Why we should all dump broadband
Sit down to work. Ten minutes in, the new mail icon tempts me from the bottom of the screen. I'll just check. Nothing like a few juicy new e-mails. Click a few links. Scan a few websites. Oh 20 minutes has just passed. Better get back to work. Now where was I Start work again. Feel like a reward. I'll just check news.bbc.co.uk. See if anything's happened in the three minutes since I last looked. Follow a few 'related links'...
Half an hour has passed. I feel like I've done something, but actually I haven't. All that's happened is that I've been distracted by constantly rising info urges. I spend most of my day like this, divided between what I need to do and what the internet wants me to do - which is look at it. Constantly.
Hmm. Feels strangely familiar.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4242751.stm
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internet Vs. Internet
Ach, I've had enough. I've ignored it for a fair few months, but now it's really starting to grate. Wired has had it's say, even Zeldman has something to contribute, and it seems to be spreading. Far be it from me to place myself in the same lofty sphere as these web stalwarts, but they seem to have missed an important point about the capitalisation of the word internet, and like all good things in life, it's rather simple.
Basically, an internet is a network of (usually otherwise incompatible) networks. For example - if you were having a LAN party and you had a bunch of PCs and Macs running a TCP/IP network running alongside an AppleShare network, but all playing in the same game, however you manage it, you'd have an internet.
The Internet happens to be quite a well known and rather large scale implementation of an internet, but is unfortunately one which suffers from a rather poor choice of name.
An internet. The Internet. Simple, eh?
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