physically connected computer is not email genius. Unless Mr. Modi was connected to ARPANET in his 10 and final grade of education he could not have used computer messaging.

https://www.indiatimes.com/internet/41-years-of-email-the-story-of-email-in-india-43107.html

In 1986, a dial-up link for email exchange was set up between NCST and IIT Bombay. Very soon all ERNET partners were on dial-up ERNET email and academics in these institutions started sending emails to all over the world," he said. When there was no Internet service providers in the country, public or private, ERNET informally gave email facilities to software companies, said Ramani. But what was the reaction of the common people on these pathbreaking achievements?

"In the beginning, people did not have much idea about email. A sure-shot method to convince one was to describe how easy and cost-effective it would be to contact with his/her son or daughter abroad," said Swapan Kumar De, former head, Computer and Informatics Group, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata.
"In the eastern region, ERNET was first installed in VECC. From there it was spread to other institutes in Kolkata and other states," said De, the pioneer in initiating ERNET in eastern India. By 1991, the ERNET community crossed 1000 and hundreds of persons started using email in these sites, said De, adding that at that time, the initial investment to have ERNET mail was around Rs 30,000, without a printer.

 

[Jackdaws]

Please fellow Indians, stop defending him. I personally think he is a fool, but respect the right of other Indians to support him. He always claims he was so poor. Where did he get a digital camera in 1988? Digital cameras were not even mainstream in USA till the early 2000s. No free email service was there - the likes of Hotmail and Rocketmail came into being post 1996.

 

[xyxmt]

https://www.indiatimes.com/internet/41-years-of-email-the-story-of-email-in-india-43107.html

In 1986, a dial-up link for email exchange was set up between NCST and IIT Bombay. Very soon all ERNET partners were on dial-up ERNET email and academics in these institutions started sending emails to all over the world," he said. When there was no Internet service providers in the country, public or private, ERNET informally gave email facilities to software companies, said Ramani. But what was the reaction of the common people on these pathbreaking achievements?

"In the beginning, people did not have much idea about email. A sure-shot method to convince one was to describe how easy and cost-effective it would be to contact with his/her son or daughter abroad," said Swapan Kumar De, former head, Computer and Informatics Group, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata.
"In the eastern region, ERNET was first installed in VECC. From there it was spread to other institutes in Kolkata and other states," said De, the pioneer in initiating ERNET in eastern India. By 1991, the ERNET community crossed 1000 and hundreds of persons started using email in these sites, said De, adding that at that time, the initial investment to have ERNET mail was around Rs 30,000, without a printer.

hey genius we are talking about ordinary users not academics

 

[Andhadhun]

Please fellow Indians, stop defending him. I personally think he is a fool, but respect the right of other Indians to support him. He always claims he was so poor. Where did he get a digital camera in 1988? Digital cameras were not even mainstream in USA till the early 2000s. No free email service was there - the likes of Hotmail and Rocketmail came into being post 1996.

He was part of the BJP back then so my guess would be that the camera would come from party funds or even a gift from some NRI. Probably a gujarati NRI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camera#History

The Cromemco Cyclops was an all-digital camera introduced as a commercial product in 1975.

hey genius we are talking about ordinary users not academics

What is the difference ?

 

[xyxmt]

I guess that is the reason India surged ahead in IT technology and paksitan did not.

first commercial ISP started dialup internet in Pakistan was in 1993, in India it started in 1995

 

[Andhadhun]

first commercial ISP started dialup internet in Pakistan was in 1993, in India it started in 1995

I fail to see why the email had to be send via a commercial ISP.

BJP as a national party could very well have an email id which was part of the ERNET or any of its affiliates could have one.

Or he could have just loaded the pictures onto a floppy drive and given it to his friend who had access to e-mail and asked him to mail the pictures for him.

 

[xyxmt]

I fail to see why the email had to be send via a commercial ISP.

BJP as a national party could very well have an email id which was part of the ERNET or any of its affiliates could have one.

Or he could have just loaded the pictures onto a floppy drive and given it to his friend who had access to e-mail and asked him to mail the pictures for him.

stop making nonsense statements

 

[Andhadhun]

stop making nonsense statements

How is it nonsense ?

What part of my post was illogical ?

 

[Jackdaws]

He was part of the BJP back then so my guess would be that the camera would come from party funds or even a gift from some NRI. Probably a gujarati NRI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camera#History

The Cromemco Cyclops was an all-digital camera introduced as a commercial product in 1975.



What is the difference ?

And how did he send the picture by email? Even in mid 1990s, we were using dial up modems via phone line at speeds of 14.4 kbps. And those phone lines were pathetic and kept getting disconnected.

 

[Andhadhun]

And how did he send the picture by email? Even in mid 1990s, we were using dial up modems via phone line at speeds of 14.4 kbps. And those phone lines were pathetic and kept getting disconnected.

My first internet connection was a dial up too. They were indeed slow and kept getting disconnected and reconnected.

But I have always managed to send email via them and watch **** too. If those pictures could be downloaded, then why can't pictures be sent via email via a dial up modem ?

It would depend on the picture size and I bet back in the day the picture size of digital image would have been quiet small.