No Norway Plus option then...

[original PM]

It's only taken 2.5 years to get it agreed. Easiest deal ever. How many decades to get a trade deal?

In 2000 how long would it have taken you to download a gig of porn?

How long does it take now?

The world is changing and moving on - the digital age will erode the old barriers and the central powers which made things take so long so they could justify their existence will slowly be mothballed as they become increasingly outdated.

It's the future I tell you.

[Eirikur]

Ahh so all of sudden planes flying from the UK will not have to be grounded then.

Who would have thought that?

Yep but no agreement with the EU, so most flights still grounded

[original PM]

Yep but no agreement with the EU, so most flights still grounded

And as we have already said - that would be cutting off their nose to spite their face because they need the tourist dollar.

[WTFH]

In 2000 how long would it have taken you to download a gig of porn?

How long does it take now?

The world is changing and moving on - the digital age will erode the old barriers and the central powers which made things take so long so they could justify their existence will slowly be mothballed as they become increasingly outdated.

It's the future I tell you.

Is porn the only trade deal you're worried about?

And it's all about the upload speed, anyway.

[original PM]

Is porn the only trade deal you're worried about?

And it's all about the upload speed, anyway.

You know that's avoiding the question!

[WTFH]

You know that's avoiding the question!

Well, you're not comparing like with like.
In 2000 most videos on the internet were 640x480 resolution, maybe some went as high as 1024x768. Few screens supported much higher than that. I vaguely remember architects buying ones at 1600x1200 but these cost over £1,000.

Today most videos are recorded in HD, which is considered to be 1360x768. True HD, running at 1920x1080 is fairly common, with 4k starting to emerge as well (3840x2160).

So, 1Gb of data in 2000 would be 27x the length of video that it would be today, because the quality is so much higher.