Windows 10 Troubleshooting: Learn to Troubleshoot and Repair Windows 10 Problems Like the Pros Do

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14. Networks and Internet Connections

Mike Halsey¹  

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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK

 

What use is a computer that doesn’t have Internet access? It’s odd to think that life wasn’t always this way, though I do remember how frustrating it was that my early computers—be they a Sinclair ZX81, ZX Spectrum and QL, Psion Series 3, 3a, and 5 handhelds, or an Olivetti M240 8086-based PC—couldn’t get access to each other let alone the wider world, and oh the problems I had using the earlier serial versions of Laplink. All this, of course, was before the World Wide Web (or even DARPANET as ...