Often when surfing the net, one can become very impatient at the little delays that one encounters. It's common for net surfers to abandon a link if the page it points to takes more than a few seconds to load.
A little impatience can be a good thing. After all, some pages really are very slow. But if you're performing real work and are looking for real information, products, or services on the Internet, it's wise to remind oneself how incredibly efficient the medium is.
Suppose that you wanted to find out about aardvarks. There are several choices available:
Of all of these alternatives, the web is still the stand-out winner for speed of access. Even if a page took ten minutes to come up on your screen, it is probably still providing an order of magnitude faster access than by any other means.
This is worth bearing in mind when one gets frustrated
at delays when accessing the web.
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