----- Original Message -----
From: "Joost van de Griek" <gyorpb at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:27 AM
Subject: Today's web is full of crap (was: Let's talk NeXT - Re: Steve
Jobs -2011)
On 2011-10-12 23:19, Andrew Burton wrote:
> Back in "the day" when you connected to a website, you just loaded the
> website code (HTML, PHP etc.) and images from the server/s hosting the
> website. Today you load all that, plus load adverts (usually
flash-based)
> from other websites, connect
towww.googleanalytics.com (or similar
> websites) and perhaps a few other sites too. Those of you on a fast
> connection may not notice it, but as I'm on dial-up (and have been for
the
last 10 years)
I can actually see what is going on.
Do yourself a favour: <http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm>
.tsooJ
Thanks, that is great. I'll install it over the weekend :)
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk