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Thursday, August 02, 2007

Elderly Swede wastes world's fastest Internet connection

The Swedish city of Karlstad installed an experimental Internet connection in Sigbritt Lothberg's house. She can download data at 40 gigabits a second -- fast enough to download a full-length movie in two seconds. Of course, since the 75-year-old Lothberg has never had an Internet connection, she's not necessarily impressed by the speedy link: she apparently mostly uses it to read newspapers online. (CBS5.com)


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