Dial-up internet is still a viable option for certain households. See which providers offer this service, and if any are available near you.
The internet exists to make life easier. What Jeremy Hunt is calling for is to cripple the internet, to make service providers divert capital away from improving their services into something that no one but a tiny group of venal beasts want. This is not the call of a human being, this ...
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Irdial was one of the first record labels on the Internet. It was clear to me, after spending years in the BBS scene and watching the Internet grow, that it made sense to spread your music everywhere rather than keep it bottled up. This is why The Conet Project has now been downloaded...
Once the information leaves the Web server and hits your dial-up connection, that's where the bottleneck begins in the typical Internet transaction. But high-speed dial-up providers have come up with some pretty clever ways to open up that bottleneck. By loading special software into a server...
Wireless Internet providers are being tempted to slow traffic to sites with which they have not made deals. Governments—totalitarian and democratic alike—are monitoring people’s online habits, endangering important human rights. Why should you care? Because the Web is yours. It is a public ...
Locking up the developers of Bitcoin will, on the other hand, not stop Bitcoin any more than locking away movie pirates has made a single dent in the level of Bittorrent traffic on the internet. Virtual currency schemes differ from electronic money schemes insofar as the currency being used ...