Chris Cork Back a decade, and living in Peshawar but shuttling back and forth between there, Kabul, Herat and Jalalabad we had an internet connection that was slow, expensive, unpredictable and very much at the cutting edge as far as Pakistan was concerned. There were perhaps half a dozen ISP’s (internet service providers) across the country and the internet was very much a tool of the NGO’s, big business and the wealthy. Personal computer ownership by non-professionals was extremely low and if you had a laptop you were among the elite of the digerati. The first generation of cyber-cafes were appearing here and there, but overall it seemed as if the cyber-revolution that was taking the west by storm was passing us by. We had mobile phones as well, things the size of a brick that were similarly unpredictable and expensive and...
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