Thank You Broadband

I installed Fedora Core 2 on one of my old PCs yesterday. I inserted disk 1 and started the installation. After a few minutes, the CD-ROM trey popped out and the system asked me to insert disk 2 to continue installation. Only then did I realize that I didn't have Fedora Core 2 disk 2. I had disk 1, disk 3 and disk 4 but not disk 2. I switched to another computer, visited Redhat web site, downloaded Fedora Core 2 disk 2 ISO image. The total file size was 635 MB. I could download it in less than four hours. I burned the ISO image to a empty disk and used it to complete the installation.

A few years ago this was a dream. I recalled the days when it took almost half an hour to access your mailbox. Frequent disconnections in a dial-up connection was quite normal in those days. Uploading and downloading huge files was a nightmare then. Thanks to today's broadband technologies. It saves so much time and the online experience is more enjoyable today.

Google and other companies are working on various projects to improve the connection speeds. In the near future, there would be little gap between your computer and Internet. You would editing and storing a document online and you wouldn't feel any latency at all. Web 2.0 is a great revolution happening in the computer industry which enables even better online experience.