Science Project Quadruples Surfing Speed - Reportedly

johnp. writes "A computer browser that is said to least quadruple surfing speeds on the Internet has won the top prize at an Irish exhibition for young scientists, it was announced on Saturday. Adnan Osmani, 16, a student at Saint Finian's College in Mullingar, central Ireland spent 18 months writing 780,000 lines of computer code to develop the browser. Known as "XWEBS", the system works with an ordinary Internet connection using a 56K modem on a normal telephone line. " A number of people had submitted this over the weekend - there's absolutely no hard data that I can find to go along with this, so if you find anything more on it, plz. post below - somehow 1500 lines of code per day, "every media player" built in doesn't ring true for me.

Comments

Re:Not necessary

[orthogonal]

I propose increasing browsing speed by severely limiting the use of search engine crawlers. Perhaps only between 2:00am-5:00am every morning (EST) would we allow them.

2:00 am to 5:00 am?? That's when I do most of my browsing!!!!

Of course, not at Kuro5hin.org...

I uh, do, uh, anatomy research... and uh, changes in primate mating habits caused by the ubiquity of digital cameras.

Re:Is that so?

[Omkar]

I will be the first to eat my cat

Dude, someone from PETA could be reading this!