PCs & Internet
Some of these pages are archival and of historic interest only. A few bits of advice were first published about 30 years ago. Not all of that advice is obsolete, but the visitor is advised to search widely for more up-to-date information. This author, at 85 years old, is not going to provide such new, relevant advice.
Links to the old pages will be indicated with an obvious warning symbol such as:
# These pages were first published more than 20 years ago and may be out-of-date.
Old thoughts on the “new-fangled Internet and World Wide Web”
Good manners
Good manners are important in communication – now as when this page was first published.
General issues of etiquette on the internet (Netiquette) #
Be safe when using the internet
This virtual world has “bad actors” who wish to harm you or steal from you. It mirrors the real world in that way so such villains are in a minority. Users can protect themselves by following some cautious, sensible practices. Do remember that while the principles in the following page are mostly still current – the details may not be.
The Internet and World Wide Web have changed over the past 30 years
This a a page which is hardly relevant apart from the history of IT. As always there are significant parallels to modern computing. Be sure that in twenty years time what we do and use will be an amusing irrelevance to folk of that future.
Good practice for email and other internet use in the 1990s.
Storing and Sharing Big Files
This page is incredibly out-of-date because of huge changes in the Internet over the past 25 years or so. However it does provide something of an hostporic baseline on which to ponder.