----- Original Message -----
From: "Joost van de Griek" <gyorpb at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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