Half of UK homes now on-line
 

Oftel has announced that half of all UK homes are now connected to the Internet: that's 12.5 million. In the last 3 months 750, 000 have connected.

One million more will connect via Broadband, which is believed to be cheaper in the UK as is dial up Internet access.

For more information:

http://www.oftel.gov.uk/


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Yeh...and half of them infected with a virus or worm !!!!!

(Well if you look at my router log you'd think so !!)

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and probably 12.4 million don't know how to use it properly .... virus fodder :D

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I'll wager that the sales of porn mags have dropped off aswell

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You mean there's porn on the net!!! :eek:

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apparently yeah.

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Thats why so many people get caught downloading pornography off of the internet.

ITS ON THE NEWS MOST OF THE TIME. :mad:

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what - pornography?

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NO! reports of people downloading it.

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Pornography on the Net is big business, and is one of the reasons it has expanded ther way it has. Sex is a part of life, in all variations, the Net just advertises it better, due to the lack of control. The onus is on the user to avoid it or to control access to it, whereas in normal life these things are already controlled by organisations and Parents.

The press will sensationalise the Net's pornography side, because it is newsworthy. Some aspects of what you can/will find are distasteful and illegal. This side needs controlling and there are moves to make this the responsibility of the ISP's.

Above all the Net is a huge community, not that far detached from life. The decisions you make while you are on it should be the same decisions you make in your regular life ... If you wouln't do it/go there in real life ... don't go there on the net.

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Nemesis, the voice of reason....here endeth his sermon for today:D

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:blush: It wasn't meant to be a sermon, but noticed WNA's age, so decided to put my view across. :blush:

sorry :)

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oh yeah
did not notice the age

sorry about that sarcastic remark further up then

will keep an eye out for age from now on

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Im 15 for god sake, how can you not notice. Sorry if this was off topic.

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dunno really

I suppose not noticing is what not noticing is all about

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I noticed ..:D, hence the 'sermon' that wasn't meant to be a sermon, more a informative ramble :D

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I am surprised that some of you could think only of negative comments of such a nature that only a grub street, cheap headline seeking journalist could think of.

Surely, the growth in internet usage can only be healthy, of course many maybe totally lost but it won't take the determined long to figure out how the web works. As to virus issues, well only good advice can help newcomers to avoid the pitfalls of viruses. As to p..........y well as WNA pointed out the few idiots who log on to such sites can be traced and dealt with.

Let's be positive.

;)