broadband

I used to call web surfing a good cure for insomnia.

Back in the pre-broadband days I could barely stay awake for the length of time it would take to download an average web page. Many web sites defied the odds and loaded their pages with luscious graphics but it was sheer torture to watch them trickling miserably onto the screen. Imagine being very hungry and sitting in a cordon bleu restaurant watching your Vichyssoise brought to your table, one spoonful at a time. Argh!