As we take another look back in the dim and distant past of the Guardian's technology coverage, things are looking interesting. They aren't, however, looking that dim or that distant, because we're only going back 10 years.
Back then the web was still a wee baby, Tony Blair was still just a prime ministerial noob, and high speed internet was... well, let me show you:
High-speed surfing on the Internet may soon be available at much lower cost thanks to new technology from BT. ... Home Highway will allow customers to view goods for sale on the computer screen and phone up to order them, or play Internet -based games while talking to other players. At present, most computer users surf the net using their existing analogue phone line, which is slow and hampered by noise on the line. The only alternative is an expensive digital ISDN line.
At it's best - if I remember correctly - the best service Home Highway offered was 128Kbps. A decade later, many of us are using lines in excess of 10Mbps (quite a bit faster) - it all seemed inhumanly fast to me back then. I wonder how fast we'll be going by 2017.
