I just watched Alan Yentob’s Imagine tv programme on the topic of the web, mostly because it was on after the news and happened to catch my eye. The programme starts with the invention of computers, romps through creation of the Internet and soon whizzes past the introduction of the world wide web (albeit via [...]
I’m back on broadband, having now been connected onto Be‘s superfast ADSL 2 (or should I say ADSL 2.0?) network. Compared to dialup, it makes browsing website much more of a pleasurable experience. Whilst webpages still don’t load instantly – I guess the bottleneck just shifts to some other bit of the internet – they’re [...]
I’m back on dial-up, having cancelled my Virgin.net ADSL broadband connection (it was getting rubbish), and now signing up for Be‘s £14.99 a month ‘Lite’ ADSL2 package (1 gig a month) . Was expecting the transfer to take a while, but all things being well we should be connected on Tuesday. Hopefully, the speed boost [...]