Category: technology of the 1990s

visitors this year: 42 It’s intriguing how fast the Internet ‘baby’ is developing. Less than three years ago, it was babbling words and pictures on the computer screen, trying to grab our attention. Today,...

visitors this year: 17 Coming away from the shopping centre with credit card slips and itemised receipts makes one think about all the data they must store about a professional-type of person. Maybe it’s...

visitors this year: 32 The day when you can phone someone and see them as you speak to them is soon approaching. If the idea of videoconferencing with distant colleagues seems like a lavish...

visitors this year: 25 If there is a block to getting the Internet accepted as a multimedia entertainment medium, it is not just to do with bandwidth. There an idea around that the Internet...

visitors this year: 29 It is a few years since they said that the Internet was a medium alive with sound, pictures and movies ready to take over from broadcast. It may have encouraged...

visitors this year: 33 There’s seemingly no end to things going digital. While the toaster in the kitchen has again escaped getting connected to the Internet, looking around the home quite a few things...

visitors this year: 21 So many things on the Internet are as long as a piece of string. With the facts ever changing and numbers growing I lose track of how many things well...

visitors this year: 31 Granny used to say that if there are lots of ways to do the same thing, then you can be sure that there’s no best way. If she was right,...

visitors this year: 22 One way to embarrass the great majority of able, non-techy people is to ask them to look something up on the Internet. While they can dial a number to call...

visitors this year: 51 If there’s any uncertainty about whether the Internet is the way to go, it’s worth taking a lesson from history. There’s no need to go far back in time, a...

visitors this year: 32 The lively, animated website is now a staple feature of the Internet. Whereas once text and pictures from countries far away were enough to ‘wow’ us, today’s Internet feed brings...

visitors this year: 30 Now digital is upon us and analogue is condemned, the choice is between sink and swim. Broadcasters can either invest in digital or hope to swim, or give up and...

visitors this year: 61 There seems no sense in dreaming if faster ways of connecting to the Internet will arrive tomorrow. Trials of ASDL, the 6Mbits per second technology, are underway but there is...

visitors this year: 47 You can’t avoid stories about imminent Internet meltdowns and last year had its share. There was the one about Kenneth Starr’s Clinton-Lewinsky case where publication of his report on the...

visitors this year: 59 In the trail of British Telecom offering ISDN as a retail product, a multi million pound trial of high bandwidth Internet access begins in the UK. Dubbed as ‘blisteringly fast’,...

visitors this year: 24 I have lost track of how many ‘virus alerts’ I’ve received in my email. Countless of them are hoaxes – unknowingly perpetrated by best friends who feel I need looking...

visitors this year: 56 If the thing to have in the TV business is your own TV station, the thing to have on the Internet is a portal. It is a fact you might...

visitors this year: 53 by Roger Frost A new style telephone box offering Internet access is making its debut at airports, motorway services, and railway stations across the UK. Called Multiphone and developed by...

visitors this year: 42 When MTV and Turner Entertainment Networks wanted to know if the Internet was luring audience away from the TV, they turned to the Internet itself. They placed a questionnaire across...

visitors this year: 77 For decades people have fantasised about talking to machines. Television and film play their part in this, with the talking computer now much a science fiction cliché. It is here...