The Internet today is certainly faster than the Internet of 20 years ago.
Web Watch remembers using a 2400 baud modem to connect to what was the ‘net back in the day – and that was considered lightning fast for the time. (Sadly, Web Watch still has that modem in the back closet, just in case our broadband connection dies and we have to resort to connecting to the net the old-fashioned way.)
We eventually got 19,200 baud, and later 56k modems – everyone thought that was as fast as the Internet could possibly go at the time. We were transferring files in hours instead of days, and that was good enough for us.
But with broadband and wireless everywhere, transferring large amounts of data has become an everyday activity – but some transfers can still take a while to process.
With that in mind, some enterprising scientists decided to see exactly how long it would take to transfer a large file across the Internet, and compare that to the landspeed of some animals to see which was faster.
Some Internet sites are designed to be useful.
We can all agree that recycling is a good thing.
Taking photographs shouldn’t be difficult.
