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Connecting remote communities

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Aug 11, 2022
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INSIGHT

Internet Shrank The World

  • The internet evolved from slow dial-up to fibre optics and broadband, shrinking physical barriers between people.
  • The show frames this change with the phrase the global village to describe closer connections.
INSIGHT

Early Browser Trivia

  • The hosts pose a trivia question about the first internet browser to engage listeners.
  • They reveal the browser was called the World Wide Web, invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
ANECDOTE

Kate's Dodgy Dorset Connection

  • Kate, a BBC radio listener in Dorset, describes her connection as spasmodic and blighted by old underground cabling.
  • She calls the network dodgy and says much of the cabling needs replacing.
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