The Internet is so big now, and the average person has more bandwidth at home then existed in the entire world in 1980, that the biggest slow down in web surfing has become the initial DNS or Domain Name Service look up. DNS is the service that translates the human readable Domain Name of 1nova.com [...]

Only posting here for posterity. This article was originally written Jan 1st, 2001
 

So you just bought that brand new AMD 1.3 gigahertz computer with all the bells and whistles. Of course after a month or two it’s all the sudden running as slow as your old computer. Luckily there are several things you can do [...]