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Originally Posted by NeilH
Never ceases to amaze me this great country of ours..
We invented the damn telephone and have one of the slowest internet systems in the world.
Neil
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Ummm......
The slow internet is as a RESULT of inventing the phone, dude. .. ..
As one of the first countries to implement a phone service, we used what was best THEN, which was copper wires .. . Other countries made their phone networks later, using the info gained by us doing it, so they were made better, leaving us with the 'old' copper wire.. .. . .
Old boss of mine used to say 'you can have it FAST, or you can have it GOOD, but not both' .. . .
Might as well blame Thomas B. Doolittle (1839-1921), for inventing the copper wire in the first place :P